Toussaint St. Negritude
Tuesday, April 11, 7:00 pm
Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT
Tickets: $10—general admission, NVU Community—FREE
Afrofuturist / Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dually conjures the lyric timbre of both his horn and verse, creating his own collaborative ceremony of empathic wonders. Black, queer, artist, mountaineer, devout congregant of the wilderness, Toussaint St. Negritude honors his multiplicity of freedoms quite seriously. Perennially informed by the pan-cosmic realms of philosophic discovery and the corresponding spirituality evoked by the surrounding Green Mountains of Vermont, his works are inherently intoned by both the liberation and the expansion of the African Diaspora.
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- Northern Vermont University
Thursday, March 30, 7:00 pm
Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
337 College Hill Road
Johnson, VT 05656
Tickets: $20 for adults, $10 for those 18 and under
A Night at the Movies features a live, 22-piece VSO chamber orchestra accompanying seven documentary and animation films with Vermont ties.
The program weaves through a breadth of musical styles and film stories, from two animated shopping carts searching for love to the story of Hansel and Gretel. Adventurous lemurs learn to fly, a little girl grows up in an undocumented farmworker family, and a director chronicles his path from prison to filmmaking.
- How We See Water by Robin Starbuck (music by Waterbury composer Matt LaRocca)
- Two Balloons by Mark Smith (music by Peter Broderick)
- The Greatest Night by Jeremy Lee MacKenzie (music by Middlebury College Asst. Professor of Music Dr. Matthew Evan Taylor)
- Mate by and with music composed by Rusty Eveland
- Breath by Marlboro-based Jesse Kreitzer (music by Brattleboro composer Paul Dedell)
- Estrellita by Middlebury College Animation Studio and Producer Daniel Houghton (music by Jack DeBouter)
- Gretel Hansel KinRumpelStilts by Burlington-based Chris Caswell (music by Burlington composer Patricia Julien)
Featuring the Shanghai Circus
Monday, April 10, 7:00 pm
Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
Northern Vermont University-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT
Reserved seats: Adults - $48, $34, $15. Students 18 and under - $15.
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For the last thirty-two years, The Peking Acrobats have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility, and control.
The Peking Acrobats are part of a time-honored Chinese tradition, rooted in centuries of Chinese history and folk art. Tradition demands that each generation of acrobats add its own improvements and embellishments; because of this, high honor is conferred upon those skilled enough to become acrobats. The Peking Acrobats seek to uphold this rich and ancient folk art tradition, bringing it to new technical heights while integrating twenty-first century technology.
The Peking Acrobats have been featured on television shows including Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous, Ellen’s Really Big Show (hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), The Wayne Brady Show, That’s Incredible, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and NBC’s Ring In The New Year Holiday Special. They set the world record for the Human Chair Stack on FOX Network’s Guinness Book Primetime television show in 1999: they balanced six people precariously atop six chairs twenty-one feet up in the air without safety lines, astounding audiences with their bravery and dexterity. They were featured in Steven Soderbergh’s hit film Ocean’s Eleven playing alongside Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Peking Acrobats’ alumnus Shaobo Qin also appeared in that film’s two sequels, Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen.
“The Peking Acrobats are pushing the envelope of human possibility, combining agility and grace in remarkable feats of pure artistry.” —Clive Davis, New York Post.
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VBA Radio Group
The Point
Seven Days
Passumpsic Bank
Thursday, April 13, 7:00 pm
Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT
Tickets: $10—general admission, NVU Community—FREE
Bryan is a singer-songwriter who brings more than ten thousand years of Abenaki tradition to his contemporary compositions. He began powwow drumming more than two decades ago and soon after began writing Abenaki language songs. Bryan also studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Wednesday, April 19, 7:00 pm
Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT
Tickets: $10—general admission, NVU Community—FREE
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth. Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem - it's on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care. Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate.
Thursday, April 20 - Sunday, April 23, 7:00 pm
Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT
Tickets: $10—general admission, NVU Community—FREE
Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. The play centers on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with the Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man.
Thursday, April 27, 7:00 pm
Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT
Tickets: $10—general admission, NVU Community—FREE
Join us the Polaris Singers and Concert Band’s for an end-of-semester performance! Students, faculty, staff, and community members have been hard at work all semester long to prepare for this show!
Friday, April 28, 7:00 pm
Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT
Tickets: $10—general admission, NVU Community—FREE
Join us for Northern Vermont University- Johnson’s Funk Fusion Ensemble! Here is a chance to support your fellow campus members, and hear some fantastic music. Join us and be soothed by the smooth saxophones, awaken to the sound of the trumpet, and snap your fingers along with the stand-up bass.