All Entries in the "In the Arts" Category
Springfield Community Players urgently seeks funds for new roof
The Springfield Community Players, Vermont’s oldest continuously operating amateur theater group, is in imminent need of funding to replace the roof on its South Street studio. Although the nonprofit group is hopeful that the 35-year-old roof will withstand this winter, the threat of leakage looms large, putting their vast collection of costumes and props in […]
Seasonal art workshops for adults and kids at Weston library Dec. 12 and 14
Art teacher Casey Junker Bailey brings two workshops to Wilder Memorial Library, 24 Lawrence Hill Road in Weston, to add creativity to the holiday season. Adults are invited to make Old World ornaments at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12. Junker Bailey will share her collection of ornaments gathered during travels in Europe, then demonstrate […]
‘Holiday Fiesta’ at Proctorsville Library Dec. 14
Cavendish Historical Society is hosting a Holiday Fiesta from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday, Dec. 14 at Cavendish-Fletcher Community Library, 573 Main St. in Proctorsville. Historical societies often have a surplus of old books; Cavendish Historical Society is no exception. Pages from old hymnals can be turned into a variety of ornaments, including angels, […]
Dance Factory’s annual ‘Nutcracker’ Dec. 14, 15 at Springfield High School
Join Clara on her magical journey to the Kingdom of the Sweets in the Dance Factory’s 33rd annual production of The Nutcracker at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14 and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15 at Springfield High School, 303 South St. Ashley Hensel-Browning directs a cast of youth and adult dancers in […]
Free VSO Brass & Counterpoint Concert Dec. 14
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents its Brass Quintet concert in collaboration with Counterpoint, a Montpelier-based choral chamber music ensemble, at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14 at Grafton Community Church, 55 Main St. The year’s program includes a global musical journey. It blends sacred and secular holiday favorites like O Holy Night and The Twelve […]
Springfield Community Band Holiday Concert with featured vocalists set for Dec. 7
The Springfield Community Band announces that its Second Annual Holiday Concert will take place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7 in the Riverside Middle School auditorium, 13 Fairground Road in Springfield. The featured vocalists will be teachers Meredith Pelton (Springfield High School) and Kelly DeAngelis (Riverside Middle School), as well as the Riverside Middle […]
Weston’s Winter Cabaret returns Dec. 6 & 7 Fundraiser to benefit Young Company's tours
Kick off the winter season with Weston Theater Company’s popular annual Winter Cabaret to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, Dec. 7 at Walker Farm, 705 Main St. in Weston This fun, festive and tastefully irreverent tradition is sure to get you in the holiday spirit. Proceeds from this event […]
Springfield Players presents Neil Simon’s ‘Rumors’
Springfield Community Players, 165 South St. in Springfield, is gearing up for its final production of the season, Rumors by Neil Simon. Travel back to 1989 in New York City and see what happens when four socialite couples are invited to their friends’ 10th anniversary party. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 16, […]
Children’s Thanksgiving art workshop Nov. 16 in Weston
Wilder Memorial Library, 24 Lawrence Hill Road in Weston, invites children of all ages to a Giving Thanks workshop with art teacher Casey Junker Bailey at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16. Children will create fabric print banners and small thankful books with decorative papers. These will make charming additions to any Thanksgiving celebration. The […]
1993 Craven film screened Nov. 14 in Londonderry; part of the Vermont Film Festival
The Vermont Film Festival returns to the Depot on Route 100 in South Londonderry at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14 with the showing of Where the Rivers Flow North. Set in 1927, Where the Rivers Flow North is the 1993 Jay Craven film that tells the story of an old Vermont logger (Rip Torn […]
VSO String Quartet to play at Chester’s Town Hall Theater Nov. 10
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s String Quartet will be performing Elgar to Gershwin and Bach to the Beatles in the beautifully restored, fully accessible Chester Town Hall Theater, 556 Elm St. in Chester, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10. Violinists Jane Kittredge and Brooke Quiggins-Saulnier, violist Stefanie Taylor and cellist Perri Morris will present an […]
Musicians to hold Kate Lorenz tribute Oct. 19
Musicians, friends, colleagues, music fans and family will gather at The Stone Church, 210 Main St. in Brattleboro, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19 for Sparkletown II: A Tribute to the Music & Spirit of Kate Lorenz. Doors open at 6 p.m. This concert will be a big night of Kate’s own songs and […]
Shrouded in mystery, Weston’s ‘Woman in Black’ twists time and reality
By Cara Philbin ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Weston Theater Company’s final theatrical offering of the season, The Woman in Black, has all the trappings of an old fashioned ghost story to get you in the mood for a spine-tingling Halloween. Set on the melancholy shores of Victorian England, a settling of matters compels a […]
Children’s fall foliage art workshop Oct. 5 in Weston
Wilder Memorial Library, 24 Lawrence Hill Road in Weston, invites children to join art teacher Casey Junker Bailey for a special art-making workshop at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5. Attendees will listen to a story and then create watercolor trees and decorated leaves to celebrate the season. The program is free of charge and […]
Nordic Harmoni to perform at Peru Fair
Nordic Harmoni will be singing together again during the annual Peru Fair at noon on Saturday, Sept. 28 in the Peru Church, 252 Main St. Nordic Harmoni is the only Swedish-American chorus in southern Vermont; it enjoys sharing Scandinavian heritage and traditions. All interested singers are welcome to join Nordic Harmoni. Seventy percent of the […]
Kicking off the school year in style with music and circus
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC On a picture perfect Thursday evening, the Two Rivers Supervisory Union kicked off the school year in style with the West Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cirque Kikasse troupe performing on the playing field of Chester-Andover Elementary School with everyone in the SU’s communities invited. Playing Fields is […]
Bellows Falls concert features seven-piece Colombian band Sept. 15
The Bandwagon Summer Series continues at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15 on the lawn at 21 Island Street with a Colombian seven-piece band: La Sonora Mazurén. This family-friendly outdoor cultural performance series is hosted by Next Stage. La Sonora Mazuren is the latest band to emerge from the rich indie-tropical scene in Bogotá, Colombia. […]
Chester native’s animated short tells of Romaine Tenney’s ‘Love of the Land’ Film to be presented by Van Alstyne at Springfield Cinema
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Sixty years ago, just before 3 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1964, Weathersfield volunteer firefighters were called out to the Tenney farm, where a multi-building blaze glowed brightly in the late night summer sky. Romaine Tenney, a 64-year-old farmer whose lifelong home was to be taken by the […]
Springfield’s Dance Factory celebrates 40 years
Springfield’s Dance Factory is celebrating 40 years of providing the greater region with inclusive, arts-focused dance training and accessible community performances. Located in Springfield’s historic downtown, and named for its original location in the former Fellows Gear Shaper factory building, the Dance Factory has grown from a handful of students to a network of multi-generational […]
‘The Porch on Windy Hill:’ Playing music to banish misunderstandings and prejudice
By Lorien Strange ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC As the pace picks up and the bow of the fiddle sways a little more violently, I can feel the vibrations of the players tapping to the tempo through the floor. Joy radiates from the stage as the cast spins through a tipsy do-si-do, accompanying themselves with […]
