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Goodbye for Now ...

Recently, I have decided to suspend publication of Entertainment Times. My reasons for doing so are personal and private. This edition of Entertainment Times will be the last one - at least for the time being.

Over the last nine plus years, Entertainment Times has proved that there is a market for the arts in the community by doing something no other publication in the area has done: to provide an exclusive venue for entertainment of all kinds - whether it’s a school play by local high school students or a first-rate band at the Colonial Theatre.

When the paper first started, we had this mandate: never to hear the words “There’s nothing to do around here”. Well, I haven't heard that phrase in quite some time.

Whether Entertainment Times will be back at a future date I can't tell you yet. I only know that I have to turn my attention elsewhere for the time being and that I would like to thank everyone involved - from my parents, my sister, to Mary Reed, our Associate Publisher who is now off on her own ventures, to all the writers who have contributed wonderful stories for you, our advertisers, to the press crews at Eagle Publications, and especially to you, the readers who proved we were right. Thank you all for your support and remember that a strong arts community makes a strong economic community. You can’t have one without the other.

Regards,

Maureen McHugh

Editor and Publisher

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EVIE LOVETT "THEIR WORLD"

FLAT Street Center For Photography is pleased to announce the opening of a new show on Friday September 6th. Evie Lovett’s “THEIR WORLD” is as much about the artist as the subject matter. “In these photographs lies the intimate struggle for me to be both mother and photographer. A way I’ve found to meld those two parts of myself is to take photos of my children and their friends. I rarely set up a photograph, although sometimes my daughter Julia will pose automatically when I look through the lens. I wait for an opening, then I try to capture something that I find hard to put into words—some fleeting raw essence of childhood, the transparency of children’s emotions, a glimpse into their magical and intense world.”

“THEIR WORLD” may be seen through Sept. 28 with an opening reception for the Artist on Friday September 6th from 5-8 p.m. as part of Gallery Walk. A mid-week Gallery Talk will be held on Wednesday, September 18th from 6-7 p.m. offering the public a chance to hear the Artist discuss her work.

FLAT Street Center for Photography, 49 Flat Street, Brattleboro, VT is open Wednesdays and Thurs., 4-7 p.m.; Fri., 4-8 p.m.; Sat., noon- 4 p.m. and also by appointment. For more information call FSCP at (802) 251-6051 or visit us on the web at http://www.flatstreetphoto.org.

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WHERE’S THE BEEF?

HANNAH GRIMES ADDS BUFFALO ALTERNATIVE

Gourmet, 100% Natural Buffalo Meat Now Available At NH’s

Most Unique Marketplace; Offers Customers Delicious and Nutritious,

Low-Cholesterol Beef Substitute!

HANNAH Grimes Marketplace, a thriving Keene, NH-based storefront offering customers a wide range of distinctive crafts and foods from local artisans, recently announced the addition of Yankee Farmer's Market Buffalo meats.

YANKEE Farmer, located in Warner, NH and run by Keira and Scott Farmer, offers customers 100% all-natural Buffalo meats as an alternative to beef. A nutritious and heart healthy substitute, their buffalo meat is USDA Inspected, conveniently packaged in 1 to 2 lb increments and offered in a variety of cuts including burgers, roasts, steaks, ribs, jerky and sausage.

MARY Ann Kristiansen, Executive Director says, “Yankee Farmer is a great addition to our membership. Not only does it give Hannah Grimes the opportunity to provide a market and marketing assistance to local farmers, but Yankee Farmer itself has spawned 12 other buffalo farms in the state to help them keep pace with their growing market.”

YANKEE Farmer's buffalos are raised with the highest standards, on acres of pastureland and fed natural grasses. As a result, Yankee's buffalo meat is hormone-free, antibiotic-free and non-allergenic; offering customers a delicious taste similar to prime cut beef with higher nutritional and health benefits.

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FLYING UNDER RADAR ANNOUNCES FALL 2002 LINEUP

(l-r) The Therapy Sisters and Pamela Means

SINCE its inception in 1999, Flying Under Radar has brought well over a hundred top performers from the contemporary acoustic scene to Bellows Falls, Vermont. And this fall's lineup is the most auspicious yet, with acts ranging from the highly respected Canadian chanteuse Lynn Miles to the lampooning stage-show humor of The Therapy Sisters; from acoustic punker Pamela Means to political folk-rapper Gooselove; from Vermont native Michael Veitch to towering legend of Texas songwriting Eric Taylor. And capping it

all off is the sole Vermont appearance of lanky Iowa bard Greg Brown on Friday, Nov. 15. Brown was for years a staple on A Prairie Home Companion, and is easily one of the top acoustic performers in the world today.

