2025 Season: May-December
DBA (Downtown Brattleboro Alliance) has new home! You can find us at 57 Elliot Street, the old Artrageous location. DBA is tasked with keeping downtown VIBRANT through programs like First Fridays & Gallery Walk, The Bloom Program, and so much more. Visit us at brattleboro.com or stop in and say hello- we can’t wait to meet you!
The first Friday of May-December! This is a rain or shine event. 5:00-9:00pm
Here we go with another season of ART & COMMUNITY, of course it’s Brattleboro First Fridays & Gallery Walk! That’s right, from here on out we’ll refer to the 16 walkable gallery stroll as Gallery Walk (May-December), and the Block Party style festivities with street closure, the Maker’s Market, live music, food & libations as Brattleboro First Fridays (May-October).
November Details:
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NECCA Circus Festival will be popping up around town Nov 2-9 – Don’t miss the Clown Crawl on Nov 7 in Pliny Park from 5-7pm.
- VT Jazz Center presents the 8th Annual Emerging Artist Festival – kick off at 118 Elliot
- We invite you to stroll through town and experience our world class galleries!
Sometimes, there are extras–extra performances, extra activities, opportunities to become part of the art-making. Sometimes a sprinkler! August’s Extra Fun includes:
NEYT: Every month a contingent of NEYT actors will claim a small stage in Harmony Lot and dazzle you with their chops at 5:30pm
Cheshire Cats Jump-Roping Team: For the third year running, the Cheshire Cats will perform
Vermont Armored Combat: Knights clashing steel for entertainment, we’re in!
Viscera Nefarious performs a circus sideshow act that will shock & amaze
New England Center for Circus Arts brings their aerial rig downtown for a gravity defying performance
Jesse Q Thomas lights it up in Harmony Lot with his fire-spinning show
