Music
• A “co-opera” on climate change: Save The Secret Of The Seasons will be presented Saturday, Oct. 30, 7– 8:30 p.m., at the River Garden, 157 Main St., Brattleboro.
Save the Secret of The Seasons is a participatory musical experience - a “co-opera” - that stimulates audience members to address their relationship to global warming and climate change. Based on songs written by John Ungerleider and Bill Conley for the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009, the program is designed to engage the audience with the external and internal challenges that global climate change is bringing to our lives.
A Secret of the Seasons YouTube video can be found on the Envirobeat blog at envirobeat.com. For more information, contact John Ungerleider at 802-258-3334.
• The Steel Wheels at Boccelli's: The Steel Wheels (www.thesteelwheels.com), a four-piece American band from Virginia whose music is rooted in the territory between blues and bluegrass, will appear at Boccelli's on the Canal in Bellows Falls on Sunday, Nov. 14 in a benefit concert for Post Oil Solutions.
Music room doors are at 7 p.m.; the show is at 7:30 p.m. Boccelli's will serve dinner in the café room starting at 5 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance, with $20 front row “Angel” tickets available online only. Advance tickets are available at Village Square Booksellers, Fat Franks and Boccelli's in Bellows Falls, in Chester at Misty Valley Books, in Brattleboro at Brattleboro Books, and at www.brattleborotix.com. For further information, call 802-463-9595.
• Ukulele classes at Maple Leaf Music: “Chord Melody on the Ukulele” will take place Sunday evenings from 6-7 on Nov. 7 -Dec. 12 at Maple Leaf Music, 23 Elliot St., Brattleboro.
The $95, six-week workshop is for those who have a basic grasp of the major, minor and 7th chords and have learned a few songs with strumming and fingerpicking patterns on the ukulele. Participants will learn how to develop simple chord melody arrangements of popular folk tunes and expand upon current chord knowledge by adding new inversions, 6ths and 7ths. The goal is to be able to play the melody along with the chords so you become your own accompanist.
A beginners' workshop is planned for January. E-mail [email protected] or call 802-999-3662 for information.
Dance
• Break-dance artist performs in Bellows Falls: Motivational artist and break-dance performer Patrick Perez (www.patrickperez.org) will showcase his skills and share his stories for area youth and parents during performances on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at the Bellows Falls Union High School Auditorium in Westminster.
Perez uses break dancing and timely, comical stories to connect with students and families.
The performance, co-sponsored by the Greater Falls Prevention Coalition, is open to students 13 and older and their parents. A performance for Bellows Falls Middle School students will take place during the day.
• Claire Porter performs at Marlboro College: Marlboro College will present a free performance of Namely, Muscles, a one-woman show conceived and performed by choreographer Claire Porter at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 5 in the Serkin Center Dance Studio.
Porter plays the role of Dr. Nickie Nom, an acclaimed forensic specialist, who is reading from her book of poetry dedicated to 96 major muscles in the body. As her reading goes hilariously awry, Dr. Nom finds herself entangled as well as enthralled by all the muscles of the body and their names.
Based in New York City, Porter's work has been produced by national and international venues. She holds an M.A. in Dance from Ohio State.
Theater
• The Phantom Tollbooth at NEYT: The New England Youth Theatre's Adventure Wednesday Afternoon Youth Troupe will present an adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth, written by Norton Juster on Nov. 3 at 4:30 p.m. All tickets are $6 at the door.
TAP productions use music, dance, sign language, and puppetry to tell the story. All TAP performances are ASL interpreted and NEYT is wheelchair accessible.
Lectures
• The political cartoons of Dr. Seuss at Brooks Memorial Library: UMass-Amherst Professor Emeritus Richard Minear will explore the wartime political cartoons of Dr. Seuss in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on Wednesday, Nov. 3.
His talk, “Dr. Seuss Goes to War,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and takes place at 7 p.m. Minear will examine Seuss' editorial cartoons of 1940–41, drawn for PM, a short-lived but influential progressive New York daily newspaper.
For more information, contact Brooks Memorial Library at 802-254-5290 or visit www.vermonthumanities.org.