"THE reason we've been successful," says Charlie Hunter, organizer of the series, "is that we're blessed with a very loyal, very informed customer base. We bring them great acts, some of the best in the country, and we try to treat everyone - musician, customer and those we do business with - well. So far, it's working."

(l-r) Jeffrey Foucault and Rachel Bissex

"IT’S amazing the quality of music Flying Under Radar brings to town," says Bruce Becker of the Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. "And not just once or twice a year, but week after week."

BELLOWS Falls, Vermont continues its reputation as a great town for live entertainment with this fall's Flying Under Radar lineup. Kicking off with Barre native Lui Collins on September 19 ("she was our very first performer at Thursdays at Oona's," notes owner Oona Madden), the series introduces fast-rising newcomers Kerri Powers and Jeffrey Foucault on September 26. "These are two new acts that people may not know now," explains Hunter. "But they will. Kerri blew away the crowd when she opened at Oona's last winter.

And Jeff has been out on the road for the last six months, and his live show has generated an enormous buzz, especially among promoters, who all seem to want him back."

(l-r) Gooselove and Michael Veitch

"THE last time Gooselove played Oona's, he was climbing on the tables," opines Thursday at Oona's host Ezra Veitch, "He was great." Bringing fellow folk-rapper Joe Bridge with him along with similarly powerful yet funny performer Peter Seigel as special guest, Gooselove takes the stage (and the tables) on October 3. October 10 sees the debut of the Therapy Sisters, a duo from Texas, whose stage show is reknown for riotous humor. Their paean to Civil Unions, "Tying The Knot In Vermont," has become a signature piece

of late. Lynn Miles, who "makes being forlorn sound like a state of grace" according to the New York Times, comes to Oona's on October 17. "It is a real coup to get Lynn," says Hunter. "She is really a very big deal in terms of songwriting and singing. I don't think she's ever written a cheerful song, but she can rip your heart out with her sad ones." October 24 brings Burlington resident Rachel Bissex and Tom Prasada-Rao. Bissex is a staple of the Vermont songwriting scene, while Prasada-Rao is from the mid-Atlantic states. Born in Ethiopia of Indian parents, and educated in the U.S., England and India, Prasada-Rao blends musical influences of folk, classical, and world music with his voice, acoustic guitar, and finely crafted songs that combine pop melodies with an R&B beat. On Halloween, October 31, Oona's welcomes back Stephen Kellogg, whose mellow, intense tunefulness reminds many of a young James Taylor. Opening for Kellogg is Canadian duo Martha's Trouble.

(l-r) Nanci Griffith and Louise Taylor

NOVEMBER starts off with a bang - Eric Taylor on November 7. Nanci Griffith states, "if you miss a chance to hear Eric Taylor, you miss a chance to hear a man I consider the William Faulkner of songwriting... and you will miss the rare opportunity to watch the hands of one of America's most unusual guitarists." Taylor has written songs for Griffith, Lyle Lovett and others, and his three 1990's albums are classics of the genre. Supporting Taylor is LA's Claudia Russell, WUMB Boston's 2001 "New Artist of the Year." November 14 sees the return of Pamela Means, the scrappy, punkish poetic songstress from Milwaukee by way of Boston, extensively covered in the recent New York Times Magazine piece, "Queer as Folk." There will be no shows for the remainder of the month, as the restaurant closes for a break.

DECEMBER brings Brattleboro’s Louise Taylor on the 5th, Western Massachusetts rising star Mark Erelli -last seen in Bellows Falls opening for Fred Eaglesmith this summer- on the 12th and Bellows Falls' own Michael Veitch on December 19th. "It's sort of like Old Home Month," muses Hunter. "These are people from the region who have really gone out and made a name for themselves on the national level. We're glad to have them back for a homecoming."

SHOWS at Oona's begin every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. and go until 10:15-10:30 p.m. Admission is generally $10, or $7 if an entree is also ordered, although certain shows are $12 and $10 respectively. Dining prior to the show is a favorite, and reservations are recommended at 802-463-9830. Oona's is located at 15 Rockingham Street in Bellows Falls.

(l-r) Greg Brown and Garnet Rogers

THE larger Greg Brown concert will be held at the Bellows Falls Union High School Auditorium on Friday, Nov. 15. "It sounds like bleachers on the sidelines of the basketball court," laughs Hunter, "but it's actually a

beautiful 500-seat theatre, with raked, padded seats and great sight lines." Tickets are going fast for the show, which also sports Canadian legend Garnet Rogers as special guest. Tickets are available in Vermont at Village Square Books in Bellows Falls, The Dog Museum (the former Meridians Music) in Brattleboro, Heartsone Books in Putney, Morning Star Cafe in Springfield, Toadstool Books in Keene, NH and the Northampton (MA) Box Office. To charge by phone, call 1-800-THE-TICK or 413-586-8686.

