Artbits-October 24, 2024

Posted on October 24, 2024 by Dick

FILM

The Opera House at Enosburg Falls presents the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live shadow cast. Cambridge Arts Council offers Movie Night at 60 Main Arts with Night of the Living Dead. The 12th annual Northwest Nightmares Film Festival will screen all the mini-masterpieces from around the region at the Welden. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

River Arts opens Then and Now, a new exhibit with old elements. The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Barry Genzlinger. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Majestic Mount Mansfield by Tom Waters. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

14th Star Brewing offers a Kooky Owl Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. River Arts hosts the in-person, October Sip n’ Slurry: Ceramic Pumpkin Decor with Lindsay. Liane Spaulding leads a morning making Polymer Clay Earrings at MAG. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association’s speaker series continues with Margaret M. Bruchac’s presentation of Encountering Ndakinna: Reconsidering Abenaki History in Vermont and New Hampshire. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute concludes the Fall series with Jason Barney to discuss the Hidden History of Lake Champlain. Vera Longtoe Sheehan talks about Deep Roots and Strong Branches: American Abenaki Narratives and Healing. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Only about 9 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and 12percent have gotten a flu shot but COVID-19 is still here whether Vermonters get the shot or not. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Acoustic Thursday, a Blues & BBQ, the World of Hurt Monster Mania, JSB, Bob Chevalier, the Second Hand Blues, John Cronin, the Natural Selection, the Dirty Looks Band, Kirkland the Band, Jenny Red, Troy Millette, Acoustic Mayhem, , Luna Worldcast Live, and Sticks and Stones are all live in a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Eloquent Page celebrates Spooky Saturday with Jesse DuRona, Eileen Williams, and Michelle Willard. The Mystery Book Club meets to consider Beneath the Fountain by DonnaRae Menard. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 17, 2024

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on wood turner Toby Fulwiler . Bryan Memorial Gallery features Smugglers’ Notch in Autumn by Erik Koeppel. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features June Roberts Wesley’s contemporary powwow dance clothes. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

14th Star Brewing Company hosts the Paint Your Own Pet Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. The October Paint and Sip led by Sylvia Oblak will paint a Halloween scene at the MAG. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association’s new speaker series begins with Margaret Bruchac’s presentation on Encountering Ndakinna: Reconsidering Abenaki History in Vermont and New Hampshire. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute has David Kelley, Katherine Cadwell, and Charlie Hosford to discuss Grassroots Diplomacy. Katheryn Wright talks about AI: Our Newest Digital Companion. Read more…

THEATER

The Opera House at Enosburg Falls 2024 Youth Talent Search celebrates vocalists, dancers, musicians, bands, and more. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

River Arts offers a Macrame Hat Holder Workshop with Karen. The Bryan Memorial Gallery hosts the 2024 Artist Fall Retreat with T.M. Nicholas and Leo Mancini-Hresko. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here as variants of SARS-CoV-2 continue to emerge. KP.3 is the dominant circulating variant with LB.1 as number 2. There have been 1,214 total pandemic deaths; eight more Vermonters have died in the past week. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Cooie Sings (twice), Adlai Waxman, Patti Shannon, McMaple, Ryan Hanson, the Smokey Newfield Project, Mama Tried, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Bushey & Bedell, Tim Fitzgerald, and others not available as I wrote this perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries reads mystery genres. Swanton Free Public Library hosts the Writers’ Group in person and the monthly SPL Book Club with the Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 10, 2024

Posted on October 10, 2024 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The second annual People’s Art Show opens with a Reception at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Tess Follensbee. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Moon Rising on Banister Road by Lynn VanNatta. Read more…

ART (SUPPLIES) FOR SALE

The Milton Artists Guild Art Supply Sale has art and crafting supplies for sale as a MAG benefit. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

River Arts hosts the in-person, Paint & Sip — Vermont Autumn Landscapes with Jen Volansky. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

GEMS, Bryan Gallery’s annual members’ exhibit returns this year to the Middle Room. The spooky season is upon us. Film makers should submit their eeriest efforts to the Northwest Nightmares Film Festival. Read more…

CREATIVE AGING

Vermont will be the oldest state in the nation with one of the highest life expectancy rates at nearly 80 years of age. Participating in the arts as one ages can improve emotional well-being, support good health, strengthen social engagement, and bring purpose and joy. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The second annual, two-day Rail City Tattoo Festival offers live music, tattooing, vendors, and more in City Hall plus an official punk rock and hardcore Afterparty with Rough Francis, The Path, Old North End, Dead Street Dreamers, and Violet Crimes. Snow Farm Vineyard celebrates its 11th annual Harvest Festival with Chris and Issy, an artist gallery, and more. Read more…

