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Arts

MSA offers arts and crafts summer camp

Wednesday, August 1, 2018 — Issue 470

SAXTONS RIVER — Main Street Arts will hold their Art, Crafts, and Games Camp from 1 to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday, Aug. 13 to 17.

Recommended for children ages 6 through 11, the group will draw, sculpt, design, explore outdoors, sing songs and play games at MSA at 35 Main St.

JoAnne Russo and Bradie Harris will share activities such as sun prints, papier-mâché, fairy houses, making journals, and other creative crafts. Tuition is $120. Scholarship assistance is available. Email info@mainstreetarts.org or visit www.mainstreetarts.org/camps for more information and to register.

Arts

Secrets and motives, tensions and suspicions

By
Annie Landenberger

WILLIAMSVILLE-The Rock River Players (RRP) seem to be making a name as producers of new...

‘One of the things that makes jazz really special is connectivity’

By
Eugene Uman

BRATTLEBORO-The Emerging Artist Festival (EAF) is one of the cornerstones of the Vermont Jazz Center's...

Tasha Tudor Society wins publication award

MARLBORO-The journal of the nonprofit Tasha Tudor Society won first place in the Newsletters &

Documentary focuses on anti-trans legal battles

BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont premiere of a new documentary, Heightened Scrutiny, will be held Saturday, Nov. 1,

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Recycling’s last frontier

By
Robert F. Smith
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 — Issue 690

A few months ago, the Rich Earth Institute opened a new urine recycling depot at the Rockingham/Westminster Recycling Center on Route 5 in Westminster, only the latest in the nonprofit organization's cutting-edge program focused on reusing human waste as fertilizer. As human population grows, how to handle increasing human waste is a big problem, and the Rich Earth Project, based in Brattleboro for over a decade, has garnered international attention as nations around the globe wrestle with this issue. As...

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Voices

War of the words

By
John Ungerleider
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 — Issue 761

BRATTLEBORO-Near the end of the movie Golda, which was released for the 50th anniversary of the 1973 October War, or Yom Kippur War, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat ends the war by saying "Israel" for the first time - rather than "the Zionist entity" - giving recognition to the Jewish state. Wars begin as well as end with words. In our local newspapers, authors have begun to refer to Israel with terms such as "the Zionist project." Widely used in anti-Israel...

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Arts

Epsilon Spires celebrates May Day with a free screening of ‘The Wobblies’

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 — Issue 661

On Sunday, May 1, the multimedia arts venue Epsilon Spires will join independent theaters across the country in screening The Wobblies, a 1978 documentary about the Industrial Workers of the World, which has recently been restored by the Museum of Modern Art and re-released in digital 4K. Since the late 19th century, the first day of May has been marked by demonstrations supporting workers' rights, and it is now recognized as a federal holiday in many countries around the world.

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