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Rethinking Native, Stranger, and Home: The Brattleboro Words Project and a Progressive Sense of Place
2020-04-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 118 Elliot
The Brattleboro Words Project Roundtable Discussion Series
Rethinking Native, Stranger, and Home: The Brattleboro Words Project and a Progressive Sense of Place
with William Edelglass
Friday April 17, 6:00PM. Free and open to the public.
The distinction between native and stranger, often used to justify exclusion, is grounded in a strong sense of belonging to place. This talk explores contemporary theories and practices of place as inclusive and dynamic. In these theories, the practice of place arises through the stories that are told. Places can become inclusive through a multiplicity of stories. Drawing on these theories, we will look at the Brattleboro Words Project as a practice of place.

VT Bar Association Women in Law Panel
2020-05-21 17:00 - 19:00 | 118 Elliot
More info coming soon.

Saturday Night Film Series: Cow-spiracy
2020-05-31 17:00 - 19:00 | 118 Elliot
A new monthly Saturday night film series. More info coming soon.

Express Fluency Coaching with Andy Winter
2020-07-25 09:00 - 16:00 | 118 Elliot

Four Local Artists | Exhibit
2020-09-01 - 2020-10-31 | 118 Elliot
Exhibit

September & October 2020

Outdoor Meet & Greet
Friday October 2, 2020, 4:00 to 7:00

Gallery hours
Friday & Saturday 3-6 pm
Gallery Walk Fridays (1st Friday of every month) 3-7 pm

Four Local Artists
Tina Olsen, Jillian Farwell, Roxcell Bartholomew and Lauren Watrous
Ongoing Show Will Feature New Works and a Selection of Artist’s Reproductions for Sale
All the artists met through the River Gallery School in Brattleboro.

Four Local Artists Oct 2-30Tina Olsen

Tina K. Olsen lives locally and grew up in Springfield, MA. She traveled widely and eventually moved to New York where she taught art at the Walden School and worked therapeutically with the arts at the South Beach Psychiatric Center on Staten Island for many years. Tina found a creative community at the River Gallery School and began to work in oils after moving to Brattleboro to live near her daughter. “I paint the wildness of things,” Olson said. “the land and people and what lives freely beneath the surface of things. When I paint I feel like my real self. I don’t like to know what it is at first glance. I just want it to look alive – as if it just happened.”

Roxcell Bartholomew

Roxcell Bartholomew is a self-taught artist living and working in Brattleboro. He grew up in the Caribbean and moved to the United States in his teens. Roxcell rediscovered his interest in painting while in the military. He says: “I realized that creating has always been a tool for acknowledging and processing the indescribable elements of my experience. Whenever I am creating, there is no choice but to be present within the space called me. I simply try my best to breathe life into the surreal colorscapes, geometric shapes and human forms that arise within my stream of consciousness.”

Jillian Farwell

Jillian Farwell has spent most of her life in West Dummerston where her family has lived for more than 100 years. She says: “I was born into a philosophical, very verbal intellectual heritage, but I was always more comfortable in the natural world. I found meaning through art making. It is the process of clarifying as you work – a whole-body way of knowing. I began with clay, which brought me into my body, and now I work in oil paint. I don’t know how that unfolds. I understand my life better when I paint and look at my paintings.”

Ursula von Rydingsvard

Lauren Watrous grew up in Brattleboro and teaches studio arts at The River Gallery School and The Community College of Vermont. Lauren’s recent works are intimately scaled oils that relate person and place.

“Together, we are helping each other understand our own creative processes in this group show at 118,” Farwell said.

Puppet Homecoming
2020-09-11 08:00 - 15:00 | 118 Elliot
With Puppeteers of America.
More info coming soon.

Architecture + Design Film Series
2020-09-23 | 118 Elliot
Free Monthly Virtual Screenings

18 Elliot’s collaboration with Burlington City Arts and the American Institute of Architects continues online with free, second Wednesday every month screenings of the very best architecture and design films out there. The link and password for the films will be posted on this website: https://adfilmseries.org/ the day of the screening until the following Sunday for your viewing pleasure. Participate in the blog at that same site to share your impressions — enjoy!

