Plainfield
Plainfield, NH · Arts & Culture
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ECHO After Dark, an exploration of death
Purple lights cast long shadows, the silhouettes of ghosts and ghouls flooding over tables displaying animals long dead. Beetles gnaw on bones, while vivid descriptions of death and decay fill the room. On Friday, Oct. 16, the ECHO Leahy Center hosted Memento Mori, an adults-only event centered around nature, death...
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Student musicians take center stage at Sonic Futures Battle of the Bands
Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship, for the Waterbury Roundabout & Valley Reporter. Following a girls volleyball quarterfinal win down the hall, Harwood Union Middle & High School’s auditorium was filled to the brim Friday night for the annual Sonic Futures Battle of the Bands.
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‘Dark Botanica’ at BCA Center Presents the Unsettling Side of Flowers
Think of works with a slightly sinister cast within the vast history of botanical art, and you may recall Dutch master Rachel Ruysch’s luminous bouquets in shadowy spaces, Henri Rousseau’s ominous jungles or Vincent van Gogh’s vases of intense, manic-depressive blooms. Unless you are Seven Days music editor Chris Farnsworth, who, when told of the exhibition “Dark Botanica” at BCA Center, immediately referred this writer to Christopher Walken’s classic 2008 “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Indoor Gardening Tips From a Man Who’s Very Scared of Plants.”
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New Nightclub Planned for Former Nectar’s Building
The space that hosted legendary Burlington music venue Nectar’s for nearly 50 years might open its doors again soon. Whether it will do so under the name Nectar’s remains to be seen. As reported by WCAX-TV on Thursday, businessman and nightclub owner Shawn Cliche has submitted zoning applications...
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UVM’s Perkins Museum of Geology reopens after 6 years
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - After years behind closed doors, the University of Vermont’s natural history museum is welcoming visitors again, starting with its most famous resident: a whale. The Charlotte Whale, Vermont’s official state fossil, is back on display at the Perkins Museum of Geology. The museum shut...
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Longtime Guild member takes on new role as gallery manager
MILTON — For Cathy LaClair, stepping into the gallery manager position at Milton Artists' Guild is more than a new professional opportunity. It's a chance to build on a relationship with an organization she has helped shape for nearly a decade. A longtime Milton resident, professional goldsmith and former...
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Night Watch Shines a Light Into the Darkness
The sun will set in Burlington at a disheartening 5:53 p.m. on Saturday, October 24. But 67 minutes later, lasers and projections on Lake Street will become a beacon in the darkness for the inaugural Night Watch. The outdoor light art festival was conceived by Seven Days cofounder Pamela Polston...
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Screen Time: Two Solo Art Shows Consider a New Era of Tech
The word “screen” is one of those with deliciously juicy intersections of meaning. It’s a device on which to watch video, read text or do work; it’s also a filter, a barrier that blocks out imperfections and lets the good stuff through. Two shows currently on view — Chris Sollars’ “The Neighbors” at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., and Sebastian Alvarez’s “The Completion Office” in the McCarthy Art Gallery at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester — consider how we use screens and other tech to understand the current moment in ways that also play with multiple meanings. Sollars investigates the natural world surrounding his rural home; Alvarez contemplates the era we’re entering, what will persist and what will get screened out.