Farmers’ markets
Saturdays Brattleboro Farmers’ Market Western Avenue (just west of Creamery Covered Bridge) Brattleboro, 9a-2p http://www.brattleborofarmersmarket.com. Norwich Farmers’ Market Route 5 south in Norwich, 9a-1p http://www.norwichfarmersmarket.org. Bennington Farmers’ Market Bennington Station, 10a-1p 802 442-8934 Londonderry – West River Farmers’ Market Routes 11 and 100, 9a-1p 802 824-4492 Rutland Downtown Farmers’ Market Depot Park,...
Music and theater
Actors Theatre Playhouse Main Street, West Chesterfield, NH http://www.atplayhouse.org, 877 666-1855 Sept 16: “A Delicate Balance,” a staged reading for Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Set in Connecticut, this play features an upper-class married couple whose relationship has been an uneasy one for several years. Sept 22-Oct 17 (Fridays and Saturdays): “Uncle Vanya” by Anon Chekhov. A cautionary tale delicately balanced...
Liz Hawkes de Niord works and book at CX Silver Gallery
Get in on the new exhibition and opening reception for Liz Hawkes deNiord’s paintings and clay works at Brattleboro’s CX Silver Gallery, which is publishing a gorgeous book on these groundbreaking pieces. The reception and book launch are Friday, Sept 29, from 5:30 to 7:30p, and the exhibition is open daily by appointment. Of deNiord’s work, painter Michele Burgess, the director of Brighton Press, writes that the artist “creates...
At the galleries
Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and C.X. Silver Gallery 814 Western Ave, Brattleboro http://www.accvt.org, 802 257-7898, ext. 1 Sept-March: Liz Hawkes deNiord’s paintings and clay works. The opening reception and book launch is Sept 29, 5:30-7:30p. Open daily by appointment. Concurrent with the exhibition, the gallery is publishing a book on Liz’s work. Catherine Dianich Gallery 139 Main St, Brattleboro Open by appointment only...
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 Thru Dec 23: Small Works Show. Beautiful works in a broad variety of subjects, but with a size limitation of 14 inches. Thru Sept 17: The Laumeister Fine Art Competition. Annual competition juried by Calvin Liang, a highly respected member of the Oil Painters of America and the California Art Club....
Vermont Arts Council lands accomplished new director
Karen S. Mittelman is the new executive director of the Vermont Arts Council. Mittelman, previously director of the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in Washington, D.C., brings to the Arts Council more than 30 years of experience in the public sector and in the the federal cultural arena. Beyond her work at NEH, Mittelman held a senior position at the National Museum of American Jewish...
Murals make the town
Cities and towns across the country are looking a little more colorful lately—and that’s not because of the changing seasons. Groups that aim to promote local talent and engage the community have been turning bare city walls and public buildings into huge public canvases. Brattleboro is in the planning stages to promote creative murals townwide. Some years ago, Bellows Falls created a welcoming mural for its downtown. Now the Rotary...
Brattleboro to speak out in $150K grant for ’Peoples, Places and History of Words
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has awarded Peoples, Places and History of Words in Brattleboro a $150,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) matching grant. This was one of three highly competitive NEH grants received in Vermont. The two other recipients were the University of Vermont and the Vermont Farmers’ Market Education Center. According to project director Lissa...
Next Stage lands $50K grant for storytelling
Next Stage Arts Project has received a $50,000 NEA grant, representing the entirety of NEA’s arts-based community development investment for Putney. The grant supports a collaborative project of Next Stage and the Town of Putney called “Legacy Putney: A Collaborative Celebration of Putney’s Arts History and Culture.” Partners include the Putney Historical Society, Putney Library, and area schools. The project has also received a...
Talk of the Arts: Thoughts of a man of a certain age
By Robert McBride So here we are, spinning around the sun, globally connected. I wonder whether the stress level is more or less than when our ancestors were worrying about the bison, climate change, an attack from a band of barbarians, and who their next leader might be. In the early 1960s, at the dinner table, my father would comment on U.S. politics and the economy, “It is the rise and fall of the Roman empire.” He’d often follow...
Echoes of the Past: Abandoned Photography
Linda Jane has photographed hundreds of abandoned places in more than a dozen states. Her images reveal the beauty of decay and the mystery of what people left behind. Many of the spaces rose and fell when handcrafting was valued. Heavy, carved doors, arched windows, stained glass, soaring ceilings, and forged fixtures remain after many years. She asks, “Why did businesses leave old ledgers and correspondence? Where are the students...
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