Reiki Master Class with the International House of Reiki (Private Event)
2020-09-27 09:00 - 17:00
Private Event

Four Local Artists Meet & Greet
2020-10-02 16:00 - 19:00 | 118 Elliot
Local artists: Tina Olsen, Roxcell Bartholomew, Jillian Farwell, Lauren Watrous

Meet and greet the artists featured at 118 Elliot’s first exhibition since the pandemic hit. An outdoor, safe-distance reception will begin at 4 pm in the back lot which will be closed to cars. There will be plenty of space to safely gather while taking turns viewing the exhibition in the large gallery which is very well ventilated – windows open, fans blowing and a whole-space HVAC system on exhaust.

Words Trail Map Unveiling at BMAC
2020-10-24 16:00 - 19:00 | 118 Elliot

Peter Galbraith Webinar
2020-10-25 16:00 - 17:30 | 118 Elliot

The Looking Glass Season
2021-02-01 - 2021-02-28 | 118 Elliot
Tina Olsen, Markie Sallick, Walter Hagedorn,
John Loggia, Schuyler Gould

The Looking Glass Season features five artists who live in the Brattleboro area; Tina Olsen, Markie Sallick, Walter Hagedorn, John Loggia, and Schuyler Gould.
The art on display will be updated periodically during the exhibition.
The show is designed so that it can be seen through 118 Elliot’s street level windows until 10 pm every day.
The show can also be seen by appointment by calling: 917 860 5749.
All works are for sale.
Reproductions and cards are also available.

Fingerpainting with Gila | Class
2021-02-03 15:00 - 17:00 | 118 Elliot
This isn’t a real class, but … if it were a class it would be designed for adults to get their fingers dirty, unlock the creative child within them and in zen like fashion create art and then crumple it up, throw it into recycling, and create more. And most of all to have fun!!

Ursula Von Rydingsvard - February 17 - 24, 2021
2021-02-17 - 2021-02-24 | 118 Elliot
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Into Her Own
118 Elliot’s collaboration with Burlington City Arts and the American Institute of Architects continues online with free, second Wednesday every month screenings of the very best architecture and design films out there. The link and password for the films will be posted on at: https://adfilmseries.org/ from the day of the screening until the following Sunday. Participate in the blog at that same site to share your impressions — enjoy!

Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own is an artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture. In this documentary, we go behind the scenes with von Rydingsvard, as she and her collaborators – cutters, metalsmiths, and others – produce new work, including challenging commissions in copper and bronze. But the film also delves into the artist’s personal life, and how it has shaped her work. Born in Poland during the Second World War, she was partly raised in a displaced persons camp and came to the US as a refugee with her nine-person family. Her younger brother shares memories of being raised by their violent, domineering father – a man whose influence von Rydingsvard continues to feel. Brought up in a blue-collar environment, she became a teacher and then, as a single mother, moved to New York in the 1970s to take up her artistic practice full-time.
In conversations with curators, patrons, family, and fellow artists, we come to know von Rydingsvard as a driven but compassionate sculptor with a deep commitment to her art and the world around her.

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The Gardener - March 17 - 24, 2021
2021-03-17 - 2021-03-24 | 118 Elliot
The Gardener
A Film about Frank Cabot
118 Elliot’s collaboration with Burlington City Arts and the American Institute of Architects continues online with free, second Wednesday every month screenings of the very best architecture and design films out there.
The link and password for the films will be posted on at: https://adfilmseries.org/ from the day of the screening until the following Sunday. Participate in the blog at that same site to share your impressions — enjoy!

