Collaborations
Leadership and Advocacy for the Arts in Southern Vermont
Preservation Trust of Vermont is our long-time friend and collaborator, who helped Brattleboro Arts Initiative acquire the Latchis Memorial Building. No discussion of collaborators can commence without first gratefully acknowledging the Preservation Trust’s contribution to The Latchis Project.
The Arts Council of Windham County, which serves as an umbrella organization for many. BAI has served in an advisory capacity.
Alliance for the Arts (AFTA) is a loose collaboration of arts organizations who meet monthly to discuss topics of mutual interest. BAI is on the Steering Committee and helps frame the discussions brought forth each month.
Festival 05301 (zip to Brattleboro!) was organized to highlight area events during southern Vermont’s famed foliage season. Providing marketing expertise and opportunities, Festival 05301 enabled Brattleboro’s artists and performers to reach a highly mobile audience outside our environs.
Brattleboro Tix, an on-line ticketing service, makes its home within the Latchis Complex.
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and Marlboro College Technical Center joined forces with BAI and the Latchis to provide conferencing possibilities, utilizing each of our unique features – hotel, theatres, gallery space and classrooms – to offer a distinctive conference experience. Street to Studio is an up-coming collaboration with the Museum, with a 3-film series and Director's Q&A on September 14 and 15, 2007 at the Latchis Theatre.
Building a Better Brattleboro – BAI holds a seat at this table, working to support and nurture the economic, cultural, residential and educational strengths of our community.
Guilford Central School’s seventh grade spent time in the Latchis Theatre and then went on to research the stories of Greek Mythology depicted in the famed murals. They will culminate their study of Ancient Greece by producing a brochure for BAI that will be a guide to the myths and Greek elements in the Latchis Theatre.
The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College created the opportunity to collaborate with performance artist Anne Galjour at the Latchis, where she performed her one woman show Hurricane at the Latchis to great acclaim.
ALANA, a youth-based group dedicated to nurturing respect for diversity, collaborated with BAI to present the movie Crash and hosted a lecture and panel discussion on the culture of “isms” in our time.
BAI has collaborated with the Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro Musem and Art Center, Brattleboro Area Community Land Trust, Windham Art Gallery, Kingdom County Productions, Vermont Public Radio, School for International Training, and Center for Digital Art. We have hosted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well as the Citizen’s Awareness Network.
Brattleboro Arts Initiative takes part in the monthly Gallery Walk. Eighteen acoustic panels in the main theatre have been transformed with fabric and light, and showcase the art of local and regional artists in an exhibit that changes monthly.
As part of our commitment to arts education, Brattleboro Arts Initiative has made a statement of support regarding the efforts of the Brattleboro Arts Campus on Elm Street. New England Youth Theater is a prime mover behind this worthy addition to arts education in Brattleboro, and the Latchis is pleased to have been, for many years, the site of their growth and success.
We were invited to discuss the future of the neighboring Wilder Block (which sustained substantial damage in a fire) during wide ranging talks, addressing opportunities for the arts. Later, in specific discussions with new owner Brattleboro Area Community Land Trust, we were able to influence the creation of live/work space for artists as one of the elements in the building’s rehabilitation.
BAI collaborates with Latchis Corporation to enhance the building’s handicapped accessibility. There are three prongs to this attack: an extensive modification to the current elevator, modifications to the men’s bathroom in the theatre lobby, and the installation of assistive listening devices in all three theatres.
In another Latchis Corporation collaboration, BAI created Book a Room at the Latchis, an exhibition and sales opportunity for area artists, who are invited to show their work in guest rooms at the Latchis Hotel.
