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A bar hanging from two ropes, but 20 feet in the air (don’t worry… there’s a net!) The flyer, holding the bar, jumps from a platform, swings through the air with the option for tricks and poses. Progressions include releasing and re-catching the bar, and being caught by a “catcher” on a second trapeze spaced perfectly across from it. Flyers fall into a net below, dismount, and get ready to fly all over again! NECCA offers drop-in classes for various circus classes throughout the session. Students can reserve their spot ahead of time on our website or show up 15 minutes early to class to register in person. (Note: we cannot guarantee space in the class if you do not pre-register.) Age 7 and up.
Ever wanted to fly through the air with the greatest of ease? Now is your chance! Friday Night Flights has been expanded to weekly due to high demand! This highly discounted class (20$ off 👀) aims to make flying trapeze more accessible. This class is for flyers at every level of ability and experience—whether you’ve never tried flying trapeze before, or you’re working on taking tricks out of lines. Beginning students will learn how to take off from the platform, perform fundamental trapeze tricks, and begin working on the ‘swing’—the bread and butter of flying trapeze. More experienced flyers will continue to work on fundamentals and on advancing their trick vocabulary. In the last half hour of class, flyers who are ready will be able to take their tricks across to a catcher (one of their coaches) swinging from a second trapeze. Age 7 and up.
Cellist, vocalist, and composer Queralt Giralt Soler brings her deeply expressive trio to the stage for an evening of genre-blurring original music and reimagined works. Blending classical training with Catalan folk traditions, jazz, and contemporary sounds, she weaves cello and voice into an intimate, singular musical language. Joined by Mahya Hamedi (piano, percussion, vocals) and Bahar Badiei (oud, vocals), the trio performs Giralt Soler’s compositions alongside inspired interpretations of music by Hermeto Pascoal and Paco de Lucía—lyrical, adventurous, and deeply personal.
Party Animals follows five furry friends as they navigate the biggest social hurdle of their young lives — throwing their first party! Meet a bunny with boundless energy, a sloth with social anxiety, a hedgehog wrestling with wrapping, and a skunk who’s trying to keep everything cool and under control. Through song, dance, and original rock ‘n’ roll music by Boston local Phil Berman, these little stars discover that music can be an exuberant and healthy way to express yourself.
Party Animals balances silly antics with deeper truths, all conveyed through traditional hand puppetry performance. Legendary rock star Pete Townshend once said, “Rock ‘n’ roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them” — a truth for the ages, and for all ages.
For nearly two decades, the Winter Sunshine Series has been a warm beacon during Vermont’s coldest months—bringing laughter, imagination, and shared experiences to audiences of all ages. Sandglass Theater invites families, friends, and neighbors to gather once again this February and celebrate the joy of puppetry together.
A bar hanging from two ropes, but 20 feet in the air (don’t worry… there’s a net!) The flyer, holding the bar, jumps from a platform, swings through the air with the option for tricks and poses. Progressions include releasing and re-catching the bar, and being caught by a “catcher” on a second trapeze spaced perfectly across from it. Flyers fall into a net below, dismount, and get ready to fly all over again! NECCA offers drop-in classes for various circus classes throughout the session. Students can reserve their spot ahead of time on our website or show up 15 minutes early to class to register in person. (Note: we cannot guarantee space in the class if you do not pre-register.) Age 7 and up.
A bar hanging from two ropes, but 20 feet in the air (don’t worry… there’s a net!) The flyer, holding the bar, jumps from a platform, swings through the air with the option for tricks and poses. Progressions include releasing and re-catching the bar, and being caught by a “catcher” on a second trapeze spaced perfectly across from it. Flyers fall into a net below, dismount, and get ready to fly all over again! NECCA offers drop-in classes for various circus classes throughout the session. Students can reserve their spot ahead of time on our website or show up 15 minutes early to class to register in person. (Note: we cannot guarantee space in the class if you do not pre-register.) Age 7 and up.