The Gardener is a film that reflects upon the meaning of gardening and its impact on our lives. Shortly before his passing at the age of 86, influential gardener and plantsman Frank Cabot recounts his personal quest for perfection at Les Quatre Vents, his twenty-acre English style garden and summer estate that was opened to a film crew for the first time ever in 2009. Nestled amongst the rolling hills of the Charlevoix County in Quebec, Les Quatre Vents has become one of the world’s foremost private gardens. Created over 75 years and three generations, it is an enchanted place of beauty and surprise, a horticultural masterpiece of the 21st century. Through the words of Cabot and his family, and with the participation of gardening experts and writers, the film looks back at this remarkable man’s personal story and the artistic philosophy that gave birth to one of the greatest gardens in the world.
In conversations with curators, patrons, family, and fellow artists, we come to know von Rydingsvard as a driven but compassionate sculptor with a deep commitment to her art and the world around her.

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April 14 - 18 Online Film Screening | Architecture & Design Film Series
2021-04-14 08:00 - 2021-04-18 23:59 | 118 Elliot
NEUTRA: SURVIVAL THROUGH DESIGN | April 14-18, 2021
Directed by PJ Letofsky2019, USA, 100 MinutesPREVIEW
Online access at: https://adfilmseries.org/
This comprehensive documentary into the 125 year life, work, and times of Austrian/American Architect Richard Neutra begins in 1892 Vienna and takes you inside his most important works – the Luckenwalde Forest Cemetery, his first built house design in Berlin, working with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House, the family home VDL House in Los Angeles, and the Palm Springs Kaufmann House. The illustrious cast of storytellers includes sons Dion and Raymond Neutra, Barbara Lamprecht, Thomas Hines, Alan Hess, Volker M. Welter, Harriet Roth, Norman Foster, and Moshe Safdie. Join us on this eye-opening journey into the life, work and times of Richard Neutra.

Tina Olsen | Landscapes & Visages
2021-05-07 08:00 - 2021-05-31 17:00 | 118 Elliot
OPENING – Friday May 7 4pm-8pm Rain date Saturday May 8
To be held outside with distanced small group viewing of work inside
EXHIBIT runs May 7 – May 31 Fridays from 4pm-8pm or by appointment

View Tina’s website at https://www.tinakolsen.com/ Contact her: tinakolsen@aol.com 917-860-5749

WHEN DID I KNOW I WAS AN ARTIST
I was a lonely child, bored with what adults said and did. I found refuge in nature, animals and occasionally my twin sisters.They were a year younger than I was. My schizophrenic /autistic brother, 5 years my junior, was often left in my care – and was part of the reason, as an adult , I would work as an arts therapist. But back in grade school with 40 children in a class, desks nailed to the floor all in a row, I would look out the window, draw and write poetry. We used pen and ink and I remember writing once over and over,”I will not talk.”
But talk I did, and mostly I was not understood. In college I would loose sight of the topic in stories and metaphors, never knowing why I was not understood. I would become overwhelmed with my passion for the subject, and see other relationships to it. I could not understand how the subject wouldn’t be related to all the other things I thought of.
The only subject that made any sense to me was art.
I could never understand how every subject didn’t have to do with every other subject. I didn’t see the point in math or history, which seemed to be only the history of killing and its dates. I was finding my way. I looked out the school window, drawing and writing poetry to pass the time.
Art put it all together for me. I first fell in love with the abstract expressionist work of sculptor Peter Voulkas. It was emotional and natural looking and I had never seen anything like it. Inspired by him, I made pots out of rough black clay that looked like big organic rocks. Looking back I see them as expressions of despair as if I were looking to go home into a cave.
I was born in 1943 just before the war ended and nowhere – not in my family nor any where else – did anyone ever talk openly about fear, despair, beauty or anything deeply personal. I remember wondering about that and why no one ever looked at me directly in the eyes. This was New England and people then were very emotionally reticent.
So making art became a way for me to find within myself a connection or communion with the world that was otherwise missing.

