From the River to the River - Press Conference 7/1/16

"From the River, To the River: Brattleboro’s Public Art Project Opens"

The Town of Brattleboro and the artist team of Elizabeth Billings, Evie Lovett and Andrea Wasserman invite the Brattleboro community to bring a picnic and enjoy ice cream floats by the river during Friday July 1 Gallery Walk to celebrate the opening of From the River, To the River, a public art project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts “Our Town” grant awarded to the Town of Brattleboro.

Town officials and the artists will welcome the community at 6 pm at the Brattleboro Transportation Center against the backdrop of River Wall, a kinetic sculpture of 38,000 sequins imagining water patterns on the the Transportation Center. Projected Water, a video of images of over 300 people in the Brattleboro community and water imagery, will play at the site throughout Gallery Walk. At 6:15 pm, dancers from the Southern Vermont Dance Festival will lead the assembled to the Riverfront at Depot Street to gather at 6:30 pm on the newly installed granite benches, view the River Portrait—a 8’x25’ photographic collage–and for remarks, poetry, ice cream floats and performances. Legible Bodies Dance Company will perform an excerpt from “NarcissUS” which will be performed during the Southern Vermont Dance Festival, July 14-17, 2016 in Brattleboro (www.southernvermontdancefestival.com). In the event of rain, meet at 6 pm at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and parade to the Transportation Center.