Learn to Curl The Equinox Curling Club (ECC) will be holding a three-hour “Learn to Curl” clinic on Wednesday, November 9, from 6:15pm to 9:15 pm. Ages 15 and up are welcome to participate, and the cost is $35. The clinic will take place at Riley Rink in Manchester. See Pg. 2 for details.
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Burr and Burton to present “Little Women” By Linda Ellingsworth The beloved siblings of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” come to life at Burr and Burton Academy’s Riley Center for the Arts at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 through 12, when the students of BBA’s Media and Performing Arts present their latest production. Adapted from the book by Marisha Chamberlain, this staging of “Little Women” focuses on just one year in the lives of the March sisters, said Jim Raposa, the school’s Director of Drama, Dance and Technical Theater courses. “It deals with their individuality; how they were ahead of their time as young women,” he said. In choosing the play, Raposa noted that he wanted to do a show that had “a strong message for women.” The dramatic production features Rachel Peloquin as Jo March, Catherine Leiter as Amy March, Megan Knight as Meg March, and Bailey Ring as Beth March. Other cast members include Rachel Foster as Hannah, Sabrina DeWeerdt as Marmee, Adam Nelson as Mr. Laurence, William Reed Johnson as Mr. Brooke, Ryan Burns as Theodore “Laurie” Laurence, Nichole Klemchuk as Aunt March, and Jeff Walters as Father.
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The Girls of Little Women give presents to Marmee. Featured left to right are Catherine Leiter (kneeling), Bailey Ring, Megan Knight, Sabrina DeWeerdt, and Rachel Peloquin.
Artists Stephen Hannock and Lois Greenfield discuss the creative process
Stephen Hannock. Photo credit Gabriel Amadeus Cooney
Lois Greenfield
Southern Vermont College opens its annual public lecture series on at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, November 10 with a panel presentation entitled “How Artists Find Their Muse,” featuring painter Stephen Hannock and dance photographer Lois Greenfield. The presentation will be moderated by Michael Cassin, Director of the Center for Education in the Visual Arts at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Free and open to the public, the lecture will take place at the Bennington Center for the Arts (BCA). A reception will follow at BCA, where attendees may meet the panelists and view a collection of Hannock artwork on display—a gift to Southern Vermont College from the estate of Irene Hunter. Moderator Cassin said the lecture should offer insight into “how artists create a bal-
ance between conscious decisions…and the spark, the magic, whatever it is that turns interesting into wonderful, good into great, and which turns making things into making art.” Both Hannock and Greenfield will present examples of their work. Williamstown painter Hannock’s atmospheric landscapes have earned him a title as today’s true American luminist. Hannock’s paintings are collected by celebrities such as Sting, Candace Bergen and Tom Brokaw, and are exhibited at museums and galleries around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., Laing Art Gallery in England, Butler Institute of American Art in
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Learn to Curl Clinic November 9 The Equinox Curling Club (ECC) will be holding a threehour “Learn to Curl” clinic on Wednesday, November 9, from 6:15pm to 9:15 pm. Ages 15 and up are welcome to participate, and the cost is $35. The clinic will take place at Riley Rink in Manchester. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Registration forms
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practice, and a game of curling! Clinic participants are welcome to become members of the ECC at a $15 discount, and curl weekly throughout the winter. For further information, please email info@equinoxcurlingclub.org or call Amy Herrmann at 802-379-0843.
Southern Vermont College relaunches Campus Community Dinner Series Southern Vermont College (SVC) is once again conducting its Campus Community Dinner Series (CCDS) – a project that invites SVC students and local families with high school-aged children to experience the benefits of family dinners and engage in thoughtful conversation over meals prepared in their campus dining hall. The project originally launched last spring with four Bennington families and 10 SVC students and ran for one semester with successful results. This
academic year, the project has expanded to six families and 15 SVC students to attend the monthly dinners, and will run in both the fall and spring semesters. “Findings from the pilot project in the spring showed that students who participated felt more connected to the Bennington community, one of the original project goals,” according to project director Charlotte Kelton. Family participants shared that their own dinner conversations and meal
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Federated Church to hold “Eat for Heat” Chili Dinner The Federated Church of East Arlington is planning an “Eat for Heat” Chili Dinner at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12 in Bailey Hall at the church on Ice Pond Road. The menu will include meat and vegetarian chili, cornbread pancakes, salad and dessert. A free will offering will be gathered to assist neighbors in Arlington, Sandgate and Sunderland who find themselves struggling to stay warm this winter. The church is also conducting a food drive to benefit the Arlington Food Shelf. Parishioners and friends are invited to donate non-perishable food items or monetary
gifts by Nov. 11. For more information, call the church office at 375-2548.
