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BCTV Ch.8 schedule for the week of 11/24/14
Monday, November 24, 2014
12:00 am Vermont Economic Resiliency Initiative 10/2/14
1:45 am VT Tech Jam 2014 – Fundraising for Small Tech Businesses
3:00 am The Raising of America: Documentary Screening & Discussion
4:30 am N.E. Organic Farming Assoc. of VT: Dr. Vananda Shiva
The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library announce that they are selling the 2015 edition of the popular Book Lover’s Calendar as a fundraiser for the Library. The calendar can be purchased at the Front Desk of the Library and sells for $10.
This innovative and informative calendar offers 365 days of good reading – from beloved classics to the best beach-blanket reads, histories biographies and self-help titles. Each day features a lively, opinionated capsule review and suggestions for further reading.
A crazy week in the Brattleboro area provides the backdrop for an episode that includes all the latest details in the BS & L Bank robbery in downtown, the shootings in Townshend, continuing drama in Vernon, and plenty of Thanksgiving week event coverage to boot.
To compliment the show with Prince last week, let’s take a look at one of my favorite Prince side projects, The Time. We’ll begin with the 30 minute “opening band” performance they did just prior to Prince’s show last week.
Yes, this is video from the same night, at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ, in January of 1982.
Following the apprehension of a single suspect who attempted to rob the Brattleboro Savings and Loan Main Street branch 5:45 Live recorded this report from the scene of the crime.
Sunday, November 23 there will be a contra dance at the “Stone Church” on Main St in Brattleboro. Dances will be called by Quena Crain, with live music from Everest Witman, Peter Siegel and Audrey Knuth. Witman, 16, is the youngest of this trio, and is a thoughtful, intelligent and clearly-spoken young man with the ability to laugh at himself. He and his band, Nova, appeared earlier this year at the Brattleboro Contra Dance to loud cheering and stomping from the crowd of dancers.
Witman is this year’s recipient of the Johnny Trombly Memorial Scholarship. The fund was established to support and encourage young musicians interested in playing instruments used for traditional New England dance music.
The November poetry readings at Brooks Memorial Library feature two outstanding Vermont and New Hampshire poets: Sydney Lea and Becky Sakellariou. They will read from their new works on Wednesday November 19, at 7:00 PM. in the BML 2nd floor meeting room. Arrive early to insure a good seat. The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact the library at 802-254-5290 ext 101, or info@brookslibraryvt.org.
The Brattleboro Town school board is holding a public forum this coming Wednesday, 11/19, on the role and the effects of various standardized testing that takes place in our schools. This has been a point of lively discussion on iBrattleboro and it would be worth encouraging the school board to continue this process of public engagement by attending.
The forum takes place at Academy School on Wednesday, November 19, 6:00-7:30 pm.
BCTV Ch.8 schedule for the week of 11/17/14
Monday, November 17, 2014
12:00 am VT State Archeology Ctr: Great Vermont Discoveries
1:50 am Vermont Retired Americans Conference
4:00 am Salaam / Shalom: Incitement to Genocide
5:00 am Green Mtn. Vets for Peace: Ep.138
6:00 am Vermont Economic Resiliency Initiative 10/2/14
The Commons, Windham County’s local independent weekly, is proud to host Jerry Levy and Acting on Impulse Productions presenting Levy’s 10th Anniversary Celebration of Howard Zinn’s one-man play about the life of Karl Marx, MARX IN SOHO, at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St, Brattleboro VT.
These benefit performances will be on the evenings of Thursday, November 20th and Saturday, November 22nd at7:30 p.m.
Prince has been in the music news lately, having released two rather good albums simultaneously, rejoined Warner Bros., got control of his back catalog, and appeared on SNL.
He’s notoriously hard to find on the internet, but somehow we are (for the moment, at least) able to peer back to 1982, just as he was ascending. Note that this linked file may vanish.
This is from the Controversy tour, just before 1999 and Purple Rain, when many were still just finding out about him and trying to figure out what exactly they had found. Punk? Funk? New Wave? What was this? A controversy.
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NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The BAMS Committee will meet at 7:45 a.m. on Monday, November 17 in the BAMS Conference Room.
