A video by James Gero. James talks with Vermont musician Anais Mitchell.

A video by James Gero. James talks with Vermont musician Tammy Fletcher.

A video by James Gero.

The name of Laughing Couple was given to Rick and Carolyn by an Incan boy, named Joey, whom they befriended while attending a Powwow. The name stuck and became their "identity". This name naturally carried forward when Rick and Carolyn began their storytelling venture in earnest.

When asked how they came about doing Native American storytelling together, the reply is always "This is the path the Creator has set us upon". Both Rick and Carolyn feel that the stories and artwork they create goes far beyond simple entertainment. "This is a way for us to reach people who would not otherwise be exposed to our culture. We feel that we are not only representing and honoring our ancestors, but that we are also respecting and honoring our people as a "modern" entity". The storytelling and artwork provide a friendly avenue for us to introduce the dominant culture to who we are and what we are." The response to what they offer has been consistently positive from all audiences. The Laughing Couple programs are geared for Family Fun and entertain audiences of All ages.

A video by James Gero. Spotlight On Dance performs a variety of dances performed by kids, teens, and adults. The pieces consist of tap, jazz, lyrical, and hip hop just to name a few. 

Community producer James Gero's video about Tony Pomerleau's Holiday Party for Families.

Community producer James Gero's video the Burligton City Arts 'Magic Lanterns' opening.  In this exhibition, New York-based artist Adam Putnam offers three surprising and evocative explorations into the experience of physical space. His Magic Lantern installations use a 19th-century theatrical technique of projecting light through painted slides. By using bulbs suspended in translucent boxes Putnam projects ethereal architectural interiors on empty gallery walls; complete with doors and endless corridors. Putnam’s meticulous graphite on paper drawings of abstracted cathedral-like sculptures feature erotized cavities and protrusions, including arches, buttresses and crenulations. In photos of his startling contortionist performances, Putnam implausibly folds his six-foot-eight-inch frame into tiny spaces, including cabinets and bookcases. As the everyday experience of space is challenged by the synthetic environments of the online world, the cumulative effect of Putnam’s work is to capture and question our disorienting and mutating sense of physical space. Putnam’s work was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum, NY. This program also includes BCA's Barbara Smail Award ceremony.

The Vermont International Festival is a multi-cultural community event sponsored by the Vermont Performing Arts League. VPAL is a non-profit organization that has been active in the promotion of international music, dance and crafts since 1978.  The Vermont Performing Arts League's 18th Vermont International Festival, an annual celebration of cultures from around the world, bringing their crafts, foods, music and dance to our doorstep. This video was produced by James Gero.

Tree Lighting Ceremony produced by community producer James Gero.

Abenaki artisans perform their crafts as well as displays of culture from traditional music to film screenings. Video produced by James Gero.

Occupy Burlington video by community producer James Gero. 

A video by community producer James Gero. Diwali, or Deepavali, or "Festival of Lights", is the biggest Indian Hindu festival that symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. In north India, according to the legend, Lord Rama slew his wife Sita's kidnapper, the demon King Ravana, during his exile. The festival is celebrated to mark the return of Lord Rama to his kingdom of Ayodhya. The streets through which he returned to his palace were lit with 'diyas' or small earthen lamps.In south India, according to the legend, it was the day Lord Sri Krishna defeated the demon king Narakasura. Even to this day, every home in India is illuminated with diyas during Diwali. Lakhsmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity, is also worshipped during Diwali. To welcome Lakshmi, people decorate their home entrances with 'rangolis', which are exquisite designs made with colors and flowers. A dazzling display of fireworks decorate the night skies, signifying the eventual victory of light over darkness. This festival is celebrated by one and all and is the true portrayal of the richness and vibrancy of Indian Hindu culture.

Community producer James Gero talks with Friends of Lakeview Cemetery.

Community producer James Gero's video of the celebration of Burlington's Italian Community.

Guest curated by Art in America writer Gregory Volk, Outdoor Excursions features work by thirteen internationally acclaimed artists on three floors of the BCA Center. Celebrating Vermonters’ love of nature and outdoor-oriented culture, Volk uses artworks to transform the galleries into his version of a wilderness adventure company, with artworks offering “excursions” to the Swiss Alps, Icelandic volcanoes, the deep forest, suburban backyards, outer space, and Vermont ski areas, among other destinations.

AUGUST 26 - DECEMBER 3, 2011

Civil War Event at Battery Park, Burlington

Winooski Pop-Up Art Gallery opening.

Winooski Pop-Up Art Gallery District tour with Jodi Harrington.

Summer Solstice Celebration in Burlington.

