Archive for the "Creating in Place (local art)" Category

Introducing Writing Nature Marketplace

Check out the new Writing Nature site, which is being developed in affiliation with over 150 writers, painters, photographers, musicians and other artists in the Writing Nature community.  Their work explores and promotes sense of place and environmental themes.  Individuals in the Writing Nature community have created long-running annual and semi-annual retreats at Camp Glen [...]

Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival

If you gave a 250 acre farm over to a group of writers, artists, actors, musicians and filmmakers for three days, you might well get anarchy. Or you’d get an amazing festival… September 16-18 Glen Brook’s annual Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival invites writers, artists, musicians – and participants – to celebrate the effects of [...]

Whole Terrain seeks submissions exploring Net Works theme

 As environmental practitioners, we cast nets to sample nature, to gather knowledge, to provoke action. Ornithologists use mist nets to capture birds for banding, advocates and organizers use social networks to foment governmental and public action, and vast amounts of data are gathered from different disciplines to construct climate change models. What do we hope [...]

Exploring time and place with Howard Mansfield

By Hanna Wheeler Author Howard Mansfield sifts through the commonplace and the forgotten to discover stories that tell us about ourselves and our relationship to the world. He shows us artifacts— a stone wall, a refurbished ax, a railroad timetable— and translates for us the historical, architectural, and philosophical notions contain therein. His most recent [...]

This Thursday in Keene: Writers from Vermont’s Local Banquet read their work

By Caroline Abels Rabbit is the new chicken, according to David Robb and Lila Bennett of Tangletown Farm. Learn more about small farmers at Thursday’s Muse Topia. With newspapers folding left and right, magazines being published largely by urbanities, and the public dialogue being out-Foxed and oversimplified, what’s a farmer to do? A farmer, you [...]