Tickets are $10, for 72 hours of access. Streaming begins on Midnight, September 18th. RSVP for Link: https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/animated-allegory-faust

FAUST (1994). Directed by Jan Švankmajer. 97 min.
In Czech, with English subtitles.
Jan Švankmajer’s interpretation of the infamous fable uses a visually fantastic combination of live-action, claymation, puppet theatre, and stop-motion animation to resemble the subconscious experience of a dream. In interviews Švankmajer explained the political implications of the film, that passivity in accepting oppressive structures are what leads this contemporary Faust to damnation.
“Although the story was originally intended as a morality play, the themes of external manipulation and powerlessness are key in this version of Faust. While Marlowe and Goethe’s protagonists aim to be masters of their own destinies, Švankmajer’s Faust seems (at times literally) guided by puppet-masters.”- David Heslin, Senses of Cinema

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyW46Pbsp9k

“A FILM WHICH GALVANISES THE MIND AND ASTONISHES THE EYE. IN A WORD, MAGIC.”– Time Out

“ASTONISHING, COMPLETELY MAD AND NOT TO BE MISSED. The experience feels very much like stepping into a very believable but totally absurd parallel universe.”– BBC

“With its blend of live action, chattering marionettes, and weird stop-motion sequences—not to mention the pitch-black of the humor—FAUST THROWS YOU OFF BALANCE MORE THROUGHLY THAN ANY OTHER MOVIE IN TOWN”– The New Yorker

Nature/Nurture asks: “What has your path in life looked like? How much control did you have despite your environment?”

Christin Ripley’s handpainted textiles apply the philosophy that the artist is not the driving force or branding of a product, but one hand of many that make possible for an idea to manifest in the material world. For this exhibition, Christin Ripley has made a series of interactive soft sculptures that tie into Brent Birnbaum’s boardgame collages similtaniously on view in our balcony gallery. Christin Ripley’s work has been featured in Chronogram, New York Times Style magazine, and Architectural Digest.

Exhibition Opening Friday, September 18th, and available by appointment through our website.
RSVP: https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/christin-ripley-exhibition-opening

Instructor: Elliot Lavine
Dates: Tuesdays, September 15 – October 6
Time: 7 – 8:30 p.m. (EDT)
Cost:
SVAC member, registering for this course only – $160
SVAC member, also registering for “Drawing Film Stills” course – $145
Non-member, registering for this course only – $185
Non-member, also registering for “Drawing Film Stills” course – $165

Join an award-winning filmmaker to discover the hidden rewards in these movies. This course is companion to “Drawing Film Stills,” which runs concurrently. The two courses are coordinated but taking both is optional. Discounted registration is available to students who enroll in both courses.

No comprehensive survey of Hollywood films of the 1940s and 50s would be complete without a thorough immersion into the revelatory world of the black & white genre film. This intensive four-week excursion into that realm will highlight a quartet of stimulating films that offer many hidden rewards when viewed with an eye toward critical analysis. The four films in this course represent high-water marks with respect to genre filmmaking.

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946), John Ford’s magnificent western, a mythologizing retelling of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, is a masterful blend of historical fact and gun-blazing fiction. The film stars Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell, and Walter Brennan and the spectacular location photography is by Joe MacDonald, one of the most celebrated cinematographers of the time. This film goes well beyond its immeasurable cult status as a top western; it’s a major slice of Americana.

KISS ME DEADLY (1955) provides us with one of film noir’s most notoriously ambitious creations: director Robert Aldrich’s hyperkinetic adaptation of Mickey Spillaine’s violent private detective novel. But Aldrich and his ace cinematographer Ernst Laszlo had much more on their minds than the simple telling of a tough-as-nails detective tale, marking this film as one of the most subversive of the 50s. Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Albert Dekker and an amazing cast of supporting players all contribute to the mesmerizing ambient of this classic noir.

THE LADY AND THE MONSTER (1944)
This out-and-out, unrepentant B movie has emerged as one of the most memorable of its type: the exotic and intoxicating low-budget horror film. Based on an already well-known novel, Donovan’s Brain by Curt Siodmak, this wildly expressionistic oddity was photographed by the legendary cinematographer John Alton, who gives it a wholly unique look and feel. What could have been a simple-minded, implausible tale somehow becomes a small cinematic miracle in his capable hands.

INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949)
The “social issue” film became a bona fide genre by the end of World War II, with a whole cluster of potent, socially relevant films crowding their way into movie theaters. This film, taken from a William Faulkner novel, is a powerful tale of racial injustice in a small Mississippi town. A black man is accused of murder and no one seems willing to defend him. Directed with a firm but sensitive hand by Clarence Brown and photographed by the estimable Robert Surtees, this is a film that will reverberate long after its viewed.

Links to each of these films will be provided by the instructor as well as a detailed set of links to reviews, essays, and other video clips in order to further enhance the experience of this course. Everyone will have at least six days to watch and absorb the material each week before congregating via ZOOM on Tuesday evenings.

The course is open to teens with parent/guardian permission. Limited scholarships are available for teens. To register by email or phone please contact Erin Kaufman at ekaufman@svac.org or 802-367-1306.

The quilt that inspires quilters all over the world will be the topic of this presentation. Quilters from around the country, and world, plan trips to Bennington during the fall to see the 1863 Jane Stickle Quilt, made during the Civil War. The Stickle Quilt is comprised of 169 five-inch blocks, each in different patterns and fabric, containing a remarkable total of 5,602 pieces surrounded by a unique scalloped border. This illustrated talk with explore the history of the quilt and its maker, Jane A. Stickle of Shaftsbury, Vermont.

The Stickle Quilt will be on view September 5 – October 12, 2020.

Members: $7, Not-Yet-Members: $10

Register via ticket link!

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Join Eli on Wednesdays from 6-7pm for a crafternoon with rural queers!

Bring your knitting, your drawing, your collaging, your sewing, your writing, your painting! Bring your crafts and craft along with other rural queer folks!