H.O. Wheeler Integrated Art's Academy

Burlington City Arts - Thought Bombers

Local producer/videographer James Gero provides a sampling of community events, interviewing sponsors, participants and local officials.

Winooski Pop-Up Gallery Project.

May Day Celebration at the Burlington Earth Clock

James Geros' video on Earth Day, held at UVM.

A video by community producer James Gero.

The Vermont Folklife Center's Vision and Voice Documentary Workspace project The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers, an exhibition of photographs, text, and audio (in Spanish and English) that explores the relationships between farmers and Mexican workers on dairy farms in Addison County. The Golden Cage is on display in the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center, Friday, April 1 through Saturday, June 11. At the opening reception, Brandon-based photographer Caleb Kenna gives a slide presentation and discusses how the project came about.

A video by community producer James Gero.

Presented by the Vermont Foodbank and Hunger Free Vermont. For this exhibition Nye traveled around the United States documenting individuals and families coping with personal hunger and the lack of food. The fifty portraits and audio stories reveal the courage and fragility of those individuals who have experienced hunger. In simple eloquent detail these voices and images draw you closer into their lives.

A video by community producer James Gero.

Texas-based photographer Michael Nye’s exhibit About Hunger and Resilience—brought to the UVM Davis Center by Hunger Free Vermont and the Vermont Foodbank—will open on March 27th. In anticipation of the exhibition, local filmmaker Bess O’Brien and local photographers Dan Higgins and Caleb Kenna will join Nye to discuss how art can affect deep and lasting social change. Fran Stoddard of Vermont Public Television will facilitate the panel for this event that is free and open to the public. Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments provided.

A video by community producer James Gero.

Taking inspiration from classic fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, snowboarding culture and his own native Vermont landscape, Scott Lenhardt envelops visitors in a parallel reality of otherworldly landscapes. From a hulking sculptural giant dominating the east gallery to delicate hand-carved bird-like creatures in the west gallery, Lenhardt’s work is simultaneously idyllic and unnerving. Rich with fantastical flora and fauna, Lenhardt presents his enigmatic scenes in a diverse range of mediums including drawings, paintings and illuminated multi-layered paint-on-glass light boxes. A highly successful commercial artist, Lenhardt has the distinction of having created over 45 snowboard designs for Burton Snowboards—more than any other artist.

A video by community producer James Gero.

Jessica Nissen’s Rorschach Drawings explore perception, the subconscious and extremes of spontaneous creativity. Based upon the controversial psychological test of the same name, it features over 30 drawings from her All in Our Head series. Originally designed to evaluate personality traits and underlying mental disorders, Nissen uses the psychological test as a point of departure, drawing and painting directly on top of her own Rorschach inspired inkblots. Her inspired, free-associated responses range from hybrid creatures to suburban architecture. These intriguing and exquisitely rendered illustrations are both playful and hallucinogenic.For more information, please click here.

Jessica Nissen splits her time between NYC, where she works as a scenic artist for the entertainment industry and Vermont, teaching drawing at Middlebury College.

James Gero's video of the Somali Bantu Community Dinner and Party held at the Champlain Senior Center in Burlington, Vt..

James Gero's video of the Burlington Winter Festival and the Penguin Plunge.

A video by community producer James Gero. The statue was created by sculptor Chris Sharp, a teacher at Burlington High School and former student at the school to which he is presenting the statue.

A video by community producer James Gero.

With ropes and bamboo, artist and architectural designer Alisa Dworsky transforms the east and west galleries into complex physical environments. In the installation Surface Tension, black hand-crocheted rope is used to build a landscape suggestive of topographical maps and computer-generated virtual worlds. Dramatic peaks, formed by an upward pull in the rope, are balanced by a series of suspended counterweights. Points of View, a complex network of bamboo tetrahedrons, fills the west gallery. Blue reflective tape on the structure suggests a waterline horizon, which creates a shimmering, level plane when illuminated with provided headlamps. With the play of rigid and organic lines, as well as the projection of shadows on the gallery walls, Dworsky reinterprets two-dimensional drawing into three-dimensional form.For more info, please click here.

A video by community producer James Gero.

A video by community producer James Gero. This video is about the 28th First Night Burlington Event.

Community producer James Gero's video about Tony Pomerleau's Holiday Party for Families.

The Vermont International Festival is a multi-cultural community event sponsored by the Vermont Performing Arts League. VPAL is a non-profit organization that has been active in the promotion of international music, dance and crafts since 1978.  The Vermont Performing Arts League's 18th Vermont International Festival, an annual celebration of cultures from around the world, bringing their crafts, foods, music and dance to our doorstep. This video was produced by James Gero.

