BTW Summer
2016 events in the Berkshires and Southern Vermont
Editor: Kate Abbott Photographers: Susan Geller, Jess Gamari Contributing Writers: Kate Abbott, Jess Gamari, Sandy Ryan, Madeline Vuong With thanks to Sandy Ryan, Deborah, Tony, Laura and Stephen Abbott, Garrett Lang, Joan Entmacher and Mark Leymaster Cover photo: A young visitor cools off near a fountain at Naumkeag in Stockbridge. Photo above: Children splash at Third Thursday in Pittsfield. Photos by Susan Geller. This magazine is created solely by BTWBerkshires LLC Š 2016
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All summer Art
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Film History Writers Farmers Markets Outdoors
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Photo courtesy of IS183 IS183 Art School will opens the studios for informal arts nights out on the first Friday of each month this summer.
Features & Highlights Art of wonder Folk upswing
Calendars
Dates given are Saturdays.
Tap roots
Memorial Day
July 23
Writers on Stage
June
July 30
Independence Day
June 4
August
Local Ice Cream
June 11
August 6
Gardens
June 18
August 13
Spirit Houses
June 25
August 20
Behold New Lebanon
July
August 27
Classical
July 9
September 3
Family Time
July 16
Directory
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Reign in Spain
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May
Thursday May 26 About Town
Hemmings CruiseIn — New England informal car show 5:30 to 8 p.m., family friendly car gatherings. Rain cancels, Bennington, Vt. Art
MCLA Gallery 51 — “Waiting,” show of iPhone images, opening 5 to 8 p.m., free. North Adams.
Books and Writers
Dorset Theatre Festival — “American Poets: the work and letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell,” 6 p.m. talk with poet and Bennington ColTable of contents
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Le Vent du Nord will perform at the Colonial Theater. Photo by Jens TH courtesy of Le Vent du Nord
lege professor Michael Dumanis, free. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, Vt. Conversations
Manchester Community Library — Alan Benoir on the “ 1st-century Straw Bale Home,” 7 p.m., Sustainable Living. Manchester, Vt. Music
Bennington College — Jazz Cabaret: vocal workshop presents a concert of blues, ballads, bossanova, gospel and swing, 8 p.m. Student Center, 1 College Drive, Bennington, Vt.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Le Vent du Nord, Quebeçois quartet with button accordion, guitar, fiddle and hurdygurdy, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Bennington College — “Sitcom!” episodic stories written and rehearsed in a week, 10 p.m. Down Caf, Bennington, Vt.
Friday May 27
About Town
Berkshire Theatre Group — Richie duPont Award celebration to benefit the scholarship award, with music, dancing, raffles and silent auction, 7 p.m. in the Garage, Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
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Becket Arts Center — Becket-Washington School exhibit of student artwork inspired by the planet’s air, earth and water opens with reception and spaghetti dinner, 6 to 8 p.m. Becket Washington Band performs 7 p.m. and chorus 7:17. Off Route 8, Becket.
Berkshire Museum — “Finding Raven: Art and Stories from the Northwest Coast,” North Pacific peoples tell their stories in art, the Haida, Tsimshian, Kwak’waka’wakw, Tlingit and more opens May 8; family-friendly reception for this show and “Tiny Titans: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies,” 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Pittsfield.
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Hancock Shaker Village — “Living on Earth: The Work of Robert Hite,” sitespecific sculptures, paintings and photographs around the Village and in the Poultry House Gallery opens today. Pittsfield. Conversations
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein, “How on Earth Did We Get Here? The Chaotic Politics of 016” 6 p.m. OLLI presents Mona Sherman Memorial talk. 1 Castle St., Great Barrington. Northshire Bookstore — Jo Baker, “Preaching in my Yes Dress,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt. Music
Bennington College — Cello showcase 1 p.m., Deane Carriage Barn, 1 College Drive, Bennington, Vt. Guthrie Center — Dugway and Reinhardt & Ciccarelli with Sarah Kohrs & the Corner Store Antiques, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
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Meetinghouse concert — Woven, Hindustani musical philosophy, Ethiopian jazz and the lush psychedelic tunes of the ’60s, 8 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church, Bennington, Vt.
Outdoors
Mass Audubon — Bird walk 7 a.m. looking for spring migrants. Canoe Meadows, Holmes Road, free. Bring binoculars. Pittsfield. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Ghent Playhouse — “The Imaginary Invalid,” classic Molière comedy, 8 p.m. Ghent, N.Y.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Saturday May 28 About Town
Bascom Lodge — Annual Native Americal Festival, music, dancing, storytelling and drumming, a mountain blessing and exhibits, noon to 6 p.m. Free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
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Chefs show off. Photo courtesy of the Lenox Rhubarb Festival
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams, 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 and 3 p.m. from 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Massachusetts Sheep & Woolcraft Fair — nd Annual celebration with fiber and wool, shearing, sheep dog trials, fiber, woolcraft workshops, sheep shows, fleece, food booths, 9 a.m. to p.m. Fairgrounds, Cummington. Rhubarb Festival — Community celebration 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with pies, cupcakes, chili contest, recipes and plants. Free. Library Park, 18 Main St., Lenox.
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Books and Writers
Northshire Bookstore — Peter Zheutlan, “Rescue Road,” 11 a.m. at Orvis. Manchester, Vt.
Becket Arts Center — Becket-Washington School exhibit of student artwork inspired by the planet’s air, earth and water on view noon to p.m. Route 8, Becket.
Columbia County Council on the Arts — “Anthropocene,” group show on impact of human life on earth, opening 5 to 7 p.m. with poetry reading by Marcia Slatkin. 09 Warren St., Hudson, N.Y. Mass MoCA — “Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder” group show opens 5 to 8 p.m. North Adams.
Mayfest — Downtown festival of arts, crafts, activities, food and entertainment 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with more than 1 5 crafters and artisans from throughout New England: wood, pottery, glass, metal, fabric, jewelry. School Street food from Indian and German to Thai and fried dough, gourmet seafood, wood fired pizza, barbeque and Table of contents
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Film
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — “The Big Sleep,” classic film noir based on Raymond Chandler mystery, 7 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
Photo courtesy of Better Bennington Bennington will fill with crowds and artists at Mayfest.
ice cream. Kid’s activities, contests, games. Bennington, Vt. betterbennington.com
OMI International Arts Center — Summer season opening at Fields Sculpture Park and visitors center gallery with new works by Rob Fischer, Folkert de Jong, Freya Powell, Andreas Savva and Charley Friedman, 1 to p.m. Children’s crafts, tractor rides and light refreshments. Free. Ghent. N.Y.
Paradise City Arts Festival — 50 juried artists from across the country: paintings, fiber art, glass, woodwork, metalwork, ceram-
ics, jewelry, sculpture and more with local chefs and food, live music, special exhibits, silent art auction to benefit Kestrel Land Trust, family activities, sculpture garden. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Three County Fairgrounds, 5 Old Ferry Road, Northampton.
Vermont Craft Council — Open Studios weekend, tours across the state include glassblowers, jewelers, printmakers, potters, furniture makers, weavers, ironworkers, painters, sculptors, quilt makers and wood carvers. Gallery talks and exhibits. 80 - 3-3380
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Dance
Bennington College — Works in Progress dance performance 7 p.m., VAPA Martha Hill Dance Theatre, 1 College Drive, Bennington, Vt.
Berkshire Pulse — Annual celebration, dance performance and benefit and 7 p.m. Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington. berkshirepulse.org Music
Berkshire Theatre Group — The Skivvies, cello, ukulele and vocals stripped down (literally), undie-rock and comedy-pop 8 and 10:30 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
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sionists meet real magic, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield. Ghent Playhouse — “The Imaginary Invalid,” classic Molière comedy, 8 p.m. Ghent, N.Y.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair Yarn and those who grow it rule at the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair.
Guthrie Center — Kate Taylor, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Manchester Music Festival — Gateway to Summer, with Bowers/Fader Duo, voice and guitar: Brahms, Weill, Eduardo Angulo, Mozart, Mitch Legh, Falla, 3:30 p.m. Helmholz Fine Art, Manchester, Vt. mmfvt.org Mason Library — Skylarkz: Great American Masters of Song 1 p.m., jazz with vocalist Sarah Clay and pianist Nick Kachulis 31 Main St., Great Barrington. Mass MoCA — Luna, Indy rock band
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8:30 p.m., Courtyard C outside or Hunter Center, North Adams.
Tannery Pond Concerts — Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trio playing Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn, 6 p.m. Darrow School, New Lebanon, N.Y. Outdoors
Hildene — Summer Bird Walks: Vermont Bird and Sky Watch and local birders survey wild birds, 7 a.m., free. Celebration of Peonies: Formal Garden with thousands of peony blooms, many of them from the original 1907 plants. Manchester, Vt.
