Annie Landenberger
Animal rights, human dignity
BRATTLEBORO-Composer and pianist Keane Southard, who has produced numerous works for choral and instrumental performance, believes in "the power of music to inspire positive change in the world."
Thus, Southard, of Brattleboro, has created his latest work with deep compassion for the animal world.
Bouncing between anguish and whimsy
NEYT’s Senior Company presents Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People,’ a play from 1882 that speaks to our times
BRATTLEBORO-The Henrik Ibsen drama An Enemy of the People will lead audiences to question "the intersection of truth, power, and society's values," according to the New England Youth Theatre, which will stage the play this weekend. As described by Dramatists Play Service, the play centers on "a small Norwegian...
‘A unique and beautiful part of my upbringing’
At Next Stage, Nani Vazana will perform music in Ladino, the endangered language of Sephardic Jews
PUTNEY-Noam "Nani" Vazana, one of the few musician/songwriters in the world who writes and composes in the endangered Ladino language, has launched a tour that's landing her in venues large and small around North America and Europe. One of her stops will be Putney, as Next Stage Arts hosts...
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When hedonism runs amok
BRATTLEBORO-Under the direction of Alex Hacker, the Vermont Theater Company (VTC) brings a jolt of life, relevance, and innovation to Euripides' tense tragedy. The Bacchae, in an adaptation by Hacker himself, is "decidedly a translation," he said, "but in the spirit of Dionysus [the play's essential character], I took a few liberties to make it more performable and communicative in a way that stays true to the essence of the play." A Greek tragedy from circa 405 BCE, The Bacchae...
‘We’ve left the field open’
BRATTLEBORO-George Monbiot, British journalist, environmental/political activist, and author of several books on political and social justice and the environment, is a regular columnist for The Guardian. It was his 2016 piece on neoliberalism - what he calls "capitalism on steroids" - in that U.K.-based publication that led filmmaker Peter Hutchison, with colleague Lucas Sabean, to create The Invisible Doctrine: the Secret History of Neoliberalism. Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) and its partners will host a screening of the 75-minute documentary...
On the invisible, destabilizing forces in our world
BRATTLEBORO-Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) and partners are hosting two events this weekend focused on the film The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism and the book version published this year by Penguin Random House. The public is welcome to register for a Friday virtual Literary Cocktail Hour with authors and film creators Peter Hutchison (joining from Brooklyn) and George Monbiot (joining from London). On Sunday, all are welcome to view The Invisible Doctrine at Brattleboro's Latchis Theatre to...
Project catalogs ‘a record of modern jazz creativity’
BRATTLEBORO-With approximately three out of four of the concerts that have been presented at the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) over half a century preserved via video and audio, the nonprofit is "aiming to preserve all concerts with high-quality video and audio recordings" and prepare to share those and other invaluable jazz-centric materials with the world. So said Eugene Uman, VJC's executive director, in a presentation for the jazz research group on Jan. 9 at the Jazz Education Network's annual conference...
Raising their voices
BRATTLEBORO-It was a brutally cold day, just after a snowstorm and very windy under cloudy skies. With sidewalks barely cleared in Brattleboro, one might've wondered why anyone would go to town that day. No matter: We're Vermonters. In groups of two or three - sometimes more - people gathered up and down the sidewalk in front of Centre Congregational Church at noon on Monday, Feb. 17, for the National Day of Protest March. The march through downtown - part of...