The BUHS #6 Finance Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, November 17 in the WRCC Conference Room. RE: WRCC Budget
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present veteran folk/rock icon Jonathan Edwards plus singer/songwriter Lisa McCormick and newgrass/contemporary folk trio The Stockwell Brothers at Next Stage on Sunday, November 16 at 7:30 pm. Southern Vermont-based Lisa and brothers Bruce, Barry and Alan have toured with Jonathan in the past, and will again add their voices, guitars, banjo, mandolin and bass to “Sunshine,” Shanty” and a handful of his other hit songs.
Join local author, Martha Moravec, for a reading and discussion of her new book, Magnificent Obesity, on Wednesday, November 12, at 7 PM. Magnificent Obesity depicts one woman’s effort to look honestly and compassionately at her obesity through a kaleidoscopic lens of anxiety disorder, addictive behavior, agnosticism and the onset of aging.
Her conviction that it’s never too late to grow up, that it is possible to feel born again at any age and that there is no expiration date on dreams will inspire anyone who yearns to rewrite their story and take their own magnificent leap into a life lived with passion, purpose and authentic power.
Come in out of the gray and add a little sunshine and laughter to your day with a screwball comedy film! Free! At Brooks Library at 2 pm today, November 12th.
Sponsored by the Brattleboro Film Festival and Brooks Memorial Library, this is the last film in the free film series of nine Hollywood classic screwball comedies from Tinseltown’s Golden Era. Brattleboro Film Festival Advisory Board member Tim Metcalfe and journalist Tom Bedell will host post-screening discussions in the library’s Meeting Room.
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To learn from Clint Werner, a preventive medicine expert, about the incredible benefits of human consumption of marijuana and how the endocannabinoid system in our bodies act as natural therapeutics to help protect us from cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other disease.
The Vermont Jazz Center welcomes two treasured alumni to perform at the Vermont Jazz Center on November 15th at 8:00 PM as part of their Emerging Artist Series. After years of study and performance, vocalists Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Integriti Reeves have risen from dedicated students to seasoned professionals and in doing so have cultivated respect from peers and professionals throughout the national jazz scene.
When Integriti and Sarah Elizabeth began their studies with Sheila Jordan and Jay Clayton at the VJC’s summer jazz workshop about 10 years ago, the seeds of their commitment, self-discipline, diligent effort and abundant talent were already bearing fruit. Both have recently completed their academic training and are currently “in the trenches,” teaching, recording and confidently performing at some of jazz’s most prestigious venues. Their hard work has paid off and “now is the time” for them to develop recognition amongst a wider public.
Company of Muses has announced tickets for the 2014 Brattleboro School of Dance production of The Nutcracker will go on sale Monday, November 17.
Show times for this year’s run of the holiday classic are 7:00pm on Friday and Saturday, December 19-20, and then matinees at 1:00pm and 5:00pm on Sunday, December 21. All performances will take place at the New England Youth Theatre, located at 100 Flat Street in Brattleboro.
Tickets can be purchased online through BrattleboroSchoolofDance.com or by visiting the studio, located at 22 High Street in downtown Brattleboro, on Saturdays between 11:00am to 3:00pm. The studio will not be open on Saturday, November 29, due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
BCTV Ch.8 schedule for the week of 11/10/14
Monday, November 10, 2014
12:05 am WWAC: Don Steinberg – World Learning 10/7/14
1:30 am Vermont Retired Americans Conference
3:40 am VT State Archeology Ctr: Great Vermont Discoveries
5:30 am Ethan Allen Homestead: Shay’s Rebellion
6:45 am At Landmark: Andrew Stein, ‘The King of Beasts’ 10/27/14
LIBRARY RAFFLE: HAND CRAFTED COLONIAL BOOKCASE
The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library have announced that they will hold a raffle for a locally designed and built Colonial design pine bookcase. Tickets for the raffle will be available at the Brooks Memorial Library from Monday, November 10 through Saturday, December 13.
Donated to the Friends by a local craftsman, Paul Rodrigue, this bookcase is handmade of pine cut from nearby Alstead, New Hampshire. The bookcase is 44 inches tall and 24 inches wide. The traditional dovetail joints are all hand cut.