Merck Forest and Farmland Center — Meet the lambs and piglets with activities for children, horse-drawn wagon rides and farm tours, sausage and biscuit sandwiches and coffee or juice at the Sap House. 9 a.m. to noon. Free. Rupert, Vt.
Tamarack Hollow — Spring Boreal Forest Bird Hike with birder John Green Jr., 7 a.m., free. Tamarack Hollow Nature and Cultural Center, Windsor.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illu-
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Sunday May 29 About Town
Backyard Bash — The Lazy Suns live Americana music on guitar, bass, drum, slide and pedal steel, with Long Journey opening, food from Lucia’s Latin Kitchen in Pittsfield, Donna Martin from Sim’s Barber and Salon, party 6 p.m., music 6: 5 p.m. BYOB, kids get in free.1 01 Green River Road, Route 3, Williamstown.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley narrated train rides between North
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Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Massachusetts Sheep & Woolcraft Fair — nd Annual celebration with fiber and woolcraft, sheep shearing, sheep dog trials, workshops, sheep shows, fleece, food booths, 9 a.m. to p.m. Fairgrounds, Cummington. masheepwool.org Art
Becket Arts Center — Becket-Washington School exhibit of student artwork inspired by air, earth and water on view noon to p.m. Route 8, Becket.
Paradise City Arts Festival — 50 juried artists from across the country: paintings, fiber art, glass, woodwork, metalwork, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, local chefs and food, live music, special exhibits, silent art auction to benefit Kestrel Land Trust, family activities, sculpture garden. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 5 Old Ferry Road, Northampton. Table of contents
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(literally), undie-rock and comedy-pop 8 and 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Photo courtesy of the Skivvies The Skivvies — Broadway actors and musicians Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley — perform strippeddown arrangements (in all senses) on cello and ukulele.
Vermont Craft Council — Open Studios weekend, tours across the state include glassblowers, jewelers, printmakers, potters, furniture makers, weavers, ironworkers, painters, sculptors, quilt makers, wood carvers. 80 - 3-3380 Conversations
Hubbard Hall — “Curiosity Forum: If Walls Could Talk,” a presentation about the stone walls of New York and New England by Professor John Delano, p.m., free. Freight Depot, Cambridge, N.Y. Dance
Berkshire Pulse — Annual dance performance and benefit p.m. Daniel Arts
Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington. berkshirepulse.org
Music
Barrington Stage Company — Leslie Kritzer sings and tells stories of life on and off Broadway, 9 p.m., Mr. Finn’s Cabaret at Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Lyric — Mozart Requiem, Arvo Pärt Salve Regina, 3 p.m. with Berkshire Lyric Chorus, Blafield Children’s Chorus andn Lyric Orchestra at Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox.
Berkshire Theatre Group — The Skivvies, Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley on cello, ukulele and vocals stripped down
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Bidwell House — Concert and season opening, “She Named Him Adonijah,” Diane Taraz explores 1716 world of Adonijah Bidwell, teacher, shipboard chaplain, husband of three, father of four, minister of Township No. 1 and Revolutionary patriot. Monterey. Outdoors
Hildene — Celebration of Peonies: thousands of blooms, many from the original 1907 plants. Manchester, Vt.
Naumkeag — First Look at Chinese Garden, 1 to p.m. Kicking off 016, 60th anniversary of the garden re-opening. Stockbridge. Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 3 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield. Ghent Playhouse — “The Imaginary Invalid,” classic
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Tuesday May 31
Molière comedy, p.m. Ghent, N.Y.
Town Players — Staged Readings: “Antigone” by Richard Matturro, “The Seven Deadlies” by Amy Sarah LaMena, “Double D” by Jim Dalglish, p.m., Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield.
Conversations
Flying Cloud — Youth STEM Summit 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Berkshire Community College, 1350 West St., Pittsfield.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Monday May 30 Art
Photo courtesy of Paradise City Arts Aron Leaman offers glass bowls.
Look in Glass Glasswork thrives this summer at Paradise City Arts Festival; ‘Modern Alchemy,’ Vermont Glass Guild’s show at Southern Vermont Arts center; ‘The Nature of Glass,’ Chesterwood’s 2016 contemporary and international sculpture show, and many more.
Paradise City Arts Festival — 50 juried artists from across the U.S.: paintings, fiber art, glass, woodwork, metalwork, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, local chefs and food, live music, and silent art auction to benefit Kestrel Land Trust. Family activities, sculpture garden. 10 a.m. to p.m., 5 Old Ferry Road, Northampton.
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Dance
Green Mountain Academy — “Judaism: An Explanation,” evolution of ,000 years of faith, 5:30 p.m., Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester Vt.
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Marble House Project — Artseed dance performance by Rosie Trump, choreographer and dance filmmaker, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt.
Music
Photo courtesy of Susan Geller Tom Patti’s glasswork gleams.
Bennington College — Dance Studio performance 9 p.m., VAPA Martha Hill Dance Theatre, 1 Bennington College Drive, Bennington, Vt.
Music
Barrington Stage Company — Leslie Kritzer sings and tells stories of life on and off Broadway, 8 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
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Stockbridge Library — Annual meeting and program by members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians Tribal Council, 6:30 p.m., free and all welcome. Stockbridge. 13- 98-5501 Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” 3 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
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Art all summer Berkshires
Arrowhead — Historic house where Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick.” House tours, 10 a.m. to p.m. daily, May 3 to Oct, Michael Melle straw sculptures. Home of the Berkshire Historical Society. 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield. 13- -1793. mobydick.org
Arts Alive in the Hilltowns — “Shedding Some Light,” watercolors and oils by Artist Natalie Stafford, June 1-30, Cummington Community House, Main Street Cummington. 13- 38-019
Artscape — Public outdoor art exhibit through downtown Pittsfield with themes from local history, current events and the natural world. Self-guided tours, info at Pittsfield Visitors Center, City Hall and Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Free. 13- 99-9368
Becket Arts Center — Becket-Washington School exhibit May 8- 9. Ceramist Kristin O’Neill, wood designer David Rothstein, photographer Harold Ware and watercolorist Ellen Kaiden June 18-July 10. Mixed-media artist Esther Budnick, painter and collage artist Nina Evans and Table of contents
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Photo courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum Al Parker’s ‘Woman in Tub’ appears at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
photographer Pat Gilhooley July 16-Aug. 7. BAC Members Art Show Aug. 13- 1. Mary Anne Davis, Arthur Hillman and Scott Taylor, mixed media, paintings and photographs Aug. 7 to Sept. 18. Gallery noon to p.m. Thursday to Sunday. Local artists’ and artisans’ shop. 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket. becketarts.org
Berkshire Botanical Garden — “Benched: Come Take a Seat in the Garden” June 3 to Sept. 15, display of 5 to 30 benches by local artists and artisans including Berkshire woodworkers guild. Painting and drawing
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classes in July and August including En Plein Air watercolor painting July 6- 7 and Aug. 3- .Retreats on nature drawing and botanical illustration Aug. 8-9 and Aug. 10-1 . Open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Columbus Day. Route 183 and Route 10 , Stockbridge. 13- 98-39 6, berkshirebotanical.org Berkshire Carousel — Opening July 1 with 33 hand-carved and handpainted horses, accessible chariot, rocking chariot and spinning tub. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Photo by Kate Abbott
Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Workshops, tours, shop wth local artisans, pop corn, ice cream and local food. 50 Center St., Pittsfield. 13- 99-0 57, berkshirecarousel.com
Berkshire Museum — “Finding Raven: Art and Stories from the Northwest Coast,”opening May 8. North Pacific peoples tell their stories in art, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwak’waka’wakw, Tlingit and more. “Living on Earth: The Work of Robert Hite,” photography and sculpture June 30 to Oct. 30 with Hancock Shaker Village. “Tiny Titans: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies” through Aug. 8. Women of the Olive Tree Project, four Israeli women artists, two Jewish and two Muslim, paintings on June 6 and 7. Newly renovated Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation, Hudson River School paintings, classical art, gallery of
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Realists and Modernists together As the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge considers Realist and Modernist art in its summer show (see page 12), visitors can compare abstract and natural elements in Modern colorist Milton Avery’s show at the Bennington Museum — or in the Modern art collection of Suzy Frelinghuysen and George L.K. Morris at their Lenox house and studio above right, and Modernist sculpture at Field Farm in Williamstown, above left. Photo at top right courtesy of Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio
American Indian art and culture. Little Cinema films. Hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 39 South St., Pittsfield. 13- 3-7171, berkshiremuseum.org
Community Access to the Arts — “I Am a Part of Art,” painting, drawing, collage created by CATA artists with disabilities, July 1 to 31 at Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 8 Renne Ave. Pittsfield, and July to Aug. 15 at Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 13-5 8-5 85 Chesterwood — Contemporary sculpture show: “The Nature of Glass: Contempo-
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rary Sculpture at Chesterwood 016” opens June 18, curated by Jim Schantz of Schantz Galleries, with 1 nationally recognized glass artists including William Carlson, Daniel Clayman, Richard Jolley, and Tom Patti. House and studio of Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial and other monumental works. Open daily May 8 to Oct. 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with interpreters in the studio and residence. Chesterfest, Americana music outdoors 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Fridays in July and August. Stockbridge. Williamsville Road, Stockbridge. 13- 98-3579, chesterwood.org
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Clark Art Institute — “Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes from the Prado,” with the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 8 Old Master paintings of the nude, June 11 to Oct. 8. “Sensing Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill exhibition,” in galleries and on trails July to Oct. 10. Thomas Schüte, “Crystal” outdoor installation on Stone Hill. Permanent collection of impressionist art, Renoir, Monet, Degas, and 19thcentury artists including John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, George Innes, silver and more. Trails and café. Hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday. 5 South St., Williamstown. 13- 58 303, clarkart.edu
Crane Papermaking Museum — Drop-in papermaking artspace and museum documenting papermaking from 1770 to today. All ages welcome for hands-on papermaking with rag pulp, screens and presses, ink and stamps. Museum hours 1 to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday; papermaking Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. off Route 9 and West Housatonic Street, Dalton. 13-68 -6380.