FILM

The 1985 film Unbroken Circle uses the words and music of a dozen Vermont musicians, historic photos, and location videography to trace traditional country music in Vermont. It is Classic Movie Night with Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Randy Kritkausky presents An Indigenous Perspective on Nature: Working Together as Allies on Zoom. Bent-Northrop Memorial library offers Cemetery Sleuthing with Erin E. Moulton. The Vermont Truth and Reconciliation Commission hosts Truth and Healing: In Search of a Common Memory. Chief Brenda Gagne will lead the opening ceremony. Osher continues the series with UVM Professor Luis Vivanco to explore When the Bicycle Came to Vermont. The North Hero Public Library presents Dazed, Seduced and Transfixed: The Monster Through Time, In Literature and In Our Lives with Shanta Lee. Erica Heilman talks about Rumble Strip: Building Community in Our Divided Society. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Cathy LaClair will reprise Sparkle and Support: a Metal Earrings Workshop for MAG. Social Sunday continues. The Mindful Art Series offers Create & Connect Mixed Media with Jen Volansky at River Arts. The Healing Arts Series offers its newest class, Meditate, Breathe, & Create with Victoria Veldon and Randy Putvain. Read more…

COVID NEWS

The number of COVID-19 cases in Vermont continues to increase. There have been 1,206 total pandemic deaths reported as of September 28. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Nobby Reed Project (twice), Jim Branca and Friends, Laura Fedele-Rasco, B-Town, Roger Giroux, the Smokey Newfield Project, the Shane Murley Band, the Blue Rock Boys, All About Pie, Dan Parks, Will Austin, Bushey/Bedell/Branon, and Sisters in Crime all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Many libraries will be closed Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day. Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual Zoom group. The Eloquent Page has Donna Howard and Gail Schwartz for a special reading of Falling Through the Night. Glenn Fay will discuss and sign Ambition: The Remarkable Family of Ethan Allen. Patricia Letourneau Henderson will read and sign Captive Company. But I Progress takes up Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 3, 2024

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Dick

SPOTLIGHT

In the House presents Spotlight: All that Jazz with songs including Aladdin’s Friend Like Me, Tapioca from Mary Poppins and the music of Cats. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features Wendy Everhart, Barry Genzlinger, Maureen Genzlinger, and Deborah Travis with a live reception at the gallery. The Swanton Free Public Library hosts a Cat Themed Art Show and Kitty Adoption Event in the Cat’s Meow Gallery at the Library. The final walking tour of the season at Cold Hollow Sculpture Park is upon us. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Majestic Mount Mansfield by Tom Waters. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features graphic designer Jim Taylor. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Opera House at Enosburg Falls is on the hunt for vocalists, dancers, musicians, bands, and more for the Youth Talent Search. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute has John Newton on his Galapagos Islands Adventure. The Vermont Humanities Council presents Eva Sollberger to discuss the Evolution of Stuck in Vermont. The Fletcher Free Library Book Club reads No Ordinary Assignment by Jane Ferguson. The Cambridge Historical Society and the Bryan Memorial Gallery continue History Unframed: The Bryan Gallery and Jeffersonville’s Art Legacy with Jane Shaw and Barbara Bertocci. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists Guild has Cathy LaClair to teach Sparkle and Support: a Metal Earrings Workshop, Social Sunday, and John Edebohls continuing the eight-week Basic Watercolor Class. The River Arts October Open Studio Figure Drawing offers a full nude session. 14th Star and Once Upon a Rock host a Pebble Art Workshop. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here. The number of cases in Vermont continues to rise. and there have been 1,199 total pandemic deaths. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Musician’s Circle, Karl Woods Lucas, Sibling Reverie, Toast, Laura Fedele-Rasco, the Buck Hollers, Bird Boombox, the Blue Rock Boys, Sister Speak, Inseldudler, the Tenderbellies, Jonny Mop, and more all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Fall Book Sale takes over the Homer Knight barn. Forester Ethan Tapper signs and reads from How to Love a Forest at the Montgomery Center and at the Eloquent Page. The Saint Albans Museum welcomes Kenneth Cadow to discuss Gather. The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club meets for Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. Read more…

