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Sat, Jan 18Epsilon SpiresJan 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAJan 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAReconsider the oyster! A hybrid documentary tracing the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world’s oyster capital. As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, we look to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival.
Sun, Jan 12Epsilon SpiresJan 12, 2025, 5:30 PM – 9:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAJan 12, 2025, 5:30 PM – 9:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAThis sweet, sexy, and surreal "Ramen Western" is a lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, and one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film ever made. Afterwards enjoy a Tampopo-inspired 3-course culinary experience created by Green Mountain Ramen paired with sake.
Sun, Dec 22Epsilon SpiresDec 22, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USADec 22, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAJazz and geopolitics collide in this riveting historical rollercoaster interrogating the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated with eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, and a pantheon of jazz legends.
Fri, Dec 20Epsilon SpiresDec 20, 2024, 6:30 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USADec 20, 2024, 6:30 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOur Screwball Speakeasy series begins with the Marx Brother's anarchic classic: Duck Soup (1933) followed by a delicious dinner of Homemade Duck Soup & Sourdough Bread (Vegan "Faux Duck Pho" is also available!) Thematic cocktails inspired by Groucho, Harpo, Chico (and sometimes Zeppo) are included!
Sun, Dec 15Epsilon SpiresDec 15, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USADec 15, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAThis Holiday Season we offer two silent film adaptations of Charles Dickens classics with live music performed on our Historic Estey pipe organ! A Christmas Carol (1910) and Oliver Twist (1922) starring "the man of a thousand faces" Lon Chaney and Jackie Coogan from Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid"
Fri, Dec 13Epsilon SpiresDec 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USADec 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USACelebrate Friday the 13th with a newly-restored crown jewel of Slovak animation! A pioneering and visually dazzling tale about the infamous historical figure Countess Elisabeth Báthory. Experience this bewitching fusion of gothic horror and folklore set to a live ambient soundtrack by NEONACH!
Sat, Dec 07Epsilon SpiresDec 07, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USADec 07, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USADutch 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).
Wed, Dec 04Epsilon SpiresDec 04, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USADec 04, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USADecember'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.
Fri, Nov 29Epsilon SpiresNov 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USANov 29, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USACampy 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!
Sat, Nov 23Epsilon SpiresNov 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USANov 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USALet'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.
Sat, Nov 16Epsilon SpiresNov 16, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USANov 16, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAJoin 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.
Wed, Nov 13Epsilon SpiresNov 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USANov 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USASix 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!
Wed, Nov 06Epsilon SpiresNov 06, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USANov 06, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAAn 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.
Sat, Nov 02Epsilon SpiresNov 02, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USANov 02, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAJoin 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.
Thu, Oct 31Epsilon SpiresOct 31, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOct 31, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USATHE 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!
Sat, Oct 26Epsilon SpiresOct 26, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOct 26, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USATHE 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!
Sun, Oct 13Epsilon SpiresOct 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOct 13, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USACellist 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)
Sat, Oct 12Epsilon SpiresOct 12, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USAOct 12, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PMEpsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USACalifornia-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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