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Free Diversity Day Film Screening: I Am From Here

by Brooks Memorial Library | Culture

Join us at 7 pm on Thursday, May 2nd as we present a FREE screening of the movie: I Am From Here, in honor of Diversity Day.

This is an instructional film, originally created for public school staff, teachers, and administrators in Vermont. It was commissioned by the Vermont-NEA Racial Justice Task Force in collaboration with the National Education Association. Bess O’Brien from Kingdom County Productions produced the 30-minute film. She interviewed parents, community members, educators, and students from Vermont. Bess filmed their accounts of living in and going to school in Vermont.

Pete Seeger Centennial Tribute Singalong Concert

by GeorgeCC | Music

WEST BRATTLEBORO — Folk singer, activist, musical conscience for the U.S., Pete Seeger, would have been 100 this year. All Souls Church, 29 South Street, will host a singalong concert on Sunday, May 12, at 7 p.m. to celebrate Seeger’s music and his life-long efforts on behalf of peace, justice, and the earth.

The concert will feature well-known performers with deep connections to Seeger, including Sally Rogers, Emma’s Revolution, Peter Siegel, Annie Patterson and Peter Blood.

Those who attend the tribute concert will have the chance to sing together using a new songbook containing fifty classic songs Pete Seeger led throughout his life. Publishers Peter Blood and Annie Patterson of Rise Up Singing fame designed this new book for the Seeger centennial.

Keelan, Jewett Face Off In Concert At Main Street Arts

by Not Signed In | Music

SAXTONS RIVER, Vt. – Hugh Keelan on the piano and Joe Jewett on the violin face off Sunday, May 12 at 3 p.m. in a Classic(al) Saxtons River Spectacular as Main Street Arts continues its Hands On! concert series.

Concertgoers are invited to see all the action up close as Keelan interprets the music of Johannes Brahms on the MSA piano and Jewett matches him on his own instrument with works by Lou Harrison.

While Brahms is a familiar name to classical music fans, Lou Silver Harrison’s may not be.

BCTV Schedules – Week of 4/29/19

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 4/29/19

Monday, April 29, 2019

4:00 am Vote for Vermont – Zero Suicide
5:00 am Talking Nerdy – Ep. 17 The Nerdy News Returns!
6:55 am Osher Lifelong Learning Institute – Democracy in Iran
7:58 am Promos – EMF Cell Tower Awareness PSA
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast

BCTV Schedules – Week of 4/22/19

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 4/22/19

Monday, April 22, 2019

4:00 am Mad River Glen Today – Donnie Simpson
5:00 am Turning Point Windham County – Ep1 – Recovery Movement
5:11 am Promos – Youth Services – Can Windham County Dance?
5:15 am Dummerston Conservation Commission – Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors
6:30 am Vote for Vermont – Zero Suicide

Free Foundation Fundraising Workshop

by Brooks Memorial Library | Education

Join us at 1 pm on Thursday, April 25th, at Brooks Memorial Library, as Richard Wizansky of Bold Moves Consulting joins our own Jeanne Walsh for a FREE public program about foundation fundraising…

Jill Lepore: These Truths – Free Author Talk

by Brooks Memorial Library | Books

Join us at 7 pm on Saturday, April 27th, at Brooks Memorial Library, as Harvard professor, New Yorker staff writer, and best-selling author gives a FREE public talk about her new book, in our Main Reading Room. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

“Alice” Play Next Weekend in Guilford

by DonInGuilford | Arts, Culture

“Alice,” a Musical Play, opens the fifth season at Guilford Center Stage, on April 26-28, at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford. The work is performed as a tribute to an iconic 1978 outdoor production in Guilford. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday afternoon at 2 pm. Tickets are $12 general admission.

David Rohn: Watercolors

by Mitchell • Giddings FIne Arts | Arts, Culture

David Rohn was born in Chicago in 1934 and grew up in the small town of Ludington, along the shore of Lake Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Design and stepped into a creative life richly lived as cartoonist, puppeteer, printmaker, teacher and painter.

Running parallel to his explorations in abstract painting and printmaking, and during his tenure at Windham College in Putney, Vermont, in the mid-1960s and ’70s, David’s watercolor painting gave relief from the more formal demands and cultural mandates of artistic invention and novelty of non-figurative oil painting. The delicate washes and expansive passages of color represent liberation from an art world of expectation and judgement. His modest still-lifes are deceptively loose and easy, and we’re comforted by the associations we bring to his unassuming and familiar scenes.