Open-drop in space to share your creative side!
Out in the Open is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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Join us via Zoom or Facebook Live as Prof. Dennis Culhane discusses the large-scale forces contributing to homelessness in the United States, including wealth inequality, housing shortages, housing unaffordability, and historical and sociological factors. Culhane will summarize the academic research about issues contributing to the national homeless problem and explore what homelessness looks like on a national scale.

Culhane is the Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy at the School of Social Policy and Practice at The University of Pennsylvania. He is a nationally recognized social science researcher with primary expertise in the field of homelessness. He is a leader in the integration of administrative data for research and directs Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), an initiative that promotes the development of integrated data systems by state and local governments for policy analysis and systems reform. His homelessness work has positioned him as an early innovator in the use of administrative data for research and policy analysis, particularly for populations and program impacts that are difficult to assess and track. Culhane’s work has resulted in federal legislation requiring all cities and states to develop administrative data systems for tracking homeless services in order to receive HUD funding. His work has also been instrumental in a national shift in how cities address chronic homelessness and family homelessness. Culhane recently worked with colleagues in Boston, Los Angeles County, and New York City to complete a multi-site study on the emerging crisis of aging homelessness using linked administrative data.

This talk is presented in conjunction with two BMAC exhibits related to homelessness, STEVEN KINDER: 522,830 and COFFEE AND CONVERSATION: STORIES OF HOMLESSNESS, both on view through October 12, 2020.

Taking its name from the number of people who were unsheltered in America in 2018, STEVEN KINDER: 522,830 features portraits of people experiencing homelessness whom Kinder has met over the years in New York City.

Brattleboro artist Liz Lavorgna began working on COFFEE & CONVERSATION in 2015, in collaboration with filmmaker Wyatt Andrews and with support from Groundworks Collaborative.

ADMISSION: Free.

Attendees are invited to make a donation to Groundworks Collaborative, which provides ongoing support to families and individuals facing housing and food insecurities in the greater Brattleboro area.

This event is presented in partnership with Groundworks Collaborative and is supported in part by a grant from The Thomas Thompson Trust.

How are artists actively using their art to take part in the abolish police and prison movement?

Host Pendarvis Harshaw will interview featured Bay area artists and Art curator Ashara Ekundayo about the upcoming show and auction titled “Imagine Freedom: Art Works for Abolition.”

They will discuss Critical Resistance and the over twenty year movement for abolition to dismantle the systems of prisons, policing and surveillance, which heavily targets Black life and other people of color in the United States. Artists and speakers will share reflections on how art plays a role in the catalyst for change.

Image Credit: Erica Deeman

Join us for up to 4 days of pleasure riding during the most beautiful time of year to ride in Vermont. Come enjoy the fall foliage and the amazing trails GMHA has to offer. Each day features different marked trails with short and long distance options. For more info go to www.gmhainc.org

As an introduction to drawing and painting with oils, we will start with a simple still life and basic color mixing. Each class will include drawing materials, paints brushes and supports, a short demonstration and guidance throughout, suggestions for objects to paint from, and time to look at each other’s work. Supportive for beginners and helpful as a refresher to more experienced artists, we will work together to share and create in our unique art space.

$170

6 classes
Thursday 10am – Noon

To register: https://rivergalleryschool.org/index.php/classes/adult/adult-fall/3-adult/365-intro-to-drawing-and-painting-thursday

Come play on the Commons ! Emily Zervas and Rolf Parker will run goofy games for all ages (using social distancing of course).

If you have a social distance game to share, that’s great, let’s try it !

Try drinks made from some of the herbs from the Growing Together Project.

Get some fresh Mint, Lemon Balm, and Anise; as well as a herb garden kit (if you haven’t gotten one yet)

Are you looking for a special way to celebrate a milestone during the pandemic? Would you like some inspiration to deepen your connection with the natural world? Since we cannot gather in our usual groups we offer you a chance for a personalized experience, an outing with a naturalist for your (small) quarantine group. Because these programs are just for YOU, they can be adapted to your level of fitness, adventurousness, and particular interests. Possibilities could be What’s in YOUR Woods, The Beasties Beneath – stream or pond exploration, Night Singing Insects, Know the Night, By the Shores of Popple’s Pond, and we will entertain all requests. Learn more and contact Patti to sign up: https://www.beec.org/what-we-do/public-programs-and-events/walks-talks/

River Gallery School is offering a free open art studio at 32 Main street on Fridays from 1-4pm
for people to use printmaking, drawing and painting to create art around issues of the pandemic,
social and racial justice, the 2020 election and the climate crisis.

All materials available for free.
Open studio starts August 21st.

In addition, River Gallery School will have an art table at the
Solidarity Friday rallies in Pliny Park for art and sign making from 5-6:30pm.

Drop-ins are welcome, come by and make some art on Fridays and help spread messages of
transformation, unity and justice all over the town of Brattleboro.

6 person maximum in studios
and masks are required.

Paste ups will be put up in town October 15 thru November 15, 2020.

For more information: Jess Weitz, jess@rivergalleryschool.org

Come make signs and art around the themes of the weekly Solidarity Friday rally. All materials will be provided.

Ring out your voice before the 2020 election and have the option of having your artwork turned into public paste up art!

Join the SYP as we take over Social House in Manchester for a mix and mingle kind of night!

Tony Duncan—world-champion juggler and mischief-maker—hosts this weekly opportunity to gather and practice together. Bring your own props or play with ours. No need to register—just come in ready to toss, throw, and manipulate multiple objects simultaneously in the air. By donation, but please sign up in advance so we know you’ll be joining us.

Join Rick LaDue, Forest and Trails Steward for the Equinox Preservation Trust, for a guided hike on the 914 acre Equinox Preserve. Hike to Robin’s Lookout followed by a visit to the Equinox Pond. Along the way we will explore the cultural history of the Preserve Lands and the natural history of the northern hardwood forests.This hike features a 500 foot elevation gain and would be considered a moderately strenuous hike. Dress for the weather with comfortable shoes, and bring along a water bottle, questions and your sense of adventure!