 

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Artbits-September 26, 2024

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on the functional and fine art pottery of Barbara Flathers. Bryan Memorial Gallery will usher in fall with the live music of the Blue Rock Boys at a Garden Party. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features anthropologist Paul Rene Tamburro of Sunrise Drum Consulting and Sunrise Drum Art. John Montagne does live chainsaw art. Open Studio Weekend is coming with artists opening their doors around the county and around the state. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

14th Star Brewing offers a Classic Rooster Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. River Arts hosts the in-person, September Sip n’ Slurry: Textured Mug with Chiara Keeling. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Champlain Youth Choir invites all singers from third through twelfth grades to join for the Fall Program. Read more…

FILM

Unbroken Circle, a film by Mark Greenburg, uses the words and music of Vermont musicians, historic photos, and videography to trace the development of country music in Vermont. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute has US Border Patrol Division Chief Richard Ross to discuss A Day in the Life of a Border Patrol Agent. The Vermont Humanities Council hosts an evening book discussion of Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. Amber McBride discusses how she uses writing to tackle the themes of loss, trauma, race, and healing through poetry. A Shakespeare Mix & Match segment focuses on Twelfth Night. Ace Lehner will discuss Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure and the Hope of Utopian Futures. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists Guild has Patrick McAllister to teach Live Model Figure Drawing. Social Sunday continues. And John Edebohls begins the Basic Watercolor Class. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council will hold a Board Meeting and Updates in person at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…

COVID NEWS

367 COVID cases were reported in the week ending September 14, up from 270. There have been 1,190 pandemic deaths. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Masquerade Prom, Ryan Sweezey (twice), Uncle Jimmy, Chris & Erica, the Dirty Looks, the Duo with Maggie, Next Stop Comedy, JSB, Bill Satnik, Roger Giroux, Robin Gottfried, Eric George, the Blue Rock Boys, Nathan Michaud, the Will Patton Trio, Amerikana Blue, and Astral Underground all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Bent Northrop Memorial Library hosts To Bid or Not to Bid with the Will Patton Trio. The Swanton Antique Show will benefit the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…

 

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Artbits-September 19, 2024

Posted on September 19, 2024 by Dick

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Enosburg Harvest Festival has the Blue Rock Boys and Uncle John’s Band on the Lincoln Park Bandstand. Afterglow 2024 fills Hard’ack with King Me, Chin Ho, and Quadra. Read more…

BANNED BOOKS WEEK

Banned Books Week begins Sunday and culminates with Let Freedom Read Day. The theme is Freed Between the Lines. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Northern Vermont Artist Association September Show at the Westford Public Library begins with an opening reception. The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Barbara Flack. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Where the Dim Trout Lie in the Shadows Pool by Robert Aiken. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features writer and lecturer Chief Don Stevens. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The September Paint and Sip led by Sylvia Oblak will paint a fall scene at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Read more…

DANCE

Island Arts wraps up the joy of community dancing to lively music for September with Leslie Alpert. Better In Boots comes to 14th Star for a night of Line Dancing in The Room. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Cambridge Historical Society and the Bryan Memorial Gallery begin a series of conversations on History Unframed: The Bryan Gallery and Jeffersonville’s Art Legacy with Alden Bryan Jr. and Barbara Bertocci. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continues with Christopher McBride to discuss Environmental Photography in 2024: From Capture to the Wall. Meg Tamulonis tells some of the Stories from the Vermont Queer Archives. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists’ Guild has Kelli Shepherd to teach a Crochet Pumpkins workshop and Social Sundays continue. River Arts begins a new, four-workshop series, Accessible Arts: Therapeutic Crafts, with Karen. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Paws in the Park, the Blue Rock Boys (twice), Cooie DeFrancesco, Jesse Agan, Matty & Me, 90 Proof, Shane’s Apothecary, Toast, George Murtie, Lady Livy, Chris & Erica, the Smokey Newfield Project, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Bushey and Bedell, Tim Fitzgerald, Barbie-n-Bones, Nighthawk, Jamie Lee Thurston, Shannon Curtis and Jamie Hill, Mayhem, Dan Jarvis, Uncle John’s Band, the Dale & Darcy Band and Will Patton, the Inseldudler Band, C-Groove, McMaple, and Dave Miller all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The St. Albans Free Library hosts Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club discusses Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs. The Swanton Writers’ Group meets with Becky Rupp. Read more…

 

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