DownStreet Art — 016 theme, Meet Your Neighbors, spotlighting local artists. Exhibits around town rotate monthly: DownStreet Art Thursdays with Table of contents
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Photo courtesy of First Fridays Artswalk First Fridays Artswalk will bring work to galleries and shops across Pittsfield including Francis Cunningham’s ‘Back Pasture,’ above, in June.
exhibition openings, performance, happenings and downtown art, music and culture. 5 to 8 p.m. June 30, July 8, Aug. 5. North Adams. downstreetart.org
Field Farm — 1967 postmodern guest house and folly designed by Ulrich Franzen for art collector Lawrence Bloedel. Art and architecture tours compare architectural philosophies. Trails and grounds open daily, free. 55 Sloan Road, Williamstown, 13- 583135, thetrustees.org
First Fridays Artswalk — More than a dozen shows with more than 0 artists in the Upstreet Cultural District on first Friday of the month, openings 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at shops, restaurants, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts and more with tours and live entertainment, free. After-party 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.at the Whit-
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ney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., free. Downtown Pittsfield, 13- 3-6501, FirstFridaysArtswalk.com
Flying Cloud Institute — Art-Science Show opens July 1 , student paintings, photographs, ceramics, cyanotypes, film and robots. Satyrdays and Sundays 11 a.m. to p.m. New Marlborough Meeting House, 15 Hartsville-New Marlborough Road, New Marlborough. flyingcloudinstitute.org
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen with paintings, frescos, sculptures and Cubist collection. “See Their World” vintage films from the 1930s Morris took in Lenox, New York City and Europe, displayed in the Studio. Paintings by Suzy Frelinghuysen.
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Painting demonstrations with professional artists from the community, 11 a.m. Fridays. “Has your Creativity Been Hiding” on select Saturday mornings with director/artist Kinney Frelinghuysen on looking at modern art, and mini-workshops after each tour: Guided tours Thursday to Sunday hourly, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 3 to Sept. 5, Thursday to Saturday Sept. 6 to Oct. 9. Berkshire residents’ half-priced tour 10 a.m. Thursdays. 9 Hawthorne St., Lenox. 13637-9790, frelinghuysen.org
Hancock Shaker Village — “Living on Earth: The Work of Robert Hite,” sitespecific sculptures, paintings and photographs around the Village and in the Poultry House Gallery May 7 to Oct. 30 and at Berkshire Museum. “Living Designs and Shared Values: Highlights from the Jane P. Fitzpatrick Quilt Collection,” June 10 to Oct. 30, exhibit of antique American quilts in the hallways and bedrooms of the historic 1830 Brick Dwelling. “Spirit houses and woodland wonders” opening July 16 and 17, miniature spirit houses made out of twigs, pebbles, pine cones and things found on the Farm and Forest Trail. “Heaven on Earth: A Shaker Introduction” and Carol Kinzel’s “Views of the Village” through Oct. 30. 18 3 West Housatonic St., Routes 0 and 1, Pittsfield. hancockshakervillage.org
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Photo courtesy of Hilltown6 Ceramics artists will open their studios at the Hilltown6 Pottery Tour.
Hilltown6 Pottery Tour — Open Studios tour of nine ceramics artists at eight studios with guest artists and demonstrations of hand building, wheel throwing and decoration, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 3 and in Ashfield, Cummington, Westhampton, Windsor and Worthington. Map and full schedule at hilltown6.com
Housatonic Valley Art League — Annual Juried Art Show June 30 to July 31. Annual Members' Art Show Aug. to Sept. 5: Hours 11 to 5 p.m. Thursday through Monday, 11 to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday 107 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington. Life drawing sessions 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Sheffield library, 8 Main St. 13- 9-5951. hvart.org
IS183 Art School — 5th Anniversary Faculty Art Show on display in non-tradi-
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tional gallery spaces in Williamstown through Thursday, June 16. IS183 Art School Summer Art Show and open house, artists in adult classes and in the open studios display work June 7 to Aug. 19. Arts Night Out, 7 to 9 p.m. second Fridays monthly, all welcome for informal time in Stockbridge art studios. Workshops in painting, ceramics, fiber art, jewelry, photography and more. Exhibits and events. Locations at 13 Willard Hill Road Stockbridge and 9 Main St., North Adams. 13 98-5 5 . is183.org
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — “Lois Greenfield: Moving Still,” artist who has defined dance photography for decades, Blake’s Barn, noon to 10 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday to Tuesday. “Building the Pillow,” historic photographs in
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Ted Shawn Theatre opens an hour before performances. “Hirschfeld on the Move,” Al Hirschfeld’s artistic study of Ted Shawn and more, Doris Duke Theatre, opens an hour before performances. Jacob’s Pillow Archives, books, photographs and film, noon to 10 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday to Tuesday. All free, June to Aug. 8. Dance classes 8 a.m. Monday to Friday. Becket. jacobspillow.org
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts — Monthly rotating exhibits year-round changing at First Fridays Artswalks. “Art In Our Schools” to May 8; “I Am More Than Who You Think I Am” photographs by Julie McCarthy of women now without homes June 3 to 5; Community Access to the Arts “I Am a Part of Art” July 1 to 30; “Jazz” with Marguerite Bride and Lee Everett Aug. 5 to 7. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to p.m. Wednesday to Saturday. Free. Drop-in drumming classes with Gaia Roots, Mondays, 6 p.m. beginner and 7 p.m. advanced. 8 Renne Ave., Pittsfield. 13- 99-93 8, discoverpittsfield.com
Makers Mill — Maker space with screen-printing studio, printing and bookbinding equipment, looms, figure drawing 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays and free knitting circle 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays.
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Julie McCarthy will show photographs at the Lichtenstein Center.
Art and craft workshops, open studio hours. 73 Main St., North Adams. 13-7 9- 073, northadamsmakerspace.com
Mass MoCA — “Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder” group show at the edges of art and science opens May 8. “Here Comes the Sun,” Colombian-born, Miamibased artist Federico Uribe’s magical, colorful, sculptural menagerie of animals, and Chicago-based artist Nick Cave’s “Kaleidoscopic Playground,” an art-making lab. Richard Nonas “The Man in Empty Space” installation, Alex Da Corte “Free Roses,” Sarah Crowner “Beetle in the Leaves,” “The Space Between” opening in stairwells, covered bridges, courtyards and cracks in the pavement; Ran Hwang, ‘Untethered,” birds created with buttons and pins; Barbara Takenaga, “Nebraska” mural;
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Sol LeWitt paintings, “A Wall Drawing Retrospective”; “All These Vanished Engines” and “All Utopias Fell” installations in Speedway. Franz West. Permanent — Anselm Kiefer gallery, Sol LeWitt Retrospective, Joseph Beuys. North Adams. massmoca.org
MCLA Gallery 51 — “Waiting,” May 6 to July , iPhone images with Brigham Young University. Wayfinding,” July 8 to Aug. 1, Melanie Mowinski installations, letterpress, book arts and collage. “PaperWorks” Aug. 5 to Sept. 5, Brandon Graving, humanness and the natural world. Exhibits rotate monthly. In partnership with exPress gallery space next door, now home to IS183 art workshops, the Wind-up Festival, Press on the Move (mobile printing press) and Berkshire Cultural Resources Council. Hours 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. 51 Main St., North Adams. Free. mcla.edu
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David Bacharach will show ‘A Parliment of Owls, A Conspiracy of Ravens’ in the Knox Gallery at the Monterey Library in June.
