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An individualized approach to painting, drawing, and sculpture in an environment where we nurture each child’s free imagination. Opportunities to experiment with non-traditional forms of working to open students perception of art, encouraging free movement between different two and 3D media. Art materials include pencil, pastel, acrylic, oil, collage, basic printmaking, found object sculpture and basic construction.

Scholarships available.

Choose a day:

Monday 3:30 – 5 pm
Thursday 3:30 – 5 pm
Friday 3:30 – 5pm

No classes February 17–21 + April 20–24 due to vacation weeks and May 25 for Memorial Day.

This month’s Yoga Locally is to benefit an wonderful and important new initiative here in Brattleboro, the The Susu Healing Collective.
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“The SUSU Healing Collective’s mission is to offer an affirming space for people to practice community reciprocity; The act of giving from a place of abundance and receiving from a place of deep love and reverence while learning how to engage in community practices that dismantle systems of oppression and build systems of health, healing, wellness, and magic.

The SUSU centers the voices, healing, and experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color and is committed to creating safer spaces for people to release trauma patterns of white supremacy, oppression, colonization, and westernized disconnection. We offer programs for all people who are ready and willing to begin or continue the path of transformation through accountability, connection, and spiritual practice.”
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THIS MONTHS TEACHER SCHEDULE:
Sun 2: Emily D.
Mon 3: CANCELLED
Tues 4: Laura R.

Sun 9: Sarah D.
Mon 10: Sarah D.
Tues 11: Laura R.

Sun 16: Emily D.
Mon 17 (Pres Day): Emily D.
Tues 18: Jonathan K.

Sun 23: Emily D.
Mon 24: Sarah D.
Tues 25: Jonathan K.

Come and learn to play ukulele with local musician and teacher Mr. Dave Herrera! Over this 8-week course you will learn to play several songs and gain the skills to learn and practice more on your own.

Days/Time: Tuesdays, Youth Session at 4:30 p.m.
Dates: 8 weeks, Jan 7 – March 3 (No classes February 18)
Tuition: $160

The course concludes with a group concert at Artspace. Participants will also have the opportunity to purchase a high-quality ukulele at a reduced cost. Email Dave Herrera for more information: davidherrera01@gmail.com.
Register at http://www.artspacegreenfield.com/class-registration/

This month’s Yoga Locally is to benefit an wonderful and important new initiative here in Brattleboro, the The Susu Healing Collective.
💜💜💜
“The SUSU Healing Collective’s mission is to offer an affirming space for people to practice community reciprocity; The act of giving from a place of abundance and receiving from a place of deep love and reverence while learning how to engage in community practices that dismantle systems of oppression and build systems of health, healing, wellness, and magic.

The SUSU centers the voices, healing, and experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color and is committed to creating safer spaces for people to release trauma patterns of white supremacy, oppression, colonization, and westernized disconnection. We offer programs for all people who are ready and willing to begin or continue the path of transformation through accountability, connection, and spiritual practice.”
💜💜💜

THIS MONTHS TEACHER SCHEDULE:
Sun 2: Emily D.
Mon 3: CANCELLED
Tues 4: Laura R.

Sun 9: Sarah D.
Mon 10: Sarah D.
Tues 11: Laura R.

Sun 16: Emily D.
Mon 17 (Pres Day): Emily D.
Tues 18: Jonathan K.

Sun 23: Emily D.
Mon 24: Sarah D.
Tues 25: Jonathan K.

We are very excited to be back at the Stone Church for the final Democratic debate before the South Carolina primary and the Super Tuesday primaries. Join fellow Democrats, enjoy some food and drink, and watch the debate on a big screen with excellent sound.

Qigong (“chee-gung”) are Chinese movement traditions that have been evolved over the course of thousands of years, designed to promote health and well-being. Modern studies have demonstrated that a regular practice of qigong can have a positive effect on such wide-ranging conditions as bone density, cardiopulmonary and physical function, balance and flexibility, and psychological well-being.

This series of qigong exercises have been distilled from the centuries-old method of the internal martial art xingyiquan. They artfully combine physical movement with intention to stretch and “clean” all the joints of the body, while balancing the energetic system and remaining easy to learn and practice.

Movements are slow, gentle and appropriate for people of all physical capabilities. The class is taught while standing, with a focus on relaxation and aligning movement with breath.

$5 to $10 suggested donation.

Taught by Stefan Grace, LAc
Stefan has over 15 years of experience practicing and teaching the internal martial arts and qigong.

