118 Elliot

Who We Are: Portraits of Brattleboro
2018-10-05 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
WHO WE ARE, PORTRAITS OF BRATTLEBORO, is coming to 118 Gallery. This show, comprised of local artists—in affiliation with River Gallery School—is going to scrape off some of the grime, and leave you smiling.

Have you seen some of Leigh Niland’s series, The Secret Lives of Shopkeepers? These alone will be worth the visit. Also featured are paintings by Leonard Ragouzeos (shown), Robert Thomson, and Ralph DeAnna.

We are filling the room to the rafters with the faces of people you see all the time. But do we see each other truly? These portraits invite us to look closer, past the selfies and drive-by encounters, into an aspect of each other that we might well have missed.

Opening Reception, Friday, October 5th, 5:30 -8:30pm.
Gallery Hours on Saturdays 12-5pm and by appointment c/o lcmendelsund@gmail.com 802-257-2757
Up through November 2

Brattleboro Literary Festival: "True As Steel" by Christina Gibbons & Don McLean
2018-10-11 19:30 - 21:30
The Brattleboro Literary Festival kicks off this year’s 4-day event with a reprise of the play “True As Steel,” a play about the life and times of Royall Tyler, the most important Vermont writer of the Federalist era. In 1991 to commemorate the Vermont statehood Bicentennial, Christina Gibbons and Don McLean co-wrote “True as Steel,” using entirely the words of Royall and Mary Palmer Tyler drawn from their writings. The play was performed at Brooks Memorial Library and at Guilford’s Broad Brook Grange. For more information, visit the Brattleboro Literary Festival website for the day’s scheduled authors: brattleboroliteraryfestival.org

Brattleboro Literary Festival: A Little Box of Yes
2018-10-12 19:00 - 21:00
Join 2018 Festival authors Stefan Merrill Block, Kate Greathead, and Noy Holland, along with special guests Michael Preston and Matthew Dicks for improvisational storytelling based on Synapsis, a new storytelling prompt and game from Storymatic Studios (Brian Mooney and Vaune Trachtman)

Here’s how it works: The storytellers will draw cards from the Synapsis box. The cards prompt them to write one sentence. Then they answer questions about the story that sentence comes from— and as they improvise their answers, they begin to discover the story, setting, and characters. Audience participation welcome!

A Little Box of Yes is kind of like if you crossed “Selected Shorts” with “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me” and The Moth.

Cash bar.

Michael Preston lived for many years in New York and was a member of the Shaliko Company, founded by Leonardo Shapiro. He also worked with such artists as John Sayles, Richard Elovich, David Cale, Wynn Handman and Theodora Skipitares. From 1991 until 2000 he toured the world as one of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, which included three different runs on Broadway. With them he collaborated on and performed 9 different shows, ranging from the post-modern tragedy Le Petomane, to an update of Room Service (winner of an L.A. critic’s award in 1998). They were nominated for an Olivier award in London for best Comedy in 1994. He directed their latest show, Life: A Guide for the Perplexed. Preston is currently an Associate Professor of Theater and Dance at Trinity College.
Matthew Dicks is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, Unexpectedly, Milo, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs, and his new, non-fiction book Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling. His novels have been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide. Matthew is a 35-time Moth StorySLAM champion and 5-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories have been featured on their nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour and their weekly podcast. He has also told stories for The American Life, TED, The Colin McEnroe Show, The Story Collider, The Liar Show, Literary Death Match, The Mouth, and many others. He is a regular guest on several Slate podcasts, including The Gist, where he is teaching storytelling.

Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Plano, Texas. His first book, The Story of Forgetting, was an international bestseller and the winner of Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, The Ovid Prize from the Romanian Writer’s Union, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers’ League of Texas. Following the publication of his second novel, The Storm at the Door, Stefan was awarded The University of Texas Dobie-Paisano Fellowship. Stefan’s novels have been translated into ten languages, and his stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker Page-Turner, The Guardian, NPR’s Radiolab, GRANTA, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Texas Monthly described his third novel, Oliver Loving, as “A charged and hopeful story of a West Texas family seeking a way forward in the aftermath of a school shooting.” He lives in Brooklyn.