Tree Lighting Ceremony produced by community producer James Gero.

In celebration of Diwali — the widely celebrated Indian "festival of light" sponsored by The Indian Students Association (ISA) at UVM.

In Steve Budington’s Homunculus, human bodies unravel, fly apart, and merge with prosthetic technology. Budington’s new body of work takes as its point of departure the neuroscientific concept of the “cortical homunculus”: a remapped image of the human form that scales body parts in relation to the degree of sensory input present in each area. In a radical redefinition of figurative painting, Budington’s imagery emphasizes embodied experience: the proliferation, or complete absence, of sensory organs; Gore-Tex in exchange for skin; and male and female genitals spliced onto the same body. From iPods to cosmetic surgery, artificial hearts and neuroplastic implants, our culture increasingly extends and enhances the physical body. Budington explores and questions how this next step in our physical evolution will transform our sense of self and our perception of the environment we inhabit.

Steve Budington lives in Burlington and is a professor of painting at the University of Vermont.

Burlington City Arts exhibit opening of Jonathan Harris' photos. A video by a community producer James Gero.

South End Art Hop video by a community producer James Gero.

Burlington Bike Criterium video taped by a community producer James Gero.

State Rep. Kesha Ram tells about the Gulf oil disaster. This video is produces by a community producer James Gero.

Marijuana Resolve's UVM event in August. Peter Shumlin, Jason Lorber, Paul Bennett and Daryl Pillsbury join Vidda Crochetta to speak about decriminalizing marijuana in Vermont.  Produced by Joe Bushey and Daryl Pillsbury for BCATV.

Marijuana Resolve UVM Itinerary – August 10, 2010

Opening statement/Thank you Roster   Vidda Crochetta

Jason Lorber,  Daryl Pillsbury,  Paul Bennett,  Senator Peter Shumlin speak to the issue of legalization of marijuana followed by audience questions and comments.

Local producer/videographer James Gero provides a sampling of community events, interviewing sponsors, participants and local officials.

Green-up Day video by James Gero.

Rosina Philippe, of the Atakapa-Ishak Native American tribe, is a lifetime resident of coastal Louisiana, and an advocate for preservation of traditional cultural and heritage practices. A grassroots activist, she has partnered with leaders from other communities along with faith-based and non-profit organizations to work for sustainability of marginalized traditional family fishers. Rosina has traveled to both the East and West coast to study and build network partnerships to address issues of Fair Trade Marketing, Racial Injustice, Economic Instability, and Coastal Restoration. She is vocal on the issue of recognizing accountability, and identifying contributing factors and entities in relation to these issues. A firm believer that people, facing similar problems, through informed education and information sharing have the power to affect positive long-term changes, and retake charge of their own destinies.

James Geros' video on Earth Day, held at UVM.

Community producer James Gero's video: Burlington City Arts Exhibit- Sally Linde Remote and Inner Landscapes

The “Winter Gathering” is a special event of ECHO’s permanent exhibit, “INDIGENOUS EXPRESSIONS: Native Peoples of the Lake Champlain,” and is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the support of U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy; with additional support from the ECHO Annual Fund, KeyBank, the Vermont Arts Council, and from a 2009 Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership Grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program. This video was produced by James Gero.

James Gero's video of the Burlington Winter Festival and the Penguin Plunge. For more information about the festival, please click here.

A video by community producer James Gero.

Video games have emerged as our culture’s dominant form of popular entertainment, eclipsing both music and cinema. Lacking structured narratives, morally ambiguous, and oblivious to geo-political boundaries, the rise of video game culture is set to transform our notions of identity and location, blurring boundaries between the real and the un-real. Game(Life) transforms the gallery into a functioning video arcade. More than a dozen provocative and reflective works by contemporary artists and independent game designers from around the world engage visitors in play, exploration and confront questions of political activism, pacifism, violence, emotional resonance and beauty in gaming environments.

A video by community producer James Gero. Speakers: Yves Engler, Montreal based author and activist, Kathleen Balut Ansky, A native of Haiti, author & professor at St. Michaels' College, Helen Scott, socialist, author & UVM professor.

A video by community producer James Gero.Live from the Core, The Green Mountain Mahler Festival, Bread & Puppet Theatre and Others Perform to Raise Funds for Haiti.
To learn more and or contribute to Haiti relief, consider: Partners in Health and Catholic Relief Services.

A video by community producer James Gero. This video is about the 27th First Night Burlington Event.

Community producer James Gero's winter solstice sunset video.

A video by community producer James Gero.

