Arts/ Music

African Variety Show: Africa Day in Vermont 04/25/2024

From Dr. Wetchi:

Africa Day is on May 11th, 2024. Africa Day (formerly African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day) is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organization of African Unity on 25 May 1963. It is celebrated in various countries on the African continent as well as around the world. The organization was transformed into the African Union on 9 July 2002, in Durban, South Africa, but the holiday continues to be celebrated on 25 May.

Senator Peter Welch: Celebrate Introduction of the STAGE Act with Vermont’s Nonprofit Theaters 04/24/2024

From the Office of Senator Welch:

Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) convenes leaders from Vermont’s nonprofit theaters under the marquee of The Flynn in Burlington to celebrate the introduction of the Supporting Theater and the Arts to Galvanize the Economy (STAGE) Act. The STAGE Act establishes a new Professional Nonprofit Theater Grant Program to support the theater arts industry and workforce through a lagging recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Featuring Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.); Vermont Secretary of Commerce Lindsay Kurrle; Jay Wahl, Executive Director of the Flynn Center; Susan Evans McClure, Executive Director of the Vermont Arts Council; Carol Dunne, Producing Artistic Director of Northern Stage.

Celebrate Life: Carol Ricciuti 04/19/2024

From Gary De Carolis:

Five words that describe Carol Ricciuti: Grit, Love, Survivor, Empathetic, and Funny.

On the Waterfront: Between The Willows 04/17/2024

Host Mariah Riggs interviews Between The Willows founder Ry Poulin. Ry Poulin and Nicole Dirmaier founded Between The Willows in 2022 to begin to provide a safe space and platform for queer folks and their allies to express themselves. Between the Willows encourages people to explore what fascinates and inspires them by producing new works as well as established works while engaging the greater Burlington community.

For more information visit: www.between-the-willows-llc.square.site

Celebrating Jackie Robinson Day 04/15/2024

From the organizers:

The Thomas P. Clairmont Baseball Foundation hosts a day of fun, remembrance, and gratitude to one of America's great heroes, Jackie Roosevelt Robinson! For those unfamiliar with Jackie, he was the first African American to play on an integrated baseball team when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Positively Vermont: Vermont Maple Festival 04/15/2024

Dennis McMahon speaks with Cathy Branon from Branon’s Barrywilde Maples, LLC about the maple festival.

For more information visit: https://www.vtmaplefestival.org

Artful Word: Joe Moore and the April 8th 2024 Eclipse 04/08/2024

From Media Factory:

Dedicated to Joe Moore who passed in April with the great eclipse.

CCTV Archives: 40 Year Anniversary Compilation of the Fletcher Free Library 04/03/2024

A brief look through archival footage of the Fletcher Free Library over the years.

Resistance Day of Learning at Ohavi Zedek 04/01/2024

From Burlington High School:

The “Resistance Day of Learning” is hosted with The Lost Mural Project located at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue. Students look at the “The Lost Mural” (a Burlington artifact in the style of Eastern Europe synagogues), and hear from guest speakers who share stories of their own resistance. Speakers include Gordana Pobric, Bashir Abdallah, Migmar Tsering, Aaron Goldberg, Jeff Potash, and Noor Bulle.

For more information: https://ohavizedek.org/

Recorded on April 1 and April 2, 2024.

Bread and Puppet Theatre: THE HOPE PRINCIPLE SHOW - CITIZENS' SHAME + HOPE IN THE TIME OF GENOCIDE 03/30/2024

"With mother dirt prologue, citizen despair gymnastics, massmurder victims' traditional dance of death celebration, absent humanity dance. Featuring a flock of disaster ravens and hope principle caribou and exorcism rites for the genociders."
This video documents the second performance of The Hope Principle Show which the next day began a 20 stop tour of New England.
The program quotes from Tariq M. Haddad's letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, November 2023:
Secretary Blinken, there is very little at this point that you can do to reverse the damage and destruction you have caused the Palestinian people, but there are at least some things you can do to prevent further destruction and suffering:
1. Call for an immediate ceasefire.
2. End the continued transfer of U.S. military reserve equipment to the Israeli military to stop further murder.
3. Call for an immediate withdrawal from Gaza and equality for the Palestinian people.
4. Call for an end to the Israeli occupation and for equal rights, freedoms, and laws in this land regardless of one's religion, ethnicity, or background.
CAST:
Paul Bedard, Ziggy Bird, Ocea Goddard, May Hathaway, Joshua Krugman, Erika Landaverde, Mason Mcavoy, Caitlin Ross, Miranda Zhen-Yao
Directed by Peter Schumann
filmed+edited by Jerome Lipani
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In Solidarity,
jerome

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>.

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