Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival creates a travel fund to support festival attendance

The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival has created the MNFF Travel Fund to support the efforts of its selected filmmakers to attend the festival in person each year.

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An extraordinarily rare screening of the critically admired yet unreleased film “Dead Ringer” starring Meat Loaf is planned for Jan. 25 in Essex.

Awards of up to $200,000 are available to creative sector organizations and businesses including sole proprietors that can demonstrate economic harm caused by or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lucky for us, an afternoon magic show is slated for Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Vergennes Opera House, with magician Alyx Hilshey. 

The Middlebury College Music Department will present a concert of new electronic music, sound art and improvisation, on Sunday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m. Five varied artists are on the program.

‏Did you miss “Yoga With Jillian” when it played at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury back in September? Well, it’s coming to Burlington for another performance on Friday, Jan. 20 and Saturday, Jan. 21.

You’ve probably seen African violets (Saintpaulia) with their neat rosettes of fuzzy leaves and clusters of purple flowers.

The monthly Cornwall Community Coffeehouse welcomes Middlebury-based acoustic guitarist and vocalist Mark Sikora on Thursday, Jan. 19, 7-9 p.m.

It was love at first sight.

Before settling into a long and successful career as a professor of American and Atlantic-World history, Bill Hart started off in his early 20s as an actor. 

Thinking of place as an archive is fertile terrain for collage artists who seek to incorporate a sense of place into their practice.

“Inner Landscapes,” a new collection of paintings by Sara Katz is on view this month at Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. 

All that is beautiful/ that slips away––/ a December night/ that before was November/ and September and before that,/ July when days were blue silver/ waves we swam through.

The Middlebury Performing Arts Series opens 2023 with a concert by The Heart of Afghanistan on Thursday, Jan. 12 at the Mahaney Arts Center.