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Artbits - January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012 by Dick.
BLACKOUT
Some Internet sites were down yesterday. January 18 was “the Day the Web Went on Strike.”
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ART ON THE WALLS
The Northwestern Medical Center Gallery hosts photographer Leslie Beyor.
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ON STAGE LIVE
On Tap has the Starline Rhythm Boys. The fourth annual Brick Church Music Series features the String Fingers Band with After the Rodeo plus artist Lyna Lou Nordstrom. Chow Bella features Dayve Huckett live on guitar. Country Pantry presents Carol Ann Jones with Will Patton and Gary Spaulding.
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JANUARY-FEBRUARY ART DEADLINES
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation seeks the best new independent films. i-Park Foundation offers self-directed artists’ residencies. Art Renewal Center has $50,000 in cash awards for Figurative, Landscape, Animals, Still life, Sculpture, and Drawing. Baker Arts Center has awards for 2- and 3-dimensional Fine Art and Photography.
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FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
The St. Albans Library’s Mornings, Muffins & Mysteries program and the Writers’ Medley, happen today.
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NO SOAP
January 18, 2012 by Dick.
Or at least NO SOPA.
The All Arts Council is joining hundreds of sites around the world to ‘Go (Semi) Black’ for one day to protest Congress’ plans for the onerous Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Please eschew our links today but stop back tomorrow for news and features about all the arts in Northwestern Vermont.
Artbits - December 29, 2011
December 29, 2011 by Dick.
Happy New Year, everyone!
KEEPING ALIVE
Public and private contributions to the arts remain in jeopardy. Popular programs like the
Summer Sounds series depend on municipal appropriations. And school art programs are primarily funded by the increasingly strained property tax.
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ART ON THE WALLS
A new Gail Salzman exhibit has begun at Select Design.
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ON STAGE LIVE
The Opera House at Enosburg Falls presents the musical variety show Silver & Gold. Young Tradition-Vermont presents Diversity Rocks at First Night. Chow Bella celebrates the “Year of The Chow!” WIZN presents a Rockin’ New Years Eve with Smokin Gun and Sturcrazie.
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FIRST NIGHT LIVE
First Night Burlington has a citywide, substance-free party of stage shows, musical acts, and arts activities to kick off the new year. Downtown Friday from noon on. A huge number of performers are either from Franklin County or are
Summer Sounds favorites.
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LOOKING BACK AT THE YEAR
Franklin County artists and presenters outdid themselves in 2011. This week, we wrap up of the All Arts Council events, what Other Major Presenters pulled off, and the Five Franklin County Festivals.
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ArtBits - October 6, 2011
October 6, 2011 by Dick.
ART BRAS
Quilters have been decorating bras in advance of Breast Cancer Awareness month which began on Saturday and continues through the month of October. Art beCAUSE held its 9th annual Gala in Boston yesterday. Art projects like these help more than cancer survivors.
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STILL SUMMER!
Summer Music at Grace concludes the fall mini-series with a special double bill of the Missisquoi River Band plus Simply Saxes.
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ART ON THE WALLS
Island Arts hosts a craft show and sale at the Folsom. The Artist In Residence Gallery features Martha Ohliger, Tess Beemer, Kitten Ellison, and Carl Newton. The Northwestern Medical Center Gallery presents Maurie Harrington and Susan Larkin.
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ON STAGE LIVE
Glimmerstone presents Yankee Chank. Hudak Organic Farms hosts the Northwest Citizens for Responsible Growth with the Missisquoi River Band. Grace Potter & the Nocturnals will headline
Goodnight Irene: Flood Relief Benefit at the Flynn. The St. Albans Historical Museum has Don Wickman, author of The Civil War Photographs of George Houghton.
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ArtBits - September 8, 2011
September 8, 2011 by Dick.
MISTER O.
Brooke Ostrander, music teacher, band director, and theater manager at Missisquoi Valley Union High School until he retired in 2007, passed away on Saturday after battling cancer.
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ON STAGE LIVE
The Opera House at Enosburg Falls presents the Woods Tea Company. Full Circle returns to Summer Music at Grace. JW Ryan’s will host a memorial gathering for Brooke Ostrander. The Montgomery Historical Society Concerts By The Common series presents Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys. The Greensboro United Church hosts the Karen McFeeters Benefit Concert for Parkinson’s Disease. Phish will play a special benefit at Champlain Valley Expo for flood recovery in Vermont.
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13 DAYS of SUMMER, 21 YEARS of SOUNDS
The 21st season of Summer Sounds came to an end with the first ever celebration of Bay Day on Labor Day. We look back.
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ArtBits - May 26, 2011
May 24, 2011 by Dick.
MEMORIAL DAY
Monday is Memorial Day. The holiday once known as Decoration Day commemorates the men and women who perished under the flag of this country.
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REUNITING WITH SUMMER
Summer Music at Grace officially begins the summer music season tomorrow evening with the ninth annual Farewell Reunion concert. Dozens of Vermont musicians will play traditional and original music, singing and dancing from Vermont, Appalachia, Scotland, Ireland and beyond.
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ART ON THE WALLS
The nineteenth annual Vermont Open Studio Weekend is this Saturday and Sunday. It gives visitors an inside look at Vermont artists and craftspeople in their studios.
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ON STAGE LIVE
Chow!Bella presents Sean Ashby this evening. On Tap at the Lincoln Inn offers Blues Night with the Joe Moore Blues Band featuring Jason Corbiere. The Irish American Club presents the 38th Annual Peoples’ Prom. The Bees Knees presents Carol Ann Jones with Gary Spaulding. The Spirit of Ethan Allen Sunset Cruise on June 5 features Joe Levesque’s Big Band.
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LIBRARY NEWS
The St. Albans Free Library hosts a puppet show this morning and a PBS Kids Young Writer’s Contest event this evening.
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