Kate Greathead‘s first novel, Laura & Emma, was published by Simon & Schuster in March 2018. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, and on NPR’s Moth Radio Hour. She is a 9-time Moth Storytelling Slam champion. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the writer Teddy Wayne.

Noy Holland’s latest work is I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories, out now from Counterpoint Press. Noy’s debut novel, Bird, came out in 2015 to much critical acclaim. Other collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First (FC2), What Begins with Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf). She has published work in The Kenyon Review, Antioch, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Western Humanities Review, The Believer, NOON, and New York Tyrant, among others. She was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council award for artistic merit and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has taught for many years in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, as well as at Phillips Andover and the University of Florida. She serves on the board of directors at Fiction Collective Two.

Brian David Mooney is a recipient of a 2019 creation grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the NEA to support his novel, The Secret List of Frank Dodge. He has published essays, fiction, and poetry in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary, Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, and other journals from further into the alphabet. His essays about the creative process were presented by Leonard Nimoy for United States Artists at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Paramount Studios, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Although he’s never won a Moth Slam like Kate and Matthew have, he has presented at The Moth and was once part of a Moth Mainstage show about baseball. He is the creator of The Storymatic family of creative prompts, which includes Rememory and Synapsis.
Vaune Trachtman is a photographer and printmaker. Her work will be on display at the Editions/Artists’ Book Fair in NYC, October 25-28 at The Tunnel in Chelsea. When she’s not working on making beautiful photopolymer gravures and Chine-collé, she helps make things happen at Storymatic Studios.

Brattleboro Literary Festival
2018-10-13 09:00 - 2018-10-14 20:00
Brattleboro Literary Festival events at 118 Elliot, Saturday Oct. 13 – Sunday Oct. 14
Saturday, October 13
10:00 am – 11:15 am Stefan Merrill Block & Teddy Wayne
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Ryan Walsh
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Kate Greathead & Joan Silber
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm Tom Sleigh & Alia Malek with Cara Blue Adams
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Beowulf Sheehan

5:15 pm – 6:30 pm Short Stories/Happy hour with Noy Holland, Ben Marcus,
Sigrid Nunez, Joan Silber & Dariel Suarez

Sunday, October 14

10:00 am – 11:15 am Sigrid Nunez & Katharine Weber

11:30 am– 12:45 pm Wayétu Moore & Rhiannon Navin
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Brock Clarke & Ben Marcus
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm Kate Christensen & Maria Hummel
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Jenna Blum & Brendan Mathews

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm GennaRose Nethercott

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Laundry; Personal Narrative Writing with Meg Baronian, Taite Blaise,
Shanta Lee Gander, Wendy Levy, Verandah Porche, Ruth Antoinette Rodriguez, Diana Whitney & others

Short Stories/Happy Hour
2018-10-13 17:00 - 18:30
A Brattleboro Literary Festival Special Event
Short story readings, hosted by Tim Weed.
In a short story, each paragraph, sentence, and word is more important than they would be inside a large novel. Short stories are precise with their delivery, they must capture the attention of the reader quickly, and tell a full tale from beginning to end in a short time. Join us again for an evening of short-story readings with six of the festival’s most entertaining readers and writers.
Our 2018 Short Story Readings authors are Joan Silber, Sigrid Nunez, Dariel Suarez, Noy Holland and Ben Marcus.
Cash bar, Beer, wine, sparkling water

Noy Holland’s latest work is I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories, out now from Counterpoint Press. Other collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First (FC2), What Begins with Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf). She has taught for many years in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts and serves on the board of directors at Fiction Collective Two.
Ben Marcus is the author of six books of fiction including The Flame Alphabet, Leaving the Sea, and his new book, Notes from the Fog. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, The Paris Review, The Believer, and elsewhere.
Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four volumes of Asian American literature. She lives in New York City.
Joan Silber is the author of eight books of fiction. The most recent, Improvement, is the winner of the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. She received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and her short fiction has been chosen for the O. Henry Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories. She lives in New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Dariel Suarez was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1997, during the island’s economic crisis known as The Special Period. Dariel’s story collection, A Kind of Solitude, was selected as the winner of the 2017 Spokane Short Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from Willow Springs Books in fall of 2018.
Tim Weed’s short fiction collection, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing (2017), was shortlisted for the International Book Awards, the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project, the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, and the Lewis-Clark Press Discovery Award. Tim teaches writing at Grub Street in Boston and in the MFA Writing program at Western Connecticut State University, and he is the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program.

