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Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival performance – Wednesday, July 14th at 7pm

About Us » River Arts is a nonprofit organization that brings the energy, creativity and experience of the arts to all ages. We serve the Lamoille Valley of Vermont from Hardwick to Cambridge, from Eden to Stowe.

CRITICAL STATE – A Multimedia Performance Installation

Thursday, September 2 and Friday, September 3, at the River Arts Center 5:30PM- 8:30PM each evening

$20 or donation

Critical State is an animated installation, an environment of dance, sound, video and lighting that continually shifts over a 3-hour period. It is a laboratory in which we experiment with how in-the- moment compositions of movement, sound, video, lighting and audience effect each other.

Inside the River Arts Center you will find:

• 6 dancers simultaneously composing movement in spaces throughout the building. The dances vary in length. Versions of each will sometimes occur in a different place in the building.

• 1 musician composing and mixing sound that varies from day to day

• 3 video artists : 2 recording events that are displayed on monitors; 1 video

artist mixing images that are being recorded live and are projected onto the south wall downstairs.

• 1 lighting designer actively shifting the lighting

• 4 digital cameras to use and pass around

• An Ipod station for a one-on-one dance; Instructions at Ipod station

• 3 docents wearing River Arts nametags who can help you through the building and with the computers

You are invited to:

• Move through the space at your leisure

• Watch from as close as you’d like

• Take pictures; Download them downstairs

• Lie down in the spaces marked with chalk and let the changing environment move around you

• Have an IPOD dance: pick a dancer, sync your ipod, have a dance

• Use the computers to write comments, questions and download images

• Join us for a Question and Answer session at 8:30 each evening

ZUMBA – 2 nights a week!

Mondays from 5:15 till 6:15 (Canceled Labor Day, September 6th!) : Karen Machia leads this energetic workout. Classes are $10, or five sessions for $40, drop in… 888-1261 for more info.

Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 (Moved to the Senior Center beside the Cumberland Farms on Main Street 5:30-6:30 pm Thursday, September 2): Certified trainer, Sharlene Seymour

Pilates with Mary Regele - 6:30- 7:30 (Moved to the Senior Center beside the Cumberland Farms on Main Street 6:30-7:30 pm Thursday, September 2!) Mondays and Thursdays if you need more!

River Arts invites your feedback

Here, at River Arts we are always looking to improve our programs. We would like your input on our children’s programs. Whether your children have participated in the past, are currently in a class or have not yet participated in our programs we would like to hear from you about your availability and your child’s interests.

Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey form. To find the form, follow the link below.

Survey Form

Thank you for your time and your feed back.

The River Arts Center

The River Arts Center We’d love to show you around – the building is ADA accessible, has free wifi, public computers, plenty of parking, a beautiful kitchen, gallery space, and you can rent it for reasonable rates. Contact Lauren for rental rates at 888-1261.

Fundraising for the building project is currently in the final stage. As of September 3, we have raised $942,891 in grants and donations. We still need to raise just under $43,000 but we’re nearly there!

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