Juried Craft Show The Battenkill Valley Aerie 2551 Ladies Auxiliary will host its Sixth Annual Crafts for All Seasons event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Manchester Elementary-Middle School on Memorial Avenue. This is a juried show with a wide range of quality offerings. Proceeds will benefit children’s charities. For more information, callRoby Read at 802-683-4546, or email fritter@comcast.net (include Eagles in the subject line).
ARTISTS Continued from front page Ohio, and Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts. Photographer Greenfield’s unique approach to capturing the human form in motion has redefined the genre and influenced a generation of photographers. Greenfield, a graduate of Brandeis University, has photographed the world’s most wellknown dance companies and talented artists, while maintaining a commercial photography business with clients such as Disney, Pepsi, AT&T, Sony, and Rolex. The author of two books, the best-seller, Breaking Bounds, and Airborne, Greenfield is now working on a performance with Argentinean choreographer/dancer, Dario Vaccaro. This lecture has been made possible with gifts from The Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation and the Hunter estate. The Bennington Center for the Arts is located at 44 Gypsy Lane in Bennington, about 2.5 miles west of Southern
Vermont College. All other lectures in the SVC series, entitled Inspiring History: Shaping the Future, will take place on campus in the Everett Theatre. Upcoming lectures include one on Tuesday, December 6, when author Janet Flammang, Professor and Departmental Chair at Santa Clara University, will deliver a lecture entitled “Table Conversations: Good for You and Good for DemocracyOn February 7, 2012, Glenn M. Andres, Professor, History of Art and Architecture, at Middlebury College, and Tyler Resch, Historian at the Bennington Museum, will offer a presentation titled “The History of Everett Mansion.” The series concludes on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, with the lecture “On Being a Townie: Writing the Memoir” by author Andre Dubus III. Dubus III will speak about his latest work, the memoir Townie. This book will be available for purchase and signing by the author along with his other books: The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog, Bluesman, and The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.
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FRI 11/4 RUTLAND COUNTY The Rutland County Humane Society has a program for stray and feral cats called “Trap-Neuter-Return.” The cats are humanely trapped, vaccinated against rabies, sterilized and returned to their familiar habitats under the lifelong care of volunteers. Information: Jessica at 802-483-9171, or email Jessica@ rchsvt.org. RUTLAND The General Federation of Women’s Clubs of Vermont is accepting reservations for a trip to Boston on Saturday, Dec. 3. Pickups will be in Rutland at 6 a.m., followed by Ludlow, Springfield and Bellows Falls. You’ll have an opportunity to see “The Nutcracker,” to do Christmas shopping, or go sight-seeing. Cost: $70 round-trip bus service, with proceeds benefiting scholarships for women in need due to death of a spouse, divorce, illness, or other cause. Information/reservations: 802-287-9744. HEBRON The 1786 Wilson Homestead in Hebron will offer one-day Open Hearth Cooking Classes from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, 11 and 19. All meals will be cooked in a stone fireplace and bake oven with original or reproduction hearth equipment. Cost: $45; gift certificates available. Information/registration: Sally Brillon at 518-854-3134. MANCHESTER The Manchester and the Mountains Regional Chamber of Commerce will present Alan Newman, founder of The Magic Hat Brewing Co., with a talk on ”Entrepreneurism” and his new book, “High on Business,” at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester. Information/reservations: 802-3626313. MANCHESTER Ralph Meima, Alan Newman, Gwendolyn Hallsmith and Linda Wheatley, noted thinkers on sustainability, economics and business, will speak at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester. Cost: $5 suggested donation. Information/reservations: 802-362-6313, or www.northshire. com. RUTLAND A stage production of the 1939 movie classic, “The Wizard of Oz,” will be presented at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, at the Paramount Theatre on Center Street in Rutland. Tickets start at $54.50. Information/tickets: 802775-0903. GLENS FALLS The Adirondack Stampede Charity Rodeo takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Glens Falls Civic Center. The PRCAsanctioned rodeo features bull riding and six other rodeo events. Tickets are $15 adults, $9 children. Call the Civic Center Box Office at 518-798-0202 or visit www.glensfallscc.com for tickets.
gloves (tools will be provided). Information: Herb Ogden at 2932510.
sert. Information/reservations: 518-854-9200, or www.fortsalemtheater.com.
