Coming Soon...
Fri, Dec 01Dec 01, 2023, 7:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAIn Partnership with The Brattleboro Literary Festival, our Film Adaptations of Banned Books Series begins with Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic directed by French New-Wave Auteur François Truffaut. The 1966 film will be introduced by screenwriter and producer Tim Metcalfe and writer Tom Bedell.
Sat, Dec 02Dec 02, 2023, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAIn June 2024 award-winning artists Mary Lacy and Corrine Yonce will create a large-scale mosaic mural in Pliny Park in Brattleboro. This mosaic will share the collective story of the surrounding community through embedded objects donated by the public to be incorporated into the finished piece!
Wed, Dec 06Dec 06, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOur Lunchtime Recital for December will feature pieces based on holiday carols. Organist Henry Danaher is the Director of Music at The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College. This will be the last concert on our historic Estey until the series resumes in March 2024 -not to be missed!
Sat, Dec 09Dec 09, 2023, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAJake's new album on Smithsonian Folkways: THE NEW FAITH enacts an imagined religious ceremony performed by Black refugees after the collapse of global civilization due to catastrophic climate change. An offering of spiritual music, filled with hope for salvation and righteous anger in equal measure
Sun, Dec 10Dec 10, 2023, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAIn his controversial debut, Orson Welles unleashed a torrent of stylistic innovations to tell the story of the meteoric rise and fall of a newspaper magnate, presenting a self-reflective portrait of American megalomania. Often considered the greatest film ever made, experience it on the big screen!
Sat, Dec 16Dec 16, 2023, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAPianist Sophia Subbayya Vastek performs with passion and profound tenderness, her music is described as ghostly, delicate, and elegant. Opening support by activist/musician John Davis of the lo-fi indie rock duo Folk Implosion.
Fri, Dec 22Dec 22, 2023, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAGremlins is a 1984 horror-comedy Christmas fable that wreaks havoc on the tropes of classic holiday films. Enjoy the cult-classic in our Sanctuary with some mulled cider and Yuletide treats. Wear your best ugly holiday sweater to win local gift certificates! Opening performance by Synthesizer Santa!
Sat, Dec 30Dec 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOne of the most important works in Swedish cinema premiered on New Years Eve, 103 years ago. A ghostly tale of time travel reminiscent of Dicken's "Christmas Carol." It inspired Ingmar Bergman to begin filmmaking and influenced Kubrick's "The Shining". Live ambient soundtrack by The Empyreans!
Sat, Jan 06Jan 06, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USABring a wrapped gift that is either nice, useful, absurd, or homemade and play BINGO to win a surprise that someone else has offered. This is a party to let go of things that may serve others better... perhaps good fortune will prevail and you win something you absolutely needed and adore!
Video by Maralie Armstrong
Photo by Kristopher Radder
The belfry contains the permanent installation of the Weather Warlock drone synthesizer
Video by Maralie Armstrong
The Sanctuary
The Sanctuary was built in a similar fashion to a European opera house allowing for incredible acoustics and visceral sonic resonance. The versatile stage area has comfortably accommodated chamber orchestras, full-scale opera productions, and dozens of choral singers. The Estey pipe organ has been regularly maintained since installation in 1906 and is in perfect working order for performances ranging from classical to avant-garde. Ornately carved antique pews on 3 levels provide a seating capacity of 425. The venue also features a retractable cinema screen and projection capability.
ART + SCIENCE
Epsilon Spires hosts a multimedia art gallery on the top balcony of the Sanctuary with a curatorial focus on interactive installations that merge art and science to investigate the political implications of perception and subjectivity.