Friday, May 2nd: The In-Sight Photography Project's Annual Student Show. Come to the opening at Gallery Walk, 5:00 to 8:00 pm, and be astonished by the translation of idea to image through the eyes of Brattleboro's greatest resource. For 17 years the In-Sight Photography Project has been providing photography classes to area youth offered free of charge to any interested student. They depend upon community support. Come and be impressed! Visit insight-photography.org for more information and to learn how you can help support a valuable creative and educational outlet for Brattleboro youth.

 

Friday, May 9 at 5:30 pm

MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
Tickets: $5

Hanna Hopkins of Jamaica, VT (with a little guidance from Tino Valpa) presents a 8-band punk rock showcase featuring Weight of the World, Bomb City Riot, O.F.C., Crooked Law, Hang Fire, The Cryptics, Jonee Earthquake Band and Shamhearst. This will be Shamhearst's CD release as well as their last show ever.

The ideas behind this concert were to give a few local Vermont bands, Weight of the World and Bomb City Riot (both of the Rutland area), the chance to play at a respectable venue and to get to play with some more notable bands from New Hampshire and Massachussetts, and also to offer an all ages show for the younger set and for the older set who doesn't enjoy having to go to the bar every time they wish to see a decent band.

Saturday, May 10th
Fair Trade Brattleboro presents two films as part of the World Fair Trade Day festival:

1:00 pm - BLACK COFFEE
7:00 pm - LIFE IN DEBT

Admission to the films will be by donation. Fair Trade refreshments will be served at each screening.

"Life in Debt" will be shown at 7:00 PM. Life & Debt, by Jamaica Kincaid, is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.

This event is part of a festival marking the second annual World Fair Trade Day celebrated in Brattleboro. Brattleboro is the second Fair Trade Town in the United States in June of 2007. For more information on Fair Trade Brattleboro and other festival events, visit the Fair Trade Brattleboro website.

Friday, May 16 at 8:00 pm
DAN HOUGHTON AND FRIENDS

Tickets: $14 General / $12 Students and Seniors
Ticket reservations and info: 802-254-9276

Twilight Music presents an evening of Scottish and Irish tunes and songs by Dan Houghton and Friends. Separated temporarily from his Edinburgh-based group, Cantrip, Dan promises an evening of powerful traditional music with his New England friends.

Houghton's high energy, twin fiddle/bagpipe band, Cantrip, wowed audiences with their virtuoso musicianship at the New World Festival in Randolph, VT, the Celtic Classic Festival in Bethlehem, PA and at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, as part of their 2007 US tour. While firmly rooted in the Scottish tradition, Cantrip's music takes influences from, and excursions into, music from the Scandinavian, Balkan, Basque, Breton and Québécoise traditions. Dan has also played with the New Zealand Irish band, Blackthorn, and more recently he has been half of several musical duos in Europe, including Musion, ASBO Duo and The Boussens Which Project.

Besides playing for concerts, Dan is a successful dance piper, and has performed for both Scottish Highland and Country dancing throughout Scotland and Europe. When not on the road or in the air, Dan divides his time between Scotland and Marshfield, VT, where he teaches Bagpipes at Vermont Institute of Celtic Arts.

For more information, visit www.pipingtool.co.uk and www.cantrip-music.co.uk.

Saturday, May 17 at 8:00 pm

ROSIE RED BURLY-Q

Tickets: $14 General / $12 Students and Seniors
Ticket reservations and info: 802-254-9276

(not suitable for children)

Groove MaMa Ink is a company of hard working, rabble rousing women. Their mission is to create, produce, pioneer and perform new and innovative work in the fields of literature, dance, theater, education and music. Kara M.Tyler, Kim Braun, Gillian Chadsey, Mariah Freda, Sarah Rose Grillo and Bricken Sparacino are dedicated to building a community where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can intersect one another. They aim to create a home where off-off-Broadway may thrive.

Rosie Red Burly-Q is not suitable for children.

For more information, visit www.groovemamaink.com.

Twilight Music is pleased to continue its monthly comedy series by presenting a couple of real stand-up guys:
Tony Moschetto, with Mike Del Lano.

Tony Moschetto is one of the most uniquely hilarious comedians in the United States. Standup comedy has literally taken him around the world, as he's performed not only in Boston and New England, but in New York City, Los Angeles, London and Beijing, China. He's been featured on Comedy Central, and his quirky manner and unique point of view one of the most unique comedians in the country. He's also an award-winning filmmakers, with a short featured at the AngelCiti Film Festival in Los Angeles, and another that won the audience choice award at the 2004 Boston Comedy Festival.

Opening the evening will be Mike Del Lano. Mike was born and raised on the grumpy streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. He began doing comedy in 2002, squeezing in open-mic nights around bartending shifts. Since then he has played clubs and theaters all over New England, always returning to his adopted town of Boston and occasionally to Lowell. Over the years he has crafted his unique brand of stand-up. His act combines true stories from his life with observations on politics, culture, tomorrow's forecast and some nonsense he dreamed about last night.

After a long hard week you need a good laugh. Find it on the 24th at HDT&G.