DANBY A Bake and Tag Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Mt. View Baptist gymnasium in Danby Four Corners. Pies, cakes, breads and more will be offered.
DANBY FOUR CORNERS The Danby-Mt. Tabor Fire Dept. invites everyone to a Blue Jean Ball from 8 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Danby Four Corners Town Hall. Music will be provided by DJ Wild Bill at this BYOB event where there’ll be refreshments, a basket raffle, and 50/50 raffle. Admission: $10. Information: Pat at 293-5375, or Elizabeth at 558-5605.
MANCHESTER The Battenkill Valley Aerie 2551 Ladies Auxiliary will host its Sixth Annual Crafts for All Seasons event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Manchester Elementary-Middle School on Memorial Avenue. This is a juried show with a wide range of quality offerings. Proceeds will benefit children’s charities. Information: Roby Read at 802683-4546, or email fritter@comcast.net (include Eagles in the subject line). MANCHESTER A Crafts for All Seasons event, featuring crafters from Vermont, New York, New Hampshire and Connecticut, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Manchester Elementary-Middle School. And from 10 a.m. through lunchtime the Manchester Eagles Ladies Auxiliary will offer sandwiches, pastries and beverages for sale. Information: Roby Read at 802-683-4546, or email fritter@comcast.net. CAMBRIDGE A Food Pantry Vendor Blender Fundraiser will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Cambridge Central School. In addition to a variety of vendor offerings, this event will include a bake sale, light lunch concession, and children’s activities. Proceeds will benefit the Cambridge Food Pantry where demand has increased since Hurricane Irene. Information/vendor space: Dawn Case at 518-6773959, or email case52@verizon. net. CAMBRIDGE Hubbard Hall Projects will offer Musical Theater Dance Workshops on Saturday, Nov. 5, at Hubbard Hall, 25 E. Main Street in Cambridge. Broadway dancer Rosie Spring will lead a workshop for ages 8 to 12 for advanced beginners from 2 to 3 p.m. at $12, $10 members, and 3:30 to 5 p.m. for age 13 through adult for intermediate dancers at $18, $15 members. Information/ registration: 518-677-2495, or www.hubbardhall.org. PAWLET The Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Supper Club invites everyone to a Roast Pork Dinner at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Pawlet Community Church. Takeouts may be ordered on Nov. 5 at 802-325-3022. Cost: $10 adults; $6 ages 6 to 12; free 5 and younger. Information: Doreen Mach at 325-3428, or Judy Coolidge at 325-3073.
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BENNINGTON The film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” will be screened at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, in the Tishman Lecture Hall at Bennington College. Free and open to all.
RUTLAND The Killington Section of the Green Mountain Club will hold a Work Party on Saturday, Nov. 5 (rain date Nov. 6). Meet at 9 a.m. at Main Street Park, near the east end of the fire station off Center Street in Rutland City. Help put the trails to bed for the winter, wear sturdy shoes and bring work
SALEM Broadway’s Bill Carmichael, with Fred Barnes on piano, will present “Singing the Standards: Songs from the Great American Songbook” at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at The Cabaret at Fort Salem Theater, 11 E. Broadway in Salem. Cost: $20, including $5 for coffee and des-
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TUE 11/8 HEBRON The Hebron Volunteer Fire Company will host an Election Night Roast Beef Dinner on Tuesday, Nov. 8 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the Dining Hall of Fire House #1 in West Hebron. Tickets are $10 per person. All proceeds help support the fire company. MANCHESTER The Vermont Student Assistance Corp. and Burr and Burton Academy will host a “Paying for College” presentation from 7 to about 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at the Riley Center for the Arts in Manchester. Free and open to all and audience questions will be taken. Information: Lynne Welsh at 548-8242, or email lwelsh@burrburton.org. BENNINGTON Artist Elizabeth Demaray, an associate professor of art at Rutgers University, will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, in the Tishman Lecture Hall at Bennington College. Elizabeth will discuss her projects, including her current lichen culturing on the sides of skyscrapers in New York City. Free and open to all.