Laundry
2018-10-14 19:00 - 20:30
A Brattleboro Literary Festival Special Event
Laundry, as a metaphor for the personal narrative writing that women do, is all about the dirt. It’s about coming clean and putting it out in public. Bringing the personal and intimate into a public space is a transgressive and powerful act. At the same time, because the subject of personal narrative or confessional writing is lived experience and emotional travail, it is often derided as feminine, self-absorbed, and weak. This event is about reclaiming and owning a kind of writing that is sometimes dismissed or denigrated. It embraces the notion that confessional writing is women’s writing. It’s about the lives of women and the way that women write about their lives. By putting their experience into words and then out into the world, women transform their lives in powerful ways and empower other women to do the same.
Laundry will feature mostly local women writers of diverse backgrounds and experience reading brief, sometimes raw, personal or confessional pieces in various formats–spoken word, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Readers—Meg Baronian, Shanta Lee Gander, Diana Whitney, Wendy Levy, Verandah Porche, Taite Blaise, Ruth Antoinette Rodriguez and others will present work at this event.

Architecture & Design Film Series: Sabra: The Life and Work of Printmaker Sabra Field
2018-10-17 18:30 - 20:30
Second film in a monthly film series, SABRA: THE LIFE AND WORK OF PRINTMAKER SABRA FIELD
Directed by Bill Phillips 2015, USA, 57 Minutes

This monthly film series is scheduled through May of 2019, and is co-sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the American Institute for Architecture and local sponsors. Visit https://adfilmseries.org/ for more information.

Doors open at 6:00pm. All films are free and open to the public.

Roundtable Discussion Series: Archives of Brattleboro
2018-10-18 18:00 - 19:30
The Brattleboro Words Project’s October second Thursday monthly discussion explores the various important archives available for research in and around Brattleboro. The Roundtable Series is free and open to the public and provides a regular way for participants in the Words Project to meet and discuss on-going research. Refreshments served.

Honoring the Victims of the Pinochet Years
2018-10-19 19:00 - 21:00
Patricia Perez Valdes, KSC-AIPR Global Fellow will speak on “Honoring the Victims of the Pinochet Years at Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights.” She will address this topic drawing from her years of experience in the Education and Audience Department of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, located in Santiago, Chile. Her talk will focus on the legacy of Chile’s military dictatorship from 1973-1990, the importance of memorialization in the construction of memory as a society, and the challenges faced by the museum since it was inaugurated in January of 2010.

Patricia Perez Valdes has been invited for an entire semester of sharing with the college community In a joint initiative by the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Academic Program at Keene State College (KSC) and the Auschwitz Institute For Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR).

BCTV Volunteer Appreciation Dinner & Producer Awards Party
2018-10-25 18:00 - 20:00
Join BCTV staff and board members for our Volunteer Appreciation Dinner and Producer Awards Party! Come and recognize local content producers for the amazing work they’ve done over the year and shared with viewers all over the world.
Thursday, October 25 from 6 – 8 PM
All are welcome – bring your posse/entourage/fan base and make some noise!
Awardees to be recognized:
Community Partner of the Year
Municipal Partner of the Year
Nonprofit Member of the Year
Volunteer of the Year
Producer of the Year
Series of the Year
People’s Choice Award

Democratic Party Social
2018-10-26 18:00 - 22:00
Join Democratic nominee for governor Christine Halquist and other candidates for a community gathering.

Brattleboro Clayworks 35th Anniversary Celebration
2018-10-27 17:00 - 21:00
Come celebrate Brattleboro Clayworks’ 35th anniversary with a pottery exhibit and raffle, delicious finger food, interactive clay display, cash bar, music and a trip down memory lane!

