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  • JOZEF VAN WISSEM: The Fall Of The House Of Usher
    JOZEF VAN WISSEM: The Fall Of The House Of Usher
    Sat, Dec 07
    Epsilon Spires
    Dec 07, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Dec 07, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Dutch composer, Jozef Van Wissem is an established surreal lutenist. Experience his powerful original score for Jean Epstein’s legendary 1928 film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s magnificent gothic tale: The Fall of the House of Usher, (co-written with Luis Buñuel).
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  • Lunchtime Pipe Organ Series:  Henry Danaher
    Lunchtime Pipe Organ Series:  Henry Danaher
    Wed, Dec 04
    Epsilon Spires
    Dec 04, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Dec 04, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    December's Lunchtime Organ Recital, featuring organ pieces based on holiday carols and songs, will be performed by Henry Danaher. Henry is the Director of Music at The Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, where besides serving as organist, he leads the choral and handbell programs. 
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  • LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS! On Black Friday!
    LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS! On Black Friday!
    Fri, Nov 29
    Epsilon Spires
    Nov 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Nov 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Campy and fun, Little Shop Of Horrors offers a scathing critique into what capitalism asks of us, and the lengths we’ll go to fulfill it's empty promises. Join us on Black Friday for the Director's Cut with a controversal alternative ending! Entry includes raffle to win a carnivorous plant!
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  • TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 50th JAMBOREE! w/ Mozzaleum!
    TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 50th JAMBOREE! w/ Mozzaleum!
    Sat, Nov 23
    Epsilon Spires
    Nov 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Nov 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Let's Have A Post-Election Primal Scream! Join us for the 50th Anniversary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one of the most profoundly influential works in genre film history! We present the restored cult classic in crisp 4k + an unparalleled live performance by Mozzaleum before the screening.
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  • MOONDOG On The Keys!
    MOONDOG On The Keys!
    Sat, Nov 16
    Epsilon Spires
    Nov 16, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Nov 16, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Join us for an extraordinary night of piano and vocal works by the maverick American Composer Moondog! Presented by his grand-student, trimbist Julian Calv, pianist Alex Stewart, and vocalist/percussionist Sarah Penna. 
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  • Six Organs of Admittance + Tashi Dorji
    Six Organs of Admittance + Tashi Dorji
    Wed, Nov 13
    Epsilon Spires
    Nov 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Nov 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Six Organs of Admittance is the main project of Ben Chasny, ranging from quiet acoustic fingerstyle to waves of inspired experimentation. Bhutanese-American guitarist Tashi Dorji's unique minimalist style blends avant-garde, free improvisation, and traditional sounds. Opening set by History Teaches!
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  • Lunchtime Pipe Organ Series: Heinrich Christensen
    Lunchtime Pipe Organ Series: Heinrich Christensen
    Wed, Nov 06
    Epsilon Spires
    Nov 06, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Nov 06, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    An avid proponent of contemporary organ music and the Music Director of historic King's Chapel in Boston, prizewinning Danish organist Heinrich Christensen has performed for Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston Ballet, Handel & Haydn Society and at Tanglewood.
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  • ELLEN ARKBRO
    ELLEN ARKBRO
    Sat, Nov 02
    Epsilon Spires
    Nov 02, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Nov 02, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Join us for a pipe organ performance by Ellen Arkbro, a composer, organist and trumpet player from Stockholm who focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation, inviting the listener to gradually transform into the sound itself.
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  • GHOSTWATCH w/ Bordello Collective!
    GHOSTWATCH w/ Bordello Collective!
    Thu, Oct 31
    Epsilon Spires
    Oct 31, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Oct 31, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED! Live broadcast on Halloween in 1992, this shocking BBC special was so disturbing it was banned for 10 years. Before the film, UK-based artists Vision 25-C and DYAD of the Bordello Collective will present a new multimedia performance inspired by the phenomenon!
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  • RINGU + Graham Brooks & Hannah Hoffman!
    RINGU + Graham Brooks & Hannah Hoffman!