Video games have emerged as our culture’s dominant form of popular entertainment, eclipsing both music and cinema. Lacking structured narratives, morally ambiguous, and oblivious to geo-political boundaries, the rise of video game culture is set to transform our notions of identity and location, blurring boundaries between the real and the un-real. Game(Life) transforms the gallery into a functioning video arcade. More than a dozen provocative and reflective works by contemporary artists and independent game designers from around the world engage visitors in play, exploration and confront questions of political activism, pacifism, violence, emotional resonance and beauty in gaming environments.

Community producer James Gero's video about Tony Pomerleau's Holiday Party for Families.

Community producer James Gero takes viewers to the Vermont International Fest held in Essex Vermont.  In this piece, an Indian Wedding Ceremony is performed.

A video by community producer James Gero. This video is about the International Fest, that was held in Essex, Vermont at the beginning of December.

Community producer James Gero's video about the Church Street Tree Lighting Ceremony.

Community producer James Gero's video about the celebration of street vendor Lois Bodoky, also known as the Hot Dog Lady.

A video by community producer James Gero about Diwali Night at UVM Davis Center.

"Frank Gonzales' Mural Project and the Bike Recycle Vermont" video by a community producer James Gero.

Community producer James Gero's video about the celebration of the international climate group 350.org, co-founded by Vermonter and author Bill McKibben. The group is working to increase public awareness of the climate crisis and build a global movement demanding a solid and effective climate treaty..

South End Art Hop video by a community producer James Gero.

Bike Race downtown Burlington. Video by a community producer James Gero.

Community producer James Gero's video about the celebration of the international climate group 350.org, co-founded by Vermonter and author Bill McKibben. The group is working to increase public awareness of the climate crisis and build a global movement demanding a solid and effective climate treaty..

Maritime Fest video by James Gero

Art opening Human = Lanscape. How might an energy sustainable rural lanscape of the future look? This video is produced by James Gero.

Dragonheart Vermont, a breast cancer survivor and supporter dragon boat team, is again hosting this exciting community event. It's all for fun and fundraising. Since the Festival began in 2006, our local community has raised over $300,000 for charity. This year’s Pledge Partners are Vermont's Camp-Ta-Kum-Ta for kids with cancer and Dragonheart Vermont. It's a full day of fun, color and pageantry with music, food, a silent auction and entertainment for the whole family. Video by James Gero

Video by James Gero

A video by James Gero. This program is part of the Vermont Indigenous Fest.

Community producer James Gero's video. This program is part of the Lake Champlain quadricentennial celebration.

Community producer James Gero's video. This program is part of the Lake Champlain quadricentennial celebration.

This program is part of the LAke Champlain quadricentennial celebration.

"Adventure of Lois McClure" lecture is part of the Maritime Museum's lecture series. This video is produced by James Gero.

Community producer James Gero's video. Art Cohn's Lake Champlain history lecture.

Maritime Museum lecture of Shipwrecks of Lake Champlain. A video by James Gero

In 1986, Burlington joined more than twenty other cities throughout the country and established a Kids Day Celebration. Since then it has grown into a community-wide collaboration between schools, service organizations, businesses, families, performers, volunteers, and other individuals dedicated to recognizing the value and importance of our young people, celebrating their individual differences and abilities, and encouraging them to look forward responsibly to the world they will inherit.

Community producer James Gero's program aout Burlington's Green Up Day.

James Gero films and interviews students protesting against the UVM budget cuts.

Tour of city cemetery

Continuing saga of the stone circle project on Burlington's waterfront.

Art exhibit opening

In celebration of Diwali — the widely celebrated Indian "festival of light" — the Indian Students Association and UVM Office of International Education are hosting a "Diwali Nite" celebration and Indian dinner buffet on Oct. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in North Lounge, Billings Student Center.

Jen Berger's Play based on the combat stories of veteran's from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The video for this program has been removed at the request of the play's creator.

Continuing saga of the stone circle project on Burlington's waterfront.

Governor Jim Douglas and officials from the Boston Red Sox announce this year’s Vermont Day at Fenway Park.

Continuing saga of the stone circle project on Burlington's waterfront.

Local producer/videographer James Gero provides a sampling of community events, interviewing sponsors, participants and local officials.

Local producer/videographer James Gero provides a sampling of community events, interviewing sponsors, participants and local officials. He visits with a community garden in the Old North End of Burlington.

Local producer/videographer James Gero provides a sampling of community events, interviewing sponsors, participants and local officials.

Local producer/videographer James Gero provides a sampling of community events, interviewing sponsors, participants and local officials.

Local producer/videographer James Gero provides a sampling of community events, interviewing sponsors, participants and local officials.