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OCLIPSE Concert Series: TIMARA Raphael Sacks ’09 and Geneva Cockrell ’09 of the Loom Ensemble co-direct a theatrical performance combining members of OINC (Oberlin Improvisation and Newmusic Collective) and DANC 100 (Contemporary Dance Technique) in celebration of the total eclipse. Additionally, composer, sound artist, and instrument builder Daniel Fishkin will be presenting his Solar Sounders, light-reactive synthesizers.

In a future where the climate crisis has progressed, and the ratio of humans to trees has reached a tipping point, audiences watch as five characters respond to the catastrophe at hand. Loom ensembles new show, “Tell Me How You Breathe” will arrive at various locations throughout the Hudson Valley between August 10 through 19.

By Katherine Rapin for Nexus Media News.Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration In 2020, artist Nicole Cooper was conducting research for a painting series when she stumbled upon a NASA chart showing temperature rise throughout history. “I had this realization of, ‘Look at how fast temperatures are rising — and what are we going to do about it?” she sa...

Smoke from Canadian wildfires this summer has permeated not only New Englands air, but the performing arts. The Loom Ensemble - an interdisciplinary theater company - aims to examine the intersections of public health and social justice in its new work, "Tell Me How You Breathe." Producer and Company Co-founder Raphael Sacks said the piece tackles the unevenly distributed impacts of climate change on who gets to breathe freely, and fully. "These questions of how ...

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Against the drone of a bagpipe and the lilting of an Irish fiddle, Erin McNulty's body expands and contracts in the familiar rhythm of a...

"Line Out," installation detail, by Christy Mitchell "If these walls could talk about the things that we say and what we hide from the public, what would they tell us?" This is the driving question behind Vermont artist Christy Mitchells solo installation "Holding Pattern." On view at the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington through August 7, the show features artifacts from the past that tell stories about modern-day topics — both universal and per...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   GUILFORD — A documentary pointing out the realities of violence against Native American women will finally get screened live in the community where the filmmakers live. “Sisters Rising” initially was going to be part of the Brattleboro Women’s Film Festival, an annual spring event held by the Women’s Freedom Center. However, the event was cancelled due to COVID-19. “We’re really excited to have this screenin...