Place and time are critical components of self- and community-identity. In three visits (fall, winter, and spring) Yellow Barn alumni ensemble Due East (Erin Lesser, flute, and Greg Beyer, percussion) will work with students at Brattleboro Union High School and Putney Central School.

Utopia/Euterpe/Dystopia, a work conceived by composers David Smooke and Ken Ueno, harpist Jacqueline Pollauf, and saxophonist Noah Getz, will consider how the harp and saxophone might have developed in alternative worlds where physical limitations of portability and practicality create little concern, where the deranged dreams of insane innovators can be brought to sonic life.

Led by soprano Susan Narucki and writer Jorge Volpi, Cuatro Corridos is a new chamber opera addressing a critical human rights issue: the trafficking of people across the U.S. – Mexican border. Based on true events, Cuatro Corridos tells the story of four women whose lives are intertwined and changed forever.