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CALENDAR LISTINGS FOR Friday, February
26
"Change: How to Make Big Things Happen" with author Damon Centola (via Zoom): 5 - 6:30 p.m. Presented by Living Earth Action Group. Online. Watch Damon give a 3-min. description of what he's discovered: https://youtu.be/hFijjJmndG8. Email for link: gpaynevt@gmail.com.
Music Speaks: Amplifying Black Voices - featuring Samirah Evans and Franz Robert (Online): Samirah Evans is known for her dynamic, soulful approach to jazz and blues, among other genres. Her style is also heavily influenced by the New Orleans sound where she was one of the city’s most in-demand singers. Franz Robert is a jazz pianist. 7 [.m. Offered by CouchMusic.Live and Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center. Pay what you can: $0 to $20. Online. Register for the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/samirah-evans-with-franz-robert-tickets-140794571353.
SOLOs Episode 5: Tenor Saxophonist Travis Laplante performs "Dissolving Mirror": New Amsterdam Records recording artist and Yellow Barn contributor Travis Laplante performs his composition "Dissolving Mirror" in SOLOs Episode 5. 7:30 p.m. Filmed on the Hooker-Dunham stage, Laplante's performance premieres simultaneously on BCTV and YouTube. SOLOs is a collaborative production of the Hooker-Dunham and the Rock River Players to bring creativity to the fore in this challenging time for performers, directors, venues, audiences. Free. ... Links to the premiere: www.HookerDunham.org, www.RockRiverPlayers.org, and www.brattleborotv.org.
BRATTLEBORO Theater Games and Activities: The Boys & Girls Club invites you to join us and our friends from the New England Youth Theater for theater games and activities. 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. on Fridays. Boys & Girls Club, 17 Flat St. Information: Sign up: 802-254-5990, renee.woliver@bgcbrattleboro.org.
Brattleboro Solidarity offers PBS's "The First Rainbow Coalition" followed by Discussion (via Zoom): "This film documents the Black Panthers' political work with the Young Lords and the Young Patriots in Chicago in 1969. Led by Fred Hampton, the Panthers reached out to the all-white, confederate flag-wearing Young Patriots to organize together against their common oppressors. While we work to strengthen and deepen the Black Lives Matter movement, it is imperative that we remember Fred Hampton and the Panthers' legacy of organizing around class.". 7 p.m. Free. Zoom. Information: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84021455483.
WEST TOWNSHEND Dinner Together Cooking Kits for Families in the West River Modified School District: West River Modified School District families are eligible to receive 3 cooking kits with all the ingredients provided for Dinner Together healthy recipes. Eating as a family develops lifelong healthy eating habits, improves children's learning and well-being, and teens are more likely to have better self-esteem and less likely to experience depression or develop an eating disorder. RiseVT-Windham County's Dinner Together meal-kits offer recipes and tips for developing the habit of regularly sharing family meals together. 2-4 p.m. First come, first served, no sign-up. Last Friday of the month: 2/26, 3/26, 4/30, 5/28. This Project is part of The West River Community Project. Free. West Townshend Country Store and Cafe, Rte. 30. Information: Questions: Elisha Underwood, eunderwood@bmhvt.org.