WED 11/9 MANCHESTER The Equinox Curling Club will hold a Learn to Curl Clinic from 6:15 to 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Riley Rink in Manchester. For age 15 and older, this clinic will include basic rules, technique, etiquette and more. Cost: $35. Clinic participants may join this club at a $15 discount. Information: Amy Hermann at 802379-0843, or email info@equinoxcurlingclub.org. MANCHESTER Burr and Burton Academy’s Media and Performing Arts Production Dept. will stage “Little Women” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Nov. 9 to 12, at the Riley Center for the Arts in Manchester. Cost: $12; $7 for Burr and Burton students, faculty and staff, and age 17 and younger. Tickets: www.burrburton. tix.com, or the box office that will open at 5:30 p.m. before each show. Information: 802-549-8224.
THU 11/10 CAMBRIDGE The Hubbard Hall Theater Company will present an evening of one-act plays directed by John Hadden, “Thrills, Spills & Lonely Hearts,” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10 (pay what you will), at Hubbard Hall, 25 E. Main Street in Cambridge. Additional performances will be 8 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays from Nov. 11 through Dec. 3, and 2 p.m. Sundays from Nov. 13 through Dec. 4. Cost: $25; $22 members; $15 students. Info/ tickets: 518-677-2495, or www.hubbardhall.org.
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FRI 11/11 WEST HEBRON The West Hebron United Presbyterian Church on Route 30 invites everyone to its annual Winter Rummage Sale from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, and 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, the 12th. Great prices on a wide range of items, along with hot chili, corn chowder and homemade breads, will be offered. Information: 854-3329.
SAT 11/12 WELLS St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at the green in Wells will
hold its monthly Rummage Sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12. A wide range of items will be offered at this event that is held on the second Saturday each month, with few exceptions. Information: Charity Downs at 802645-0071.
and “Perestroika,” will be staged on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 12 and 13 and 19 and 20, in the Lester Martin Theater at Bennington College. Angels will be performed at 2 p.m. and Perestroika at 7:30 p.m. each of the days. Information/ tickets: 802-440-4572.
WELLS Adoniram Chapter 22, Order of the Eastern Star, will host a Basket Party on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Modern Woodmen of America Hall off Route 30 in Wells. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m., drawings will start after lunch, and everyone will be welcome. Admission: $7, including light lunch and 10 tickets; $1 for 10 additional tickets. Information: Christine Katz at 362-0041, or Maryann Fellows at 645-0131.
PAWLET The Pawlet Volunteer Fire Dept. invites everyone to its 43rd Annual Wild Game and Chicken Pie Supper at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Pawlet Firehouse on Route 133, just north of Route 30. Bear and venison roast, venison stew, moose meatballs, chicken pie, salads and more will be served. Cost: $12 adults; $6 age 11 and younger.
BENNINGTON A two-part Reagan-era play, “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches”
EAST ARLINGTON The Federated Church of East Arlington on Ice Pond Road invites everyone to an Eat-for-Heat Chili Dinner at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, in the church’s
Bailey Hall. Meat and vegetarian chili, cornbread pancakes and more will be served. Cost: Free-will offering to assist those in need of heating assistance in Arlington, Sandgate and Sunderland. Information: 375-2548. SALEM Singer/comedienne Nancy Timpanaro-Hogan will perform in “Accentuate the Positive, Baby: Songs I Love to Sing” at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, at The Cabaret at Fort Salem Theater, 11 E. Broadway in Salem. Cost: $20, including $5 for coffee and dessert. Reservations are encouraged at 518-854-9200, or www.fortsalemtheater.com.