VANCOUVER, CANADA Series

I painted this series – Vancouver, Canada – from the window of the overnight train crossing Canada from Toronto to Vancouver just before Covid broke out. It was four days and nights – no distractions but the vibrating of the train, the penetrating light, and the endless wilderness that is most of Canada. Throughout my life I have stared at landscapes – especially drawn to neglected urban landscapes and the wilderness. Shaken free by the constant movement and vibrations of the train I was able to condense a sense of the light, space, pine tree forests and occasional box like buildings that would appear randomly along the journey. In Pine Tree with Boxes, I am probably the little light green square in the middle of the tree.
As is the case with all of my work, I recognize in this painting a connection to my childhood that feels timeless – though the images may be disturbing they are beautiful to me. I would come home from school, which I disliked, and walk along the railroad tracks beside our house in Springfield, Massachusetts where I grew up. There were no adults, the tracks went on and on, the sand was everywhere and there were red scrub pine trees which I loved and would sit in for long periods of time. I sang to the birds and they answered me.

Vancouver Boatyard (2020) Watercolor

Flying Canoe (2020) Watercolor 10″ x 14″

TRANSITIONS Series

Painted in 2020-2021 during the years of Covid19, these paintings are about transition – into winter and solitude. They are inspired by the snow on the Vermont landscape, as well as a chronicle of my move from an urban environment to a rural one – from Red Hook, Brooklyn to Brattleboro,VT. I spent this time studying the snow over the fields and forests of Vermont and adjusting to a rural environment from an urban one. After growing up in New England, I lived in the New York City area for 40 years, and then relocated again to Brattleboro,VT . I loved New York, where I’d found a community of artists and a career as an Arts Therapist. I worked as a social worker using the arts at South Beach Psychiatric Center on Staten Island, NYC.

Transition #1 (2020) Oil 24″ x 24″

Transition #2 (2020) Oil 36″ x 36″

RED HOOK (BROOKLYN) IN GRAY Series

I painted these paintings from 1996-2009 while living in Red Hook, Brooklyn , which was an abandoned urban environment near the sea 20 and minutes from NYC. In the winter the warehouses, water towers, backyards, granary and bridges were gray, stark and monumental with fog and snow. The effect I try to achieve is one of a mysterious space.

Red Hook Gray #1 (1996) Watercolor 18″ x 24″

Red Hook Gray #2 (2000) Watercolor 18″x24″

Walking, Drawing and Painting: Recent Works by Collin Leech
2021-06-04 15:00 - 2021-06-29 18:00 | 118 Elliot
Gallery Walk Opening Friday June 4th (4pm-8pm)EXHIBIT runs June 4 – June 29
Gallery HoursFridays and Saturdays 3 – 6 / Sundays 12 – 3Or by appointment: 802/258-7055

Walking, Drawing and Painting: Recent Works by Collin Leech includes cropped, collaged paintings on paper, encaustics and oil paintings. These abstracted landscapes are less about recording what the eye can see than about the artist’s emotional connection to the landscape during the relative solitude of the pandemic.
Leech is known for her highly stylized mixed media work. She teaches at The River School Gallery and has shown her work in the area for over two decades. Her finely drawn and richly colored abstractions are inspired by the observed dynamics of the natural world.
The show continues 118 Elliot’s recent focus on presenting emerging artists in a formal setting.

Sundays 3- 5 pm | Weekly Meditative Movement
2021-06-27 15:00 - 17:00 | 118 Elliot
Weekly Sunday meditative movement sessions led by painter and creative arts therapist Tina Olsen, LCSW begin on June 27 from 3 to 5 pm with a suggested donation of $10 per session.

June 27 | Transcendent Winds by Bonnie Kane
2021-06-27 19:00 - 20:30 | 118 Elliot
The performance features layers of exquisite flute playing cascading into a deep and melodious sound bath that will be sustained continuously until 8:30 pm. A suggested donation of $10 is encouraged.

Dedicated improvisor and electro acoustic pioneer, Bonnie Kane’s music integrates saxophone, flute, and electronics in her sonic improvisations as catalogued on her website http://bonniekane.com/transcendent-winds/. Transcendent Winds is music for dreaming, meditation, sound healing, or for falling asleep and awakening refreshed. Attendees are encouraged to transcend time in a peaceful ambience or quietly practice light stretching or yoga in place.
“Bonnie Kane’s playing is a gateway into another, more ethereal plane. As a listener, I get hooked into her melodies-upon-melodies — a trance-like state. Beauty and otherworldliness,” says Sarah Van Buren, BasilicaHudson.org. Her flute playing can also be heard on the Brattleboro Words Trail story about the Westminster gardens of Gordon and Mary Hayward: https://brattleboro.stqry.app/en/story/31810.

