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Woodcarver Michelle Holzapfel is one of the artists featured in the upcoming episode of Craft in America on April 21, at 10 p.m., on PBS.
“She's the first and, thus far, only Vermont artist to be included in the series,” says her husband, David Holzapfel, with whom she shares a studio and gallery located in Marlboro.
Unlike any other American film festivals, the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival not only awards its winner a coveted prize, but provides them with a tour to show their works at prestigious venues across New England. Festival organizers say they're strongly committed to raising the profile of its winning filmmakers...
Dede Cummings always longed to publish a book of her poetry, but it wasn't until she was in her 60s that her dream came true. On April 11, To Look Out From, her debut and the winner of the 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize, will be available in hardcover...
When author Tim Weed was young, books were a way to escape from the difficulties of being introverted and moving around so much. As he wrote at his website www.timweed.net, he learned “the same thing all bookish kids do: that books, and especially novels, have the power to strike an almost musical chord of emotion that is capable of transporting the reader into an entirely new world.” On April 7, at 7 p.m., at Next Stage in Putney, Weed will...
Cellist Jennifer Morsches came up with the program for the upcoming concert by Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble, “Trainspotting,” by listening, as odd as it might seem, to the music of the Baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. “The bass line of Biber's Sonata No. 3 for violin and basso continuo sounded to me like a train,” says Morsches. “I was so impressed that I wanted to put together an evening of music around the image and sound of trains.”
In a collaboration with Tribeca Film Festival former director Nancy Schafer, Next Stage Arts Project in Putney presents [framed], a brand new series of feature length documentary films. Beginning on March 30, at 7:30 p.m., at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill, [framed] will run for six consecutive Thursdays. Each movie will be presented by the filmmaker with a Q&A after the screening. A documentary film, according to the OED, may be simply a nonfictional motion picture intended to document...
Singer and songwriter Damaris Bernhard doesn't want to call her upcoming show on March 25 at the Hooker Dunham Theater in Brattleboro a farewell concert, even though that is exactly what it is. “You see I have done so many farewell concerts that people will be saying, 'There she goes again,'” Bernhard confesses, going on to admit that this isn't the first time she has proclaimed she was moving: “In the past, I never stayed away for good.” Even if...
In a hodge-podge of books and objects left behind in the 1911 home in Marlboro where she moved with her family four years ago, Julia Zanes found a remarkable old book, Gondola Days by F. Hopkinson Smith. “Published in 1897, Gondola Days is an account of Smith's travels to Venice,” says Zanes. “It turns out that F. Hopkinson Smith was quite an accomplished man. He built the foundation of the Statue of Liberty and was also a writer, artist, and...
