Jessica Bridge
Dan Cypress
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REALTOR® dan@realestatevt.com 802.598.6219
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PechaKucha Night (PKN) is a worldwide phenomenon that began in 2003 in Tokyo. It offers the opportunity for a broad range of participants to present their designs, projects, thoughts, and ideas at a fun, informal, and fast-paced gathering. The May 10 edition of PechaKucha is scheduled to include presentations by David Blistein, Dave Burnett-Menard, Gin Ferrara, Clary Franko, Alexandra Halkin, Michael Krawczyk, Rebecca Mack, Andrew Schlesinger & Ali DeCuolio, Cynthia Silvey, and David Tomasi Learn more about PKN at www.pecha-kucha.org or www.flemingmuseum.org.
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“Curtains Without Borders: An Exhibition of Photographs,” Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington. Through July 28. Opening reception on Friday, May 11, 5:30-8 p.m. curtainswithoutborders.org
Thursday, May 10 @ 6:00PM Fleming Museum of Art
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Rogers’ daughter, Barbara Dorey, now 83, of Cape Cod, asking if the director had ever heard of her mother’s company. Hadsel had not, but she kept the message, and the two eventually connected by phone. When Dorey mentioned a certain curtain her mother had made depicting jazz musicians, Hadsel realized which one she was talking about. “That’s the one that stuck out in my mind,” Dorey recalls during a phone call. Her mother, she explains, was trying to complete the curtain while keeping her young daughter entertained, so Rogers made Dorey a sketch of it and told her to fill in the colors. “I remember the artwork, and her sketching it out to amuse me so I’d have something to do,” she says. Hadsel arranged for Dorey to appear at the exhibit opening in Montpelier. “When I saw it, I just couldn’t believe it existed after all these years,” Dorey says of the curtain. “I don’t think my mother would have believed it, either.” Hadsel describes the process of identifying the artist as “a kind of treasure hunt” — an equally apt description for her now 15-year-old project of rescuing the curtains themselves. “No two curtains are the same,” she notes, and even the smallest villages invested in one for their theater; Beecher Falls still has just a few hundred residents. “It does show the kind of pride and aspiration people had when they first built the places,” Hadsel reflects.