The 18th annual Brattleboro Literary Festival will take place October 17-20 at locations across Brattleboro, with readings and special events held at 118 Elliot on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The theme of the 2019 festival is Identity: personal identity, cultural identity and our identity as a country.
A night of mischief, joymaking, and word games to celebrate the launch of Mount Island, the new magazine for rural LGBTQ+ and POC writers and artists! Doors open at 6:30 PM for mingling and a variety of word games until 7:00 PM, when the main event begins: Touché! A Tournament of Words. Touché is a […]
Havana, Cuba is preparing to celebrate the 500th anniversary of its founding on November 16, 1519. This 40-minute film, which highlights the efforts to restore Havana's historical colonial architecture, includes interviews with: Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historian of the City of Havana Michael Gonzàlez, director of Cultural Heritage for the City of Havana Félix Julia Alfonso […]
Kusama: Infinity Directed by Heather Lenz 2018, USA, 76 mins Now the top-selling female artist in the world, Yayoi Kusama overcame countless adds to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage. Working as an artist for over six decades, she has endured and created a legacy of artwork that spans the disciplines of […]
BCTV’s annual producer awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, October 24th at 6:00 p.m. at 118 Elliot. The public is invited. The People’s Choice Award winner, which is a popular vote among the year’s top-viewed videos, will also be announced that night. The following organizations and individuals will be recognized for their achievements during […]
Screening of "Dancing with the Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition" and Launch of New Community 'Tell-a-Vision' Circles Follow five remarkable stories of peoples and places transforming the world in this 50 minute documentary film directed by Vermonter Chris Wood, followed by a reflection sharing, and presentation by Wendy Webber of a new local initiative: ‘Tell-a-Vision’ […]
48th ANNUAL MEETING Bring a friend! The public is encouraged to attend. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 1:30 pm 1:30 Refreshments − 2:00 Members Meeting − 3:00 Break − 3:15 Dr. Hutner − 4:15 Wrap-up Dr. Heidi Hutner Stony Brook University ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: The Women of Three Mile Island We are honored to be joined […]
ExhibitNovember & December 2019Artist Reception Friday November 1, 2019, 5:30 to 8:30Gallery hours By appointment. Contact 118elliot@gmail.com@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IiIsImFmdGVyIjoiIn19@Through November and December 2019, 118 Gallery is exhibiting the work of Richard W. Brown, a photographer from the Northeast Kingdom documenting the vanishing culture of Vermont’s hill farms. Brown’s 2018 book, The Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes […]
Part 2 of a 3-part workshop series offered by the Vermont Folklife Center in partnership with the Brattleboro Words Project and Friends of Brooks Memorial Library. Introduction to Audio Storytelling: Interviewing & Recording $95 ($55/students) Preregister at (802) 388-4964 Free for pre-approved Brattleboro Words Project teachers/researchers, write BrattleboroWords@gmail.com to apply. Whether you want to learn […]
A launch party for Christine, Released (Running Wild Press, 2019), the debut novel by Ea Burke (you may know him as Ed). Christine, Released is an engaging, heart-wrenching story of a young woman lost in a society that's not built for her family nor for her life. "Ea Burke knows how to write. He's created […]