Shari’s fun morning class offers an 8 week introduction and/or strengthening of basic wheel-throwing skills. Learn to prepare your clay, center on the wheel and pull bowls, cylinders and plates. Trimming, decorating and glazing will all be covered. Lots of demonstrations and daily practice times!

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Begins January 22nd: Every Wednesday for 8 weeks from 9 AM-Noon.
$300 fee + $40 for each bag of clay used (usually one).
Ages 16 and up are welcome.
email shabbazabba@yahoo.com to register!

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WHEN: Any Wednesday of the 2019-2020 XC Ski Season
DESCRIPTION: Seniors, age 65 and older, who are not members of the BOC Cross Country Ski Program can ski or snowshoe for $5.00. Please sign in at the BOC Ski Hut kiosk and leave your $5 fee in the honor box.
(Note: The BOC Ski Hut will not be open on Wednesdays, except for Winter Carnival week.)

This class is ideal for committed students who want to further their artistic journey. It will combine open studio and portfolio guidance. Open studio allows students to work on

paintings, drawings and other art related projects developed individually with their teacher. Portfolio offers a more structured environment with the opportunity to develop skills necessary to develop a portfolio. Options include drawing, painting, sculpture, figure drawing, printmaking, Sequencing, composition, and color mixing. For ages 12-18.

15 Classes
Wednesday 4 – 5:30 pm

A discussion of The Overstory, by Richard Powers kicks off this nature-based book group, a collaboration between The Nature Museum and the Grafton Public Library.

The Overstory interweaves the stories of nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019. It is Richard Power’s twelfth book.

If you’d like to borrow a copy of the book while supplies last, please contact the Grafton Public Library or register on The Nature Museum website. Preregistration is preferred, as discussion questions will be emailed to you prior to the event, but walk-ins are welcome.

Refreshments will be served. This program is free and handicapped accessible.

February 26–Youth will rock the cradle of Vermont democracy! Don’t miss this electrifying evening of high-energy teen-powered music, featuring three top youth bands from around the Green Mountain State! Thirteen-year-old singer-songwriter, Emily Matthew-Muller of Guilford, joins Brattleboro’s award-winning indie-rockers, Moxie, and Addison County funk phenoms, Squig Heart, in an awe-inspiring triple whammy that’s sure to light up the golden dome and bring down the House!

Come celebrate our senior girls ice hockey players as they take on Burr and Burton Wednesday night at 7pm!
Our senior line up:
In net, Eliya Petrie, on Defense Juniper DiMatteo-Lepape and Tobin Lonergan, on Offense wings Lila Alexander and Edie Cay and Liv Romo at center!
Let’s go Colonels!!!

Materials and techniques of drawing include an introduction to basic media such as charcoal, graphite, and ink as well as the observation and application of proportion, perspective, line, form, light and shadow. Participants should bring a sketchbook, Strathmore 400 or any good quality paper suitable for charcoal 16″x20″ or 18″x24″, all other materials provided. This course is open to anyone interested in drawing, age 16 and older, with or without prior experience.

13 Classes

Thursday 10 am – Noon

Explore this beautiful ancient art form of painting with hot (melted) wax, the creative possibilities are endless. Encaustic is an ancient, versatile medium that allows the artist to build painterly surfaces very quickly. Wax layers can be built up or carved into to create complex surfaces, making it the perfect medium for embedding collage elements. Learn the basics, from an introduction to the types of surfaces that are appropriate, to hands-on instruction in fusing, preparing a smooth or textured surface, incising, mark making, embedding paper or other materials, image transfers and more. Bring your own panels, all other materials provided.

8 classes

Thursday 10 am – 1 pm

Kate Milliken will offer a Thursday afternoon class for young children to explore art making using a variety of materials. This weekly class, suitable for 3 – 5 year olds, is an opportunity for them to get messy and experiment with painting, printmaking, collage and 3D construction.

Parents and caregivers are invited to come to this supported environment to observe their child as they engage in the creative process. Each child will build confidence and gain mastery using materials to satisfy their innate curiosity and wonder.

$10 per session

Thursdays 1pm – 2:15pm

Please join us here at the store on Thursday, February 27, to discuss Andrew Bacevich’s new book ‘The Age of Illusions: How American Squandered Its Cold War Victory’.

Take the time to put music in your life. Drumming solves many of lives intangible problems. Learning drumming will improve focus, relieve stress and will promote patience ,happiness and well being.
the 8 week class is 90 dollars with first class registration. 15 dollars without . Drums available or bring your own. limit to 7 people, this is a beginner group class.

