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Vermont Business Magazine Burlington City Arts is bringing Festival of Fools back to downtown Burlington from July 30-August 1, 2021. Presented by Community Bank NA, this year s festival marks a return to the Church Street Marketplace and City Hall Park after having to cancel the beloved celebration in 2020 due to the pandemic. After a long and difficult year that included the cancellation of the 2020 Festival of Fools, it will be great to have some good laughs together once again, said Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger.
As in years past, this year s celebration presents a fantastic lineup of street performers, circus artists, musicians, and comedians performing consistently throughout the three-day event.
With Vermont leading the country in vaccinations and low infections of Covid-19, people felt safe coming out to listen to live music again. "This feels like the perfect moment, like the perfect storm of great art, great music," Doreen Kraft, executive director for Burlington City Arts said. "It's especially important this year as we've almost at 80% and people are itching to get out and enjoy live music." Sign up for our Newsletters After the.
Doreen Kraft, executive director, Burlington City Arts Making art accessible to all has been the mission of Burlington City Arts since it was founded in the 1980s, when Bernie Sanders was mayor of the Queen City. A department of the City of Burlington, BCA meets its mission in partnership with the BCA Foundation, a nonprofit that fundraises to support exhibitions, events, public art and education programs BCA offers classes and camps that teach everything from screen printing to pottery-making. For years, the BCA offices and classrooms were housed at Memorial Auditorium. But when the building was deemed unsafe in 2016, executive director Doreen Kraft had to find a new home. She toured storefronts, office buildings and church basements. “We could not find the volume of space we needed in Burlington that would be affordable,” Kraft recalls.
Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Artist Lineup Announced
The festival kicks off at the Burlington waterfront on June 4 with a joyous community event called 50 Saxophones.by BWW News Desk
Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, produced by the Flynn in association with Burlington City Arts, kicks off at the Burlington waterfront on June 4 with a joyous community event called 50 Saxophones-an open-call gathering of local saxophonists of all backgrounds (registration open now).
The festival concludes on June 13 with two jubilant final performances: a Hurly Burly concert (performed from a makeshift stage on back of a flatbed truck) at Smalley Park in Burlington by JACK Quartet and Matthew Evan Taylor, that features the world premiere of Wadada Leo Smith s String Quartet No. 13, as well as a Church Street rave-up courtesy of Resistance Revival Chorus. The 10 days in between feature a fantastic lineup of local and national acts sure to rekindle fond memories and newfound excitement for thi
Bag of Tears The other creation, Bag of Tears, appears to the casual glance like a lady s purse with strands of clear plastic spilling out of it. The object loses its innocence with a closer look. Using a transfer technique, Gabriel imprinted the tea-dyed muslin purse with photographs that are dark in every sense of the word: images from the Holocaust and other 20th-century genocides. Gallery text explains that Gabriel was descended from European Jews and grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, N.Y. She claimed to have a complex relationship with her faith and cultural identity.