Brattleboro Clayworks is Southern Vermont’s ceramics resource center. Founded in 1983, Clayworks seeks to increase access to ceramic media for the southeastern Vermont, northwestern Massachusetts, and southwestern New Hampshire communities.

Gallery Walk: VJC Emerging Artist Festival & Exhibition Preview
2018-11-02 17:30 - 20:00
The Vermont Jazz Center’s Annual Emerging Artist Festival
7:00 – 8:30pm at 118 Elliot: The Archer Parks Trio
More about the Emerging Artist Festival
Headliners
Arcoiris Sandoval’s Sonic Asylum
Amaury Acosta’s King Klave
Darryl Kniffen’s Planet Kniffen
The Young Lions
The VJC combines its two seasonal Emerging Artist concerts into one major event this year. The festival welcomes youthful audiences and performers through inclusive presentations, attractive pricing and Q&A sessions with the artists.
Friday, Nov. 2nd
Local youth ensembles will perform in numerous downtown venues as part of Brattleboro’s monthly Gallery Walk night. Collaborators include area schools, BrattRock, Youth Services, the Boys and Girls Club, 118 Elliot, Echo, The Lounge and Strolling of the Heifers.

Saturday, Nov. 3rd
A full-day of showcases at the Jazz Center with college and high school ensembles performing on our stage. Each session will be followed by commentary from a panel of professional musicians. The late afternoon will include a Q and A session/clinic with members of our guest bands. The evening will conclude with a doubleheader concert featuring two exciting, up-and-coming youthful groups: Sonic Asylum, led by pianist Arcoiris Sandoval and King Klave, led by drummer, Amaury Acosta, both are from New York City.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of Janet and Jeremy Birch, Dave Snyder of Guilford Sound, and Diana Bingham
Purchase tickets at vtjazz.org

Also preview 118 Gallery’s November exhibition, ‘The Autographic Image,’ new work by Aron Namenwirth, from 5:30 to 8:00pm during Gallery Walk. The November exhibition officially opens Saturday, November 3; there will be a public reception beginning at 5:30 followed by a talk with the artist at 7:30. The show will remain up through November 30, 2018. Gallery hours are Saturdays from 2 to 6 pm or by appointment 802 380 9072.

Aron Namenwirth | 'The Autographic Image'
2018-11-03 - 2018-11-30 | 118 Elliot
OPENING - Saturday November 3rd (5:30 pm reception, 7:30 artist talk)
GALLERY HOURS Saturdays 2pm-6pm or by appointment

BRATTLEBORO — Brooklyn-based artist Aron Namenwirth will be featured in a new exhibition, ‘The Autographic Image,’ opening Saturday, November 3 at 118 Elliot, 118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, Vermont. There will be a public reception beginning at 5:30 followed by a talk with the artist at 7:30. The show will also preview on Friday November 2 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm during the Vermont Jazz Center Emerging Artist Festival. The show will remain up through November 29th, 2018. Gallery hours are Saturdays from 2 to 6 pm or by appointment.
Detailed line drawings on old and recently salvaged paper mark a departure from the political and socially conscious images Namenwirth rendered through a technical process of digital pixelation. This current work delves into a highly personal art, where each element is touched, edges felt rather than masked and taped.
The inspiration for the work comes from closely watching trees as they grow, observing the landscape, their exterior bark and inner bark, finally inside to the growth rings. These observations are translated through a process of abstraction, drawing freehand in ink. “As the tree grows so do my drawings, everything that happens in the process becomes part of the finished work – the moment is accepted as artifact,” said Namenwirth.
Namenwirth has exhibited at The Bronx Museum, Momenta, VertexList and Galapagos in New York and his “Video and Animations” have been screened at Diva in Miami. He also ran an art moving company that made the moving the art. The truck painted as a conceptual message board while using it as a gallery and performance space during art happenings in Soho and Chelsea.
This is Namenwirth’s first solo exhibition since 2008 at VertexList when he decided to step back from the socially oriented work he had been producing and began to study music and started a project growing trees from seed. It was only after planting trees all over New York and New England and becoming a regular performer on the New York experimental music scene that Aron returned to drawing. “When Aron first came to Vermont to perform, he planted some seedlings that have now grown into healthy saplings” said John Loggia, who curated the show in cooperation with Gallery Director Lisa Mendelsund. “His drawings are meditations on that process modulated by spontaneous variations inspired by improvised music.”
For more info or to inquire about purchasing art, email Anamenwirth@gmail.com.