    Sat, Oct 26
    Epsilon Spires
    Oct 26, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Oct 26, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED! We dare you to experience the original media-themed Japanese horror classic that began THE RING phenomenon on the big screen! Before the film enjoy a rare drone set from legendary local shredder Graham Brooks joined by synth genius Hannah Hoffman of Dutch Experts!
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  • VAMPYR (1932) w/ Live Score by Lori Goldston
    VAMPYR (1932) w/ Live Score by Lori Goldston
    Sun, Oct 13
    Epsilon Spires
    Oct 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Oct 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Cellist Lori Goldston performs an original live soundtrack to one of cinema’s most poetic nightmares, Carl Dreyer's VAMPYR, a waking dream of hauntingly beautiful and unsettling imagery. Before the film we will screen the shocking, exquisite, (and obscure) avant-garde short: Ménilmontant (1926)
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  • Chuck Johnson + Wednesday Knudsen
    Chuck Johnson + Wednesday Knudsen
    Sat, Oct 12
    Epsilon Spires
    Oct 12, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Oct 12, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    California-based composer Chuck Johnson approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty using pedal steel guitar, alternate tuning systems and electronics. Multi-instrumentalist Wednesday Knudsen explores ambient improvisation and composition.
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  • TWIN PEAKS: Fire Walk With Me
    TWIN PEAKS: Fire Walk With Me
    Fri, Oct 11
    Epsilon Spires
    Oct 11, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Oct 11, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    David Lynch’s 1992 prequel to his cult TV series is one of his darkest, creepiest, and most surreal works. Join us as we follow the supernatural events leading up to the mysterious death of homecoming queen, Laura Palmer. Damn good coffee and pie will be served + Cocktail Afterparty at THE TOWER!
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  • POLTERGEIST + Mong Tong (Taiwan)!
    POLTERGEIST + Mong Tong (Taiwan)!
    Mon, Oct 07
    Epsilon Spires
    Oct 07, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Oct 07, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED! This Halloween season we offer a trifecta of horror about the power of media beginning with Poltergeist (1982). Live performance before the film by MONG TONG, hypnotic otherworldly sonic atmospheres inspired by Southeast Asian mythology, folklore and 60's-70s psych.
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  • Lunchtime Pipe Organ Series: Jonathan Denham
    Lunchtime Pipe Organ Series: Jonathan Denham
    Wed, Oct 02
    Epsilon Spires
    Oct 02, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Oct 02, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    The Music Director and Organist at the First Congregational Church in Woodstock, VT. Jonathan's program for October is "Feelings of Fall" featuring works by Bach, Handel, Carson Cooman, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, and César Franck.
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  • NOSFERATU: A Symphony of Horror with Arpeggione Ensemble
    NOSFERATU: A Symphony of Horror with Arpeggione Ensemble
    Sat, Sep 28
    Epsilon Spires
    Sep 28, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Sep 28, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    EsteyFest24 presents F.W. Murnau’s cult classic as it was first heard by audiences in the 1920’s. Boston’s acclaimed 10-piece Arpeggione ensemble performs a reconstruction of composer Hans Erdmann’s original score on instruments of the period, including a 1925 harmonium by Estey of Brattleboro.
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  • Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO
    Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO
    Sun, Sep 22
    Epsilon Spires
    Sep 22, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:15 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Sep 22, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:15 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    "Only Dreamers Move Mountains!" To celebrate the new 4k restoration of BURDEN OF DREAMS, join us for FITZCARRALDO (1982), Klaus Kinski stars in Herzog’s most legendary feat of filmmaking folly, the meta-film masterpiece that illuminates colonialism with surrealism in both it's process and form.
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  • BURDEN OF DREAMS w/ Intro by Jim Browne (Argot Pictures)!
    BURDEN OF DREAMS w/ Intro by Jim Browne (Argot Pictures)!
    Sat, Sep 21
    Epsilon Spires
    Sep 21, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Sep 21, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
    Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Experience the new 4k restoration of Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams, capturing legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious project Fitzcarraldo, in which a rubber baron (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle.
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