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Pierre Bensusan and Tim Sparks Acoustic Guitar Summit at Next Stage

by hahrenholz | Music

Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an Acoustic Guitar Summit with guitar virtuosos Pierre Bensusan and Tim Sparks at Next Stage on Wednesday, October 26 at 7:00 pm. 

If World Music means the fusion of traditional, contemporary, jazz, classical, and pop music, then French-Algerian acoustic guitar legend, vocalist, and composer Pierre Bensusan is one of the most eloquent World Music musicians of our time.  Winner of the Independent Music Award for his triple live album “Encore,” voted Best World Music Guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine reader’s Poll, and winner of the Rose d’Or at the Montreux Festival for his debut album, Pierre is recognized as one of the greatest guitar players of the 21st century.  Since his first performances in 1974 in France, the “The Prince of DADGAD” has sold half a million albums and given thousands of concerts around the globe, both solo and through numerous collaborations.  “Pierre can only justly be compared to someone of the stature of Keith Jarrett; so total is his mastery of the solo instrument, his dazzling harmony, his many innovations, and his deft command of counterpoint, the jazz idiom, folk expression, and all genres between and beyond.” (Guitar Player Magazine)

An Election 2022 Special Event! How To Be An Informed Voter: Cutting through the Spin and Disinformation

by KateOC | Media

The public is invited to attend an Election 2022 workshop sponsored by the Media Mentoring Project. The workshop will take place on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7pm via Zoom.

The program, How to be an Informed Voter: Cutting through the spin and disinformation, will explore the impact disinformation has on elections, how citizens can cut through the noise to find accurate and credible information about the candidates and the election process, and the role state officials and the media can play in protecting election integrity.

BCTV Schedules – Week of October 3, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

ATTENTION: BCTV channel 1075 is moving to channel 1079. Channel 1075 will no longer be BCTV as of October 27, 2022. 

BCTV Channel 1075 (1078) schedule for the week of 10/3/22

Monday, October 3, 2022

4:30 am Windham County Genealogy Interest Group – Military Records–Revolutionary Pension and Fold3 Database
6:30 am BCTV Annual Meeting – BCTV Members Meeting 2022
7:05 am Vote for Vermont – Manufactured Homes 3/31/22
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Literary Festival – Ancestor Trouble with Maud Newton and Rebecca Donner 9/9/22

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 26, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 1075 schedule for the week of 9/26/22

Monday, September 26, 2022

5:30 am Mr. Scammer – Fraud Scams – Coming to a Computer Near You – Part 1
6:00 am Vote for Vermont – Associated General Contractors 4/18/22
7:00 am Hooker Dunham Presents – Thorn in my Side – OUTER SPACE! – February 24th, 2022
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Around Town with Maria – Tree Dedication and Memorial for Victims of COVID in our Community 9/2/22

WSESD Board Meeting Agenda and Minutes

by Not Signed In | Education

I. CALL TO ORDER

Chair KY called the meeting to order at 6:05pm.

KY turned over the leadership of this meeting to DSC, who is Vice-Chair.

DSC announced amendments to the agenda, as follows:
• Agenda item II is not an executive session, but a presentation on executive sessions.

“Here We Are” with Jerry Carbone

by Wendy O'Connell | Entertainment

Jerry’s spent a lot of time around books! He talks about the old days at Brooks Library, the beginning days of our Literary Festival and the Words Project – and how he’s now helping folks find their roots as a genealogist. Tune in for some great stories and insights about delving into the past – in our town and in our families.

WSESD Board Meeting Agenda

by Not Signed In | Education

AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – Kelly Young, Board Chair
II. EXECUTIVE SESSION – 1 V.S.A. §313(a)(1)(F) Confidential Attorney-Client Communications made for the purpose of providing professional legal services to the body

Next Stage Arts Project Presents Tony Trischka & Robot Plane plus Hot Mustard

by hahrenholz | Music

Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an afternoon of banjo and bluegrass with Tony Trischka & Robot Plane and Hot Mustard, as part of the 2022 Next Stage “Bandwagon Summer Series,” on Sunday, October 9 at 3:00 pm at West River Park in Brattleboro, VT. A mix of the new and the old, the concert features banjo legend Tony Trischka’s brand new quartet, while twin banjo band Hot Mustard reunites after an eight-year hiatus to open the show.

Steeped in Bluegrass, while stretching out into Celtic, Americana, and Progressive music, Tony Trischka & Robot Plane includes acoustic music all-stars Jacob Joliff (mandolin), Jared Engel (acoustic bass), and Hannah Read (fiddle). These extraordinarily versatile and talented musicians are alumni of bands such as Country Cooking, Breakfast Special, Joy Kills Sorrow, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Bela Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart.