Nate Smith at the Vermont Jazz Center
Saturday, February 21, 2026
7:30 pm
Vermont Jazz Center
In-person & live streamed
Join us to see drummer Nate Smith, in a contemporary jazz groove-based performance.
Smith is one of the most dynamic & versatile voices in modern music.
On February 2, 2026, Smith won two Grammy Awards, including Best Alternative Jazz Album for LIVE ACTION and Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals for the song “Big Fish” featuring säje.
He is widely regarded as one of the most in-demand musicians of his generation, known for his dynamic blend of jazz, funk, & soul.
Smith has played with artists ranging from Jon Baptiste, Norah Jones, & Vulfpeck to Betty Carter, Charlie Hunter, Pat Metheny, & Kurt Elling.
This trio features Jeremey ‘J3PO’ Pollack on keyboards & Ben ‘CARTOONS’ Carr on electric bass.
Sponsored by Sonic Circus &/ a friend of the VJC’s Educational Programs.
$25-60 general admission in person
donations for live stream welcome.
For accessibility support please call in advance.
802 254 9088 ext. 1
sarah@vtjazz.org
eugene@vtjazz.org
www.vtjazz.org
Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hill #222
Brattleboro, VT 05301
We held our inaugural Snow Golf challenge in 2023 on a beautiful snowy day and had so much fun, we’ve made it an annual event! Snow or no snow, seasoned golfer or novice, we always have a great time for a good cause. Once again we’ll be partnering with the Brattleboro Country Club on the design and layout of our challenges and featuring our popular Scott Farm pop up bar. The unique “kid-driven” food cart from Newton’s Curveball Concessions will return as well. There will plenty of reasons to make an afternoon of it and bring your friends and family!
Run away and join the circus for a 1/2 day or full day or full week of circus camp! Kids will receive top-notch instruction in a noncompetitive environment. They’ll get a sense of pride and increased confidence as they learn communication skills, perseverance, and self-determination, as well as how to be a spectacular acrobat, aerialist, juggler, or clown. We honor the traditions of the circus by including activities to develop creative and performance skills, share the history of circus while passing along fun circus traditions. Students will work in groups by age and ability for the best learning experience. We work with the energy of our youngest students by including separate art activities and quiet time suited to their learning needs.
1:30-2:30 pm
Last Wednesdays of the month: January 28, February 25, March 25, April 29, May 27, June 24
Instructor Tara Murphy
If you have a heartbeat, you can drum! For millennia, drumming has brought people together to create peace, health and wellness. The uplifting rhythms of Africa relieve stress and help people connect with each other, as well as their own joy. Tara Murphy leads creative movement and drum classes for seniors of all abilities, inspired by traditional West African dance and drumming. It is a great time to release energy, lift spirits, connect with others, have fun, and get healthy exercise. She encourages participants to jam out and express their rhythms creatively, first through chair-based movement and then through drumming. Participants will do simple rhythm exercises and then learn traditional rhythms on the dundun drums of Mali and Guinea, West Africa, and play together as an ensemble. The drum circle emphasizes community, self-expression and the joy of rhythm. Drums provided and no experience necessary.
Senior drum circle demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2voFc3HtjCg
Produced in 1968, this documentary captures Johnny Cash on the road and onstage with the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins, alongside rare behind-the-scenes moments—most notably, Cash recording with Bob Dylan at Columbia Studios. Filmed early in the career of local filmmaker Alan Dater (the film’s sound recordist), the film also offers intimate access to Cash’s personal life, from time at home with June Carter in Tennessee to visits with his family in California and his childhood hometown in Arkansas. A powerful sequence at the Rosebud Reservation and the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre adds historical depth.
Alan Dater will introduce the screening and participate in a post-film discussion. The event will also feature a short video interview with director Bob Elfstrom on the making of the film.