Reservations required: Please call 802-362-7400 by 6pm day prior to hike ** Please note social physical distancing guidelines will be followed.

Instructor: Alexandra Langstaff
Date: Saturday, September 26
Time: 9 – 10 a.m.
Cost: SVAC Member: $18; Non-member: $20

Join Alexandra for a guided journey through a series of yoga postures that help to increase flexibility, strength, balance and focus. Aerial yoga uses hammock-like swings for support, enabling participants to stretch and move in new ways–even inverted. Seeing the world upside down can be restorative, relaxing and refreshing. Spend some time swaying in the cedars! This experience is for teens and adults. Saturday mornings from 9 to 10 a.m. Rain date is the following Sunday.

This aerial yoga class will repeat each Saturday in September (no class on September 12). To register for future classes, please visit our calendar page: www.svac.org/calendar

Aerial Yoga is also held each Monday in September (no class on September 7) from 10:30-11:30 a.m.

The L&G Alumni Golf Tournament has been re-scheduled to Sat 9/26/2020 @1pm at the Brattleboro Country Club. Save the date! Please share! More details to follow. Contact Peter Boyle with questions 802-236-7686.

Join us for Cruise in Night with musical guest Rust and Ruin! No registration fees. Dinner available 5-8

Let’s celebrate Autumn with this gorgeous acrylic painting!

Registration is required on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j6knqwiERiykh5U80Exl7g

Williams, who grew up in Brattleboro, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for founding and leading the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, an unprecedented cooperative effort that brought governments, United Nations bodies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and more than 1000 NGOs in 90 countries together to pass the Ottawa (Mine Ban)Treaty. A staunch defender of human rights globally, Williams studies modern warfare to promote new understanding about security today. She recently penned a chapter on “Nukes, Land Mines, and Killer Robots” in A World Free From Nuclear Weapons, a book released this summer to commemorate 75 years since the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan and boost Pope Francis’ global efforts to ban nuclear arms as part of a new framework for international peace. Williams helped establish the Nobel Women’s Initiative in 2006 to use the visibility and prestige of the Nobel prize to spotlight, amplify and promote the work of grassroots women’s organizations and movements around the world.

Instructor: Elliot Lavine
Dates: Tuesdays, September 15 – October 6
Time: 7 – 8:30 p.m. (EDT)
Cost:
SVAC member, registering for this course only – $160
SVAC member, also registering for “Drawing Film Stills” course – $145
Non-member, registering for this course only – $185
Non-member, also registering for “Drawing Film Stills” course – $165

Join an award-winning filmmaker to discover the hidden rewards in these movies. This course is companion to “Drawing Film Stills,” which runs concurrently. The two courses are coordinated but taking both is optional. Discounted registration is available to students who enroll in both courses.

No comprehensive survey of Hollywood films of the 1940s and 50s would be complete without a thorough immersion into the revelatory world of the black & white genre film. This intensive four-week excursion into that realm will highlight a quartet of stimulating films that offer many hidden rewards when viewed with an eye toward critical analysis. The four films in this course represent high-water marks with respect to genre filmmaking.

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946), John Ford’s magnificent western, a mythologizing retelling of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, is a masterful blend of historical fact and gun-blazing fiction. The film stars Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell, and Walter Brennan and the spectacular location photography is by Joe MacDonald, one of the most celebrated cinematographers of the time. This film goes well beyond its immeasurable cult status as a top western; it’s a major slice of Americana.

KISS ME DEADLY (1955) provides us with one of film noir’s most notoriously ambitious creations: director Robert Aldrich’s hyperkinetic adaptation of Mickey Spillaine’s violent private detective novel. But Aldrich and his ace cinematographer Ernst Laszlo had much more on their minds than the simple telling of a tough-as-nails detective tale, marking this film as one of the most subversive of the 50s. Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Albert Dekker and an amazing cast of supporting players all contribute to the mesmerizing ambient of this classic noir.

THE LADY AND THE MONSTER (1944)
This out-and-out, unrepentant B movie has emerged as one of the most memorable of its type: the exotic and intoxicating low-budget horror film. Based on an already well-known novel, Donovan’s Brain by Curt Siodmak, this wildly expressionistic oddity was photographed by the legendary cinematographer John Alton, who gives it a wholly unique look and feel. What could have been a simple-minded, implausible tale somehow becomes a small cinematic miracle in his capable hands.

INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949)
The “social issue” film became a bona fide genre by the end of World War II, with a whole cluster of potent, socially relevant films crowding their way into movie theaters. This film, taken from a William Faulkner novel, is a powerful tale of racial injustice in a small Mississippi town. A black man is accused of murder and no one seems willing to defend him. Directed with a firm but sensitive hand by Clarence Brown and photographed by the estimable Robert Surtees, this is a film that will reverberate long after its viewed.

Links to each of these films will be provided by the instructor as well as a detailed set of links to reviews, essays, and other video clips in order to further enhance the experience of this course. Everyone will have at least six days to watch and absorb the material each week before congregating via ZOOM on Tuesday evenings.

The course is open to teens with parent/guardian permission. Limited scholarships are available for teens. To register by email or phone please contact Erin Kaufman at ekaufman@svac.org or 802-367-1306.

This inspiring documentary reveals how a wise, loving teacher can unleash students’ full potential. Now screening in our Virtual Theatre! Tickets are $10 for 42 hours of streaming access.
https://www.epsilonspires.org/world-peace
Free Online Q&A with author/educator John Hunter & filmmaker Chris Farina on September, 30th, 1pm (EDT). RSVP for link:
https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/film-discussion-world-peace-other-4th-grade-achievements

Ticket proceeds support the creation of future work by Rosalia Films.

Let Your Yoga Dance in my yard. We will move thru the chakras and try to release tension and release some of what is going on in the larger world. We will shake it all out and move and have FUN.
Event will be weather dependent
Due to Covid the class will be small. Location and class details will be shared when you are RSVP or pm me.
Please note no class on Sept 30th

NEW TIME
Join Eli on Wednesdays from 6-7pm for a crafternoon with rural queers!

