Arts

Next Stage Arts Donations

PUTNEY– The Next Stage Arts Project announced that the August 2 Arts Unite Windham event raised more than $8,000 for local social justice organizations, the Root Social Justice Center and the Windham County NAACP. More than $6,700 came through the online portal, and more than $1,500 came through...

Peace poster artwork competition

DEERFIELD VALLEY- The Deerfield Valley Lions will be sponsoring the Lions International Peace Poster Contest once again. The event is open to any student ages 11, 12 or 13 (as of November 15) living in Halifax, Whitingham, Wilmington or Dover. This year’s Peace Poster theme is “Peace Through...

The Sarasa Ensemble

Sarasa plays at the music center

BRATTLEBORO- The Brattleboro Music Center Season Guest Concert features the Sarasa Ensemble performing “Don Quixote, Knight Errant.”
Two live performances, with very limited seating to ensure adequate social distancing, are set for Friday, September 18, at 5 and 7 pm at the BMC. A...

Installation view of the exhibit “Coffee and Conversation: Stories of Homelessness”

BMAC focuses on homelessness

BRATTLEBORO- During the past five years, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center has regularly presented artwork that serves as a platform for the exploration of social issues, including LGBTQ equality, addiction and recovery, and attitudes toward firearms. This fall, in conjunction with two...

Local landscapes featured in art

WILMINGTON- Posters that depict the work of local painters will be popping up in spots in and around Wilmington. They are part of a new art and landscape tour sponsored by Wilmington Works that will remain up over the next six weeks.
Titled “Picture This,” the self-guided tour will take...

Artwork by Katherine Gass Stowe

Free exhibition based on homelessness

BRATTLEBORO- The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center presents a free tour of the exhibit Steven Kinder: 552,830, led by curator Katherine Gass Stowe, on Thursday, August 27, at 7:30 pm. Stowe will offer the tour via Zoom and Facebook Live. For more information visit brattleboromuseum.org....

Mary Anne Howland

Responsibility conference

BURLINGTON– Registration is now open for Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility’s 30th annual conference, “Future Forward,” which will be held virtually on September 22.
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility members, friends, and state legislators will gather for a full-day...

Historical Society opens virtual annual auction

NEWFANE- The Historical Society of Windham County’s annual silent auction will be held online from noon on August 28 until noon on September 4.
The auction, which was originally scheduled for March as part of the society’s annual soup fest and silent auction fundraiser, was canceled due...

Historical society grant

VERMONT- The Vermont Historical Society is honored to receive one of the 317 CARES Act economic stabilization grants funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities for the project Preserving and Expanding Access to Vermont’s History.
The $133,512 award, administered between...

Clothing and textiles featured at the Vermont Historical Society Museum in Montpelier.

Governor Kunin exhibit at Vermont museum

MONTPELIER- A Vermont governor, not a first lady, wore a gown to the inauguration for the very first time in 1985. Throughout her decades long career, former Vermont governor, Madeline Kunin, broke this and many other barriers for women in politics. A new exhibition at the Vermont History Museum...