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Special section: Brattleboro Film Festival

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 — Issue 176

BRATTLEBORO — Our special supplement for the first annual Brattleboro Film Festival, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 2 through 4:

Overview

-Films that movie lovers from Brattleboro would appreciate seeing: A new festival celebrates worlds where people might be demented, enlightened, brave, interesting, vulnerable, charming, gifted, and sometimes even joyously happy, by Joyce Marcel.

Schedule

-First annual Brattleboro Film Festival, Nov. 2-4, to feature 12 films, special discussions, and events

Reviews

-Staten Island kids sing at the Oscars. Review of Once in a Lullaby by Robin Antepara.

-A homage to art, dance, song, and jazz, jazz, jazz. Review of Chico and Rita by Arlene Distler.

-Love, legal connections, and defining families. Review of Any Day Now and Cloudburst by Suzanne d'Corsey.

-Recipients of our best intentions, victims of our worst inclinations. Review of One Nation Under Dog by Debbie Jacobs.

-'Unlikely activists asking tough questions.' Review of The Atomic States of America by Lissa Weinmann.

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New art gallery opens in Newfane

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VTC opens season with four one-act plays

DUMMERSTON-Vermont Theatre Company opens its 40th season with "An Evening of One Act Plays" at...

‘Sing Nowell’ will benefit Groundworks

BRATTLEBORO-On Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m., the Latchis Theatre will ring again with the...

Brattleboro Women's Chorus presents fall concert

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Women's Chorus (BWC) presents its fall concert, "We Toast the Days," on Nov.

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