Arts/ Music

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Marionettes En Vitrine! 02/07/2022

Vital Action - Radically Illuminative Public Art *
This film documents the February 7 & 8 Unveiling Walkabout Tour of Montreal's Outremont upscale & utilitarian shops' windows in a very large-scale Bread and Puppet win: Marionettes en Vitrines! This is Bread and Puppet in collaboration with Casteliers.ca. Peter's performance of the Furious Art / L'Art Enragé Fiddle Rant underscores the Photojourney/ Parcours on foot in winter streets of Montreal tour of some 30 vitrines filled with archival photos, ironically-placed puppets, bedsheets, prints with informed performance/exhibition provenance by co-curators Alexis Smith and Pavla Mano employing photography by some 17 longtime B&P and Castiliers.ca artists and some 570 pieces spanning more than a half-century of Peter Schumann's & collaborators' creation.

The 17th Casteliers Festival of radical puppetry will be held March 2 through March 6, 2022 in Montreal. Festival performance schedule can be accessed at festival.casteliers.ca

The Castelier production team offered Schumann the extraordinary opportunity to merge activist art with daily, ordinary life in a cosmopolitan & internationalist multi-cultural city. His "EXCEPTIONALLY WONDROUSLY ORDINARY" written in blue letters on a Bedsheet surmounted by a headless Suit with dangling necktie is a deeply chilling moment of perhaps the major vitrine staged in the city. Huge windows of expressionist/archetypal figures meet the Circus zebra & comic chimera puppet as they face into a major thoroughfare with heavy car and 18-wheeler traffic.

* For more information: breadandpuppet.org and festival.casteliers.ca
-- JL

African Variety Show: Congolese Rumba 01/27/2022

Mr. Alban Audrey Malanda, nicknamed Butalakwazebi Jack Bauer, is from Congo Brazzaville. He moved in December of 2017 to the US with the Diversity Visa Lottery Program. He is a student at CCV studying criminal justice, is a musician artist, and works at Howard Center. He is a founder and president of the American Dream Association (a non-profit organization) which helps student youths learn American English. He likes to dress well; he likes fashion because in Congolese culture a musician artist must dress very well.

Congolese Rumba is a popular genre of dance music that originated in the Congo Bassin during the 1940s, deriving from cuban son. The style gained popularity throughout Africa during the 1960s and 1970s.

Style: Son Cubano Bakongo traditional music.

Origins: Congolese dance music.

Cultural origins: Late 1930s in the Congo in Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

In December 2021, Congolese Rumba was added to the UNESCO list intangible cultural heritage.

Typical instruments: Guitar (esp fingerstyle), Bass (esp acoustic), drums, and vocals.

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Furious Art/ L' Art Enragé Fiddle Rant 01/26/2022

Schumann's Furious Art Fiddle Rant was created on January 26, 2022 in his studio for the 17th Festival de Casteliers Unveiling of Marionettes en Vitrines!, a Walkabout exhibition in over 30 shop windows in Montreal's Outremont featuring the works of Peter Schumann and the Bread and Puppet Theater. This exhibit, curated by Alexis Smith and Castelier's Pavla Mano, is the largest historical retrospective of B&P masks, calendars, prints, puppets, publications and paintings ever shown. The walkabout exhibit runs from February 7th to March 6th, 2022. This film features subtitles in French by Genevieve Yeullaz added by Denise Babin at Festival de Casteliers.
This 17th Casteliers Festival features performances by a number of international puppeteers, whose work is briefly described at the Casteliers website below. Great Small Works is one of the featured performances in March. Check the website for Info on performance schedules.
For documentation of full-length & Sideshow Bread and Puppet performances and Virtual Tours of Peter Schumann's prodigious output from 2012 through the present please check out Jerome Lipani - Youtube.
For more information: breadandpuppet.org and festival.castelliers.ca

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

In the World of Winooski: Winooski's Centennial Celebration 01/19/2022

Amy Lafayette, of the Winooski Centennial Committee, previews Winooski's Centennial Celebration.

Northgate TV: Guided Meditation: The Morning Sun - Blessing, Loving, and Accepting 01/13/2022

"This meditation guides you into the state of relaxation and reminds us that we all are blessed, loved, and accepted through images of the morning sun."

Script, Music, and Voice by Masa Kayoi (masa@delightinlifevt.com)

Open Exchange Vermont: EP 15 - Kevin Nathaniel - NYC Musician and Freedom Activist 01/01/2022

Provided by BCTV:

Mark Borax does an inspirational interview with Kevin Nathaniel who plays mbira and has been a musical force in NYC for decades with his groups Spirit Ensemble and AfricaForest Dance.

This program was downloaded from the Vermont Media Exchange and can be viewed on the website of the original public access station.

For a complete list of Vermont’s public access stations, please visit the Vermont Access Network website at vermontaccess.net/amo.

Artful Word: New Year's Eve Highlights Burlington - Jennifer Hartswick 12/31/2021

A video by James Gero. James records the city of Burlington's New Year's Eve Highlight concert with Jennifer Hartswick.

Artful Word: NYE Highlights - Parade 12/31/2021

Videographer James Gero covers New Year's Eve Highlight's Celebration parade on Burlington's Church street.

Artful Word: NYE Highlights - Champ Burning and Fire Dancing 12/31/2021

Videographer James Gero covers New Year's Eve highlights on the Burlington waterfront including a fire dance performance with an artistic statement of Champ burning.

Service Rendered: Arts So Wonderful - Holiday Music Showcase 12/15/2021

Arts So Wonderful is an artist-run non-profit organization geared toward giving youth a creative space. The location is available for art showcasing, events, and more.

For more information contact Director Bruce Wilson at artssowonderful2@gmail.com.

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