Spotlight: Harris Hill Ski Jump
Some of the world’s best up-and-coming ski jumpers are set to fly at New England’s only Olympic-size venue during the annual Harris Hill tournament in Brattleboro. The nearly century-old competition will feature athletes from North America and Europe leaping off a 90-meter hill that’s one of just six of its size in the country. Since its start in 1922, the event attracts several thousand spectators who watch jumpers shoot at speeds of...
Music & Theater
Vermont Arts Exchange Masonic Temple, 504 Main St., Bennington http://www.vtartxchange.org, 802 442-5549 Ongoing (dates TBD): Basement Music Series. From late fall through April each year, the Basement Music Series (BMS) brings in bands from as far away as Virginia, Cuba, and Tuva, and from the music hub of Brooklyn, N.Y. Offering a huge range of music, from Grammy Award-nominated Omar Sosa to BMS favorite Howard Fishman and the Tuvan...
Workshops
Extension Master Gardener Course http://www.uvm.edu/mastergardener, 802 656-3131 Feb. 7-May 16: Learn the keys to a healthy and sustainable home landscape from your home computer as University of Vermont faculty and other experts provide live, interactive webinars on gardening in Vermont. This 13-week, non-credit course covers a wide variety of horticultural topics: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany basics,...
At the museums
Bennington Center for the Arts 44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington 10a to 5p, Mon-Sun (Closed Mon) http://www.thebennington.org, 802 442-7158 Ongoing: Exhibitions by many of the country’s most prestigious groups, along with artists chosen to participate in shows that we annually curate, have given The Bennington a reputation for exhibiting only world-class art in an elegant, state-of-the-art facility. At the Covered Bridge Museum, discover the...
Great River Theatre Festival: 4 days, 6 companies, 18 shows
The Great River Theatre Festival promises to be one of the most exciting theatre collaborations Southern Vermont has ever seen. The brainchild of Main Street Arts in Saxtons River, and an outgrowth of the Four-County Theatre Collaborative MSA also spearheaded, this festival showcases a Who’s Who of community and professional theatre companies in its inaugural program. The festival runs July 6-9 at several locations in the Putney area...
When a region roars back: Green building builds Southern Vermont’s economy
Life is greener than ever in our Green Mountains. Not only because of the glorious views, skiing, hiking, fishing, canoeing, and fine dining available in the rural hills and valleys of Southern Vermont. It’s because a number of visionaries, inventors, entrepreneurs, and businessfolk are spending quality time together brainstorming about the future in these changing times. The impetus: a series of events that left the region reeling....
Farmers markets
Bennington Winter Farmers’ Market First Baptist Church on East Main Street, Bennington First and third Saturday thru April 15, 10a-1p http://www.benningtonfarmersmarket.org Brattleboro Winter Farmers’ Market River Garden, downtown Brattleboro Saturdays thru March 26, 10a-2p 802 869-2141,www.facebook.com/BrattleboroWinterFarmersMarket Dorset Winter Farmers’ Market J.K. Adams Kitchen Store on Route 30, Dorset Sundays thru May 1, 10a-2p...
At the galleries
Catherine Dianich Gallery 139 Main St., Brattleboro Open by appointment http://www.catherinedianichgallery.com, 802 380-1607 Currently: Contemporary art featuring established and emerging artists working at local, regional, and national levels. Chaffee Art Center 16 South Main St., Rutland http://www.chaffeeartcenter.org, 802 775-0356 Thru Jan 21: All-Member Exhibit Winter Showcase. This display of creativity exhibits with the annual...
Vermont Arts Council award winners reflect on divisions, unity
By Kevin O’Connor When printmaker Eric Aho tried teaching at The Putney School in 1989, his challenge wasn’t just that he was 22 and had no classroom leadership experience. “The position was to teach painting,” he recalls, “and I had never painted before.” A quarter-century later, the Saxtons River resident, whose brushwork is now acclaimed, returned to campus in the fall to receive the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts....
The ‘Slow School’ movement: A call for arts to save education
By Peter Gould The life of a self-employed artist in Vermont has its ups and downs. It can be tough. You have good times and bad times—and sometimes the good times and the bad times are one and the same. Let me tell you about the work I have done for the past 40 years: arts in education. I’ll tell it like a poem… Like a work of art! I call it the Slow School Movement! They say schools today, they’re trying to reach, trying to...
A Place at the Table: Bellows Falls’ Popolo Restaurant Feeds the Future
By Nicole Colson In the case of Popolo, it truly did take a village to open a restaurant. The neo-rustic Italian farm-to-table eatery in downtown Bellows Falls, named for the Italian word for “people,” came into existence because of the people who wanted a stake in the future of their community. “We went door to door asking people if they wanted to participate,” said Gary Smith, one of the restaurant’s three founding partners. The...
Impeccable pedigree: Windham Antiques Center puts Bellows Falls on the map
By Katherine P. Cox It’s a classic story: visitors to Vermont stop in a small town or village and are smitten with its charm and beauty. Next thing you know, they’ve left their old life behind and moved here for good. It was a simple stop for gas that changed Michael Bruno’s life. Some 10 years ago, Bruno, 35 who grew up on Long Island, N.Y., was working as a gemologist for Tiffany & Co. in Manhattan. Passing through Bellows...
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