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When fiber artist Jackie Abrams found herself becoming depressed because of the current political climate in America, she decided to do something about it.
“Like millions, I was upset and was feeling bad about what would happen to our country,” Abrams says.
Have you ever thrown a party when the guest of honor didn't show? That's sort of like what's happening to Dede Cummings at the upcoming third annual Green Writers Press and Reading & Earth Day Book Launch at Next Stage Arts in Putney. On Friday, April 20, at 7...
Even after five years as the manager of the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, Jon Mack can still be freshly excited about the possibilities the space has to offer. Although only a tiny theater and gallery, Hooker-Dunham presents events that might not otherwise find a place to be seen in...
Even the best things must one day come to an end. So it is as Ines Zeller Bass presents her final performances ever of her children-friendly classic of puppet theater, Isidor's Cheek. Recently, Zeller Bass has been slowing her own performances in the theater pieces for children she created for Sandglass Theater. “About two years ago, I pulled back from my heavy involvement with Sandglass,” says Zeller Bass. “I have been teaching all my puppet theater pieces to my children...
Ian Hefele has finally realized his long-held dream of staging in America a work by South African writer Athol Fugard. For the next two weekends, March 16-18 and 23-25, Vermont Theater Company presents Fugard's The Road to Mecca at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St., in downtown Brattleboro. The play concerns a senior South African widow, Miss Helen, who has been working on an overgrown sculpture garden. Although a neighbor, pastor Marius, urges Helen to move to a senior home,
Even with more than four decades as a touring professional in the music business, Claudia Schmidt still faces the dilemma of how to market herself. “People most often put me in the category of singer/songwriter,” Schmidt explains. “But I sing other people's songs too. In fact, I consider myself a pretty good jazz singer. “Nonetheless, the folk-music people are hesitant to hire a jazz singer, and those in jazz won't take me seriously because I come from the world of...
Given the uncertain future that New England Center for Circus Arts faced last year, its Circus Spectacular looked like an annual event that might not happen. Between moving into its new state-of-the art facility at 10 Town Crier Drive in Brattleboro, and surviving the attempted ouster of its founders, Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion, 2017 proved a monumental year for the circus arts nonprofit. “NECCA is in a good place right now,” says Forchion, with a sigh of relief.
A few years ago, musician Travis Laplante had a strange and unsettling dream. “In my sleep, I heard a sound that seemed to come from a saxophone, but I couldn't tell that it actually did, since I could not see the instrument,” Laplante says. “Whatever it was, it made a single sound. And here's the unusual part: to me it seemed as if the entire universe was contained in this one sound.” Since Laplante believes that in dreams we sometimes...