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“You Have No Idea What It’s Like Over Here” Photos & Letters from Brattleboro WW1 Nurse Marion McCune Rice
2021-07-02 17:00 - 20:00 | 118 Elliot
Gallery Walk Opening Friday July 2nd (5pm-8pm)EXHIBIT runs July 2 – September 1
Gallery HoursFridays and Saturdays 3 – 6 / Sundays 12 – 3

Photos: Marion McCune Rice in her American Red Cross uniform during her four years as a volunteer nurse in France during WW1. Credit: Marion McCune Rice Collection.

Multimedia Exhibit Features Marion and Other Rice Family Audio Stories
World War I volunteer nurse Marion McCune Rice’s moving photographs and letters will be on exhibit July 2 to September 1 at 118 Elliot Street Gallery in Brattleboro. Several members of Nurse Marion’s family will be present to discuss the Rice family’s legacy on the town during an opening reception during Gallery Walk Friday, July 2 from 5 to 8 pm at 118 Elliot, 118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301. Fixed gallery hours are Fridays 3 pm to 6 pm and Saturdays and Sundays noon to 3 pm..
The exhibit is part of a summer of events cosponsored by the Brattleboro Words Trail and the Brattleboro Historical Society to help acquaint people with the Trail — self-guided audio tours of places and the people associated with them that reflect the significant historical and literary achievements of the Downtown and surrounding area. People can download the Trail app at www.BrattleboroWords.org.
The Rice family, whose creative, community-minded lives and spirits helped shape the identity of Brattleboro as the special place it is today, lived on Chestnut Hill and worked at the American Building on Main Street in Brattleboro. Several Nurse Marion descendants helped produce audio stories for these spots on the Trail’s Downtown Tour. Nurse Marion, her brother – longtime Brattleboro Reformer publisher/editor Howard C. Rice, his wife Amy (to whom Nurse Marion’s letters are addressed), Stephen Daye Press publishers John S. and Marion (Rice) Hooper, and Howard C. Rice, Jr., a Rudyard Kipling scholar, all lived on Chestnut Hill.
Steve Hooper wrote and narrated Nurse Marion’s story and his daughter, Althaea Carroll, performed the voice of her great, great Aunt. Steve’s wife, Jackie Hooper, wrote and narrated the Trail story ‘The Rice Family of Chestnut Hill.’ Both audio stories were produced by Donna Blackney.
The Trail pegs other Rice / Hooper family stories to the American Building on Main Street where the Brattleboro Reformer and Stephen Daye Press were first located. Steve’s brother John Hooper narrates the Rice family American Building stories which were produced by Sally Seymour.. Steve and John’s father, John S. Hooper, Howard C. Rice’s son in law, was also publisher/editor of the Brattleboro Reformer for more than 20 years (after the Stephen Daye press closed) until editor Norm Runnion (also featured on the Trail) took the helm in the 70s.
Hundreds of photographs Marion McCune Rice took with a Kodak camera during her four years as a Red Cross nurse in hospitals in France are the source of this exhibit of 23 black and white images painstakingly printed from her original Kodak negatives by photographer Steve Hooper, who is Rice’s grand-nephew. Steve discovered the ‘treasure trove’ after his uncle Howard Rice, Jr. died and Steve was helping clean out the Chestnut Hill house.
“This photographic exhibit documenting four years of an American nurse in WWI is one of the most unique collections ever found in this country,” says Steve, who produced a documentary film “An American Nurse at War” based on Rice’s photographs and letters. Her story has been praised by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and was the subject of a History Channel documentary shown nationally.
The exhibit will show primary materials including Rice’s Carte D’Identitie, her handwritten letters and original war documents. A Kodak camera similar to the one Rice used, a war medal Rice received and the uniform she wore will also be on display.
A giant 1896 Sanborn floor map, created by MuseArts, Inc. for the Brattleboro Historical Society for a Vermont Historical Society display in Montpelier but never before exhibited in Brattleboro, and other Historical Society information will also be exhibited. The spectacular map allows visitors to ‘walk’ downtown Brattleboro, the Whetstone Brook, the Connecticut River, train connections, and see the purpose of each building and names of businesses.
“Our Storied Landscape: Exploring the Brattleboro Words Trail”, the large hand-carved clay murals of Windham County and Downtown Brattleboro created by artist Cynthia Parker-Houghton for the Trail, are also part of the exhibit. Copies of the book “Print Town: Brattleboro’s Legacy of Words” will also be available for sale.
In August, the Summer Trail offerings will shift to a focus on the history of journalism in Brattleboro with a focus on the evolution of the Brattleboro Reformer. A Roundtable Discussion on local journalism today will be held with a reception with journalists from a variety of local media at the August 6 Gallery Walk at 118 Elliot. For more information visit www.118Elliot.com and BrattleboroWords.org.