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 19, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 1075 schedule for the week of 9/19/22

Monday, September 19, 2022

5:00 am The News Project – In Studio – UCS Leaders Discuss Mental Health
5:48 am The News Project – Springfield on the Move
6:00 am Brooks Memorial Library Events – Public Forum on Brooks Memorial Services 8/24/22
7:05 am Vote for Vermont – Manufactured Homes 3/31/22
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast

Brattleboro’s Bethanie Yeakle to perform with Nashville’s Tiffany Williams plus Sara Trunzo on October 9 in Bellows Falls

by Mark Piepkorn | Music

BELLOWS FALLS — Nashville-based Tiffany Williams grew up in an Eastern Kentucky coal camp house, the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of coal miners. Her debut album, All Those Days of Drinking Dust, produced by Grammy-nominated Duane Lundy, is solidly in the New Appalachian Movement that tangles tradition and heritage with contemporary leanings. Her evocative voice rises like the mountains and wanders low and snaky as the creeks of the place she was born and raised.

Visual Artist Destiny Palmer Discusses Creative Process at Landmark College, September 27

by landmarkcollege | Arts

The Landmark College Academic Speaker Series presents visual artist Destiny Palmer on Tuesday, September 27 at 5 p.m. in in the Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium, located in the Lewis Academic Building.

The Boston-based artist will discuss her public art and studio-based practice that function as places to create dialogue and make space for investigation. Palmer will also share how her practice has ebbed and flowed to what it has become now, centered around color, abstraction and history.

Rocks, Paper, Scissors – New Exhibit at West Village

by ann.newsmith | Arts

Rocks, Paper, Scissors, a multimedia exhibit by six area artists, is now on view at All Souls Church in the West Village Meeting House through October 31.The public is invited to a reception on Saturday, September 24, 2 to 4 pm.

The exhibit, curated by Stuart Copans, focuses on Vermont rocks, both actual ones and those portrayed in works of art by Copans, Maisie Crowther, Don Fitzpatrick, Kip King, Steven Meyer, and Charles Siggins II, Rocks preserve the rich and elaborate patterns that waves and currents create on the floor of the ocean as well in mountain streams, where the water flows in curves and spirals that are reproduced in the flow of molten rock that solidifies to preserve the patterns of both flow and turbulence.

WSESD Policy and Amendment Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes

by Not Signed In | Education

AGENDA

I Approval of Minutes from 9/6/22

II On 9/13/22 the following policies were successfully re-adopted by the Board

F12 – Transportation
F23 – Policy on the Prevention of Harassment, Hazing and Bullying of Students
F26 – Participation of Home Study Students in School Programs and Activities
H1 – School-Community Relations

Architecture + Design Monthly Free Film Series Begins Wed, Sept. 21 at 118 Elliot

by 118 Elliot | Arts

The Architecture + Design Film Series will kick-off its 10th season of free, monthly films shown in person simultaneously at 6:30 pm at 118 Elliot in Brattleboro, 118 Elliot Street, and at Burlington City Arts’ Contois Auditorium up north, on September 21, 2022 with “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” (2019, Robin Lutz, 81 minutes, Netherlands, mostly English with some subtitles). Doors open at 6:15 pm. Film showings are free and open to all (masking is optional but appreciated) and are also available for virtual viewing all day through the A+D Film website at: www.adfilmseries.org.

The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents Glen David Andrews, The Crown Prince of Treme and New Orleans’ Most Charismatic Live Performer

by hahrenholz | Music

The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents Glen David Andrews, The Crown Prince of Treme and New Orleans’ most charismatic live performer, on Sunday, October 2nd at 3:00 p.m. at The Putney Inn, 57 Putney Landing Road, in Putney, VT.

“New Orleans music goes straight to the soul, and I can’t think of a better artist than Glen David Andrews that exudes that energy and brings it onto the stage,” says Keith Marks, Executive Director at Next Stage Arts. “When we’re curating the Bandwagon Series, energy and cultural diversity are at the forefront. This show is for the dancers. Andrews travels around the world bringing that level of New Orleans soul to audiences, and we’re incredibly excited to present this artist toward the end of our series.”

Brattleboro Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsals Thursday

by bwchorus | Music

The Brattleboro Women’s Chorus welcomes new members to come to a rehearsal on Thursday, September 15 to see if Chorus is a good fit for them. Zoom rehearsals are also an option on Friday mornings.

The Chorus welcomes anyone ages 10 and up who identifies as a woman or non-binary, and whose vocal range comfortably includes the A in the middle of the treble staff.