Arts

Nina Livingstone on stage

Belmont Woman Makes TV Debut on ‘Stories From the Stage’

May 4, 2024
Even at a young age, longtime Belmont resident Nina Livingstone enjoyed listening to the stories of others. After interviewing her mother as a child, Livingstone interviewed the likes of author and orator Fran Leibowitz, actress and activist Marlee Matlin, and a food…
whole bunch of kids playing wind instruments.

Belmont Pops Celebrates 50 Years of Student Music

April 23, 2024
It’s been a tradition for 50 years at Belmont High School: ending the school year with a festival of popular music uniting all the school’s bands, orchestras, and choruses. This year’s Pops Concert is special, not only because it celebrates the half-century…

The Belmont Dramatic Club; A Showstopper for 120 Years

April 19, 2024
Not only has the Belmont Dramatic Club been providing inexpensive entertainment and volunteer opportunities to the community for 120 years, but president and artistic director CherylAnn Welch revealed that “sometimes, we provide spouses.” In the midst of rehearsing lines, building costumes and…

Belmont’s Shining Stars

April 12, 2024
Photos by Isabel Miranda/Belmont Voice  The stars were out in Belmont Friday night for the Belmont Woman’s Club’s Dancing With The Belmont Stars fundraiser.  Between admission, the bar, and voting tickets for the Fan Favorite, the club raised more than $25,000 to…

Belmont Has a Link To An R&B Hero

April 8, 2024
It may not be a song you’ve heard in a while, but one listen to the hit “Poison”—as dozens of attendees did at last week’s Dancing with the Belmont Stars—and you may very well time travel back to the music group Bell…

Belmont Stars Lace Up for Charity Dance-Off

April 2, 2024
Ten local celebrities will lace up their dance shoes on Friday, April 5, with the return of Dancing with the Belmont Stars, hosted by the Belmont Woman’s Club. “Dancing with the Stars started [locally] in 2014 in Watertown, and in 2019, while…
Woman in a close-up selfie.

Filmmaker Turns Life Into Engaging Television

April 2, 2024
Keep your eyes open for a small film crew in Belmont sometime this spring, as Sharisse Zeroonian is shooting another installment of her Amazon Prime series, “One Plus One is Two.” Zeroonian shot the pilot in 2019, and three other episodes have…
A monk in religious attire sweeping away a sand mandala.

Lessons in Impermanence in Belmont Center

March 30, 2024
Julie Wu, Belmont Voice contributor Six Tibetan monks, draped in maroon and orange robes, hunch over a square black table. They tap colored sand out of elongated, narrow funnels, one grain at a time, so the sand forms, over hours and days,…

Belmont Art Association unveils its 10th Anniversary Exhibit

February 25, 2024
From a majestic Chilean mountain range and an endless field of magenta flowers to abstract interiors and realistic vignettes, the impressive pieces created by Belmont Art Association (BAA) members will transport viewers’ imaginations during a show marking the group’s 10th anniversary. “People…