July 8 | Sisters Rising
2021-07-08 19:00 - 21:00 | 118 Elliot
Sisters Rising, an award-winning film by Brattleboro-area filmmakers Willow O’Feral and Brad Heck, is a powerful feature documentary about six Native American women reclaiming personal & tribal sovereignty.
Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault than all other American women. 1 in 3 Native women report having been raped during her lifetime and 86% of the offenses are committed by non-Native men. These perpetrators exploit gaps in tribal jurisdictional authority and target Native women as ‘safe victims’. Sisters Rising follows six women who refuse to let this pattern of violence continue in the shadows: a tribal cop in the midst of the North Dakota oil boom, an attorney fighting to overturn restrictions on tribal sovereignty, an Indigenous women’s self-defense instructor, grassroots advocates working to influence legislative change, and the author of the first anti-sex trafficking code to be introduced to a reservation’s tribal court. Their stories shine an unflinching light on righting injustice on both an individual and systemic level.
Read more about the screening in this VermontBiz article: WWAC presents Brattleboro premiere of Sisters Rising July 8
Free and open to the public, but seating is limited$10 suggested donation at the doorRegistration is required Click here to Register

Current Exhibit

Connecticut River Conservancy Training
2021-07-26 09:00 - 14:00, 2021-08-02 09:00 - 14:00 | 118 Elliot

July 28 | Story Slam
2021-07-28 18:00 - 20:00 | 118 Elliot
Join us for a night of connecting and breaking down stigma through storytelling. “If we share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.”-Brene Brown
We want to hear from you! Let’s come together in a safe space to build community, to share our strengths, and own our power.You can submit your story by using this link to participate:https://www.weareplannedparenthood.org/a/sharestoryvt2021…This is a FREE event and refreshments will be served.

Aug 3rd 7pm | "The Rich Get Richer: How our Quest to Accumulate Wealth has Divided America"
2021-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | 118 Elliot
This free event is a live indoor event, limited to 50 people, with a suggested donation of $5. Masks required if unvaccinated.