Bring your knitting, your drawing, your collaging, your sewing, your writing, your painting! Bring your crafts and craft along with other rural queer folks!

Open-drop in space to share your creative side!
Out in the Open is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84603646126?pwd=SlFNQkwveWp6Zk4xNjQvRytueHdjQT09

Meeting ID: 846 0364 6126
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As an introduction to drawing and painting with oils, we will start with a simple still life and basic color mixing. Each class will include drawing materials, paints brushes and supports, a short demonstration and guidance throughout, suggestions for objects to paint from, and time to look at each other’s work. Supportive for beginners and helpful as a refresher to more experienced artists, we will work together to share and create in our unique art space.

$170

6 classes
Thursday 10am – Noon

To register: https://rivergalleryschool.org/index.php/classes/adult/adult-fall/3-adult/365-intro-to-drawing-and-painting-thursday

Are you looking for a special way to celebrate a milestone during the pandemic? Would you like some inspiration to deepen your connection with the natural world? Since we cannot gather in our usual groups we offer you a chance for a personalized experience, an outing with a naturalist for your (small) quarantine group. Because these programs are just for YOU, they can be adapted to your level of fitness, adventurousness, and particular interests. Possibilities could be What’s in YOUR Woods, The Beasties Beneath – stream or pond exploration, Night Singing Insects, Know the Night, By the Shores of Popple’s Pond, and we will entertain all requests. Learn more and contact Patti to sign up: https://www.beec.org/what-we-do/public-programs-and-events/walks-talks/

River Gallery School is offering a free open art studio at 32 Main street on Fridays from 1-4pm
for people to use printmaking, drawing and painting to create art around issues of the pandemic,
social and racial justice, the 2020 election and the climate crisis.

All materials available for free.
Open studio starts August 21st.

In addition, River Gallery School will have an art table at the
Solidarity Friday rallies in Pliny Park for art and sign making from 5-6:30pm.

Drop-ins are welcome, come by and make some art on Fridays and help spread messages of
transformation, unity and justice all over the town of Brattleboro.

6 person maximum in studios
and masks are required.

Paste ups will be put up in town October 15 thru November 15, 2020.

For more information: Jess Weitz, jess@rivergalleryschool.org

Come make signs and art around the themes of the weekly Solidarity Friday rally. All materials will be provided.

Ring out your voice before the 2020 election and have the option of having your artwork turned into public paste up art!

Join us virtually or in-person as we host Downtown Brattleboro’s Gallery Walk Stroll n’ Stream. We will be posting a live stream hosted by local personalities that will feature current exhibitions at galleries downtown, along with local musical guests, shops and restaurants to boot! You never quite know what or who you might see at Gallery Walk, are we right?! In conjunction, many venues and restaurants will be open from 4-8PM for socially-distanced art viewing and gathering. This is a low-key community event, and we encourage local Brattleboro Gallery-Walk lovers to attend galleries in a socially distanced, precautionary way. Please wear masks, stay 6 feet apart, adhere to each venues guidelines, and be respectful of your fellow community members! We know everyone will make their own choice, so we are offering both virtual and in-person viewing.

*New fun: Enter our CATCH THE CREW contest by attending in person downtown, finding our film crew (pssst there are two!), snapping a pic of them and posting to social media with the caption #Icaughtthecrew to be entered in a drawing to win a 50$ gift certificate to any Brattleboro Business or Artist/Artisan of your choice.

Stay tuned for a full listing of our venues and exhibits!

Friends, we have a real big favor to ask- would you, could you, might you, PLEASE help us spread the word by sharing this event/our page and telling all your friends to tune in? Thank you so much!

Celebrate Autumn with this gorgeous acrylic project from the comfort of your own home!

Tony Duncan—world-champion juggler and mischief-maker—hosts this weekly opportunity to gather and practice together. Bring your own props or play with ours. No need to register—just come in ready to toss, throw, and manipulate multiple objects simultaneously in the air. By donation, but please sign up in advance so we know you’ll be joining us.

Join Rick LaDue, Forest and Trails Steward for the Equinox Preservation Trust, for a guided hike on the 914 acre Equinox Preserve. Hike to Robin’s Lookout followed by a visit to the Equinox Pond. Along the way we will explore the cultural history of the Preserve Lands and the natural history of the northern hardwood forests.This hike features a 500 foot elevation gain and would be considered a moderately strenuous hike. Dress for the weather with comfortable shoes, and bring along a water bottle, questions and your sense of adventure!

Reservations required: Please call 802-362-7400 by 6pm day prior to hike ** Please note social physical distancing guidelines will be followed.

We have six months to get this thing under control! Hoping for the best always!

Circus theater for all ages bringing together community, artists and the land that sustains us in a time of challenge and uncertainty.

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12 pm, 2 pm and 4 pm daily
Sunday, 12 pm show will have an American Sign Language interpreter
Duration 1 hour and 15 minutes
$15/ per person over age 2, 2 and under free;
To support Social Distancing, there are only 60 tickets available per show

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Join the Nimble Arts company in collaboration with Circus Minimus for Circus in Place.

The lands that we call home will be set up with multiple stages for audiences to enjoy the woods and nature alongside presentations of circus theater. Be welcomed by an Abenaki singer/songwriter sharing history of Ndakina place, marvel at an aerialist dancing in the trees alongside the story of the woods, and enjoy traditional and contemporary circus that blends the arts of aerials, acrobatics, balancing and juggling with storytelling, laughter and entertainment. Bring your own blankets for socially distanced seating and walking shoes for the woods path between stages. The event will happen rain or shine and is out of doors so dress accordingly.

Full COVID safety protocols are listed on the ticketing site.

Are your healthcare bills too high? Are you having trouble getting the care you need?

Join us on Oct. 3rd to March for Medicaid and call on Governor Scott to protect and expand Medicaid!

