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Arts

Music Under the Stars series concludes with Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra

Wednesday, August 18, 2021 — Issue 626

BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Music Center and Retreat Farm Music Under the Stars summer concert series concludes Saturday, Aug. 21 with a performance by the Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra (PESO), who will offer what concert organizers describe as “a much-needed feel-good Caribbean vibe.”

The Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra, a steel pan band founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, N.Y., performs around the U.S. and overseas.

The free concert will be held at Retreat Farm, 45 Farmhouse Square. Gates open 5:30 p.m.; the concert begins at 6:30 p.m.

All are welcome to bring lawn chairs and a picnic, and to enjoy food-truck fare from Dosa Kitchen and Jamaican Jewelz, maple creemees, and craft beers at the Thirsty Goat bar.

For more information, contact the BMC at 802-257-4523 or info@bmcvt.org.

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News

Petition to ask voters to increase Selectboard to five members

By
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 — Issue 643

Do voters here want a larger Selectboard? To find out, a petition to include an article on the March 1 Annual Town Meeting warrant to increase the Selectboard from three to five members is being circulated and signed. Vermont statute states a town may vote at an annual or special Town Meeting to elect two additional Selectboard members for terms of either one or two years each. It goes on to say that if two additional Selectboard member positions are...

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Voices

‘Our support is a gigantic green light for Israel’

By
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024 — Issue 746

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Arts

XOX! group performance asks: Can art bring people together?

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 — Issue 624

Brooks Memorial Library, in collaboration with C.X. Silver Gallery, presents Lynn Herring's XOX! group performance art-piece at the library on Saturday Aug. 7, from 2 to 5 p.m., with an artist talk at 3 p.m. People of all ages are welcome to the free program, and the venue is accessible. According to a news release, the art-piece is a reimagined strategic game-as-art and asks the question, “Can art bring people together to set aside their differences, to sit down and...

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