We’re not going to lie, this has been hard and we’re wiped. And by “we,” we mean all of us — you, the Junction editors, any and everyone who has slogged through it all by dint of little more than sheer necessity and determination. But at the risk of getting all greeting-card about it, never has it been more apparent that there’s a lot to be said for appreciating what we have when we have it.
To that end, Hazel-Dawn Dumpert plants herself on a Hanover sidewalk to view a powerful work of art that stands sentinel in the window of a closed museum. Not content to remain still even while locked in place, Courtney Cook takes her cue from the world of white outside. Proving we don’t even need to open the front door to travel, she explores the far-flung snowscapes of literature and, along the way, encounters the thrills of sex, danger, even the spectre of death, all while comfort and nostalgia await to cushion her return.
- Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Every One
So close and yet so far, the installation "Every One (#MMIWQT Bead Project)" gazes out at the Dartmouth Green from the second-floor vitrine in the recently renovated façade of the Hood Museum. It’s the only work from the current exhibit “Form & Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics” that is viewable from outside the closed museum’s walls, which makes it all the more tantalizing, as it offers a potent taste of the work that waits within, and all the more appropriate as it references the untold stories behind crucial loss. (Read more)
Every Time It Snows
Snow and snowscapes are magical. If there is a Russian novel that doesn’t have between one and several dozen plot points set in a snowy scene, I don’t know of it. If there is a children’s story that is better than The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, I don’t want to hear of it, unless you want to talk about Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton. (OK, maybe also The Polar Express.) If there is a song for snow that is better than “The Outdoor Song which Has To Be Sung In The Snow” sung by Winnie the Pooh and Piglet in The House at Pooh Corner, then you will have to argue with not only me, but also the inimitable Dorothy Parker, who paid homage to “our recurrent hero” in this delightful piece written for the New Yorker in 1928. (Read more)
Calendar
WEEKLY BLACK LIVES MATTER VIGILS:
Mondays in Grantham, NH, 4:30–5:30pm, across from the Grantham Post Office
Mondays in Hanover, NH, 5–5:30pm, on the green
Tuesdays in Lebanon, NH, 5–5:30pm, Colburn Park across from the Lebanon Opera House
Wednesdays in Meriden, NH, 5–5:30pm, Rte. 120 and Main St. intersection
Wednesdays in Windsor, VT, 6-6:30pm, Old South Church
Thursdays in Canaan, NH, 5–5:30pm, sidewalks on Route 4 & 118
Fridays in Claremont, NH, 5–6pm, Broad Street Park
Fridays in Springfield, VT, 5-6pm, 6 Main St.
For more opportunities to engage, see the SURJ Upper Valley Facebook page.
Wednesday, February 10th - 7pm
Charles Wheelan, We Came We Saw We Left - The Howe and Still North [virtual]
Friday, February 12th - 7:30pm
Our Winter Table: An Evening Featuring Anais Mitchell - Middlebury Community Music Center [virtual]
February 13th - 21st
Maple Celebration - Billings Farm and Museum
February 15th - 20th
Cahoots NI: The University of Wonder and Imagination - Lebanon Opera House [virtual, tickets required]
Monday, February 15th - 7pm
BRAVEY: Alexi Pappas in Conversation with Rachel Dratch - Still North [virtual]
Thursday, February 18th - 6pm
Virtual Art After Dark: Feast Your Eyes - Hood Museum of Art [virtual]
Saturday, February 20th - 4:30pm
Torchlight Snowshoe - Billings Farm and Museum
Saturday, February 20th - 7pm
Dance Gala - Raq-On [virtual, tickets required]
Saturday, February 20th - 7pm
Bow Thayer - Spruce Peak Arts [in person and virtual]
Visit Junction for more events. If you have an event you’d like to see added, please email: calendar@junctionmagazine.com
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