August 25, Tuesday at 7 PM: SUSPENDED WORLDS: Vermont’s Painted Theater Curtains, A Vermont Humanities Council Program, at the Hardwick Town House.
Christine Hadsel, director of Curtains Without Borders, and author of the recently published book Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England,
describes the talented and often sophisticated artists who were part of the rural cultural scene of small-town Vermont before World War I. The Town House in Hardwick features one of the painted curtains Christine will be discussing. Between 1880 and World War II, painted theater curtains were artistic features of most New England villages and towns. In Vermont, painted curtains graced stages in town and grange halls, opera houses, and community theaters. A culture of local variety shows and traveling, professional talent flourished in front of those curtains in some very remote Vermont communities.
This is a joint program with the Jeudevine Memorial Library, Galaxy Bookstore and NEK Arts.

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