“The Rich Get Richer: How Our Quest to Accumulate Wealth has Divided America” will be the topic of a conversation between author/journalist Michael Mechanic and local author and campaigner Chuck Collins, at 7:00pm on Tuesday, August 3, at 118 Elliot (118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro). Since Mechanic and Collins share overlapping interests, their dialogue about the surprising advantages and pitfalls of wealth hoarding promises to be as lively as it is informative.
Registration is advised https://rich-get-richer.eventbrite.com
Michael Mechanic is a veteran senior editor at Mother Jones whose writing and editing have resulted in dozens of journalism awards. He is author of the new book, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live –and How Their Wealth Harms Us All. His work at Mother Jones has often focused on social and criminal justice, racial disparities, mass incarceration, economic inequality, and corporate shenanigans. Since writing Jackpot, he’s been looking more at the ways the wealthiest Americans manipulate the system to their advantage. He lives in Oakland, California,but grew up messing around in the Windham woods and brooks with his local cousins. His late mother, Maggie Newton, grew up on a farm near Hamilton Falls where her parents, David and Margaret Newton, established the Newton School for boys; she later moved to Brattleboro and played in the local orchestra. “Windham County is my second home, dear to my heart,” Mechanic said. “I’m excited to finally meet Chuck in person, and for this chance to share our experiences writing about a topic of such great local resonance as wealth moves into this state and creates financial opportunities but also huge challenges for long-time Vermonters.”
Chuck Collins is is an expert on U.S. inequality and the racial wealth divide. He is the author of the new book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions, and Born on Third Base, among other books. He is also the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. Chuck and his wife Mary live with a flock of unruly chickens on Mineral Springs Farm in Guilford. “I’m thrilled that we can host Michael in Brattleboro on his trip to Vermont,” said Collins. “The growing concentration of wealth and power is disrupting everything we care about and we need to better understand these forces and explore ways to reverse them.”
The Rich Get Richer is co-sponsored by Everyone’s Books and 118 Elliot. The authors will be available tosign their books, which can be purchased at the event or ordered in advance through Everyone’s Books. For reviews and author information, see their websites: ReadJackpot.com (Mechanic) and Inequality.org/wealthhoarders (Collins). For more about the event and the authors, see Everyonesbooks.com.

Current Exhibit

One Town, Many Voices: News and Book Publishing in Brattleboro Over Time
2021-08-06 17:00 - 20:00 | 118 Elliot
“One Town, Many Voices: News and Book Publishing in Brattleboro Over Time” and Free 5:30 pm Panel “That’s News to Me: Covering Brattleboro Today”

The multimedia exhibit “One Town, Many Voices: News and Book Publishing in Brattleboro Over Time” is inspired by the new book Print Town: Brattleboro’s Legacy of Words, a treasure trove of Brattleboro’s long history and ongoing legacy of printing and publishing, as well as the scores of audio stories created by community members for the newly launched Brattleboro Words Trail. The opening features a free 5:30 pm panel discussion “That’s News to Me: Covering Brattleboro Today” with veteran reporters and editors from the Brattleboro Reformer (publishing daily since 1913, weekly since 1876), The Commons (one of the first weekly newspapers in the US to embrace a non-profit model) and others, followed by a robust audience Q&A and reception where the public can meet these professionals one on one. The moving photos and letters of Brattleboro’s own WW1 Nurse Marion McCune Rice and Brattleboro Words Trail ceramic murals by Cynthia Parker Houghton also continue on view.

An Evening of Joy and Wonder with Tatsuya Nakatani & Bonnie Kane
2021-08-28 19:00 - 22:00 | 118 Elliot
doors open 6:45 pm, music @ 7:30 pm
$10 donation

Presented by 118 Elliot and Bonnie Kane’s Experiment
with Master Percussionist Tatsuya Natakami (solo) and in duo with Bonnie Kane (sax, flute, electronics)
Vaccines and masks required

Melting Pot: Paintings by Roxcell Bartholomew
2021-09-03 17:00 - 20:00 | 118 Elliot
OPENING RECEPTION – Gallery Walk Friday September 3rd, 5pm-8pmGALLERY HOURS Friday & Saturday 3pm-6pm, Sundays 12pm-3pm or by appointment (802)258-7055

