Visual arts
• Painting with water soluble oils: The Saxtons River Art Guild will host a workshop with Jay Doucette on painting with water soluble oils on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the United Church in Bellows Falls.
Water soluble or water mixable oil paints have become an alternative to traditional oils for artists who are sensitive to the odor of turpentine. All experience levels are welcome. Paint and materials will be provided by the instructor, just bring your own brushes. This is a great opportunity to experiment with this versatile medium.
Jay Doucette, a lifelong artist, has been teaching painting for the last 15 years. He is a member of the Vermont Watercolor Society, the New England Watercolor Society and the Accredited Artists Society. To register for the workshop or for more information, call Kathy at 802-463-9456 or Donna at 603-835-2387.
• In-Sight hosts exhibition, silent auction: The In-Sight Photography Project will soon kick off its 12th annual Photography Exhibition and Silent Auction.
More than 200 local, national and international photographers have donated their work to support In-Sight's mission to teach photography to Vermont youth regardless of their ability to pay. These compelling photographs will be on display and available for bidding throughout the month of October at the Vermont Center for Photography, 49 Flat St., in Brattleboro.
Join them for the opening reception on Oct. 1, 5:30 to 8:30, during Gallery Walk. You can also view the work and place bids at www.insight-photography.org through Oct. 31.
• Brattleboro Museum & Art Center calls for entries from regional artists: The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center welcomes submissions for its tri-annual juried exhibition, In the Zone III, which showcases established, mid-career, and emerging artists working in all media. Eligible artists must live either in the state of Vermont or within 100 miles of Brattleboro. Submissions are due by Nov. 1. Winners will be announced in February, and the exhibition will take place April 1-July 3, 2011.
All submissions will be reviewed by juror Christine Temin, who will select finalists for further consideration by BMAC's chief curator, Mara Williams. Temin covered visual and performing arts for over two decades as a critic for The Boston Globe. She has interviewed and reviewed such artists as Jenny Holzer, John Cage, Robert Indiana, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Serra, Yoshio Tanaguchi, Robert Wilson, and Doug and Mike Starn. Temin is particularly interested in the intersection of public art and architecture. She currently writes for a variety of publications, including Art New England, Sculpture, and American Craft.
Artists featured in In the Zone I (2005) and In the Zone II (2008) included Eric Aho, Tim Allen, Ahren Ahrenholz, Angelo Arnold, Olivia Bernard, Rita Edelman, Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, Tamara Kartheiser, David Teng Olsen, Alicia Renadette, Lynn Richardson, and Craig Stockwell, among others. Application instructions and more information are available at www.brattleboromuseum.org or by calling 802-257-0124, ext. 103.
Theatre
• Community Cabaret at NEYT: New England Youth Theatre opens the doors to its green room to artists from all over the Brattleboro community. Various performing artists from around town will be joining the NEYT mentors to put on a wildly collaged performance of music, dance, comedy, drama and mayhem on the evening of October's Gallery Walk, Friday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m.
The Mentors, a group of dedicated youth volunteers at NEYT, are producing this event, hoping to raise funds for the “Angels in the Wings” scholarship fund, which helps students who have special financial needs participate in NEYT's programming.
Tickets are $10 at the door. For more information about New England Youth Theatre, visit www.neyt.org.
• The Miser in Bellows Falls: The Spanish puppetry duo Tabola Rassa performs The Miser at 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24, and Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Bellows Falls Opera House,
In this adaptation of Molière's story, it is no longer money that everyone covets, but water. The protagonists of this visionary comedy become faucets, pipes and hoses containers of every kind. The
objects are manipulated by two actors, Olivier Benoit and Asier Saenz De Ugarte, who give life to no less than 12 characters in full view of the audience, providing a fresh and funny version of a great classic
Tickets are $16, $14 for students and seniors. Visit www.puppetsinthegreenmountains.com/schedule-list.html for more information.
• Ten Minute Play Festival: Actors Theatre Playhouse's 2010 Ten Minute Play Festival runs on Fridays and Saturdays, Sept. 24–Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m. All tickets are $8 and reservations are highly recommended by calling the toll free Box Office at 877-666-1855.
Ten Minute Plays are a fun, eclectic grab-bag of delights and the challenges can be daunting. You have 10 minutes to establish a situation, introduce your characters, deal with a problem and resolve it. It is extreme short story writing employing decisive directing and acting choices. And best of all for the audience, the evening winds up providing something for everyone….a little comedy, a little drama…and sometimes, a little something in-between.
Visit www.actors-theatre.info for all production and playhouse information.
Music
• Cajun combo at Hooker-Dunham: Twilight Music presents an evening of mandolins, fiddles and French vocals straight from the heart of Louisiana with Cajun Combo at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery on Saturday, September 25 at 8:00 pm.