Meet at 12pm at Rockingham Health Center.

Part of a National Medicaid March Week of Action organized by the Nonviolent Medicaid Army to denounce the government’s failed response to COVID-19 and highlight poor people’s leadership in the fight for universal healthcare.

Here in Vermont we’re calling on Governor Scott to:

*Protect Medicaid* by cutting the state’s contract with OneCare, a for-profit company siphoning off millions in Medicaid funding that should be spent on people’s healthcare

*Expand Medicaid* to everyone in Vermont, regardless of income or immigration status.

More information at: www.nonviolentmedicaidarmy.org

Get on the bus! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD–The DeadHeads MA are headed back to Hogback Mountain for a Grateful, OUTDOOR day of music at Beer Naked Brewery. Enjoy Breathtaking views, Beer Naked’s Brews, come on along or go alone~ Experience marathon set of Grateful Dead like no other by The DeadHeads, with other fabulous musical acts!
Vendors, Dancers, music all day!
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Interested in Vending? Email us for a vendor application: thedeadheadsma@gmail.com
Kids 12 and under are FREE.
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*** MUSIC LINEUP ***:
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SHE SAID 1:30PM-3PM
REVEREND DAN & THE DIRTY CATECHISM (2019 StrangeCreek BOTB Winners) 3:30PM-5PM
The DeadHeads MA – 530PM-10PM

Four horsemen of the apocalypse got you down? Is your codependent relationship with Siri on the rocks? Join us in the Backlot of Epsilon Spires for some outdoor, socially-distanced, much needed laughter & collective release.

The Stone Church & Epsilon Spires present Comic Covid Catharsis, hosted by William Forchion and featuring stand-up by Kim DeShields, Adrianne Vivenzio & Timothy Lovett. Full bar on site + cuisine by Jamaican Jewelz!

We encourage our guests to come as if to a picnic – so bring your own blankets, cushions or folding chairs to sit on in your circle + all the coziness you need for early October temperatures!
Tickets will be sold in groups of 2, 4, or 6, with some limited single tickets as well. Your group will be assigned a socially-distanced space to view the performance. Please stay in your designated space when you are not accessing the restroom or concessions. Masks required, dress to impress!

The Suitcase Junket
From the salvaged sounds of American juke joints, back porches, and honky tonks, The Suitcase Junket conjures a new sound in his essential release, Pile Driver from Signature Sounds Recordings. The Suitcase Junket is one-man band Matt Lorenz, working on a dumpster guitar and a kit of busted bottles, forks, bones, gas cans, shoes, saw blades, and an overhead compartments worth of luggage.

“Now this is the shit I’m talking about, Jack. The Suitcase Junket is a lo-fi, low-tuned, low-down blast of end-times folk blues. It’s crude; it’s magnificent. With a stage set-up that resembles a junkyard foley stage or Fred Sanford’s living room, The Suitcase Junket one man band leader Matt Lorenz incants and intones like a cross between Hound Dog Taylor and a Tuvan throat singer who has swallowed a bird. Take the singer-songwriter idiom, give it a low grade fever and a guitar and this is what you get. Captivating, mesmerizing, and gone … real gone.” Rochester City Newspaper, New York

“The Suitcase Junket is the real deal — and one of the most electric souls we’ve ever seen on stage.” — FreshGrass Festival, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Jaw-dropping” — Beale Street Caravan, Memphis

Philip B. Price is best known as the lead singer and songwriter behind the New England-based melancholic folk/pop band Winterpills, but his resumé stretches back into the late 80s and draws on minimalist/jagged art-rock, bedroom lo-fi pop, power pop, 70’s singer-songwriter and Brit folk.

Come explore the fundamentals of watercolor. We’ll try out various materials and techniques needed to create luminous paintings. Each class will include a demonstration followed by exercises aimed at increasing understanding, ability, and visual awareness. Then we’ll put those concepts into a painting. Lots of time for questions and sharing our discoveries. Bring an open mind and a willingness to experiment. No experience necessary. Materials will be provided.

$180

Tuesday 10 am –12:30 pm
4 classes

To register: https://rivergalleryschool.org/index.php/online/21-online-classes/304-intro-to-watercolor

Join us for a virtual screening of GATHER, a documentary that traces the intentional destruction of Native American foodways and the renaissance to reclaim indigenous agriculture and food systems.

The film starts at 6:30 p.m. and a live post-film discussion will follow. This event is free, but registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gather-registration-118999648151

Featuring the work of First Nation’s Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative, GATHER highlights tribes and Native communities as they build sustainable foodways that improve health, strengthen food security and increase control over Native agriculture and food systems. GATHER follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath River: gather.film.

“The food sovereignty movement has so many powerful stories that needed to be told from the community perspective,” said Michael E. Roberts (Tlingit), First Nations President and CEO. “Hearing stories about Native people from Native people, along with experts in this type of storytelling, brings a tribal producer’s vision and First Nation’s work to the forefront.”

Instructor: Elliot Lavine
Dates: Tuesdays, September 15 – October 6
Time: 7 – 8:30 p.m. (EDT)
Cost:
SVAC member, registering for this course only – $160
SVAC member, also registering for “Drawing Film Stills” course – $145
Non-member, registering for this course only – $185
Non-member, also registering for “Drawing Film Stills” course – $165

Join an award-winning filmmaker to discover the hidden rewards in these movies. This course is companion to “Drawing Film Stills,” which runs concurrently. The two courses are coordinated but taking both is optional. Discounted registration is available to students who enroll in both courses.

No comprehensive survey of Hollywood films of the 1940s and 50s would be complete without a thorough immersion into the revelatory world of the black & white genre film. This intensive four-week excursion into that realm will highlight a quartet of stimulating films that offer many hidden rewards when viewed with an eye toward critical analysis. The four films in this course represent high-water marks with respect to genre filmmaking.

