Matt Neckers with his Vermont Studio Center installation
1. Piece by Piece Sculpture, photography, painting and installation are all in Northern Vermont artist Matt Neckers wheelhouse. For his current exhibition at the Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Neckers mounted hundreds of pieces of moveable, magnetic art on sheets of painted steel. Cataclysm: Familiar Robots & Their Animal Kindred also features a variety of mixed-media sculptures and is on view through February 25. Email galleries@vermontstudiocenter.org to schedule a visit.
2. Girl Growing Up click to enlarge Courtesy of Holiday House Readers both young and young at heart join debut author Crystal Maldonado for a virtual conversation and celebration of her book
Actors in Flash Forward: Voices From the Future
(left to right) top: Ronni Lopez, Ro Boddie, Susan Palmer; center: John Nagle, Haley Rice, Gary Smith;
Among many other losses, the pandemic resulted in darkened stages and empty theater seats. But that, of course, is not the whole story: Thespians, like other performing artists, have found ways to keep on acting out. Even in the dead of winter, we have much theater news to report. So let the virtual curtain rise.
Middlebury Acting Company
, streaming Saturday, February 6, 7 p.m. Free. middleburyactors.org, townhalltheater.org
In addition to its monthly interactive play reading/discussion series, the American Dream Project,
VJC Big Band
BRATTLEBORO â What can you do on a chilly December evening after finishing a hearty winter meal? How about joining the Vermont Jazz Center community for a live-stream, virtual swing dance with your sweetie? So roll up the rug, put on your dancing shoes and prepare your favorite beverage in anticipation of a night of swinging, danceable music.
At 8 p.m. tonight, the Vermont Jazz Center will present its annual swing dance gala. Formerly scheduled as a concert with Wanda Houston and the VJC 7, the live element of this show has been scaled down from eight musicians to just two.