BRATTLEBORO — Since 2019, the Ask the River Project has traveled throughout Vermont, engaging communities with their watersheds and making 25-foot silk cyanotype banners.
On Saturday, Sept. 25, people will gather from around the state at Depot Street Greenspace, 23 Depot St., behind the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and the banks of the Connecticut River.
Movement artists and 19 banners will blend into what organizers call “one joyfully cascading, rippling, and converging river.”
Intertwining people and place, artists Elizabeth Billings and Evie Lovett and choreographers Christal Brown, Ashley Hensel-Browning, and Erin Maile O'Keefe have engaged with communities to build, reflect, and deepen people's relationship with water through movement and through creating cyanotype postcards and silk cyanotype banners.
Those involved with Ask the River say the project “is guided by the Abenaki understanding that people and place are one.” An associated kinetic sculpture inspired by river patterns and movement by artists Billings, Lovett, and Andrea Wasserman was installed on the Brattleboro Transportation Center in 2017.
The event will take place rain or shine, and all are asked to wear a mask.
For more information, contact Lovett at asktherivervt@gmail.com or 802-258-1574.