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Monterey Library — Monthly rotating art at the Knox Gallery, “Paintings, In and Out: work by Richard Kimball” through June . A Parliament of Owls, A Conspiracy of Ravens: David Bacharach Sculpture” June 10 to July 3. “Rediscovered and Reconsidered: Anne Shatas and William Carlson, Sculpture and Ceramics” Aug. 5 to Sept. . Hours 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m. Tuesday, to 5 p.m. Wednesday, to 6 p.m. Thursday, to 8 p.m. Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Free. 5 Main Road, Monterey. 13- 8-3795, montereymasslibrary.org The Mount — Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton’s house, gardens and grounds with SculptureNow show opening June and artist tours
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through the summer. Exhibits on Wharton’s writing and life. Plunkett St., Lenox. 13-551-5111, edithwharton.org
Naumkeag — “Parallel Visions: Photographs of Gardens in China and at Naumkeag” by Lois Conner, July 1 through Columbus Day Weekend. Historic home of the Choate family designed in the 1880s by McKim, Mead & White, with world-famous gardens by Fletcher Steele, daily tours beginning June 1. 13- 983 39 (weekdays), 13- 988138 (weekends). Trustees of Reservations, thetrustees.org
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World,” group show of realists, abstractionists and illustrators opens July 1 . “Mac Conner: A New York Life,” a
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genuine Mad Man through June 19. “Build a Better Baby Carriage” 100th anniversary celebration. Norman Rockwell illustrations, Saturday Evening Post covers. Art intensive workshops in July. Rockwell’s studio open to October, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Historic property walks :30 p.m. Thursdays in July and August. Summer sketch club for kids Tuesdays, parent-child artmaking Wednesdays and Kids Create on Fridays in July and August. Week-long art workshops: Drawing as a Tool for Seeing July 11 to 15; Creative Cartooning July 18 to ; Methods of the Golden Age Masters July 5 to 9, Stockbridge. nrm.org Sandisfield Arts Center — In the Gallery: Trevor Hunter opening June . Works by Carol Kiendl: “Line, Shape, Color,” opening July 9. Joe Baker: “Paintings and Pastels,” show opening Aug. 6. Michelle Arnot, “Shodou: Traveling along the Long Path of Writing,” Japanese Calligraphy, opening Sept. 3. 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield. 13- 58- 100, sandisfieldartscenter.org
Shire City Sanctuary — Monthly rotating exhibits by local artists. Maker space with screen printing shop, sewing lab, commercial kitchen, studios, meeting and event space. Sewing circle, drop-in public print sessions to 6 p.m. Thursdays, free. Workshops and
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day passes available for studio equipment. Art exhibits rotating monthly at Pittsfield First Friday Artswalk. 0 Melville St., Pittsfield. shirecitysanctuary.com
West Stockbridge Library — Sculpture in wood and stone by William Merelle, May and June. Images of India, photography, July. Freya Segal’s paintings, Aug. and Sept. New Town Hall, 1 State Line Road (Route 10 ), West Stockbridge. Whitney Center for the Arts — Monthly rotating art exhibits and artswalk celebrations on first Fridays. Cabarets, children’s concerts, WordxWord poetry and story slams and more. Whitney Ave., Pittsfield. 13- 3-0 98, thewhit.org
Williams College Museum of Art — “Not Theories but Revelations:” The Art and Science of Abbott Handerson Thayer through Aug. 1; “Both Sides Now: Lexa and Dan Walsh” through Sept. 5; “African Art Against the State” through Aug. 8. Talks in the galleries and activities on the terrace Thursdays in July and August.15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Williamstown. wcma.williams.edu
Williamstown public library — Monthly rotating art exhibits. 1095 Main St., Williamstown. 13- 585369, milnelibrary.org Table of contents
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Photo courtesy of The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Milton Avery’s ‘Untitled (Small Farm)’will appear at Bennington Museum.
Southern Vermont
Bennington Center for the Arts — From the permenant collection: Women in art, Impressions of New England from the Laumeister Fine Arts Competition, “The Hunters,” “The Hunted,” Birds. Covered Bridge Museum, American Indian art, wildlife art, bird carvings by Floyd Scholz and a collection of Eric Sloane paintings. Hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday to Sunday. Gypsy Lane, Bennington, Vt. 80 - 7158, thebennington.org
Bennington Museum — “Milton Avery’s Vermont,” solo exhibit on the American colorist painter July to Nov. 6, paintings, watercolors and sketches. “it is all a mystery,” drawings by Marcy Hermansader 1981 015 in the Paper Gallery
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through July 30. “Grandma” Moses gallery, textiles, ceramics and weather vanes to drawings, paintings and sculpture. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Tuesday. 75 Main St., Route 9, Bennington, Vt. benningtonmuseum.org
Marble House Project — Artseed free talks, performances, open studios and more on Tuesdays, May to Oct., with artists-in-residence including sculptor Leslie Fry, Hamra Abbas in mixed-media, paper collage, photography and sulpture, ssculptor Celine Lastennet and Sumru Tekin working in found and constructed drawings, texts, photographs, films, video, and audio on May . Visual arts, performance, music, dance, poetry. Culinary workshops all summer. 1161 Dorset West Road, Dorset, Vt. marblehouseproject.org
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Photo by Kate Abbott Fields Sculpture Park shows large work at the OMI International arts Center.
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show — 19th annual group show of 38 nationally known and local artists, outdoor and largescale work curated by Joe Chirchirillo, July 3 to Oct. 5 in the Sculpture Park, 8 Main St., North Bennington. 01-983-906
Southern Vermont Arts Center — “Modern Alchemy: The Art of Glass,” Vermont Glass Guild exhibition through July 10. “The Heart of Art” group show of work by art teachers May 8 to July 3. “The Healing Power of Art” juried exhibit June 11. Summer Solo Show opens July 9. Outdoor sculpture and trails. Hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 930 Southern Vermont Arts Center Drive, Manchester, Vt. svac.org Vermont Arts Exchange — Exhibits, concerts and events. Summer art camps
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and workshops at locations in North Bennington. 80 -55 9, vtartexchange.org
New York State
Columbia County Council on the Arts — “Anthropocene,” summer group show on impact of human life on earth May 5 to July 6. Hours 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday to Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. 09 Warren St., Hudson, N.Y. 518671-6 13. artscolumbia.org
OMI International Arts Center — Fields Sculpture Park and visitors center gallery with new works by Rob Fischer, Folkert de Jong, Freya Powell, Andreas Savva and Charley Friedman, opening May 8. Charley Friedman in Visitors Center Gallery to July , talk June 18. Children’s workshops 10 a.m. Saturdays to June , July to Aug. 6. Free. 1 05 County Route , Ghent, N.Y., 51839 - 7 7, omiartscenter.org
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Salem Art Works — Harry Orlyk, landscape and abstract oil paintings May 3 to July 5. Artists in residence open studios tJuly 16 and Anagama / Train unloading of large wood kiln, conversation with firers and potters. Cary House Gallery. Outdoor sculpture park, trails. Self-guided tours year-round, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday from October to May. Guided tours in office hours; call ahead. Workshops in painting, ceramics, glassblowing, blacksmithing and more. Studio space and equipment for metal-casting, glass, woodworking, forge, print shop, welding. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org
Spencertown Academy — “From the Garden: Still Life,” garden-themed oil, pastel and watercolor art with regional artists Susie Crofut, Ann Getsinger, Patricia Gravette, Katarina Holbrook, Karen Hummel, Nina Lipkowitz, Alain Picard and Peter Seltzer through June 19. “Capturing Color: Contemporary Pastels” with Joe Baker, Frank Federico, David Francis, Susan M. Story and Marlene Wiedenbaum, July 11 to 17. “Mysterious and Unexpected: the Merger of Art and Science,” Carrie Crane, Kay Hartung, Larry Kagan, Gwenn Mayers, Karen Schoolman and Catherine Wilcox-Titus July 3 to Aug. 1 . Gallery hours: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. 790 Route 03, Spencertown, N.Y. spencertownacademy.org
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Everyday marvels
By Kate Abbott NORTH ADAMS — Wonder can feel as messy, as daily and as astonishing as sea anemones in a tide pool. Denise Markonish wants to translate that feeling into art. As a curator at Mass MoCA, She has put that challenge to a group of 3 international artists in her summer show, “Explode Every Day — An Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Wonder,” and they have answered her with nuclear fission, fractal origami, optics and installations like Charles Lindsay’s Field Station, a space of discovery, and his work with horse shoe crabs, one of the oldest living organisms on earth, blinking to music: exploring the idea of sentience. Markonish has drawn the show’s title from Ray Bradbury in an interview with his biographer, Sam Weller, when Bradbury was in his 90s: “… You don’t worry about the future. You don’t worry about the past. You just explode.” That connection to science fiction comes naturally to her. She has an unabashed love for the meeting point between science and art. “You talk to scientists today, and they are in wonder with what they do all the time,” she said. While the show ranges over many media and many marvels, this current runs in it strongly: Conversations with scientists have played
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Photo courtesy of Mass MoCA Sharon Ellis’ ‘New Moon and Palm Trees will come to Mass MoCA.