FLYING Under Radar, in conjunction with Cota and Cota Fuels and local musicians Ezra Veitch and Joe Stacey, also helps spread the word about two Bellows Falls Open Mics - the informal (and cover-charge-free) Acoustic Feedback Open Mic, every Tuesday at PK’s Pub and The Second Sunday Open Mic, held once a month (guess when?) at the Womens' Club Theatre beneath the New Falls Cinema on the Square in Bellows Falls. For further information about either open mic, contact Ezra Veitch at 802-463-3319.

AFTER three years, how does Hunter feel about what is perceived as the "happening" Bellows Falls music scene? "It's a great deal of fun," he says, but he couldn't do it without great support from the artists and the

audience. And also from Ezra Veitch, who actually does much of the legwork of running the series. "Ezra sets up and tears down the sound system, hosts the evening, collects the money," says Hunter. "It's unimaginable trying to do it without him. Thursdays at Oona's doesn't make any money - all the proceeds pretty much go to the artists, and the ongoing expenses suck up whatever's left over. But," says Hunter, "We've spawned two other series in Vermont, one on Tuesdays in Middletown Springs and one on Wednesdays in Ludlow. Because of what we've done in Bellows Falls, there's now a decent little circuit for touring acts to play. When I was growing up here in the 1970's, there was nothing like that. That alone makes it feel pretty rewarding."

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Belonging Somewhere: The Work of Meridel Rubenstein

MULTI-MEDIA artist Meridel Rubenstein will speak about her work at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center at 8:00 P.M. on Friday, October 4. Admission is $4; BMAC members, seniors, students $3. An installation of Rubenstein's work is part of the Museum's current exhibit Boats & Vessels, on view through December 15.

RUBENSTEIN will show slides and talk about her work that combines such disparate materials as palladium prints, video imagery, digital still imagery, and sculptural forms. Originally trained as a photographer, she has built a body of work that mixes mediums and metaphors. Her complex narrative photoworks derive from a sense of place, from personal and collective history, and from myth.

HER installation at Brattleboro Museum, Trees at Sea, 2001, combines photography and sculpture to explore issues of history, myth, war, displacement, and home. Trees at Sea incorporates century-old dugout boats and laminated sandblasted-glass portraits of Vietnamese and Americans whose lives have been irrevocably changed by the experience of war. They are surrounded by the images of thousands-year-old trees in the U.S. and Vietnam, printed on tree bark paper using multihued vegetable inks. Rubenstein creates a relationship between boats and the ancient trees from which they're hewn. These diminutive, timeworn vessels relate to the Buddhist understanding of a boat as a vehicle of transition.

MERIDEL Rubenstein maintains studios in New Mexico and in Guilford, Vermont. An active arts educator, workshop leader and lecturer, she started the photography program at the College of Santa Fe, headed the photography department at San Francisco State University, and started the first creative photography program for Native American artists at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Presently she is the Harnish Visiting Artist at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. She has received national recognition for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollack/Krasner Foundation, and the Bunting Institute at Harvard/Radcliffe. She has exhibited regularly in the U.S. and in Europe and her work is in public collections in museums across the country. She has been included in many books and articles, the most recent published by Santa Fe Arena Editions in 2002, Photographs, Writers, and the American Scene-Visions of Passage.

THE Brattleboro Museum & Art Center's mission is to present the art of our time in a way that entertains, educates, and enlightens audiences of all ages. The guiding theme for 2002, the Museum's 30th anniversary, is Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. The four elements are explored literally, metaphorically, and conceptually throughout the season in exhibitions and public programs. Operating support for the Brattleboro Museum this year is provided in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency. The 2002 season is sponsored in part by the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation.

LOCATED in Union Station at the intersection of Main Street and Route 142 in downtown Brattleboro, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is open Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. and is wheelchair accessible. Parking is available in front of the Museum; additional evening and weekend parking is available at the Marlboro College Technology Center next to the Museum, on Vernon Road. Admission to the Museum is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors and students, and free for members and children 12 and under. For more information, please call the Museum at (802) 257-0124 or visit http://www.brattleboromuseum.org on the Web.

