Artful Streets in May
What’s the Word?
Pliny Park
Ask The River artist Evie Lovett and the Connecticut River Conservancy river steward Kathy Urffer invite you to come down to the River, learn about her, and hear what she has to say! We’ll have beautiful river-inspired cyanotype postcards for you to write your thoughts and questions on.
Patio by the River
Brooks Memorial Library hosts artist Michael Albert at Pliny Park and invites you to make a collage of Your Essential Word—one of great importance to you! We’ll display all the collages in a huge Community Word Cloud on the park’s wall during Gallery Walk. What’s YOUR word?
The Museum Lawn
Encouraging our youth voices, come read a poem you wrote this year or someone else’s at our Poetry Open Mic. Meet and hear poems by local authors—Diana Whitney, Shanta Lee Gander and youth poets Emma Paris and Ruby Mack. Adults, we invite you to come read your recent poetry, too! And stop by the Local Love Brigade’s table to write your own poem.
Other Artful Streets Activities
Form a team and play a giant Banananagrams game on Elliot Street. Visit the River Gallery School where they will have their antique letterpress in operation and print a message to someone you love. Write a letter to someone or something you’ve missed this year at the Hempacurean’s streetside typewriter. Poems Around Town—a project by Write Action & The Brattleboro Literary Festival—has placed poems written over the past year into downtown shop and restaurant windows written by 35 authors. Pick up a site list to guide you at the DBA Gallery Walk table on Elliot St.