more than a surface role. They have directly inspired some of the work. Markonish and Lindsay developed together the artist-in-residence program at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a national nonprofit with deep ties to NASA. Lindsay became the first artist-inresidence there, she said, and soon afterward he called her and said they needed more than one artist — and asked for her help. She became head of the advisory committee, and they have crafted the program together since his residency began in 011. This past January the program re-launched with six new artists, she said. Three besides Lindsay have work in “Wonder” — Rachel Sussman, Dario Robleto and Jen Bervin. As Markonish developed
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the idea for this show with Columbus, Ohio-based artist Sean Foley, she has found herself coming back to the wonder she and the artists in the show have felt in the everyday world, and the people who have revealed new parts of it to her. Through her work with SETI she has met Laurance Doyle, the astronomer who discovered planet Kepler 16-B, first “real” Tatooine, a planet with two suns, and has studied syntax in whales and dolphins. Knowing his work at SETI, she asked him why he wanted to study whales. “He said in order to communicate with extraterrestrials, we had to know other species first,” she said. She has read his studies, arguments that have fascinated her and that the scienContinued on Page 19
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Photo courtesy of Becekt Arts Center Art shows across the county will play with the line between real and imagined. Scott Taylor’s paintings will come to the Becket Arts Center.
tific world has sometimes treated harshly — that whale song has recognizable patterns and structures, that dolphins babble as babies while they learn to communicate — that science and religion can co-exist. She once asked Doyle, “You used to work at NASA — why SETI?” He told her, “Here I can dream.” She recalled that conversation as she sat looking at the brick walls of the museum. “To think of a scientist as a dreamer — we need to be reminded of that,” she said. “That’s the core of what the artist-in-residence program there is — to put artists and scientists together and see what happens.” From Page 18
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So in “Wonder” she has asked Sussman to condense 13.77 Billion years into one hallway. Sussman has created a walking timeline of the universe running the length of the first floor exhibition space, “so you understand it with your body,” Markonish said — the immensity of time — the Big Bang and then a mass of nothing … .6 Billion years ago, this solar system … .5 Billion years ago, the earth. Seen against changes taking billions of years, human existence is a speck, she said. Robleto begins his work closer to home, with the earliest known recording of the human heartbeat. It was made long before sound recording existed, Markonish said, with a single hair as a
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stylus on a piece of paper coated with candle wax and soot. A device measured a pulse and drew it. He has turned it back into sound. He is on a quest to record the human heartbeat over three centuries, she said. It started from a moment when, as a small boy, he called the NASA 800 number and heard the Golden Record, the album sent into space in the 1970s on Voyagers 1 and , to give a sense of life on this planet to any other life that might find the craft. He heard a sound like static, and later he learned that it was “Life Signs,” Ann Druyan’s compressed EEG and EKG. She recorded them as she and Carl Sagan were creating the record — soon after they became engaged. They wondered whether in the future someone might be able to take an electronic recording and move back to the thought and feeling behind them. So Druyan recorded her own. Knowing that has influenced Dario down the years. “It’s those moments that haunt us,” Markonish said. “It changed his work.” Voyager 1 exited the solar bubble into deep space, she said: “What can you give the first woman whose heart and brain waves have left the solar system?” Robleto in his work, and Markonish in her show, hope to give some part of what Druyan felt that day — that shock of joy.
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June
Photo courtesy of Susan Geller Morris dancers perform at the Berkshire International Film Festival.
Wednesday June 1 About Town
Dalton Fair — Rides, midway, Mark Fanelli’s Traveling Amusement Park, community food and game booths, 6 p.m. til closing. Dalton American Legion Field, Route 9.
Merck Forest and Farmland Center — Students from the Conway School of Landscape Design will present on the 5-acre site, main Table of contents
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approach, Visitor Center, Sap House and farm complex, a look at the potential uses of this area. to 6 p.m. Free. Place TBD. Rupert, Vt. Art
Clark Art Institute — “In the Footsteps of Fra Angelico: Savonarola and the Florentine Millennial Dream,” 5:30 p.m., free lecture by Francis Oakley. Williamstown.
Manchester Community Library — “The Wyeths: First Family of American Art,” 7 p.m. First Wednesdays talk
with Shelburne Museum director Thomas Deneberg. First Congregational Church, 36 Main St., Manchester, Vt. 80 -5 9 577, mclvt.org Books & Writing
Outdoors
Bennington College — Literature evening with student readings 7 p.m., Franklin, 1 Bennington College Drive, Bennington, Vt. Music
Bascom Lodge — Quintessential, allmale Berkshire a cappella group, 6 p.m. Free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
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Mass Audubon — Bird Walk 7 a.m., free. Free day for Berkshire residents 9 a.m. to p.m. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox.
Milne Library — Kickoff party for croquet tourney June 8 to July 7 on the library lawn. Teams of four (entry fee) compete over 8 weeks. Mallets required but experience is not. Routes and 7, Williamstown. Register at the library, milnelibrary.org
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Film
Berkshire International Film Festival will screen a documentary on Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.
Animagic — Museum showcasing Berkshire roles in blockbuster films from “ 001: A Space Odyssey” to “Wallace and Gromit,” animation, special effects. Models, 3-D, Academy Award, ceramics, puppets and films. Create an animation or special effect. Open daily by appointment. 135 Main St., Lee. 13-8 16679, mambor.com Beacon Cinema — Independent movie theater with new films. 57 North St., Pittsfield. 13-358- 780, thebeaconcinema.com
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Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three
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generations of illusionists meet real magic, new musical premiere 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Images courtesy of Berkshire International Film Festival and Kevin Ulku
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Berkshire International Film Festival — 11th annual celebration, with 70 independent feature, documentary, short and family films from 6 countries, June to 5. Conversations with filmmakers, Q&As, panels and awards at the Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield and the Mahaiwe Performing Arts center and the Triplex in Great Barrington. biffma.org
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Thursday June 2
Film
Berkshire Museum — Little Cinema independent films weekly. 39 South St., Pittsfield. 13- 3-7171, berkshiremuseum.org
About Town
Dalton Fair — Rides, midway, Mark Fanelli’s Traveling Amusement Park, food booths and games, 6 p.m. til closing. Dalton American Legion Field, Route 9.
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival — Feature films and 8 p.m., Mondays July 15 to Aug. 15. Festival’s 30th year. Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox.
Film
Berkshire International Film Festival — 11th annual weekend celebration, 70 independent feature, documentary, short and family films from 6 countries, opening night passholders party 5 p.m. in tent, screening “Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble” and Q&A with Yo-Yo Ma 7 p.m. at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington. biffma.org
Mason Library — Film: “Divide in Concord” 7 p.m., tale of banning bottled water in small town U.S. 31 Main St., Great Barrington. Music
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California: A salute to the Eagles, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Celebration of Jewish Music — Sephardic Songs, Andre Previn and more, chamber music concert with world-renowned Sephardic singer Sarah Aroeste, 7:30 p.m. Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, Great Barrington Theater
Barrington Stage — “Presto Changeo,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Crandell Theatre — Columbia County 19 6 movie theater showing new films. 8 Main St., Chatham, N.Y. 518-39 -3 5, crandelltheatre.org Hathaway’s Drive-In — Old-fashioned outdoor setting for new and classic films. 76 N.Y. Route 67, North Hoosick, N.Y. 518659-6098, hathawaysdrive-in.com Hollywood Drive-In — Double features, new films, Route 66, Averil Park, N.Y. 518 83- 5, hollywooddrivein.com Images Cinema — Independent movie house with weekly films and outdoor film series in July. 50 Spring St., Williamstown. 13- 58-561 , imagescinema.org
Film: Page 22 and Page 24 Clark Art Institute — Williamstown Theatre Festival reading of “The Roommate” by Epatha Merkerson and Deirdre O’Connell, :30 p.m., free. Talk with Mandy Greenfield, artistic director of WTF, about work on new plays. Williamstown.
