BCTV Schedules For The Week Of 12/30/15

BCTV channel 8 program schedule for the week of 11/30/15

Monday, November 30, 2015

12:00 am Opiate Use in Vermont: The Present Reflects the Past

1:22 am Historic Crimes and Justice in Burlington, VT – Jeffrey H. Beerworth

2:00 am 1st Wednesdays Presents: John Hockenberry – Climate of Doubt

3:45 am Moana: A Short Story


Weekend Creativity Series – Kurosawa and Composing Movement

Let’s put some things together. We have something we want to get across to an audience – on a stage or screen. We’ve learned a bit about practicing and the importance of learning one’s craft so we have something to say. We know about editing, so it will flow well and make the correct impressions.

What about composition of movement? Can moves help us tell a story?

Well, certainly. We’ve all seen silent films with no dialogue, where all action is done in pantomime. And we’ve all seen the opposite in limited animation, where if we turned the volume down on say, Charlie Brown and Linus talking at the wall, we’d have almost no idea of the story.


Vermont Jazz Center Presents: Annual Big Band Gala w/ Guest Vibraphonist Richard Greenblatt

The Vermont Jazz Center will present its annual big band swing gala on Friday, December 4th at 8:00 PM. All proceeds will support the VJC’s Scholarship Program. This year’s concert will feature the music of world-class vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and his Dream Band. The VJC will use the same arrangements that Gibbs’ Ensemble performed during the group’s apex that took place in the late 1950s and early ‘60s.

Based out of Los Angeles, Gibbs’ Dream Band is still recognized as one of the best big bands to emerge after the bebop movement. It included heavy hitters Mel Lewis, Joe Maini, Frank Rosolino, Conte Candoli and Richie Kamuca and was given the title of “Best Band in the World” in Downbeat’s 1962 Critic’s Poll. Arrangers for the Dream Band were some of the finest jazz composers of the time including Bill Holman, Med Flory, Shorty Rogers, Lennie Niehaus, Marty Paich, Al Cohn, Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Albam.


The Pre-Christmas Toymaking Rush

1898:

S.A. Smith & Co. begin running on 12 hour time today. The men go into the factory at 7 o’clock and work until 9 at night, with an hour at noon and another hour out for supper.

 

S.A. Smith was a toymaking company in Brattleboro from the late 1800s through the early 1900s:

http://www.oldwoodtoys.com/s_a_smith.htm


American Legion Post 5 Honors Soldiers Killed in Action in Vietnam: PFC Joseph Rhuben LaRose

On Saturday, November 21, Brattleboro’s American Legion Post 5 will honored local soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War.

A ceremony, at the post home on Linden Street, included students from Brattleboro Union High School reading the names and a brief biography of each of the 11 men, followed by a brief address by Dr. Robert Tortolani, a combat battalion surgeon during the Vietnam War.

The soldier biographies, along with family photos, are being posted on the Brattleboro Historical Society website and here at iBrattleboro.

Today we remember PFC Joseph Rhuben LaRose.


France Is Shutting Down Alternative Media

France is a tragic tragic example of what psychopaths are capable of. This carnage though, should not be an excuse for eliminating alternative media. Now more than ever it is desperately needed. This is Nazi Germany. Please wake up. Tell your friends.

Freedom of speech should not be a victim of terrorism

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New December Exhibits: Josh Bernbaum and Jim Giddings at MGFA

On Thursday, December 3 from 5-7pm at Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts, 183 Main Street, Brattleboro, the public is invited to an opening reception for two new solo exhibitions.Glass artist Josh Bernbaum, and painter and gallery co-owner Jim Giddings, will be showing new work in two separate solo exhibits. Both exhibits will be on display through January 3, 2016. A combined artist talk is scheduled for Friday, December 11 at 7pm.

Giddings’ work is as much about scraping off paint as it is applying it, “By selectively leaving some paint and scraping or rubbing away other areas, I can retrieve the white paper surface and a lightness of feeling not unlike a successful watercolor. Then I add more paint, then remove, then add…. I’m trying to have it both ways: depth and richness of oil paint and watercolor-like delicacy.”


American Legion Post 5 Honors Soldiers Killed in Action in Vietnam: SP4 William Wayne O’Neil

SP4 William Wayne O’Neil

On Saturday, November 21, Brattleboro’s American Legion Post 5 will honor local soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War.

A ceremony, at the post home on Linden Street, will include students from Brattleboro Union High School reading the names and a brief biography of each of the 11 men, followed by a brief address by Dr. Robert Tortolani, a combat battalion surgeon during the Vietnam War.

The soldier biographies, along with family photos, will be posted on the Brattleboro Historical Society website, in succession, in the days leading up to the November 21 event.

Today we remember SP4 William Wayne O’Neil.


American Legion Post 5 Honors Soldiers Killed in Action in Vietnam: 1LT Jan Alan Ulmer

1LT Jan Alan Ulmer

On Saturday, November 21, Brattleboro’s American Legion Post 5 will honor local soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War.

A ceremony, at the post home on Linden Street, will include students from Brattleboro Union High School reading the names and a brief biography of each of the 11 men, followed by a brief address by Dr. Robert Tortolani, a combat battalion surgeon during the Vietnam War.

The soldier biographies, along with family photos, will be posted on the Brattleboro Historical Society website, in succession, in the days leading up to the November 21 event.

