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Free unless otherwise noted.
BigTown 2025: Celebrating 25 Years of Community Programming with a Powerful Summer of Art, Film, and Dialogue
Help Us With Our Fundraising Goal of $25,000
To commemorate this special anniversary, BigTown is thrilled to collaborate with Kyle Bergman, founder of the Architecture & Design Film Festival, to present three immersive community gatherings this summer. These events will spotlight the themes of community building, activism, and innovation, and are designed to enrich the conversations sparked by BigTown’s summer exhibition, Being Here Now, and the second annual My Place Photography Workshop.
We invite you to join us this summer for inspiration and community. Your participation and financial support is so important to the future of our programming.
Thank you so much!
Anni
Exhibition Dates:
June 20 – September 14, 2025
Special Opening Reception together with our FILM/TALK/EVENT
Saturday, June 28 - 6 PM
EXHIBITION OPENING IS FREE & OPEN TO ALL
Follow link FILM/TALK/FOOD for ticket details
image: Emmet Gowin - The Nevada Test Site
Immersive Summer Gatherings - designed to explore our relationship with place, people, and the planet.
Saturday, June 28
Program Theme: COMMUNITY BUILDING
FILM:
Strange & Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island
TALK:
April Surgent – Four months on the Pearl & Hermes Atoll
FOOD: TBA
TICKET EVENT
A suggested ticket price of $50 - $200
Tickets on sale May 15th on Eventbrite
Location:
Rochester High School & BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Vermont
Film screenings begin at 3:30 PM
Food served 6:00 PM at BigTown Gallery
Please park at the school and walk to the gallery
MY PLACE Photography Workshop
Led by Jim Dow & Cassandra Klos
WORKSHOP DATES: July 23 through August 3
Exhibition Opening: Saturday, August 2 at 6
Workshop Breakfast & Talk: Sunday, August 3 between 11 - 2
This intensive photography workshop explores personal and collective relationships to place, culminating in a public exhibition.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION $500 per person - 8 people max.
Immersive Summer Gatherings —designed to explore our relationship with place, people, and the planet.
Saturday, August 2
Program Theme: REBUILDING
FILM:
Frank Gehry: Building Justice
TALK:
Theresa Betancourt – Shadows into Light: A generation of former child soldiers comes of age
FOOD:
Extraordinary wood-fired pizza / Chef, PJ Lauriello
TICKET EVENT
A suggested ticket price of $50 - $200
Tickets on sale May 15th on Eventbrite
Location:
Rochester High School & BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Vermont
Film screenings begin at 3:30 PM
Food served 6:00 PM at BigTown Gallery
Please park at the school and walk to the gallery
Immersive Summer Gatherings —designed to explore our relationship with place, people, and the planet.
Saturday, August 30
Program Theme: INNOVATION
FILM:
Beyond Zero
TALK:
Bill McKibben: Here Comes The Sun
FOOD:
Food Historian Paula Marcoux returns with one meal for all
FILM/TALK/FOOD Events
A suggested ticket price of $50 - $200
Tickets on sale May 15th on Eventbrite
Location:
Rochester High School & BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Vermont
Film screenings begin at 3:30 PM
Food served 6:00 PM at BigTown Gallery
Please park at the school and walk to the gallery