Brattleboro artist Roxcell Bartholomew explores the psychological impact of his personal and cultural history in his first solo gallery show Melting Pot. These recent paintings employ a technique of enhanced automatic painting where he allows the composition to develop freely without premeditation then refines the image into a colorful dreamscape that seems to have materialized as an architectural detail. Set gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays 3 to 6 pm Sundays 12-3 or by appointment: 802 258 7055
Roxcell Bartholomew was born in St Vincent, an island in the Caribbean that is home to Garifuna, an Afro/Caribbean community that developed from the intermingling of the indigenous people and escaped slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries. Roxcell lost touch with much of his personal and cultural roots when he moved to the US in his teens.
After entering the US military at 21 his interest in drawing and painting helped him cope with a high stress environment and provided a safe place to reflect on his life path and connect with his cultural history. His current work is a response to the weight of life in the “melting pot” and the necessary task of mindfully reconnecting with his culture. “Painting has always been my way of introspecting and processing my experiences. Whenever I’m creating, there is no choice but to be present within the space called ‘me’ and that eventually always leads me back to my roots. I simply try my best to breathe life into the surreal colorscapes and feelings that arise within my stream of consciousness.”
The opening reception will also feature outside poetry readings by esteemed local writers Shanta Lee Gander and Havana-born Pablo Medina at 6:30 pm. Shanta will be reading from her new book GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA. Everyone’s Books will be selling books for signing at the event. Delicious mocktails will be sold outside to complement the event.
II8 ELLIOT is a modern gallery and environment for the creative arts, educational talks and community happenings, fully ADA accessible, well-ventilated and with a large outside area in the heart of downtown Brattleboro. Contact us at 118Elliot@gmail.com.
Painter Roxcell Bartholomew’s “Melting Pot” exhibition opens at 118 Elliot at the Sept 3, 2021 Gallery Walk in Brattleboro.

II8 Elliot is a modern, multipurpose environment for the creative arts, educational talks, and personal events for up to 220 people. It is a fully ADA accessible space in the heart of downtown Brattleboro. This unique, flexible space has a 2,000 sq. ft. main room and a smaller conference room or backstage which allows for easy transitions between presentations to social events. A large outdoor area is also perfect for concerts, film and any kind of social gathering.

“Out of Chaos, An Artist's Journey in Haiti" Film Screening, benefiting Haitian Earthquake Relief
2021-10-03 16:00 - 19:00 | 118 Elliot
Pascal Giacomini

Carine Fabius

On Sunday, October 3, 2021, at 4 PM, the award-winning documentary film Out of Chaos, An Artist’s Journey in Haiti will screen at event venue 118 Elliot Street in Brattleboro, VT. Director Pascal Giacomini and Writer/Producer Carine Fabius will be on hand for a Q&A following the screening. The suggested entry donation is ten dollars but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.In 2018, Galerie Lakaye produced the 70-minute feature documentary, Out of Chaos, An Artist’s Journey in Haiti, which has been screened to great acclaim at 34 film festivals worldwide, garnering a Best Director Award at the Amsterdam World International Film Festival. Directed by Pascal Giacomini, and written and produced by Haitian native Carine Fabius, the powerfully evocative film finds an unexpected art explosion in a Haitian slum, where Black artists living in extreme poverty create extraordinary art under impossible circumstances. Many of their works now belong to prominent international museums and private collections. Out of Chaos, An Artist’s Journey in Haiti is an unvarnished yet positive look at Haiti’s vibrant culture and indestructible spirit.
Pascal Giacomini and his wife/partner, Carine Fabius, own Galerie Lakaye, a contemporary ethnic art Gallery in Los Angeles with a focus on Haitian art. To chart a course toward meaningful, effective change in support of the global Black Lives Matter Movement, Galerie Lakaye has launched a campaign to provide Out of Chaos, An Artist’s Journey in Haiti as an educational tool at high school and university levels. Using the film as its focal point, Galerie Lakaye developed a dynamic curriculum that facilitates important discussions about diversity and inclusion, systemic racism, poverty, inequity, sustainable art creation, and the Black experience. Galerie Lakaye hopes viewers will be moved by the documentary and inspired to support the educational use of this outstanding film, which has already been screened at Duke University, Cal State Northridge, University of Virginia, and many others across the U.S.
For more information about the gallery or the film, Out of Chaos, an Artist’s Journey in Haiti, please contact Galerie Lakaye director Carine Fabius at galerie@galerielakaye.com or 323-460- 7333. To view the film trailer: https://vimeo.com/84905576 Film website: https://www.outofchaosthemovie.com/ Galerie Lakaye is located at 1550 N. Curson Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046. FB: galerielakaye; IG: @galerielakaye