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Private Event
2018-11-08 17:00 - 19:00
Private event for Edward Jones.

Drag Out the Fabulous: One Year Anniversary!
2018-11-10 21:00 - 23:30
November marks the one year anniversary of Drag Out the Fabulous in Brattleboro, VT!
Come join Lily DeValley and DJ GlitterBear once again at 118 Elliot for a night of celebrating our local queer community.
This month’s special guests include Bellows Falls queen Ciara Grey and Marlboro king Buck Wilder—come for the drag performances, stay for the dance party!
Drag Out the Fabulous is partnering with Green Mountain Crossroads this month, as the official party for their 2018 Out in the Open Summit for Rural & Small Town LGBTQ Folks.

Architecture & Design Film Series: In Between Mountains and Oceans
2018-11-14 18:00 - 20:30
A monthly film series running through May of 2019. November’s film is IN BETWEEN MOUNTAINS AND OCEANS The film is directed by Masaaki Miyazawa 2016, Japan, 78 Minutes

“In Between Mountains and Oceans invites the viewer to embark on a journey into a sacred forest where every twenty years, Japan’s Shikinen Sengu ceremony reinforces the bond between humanity and nature in the rebuilding of the Ise Shrine. Inspired by the idea of sending a message to the future in the same way this ancient shrine keeps alive the traditions of the past, acclaimed photographer Masaaki Miyazawa used an ultra-high resolution 4K camera to create a breathtaking visual journey linking the Ise forest with other forests throughout Japan. With crystal-clear photography, stirring music, and words of wisdom from twelve of Japan’s most intriguing personalities, this is a powerful, quiet and beautiful film.“

For more info, visit: https://adfilmseries.org/films/

"A Night of Surrealist Games" with Roger C. Miller
2018-11-15 19:00 - 21:30 | 118 Elliot
7pm to 9:30pm, Thurs., Nov.15, 2018. $10.00 tickets:
Sales via Eventbrite Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-night-of-surrealist-games-hosted-by-roger-c-miller-tickets-50582297012
At the door via cash, check or credit card.

Learn and play the riotous mind-bending games that were developed by Andre Breton and his co-conspirators during the 1920’s and ’30’s, the heyday of surrealism. Games include the Exquisite Corpse drawing game (advanced drawing skills not required!), the Dream Game (a board game where you end up creating a dream!), and many varieties of surrealist word games. The consummate master of ceremonies, Miller will not only explain and lead the games to kick off the event, but he’ll also DJ – providing a surrealistic soundtrack to the evening. (Paper and drawing/writing tools will be supplied).
Says Miller, “A great virtue is that these games are not at all competitive. A person who is an experienced artist may interact with a more naive drawer to produce a brilliant composition. It’s a thrill for me to see people, many who never met before they sat down together to play, collectively create something brand new.”

” ‘A Night of Surrealist Games’ was a first for us and an overwhelming patron favorite. His knowledge of Surrealism and skill in getting strangers to play together was a smashing success!” I.C.A. Boston
“A hilarious, creative, and healthy mix of mind-bend, head-clearing and humor-refraction.” 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH.

Surrealist Games Link: https://rogerclarkmiller.com/surrealist-games-night/
Roger C. Miller is the guitarist for Mission of Burma and the keyboardist for Alloy Orchestra. He has conducted “A Night of Surrealist Games” at Mass MoCA, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT.), 3S Artspace (Portsmouth, N.H.,) and many others. He has shown his Surrealist drawings in solo and group exhibitions.
Roger Miller Link: https://rogerclarkmiller.com/about/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/709184286114836/

“In Between the Lines” with Aron Namenwirth & Friends
2018-11-17 19:00 - 22:00
A night of experimental music with 118 Gallery’s November artist.
Aron Namenwirth and friends play improvisations “In-Between The Lines” with Blise Siwula, Bonnie Kane, Ben James, Cyrus Shaoul, and John Loggia.

