BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro School of Dance's annual spring show, "Shadows & Glimmers: An Evening of Dance,"
BRATTLEBORO-On May 18, at 7:30 p.m., the Vermont Jazz Center will present Artemis, voted the...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of Scottish, Americana, and Québécois...
SAXTONS RIVER-Join local artist Stephanie Sullivan at an artist reception for a new gallery show,
As has been our custom for years, The Commons will not publish the last week of the year. And in related news, we will be doing this sort of thing a little more frequently in 2020. Starting in the spring, we will publish four issues per month. On months with five Wednesdays, the paper will not publish that fifth issue. That means that in 2020, no paper will be published April 29, July 29, Sept. 23, and Dec. 30. This...
Kevin O'Keefe well describes the all-pervasive use of video (digital technology) via the Internet to capture, instantly disseminate, and record for history any events deemed worth recording by someone, anyone. He ends the letter by adapting Descartes' famous philosophical proposition “I think, therefore I am” to “I saw the video, therefore it happened.” Well, not quite. O'Keefe also observes that “we were introduced to the idea that Big Brother (a benevolent government) was watching us” in George Orwell's prescient novel...
The spring session of the Brattleboro Women's Chorus begins with an open sing March 6 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at All Souls Church, and is an excellent opportunity to join or to try out the chorus without obligation. All women - and girls aged 10 and up with their mothers or other adult female companions - are invited. The chorus then meets every Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at All Souls Church, 29 South St. The musical themes...
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