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...
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