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CLAREMONT FALL FESTIVAL on SAT., OCT. 5

WHAT began five years ago as a merger of the Fiske Free Library's long running Book and Bake Sale and the Parks and Recreation Department's first ever Chili Cook-Off, has expanded to the Claremont Fall Festival, which will be held this year on Saturday, October 5. Title sponsors of this year's event are select Claremont-Newport new car dealers, who are also sponsoring a drawing for a Mt. Sunapee Resort Ski Weekend for Two.

INCLUDED in the Fall Festival are a 5K Road Race, a Story Fest and an Apple Pie Contest. Added attractions this year are a Chocolate Chip Cookie Contest sponsored by the staff and Friends of the Fiske Free Library and guided walking tours of the downtown area by the Claremont Historical Society. There will also be face painting, a "bounce house" and other activities for children, and food booths sponsored by non-profit organizations.

MUSIC:

Between 9 and 10 a.m. Lois & Andy Buchan, Charlestown, will be fifing & drumming as roving musicians, calling attention to Festival activities. Between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., the bandstand on Broad Street Park will be alive with the music of The Flames, sponsored by the Greater Claremont Chamber of Commerce. The Sugar River String Band will perform on the library lawn at 2:30 p.m., followed by Unity Circle Percussion at 3:30 p.m.

ROAD RACE:

Starting time for the Chili Cook Off 5K Road Race is 9 am at Broad Street Park. Registration before October 1 is $12, which entitles the runner to a complimentary ticket to the Chili Cook-Off and an official Chili Cook-Off T-shirt. After October 1, the registration fee is $15. Registration on the day of the race is from 7:30 a.m. until 8:45 a.m.

CHILI COOK-OFF:

Chili cooks must preregister by Friday September 27 to be listed on the ballot for the Chili Cook-Off. Each participant will bring 8 gallons of their best chili to compete for prizes. There is no entry fee for chili cooks. The public is invited to join in the tasting between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at a cost of $5 per adult and $3 per child, which entitles one to sample the entries and vote for the winners.

APPLE PIE CONTEST:

Entries for the Apple Pie Contest must be brought to Broad Street Park by 11:00 a.m. on the day of the Festival. Bakers need to bring two pies, one for the judging and one to be auctioned. Proceeds from the auction will help offset the costs of the Fall Festival.

BOOK & BAKE SALE:

The Fiske Free Library's Book and Bake Sale begins at 9 a.m. at the Claremont Conference Center, which is located between the Fire Station and the Library on Broad Street. Hundreds of books, videos and CDs will be on sale inside the building, while baked goods will be sold under a tent on the front lawn.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE CONTEST:

The Chocolate Chip Cookie Contest, dubbed "Chips for Chips," will take place under the bake sale tent. Bakers are invited to bring two dozen of their very best cookies by 10:30 a.m. for the 11 a.m. judging. Ribbons and cookbooks will be awarded to 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners in the categories of Best, Largest and Most-chips-in-a-cookie. There is a $5 entry fee per person, $15 per group. Contestants are asked to enter two dozen cookies: one dozen to be sold at the Book & Bake Sale and one dozen to be tasted and

judged.

There will be a special Children's Cookie Contest, with a fifty-cent entry fee, for children 12 and under. Children should enter one dozen chocolate chip cookies for judging. All entries will receive a prize and an award will be given to the best overall cookie entry. These contests are sponsored by the Staff and Friends of the Fiske Free Library to raise money for the library's continuing program of upgrading and adding new computer services (hence the slogan pairing chocolate chips with computer chips!)

STORY FEST:

The Story Fest, also sponsored by the Friends of the Fiske Free Library, will take place in the Sarah Gilmore Room of the library, with storytellers scheduled hourly between 10:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. the tellers are Cynthia Payne-Meyer, Putney, VT; Nelson LeMay, Manchester, NH; Tom Burack, Hopkinton, NH; and Debra Ballou, Dover, NH.

WALKING TOURS:

The Claremont Historical Society will offer guided walking tours of the downtown area throughout the Festival. Departure times are 10 a.m., noon, and 2 p.m. from in front of the City Hall clock tower. Tours will focus on the history of the buildings on Tremont Square, Broad Street and Pleasant Street.

DRAWING FOR A SKI WEEKEND AT MT. SUNAPEE:

The Claremont-Newport new car dealers who are serving as Title sponsors of the Claremont Fall Festival are AutoServ of Newport, Dartmouth Motors, Dean Hill Motors, Howe Motors, Kia of Claremont, Lambert Auto Sales, and Subaru of Claremont. They are also sponsoring a drawing for a ski weekend at Mt. Sunapee Ski Resort, which includes lift tickets for two for two days of skiing and lodging at the Best Western in Newbury. Visit these dealers to enter your name in the drawing.