Please join us on Thursday, February 27th, at 6:30 PM for a talk presented by Dr. Cheryl Charles on the many benefits that come from children engaging with the natural world, including the ways in which engaging with nature promotes learning.

Dr. Charles is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO Emerita of the Children & Nature Network (www.childrenandnature.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing equitable access to nature for all children. In 2015, she was named Research Scholar and founding Executive Director of the Nature Based Leadership Institute at Antioch University New England (AUNE), where she is also an adjunct faculty member. An experienced educator with a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction, Dr. Charles served for seven years as founding National Director of Project Learning Tree, and for twelve years as founding National Director of Project WILD. These are among the most widely used environmental education programs in North America for K-12 educators. She is also a member of the steering committee for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Commission on Education and Communication and its worldwide campaign, #NatureForAll. She serves on the Athens-Grafton-Westminster and Windham Northeast Supervisory Union school boards and is an active member of the Living Earth Action Group that meets weekly on Fridays at the Westminster West Church.

This class is an ensemble drumming class for the more advanced student. Musicians and drummers with time and arrangement concept already learned, will learn responsive communication and flexibility of arrangement in a group. Practice playing with others, develop percussion skills, promote nerve development and the understanding the roles of playing in a group.125.00 for an 8 week class with registration, 20 dollars a class without.

Join us and the Southern Vermont Astronomy Group (SoVerA) for a special opportunity to stargaze into the clear and magical winter skies! SoVerA will have telescopes set up in the museum’s Chapman Meadow for some special viewing. SoVerA members will be on hand to offer telescope viewing help, provide basic viewing knowledge, and answer astronomy questions.

Viewing will occur in The Chapman Meadow from 7:00PM – 9:00PM. Great for families, please dress appropriately! Additionally, there will be a separate and optional guided stargazing snowshoe experience.

This event is by donation, but registration is required so we can stay in touch regarding night sky conditions and rescheduling.

soundlandings Presents…

Church of Bass VI: A Dipitus Takeover
Featuring Chief Kaya w/ Symbiosa

The Dipitus bois are bringing the support long side an Soundlandings b2b with Spacegangsta and Versible!

Visuals by Daily Dose Visuals

:: FRIDAY ::
:: 2/28/20::
:: Stone Church, Brattleboro VT ::

Over the past four months, seventeen local artists and actors from Northampton all the way up to Turner’s Falls have been working together to produce Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 10 Forward in Greenfield. Much like the rude mechanicals of Midsummer, our cast is composed of an eclectic array of actors ranging from longtime community theater veterans to first-time performers. Directed by Madden Aleia with production design by Isa Reisner, the play is the first put on at 10 Forward. The production runs the 28th and 29th of February at 8PM, with a 1PM matinee on Sunday, March 1st.

21+ / 9pm-11pm / $8 cover

LISTEN:
Jesse the Tree: https://m.soundcloud.com/jessethetree
Planetary Access: https://youtu.be/SkP27-6bsrE

Join us for a night of indie hip-hop with Planetary Access featuring Myles Robert Bullen and Sarah Violette Music and jesse the Tree!

Planetary Access is a musical duo consisting of Myles Bullen and Sarah Violette from Planet Earth. Making auditory art for migratory birds and the plastic filled ocean. Planetary Access creates a rhythmic landscape to take listeners somewhere else. Poems fill the space where the music breathes, and voices act as guidance to new discoveries

Jesse Ramos is a teacher/student/emcee/and poet from Providence, Rhode Island. Between spoken word, hip-hop and singing, Jesse expresses his personal stories and feelings on the themes of family, social issues, the human condition, and hope. Jesse also performs music under the name Jesse the Tree and with his band tree ppl. In his free time, Jesse is sleeping or eating your snacks.

Many of us find ourselves repeating undesired emotions or behaviors, and cannot understand why they keep interfering with our happiness.

Repeated failed relationships, anxiety, depression or addiction patterns can be hard to shake if you cannot find the origins of these symptoms and do not understand why they show up in your life the way they do.

The same is true for illness and other symptoms that express in ways you do not understand.

Family Constellation work looks for the “why” of all these patterns.

Frequently, repeated patterns of unhappiness and failure come out of a deep connection, love and loyalty to our families of origin. It sounds strange, but it is true, even for those who feel alienated from their family.

Unresolved trauma, unfinished business, or unexpressed pain or shame in family systems move forward into the next generations. This has now been proven by epigenetic research around the world.

