Gallery Walk ’23 is off and running!
Pro-tips: Look for a fire performer AND a pop-up Splash Pad in Harmony Lot this month! Dining in a downtown restaurant? Make a reservation to save your seat!
This season Gallery Walk will run from May through December with a few things to note. Every first Friday from 5-9 pm we hope you’ll swing on down to Downtown Brattleboro for galleries, live music, food trucks, Brattleboro Flea, and interactive art stations. You never know what will pop up or who you’ll see at Gallery Walk! For months May-Oct we will close Elliot Street and Harmony Lot to traffic and we can all enjoy a block party that is ALL about art & community. For Nov & Dec it’s all about the galleries and the stellar exhibits they have planned for you! No raindate this year- Gallery Walk is rain or shine.
The Walk:
**The Stage:
The Stone Church and Downtown Brattleboro Alliance proudly present FREE live music each month from 6-9 p.m. Look for the stage in the Harmony parking lot. The line-up this year is truly over-the-top amazing, you won’t want to miss a month!
September’s Music: THUS LOVE. That’s right- Brattleboro’s own hometown heartbreakers are back. YOU CANNOT MISS THIS. They been touring abroad in the UK and beyond but YOU can catch them right in Harmony Parking Lot!
**The Market:
The Brattleboro Flea is a collaborative marketplace of artists, makers and sellers local to the Brattleboro area. Each month Elliot Street will be transformed into a vibrant and bustling marketplace filled with a wide array of unique and eclectic goods including: ceramics, jewelry, cards and prints, macrame, natural medicinals, home goods, handmade clothing and textiles, plants and flowers, vintage clothing, Ezra’s Distler’s famous Photo Booth and more!
**The Artful Streets:
The Human Connection Project and Downtown Brattleboro Alliance have partnered to present art-making at our pop-up art stations at Harmony TUNNEL and Harmony PARK! Each month has a theme and features local artists, organizations and arts engagement for all.
September’s Theme: Technicolor Town
Let’s make Brattleboro colorful! Have you ever had an idea of how to make a spot in our downtown more vibrant, engaging, playful and just plain cool? Use lighting, chalk and reused materials to create a splash of color in your part of town. Turn up your personal style at the “Tunnel of Technicolor Transformation” and “Bling” it on, Brattleboro!
**The Food:
We invite you to our Food Truck Food Court- located in Harmony Parking Lot. A rotating cast of local food trucks and some of our favorite Downtown Restaurants slinging their tasty offerings. Take a seat at our Community Table- a dazzling selection of florals and greenery set upon a long table with a seat for all.
September’s Food Vendors:
**The Libations:
Our Stone Church outdoor Beer Garden has your bevvy needs right in Harmony Lot which is transformed each month into an outdoor Beer Garden (yes the whole thing!) Look for them in Harmony Lot near the Stage.
**The Tour:
Brattleboro – America’s Most Storied Small Town!
From ancient Abenaki petroglyphs and the first known African American poet Lucy Terry Prince, to being home to Nobel Laureates like Rudyard Kipling, who wrote The Jungle Books here, and giant book manufacturers that produced the first American editions of Harry Potter – Brattleboro’s history is a lot bigger than its size.
Here’s how you can learn more:
At Gallery Walk: Meet 5:30 pm in front of Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for a short tour that hits the high points of Brattleboro’s unique history led by charming guides from Brattleboro Words Trail and Brattleboro Sunrise Rotary. The tour lasts about 40 minutes and covers .5 mile (.8 km). Free, but donations accepted and benefit both organizations.
**The Facilities:
Rich Earth Institute bathrooms available on Elliot Street. (Most of our galleries also offer restrooms for folks viewing the exhibits).
Handicapped Parking- There will parking available on the top of the parking garage and on the WEST side of Main Street, closest to Elliot Street. For additional assistance in this regard, please feel free to email erin@brattleboro.com
There is no better way to connect with your fellow Bratts than hitting Gallery Walk every first Friday MAY-DEC. Tell your friends and sing it from the mountaintops.
*This event is rain or shine. Locations may change or programming be cancelled due to inclement weather. Please check FB/ IG or Brattleboro.com for the latest information.
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The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series and Twilight Music present an evening of brass-fueled, swinging music of New Orleans by the Soggy Po’ Boys, on Sunday, October 8 at 3:00 pm at West River Park in Brattleboro, VT.
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents “dirty gospel” band Reverend Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, on Saturday, October 14th at 3:00 pm at the Putney Inn.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) welcomes the public to a celebratory closing party for the exhibition “Anina Major: I Land Therefore I Am,” on Friday, October 6, during Gallery Walk.
Next Stage Arts presents Internationally renowned composer and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Felipe Salles’s groundbreaking multimedia work “The New Immigrant Experience”, on Friday, October 13 at 7:30 pm at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, in Putney, Vermont.
16th annual Domino Toppling Extravaganza returns to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Sunday, October 8, at 5:30 p.m.
The Vermont Jazz Center will present Cyrus Chestnut in a trio concert on October 14th at 7:30 PM. Called “the best pianist of his generation” by Time Magazine, Chestnut will appear with bassist Herman Burney and drummer Kelton Norris.