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Friday June 3
About Town
Dalton Fair — Rides, midway, Mark Fanelli’s Traveling Amusement Park, community food and game booths, 6 p.m.
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til closing. Fireworks at night. Dalton American Legion Field, Route 9. Art
Berkshire Botanical Garden — “Benched: Come Take a Seat in the Garden” opens, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., display of 5 to 30 benches by local artists and artisans including Berkshire woodworkers guild. Stockbridge. Image courtesy of Berkshire International Film Festival and Kevin Ulku Berkshire International Film Festival will screen ‘A Year by the Sea.’
Film Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Classic films, Metropolitan Opera, London National Theatre, documentaries on the big screen. 1 Castle St., Great Barrington. 13-5 8-0100, mahaiwe.org Mass MoCA — Summer films include screening at the North Adams airport and outdoor silent movie with live score. 87 Marshall St., North Adams. massmoca.org The Mount — “Touchstones: In Conversation with A.O. Scott,” 5:30 p.m. Aug. 11, New York Times film critic, Plunkett St., Lenox. 13-551-5100 or EdithWharton.org
Norman Rockwell Museum — Friday night film series, American Classics July 8, Aug. 1 , Sept. . Route 183, Stockbridge. 13 98- 100, nrm.org
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Pittfield films — Outdoor family films in Fridays at dusk in July at Clapp Park. (Rain dates in August) Quaker films — Film screenings and potlucks at Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham, N.Y. oldchathamquakers.org
Performance Space 21 — Movie Tuesdays: Dance and Music series of classic films July 5 to Aug. 30. “Construct It” film festival on buildings and architects Aug. 1 to 7. Outdoors under the tent. Chatham, N.Y. 518-39 61 1, ps 1chatham.org Triplex Cinema — Four-screen movie house with independent and hit films and events. 70 Railroad St., Great Barrington. 135 8-8885, thetriplex.com
This is a short list of independent movies houses, nonprofits and local venues.
First Fridays Artswalk — More than a dozen shows with more than 0 artists in the Upstreet Cultural District, openings 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., free. Afterparty 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.at the Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., free. Downtown Pittsfield 13- 36501, FirstFridaysArtswalk.com Lichtenstein Center for the Arts — “I Am More Than Who You Think I Am,” photographs with local women facing housing instability opens 5 to 8 p.m. at Artswalk. Downtown Pittsfield.
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Norman Rockwell Museum — Meet Rockwell’s Models 3 p.m., find out what it was like to pose for an illustrator. Stockbridge.
The Bookstore — Joel Sturz acoustic guitar, 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
Salem Art Works — Harry Orlyk, landscape and abstract oil paintings opening to p.m. Free. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org
Potter Helen Burton will act as a guide in Behold New Lebanon. Courtesy image from the museum.
Books & Writing
Chatham Bookstore — Art exhibit, ”Lazy Summer Days,” oil paintings by Annalee Johnson opening 5 to 7 p.m. Free with refreshments. 7 Main St., Chatham, N.Y. Conversations
Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — “The Jewish People versus the Assyrian Kings,” 10: 5 a.m. (RSVP for lunch). Hevreh, Great Barrington.
Film
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Pittsfield opening night party 5 p.m. at Hotel on North, Next Great Filmmaker Award. “Life, Animated” 7 p.m., Beacon Cinema. Films at Triplex in Great Barrington. biffma.org
Quaker films — “Aogiri” (Phoenix in Japanese) 6 p.m. potluck and 7 p.m. film about a lone surviving tree after nuclear bombing at Hiroshima. Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham, N.Y. oldchathamquakers.org
History
Columbia County Historical Society — Fyfes and Drums
of Olde Saratoga reenactments of Colonial, Revolutionary War and Civil War musters. Part of 100th anniversary summer celebration. James Vanderpoel House, 16 Broad St., Kinderhook, N.Y. cchsny.org
Music
Bennington College — Graduation concert 3 p.m., Greenwall Auditorium, 1 College Drive, Bennington, Vt.
Berkshire Theatre Group — South Shore Trio 3 p.m., Berkshire Dance Party and Cabaret 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
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Guthrie Center — Catie Curtis, folkrock, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington. Outdoors
Mass Audubon — “Wild Thing 5k/10k Trail Race Practice Series-Walk the Course” 8 to 11 a.m., free. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield. Ghent Playhouse — “The Imaginary Invalid,” classic Molière comedy, 8 p.m. Ghent, N.Y.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, secret agents and romance, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren
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Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
to the Hudson Valley, p.m. free. Spencertown, N.Y. Family
Spectrum Playhouse — Carol Burnett and Ed Sullivan remembered in live variety show, “Saturday Night Liv” comedy with Liv Cummings, 7:30 p.m. 0 Franklin St. Lee.
Saturday June 4 About Town
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — BSRM’s Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Dalton Fair — Rides, midway, Mark Fanelli’s Traveling Amuse-
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Berkshire Museum — WeeMuse Art Lab, Saturday, 11 a.m., art-making activities with a science twist. Pittsfield.
Courtesy photo by Quartl Mass Audubon’s Pleasant Valley Sanctuary will hold a Family Fun Day with bird walks to look for spring incomers like Merganser ducks.
ment Park, community food and game booths. Wristbands noon to 5 p.m., open noon til closing. Fireworks at night. Dalton American Legion Field, Route 9.
Art
Sandisfield Arts Center — Trevor Hunter solo art show, opening reception to p.m. Sandisfield.
Books & Writing
Bidwell House — Arts skills and firebuilding: Learn to make willow charcoal, quill pens, and inks from nuts and berries. Journaling and drawing. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monterey.
Chatham Bookstore — David Black reads from “Fast Shuffle,” a novel, 5 to 7 p.m. Free with refreshments. 7 Main St., Chatham, N.Y. 51839 -3005, chathambookstore.com
Northshire Bookstore — Julia Reed’s “South: Spirited Entertaining and High-Style Fun All Year Long,” Manchester, Vt.
Spencertown Academy — Poetry reading by Benjamin Kukoff, “What This Country Needs” from Brighton Beach as the child of Russian immigrants to L.A.
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Mass Audubon — Family Fun Day with puppeteer Deborah Costine, traditional New England fiddler George Wilson, birds of prey, origami creatures, bug zoo, bird and salamander walks, beekeeping talk and more 10 a.m. to p.m., all free. Pleasant Valley Sanctuaries, Lenox.
OMI International Arts Center — Children’s workshop 10 a.m. to noon for ages to 1 with themes from Fields Sculpture Park. Ghent. N.Y. Film
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“Art and Heart: The World of Isaiah Sheffer,” 10:30 a.m.; “Year by the Sea,” 1 :30 p.m., with conversations with director Alexander Janko, writer Joan Anderson, actor Karen Allen and cast. “Forgotten Farms” screening 1: 5 p.m. with Berkshire Grown. “Silent Running” p.m. Doug Trumbull sci-fi, all at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Tribute to guest and Academy Awardwinning actor Bruce Dern with BIFF achievement award. Films at Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, Triplex in Great Barrington. Full schedule biffma.org History
Columbia County Historical Society — Fyfes and Drums of Olde Saratoga Colonial re-enactments of 18th-century, Revolutionary War and Civil War musters, noon to 1 p.m. 100th anniversary summer. James Vanderpoel House, 16 Broad St., Kinderhook, N.Y. cchsny.org Table of contents
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Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Berkshire Botanical Garden — “Follow Your Nose,” fragrant plants workshop with Andy Brand of Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Conn., 1 p.m. Stockbridge.
Photo by Adam Block / Mount Lemmon Skycenter Arunah Hill Natural Science Center will explore the night sky and stars at Notchview in Windsor.
Merwin House — Historic New England house, 1875 summer retreat for William and Elizabeth Dane, with Stockbridge Room, open 11 a.m. to p.m. with hourly tours, free. Stockbridge.
Music
Berkshire Bach Society — James Bagwell conducting Vivaldi’s “Gloria,” 6 p.m. First Congregational Church, 51 Main St., Great Barrington. Berkshire Music School — Recital from the studio of Charles Marshall, piano, 1:30 p.m.
Free. Taft Recital Hall, 30 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield.
Guthrie Center — Richard Shindell, folk singer / songwriter 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Ramsdell Library — Tap and Blues, rhythm tap dancer Stefanie Weber and delta blueswoman Robin O’Herin, 1 p.m. 1087 Main St., Housatonic.
Sandisfield Arts Center — Music of George Shearing and Beyond, with the James Argiro Quintet, 8 p.m. Sandisfield.
