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Fantastic Wantastiquet, a new, multidisciplinary arts and cultural festival, opens Saturday, Sept. 16, at 2 p.m., when singer/songwriter and indigenous-rights activist Lyla June Johnston will headline a gala keynote gathering at the Latchis Theatre.
“Other special guests still-to-be-confirmed will join Johnston at this gala, many of whom will be traveling from afar, as excitement in Brattleboro grows for our first Indigenous People's Day activities in early October,” says John Wilmerding, the Fantastic Wantastiquet founder and organizer.
Johnston is a musician, public speaker, and internationally recognized performance poet. A descendant of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages, she is a co-founder of the Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in northern New Mexico.
She also is the lead organizer of the Black Hills Unity Concert, which gathers native and nonnative musicians to pray for the return of guardianship of the Black Hills to the Sioux nation.
Local composer Larry Siegel has written a new work about one of the seminal figures in the modern contradance movement, Dudley Laufman. Next Stage, the Monadnock Folklore Society, and the Brattleboro Music Center present Keith Murphy as Laufman in the world premiere of The Dancingmaster of Canterbury. A unique...
After nearly 30 years at the helm of the Brattleboro Music Center's Brattleboro Concert Choir, choral director Susan Dedell has announced that the 2017-18 season will be her last as its music director. Dedell has been artistic director of the Brattleboro Concert Choir since 1990. The Choir, the premier...
Everyone said there wasn't enough time. “I am always on the lookout for ways to benefit the arts in our town,” says Lissa Weinmann, co-owner of 118 Elliott, a fully-accessible multipurpose space for arts and education in Brattleboro. She first heard of a possible grant on “Creating Humanities Communities” from the National Endowment for the Humanities at the very beginning of this year, when she attended a conference about arts funding in upstate Vermont. “I realized this was big news,
Filmmaking appears to be alive and well in Vermont. Four shorts and one feature film, all made in Vermont, will be showcased this year at an indoor/outdoor mixer at the New England Youth Theatre in Brattleboro. On Aug. 5, from 5:15 to 10:30 p.m., The Northern Routes Film Collaborative and Brattleboro Film Festival are bringing back for its third year the Summer Cinema Slam, with a diverse lineup of Vermont-made films and filmmakers. Question-and-answer sessions with the filmmakers will follow...
Apron Theater Company co-founder Hallie Flower feels a great responsibility in bringing a new work of theater to the area from a writer whose work she reveres. On the first two weekends in August, Next Stage Arts Project and Apron Theater Company will present Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at Next Stage. Directed by Flower, this production will be the regional premiere of this play and the playwright's work. According to Flower, Appropriate is an American family drama in the tradition...
Joshua Moyse, artistic director of the Shoot the Moon Theater Company, is presenting a brand new staged production, Trump's Fifth Avenue: A Political Fantasia. Although in the past Moyse has written or adapted original works presented by his resident company at Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, this one he didn't write. In an odd way, no one did. “Trump's Fifth Avenue is an original theater piece made up of Trump's speeches and his tweets, as well as writings of his supporters,”
Catherine Stephan, executive director of Yellow Barn, is enthusiastic as the international center for chamber music begins its 48th season on Friday, July 7, and Saturday, July 8, with concerts in the Big Barn in Putney. “Each summer since 1969, musicians have gathered at Yellow Barn to celebrate the joys and endless questions of chamber music,” Stephan writes at Yellow Barn's website. “This year, an international roster of musicians arrive ready to explore and perform music that spans the 18th...