FOR information on the Fall Festival events, contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 603-542-7019 or the Fiske Free Library at 603-542-7017.

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Workshop for Educators and other Youth Advocates:

Raising children and teens optimally in a world of Screens

ON Tuesday, October 8th, 1-4 p.m. at the Women's Club in Bellows Falls, Gloria DeGaetano, M.Ed, , will be presenting a free workshop for educators K-12, youth advocates, social service workers, counselors, child care providers and after-school program providers. Ms. DeGaetano invites participants to consider the special challenges of meeting young people's cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual needs in a media culture. The basic challenge of educating and raising children and youth well in a media age is the instilling of an “immunization system” so that they that can control screen use and creatively address its deficits. That immunization system is media literacy.

IN this workshop, participants examine the impact of the 4-5 hours daily our kids spend in front of small screens. How does all this time in passive viewing affect brain capacities at various stages of development from birth through age 18? Children's concept of themselves as learners? Their intrinsic motivation, curiosity, and creativity? Topics covered include the effects of media violence and stimulus addiction on classroom learning; countering screen sexual stereotypes to empower authenticity in girls and boys; teaching literacy skills; motivating reading in a visual world; and pro-active media literacy activities for school and home.

GLORIA DeGaetano is a national presenter and founder of the Parent Coaching Institute. She has authored several books including Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy and Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill. She has a rich background of experiences as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, school district administrator, and university instructor.

THIS event is sponsored by Know Media, Communities Against Tobacco and Tobacco Opposition Windham Northeast.

SPECIAL thanks to Oona's restaurant and the Bellows Falls Women's Club for their support.

REGISTRATION is required. Snacks provided. Please contact Leigh Marthe at 463-9927 for more information or to register.

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Key Into Latin Jazz in Brattleboro

Manteca

LATIN jazz, with its infectious rhythms and sophisticated harmonies, comes to Brattleboro for a triple-header beginning Fri., Sept. 13. Entitled Key Into Latin Jazz, this is the second series of jazz concerts presented by the partnership of KeyBank, Building A Better Brattleboro and the Vermont Jazz Center. “Together we made magic in the first Key Into Jazz series,” said Nelle Hanig, Executive Director of Building A Better Brattleboro, “so we decided to join hands and cast another spell over downtown, this time with Latin jazz.”

THE River Garden in downtown Brattleboro will transform itself into a jazz club for three free Friday night concerts on Sept. 13, Oct. 11 and Nov. 8, the second Friday of each month. The groups, Manteca, Arturo O’Farrill Trio and Creaci-n, hail from New Hampshire, New York City and Springfield, MA, respectively.

On Sept. 13 the Key Into Latin Jazz series will kick off with Manteca, an eight- piece band that plays classic and contemporary salsa music, inspired by Eddie Palmieri. The band is led by valve trombonist Don Glasgo and will feature vocalist Carlos Ocasio.

ON Oct. 11, the Arturo O’Farrill Trio will perform Afro-Cuban jazz. O’Farrill, the band’s leader is now the director of the Latin jazz program of Jazz at Lincoln Center and is the son of legendary Cuban composer/bandleader Chico O’Farrill. He has played with Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie and Carla Bley, among many others. In 1987 he became musical director for Harry Belafonte, then took over the direction of his father’s ensemble, the Chico O’Farrill Latin Jazz Orchestra that played every Mon. evening at the Blue Note in New York City.

THE trio’s bassist Andy Gonzalez is considered one of the world’s premier Latin jazz bassists. Drummer Steve Johns is known in the southern Vermont area as a faculty member of the Vermont Jazz Center Summer Workshop, but is better known in the jazz world for his work with Sonny Fortune, Billy Taylor, the Mingus Big Band and others.

ALTHOUGH the Key Into Latin Jazz posters going up throughout the region note that Mambo Combo performs on Nov. 8, Creaci-n will instead be the featured band. This group, hailing from the deep and strong Latin community of Springfield, is led by pianist Joe Velez and features two Latin percussionists. They have toured throughout New England performing jazz standards and clave-based music such as the Cha Cha and Danzon. They also perform Puerto Rican-based music such as Merengue, Bomba and Plena as well as the Colombian Cumbia.

“LATIN Jazz mixes the rhythms of Latin America with the harmonies and improvisational styles that were developed during the evolution of jazz,” explains Eugene Uman, Executive Director of the Vermont Jazz Center. “Latin American music and jazz both share a fundamental common origin — ties to an African rhythmic and melodic sensibility.” He goes on to say that “the Latin jazz that we are most familiar with here in the United States is influenced most strongly by the combination of jazz with musical forms from Cuba, Puerto Rico and Brazil.”

