Music & theater
Vermont Arts Exchange Masonic Temple, 504 Main St., Bennington http://www.vtartxchange.org, 802 442-5549 Jan 9: Bella’s Bartok, Balkan-inspired, Klezmer-influenced, a circus-like sound, group harmonies, a bohemian vibe, dancy tunes, all with something of a punk edge. Jan 30: Dirty Bourbon River Show. Tight, multi-faceted sound and high-energy performance blending New Orleans big brass, smooth-croon lounge, jazzy sax solos, and...
At the museums
Bennington Center for the Arts 44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington 10a to 5p, Wed-Mon (closed Tues) http://www.thebennington.org, 802 442-7158 Ongoing: Exhibitions by many of the country’s most prestigious groups along with artists we chose to participate in shows that we curate annually have given The Bennington a reputation of a venue that exhibits only world-class art in an elegant, state-of-the-art facility. At the Covered Bridge Museum,...
Spotlight: Helmholz Fine Art
Following a successful pop-up gallery in 2014, the new permanent home of Helmholz Fine Art Gallery is now in Manchester Square, where a raw space that stood empty for four years is transformed to a wonderful modern gallery. Lisa Helmholz-Adams boasts an impressive background in the fashion, arts, and sports worlds. She spent 20 years running a local gallery in Manchester and now, with her own fine art gallery, she has the freedom to...
Farmers’ markets
Bennington Bennington Winter Farmers’ Market First and third Saturdays through April 16, 10a-1p First Baptist Church on East Main, http://www.benningtonfarmersmarket.org Brattleboro Brattleboro Winter Farmers’ Market Saturdays thru March 26, 10a-2p River Garden, downtown Brattleboro, http://www.Facebook.com/BrattleboroWinter FarmersMarket Dorset Dorset Winter Farmers’ Market Sundays thru May 1, 10a-2p J.K. Adams Kitchen Store on Route...
Champagne: When it’s time to sparkle
By Marty Ramsburg Celebrate — ’Tis the season! No wine connotes celebration more than something sparkling. Those gorgeous little air pockets so excited to be released from captivity set the tone and convey the mood. We have tried to spread the love by starting many of our get-togethers with sparkling. Family and friends, after all, are the relationships that deserve the greatest commemoration. At our shop, Windham Wines, we have...
Artistic ambassadors to the working woods
An exhibit at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center marries poetry with the painted image in a celebration of the life and lore of the Vermont forest Shedding Light on the Working Forest,” an exhibition of paintings and poems, is the deepest expression of an artistic friendship, nurtured over twenty-five years. Kathleen Kolb and I met as faculty members at the Governor’s Institute on the Arts, living and teaching painting and poetry,...
Circus Arts: Planning to soar
NECCA sisters fuse business savvy, circus thrills By Jon Potter Photos by Jeffrey M. Lewis Balance is a core value at a school whose curriculum boasts Trapeze, Teeterboard, and Acrobatics, and whose students are often found 10 feet off the ground, swinging from bars, beams, and fabrics. But for Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion, identical twins and co-founders of the New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro, commitment...
What Vermont stands to lose
Shall Vermont’s mountains be sacrificed in the great game of big wind? By Tom Slayton Vermont’s mountains and high ridges are under siege once again. Across the length and breadth of our small, mountainous state, dozens of immense wind towers taller than the 306-foot-tall Bennington Battle Monument are planned or in place. With official sanction, this state is gradually industrializing and suburbanizing its mountains and high...
Winter picks
Brattleboro Clayworks Holiday Sale 532 Putney Road, Brattleboro http://www.brattleboroclayworks.com, 802 254-9174 December: Stop by during extended showroom hours where we have an annual 10 percent off sale. Brattleboro Clayworks is Southern Vermont’s ceramics resource center. Founded in 1983, we seek to increase access to ceramic media for the communities of southeastern Vermont, northwestern Massachusetts, and southwestern New...
At the galleries
Bennington Arts Guild 103 South St., Bennington http://www.benningtonartsguild.org, 802 442-7838 Thru Dec: Bennington Art Guild Holiday Show. To wrap up the year, the Bennington Arts Guild hosts its Annual Holiday Show of work by Guild members. Chaffee Art Center 16 South Main St., Rutland http://www.chaffeeartcenter.org, 802 775-0356 Thru Dec: Annual Holiday Exhibit and Gingerbread Construction Competition. Crowell Gallery at Moore...
Food town: Brattleboro’s burgeoning culinary creativity
By Joyce Marcel While Brattleboro was priding itself on being an arts town, was it secretly turning into a food town? Or maybe, one simply follows the other and it’s not such a secret after all? “There are so many of us to choose from, you never have to travel far from your home,” said restaurateur/chef Ken Flutie. His intimate Blue Moose Bistro, across from the Latchis Theatre, anchors the lower part of Main Street. Flutie is right....
Northern Stage: Self-sustaining regional theater in White River Junction
By Katherine P. Cox It was a good run – 18 years – at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, but it was time for Northern Stage to move on, said Eric Bunge, managing director of the regional theater. The old opera house presented severe limitations for professional productions, and two years ago the non-profit theater board members looked at their options. They opted to launch a capital campaign to build a new theater,...
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