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Bondville Fair — Horse pull competition 11 a.m. Rain date June 5. Fairgrounds off Route 30, Bondville, Vt. bondvillefair.org
Garden Conservancy Open Days — Garden tours in Ancram, Claverack, Copake Falls, Hudson, and West Taghkanic, N.Y., rain or shine. “Digging Deeper: Succulent Love with Katherine Tracey” talk 11 a.m., Roe Jan Historical Society Museum, 8 Miles Road, Copake Falls, N.Y. 888-8 - , opendaysprogram.org HooRWA — Tour de Pownal bike ride
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with Lauren stevens,18 miles with views of the Vermont landscape and Hoosic River on Route 7, North Pownal Road, Route 3 6, CR 95 and Indian Massacre Road (part gravel). Meet 10 a.m. at the former Mack Molding parking lot off of Route 3 6 in Pownal by 10:00 a.m. Register 13- 58-315
Merck Forest and Farmland Center — Game of Logging: Chain Saw Safety Training Level 3, 8 a.m. to p.m. Rupert, Vt. Register woodlandtraining.com
Notchview — Starry Night: Planets, Stars, and the Dark Night, 8 to 10 p.m. Explore the sky with volunteers from Arunah Hill Natural Science Center, create a telescope and learn about the solar system in the Visitor Center. Rain or heavy cloud cancels. Route 9, Windsor. Tamarack Hollow — Big Trees and Stories of the Land: Hike the Rivulet trail with Naturalist Aimee Gelinas, 10 a.m. at the William Cullen
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About Town
Dalton Fair — Rides, midway, Mark Fanelli’s Traveling Amusement Park, community food and game booths. Fireman’s Muster 1 p.m. Wristbands noon to 5 p.m., open noon til closing. Dalton American Legion Field, Route 9. Dalton.
Photo by Scott Barrow / Courtesy of Barrington Stage Broadway veteran Lenny Wolpe stars as Sheldon in the new musical premiere, ‘Presto Change-O.’
Bryant Homestead, Cummington. Theater
Barrington Stage — “Presto Changeo,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Ghent Playhouse — “The Imaginary Invalid,” classic Molière comedy, 8 p.m. Ghent, N.Y.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an on-
stage plane crash, secret agents and romance, and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Spectrum Playhouse — Carol Burnett and Ed Sullivan remembered in live variety show, “Saturday Night Liv” comedy with Liv Cummings, 7:30 p.m. 0 Franklin St. Lee.
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Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m.,1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
North Adams — Zumba: Dancing in the Streets to 6 p.m. benefit festival for PopCares with food, beer, craft vendors, hot dog eating contest, corn hole tourney, DJ and lots of Zumba. north Main Street, downtown. explorenorthadams.com Books and Writing The Mount — “Inspired by Edith,” Info: Directory
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novelists Sophie McManus and Stephanie Clifford on Edith Wharton’s influence in the 1st century, p.m. Lenox. Family
Boys and Girls Club — Teddy Bear Picnic, with storytelling, face painting, games, art and mini-golf, hot dogs and hamburgers for purchase, bring blanket and lunch, noon to 3 p.m. with bears at Camp Russell. Richmond. 13- 8-8 58
Fishing Derby — nd annual community event with Berkshire South Regional Community Center for youth up to age 16, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., free. Lake Mansfield, Great Barrington.
Film
Berkshire International Film Festival — 11th annual weekend, 70 independent feature, documentary, short and family films from some 6 countries. Documentary “De Palma” on filmmaker Brian De Table of contents
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Photo byTaylor Crothers / Courtesy of Richard Shindell Richard Shindell will perform at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.
Palma with co-directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. Children’s films 9:30 a.m., “Becoming Mike Nichols” conversation with filmmaker 11 a.m., “Racing Extinction” on rare animals 1 p.m., “How to Let Go of the World and Love All Things Climate Can’t Change,” 3 p.m. and panel to follow with director Josh Fox, Ben Barber and Rosemary Wessel, founder of No Fracked Gas in Mass, all at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Films at Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, Triplex in Great Barrington. biffma.org
Berkshire Museum — “Renoir: Revered and Reviled,” p.m., documentary on the artist, Pittsfield.
Music
Barrington Stage Company — “Diva Moments,” Christine Biano honors iconic women from Barbra to Celine to Britney in Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, 8 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Celebration of Jewish Music — Traditional favorites and contemporary klezmer music and Yiddish theater tunes with Paul Green on clarinet and Klezmer East: Alan Gold, Charles
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Tokarz and Bill Chapman, 3 p.m. Temple Anshe Amunim, Pittsfield.
Music from Salem — Emerging Artsits Concert, cello seminar, p.m. Bach to contemporary. Mainstage, Hubbard Hall. Cambridge, N.Y.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Chainsaw Skills for Women, 8:30 a.m. to :30 p.m. workshop for beginner chainsaw operators looking to gain greater confidence with these powerful machines; no experience necessary. Canoe trips 9 a.m.
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One more tune ... Folk singer songwriters Catie Curtis and Richard Shindell will appear the the Troubador series at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington — in a lineup with nationally known folk musicians like John Gorka, Vance Gilbert and Lucy Kalpansky
and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Bascom Lodge — “Birds of Mount Greylock” talk with Ed Neumuth, president of the Hoffmann Bird Club, 6
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Photo courtesy of Catie Curtis Singer / songwriter Catie Curtis will play the Guthrie Center on June 3.
p.m. Free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
Mass Audubon — Lime Kiln Farm Sanctuary through the Seasons Series: Amphibious Exploration of the Pond 9 a.m., free. Lime Kiln Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Sheffield.
Merck Forest and Farmland Center — Game of Logging: Chain Saw Safety Training Level 3, 8 a.m. to p.m. Rupert, Vt. Register woodlandtraining.com
Notchview — Birding by song, 6 a.m. early morning walk with Ed Neumuth, president of the Hoffman Bird Club Route 9, Windsor.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 3 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Ghent Playhouse — “The Imaginary Invalid,” classic
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Molière comedy, p.m. Ghent, N.Y.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, secret agents and romance, p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Info: Directory
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Spotlight on songwriters By Sandy Ryan
Special to BTW Berkshires
Bob Dylan. Mavis Staples. Tanglewood, July . Tanglewood will expand its lineup of live singer-songwriters in the Berkshires this summer — starting high. Bob Dylan’s music, with his poetic lyrics and indelible, hummable tunes, has consistently defined contemporary folk for five decades, and soul and R&B power Mavis Staples has known him since they performed together in their 0s. Jackson Browne, Tanglewood’s guest on June 1, has a more rock-influenced sound (think of “Running on Empty” and “Take it Easy”). Singer-songwriter has become a broad category, and it is expanding across the region, drawing nationally known voices. Tanglewood “is a magical place to listen to any type of music,” said Kim Noltemy, chief operating and communications officer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. “We’ve found over the years that popular music brings in a different audience than our core classical offerings, and that’s exciting for us.” Down the road, a folk legend has created a venue at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington, where the Troubadour Series runs from June to August in the old stone church made famous by Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s
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Courtesy photo by Adam Bielawski Mavis Staples, above, and Bob Dylan will perform at Tanglewood.
Restaurant.” Catie Curtis, who plays on June 3, a mezzo with singable tunes and genuine warmth, and Richard Shindell, who will follow her on June , sings in a rich baritone with lyrics that often take the point of view of other characters: a truck driver in “The Next Best Western” or, in “The Ballad of Mary Magdalene,” the saint herself. The genre tends to mean that one singer writes, composes and performs in a stripped-down acoustic style and often. on acoustic instruments such as guitar. These stories have a tale to
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tell, often personal, engaged and genuine, as they do for Kris Delmhorst, a nationally known Pioneer Valley musician who will perform at the Parlor Room in Northampton. Delmhorst’s music often relies on powerful metaphors about wind, weather, and water. “I tend to write mostly on a sub-narrative level,” she said in an email interview, “not a ton of concrete plotline, a lot of wandering around the inner landscape. I guess when you’re trying to write elementally, it stands to reason you end up talking about the elements.”
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Dreamaway Lodge in Becket has hosted eclectic performances for decades — local Bernice Lewis will return June 11. She will also perform at the Clark Art Institute on July 6 in their series of free Tuesday concerts.
Mass MoCA will bring indie rockers Luna May 8 and The National June 11. Dan Zanes will perform Lead Belly, Charles Bradley will brings Motown-revival, and bluegrass artist Matt Lorenz arrives in one-man show, “The Suitcase Junket.” Green River Festival — July 8 to 10 in Greenfield, blends hot air balloons and a wide display of musical talent, including Peter Mulvey and Sonya Kitchell.