THE groups that will be performing at the River Garden for Key Into Latin Jazz are influenced by the Afro-Caribbean style. Within their compositions, they will characteristically include Omontunos which are repetitive melodic cells, often played by the piano, that fit over a loping bass line called a Otumbao. The piano and bass fit over interlocking parts performed originally by three percussionists playing congas, bongos and timbales. In more recent times, the three percussionists are melded into two — with a single drummer fitting many of the parts simultaneously onto a drum kit, often in combination with a congero playing the conga parts. The basic unit of latin music is called the “clave,” a repeating rhythmical phrase that is the key to its rhythmic propulsion. Uman describes the music that will ensue in the River Garden concerts as “rhythmically driving, and steeped in the histories and cultures of both jazz and Latin music.”

THE Key into Latin Jazz Series is funded by Key Bank and produced by Building a Better Brattleboro and the Vermont Jazz Center.

ALL concerts take place on the second Friday of the month, are free and open to the public.

FOR more information, call Building a Better Brattleboro at 802-257-4886, the Vermont Jazz Center at 802-254-9088, or visit the Vermont Jazz Center’s website at http://www.vtjazz.org.

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Thorne Landscape Exhibit Showcases

Three Regional Artists

Meadow Tree and Fence Post by David Putnam

THE Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College opens the 2002-03 season with an exhibition of landscapes by three regional artists.

"INTERPRETING Landscapes" showcases works by Kristofer Calnan of Sharon, Lauren Olitski of Marlboro, Vt., and David Putnam of Claremont. The exhibition, which opens Sept. 3 and continues through Oct. 13, explores the diverse landscape styles used by the three artists. This is the first time landscapes by these artists will be exhibited in the Monadnock Region.

ALL three artists will speak briefly about their work at the opening reception on Fri., Sept. 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Thorne Gallery.

CALNAN, who is an artist-in-residence at Sharon Arts Center, combines painting, photography, and sculpture to create collages. "Collage offers the potential for overt tension between abstract and representational forms," explains Calnan, whose landscape works exhibited at the Thorne tend towards the abstract.

OLITSKI, the daughter of abstract artist Jules Olitski, is showing landscape paintings for the first time at the Thorne Gallery, where she has exhibited abstracts and figurative works in four regional juried exhibitions. She says that observing the beauty of nature is "so glorious it causes physical pain...So, I must try, from my experience of art and nature, to create."

PUTNAM, who is the owner of Claremont Custom Framing, captures landscapes with a large-format camera to produce platinum photographic prints - the most permanent photo image that exists, lasting as long as the paper. "My compositions are tightly controlled, giving the viewer an opportunity to experience another perspective," Putnam says.

THE summer exhibition featuring work by artists from the Dublin (N.H.) Art Colony will reopen Sept. 3-15 in the Thorne’s second gallery. "Selections from the Collection" is an exhibition of work in the gallery's permanent collection, which includes many nationally recognized 19th-century artists from the Dublin Art Colony. The Gallery is actively seeking donations of art and contributions to enable the purchase of artwork to enhance its Dublin Art Colony holdings. A key goal of the Gallery is to acquire a broader representation of the highest quality work by this prolific group of 30 artists.

"INTERPRETING Landscapes" is the first of seven art exhibitions planned during the upcoming academic year at the Thorne Gallery. During the fall semester, the Thorne will present:

"THE Biennial Regional Juror's Choice Competition," from Oct. 12 to Dec. 8, a juried selection of works in various media by artists living within 30 miles of Keene and Friends of the Thorne.

"DIGITAL Frontiers: Photography's Future at Nash Editions," from Nov. 2 to Dec. 8, an exhibition of artwork created with digital cameras and computers organized by George Eastman House in conjunction with Nash Editions.

ALL exhibits, receptions, and programs are free and open to the public.

LOCATED on Wyman Way on the Keene State campus, the Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. The Gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday through Wednesday and from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday. For information, call 603-358-2720.

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SCRIBE ART: Fanciful Antique Ink Wells Exhibit Opens

at Horatio Colony House Museum

THE Horatio Colony House Museum hosts an exhibit of the museum’s collection of 60 whimsical and exotic 19th & early 20th century inkwells. SCRIBE ART: Fanciful Antique Inkwells runs from Jul. 3-Oct. 15. The exhibit is open Wed.-Sat. from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and admission is free.

AN inkwell is a writing accoutrement. It is a container used to hold liquid ink for dipping pen nibs or quills. The vessel developed from a simple ceramic pot or glass bottle into a fanciful decorative desk accessory. This development reached its height in the Victorian era. Its decline began with the advent of the fountain pen in 1884 and finally met its demise with the ballpoint pen in the 1930s.

