Arts

Taconic Music festival

MANCHESTER - Taconic Music artistic directors Ariel Rudiakov and Joana Genova present Taconic Music’s fifth annual summer music festival, June 14 to July 12.
The season encompasses four faculty concerts featuring Taconic faculty and guest artists, two NextGen concerts performed by string...

Jam at Tommy Fest

JAMAICA- Tommy Fest 2021, one day of peace, love, and harmony, returns with the theme of “all jam all the time.”
The festival is Saturday, July 3, beginning at 2 pm at 1047 Pikes Falls Road, Jamaica. Rain date is July 5.
In honor of Tom Morris of the Bondville Boys, all are welcome...

The Dorset Musical Festival audio play series

DORSET - Dorset Theatre Festival, under the leadership of artistic director Dina Janis, announces its 44th season, including the inaugural StageFree Audio Plays series, and live main stage performances of Christopher Durang’s “Laughing Wild” (July 9 to July 31); “Queen of the Night,” a world...

Jazzy Saturday

The Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro will complete its 2020-21 livestream season with a concert by the highly acclaimed Immanuel Wilkins Quartet on Saturday, June 5. This young group, each of whom is in their early to mid-20s, has been touring, recording, and creating together since their teens...

“Memories of a Mill Girl”

BENNINGTON- “Memories of a Mill Girl” is a Bennington Historical Society presentation in conjunction with the Bennington Museum.
In the program, Anne Bugbee tells the story of Mary Palmer, a young girl who arrived in America in 1859 and began working in a cotton mill in North Bennington as...

Movement for creativity

BENNINGTON- The Bennington Performing Arts Center is presenting “Movement for Creativity” on Saturday, April 24, from 2 to 4 pm.
What stories do our bodies want to tell? How do we listen to them? In this workshop, intuitive practitioner and performing artist HK Goldstein will create a...

Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Daricia Mia DeMarr, and Novella Ford.

Importance of black identity in art

BRATTLEBORO- Artist Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Daricia Mia DeMarr of Black Women in Visual Art, and Novella Ford of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture discuss Black identity and representation in art in “Holding Space: Reflections on Children of the Sun,” an online conversation...

NAACP hosts Freedom Fund Dinner

Windham County- The Windham County Branch of the NAACP will host its second annual Freedom Fund Dinner on Friday, April 23, from 7 to 8:30 pm via Zoom.
The speaker for the evening will be Vermont State Senator Kesha Ram, who is the first woman of color and the youngest woman in history to...

Rooting for the home team

One-Minute Book Reviews By Laura Stevenson “Fans”
Larry Olmsted
Algonquin Books, 2021 Sports fans, according to Larry Olmsted, “have been dissed.” Think about football fans, hockey fans, basketball fans: regardless of...

MASS MoCA presents a new exhibit

NORTH ADAMS- MASS MoCA presents “Close to You,” a group exhibition that gathers the work of artists who probe the capacity of the visual arts to conjure feelings of closeness. On view from Saturday, April 3, through January 2022, the exhibition features the work of Laura Aguilar, Chloë Bass,...