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946), John Ford’s magnificent western, a mythologizing retelling of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, is a masterful blend of historical fact and gun-blazing fiction. The film stars Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell, and Walter Brennan and the spectacular location photography is by Joe MacDonald, one of the most celebrated cinematographers of the time. This film goes well beyond its immeasurable cult status as a top western; it’s a major slice of Americana.

KISS ME DEADLY (1955) provides us with one of film noir’s most notoriously ambitious creations: director Robert Aldrich’s hyperkinetic adaptation of Mickey Spillaine’s violent private detective novel. But Aldrich and his ace cinematographer Ernst Laszlo had much more on their minds than the simple telling of a tough-as-nails detective tale, marking this film as one of the most subversive of the 50s. Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Albert Dekker and an amazing cast of supporting players all contribute to the mesmerizing ambient of this classic noir.

THE LADY AND THE MONSTER (1944)
This out-and-out, unrepentant B movie has emerged as one of the most memorable of its type: the exotic and intoxicating low-budget horror film. Based on an already well-known novel, Donovan’s Brain by Curt Siodmak, this wildly expressionistic oddity was photographed by the legendary cinematographer John Alton, who gives it a wholly unique look and feel. What could have been a simple-minded, implausible tale somehow becomes a small cinematic miracle in his capable hands.

INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949)
The “social issue” film became a bona fide genre by the end of World War II, with a whole cluster of potent, socially relevant films crowding their way into movie theaters. This film, taken from a William Faulkner novel, is a powerful tale of racial injustice in a small Mississippi town. A black man is accused of murder and no one seems willing to defend him. Directed with a firm but sensitive hand by Clarence Brown and photographed by the estimable Robert Surtees, this is a film that will reverberate long after its viewed.

Links to each of these films will be provided by the instructor as well as a detailed set of links to reviews, essays, and other video clips in order to further enhance the experience of this course. Everyone will have at least six days to watch and absorb the material each week before congregating via ZOOM on Tuesday evenings.

The course is open to teens with parent/guardian permission. Limited scholarships are available for teens. To register by email or phone please contact Erin Kaufman at ekaufman@svac.org or 802-367-1306.

Let Your Yoga Dance in my yard. We will move thru the chakras and try to release tension and release some of what is going on in the larger world. We will shake it all out and move and have FUN.
Event will be weather dependent
Due to Covid the class will be small. Location and class details will be shared when you are RSVP or pm me.
Please note no class on Sept 30th

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Join Eli on Wednesdays from 6-7pm for a crafternoon with rural queers!

Bring your knitting, your drawing, your collaging, your sewing, your writing, your painting! Bring your crafts and craft along with other rural queer folks!

Open-drop in space to share your creative side!
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Josh Davis, Executive Director of Groundworks Collaborative, moderates this panel discussion of housing issues in Windham County. Join us on Zoom or Facebook Live as expert panelists explore local housing challenges and opportunities from different perspectives.

Elizabeth Bridgewater is the executive director of Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT). WWHT provides housing opportunities for residents in Windham and Windsor Counties through its housing development work, rental apartments, shared equity homes, and homeownership counseling and education program.

Adam Grinold is the executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC), Vermont’s largest Regional Economic Development Corporation. Grinold has a background as a real estate owner, developer, and Realtor as well as a business owner. Prior to joining the BDCC, Grinold was a founding member and executive director of Wilmington Works.

Bill Murray has been a full-time realtor with Berkley & Veller Greenwood Country since 1981. In 2004, his colleagues on the Southern Vermont Board of Realtors named him Realtor of the Year. A former teacher, Murray has been active in the Brattleboro community as a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the Brattleboro Food Coop and as a former trustee of BMAC.

Dan Yates is the president & CEO of Brattleboro Savings & Loan (a Certified B Corporation), a position he has held since 2007. Before returning to Brattleboro in 2005, he was executive vice president of Ledyard National Bank. He is a past president of the Vermont Bankers Association, where he currently chairs its government relations committee, and also served on the Taxation and Regulation subcommittee of Governor Scott’s Marijuana Commission.

This event is presented in conjunction with two exhibits related to homelessness, STEVEN KINDER: 522,830 and COFFEE AND CONVERSATION: STORIES OF HOMELESSNESS, both on view through October 12, 2020.

Taking its name from the number of people who were unsheltered in America in 2018, 522,830 features portraits of people experiencing homelessness whom Kinder has met over the years in New York City.

Brattleboro artist Liz Lavorgna began working on COFFEE AND CONVERSATION in 2015, in collaboration with filmmaker Wyatt Andrews and with support from Groundworks Collaborative. For this exhibit, LaVorgna revisits the project.

As an introduction to drawing and painting with oils, we will start with a simple still life and basic color mixing. Each class will include drawing materials, paints brushes and supports, a short demonstration and guidance throughout, suggestions for objects to paint from, and time to look at each other’s work. Supportive for beginners and helpful as a refresher to more experienced artists, we will work together to share and create in our unique art space.

$170

6 classes
Thursday 10am – Noon

To register: https://rivergalleryschool.org/index.php/classes/adult/adult-fall/3-adult/365-intro-to-drawing-and-painting-thursday

Are you looking for a special way to celebrate a milestone during the pandemic? Would you like some inspiration to deepen your connection with the natural world? Since we cannot gather in our usual groups we offer you a chance for a personalized experience, an outing with a naturalist for your (small) quarantine group. Because these programs are just for YOU, they can be adapted to your level of fitness, adventurousness, and particular interests. Possibilities could be What’s in YOUR Woods, The Beasties Beneath – stream or pond exploration, Night Singing Insects, Know the Night, By the Shores of Popple’s Pond, and we will entertain all requests. Learn more and contact Patti to sign up: https://www.beec.org/what-we-do/public-programs-and-events/walks-talks/

River Gallery School is offering a free open art studio at 32 Main street on Fridays from 1-4pm
for people to use printmaking, drawing and painting to create art around issues of the pandemic,
social and racial justice, the 2020 election and the climate crisis.

All materials available for free.
Open studio starts August 21st.

