Arts/ Music

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Leslie Fry 08/10/2023

From Melinda Moulton:

Leslie Fry is a 3rd Generation Vermonter who is an award-winning multi-media artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries. Her public sculptures have been commissioned worldwide. Leslie Fry is one of the most celebrated and accomplished Vermont artists.

Senator Bernie Sanders: Town Meetings on the Arts: Performances and Discussion with Bernie Sanders and Grace Potter 08/05/2023

From the Office of Senator Bernie Sanders:

Vermonters come together around music and the arts at events hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and singer-songwriter Grace Potter. Taking place Saturday, August 5, in South Burlington at 4:00 P.M., the events feature performances by Potter and young local artists. Sanders and Potter speak with these young artists and guests about how to advance the arts in Vermont and create more opportunities for young Vermont artists across the state.

Bread and Puppet Theatre: THE HEART OF THE MATTER CIRCUS, PAGEANT + NEW GALLERY 07/30/2023

From ORCA Media:

The HEART OF THE MATTER CIRCUS attacks the hypocrisies of our moment in cutting satire & primal scream, while simultaneously conveying an indomitable and touching childlike humor sorely needed in counterpoint to the despair and/or denial now pervasive in our universally shared world dilemma. The PAGEANT offers a collective moment of transformational secular breath, symbolically and ritually free of ideological political motive. Its ensemble of sky-reaching gigantic white hands shrouded in white cloth surge in the wind.

This piece was filmed by Jerome Lipani and Arthur Hynes, and edited by Jerome through the good offices of ORCA (Onion River Community Access) media in Montpelier, Vermont.

Look Tell Me How You Breathe Dance Theater by Loom Dance Company 07/30/2023

From Loom Dance Company:

Loom Ensemble brings together a racially diverse team of professional dancers, musicians and theatermakers, to invite you into an outdoors experience of Dance Theater for Collective Liberation. Loom’s piece “Tell Me How You Breathe,” is a new musical about climate catastrophe that brings us to a world where the climate crisis has progressed slightly more than our present day, to play out the interrelationship of institutional power structures and ancestral healing practices. Playful humor, live music, and beautiful storytelling help us lean in to meet these pressing issues.

The story centers on the lungs, as the site of interconnectedness and the organ of grief. “Who gets to breathe freely, fully, with ease,” is a necessary question for our time, right at the intersection of eco-activism, social justice, and public health. With the nourishment of participatory ceremony and song, Loom grounds this political conversation in the physical body, to incite the radical act of collectively imagining a more just and beautiful world.

The Old North End Ramble 2023 07/29/2023

The Ramble is a free, annual event, celebrating the creativity and community of Burlington’s Old North End, held on the last Saturday in July.

The Ramble is a grassroots arts festival celebrating the unequivocally creative culture of The Old North End community, where the most racially and economically diverse population of Vermont densely resides with the highest concentration of Burlington’s working artists.

Water Was Blue 07/25/2023

Owen Curtin records the aftermath of flooding in Montpelier, VT.

Miss Vermont Voice: Interview with Rylee Fields, Miss Vermont 2016 07/25/2023

From Miss Vermont:

Yamuna interviews Miss Vermont 2016 Rylee Fields and discusses the Miss Vermont Scholarship Organization, being an educator, and her involvement in her community.

For more information visit: www.missvermont.org

These Green Mountains - Burlington Concert Band 07/23/2023

The Burlington Concert Band performs on summer Sunday evenings at 7 p.m., weather permitting, in the Burlington band shell at Battery Park. This is a clip from their performance of the Vermont State Song.

On the Waterfront: Sculptor David Stoltz 07/19/2023

Host Mariah Riggs interviews sculptor David Stoltz.

For more information visit: www.davidstoltz.com

Nadando Contra la Corriente con Justicia Migrante: Marchando por la Dignidad // March for Dignity 07/07/2023

From Migrant Justice:

Hosts Thelma and Rossy share a report from the recent Milk with Dignity march in Portland, Maine. Plus a teaser for the upcoming annual soccer tournament.

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Applications Now Open for the Spring 2025 Cohort of the Neighborhood Community Media Internship Program

Town Meeting TV is excited to announce that applications are now open for the Spring 2025 cohort of the Neighborhood Community Media Internship program. Join up to 8 other youth to engage in interesting media making projects! This paid media internship opportunity is designed for youth aged 16-20 who are eager to gain professional experience in the audio-visual field and develop a deeper understanding of their local community. The group will meet under the leadership of Town Meeting TV's Travis Washington from the end of January 2025 to the beginning of June 2025, on a schedule agreed upon by the whole cohort. Click here to apply!