On Losing Notre Dame

by Lise | Arts, Culture
Notre Dame de Paris by Maximillian Luce

When the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris burned yesterday, it was more than a religious icon that was lost. For workers, women, artists, tourists, the city of Paris and all of France, Notre Dame was both monument and living symbol of human aspiration and French spirit.

Notre Dame has always been remembered for the prodigious labors of the generations of workmen and artisans who created it. It was ordinary people who built it and, in large part, it is their legacy that went up in flames.

BCTV Schedules – Week of 4/15/19

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 4/15/19

Monday, April 15, 2019

4:00 am Mad River Glen Today – Donnie Simpson
5:00 am Turning Point Windham County – Ep1 – Recovery Movement
5:11 am Promos – Youth Services – Can Windham County Dance?
5:15 am Dummerston Conservation Commission – Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors

BCTV Schedules – Week of 4/14/19

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 4/8/19

Monday, April 8, 2019

4:31 am Vermont Treasures – The Revenants
5:00 am Brooks Memorial Library Events – An Army Physician’s Experience in Vietnam
6:30 am Dummerston Conservation Commission – Winter Lecture Series Pt 4
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Talking Nerdy – Ep. 15 – Chocolate and Pi

“Fine & Dandy” Gala Celebrates Gershwin’s Muse, Composer Kay Swift

by fomag | Music

West Brattleboro, Vt. – Friends of Music at Guilford’s tenth annual celebration of Women in Music begins at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, and salutes Katherine Faulkner “Kay” Swift (1897-1993). She was a classically trained composer who became George Gershwin’s trusted musical advisor and companion. After Gershwin (1898-1937) encouraged her to compose popular music, Swift became the first woman to write a hit Broadway musical, “Fine and Dandy” (1930), now the borrowed title for FOMAG’s gala.

Some of both genres of music will be performed at this house-concert benefit for FOMAG’s current 53rd season. The program opens with a piano transcription of the Overture to “Fine and Dandy,” performed by Virginia Eskin, and later includes Swift’s Theme and Variations for Piano and Cello, performed with cellist Rebecca Hartka. Eskin will also accompany several songs from Swift’s musical theater and film scores featuring vocals by Jessica Gelter and Tony Grobe.

One Scholarship for Pottery Class Starting April 10

by Teta | Education

Wheelhouse Clay Center recently opened at 48 Harmony Place in downtown Brattleboro. It’s the vision of two local potters and former members of Brattleboro Clayworks, Shari Zabriskie and Teta Hilsdon.

Wheelhouse’s four basic offerings are rentals for potters, classes, special events, and a gallery. As classes begin to roll out, Teta Hilsdon is offering one scholarship to her Beginner Wheel Throwing class, an 8-week course covering the basics of wheel throwing technique, trimming, decorating, and glazing.

BSD Dance Scholarship Deadline is May 1

by ChrisLenois | Arts

Company of Muses announces May 1, 2019 is the deadline to apply for scholarships for summer sessions at the Brattleboro School of Dance. Applications can be found at www.companyofmuses.org.

Funds are available for dancers of all ages and abilities so long as the family can demonstrate need according to federal financial assistance guidelines. The amount of assistance available is determined by these guidelines, as well as the number of applicants.

Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas at Next Stage on Thursday, April 11

by stobro | Music

Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of cutting edge fiddle and cello explorations of Scottish, Celtic and global music by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas at Next Stage on Thursday, April 11 at 7:30 pm.  With a shared passion for improvising on the melody and the groove of traditional tunes, Alasdair and Natalie feature dazzling teamwork, swapping melodic and harmonic lines and trading driving rhythmic riffs.   “…soaring sustains, windswept refrains, and sudden, jazzy explosions. Their sound is as urbane as a Manhattan midnight, and as wild as a Clackmannan winter.” — Boston Globe

BCTV Schedules – Week of 4/1/19

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 4/1/19

Monday, April 1, 2019

5:00 am River Garden Brown Bag Lunch Series – New England Dance Music – Full Catastrophe
6:15 am VT Master Anglers – S01E01 – Catching Stocked Trout
6:30 am The Rhema Word – 2020 Election Explosion
7:12 am Doing Life – 148 – Identity Christianity
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast