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Sandglass’ Winter Sunshine Series Goes Virtual

by SandglassTheater | Arts

Putney, Vermont- This year Sandglass’ Winter Sunshine series is going virtual to bring family fun right into the coziness of your home. Throughout March, Winter Sunshine series will present the work of regional performance artists with weekly performances and activities including: a puppet show, a workshop, two family activities, online engagement and, during the final week, an invitation to light up your community in the dark winter months with a Lantern Parade.

BCTV Schedules – Week of 2-8-21

by BCTVProg | Media

Monday, February 8, 2021

5:00 am Hooker Dunham Presents – SOLOs Episode 4
5:52 am VT Arts Council Awards 2020 – Shanta Lee Gander
5:54 am VT Arts Council Awards 2020 – Jody Fried
5:56 am VT Arts Council Awards 2020 – Ray Vega
6:00 am Brattleboro Music Center presents – 14th Annual Northern Roots Festival Concert

Doctrine of Discovery of 1452

by SK-B | History

Watching this video is the first time during my 75 years (during most of which I have thought of myself as an informed person) that I have heard of the Doctrine of Discovery of 1452, even though it provided the ideological justification for colonialism and the enslavement of indigenous people.

Because this Doctrine was issued as a Papal Bull, it became the guiding principal for all European countries.

WSESD Finance Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes

by Not Signed In | Education

Agenda

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of Minutes – December 2, 2020 and January 12, 2021

3. Preparation for FY22 WSESD Budget 2.23.21 Information Hearing

4. Academy School Addition project financing method and project timeline

5. FY21 Fiscal Year to Date Statement

WSESD Social Justice Committee Agenda and Minutes

by Not Signed In | Education

AGENDA

I. CALL TO ORDER – 4:30 p.m. – Thomas Nolan

II. Approval of Minutes – January 15, 2021

III. Discuss Next Steps with REI

IV. Discuss Adding Social Justice/Anti-Racist Commitment Language to future Advertising

V. Discuss Having Students Involved in Screening of New Hires

BCTV Schedules for Week of 2/1/21

by BCTVProg | Media

Monday, February 1, 2021

5:30 am Johnson Public Library – Gardening Questions Answered – Foote Brook Farm 1/9/21
7:00 am The News Project – In Studio – Legislative Preview – Reps. Pajala and Durfee
7:30 am Rotary Cares – Ep 32 – Steve Puderbaugh
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Martin Luther King Remembrances – The Root Social Justice Center presents – MLK Day – BIPOC

The Oz Books of L. Frank Baum

by cgrotke | Books

I just completed reading all of the L. Frank Baum Oz books. I’ve had this collection for quite a while. They were inherited from my father’s Aunt Arlene, a teacher in Buffalo. When the books first arrived, I was a bit old for them. I had reached the mature age of about 12 or 13, and the covers looked rather ancient to me. They sat in boxes with my mother for quite a while. I got them back a few years ago.

Seeing a series of unread books on the shelf can nag at you, and these were yelling at me. “C’mon, man, read us!” So I dove in.

L. Frank Baum wrote 14 Oz books total:

BCTV Schedules – Week of January 25, 2021

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 1/25/21

Monday, January 25, 2021

5:00 am At BMAC – What is Mail Art?
5:15 am Hooker Dunham Presents – SOLOs Episode 3
6:00 am Get Thee to the Funnery – Qualities of “Mercy?”
7:10 am Middlebury College Faculty at Home Series – Sleuthing From Home 10/19/20
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast

The Rosefire Writing Circle Offers Community and Support with Deborah Lee Luskin

by DLL | Creative
Deborah Lee Luskin

Beginning in January 2021, the Rosefire Writing Circle will meet virtually on Tuesdays from 5:30-7:30 in addition to Fridays from 1-3. Writers of any ability are welcome to join us. The writing circle allows writers to overcome the fear and loneliness of facing a blank page by providing the support of writing to the same prompt with others. This proven format creates a kind of writing magic from which everyone benefits. We write, we read, we have fun.

Last Night

by MarkTwain© | Creative

Did you every awaken from a dream, which inspires a poem?

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BCTV Schedules Week of January 18, 2021

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 1/18/21

Monday, January 18, 2021

5:00 am Martin Luther King Remembrances – MLK: A Celebration of Life at the Centre Congregational Church
6:45 am Hooker Dunham Presents – SOLOs Episode 3
7:30 am Here We Are – with guest Steffen Gillom
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Martin Luther King Remembrances – MLK: A Celebration of Life at the Centre Congregational Church

Keeping Local Arts Alive At The Latchis

by Lise | Arts, Culture
Latchis Theatre Marquee

Like many of us, I’ve been staying safe during the pandemic and not participating too much in social events.  But I still stay in the loop with as many local organizations as I can.  Many of us with a connection to the arts worry that public performance art — of which cinema is one — may be busted back to the stone age, to put it bluntly, by our inability to gather in groups and the lack of funding that results.  The Latchis finds itself in this boat, and while they continue to show films under all the current rules for safe gathering in theatres, they have obviously taken a hit.    

Lately, I’ve been enjoying their newsletters wherein Jon Potter, director of Latchis Arts, tells it like it is to his audience of people who like movies, music, and dance.  His most recent letter, which came out January 14, notes that arts groups are starting to regroup as it were, as we all adjust to the new circumstances we find ourselves in.  Adapt or die, is pretty much the story, and artists are trying to do that.