In addition, River Gallery School will have an art table at the
Solidarity Friday rallies in Pliny Park for art and sign making from 5-6:30pm.

Drop-ins are welcome, come by and make some art on Fridays and help spread messages of
transformation, unity and justice all over the town of Brattleboro.

6 person maximum in studios
and masks are required.

Paste ups will be put up in town October 15 thru November 15, 2020.

For more information: Jess Weitz, jess@rivergalleryschool.org

Come make signs and art around the themes of the weekly Solidarity Friday rally. All materials will be provided.

Ring out your voice before the 2020 election and have the option of having your artwork turned into public paste up art!

Tony Duncan—world-champion juggler and mischief-maker—hosts this weekly opportunity to gather and practice together. Bring your own props or play with ours. No need to register—just come in ready to toss, throw, and manipulate multiple objects simultaneously in the air. By donation, but please sign up in advance so we know you’ll be joining us.

Join Rick LaDue, Forest and Trails Steward for the Equinox Preservation Trust, for a guided hike on the 914 acre Equinox Preserve. Hike to Robin’s Lookout followed by a visit to the Equinox Pond. Along the way we will explore the cultural history of the Preserve Lands and the natural history of the northern hardwood forests.This hike features a 500 foot elevation gain and would be considered a moderately strenuous hike. Dress for the weather with comfortable shoes, and bring along a water bottle, questions and your sense of adventure!

Reservations required: Please call 802-362-7400 by 6pm day prior to hike ** Please note social physical distancing guidelines will be followed.

Celebrate Fall the Vermont way at our 2nd Annual Southern Vermont Flannel Festival!

Our event was such a hit last year, we have made it into a two day festival for 2020. Stay tuned for more details on musicians and vendors.

LIVE MUSIC, PIES, CIDER, CRAFT BEERS, PUMPKINS, FOOD, FLANNEL & FUN!

$8/person ($2 off if you wear flannel!)
12 & under FREE

Please email info@gfrcc.org if you’d like to join us as a vendor.

**We kindly request that dogs remain at home for this event. With the exception of service dogs.

*New Date! Epsilon Spires presents an outdoor exhibition of new works in natural light. Bring a picnic basket, kites or canoe!
Location: 345 Hickory Ridge Rd. Putney VT.

As Vermonters continue to be discouraged from gathering in large numbers, there will not be a soup dinner at Landmark College this fall. Rather, we have designed a number of ways supporters can continue to participate without holding an in-person event:

The Empty Bowls Dinner typically raises between $25,000 and $30,000 to keep the shelves stocked at Foodworks for families and individuals in need of emergency food.

Local potters are busy handcrafting scores of bowls as they do each year for the fundraiser and sponsors continue to line up in support.

Bowls are now available for purchase online through Groundworks’ website (https://groundworks.rallybound.org/emptybowls2020/Donate/Tickets) and can be picked up curbside at one of three pickup locations in Brattleboro and Putney on the weekend of October 3rd and 4th:
Saturday October 3rd, 9am-noon at The Memorial Park Skating Rink Lot, Brattleboro
Saturday October 3rd, 1-4pm at River Valley Credit Union on Putney Road, Brattleboro
Sunday October 4th, 1-4pm at River Valley Credit Union on Rt. 5 in Putney

Bowls picked up at these locations will be pre-packaged for curbside pick up with receipt and can also be purchased with cash or check at those locations.

Bowls are also on display and available for purchase in local business storefronts beginning September 1st—including the Brattleboro Food Co-op, Zephyr Designs, Everyone’s Books, Vermont Artisan Designs, The Shoe Tree, Putney Food Coop, and the Putney General Store!

Individual bowls will be sold for $25 each and a Party Pack of 12 bowls and soup recipes will be available for $250. Party Packs are designed to allow people to “Host your own Empty Bowls” with a small group of friends and family. Party Packs come with free delivery anywhere within a 30-minute drive of Brattleboro.

On Saturday, October 10th at 6pm—the evening the dinner would have otherwise been served—Groundworks will host a livestream broadcast on YouTube and Brattleboro Community TV featuring staff, volunteers and Board, as well as music and the latest updates on Foodworks’ impact in the community.

More information about the livestream broadcast and bowl sales will be available here and on both the Groundworks Collaborative and Empty Bowls – Southern Vermont Facebook pages, as well as at GroundworksVT.org/EVENTS.

We look forward to gathering as usual once the Coronavirus pandemic is over!

“We are grateful for all of the potters, restaurants, businesses, and volunteers that come together each year to make this event possible, and to Landmark College for hosting us year after year,” said Groundworks Executive Director Josh Davis. “We will miss the opportunity to see and greet all of the familiar faces and friends of this organization who come out every year for the Empty Bowls Dinner and we are grateful for all of the ways this community is coming together to help us in supporting our neighbors when we all need the help more than ever.”

A number of sponsors have graciously and generously supported the event this year despite a challenging economic landscape, including: Silver Forest, Trust Company of Vermont, Brattleboro Food Co-op, Brattleboro Savings & Loan, Champlain Valley Dispensary, Inc., King Arthur Baking Company, Southern Vermont Wellness, Rod’s Towing and Repairs, Savings Bank of Walpole, Dead River Company, Farnum Insulators, Abbiati Monuments, A.L. Tyler & Sons, Howard Printing, Inc., Sidehill Farm, The Marina, Downey, Pieciak, Fitzgerald & Co, PC, Burrows Specialized Sports, Costello, Valente & Gentry, PC, and Richmond Auto.

Donations to Foodworks to support the Empty Bowls effort can be made at: https://groundworks.rallybound.org/emptybowls2020/Donate/Tickets
and by mail to: Groundworks Collaborative, PO Box 370, Brattleboro, VT 05302 (please make checks payable to Groundworks Collaborative and write “Empty Bowls” in the memo line to ensure the donation is designated to Foodworks).

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS EVENT!

Kick off the spooky season with this adorable and festive floral acrylic project!

Mark your calendars for an exciting comic book show coming to Springfield, MA on October 11, 2020!