Led by Louisiana native, Grammy nominee and Cajun French Music Association Fiddler of the Year Al Berard, the string-style Cajun music trio also features Louisiana/Vermont residents Mark Trichka and Lisa Brande. Al, Lisa and Mark perform the heart and soul of Cajun music's two-steps and waltzes on various combinations of fiddles, mandolins and guitars. Their focus on the roots of Cajun music lets listeners taste the flavor and fully hear the beauty of these timeless songs that come from a people of living history in Southwest Louisiana.
Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery is located at 139 Main St., in downtown Brattleboro. Tickets for the concert are $14 general/$12 students and seniors. For ticket reservations and information, call 802-254-9276. For more information, visit cajuncombo.com and www.hookerdunham.org.
Dance
• Leaps & Bounds at Marlboro College: The Affording Hope Project and Marlboro College present a free and open to the public performance of Leaps & Bounds at 8 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 27, in the Serkin Center Dance Studio.
Leaps & Bounds, a one-woman show produced and performed by Tevyn East is touring faith communities and institutions of higher learning across the United States in 2010. Written in collaboration with Ched Myers, renowned biblical scholar and teacher, this show is about the interconnection of faith, ecology, and global economy. Weaving biblical and personal narrative, dance, music, and a touch of economic theory, it addresses the driving factors of our ecological crisis while awakening the imagination to a new way of living with and relating to the Earth.
As the daughter of two Presbyterian (USA) ministers, East has spent most of her adult life developing original works of dance-theater as well as teaching dance, organizing workshops and other cultural events in Charlottesville, VA. While she appears on the stage alone, Leaps & Bounds is the result of a collaboration between many talented individuals. A full list of collaborators, themes and project resources can be found at www.affordinghopeproject.org.
Books
• Archer Mayor reads from newest book in Newfane: On Sunday, Sept. 26, at 4:30 p.m., author Archer Mayor will be at Olde & New England Books to sign and read from his latest Joe Gunther mystery, Red Herring.
It's the 21st novel in the popular and critically acclaimed series featuring detective Joe Gunther and his quirky staff at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, and this installment marks a return to southern Vermont where Joe, Willy and Sam deal with a series of baffling, too-trite-to-be-true deaths. A misleading clue has been left at every scene, and Mayor lets the reader follow every fascinating step of forensic technology and old-fashioned police work that leads the team to the murderer and the surprising conclusion of Red Herring.
Olde & New England Books is located ay 47 West Street in Newfane. For information about the event or to reserve a book, call 802-365-7074.
• A look at Provincetown: Noted Massachusetts author, journalist and prominent gay-rights movement historian Allen Young will appear on Tuesday evening, Oct. 12, in a community-wide event celebrating his latest book entitled Thalassa: One Week in a Provincetown Dune Shack. The public is invited to this free event, beginning at 7 p.m. at the community space of the Men's Program, at 15 Grove St., in Brattleboro. Light refreshments will be served.
Young is the author of 14 books, and writes a weekly column, “Inside/Outside,” for the Athol Daily News. This event will be an interactive talk about Allen's experience at the dune shack, with question and answer session to follow, as well as a general discussion of Provincetown as a gay resort and how people experience it.
Young's diverse work includes books on the North Quabbin region of Massachusetts, including North of Quabbin: A Guide to Nine Massachusetts Towns, Make Hay While the Sun Shines: Farms, Forests and People of the North Quabbin, and on gay liberation, including Gays Under the Cuban Revolution and Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation.
Copies of Thalassa will be on sale at the event and Young will be available to sign the book. He is donating 40 percent of book proceeds from this evening to the Men's Program, an HIV prevention program of the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont. For more information about the event, contact Alex Potter at [email protected] or 802-254-4444 or visit www.mensprogram.org.
Film
• An evening with Ken Burns: The Grammar School's 50th Anniversary Celebration presents “An evening with Grammar School parent Ken Burns” on Friday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro
The award-winning PBS filmmaker will talk about and show highlights of his latest masterpiece, The Tenth Inning. Picking up where his 1994 film Baseball left off, The Tenth Inning, celebrates the enduring appeal of America's favorite pastime. The film journeys through the past 17 years of American baseball, offering a sweeping saga of heroics, scandals and achievements, and culminating with a captivating recount of the historic Red Sox World Series triumph in 2004.
He'll show two segments from the film. Grandioso is about the influx of ballplayers into the major leagues from South America and the Caribbean - especially The Dominican Republic - over the past 25 years. What Have I Done? is about the height of the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry and the dramatic ending to Game 7 of the 2003 American League Championship Series.
Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for general admission, and $25 for preferred seating. All proceeds benefit The Grammar School's Accessibility Campaign. To reserve tickets call The Grammar School at 802-387-5364; tickets are available at the Latchis Hotel and Brattleboro Savings & Loan in Brattleboro, People's United Bank and The Grammar School in Putney, and Ruggles and Hunt in Walpole, N.H.