Celebrate Leap Day, February 29th with electro-acoustic hymns and sonic explorations inspired by the cosmos and natural world !

Sonoscopia, an experimental music collective based in Porto, Portugal presents Phobos: a set of small robots and automatic music generation devices that form an orchestra of sculptural instruments with defects, genetic mutations and erratic behaviors.

Screening of Peter Weir's 1975 dreamscape of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria. Opening Performance by Anomali & Ophelia on Vibraphone and Electronics.

Improvisational Performances by Ross Goldstein and Brian Dewan to celebrate the release of new ambient album: Timoka

Experimental Old-timey Psychedelic-Country Music Jamboree to celebrate the arrival of Spring! Curated by Mystra Records

A concert of European and American Music for the Organ featuring pieces by JS Bach, Elgar, Buxtehude, Anderson, Boëllmann, and others. Presented by the Estey Organ Museum

Screening of The Gleaners and I (2000) followed by a discussion of Agnès Varda’s Cinema: Performing (trans)national authorship. Facilitated by film scholar Leonard Cortana. This film experience includes locally-sourced thematic catering.

Closing Ceremony for Lauren Pakradooni's multimedia exhibition: Describing a Sunset to a Robocaller featuring live performances by Tether (Lauren Pakradooni) & Noise Nomads (Jeff Hartford).

New Years Eve: enjoy Stanley Kubrick's epic Sci-fi Classic on our Sanctuary screen paired with futuristic catering & color-evolving cocktails.

Curated by Jo Dery, Leif Goldberg, and Erin Rosenthal. Unusual animation on the big screen in our sanctuary followed by a dance party and snacks for kids of all ages. Opening with a short live-action Play: "Dream Friends" by the Lovelights.

Screening and discussion of final episodes 5 & 6 of CAPITALISM, an ambitious and accessible documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world.

Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and co-director of the Zinn Education Project, facilitates a workshop for K-12 educators, teacher educators, and activists, based on his book A People's Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis.

Alexander Meszler performs a piece on the sanctuary Estey organ incorporating field recordings, video projection and scientific research to raise awareness of the negative environmental impact of a U.S.- Mexico border wall.

Screening and discussion of episodes 3 & 4 of CAPITALISM, an ambitious and accessible documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world.

“Sunless” A film about subjectivity, death, photography, social custom and consciousness itself. Chris Marker's 1983 masterpiece offers a meditation on the nature of human memory and time, and how the perception of personal and global histories are affected in our post-modern universe.

Counter-celebrate Black Friday by viewing and discussing CAPITALISM, an ambitious and accessible documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world.

On Saturday Nov. 23rd at 3pm and 7:30 pm: Brattleboro Women’s Chorus will present their 23rd Annual Fall concert "Love Changes Everything" spirited harmonies from music of various traditions accompanied by local guest musicians.

Saturday night concert featuring Dorit Chrysler and Charlie Hobbs followed by Sunday workshops for children and adults to learn how to play the Theremin.

Brussels-based ambient classical composer Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett immerse the sanctuary with drifting, surrealist soundspaces. Anomali opens the event with new works melding vibraphone & synth. Join us for a deep-listening sonic experience utilizing the unique acoustics of the space.

With loops and a variety of sound effects, Carolina develops whole choirs to extend the color palette of our sonic landscape. Singing without lyrics, she merges theremin and voice symbiotically. Her ethereal vocals give the Theremin a human quality, while the Theremin adds an otherworldly element.

This documentary asks ‘How do we heal our deepest wounds?’ An intimate and raw look at the transformational journey of two combat veterans suffering from severe trauma as they abandon pharmaceuticals to seek relief from the mind-expanding world of psychedelics.

In the spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca, poets Partridge Boswell and Peter Money, along with guitarist Nat Williams, fuse poetry and music in a passionate and surprising mash-up that blurs boundaries between spoken word and song. Performance followed by an open reading hosted by Write Action.

The theme of the 2019 festival is Identity: personal identity, cultural identity and our identity as a country.

The flash story and prose poem are both flourishing in our era, and the relationship between the two is complex and intertwining. This reading will present writers who have been on the leading edge of this hybridization to create a dynamic and fascinating dialogue between the two forms.

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 underground film classic The Holy Mountain presented by avant-improvisational sound artist: Id M Theft Able

Author and Astrologer Chris Reppucci presents a special nightime lecture on the Lunar Mansions.

We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them.

Multimedia festival showcasing new, experimental works in a genre of Indonesian traditional music called gamelan. Artists of varying backgrounds will collaborate, forming small ensembles utilizing gamelan instruments and transforming its sound and structure with the aid of electronics.

On isolated Christmas island, land crabs migrate in millions from the jungle to the sea. The same jungle hides a high-security Australian detention centre where thousands of asylum seekers have been held indefinitely. Their only connection to the outside world is trauma counsellor, Poh Lin Lee.

Alloy Orchestra performs a dynamic live soundtrack to Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s 1929 surrealist masterpiece: Man with a Movie Camera.

Join food justice advocate and storyteller Amani Olugbala from Soul Fire Farm to learn how to be part of the movement for food sovereignty and help build a sustainable system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community.

Performance & multimedia installation featuring compositions of sound and image synchronized in real time with orbital debris objects.