Carl Jung already understood this when he said:

“It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family, which passes on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to … complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.”

In our Family Constellations workshop you can explore whether you are entangled in generational suffering and holding unconscious loyalties to loved ones that keep your life bound to their unfinished emotional business

Maybe you carry your mother’s anxiety or your father’s shame of failure? You may be repeating the emotional experience of an excluded family member, in an unconscious attempt to bring them back home into the family. Once unconscious dynamics come to light, you have a chance to change them and a deep shift can unfold.

Given the recent rash of thefts from vehicles in Brattleboro, local State Representatives and Windham County Senators are planning a community forum to discuss the issue. They hope to involve citizens, town officials, law enforcement, and other relevant persons. The discussion will center around jurisdiction, root causes, local perspective, and potential solutions to this problem.

Childcare will be available.

Relieve chronic tension once and for all.
In this 2-hour YogAlign workshop, gain a deep understanding of muscle tension — discovering its root causes and how to correct them. Instead of traditional stretching, you will learn pandiculation; an instinctive response to the buildup of muscular tension practiced by all vertebrate animals.

You will become empowered to heal your own back pain by:

-Using core breathing exercises that stabilize your back and create better posture
-Activating your psoas/diaphragm connection -the key for alleviating back pain
-Rewiring your brain for more efficient and stable movement patterns
-Using breathing to elevate mood and feel supported from the inside out
-Evaluating and improving your everyday movements

Come learn the secret to relieving tension through safe and gentle movements and breathwork.

Cost: $30

Note: This workshop is suitable for all ages and fitness levels, and there is no prior yoga experience necessary. It is particularly helpful for those with past injuries, joint issues, or chronic pain.

Can Cops Cook? You’ll find out on Saturday, February 29th! In addition to our lovely law enforcement officers, we will have surprise guests who may (or may not) know how to chef it up also! As always, YOU get to be the judge! Buy your ticket at the door, sample all the delicious food our chefs have prepared, and cast your vote for the best! $10 at the door.

Celebrate Magical Leap Day, February 29th with electro-acoustic hymns and sonic explorations inspired by the cosmos and natural world !

STARBIRTHED (Flower Room Records): Exploration & discoveries in improvisation & harmonization ☄ Tonal cosmology and hymns inspired by the cosmos and natural world. Music to heal and inspire a more harmonious You.

La Création Mondiale: Experimental electro-acoustic duo hailing from Le Havre Commune, France. La Création Mondiale (World Creation) questions both improvisation and composed sound, with an ultimate aim to formalize the informal using electronic devices and a keyless organ with kinetic microphones as instruments.

Involution (XI Records): New project by Dave Seidel (mysterybear). Generative music for modular and computer synthesizers consisting of slowly-changing sonorities that explore the harmonic spaces inherent in selected microtonal tuning schemes.

Fusing modern attitude with vintage swagger, Jane Lee Hooker exploded off the NYC club scene in 2013. Their rocket-fueled blues has won acclaim around the world. Jane Lee Hooker has lit up major stages worldwide including: Rockpalast in Germany, Mountain Jam, and The Big Blues Bender. This all-female blues/rock band combines decades of musicianship with passionate, firey live performances.

The band is currently previewing songs from their forthcoming third album on Ruf Records which will be released in Summer 2020 worldwide followed by a World Tour.

Social Medication is the re-unification of three local musicians who learned how to play music with each other while they were all growing up in Brattleboro.

This power trio features Tim Dyer on guitar and vocals, and Sean McLoughlin on drums and vocals, and Scott Griswold on bass. After studying at Berklee School of Music, Tim went on to play in the Austin, TX scene with heavy hitters such as Malford Milligan (Storyville), and Tommy Shannon (Stevie Ray Vaughan), then onto the Baltimore/D.C. scene, before making his way back to his hometown of Brattleboro, VT. Sean McLoughlin is a longtime member of the renowned local group, “The Miles Band”, and is revered for his skills as a percussionist and vocalist. Scott Griswold is known in the area as a versatile musician who fits seamlessly into most any band.

This band delivers high-powered guitar-driven blues rock and funk with a mix of classic covers to originals. After a couple of decades apart, Social Medication is back and is ready to rock.

Enjoy all your favorite 80s songs with your favorite 80s DJ Bobby T!!! Enjoy decor, some snacks and company while you dance the night away. All proceeds from the event will go to support your local community and charities.

$10 Cover charge
Cash Bar
Open to the public