Today we remember 1LT Jan Alan Ulmer


An Evening of Entertainment with the Bluebird Theater

The Bluebird Theater is pleased to present an evening of entertainment on Saturday, November 28 at 7PM, and again, on Saturday, December 5  at 7 PM in Room 357 of The Cotton Mill, 76 Cotton Mill Hill in Brattlleboro. Tickets are $10 and also available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2467538

The first half of the evening will feature The Bluebird Orchestra playing some of their original songs and improvising music to two very short silent films: “Princess Nicotine” and “Artistic Creation” from the turn of the (last) century.


American Legion Post 5 Honors Soldiers Killed in Action in Vietnam: SP4 William Wayne O’Neil

On Saturday, November 21, Brattleboro’s American Legion Post 5 honored local soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War.

A ceremony, at the post home on Linden Street, included students from Brattleboro Union High School reading the names and a brief biography of each of the 11 men, followed by a brief address by Dr. Robert Tortolani, a combat battalion surgeon during the Vietnam War.

The soldier biographies, along with family photos, will be posted on the Brattleboro Historical Society website and here on iBrattleboro.

Today we remember SP4 William Wayne O’Neil.


Weekend Creativity Series: Editing as Punctuation in Film

Here’s a short video essay on film editing by Max Tohline.

One of its premises is that anything can be made to mean anything through editing. It’s true, and something we should all keep in mind as we go about existing in a world filled with media.

Tohline says that editing acts as punctuation in films, and helps with expressing relationships and new modes of thinking.


American Legion Post 5 Honors Soldiers Killed in Action in Vietnam: SP4 Darwin James “Tim” Delano

On Saturday, November 21, Brattleboro’s American Legion Post 5 will honor local soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War.

A ceremony, at the post home on Linden Street, will include students from Brattleboro Union High School reading the names and a brief biography of each of the 11 men, followed by a brief address by Dr.
Robert Tortolani, a combat battalion surgeon during the Vietnam War.

The soldier biographies, along with family photos, will be posted on the Brattleboro Historical Society website, in succession, in the days leading up to the November 21 event.

Today we remember Darwin James “Tim” Delano.


American Legion Post 5 Honors Soldiers Killed in Action in Vietnam: PO3 John Charles Blake

On Saturday, November 21, Brattleboro’s American Legion Post 5 will honor local soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War.

A ceremony, at the post home on Linden Street, will include students from Brattleboro Union High School reading the names and a brief biography of each of the 11 men, followed by a brief address by Dr. Robert Tortolani, a combat battalion surgeon during the Vietnam War.

The soldier biographies, along with family photos, will be posted on the Brattleboro Historical Society website, in succession, in the days leading up to the November 21 event.

Today we remember PO3 John Charles Blake.


American Legion Post 5 Honors Soldiers Killed in Action in Vietnam: PO3 Ernest Eugene Sanville

On Saturday, November 21, Brattleboro’s American Legion Post 5 will honor local soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War.

A ceremony, at the post home on Linden Street, will include students from Brattleboro Union High School reading the names and a brief biography of each of the 11 men, followed by a brief address by Dr. Robert Tortolani, a combat battalion surgeon during the Vietnam War.

The soldier biographies, along with family photos, will be posted on the Brattleboro Historical Society website, in succession, in the days leading up to the November 21 event.

Today we remember PO3 Ernest Eugene Sanville


BUHS Meetings Scheduled

The BUHS District #6 Budget Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 19 in the WRCC 1st Floor Conference Room. – BAMS & WRCC

The BUHS District #6 Budget Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, November 23 in the WRCC Cusick Conference Room. – District-Wide / Capital / Sr. High


Comet Holmes

1892:

It will interest many of the possessors of small telescopes that the comet recently discovered can be observed by them, and perhaps may be seen with the naked eye. Its position is near the Great Nebula in Andromeda, and 2 1/2 degrees south.

http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/comet_ison/blogs/great-moments-in-comet-history-comet-holmes

http://cometography.com/pcomets/017p.html


American Legion Post 5 Honors Soldiers Killed in Action in Vietnam: SP4 Paul Richard Dartt

On Saturday, November 21, Brattleboro’s American Legion Post 5 will honor local soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War.

A ceremony, at the post home on Linden Street, will include students from Brattleboro Union High School reading the names and a brief biography of each of the 11 men, followed by a brief address by Dr. Robert Tortolani, a combat battalion surgeon during the Vietnam War.

The soldier biographies, along with family photos, will be posted on the Brattleboro Historical Society website, in succession, in the days leading up to the November 21 event.

Today we remember SP4 Paul Richard Dartt.


Holiday Book Sale at Brooks

The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library will host their annual Holiday Book Sale in the Library on Friday, Dec. 4 from 10AM to 6PM and Sat., Dec. 5 from 10AM to 5PM. 

 Gift quality books and gently used fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and CDs will be on sale.  There is a selection of holiday theme books and like-new children’s books.  Non-fiction titles include art, cooking and gardening, history, music, sports and many more subjects.  On Saturday, between 11AM and 1PM, the Friends will provide free gift-wrapping for books purchased at the sale and intended as gifts. 


Standard Time

1883:

The adoption of the new standard time on Sunday and Monday next will be universal in Brattleboro. The employees of the railroad companies are under orders to take the new time at the telegraph office at noon on Sunday. Estey & Co., Smith & Hunt, Crosby & Co., and the Asylum will all set their clocks and blow their whistles by the new standard on Monday.

 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov18.html