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Points North #705
Bucolic Vermont is booming on the performing arts scene -- with echoes heard "round the state." Despite fierce, Information Age competition for audiences, arts programmers have ushered in a renaissance in live performance. An infusion of federal, state, and private funds has helped raise the curtain on majestic -- and historic -- theaters, restoring them to grandeur. Burlington's newly transformed Flynn Center for the Performing Arts celebrates with a gala reception to mark the transformation of the stylish theater into a multi-use venue. Behind the scenes, arts education enters the 21st century with innovative programs challenging traditional notions of learning and cultivating the benefits of the performing arts. Teens in Addison Repertory Theater take their home-spun show on the road, performing for elementary schools around the region. And in communities of all sizes, arts producers like Montpelier's Lost Nation Theater Company forge strong, vital relationships with the communities they serve to create opportunities for enriching, high-quality performance events right in our own backyards. The result? "All Vermont's a Stage!"
Teaching music to children at an early age has shown to improve their minds and bodies. We sit in on a Kindermusik class in Montpelier where youngsters ages 18 months-3 years of age are singing, dancing and swaying to the music while expanding their minds for the future.
David Budbill is an award winning poet, commentator and author who is probably best known for his stories of Judevine -- stories that capture the many voices of his home in the Northeast Kingdom. In this interview, Fran Stoddard speaks with Budbill about his work and his latest endeavor -- a libretto for an opera of Judevine.
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