Rock Lotto... the Monkey House in Winooski, Vermont May 5, 2012 rocklotto@girlsrockvermont.org Rock Lotto is a unique, collaborative, improvisational, band-in-a-day music extravaganza. Here’s how it works: 25 musicians get together at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 5th. Musicians are divided equally into five categories and tossed into hats: 1) Drummers 2) Lead Vocal (ideally also plays an instrument) 3) Guitar 4) Bass 5) Grab Bag (could be anything from guitar to accordion to tablas to laptop, e...
This video was made by members of CEDEHCA in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, inviting young people to be part of a movement to end all forms of violence. The invitation is given in four languages common in the region: Spanish, English, Miskitu, and Sumu Mayagna. The promo was produced as part of a video workshop offered by members of the Burlington/ Puerto Cabezas sister city program in March 2012. .
A musical art collaboration with Genaro Padilla painting and Jaime Pettes playing the piano, produced as part of a video workshop with members of CEDEHCA in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezs, Nicaragua, March 2012.
After a ten year absence from downtown Winooski, Kate Pond's steelhead fish sculptures return to new sites along the Winooski River.
Vermont Works for Women is an organization that offers training programs for women in various professional fields. (www.vtworksforwomen.org). In January of 2011 they initiated their "Fresh Food" program for training women in the culinary arts. Kali Alvarez, director, discusses the program from the kitchen at the O'Brien Community Center in Winooski, Vermont.
Although Winooski's new downtown renovation surrounds a 900 car parking garage, a common complaint from people visiting the town is that they are unable to locate the parking garage. For those who do manage to find the garage, their attempts to park a car are met with confusing and negative signage, and finding one's way to street level involves a nightmarish climb through unmarked stairways. In this humorous tour, Jody Harrington suggests simple changes that might make the parking garage expe...
Professor Frank Owen's role in zany Williams Hall Art Museum of Kitsch Art theatrics are remembered in this video montage honoring Frank on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Vermont Department of ART
During September 2008 Danish musician René Wulff traveled to Henderson, New York, where he collaborated with friend Peter Fraser and other musicians to record a series of songs René had written. This video documents the process that began in the Fraser's renovated barn, was continued back in Denmark, and led to the making of Rene's latest CD.
Betsy Nolan's musical inventory highlighting the charms of living in Winooski, Vermont...recorded April 3, 2010, at the Monkey House during the "Sounds of the Onion City" celebration.
this episode documents a week in which Loraleh Harris moves her art gallery to a larger light-filled space in the Winooski Block at the corner of East Allen and Main Streets. Responding to the downtown's lack of anywhere to buy a cup of coffee, she introduces an expresso bar into the gallery and reflects on ways the space might be opened up to embrace community activities.