Brattleboro-West Arts Fine Art & Crafts Sales
2018-11-30 16:00 - 20:00
The fifth annual Brattleboro-West Arts Fine Art and Craft Sale featuring original works: paintings, pastels, photography, botanical etchings, pottery, textiles, woodworking, jewelry, glass.
Among exhibitors offering fine art and craft for holiday purchase are those whose works have been on exhibit at Harvard University; at the Reynolds Fine Art Gallery in New Haven, CT; at National Aviary’s Wings & Wildlife Show in Pittsburgh, PA and at the League of NH Craftsmen’s annual nine-day fair. Other recognition garnered has been widespread from Artist’s Magazine, from the St. Augustine, in Ceramics Monthly, by the Vermont Studio Center, in works of non-fiction and in documentaries, among others.

Lisa Charkey: A Reflection of My Everyday World
2018-12-07 17:30 - 20:30
Opening on Gallery Walk, Friday Dec. 7, 5:30 to 8:30pm
Gallery hours Sunday Dec. 9th from 12:00pm to 5pm

Join us in an appreciation for the work of Lisa Charkey. This show encompasses the work of one of Brattleboro’s most beloved artists.
Charkey boldly chronicles her battle with cancer in her “Cancer Journals” and “Cut up Woman” series. Also shown is the work which was inspired by her years living abroad in France and Morocco, as well as her student life in New York and some of her offerings as a teacher in VT. This show is a testimony to the power of art in the face of terrific challenge, as wielded by the unstoppable force that was and forever will be Lisa Charkey.

WWAC & HOST Present "Liberty in a Soup"
2018-12-09 17:00 - 20:00
The Windham World Affairs Council & Haiti Orphanage Sponsorship Trust present
Liberty in a Soup
WWAC & HOST celebrate Haitian independence with a screening of a documentary entitled “Liberty in a Soup.” In this film we’ll learn about the revolution that won independence for Haiti in 1804, and then we’ll enjoy a meal of “Soup Joumou,” the soup that Haitians prepare every year when they celebrate their independence on New Year’s Day. It’s traditionally a mix of squash, potatoes and meat, but we will also offer a vegetarian version as well as bread, cheese and beverages.
Suggested contribution for the dinner is $10 per person. All proceeds will be utilized to support HOST’s mission to meet basic needs for food, education, medical care, and other essentials for the children living at Foyer Evangelique Orphanage in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti.
To learn more about this mission, please visit https://www.orphelinatfoyerevangelique.org/
Watch film trailer below:

Architecture + Design Film Series: My Architect: A Son's Journey
2018-12-12 18:30 - 20:30
My Architect: A Son’s Journey
Wednesday Dec. 12, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Doors open at 6:00pm
The monthly Architecture + Design Film Series continues with MY ARCHITECT: A SON’S JOURNEY, a 2003 film directed by Nathaniel Kahn. “A riveting tale of love, art, betrayal and forgiveness, the son of a legendary architect undertakes a worldwide exploration to discover and understand his father, Louis I. Kahn.”
“A riveting tale of love, art, betrayal and forgiveness, the son of a legendary architect undertakes a worldwide exploration to discover and understand his father, Louis I. Kahn. While Kahn’s artistic legacy was a search for truth and clarity, his personal life was secretive and chaotic. His mysterious death in a train station left behind three families, one with his wife and two long-term affairs. Kahn’s only son Nathaniel sets out on a journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious man. Revealing the haunting beauty of his father’s monumental creations and taking us deep within his own divided family, Nathaniel’s personal journey becomes an investigation of identity, a celebration of art and ultimately, of life itself.”
All A+D Film Series screenings are free and open to the public.

Roundtable Discussion Series: Vermont's Own Highwayman: History, Legend, and Early Brattleboro Publishing
2018-12-13 18:00 - 19:00
The Brattleboro Words Project Roundtable Discussion Series: Vermont’s Own Highwayman: History, Legend, and Early Brattleboro Publishing
Celebrated local author Tim Weed will discuss the legend of ‘Thunderbolt’ and the unique Round Schoolhouse in Brookline at the Brattleboro Words Project’s monthly Roundtable Discussion on Thursday, December 13, 2018 from 6:00 to 7:00 pm at 118 Elliot.
The event is free and refreshments will be served.
Monthly Roundtables are a chance for the public and Project researchers to gather, swap stories and progress creating audio for the Brattleboro Words Trail.