THROUGHOUT its history, the changing design of inkwells echoed the fashion trends. Their forms were affected by advancements in the technology of the materials they were made from, therefore, designers were continually able to develop new styles.

ELABORATE and unique designs made of materials from silver, bronze and brass, as well as glass, crystal, marble and porcelain became status symbols to don the desks of the rich. Common people generally used the simple bottle the ink was purchased in.

SCRIBE ART: Fanciful Antique Inkwells runs the gamut from simple antique glass ink bottles right through elaborate silver and crystal items. The exhibit includes various Victorian and Art Deco styles including iron and glass “snail” fountain designs, inkwells with postal scales, souvenir commemoratives, and travel inkwells. There are also a number of whimsical animal inkwells in the form of alligators, elephants, owls, monkeys, cats and dogs.

PERHAPS the inkwell with the most interesting history is one documented as belonging to the English essayist and satirist, Charles Lamb. The silver and glass inkwell in its original black tin case was given by Charles Lamb to his dear friend, Miss Brigham, and was handed down in her family.

As a “hands on” element to the exhibit, visitors can try their hand at writing with a quill pen and liquid ink dipped from a ceramic inkwell.

THE Horatio Colony House Museum is located at 199 Main St. in Keene, NH. The museum, a stately Federal style house, was Horatio Colony’s family home for three generations. This old-time New England home is filled with original family furnishings and fabulous collections, which offer a gracious view of a vanishing lifestyle of culture, refinement and travel.

THE museum is open for tours from May 1-Oct. 15, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Wed.-Sun. There is no admission fee.

FOR information call 603-352-0460.

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Mariposa Museum to Participate in

CHILDREN’S MUSIC NETWORK’S NATIONAL GATHERING IN FREEDOM, NH

THE Children's Music Network (CMN) will present its twelfth National Gathering on October 18-20, 2002 at Lake Ossipee Conference Center in Freedom, NH. Musicians, educators, radio broadcasters, songwriters, performers, storytellers, children and parents from all over North America will celebrate children's music that promotes cooperation, cultural diversity and self-esteem. The event will feature workshops, song-swaps, dancing and a Saturday-night round-robin concert. Mariposa Museum of World Cultures in Peterborough is sending two delegates to the gathering.

CMN is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 by teachers, performers, social workers, librarians, parents and others who believed in the transformative power of music in children's lives. The group now has more

than six hundred members, including many of the most prominent names in children's music.

MAGIC PENNY AWARD TO HONOR WOODY GUTHRIE'S SONGS FOR CHILDREN

EACH year CMN presents a lifetime achievement award at its National gathering to honor an individual whose sustained work embodies CMN's values. The Magic Penny Award, named after a song by Malvina Reynolds, is sculpted by Eliza Zeitlin, a sixteen-year-old ceramist from the New York City area. This year's Magic Penny Award will honor the great children's songs of Oklahoma-born singer, songwriter and activist Woody Guthrie. Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie, Executive Director of the Woody Guthrie Foundation

and Archives, will represent the family at the event.

WOODY Guthrie once said, "By far my best audience for folksongs and ballads have been the kids..." He wrote dozens of children's songs, eighteen of which first appeared on the 1951 Folkways recording "Songs to Grow On." Chock full of classics such as "Car Car," "Put Your Finger In the Air" and "Don't You Push Me," the album is recognized as one of the most influential collections in the history of children's music in the US. In 1990 during a routine cleaning, a librarian at Sarah Lawrence College rediscovered twenty more of Woody's classic songs, tunes that were presumed forever lost by his family.

Woody Guthrie

WORKING out of a small New York office on West 57th Street, Nora Guthrie keeps Woody's memory alive through books, recordings, exhibits, films and a website found at http://www.woodyguthrie.org. In 1998 she invited British recording artist Billy Bragg to comb through the lyrics to nearly 2,500 of Woody's unpublished songs, and to write tunes to those that moved him most. The result, in collaboration with the alt-country band Wilco were two Grammy-nominated albums Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue Vol II. Nora also

narrated the feature-length film, "Man in the Sand," documenting Bragg's quest to find "the spirit of Woody Guthrie" through the Mermaid Avenue projects.

PREVIOUS recipients of the Magic Penny award to date have been Malvina Reynolds (through her daughter Nancy Schimmel), Marcia Berman and Ella Jenkins.

