Epsilon Spires

08/31/2026

Dear friends! The People’s Living Wisdom Museum is very excited to announce our first Open Call! Please share with others who may be interested in participating!
ETERNAL RETURNS: AN OPEN CALL FOR ART! A collaborative exhibit of real and imagined media...

OPEN CALL FOR ART!
Submission Deadline 9/18
Exhibition Opens 10/02

WHAT: A collaborative exhibition of real and imagined movies displayed in a video store.

WHO: Anyone, anywhere who wants to participate. Please note you are responsible for postage to/from Brattleboro, VT

WHERE: Soft Spot Gallery, Ho**er Dunham Building, Brattleboro, VT, Exhibition Opening Celebration: 10/2!

Collaborators Jamie Mohr (Director of Epsilon Spires) and Sarah Freeman (Director of Exhibitions at Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center) offer The People’s Living Wisdom Museum, a nomadic pop-up gallery hosted in diverse spaces in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. Exhibitions are by Open Call using creative prompts that playfully inspire open-ended exploration (and interpretation). The project seeks to encourage local reciprocity, forging relationships that will continue to expand in new directions.This program is supported by a grant from Arts Council of Windham County.

Submit your media memory, either real or constructed, for a collaborative installation

Mail all artwork to:

Eternal Returns

P.O. Box 87

Brattleboro, V.T. 05302

C/O Sarah Freeman

To submit artwork for consideration, it must be accompanied by:

Your name

Your contact info (email is best)

A brief description of your movie/video store memory that inspired the work (150 words max).

Artworks can be 2D or 3D, BUT must be the rough size of a VHS, DVD, or LaserDisc case

08/31/2026

Akira Kurosawa’s DREAMS, Friday, September 4th, Doors open 7:30pm, Screening begins 7:45pm.

DREAMS (1990, 120 Mins) Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey through the master’s imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power-plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes. Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams is both a showcase for its maker’s artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.

TICKETS:
https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/akira-kurosawas-dreams

08/28/2026

TONIGHT! THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) w/ Pipe Organ Score by Jeff Rapsis! Experience Douglas Fairbanks’ Swashbuckling Masterpiece, An Epic Fantasy-Action-Spectacle inspired by The Arabian Nights, with a Dynamic Score Performed Live on our Powerful Estey Pipe Organ!

“It is an entrancing picture, wholesome and beautiful, deliberate but compelling, a feat of motion picture art which has never been equaled and one which itself will enthrall persons time and again” -NY Times

“A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN SHARE! The kind of movie that can win children over to the beauty and uniqueness of silent movies!”– Leonard Maltin

“A DREAM, A COMIC STRIP, A PREDICTION OF FUTURE ENTERTAINMENT" – Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

TICKETS: https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/the-thief-of-bagdad-1924-w-live-pipe-organ-score-by-jeff-rapsis

08/25/2026

ARE YOU READY FOR ADVENTURE? THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) w/ Pipe Organ Score by Jeff Rapsis! Comes to Epsilon Spires on Friday, August 28th!
Experience Douglas Fairbanks's Silent Film Masterpiece on the big screen with a dynamic live soundtrack performed on our majestic Estey organ!

TICKETS: https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/the-thief-of-bagdad-1924-w-live-pipe-organ-score-by-jeff-rapsis

08/25/2026

JUST ANNOUNCED! ALTERED STATES + Preshow by Sagan & Sigourney! Saturday, Oct. 24th, Doors 7pm
The ultimate cinematic head trip of the 1980s! Ken Russell’s psychedelic supernova is an odyssey from humankind’s primordial past to the outer limits of consciousness, encompassing everything from the pagan to the cosmic sublime in a brain-wave-blasting battle between the heart and the mind!

08/24/2026

Nico Soffiato - Zach Layton - Hamir Atwal Trio!
Sunday, September 6th, doors 7pm
Three improvisers whose music moves fluidly between spacious Americana, experimental and free jazz, ambient electronics, and dense, immersive sound. Featuring Nico Soffiato on guitar, Zach Layton on 17-string electric bass and electronics, and Hamir Atwal on drums.

The trio of Nico Soffiato, Zach Layton, and Hamir Atwal brings together three improvisers whose music moves fluidly between spacious Americana, experimental and free jazz, ambient electronics, and dense, immersive sound. With Soffiato on guitar, Layton on 17-string electric bass and electronics, and Atwal on drums, the trio can move from Bill Frisell-inspired lyricism and luminous open harmonies into abstract collective improvisation, slowly evolving electronic textures, and massive walls of sound.

What holds these different territories together is the trio’s attention to space, resonance, and spontaneous interaction. Melody can gradually dissolve into texture; a quiet harmonic landscape can fracture into free improvisation; and atmospheric electronics can accumulate into something visceral and heavy. Layton’s 17-string bass moves between deep foundation, harmonic resonance, and orchestral mass, while Soffiato’s guitar shifts between melody, atmosphere, and abstraction, and Atwal’s responsive drumming continually transforms the music’s pulse, density, and sense of space. The result is an elastic music—at times intimate and stark, at others expansive, turbulent, and enveloping.

TICKETS: https://www.epsilonspires.org/event-info/nico-soffiato-zach-layton-hamir-atwal-trio

08/24/2026

FRIDAY! THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) w/ Pipe Organ Score by Jeff Rapsis, August 28th, Doors 7pm

An Epic Fantasy-Action-Spectacle inspired by The Arabian Nights, The Thief Of Bagdad is Douglas Fairbanks's Silent Film Masterpiece! Experience it with a dynamic live soundtrack performed on our powerful Estey organ! The first in our MAXIMALIST MYTHOLOGIES SERIES!

08/24/2026

FRIDAY! THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) w/ Pipe Organ Score by Jeff Rapsis! Doors 7pm

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