Yoga & Chocolate for Planned Parenthood
2019-01-01 17:00 - 18:30
Yoga & Chocolate for Planned Parenthood
Tuesdays, 5:00 to 6:30pm
Saturdays, 10:15 to 11:45am
January’s Yoga Locally classes are dedicated to supporting our local Planned Parenthood clinic!
Brattleboro’s Planned Parenthood clinic is moving downtown this winter, and you can support their move by attending Yoga Locally classes on Tuesdays and Saturdays in January at 118 Elliot. After each class, enjoy a piece of Tavernier Chocolate and be entered to win a gift bag of Good Body Products, and make a donation that will go directly to the new Planned Parenthood Clinic in Downtown Brattleboro.
Learn more about Brattleboro’s Planned Parenthood clinic.

Sonic Vibrations: A Soundscape Experience
2019-01-06 15:00 - 16:30
A Sri Healing Arts event
“Sound is a powerful sense. One that can root you quickly into the here and now. One that alter consciousness. It can elicit relaxation, draw you towards the possibility of meditation or help you release tension. It touches our nervous system and subtle body energetics. In this journey, we will dive into a unique soundscape through the use of gongs, singing bowls, stringed instruments and other uncommon sounds to shift your relationship with your perception of sound. This is a sit down or lay out event, so bring your yoga mats, pillows, blankets, eye pillows and whatever else may help you relax into the experience. Led by Sher Levesque, a sound work practitioner & musician, who studies sound therapeutics with Mitch Nur.”
For additional info, visit www.srihealingarts.com.

Learning Through Place: A Teacher's Take on H.P. Lovecraft
2019-01-10 18:00 - 19:00
A Brattleboro Words Project Roundtable Discussion
Master teacher Jennifer Kramer and her students share their place-based research around renowned science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft’s stories linked to sites such as Round Mountain for the January Brattleboro Words Project’s monthly Roundtable Discussion series.
The event is free and refreshment will be served.

Architecture + Design Film Series: California Typewriter
2019-01-23 18:30 - 20:30
The Architecture + Design Film Series continues with CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER
Directed by Doug Nichol
2016, USA, 103 Minutes
PREVIEW ON YOUTUBE
California Typewriter is a documentary portrait of artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others. It also movingly documents the struggles of California Typewriter, one of the last standing repair shops in America dedicated to keeping the aging machines clicking. The film delivers a thought-provoking meditation on the changing dynamic between humans and machines, and encourages us to consider our own relationship with technology, old and new, as the digital age’s emphasis on speed and convenience redefines who’s serving whom, human or machine?
Doors open at 6pm. Films are free and open to the public.

Between Two Worlds: The Art of Jodina Meehan
2019-02-01 17:30 - 20:30
A 118 Gallery Popup Exhibit
“Between Two Worlds” is a multimedia exhibition of oil paintings and sound waves by local artist Jodina Meehan. Tracks the arc of her work from dream-inspired oil painter to Cymatic Artist who paints exclusively with sound waves. The work is about seeing beyond the ordinary world to the extraordinary, and traversing a path between seen and unseen worlds. Includes large oil paintings, images from dream journals, prophetic paintings of dream images, and sound-made-visible art pieces.

Yoga Locally
2019-02-02 10:15 - 11:45
Yoga Locally
Tuesdays 5 to 6:30 pm.
Vinyasa yoga by $5-15 donation.
All proceeds go to Food Connects, Women’s Freedom Center, Turning Point of Windham County, and Windham Child Care Association. Live music accompanies some classes. Heal yourself, heal your community!
For updates & more info: yogalocally.org: Yoga Locally on Facebook, yogalocally@gmail.com, or 802-579-6613.
Saturday classes have been suspended until further notice.
There will be no Tuesday yoga from June 1st through August 2019. Tuesday yoga classes will resume in September.