CONTACT: The Children's Music Network Website: http://www.cmnonline.org; Caroline Presnell, CMN office: (847) 733-8003, mailto: [email protected]; Scott Kepnes, New England Representative: (978)-469-9406, mailto: [email protected]; Phil Hoose, Maine-based Board member (207) 874-4931

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GLASS NOW: five emerging artists

September 28 - November 17, 2002

EXHIBITORS: Anna Boothe, PA; Jill Henrietta Davis, RI; Jamie Harris, NY; Eva Heyd, NY; and Beth Lipman, NH. Opening Reception Saturday, September 28, 5 - 7 p.m.

GLASS art is one of the hottest art forms in contemporary art today. This next generation of modern masters is no exception. Glass Now five emerging artists, features the cutting edge works of five glass artists who have studied under the masters of the 1970s' and 1980s' and have emerged with unique personal styles of their own. Three of these exhibitors' artworks are already in national museum collections, are being sought to exhibit in well-established glass galleries nationwide.

GLASS is a material that can be manipulated when either hot or cold. When hot, glass can be blown, cast, fused, laminated, pressed into molds, and slumped. When cold, glass can be etched, cut, chiseled, ground, polished, sandblasted. Glass is composed primarily of silica (sand), with varying degrees of sodium oxide (soda ash) or lead oxide, and calcium oxide (lime) to enhance the brilliance, hardness, and viscosity. The manipulation of glass has not change much over the millennia but the expression and function has. It is with this exhibition the expression and function is examined.

FOUR of these artists have studied at and or taught at Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington; UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY; and Corning Museum Glass Studio, Corning, NY.

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THORNE GALLERY INVITES ARTISTS

TO ENTER JURIED EXHIBIT

ARTISTS living within 30 miles of Keene are invited to enter the 2002 Biennial Regional Juror's Choice

Competition at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery.

THE exhibition, open to artists working in all media, will be displayed Saturday, Oct. 12, to Sunday, Dec. 8. The juror will be Marijo Dougherty, director of the University Art Museum at the State University of New York at Albany. A second juror will be announced.

THIS exhibit showcases the many talented artists who live in this area, says Maureen Ahern, director of the Thorne Gallery, located on the Keene State College campus. Two years ago 259 entries were received from 142 artists, with the juror choosing 83 works for display.

ARTISTS living within 30 miles of Keene and Friends of the Thorne are eligible to submit works in any medium. Artists may submit up to two works for one non-refundable entry fee of $20. Friends of the Thorne members will be charged $15 for up to two works. Checks should be made payable to the Thorne Art Gallery. The gallery does not accept credit cards.

ARTISTS may submit work in any medium completed within the past two years. Works done under the supervision of an instructor are not eligible. All art must be ready to hang or display. No glass or clip

frames will be accepted. Any object deemed unsuitable for safe hanging or display will not be accepted for the jury process.

ENTRIES for the competition must be hand-delivered to the Thorne Gallery between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Fri. and Sat., Sept. 20 and 21. Artists will be asked to complete a registration form and label information at the time of delivery.

IN addition to selecting works to be shown in the Regional Juror's Choice Exhibition, the jurors will select various awards for which artists will receive cash awards. Gallery visitors will select a People's Choice

Commendation, with a $100 cash award, to be announced Monday, Dec. 2.

THE gallery will mail notification of the selections to artists upon completion of the jury process. Accepted works will be placed on display and may not be removed until the end of the show. All artwork accepted for the show will be insured while in custody of the gallery until the pickup date, Sun., Dec. 8, from 4 to 6 p.m. and Mon., Dec. 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. After the pickup date, artists will be charged a $10 per day storage fee.

WORKS not accepted for the Regional Juror's Choice Exhibition must be picked up Fri. and Sat., Sept. 27 and 28, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Non-accepted entries will be insured only through those pickup dates and thereafter artists will be charged a $10 per day storage fee.

ARTISTS are encouraged to make entries available for purchase, although not-for-sale works will be accepted. The Thorne Gallery will take a 40-percent sales commission on any object sold as a result of the show within 90 days from the close of the exhibit. Work sold must remain on exhibit through Sun., Dec. 8, the last day of the show.

AN opening reception, hosted by the Friends of the Thorne, will take place Fri., Oct. 18, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The Biennial Regional Juror's Choice winners will be announced at a 6 p.m. awards ceremony.

THE gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday through Wednesday, and noon to 7 p.m. Thurs. and Fri. The gallery will be closed Nov. 11 for Veterans Day and Nov. 27-Dec. 1 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

THE reception and exhibition will be free and open to the public. Located on Wyman Way, the gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. For information about the Biennial Regional Juror's Choice Competition, call 603-358-2720, or check the Thorne web site, http://www.keene.edu/tsag.

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