The Fairy Circus features over twenty turn-of-the-century-style trick puppets. The puppets dance, play instruments, juggle, contort, transform, and fly through the air with the greatest of ease, all to the best-loved music of favorite composers. This show is sure to delight young children and family audiences alike.
For nearly two decades, the Winter Sunshine Series has been a warm beacon during Vermont’s coldest months—bringing laughter, imagination, and shared experiences to audiences of all ages. Sandglass Theater invites families, friends, and neighbors to gather once again this February and celebrate the joy of puppetry together.
Sliding Scale $100-$125
Learn more about our pricing philosophy here!
Susan guides participants on how to create a good mosaic design, using color and
composition for an outstanding finished mosaic mirror art piece. Students are given a
12”x12” wooden base with a 6”x6” beveled mirror, mosaic tile, and other found object
pieces.
Day #1 is spent learning the process of making a mosaic art piece, with instructions on
how to create a mosaic design. All mosaic tiles are cemented on the wooden backer by
the end of Day 1, as the pieces need to dry overnight.
Day #2, students are instructed on grout application, applying grout, and cleaning tiles
to finish their piece.
Sunburned Hand of the Man are an enigmatic experimental collective with a stunningly large discography and frequent personnel changes. Their improvisations incorporate elements of free jazz, space rock, psych-rock, hypno krautrock, drone, folk, funk, punk, and dirty synth. Their live shows are a surprise every time — even to them, usually — ranging from wild freak-outs to more coherently sculpted material careening from unsettling to hypnotic to mellow.
According to Sean Kitching, writing in The Quietus, “Sunburned at their best are capable of taking the listener on a shamanic, boogie-fueled trip outside of quotidian reality. Live shows blend monstrous tectonics of rhythm, caustic guitar, echoing phased vocals, insect electronics and kitchen sink instrumentation that collide in an ecstatic racket.”
Throughout the mid-’90s they represented New England’s “free rock” contingency, and the “free folk” — sometimes misnomered “freak folk” — era described by David Keenan’s 2003 article “New Weird America” in British music magazine The Wire.
There will be no opener for this show, it will be 100% Sunburned. It’s likely to be loud. Stage 33 Live has no idea what the lineup will be, or how long the show will go. This is in accordance with the strange purity of Sunburned Hand of the Man.
Daisy Frederick will provide old-school psychedelic interactive liquid light projections.
February 28, 2026, which is a Saturday, at 7:00 PM. Tickets are just $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. The performances will be recorded and filmed. Stage 33 Live is located at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Stage 33 Live is a casual and intimate industrial-rustic listening room in a former factory hosting local, regional, and national performances and presentations of original material. No bar or kitchen, the stage is the mission; coffee / soda / juice / water and weird snacks available by donation. More information about the nonprofit, all-volunteer project, and this and other upcoming events, online at stage33live.com
Stage 33 Live gratefully acknowledges the help of so many individuals without whom none of this would be able to happen, and institutional support this season from The Island Corporation, WOOL-FM, Guilford Sound, and the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project to help fund improvements and maintenance, and generally smooth out a lot of the rough edges. Stage 33 Live is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are deductible to the fullest extent. Volunteers run the thing from stem to stern.
Corey Harris is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who has carved out a singular place in contemporary blues. Rooted in tradition yet boldly expansive, his music weaves together blues, reggae, soul, rock, and West African influences. A former New Orleans street singer who spent a formative year living in Cameroon, Harris has toured worldwide and collaborated with artists including B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, Tracy Chapman, Wilco, and the Dave Matthews Band. He was featured in Martin Scorsese’s film Feel Like Going Home and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007.
Opening the evening is Sunny Lowdown, a master of slide guitar known for deep grooves, slow-burning blues, and a raw, hypnotic sound. A Blues Blast Music Award nominee and winner of the Vermont Blues Challenge, Lowdown brings an understated, powerful approach focused on tone, phrasing, and feel.
Co-sponsored by the Vermont Blues Society.