SUN 11/13 MANCHESTER I s ra e l Congregation of Manchester at 6025 Main Street, Route 7A, will
hold a Crafts and Art Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13. Offered will be items suitable for Christmas and Chanukah gift giving for all ages, including beaded jewelry, fabric dolls, art glass, hand-turned wood ware, photography, and much more. Information: Lynne Abcug at 802-297-1946, or Karen at 802-362-4578.
SAT 11/19 MANCHESTER The Manchester and the Mountains Regional Chamber of Commerce will present Gwendolyn Hallsmith, founder and director of Global Community Initiatives and author of “The Key to Sustainable Cities,” at 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester. Information/reservations: 802-3626313.
This week at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT A New York Times bestseller, a children’s author and a noted entrepreneur will all appear at events at Northshire Bookstore this week. At 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, young adult author Linda Urban presents her new novel “Hound Dog True,” a story about small acts of courage by a fifth grade girl. Urban’s previous novel was the critically acclaimed “A Crooked Kind of Perfect.” “Serial entrepreneur” Alan Newman, founder of three iconic Vermont businesses – Gardener’s Supply Company, Seventh Generation and Magic Hat Brewing Company – will discuss “Conquering the Fear of the Unknown” at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4. Newman contends that since entrepreneurs are always dealing with situations for which they have no training and expertise, it’s critical to be able to conquer the fear
of the unknown to be a success. This event is part of Northshire’s “Steps Toward Sustainability” series. A $5.00 donation is suggested. New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester will discuss his new book “Atlantic,” the monumental and fascinating history of one of the world’s great oceans, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5. Winchester structures the panoramic story of the Atlantic as a biography, chronicling its remarkable story from geological birth to its present mid-life, to its wellpredicted end story. Included are man’s first encounters with the ocean and the Age of Exploration. Simon Winchester is the author of the bestselling books “The Professor and the Madman” and “Krakatoa.” For more information, contact the bookstore at (802) 362-2200 or visit www.northshire.com.
Children’s After School Classes starting at SVAC Are you looking for something creative for your children to do after school as the weather gets colder? Beginning the week of November 8th, the Southern Vermont Arts Center (SVAC) will offer a second session of after school classes in dance, theater, and art. Specific classes include printmaking, cartooning, improvisation, dance, art around the world, and fun with faces. Classes run for five to six weekly sessions with discounts given to SVAC members and for siblings taking classes on the same days. Payment plans and need-based scholarships are available. To receive an after-school class brochure or to register, visit our website at www.svac. org/kids-family or contact our Outreach Coordinator, Stacy Gates, at (802) 362-1405 extension 32. SVAC is located off West Road at 930 SVA drive. Hours of operation are TuesdaySaturday 10:00 am-5:00 pm and Sunday 12:00-5:00 pm (closed Monday).
Linda Urban. Photo credit Julio Thompson.
WOMEN Continued from front page Understudies are Anjelica Carroll, Kate Walla, Nichole Klemchuck, Morgan French and Julian Woodrow. Talon Bins is production stage manager, and Kate Turner serves as assistant production stage manager. Approximately 30 students are working on the production, said Raposa. “It’s a good crew of kids; they’re very committed,” he commented. The students have been in rehearsals since the beginning of September, working three hours each day for four days a week on the project. “I try to instill in them what
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it would be like to be dropped into a professional experience,” he explained. “We teach them how they can use these skills in their lives.” Raposa himself is a former Broadway performer whose resume includes a role in the show “Cats.” The student production has benefited from community support as well. Costumes were donated by the Dorset Theater. “That was really fortunate for us,” said Raposa. The Manchester Lions Club donated funds to help underwrite the show. In addition, a group of parent volunteers sold ads and helped produce a professionally done 40-page program “that’s on a par with Broadway,” he said. “Little Women” is an extra-
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curricular production of the school’s theater department. Other upcoming extra-curricular shows include a Winter OneAct Festival and a Spring Musical. Curricular productions this year will feature a Broadway Workshop in the Fall and a larger Spring Showcase with the music department. The theater program also offers a coffeehouse type performance entitled “Calliope Café.” Tickets for “Little Women” are $12 general admission and $7 for BBA students, faculty, staff and children under 18. Tickets can be purchased online at burrburton.tix.com or at the box office one hour before show time. For information, call (802) 549-8224.
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