⚡️Over 40 tables of Comic Books, Artists & Art!
⚡️Kids ages 12 and under FREE with paid adult admission!
⚡️Discounted Hotel Room Rates Available!

Vendor & Artist Sign-Ups Now Open

More details and guest announcements coming soon!

Celebrate Fall the Vermont way at our 2nd Annual Southern Vermont Flannel Festival!

Our event was such a hit last year, we have made it into a two day festival for 2020. Stay tuned for more details on musicians and vendors.

LIVE MUSIC, PIES, CIDER, CRAFT BEERS, PUMPKINS, FOOD, FLANNEL & FUN!

$8/person ($2 off if you wear flannel!)
12 & under FREE

Please email info@gfrcc.org if you’d like to join us as a vendor.

**We kindly request that dogs remain at home for this event. With the exception of service dogs.

Come explore the fundamentals of watercolor. We’ll try out various materials and techniques needed to create luminous paintings. Each class will include a demonstration followed by exercises aimed at increasing understanding, ability, and visual awareness. Then we’ll put those concepts into a painting. Lots of time for questions and sharing our discoveries. Bring an open mind and a willingness to experiment. No experience necessary. Materials will be provided.

$180

Tuesday 10 am –12:30 pm
4 classes

To register: https://rivergalleryschool.org/index.php/online/21-online-classes/304-intro-to-watercolor

NEW TIME
Join Eli on Wednesdays from 6-7pm for a crafternoon with rural queers!

Bring your knitting, your drawing, your collaging, your sewing, your writing, your painting! Bring your crafts and craft along with other rural queer folks!

Open-drop in space to share your creative side!
Out in the Open is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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As an introduction to drawing and painting with oils, we will start with a simple still life and basic color mixing. Each class will include drawing materials, paints brushes and supports, a short demonstration and guidance throughout, suggestions for objects to paint from, and time to look at each other’s work. Supportive for beginners and helpful as a refresher to more experienced artists, we will work together to share and create in our unique art space.

$170

6 classes
Thursday 10am – Noon

To register: https://rivergalleryschool.org/index.php/classes/adult/adult-fall/3-adult/365-intro-to-drawing-and-painting-thursday

The year is 2080. iTMRW, the love story of Robert and his android partner, Jenny, unfolds against the backdrop of a world where advanced technology is both a source of, and a “cure” for human alienation: advertisements come in the form of “pop-up thoughts,” entire cities float on islands of trash, female forms are purchased and discarded at will, and aristocrats live in a state of debauchery and despair. The piece takes its title from iTMRW (pronounced “I, Tomorrow”), the mega-corporation that produces and sells every single product known to humankind. Despite societal chaos, the human spirit persists in its quest for love.

iTMRW is a 90-minute multimedia science fiction production that combines the music of Arc Iris’ upcoming futuristic concept album with videography and the contemporary dance theater of HDC Dance Company, coming soon to the immersive setting of the Charles Hayden Planetarium. The Museum of Science joins Arc Iris for a behind-the-scenes live streaming event that explores the creative inspiration and process behind the show, introduces members of the artistic team and cast, previews exclusive clips from the show, and discusses the future of the piece as the team re-imagines iTMRW for a run in the one-of-a-kind venue of the Planetarium.

This virtual offering will stream live from the Museum of Science for registrants to enjoy at home. Registrants will receive links to view this program via email within 24 hours of the event start time.

This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Barbara and Malcolm L. Sherman Fund for Adult Programs.

Please consider making a gift to support #MOSatHome and our SubSpace virtual fall season at donate.mos.org/mosathome and become a vital partner in helping us provide access to free STEM experiences online.

FEATURING:

ARC IRIS
Providence, RI experimental pop trio Arc Iris fuses story-based songs with dense electronic and orchestral arrangements. The group, which began as the solo project of Jocie Adams, formerly of The Low Anthem, includes keyboardist and sample artist Zach Tenorio and drummer Ray Belli. Arc Iris released its acclaimed self-titled debut in 2014 on ANTI/Bella Union. Subsequently, the band toured with artists such as St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. In early 2018, Arc Iris joined Kimbra on her North American tour and later that year, the trio released back to back records, “Icon of Ego,” on Brooklyn label Ba Da Bing Records, and “Foggy Lullaby”, their re-imagination of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue.’ In mid 2019, Arc Iris completed the composition of their futuristic, dystopian concept record, iTMRW, set in the year 2080 that was the centerpiece of their production at Oberon, the American Repertory Theater’s second stage.

HDC Dance Ensemble (Dance Company)
Providence-based performing arts collective, founded by Gisela Creus, Danielle Davidson, and Orlando Hernández. Their works incorporate elements of voice, percussion, improvisation, and storytelling through physical theater to create unique interdisciplinary dance experiences, primarily in a blend of tap and contemporary dance theater.

CAST/HDC Dance Ensemble
The CAST/HDC Dance Ensemble: Jenny is played by Stephanie Turner; Robert is played by Jacob Regan; David is played by Orlando Hernández; The Face of iTMRW is played by Noah Harley; Dr. Pillman is played by Orlando Hernández. Ensemble: Giselle Creus, Danielle Davidson, Jessica Howard, Ellen Oliver.

Are you looking for a special way to celebrate a milestone during the pandemic? Would you like some inspiration to deepen your connection with the natural world? Since we cannot gather in our usual groups we offer you a chance for a personalized experience, an outing with a naturalist for your (small) quarantine group. Because these programs are just for YOU, they can be adapted to your level of fitness, adventurousness, and particular interests. Possibilities could be What’s in YOUR Woods, The Beasties Beneath – stream or pond exploration, Night Singing Insects, Know the Night, By the Shores of Popple’s Pond, and we will entertain all requests. Learn more and contact Patti to sign up: https://www.beec.org/what-we-do/public-programs-and-events/walks-talks/

It’s official! Spooky season is upon us and we want to celebrate with this spooktacular impression of VanGogh’s Starry Night!