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival — Aug. 5 to 7 at Dodds Farm in Hillsdale, N.Y., the outdoor festival returns in a widespread circus of dancing and live performances. In Northampton, the Iron Horse Music Hall often highlights songwriters of note, including Joan Osborne on June 1 and Nerissa and Katryna Nields June 17 and18.
Her earlier work often focused on her independent spirit and wanderlust. Now, married to fellow singersongwriter Jeffery Foucault and raising a daughter, she said that the lyrics still re-
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Photo by Shervin Lainez / Courtesy of Kris Delmhorst Folk Kris Delmhorst musician often performs at the Parlor Room.
tain their power for her. “My life has changed in its particulars, but I don’t identify any less with those feelings of rootlessness or independence than I used to,” she said. “… They’re a part of me, and I’d guess I’ll always have access to them, for better or worse. “I will say that singing the older songs, especially ones I haven’t revisited in a while, often involves some unexpected perspective shifts — sometimes a song I wrote when I was in my 0s means something entirely different to me now that I’m in my 0s. It’s interesting, and it’s part of what makes it possible to sing songs a million times over years and years, because
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as time goes by and I change as a person, the songs change too.” The Parlor Room has become a welcoming place where she often performs as part of a year-round lineup. “Because my longtime label Signature Sounds is based out of that building, it does serve as a home base/clubhouse for a lot of us around here,” she said. “It’s somewhere I can stop by day or night and find good people making music or talking about it. As a local I love the community-oriented nature of the place, as an audience member I love the tiny dark space and the BYO-everything policy, and as a performer I love the focus of the room.”
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Courtesy photo by Susan Geller A family of visitors looks across the lawn at Chesterwood, historic home of sculptor Daniel Chester French.
Monday June 6 Art
Berkshire Museum — Opening Reception for “Women and Their Olive Trees — A Story of Coexistence and Shared Society,” art exhibit, 5 p.m. with Jewish Federation of the Berkshires. Pittsfield. Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — “Meet the Artists: The Women of the Olive Tree Project,” talk with four Israeli women artists, two Jewish and two Muslim, visiting the Berkshires along with a public exhibiTable of contents
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tion of their paintings at the Berkshire Museum on June 6 and 7 at 10: 5 a.m. at Congregation Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road, Pittsfield. History
Stephentown Historical Society — Steam Automobiles talk, Christopher Coon, 7:30 p.m., Stephentown Heritage Center, Staples Road, Stephentown, N.Y. Free. (518) 733-0010. Music
Barrington Stage Company — “Diva Moments,” Christine Biano honors iconic women from Barbra to celine to Britney, Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, 8 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Tuesday June 7 Art
Hevreh — Celebration with the Women of the Olive Tree Project with four Israeli women artists, two Jewish and two Muslim, visiting the Berkshires along with a public exhibition of their paintings at the Berkshire Museum on June 6 and 7. Dessert reception 7:30 p.m. free and open to all women in the community, Route 3, Great Barrington.
Ventfort Hall — Clark Art Institute Curatorial Assistant Genevieve Hulley on museum’s sum-
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mer show, “Splendor, Myth and Vision: Nudes from the Prado,” p.m. tea and talk. Lenox.
Books and Writers
Marble House Project — Artseed readings by poet Gary J. Whitehead, third collection “A Glossary of Chickens” by Princeton University Press, and poet Peter Kline, former Amy Clampitt House and James Merrill House fellow, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt. Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Between the Television and the Fridge: Russian Public Life
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After Socialism,” Professor Olga Shevchenko of Williams College on new currents of public sentiment in Russia, 5:30 p.m. Burr and Burton Academy, 57 Seminary Ave., Manchester Vt.
Barrington Stage Co. — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Music
Manchester Music Festival — Palaver Strings concert, musician-led string orchestra with former Manchester Music Festival Young Artist Alumni, 7 p.m., First Congregational Church, Manchester, Vt.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Wednesday June 8 Books and Writers
Bascom Lodge — Creative residents Poet Karen Chase reads from “FDR on His Houseboat: The Larooco Log, 19 19 6,” and Paul Graubard presents paintings inspired
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Clarinetist Paul Green will perform in the Celebration of Jewish Music. Photo by Tina Lane / courtesy of Paul Green
by Greek myths and constellations, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock. Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Why Canada? The History of Canada and Its Relationship with the U.S.,” Professor Emeritus John Hyde of Williams College, 5:30 p.m. Bennington Museum, 75 Main St, Bennington, Vt.
Music
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and
Berkshire Theatre Group — Laugh Lounge live comedy at the Garage, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com Outdoors
Great Barrington Greenways — Guided birding at River Walk with Great Barrington Land Conservancy, 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. More than 75 species seen here including bald eagle, great blue heron, kingfisher, and flocks of cedar waxwing. Bring binoculars and field guides. Du Bois River Garden Park, Great Barrington.
Mass Audubon — Bird Walk 7 a.m., free. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox.
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Living Room Theatre — “Men of Tortuga” by Jason Wells, a dangerous comedy, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, secret agents and romance, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Thursday June 9 About Town
Hemmings CruiseIn — New England informal car show 5:30 to 8 p.m., family friendly car gatherings open to all years, all makes Info: Directory
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Friday June 10
and models. Rain cancels, Bennington, Vt. 800- 7- 373 Park McCullough House — Croquet season opening meeting, 6 p.m. Teams enter for 10 weeks of play on the lawn. 1 Park St., North Bennington.
Art
Arts Alive in the Hilltowns — “Shedding Some Light,” original watercolors and oils by Artist Natalie Stafford, opening 7 to 9 p.m., free. Cummington Community House, Main Street Cummington. 13- 38-019
Art
Hancock Shaker Village — “Living Designs and Shared Values: Highlights from the Jane P. Fitzpatrick Quilt Collection,” opening to 6 p.m., exhibit of antique American quilts in the hallways and bedrooms of the historic 1830 Brick Dwelling. Unknown women created a bold legacy in fabric of design, color, nature, and community. Gift from the Fitzpatrick family. Pittsfield. Music
Dewey Hall — Cocek! Brass Band, 5-piece ensemble from Boston, performs original compositions influenced by Eastern European and New Orleans dance songs, Table of contents
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Photo courtesy of Hancock Shaker Village Hancock Shaker Village will open an exhibit of quilts from the Jane P. Fitzpatrick Collection.
Afrobeat, Klezmer, Reggae and Western classical music, 8 p.m., 91 Main St., Route 7, Sheffield. deweyhall.com
Hevreh — Jazz Reflections with The Barrington Jazz Ensemble, p.m., selections from the Great American Songbook from Kern and Berlin to Gershwin, Rogers, Arlen and Porter. Great Barrington.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real
magic, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
The Bookstore — Berkshire Town Players perform Hawthorne, 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
Living Room Theatre — “Men of Tortuga” by Jason Wells, a dangerous comedy, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, secret agents and romance, and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
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IS183 Art School — “PhotoWeave” Arts Night Out 7 to 9 p.m. Bring photographs or images to cut and weave into new shapes. All welcome. BYOB, 1 and over at Citizens’ Hall, Stockbridge. Norman Rockwell Museum — “Norman Rockwell in Detail,” 1:30 p.m., explore his humor and visual storytelling. Stockbridge. Books & Writing
The Bookstore — James Schlett reads from “A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden,” Philosophers in the Adirondacks, non-fiction, 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
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Northshire Bookstore — Elisha Cooper, “Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
30 years antique and classic cars, food vendors and flea market, all day. Tailgate competition and best of 19 0s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Car corral, poker run, parade down Main Street p.m. Free. Dorr Field at Dorr Farm, Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -6313, 0 -36 - 100. manchestercarshow.com
WordXWord — Poetry slam and open mic 7 p.m. hosted by Melissa Quirk Cairns, Dottie’s Coffee Lounge, North St., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org Music
Arrowhead — Brass concert: Music from the Plays of Shakespeare 5 p.m., free. Herman Melville’s historic house. Pittsfield.
Barrington Stage Company —Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don’t Know but Should, 8 p.m., Main Stage, Pittsfield.
Guthrie Center — Oakes & Smith, folk singer / songwriter duo, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Meetinghouse concert — Three Quarter North, folk and bluegrass, 8 p.m. Unitarian Uni-
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Photo courtesy of Dewey Hall Cokek Brass Band will perform at Dewey Hall.
versalist Church, Bennington, Vt. Outdoors
Mass Audubon — “Wild Thing 5k/10k Trail Race Practice Series-Run the 10k Route” 8 to 11 a.m., free. Pleasant Valley Sanctuary, Lenox.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Living Room Theatre — “Men of Tortuga” by Jason Wells, a dangerous comedy, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House,
One Park St., North Bennington, Vt. Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, secret agents and romance, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Saturday June 11 About Town
Antique and Classic Car Show — Vermont celebrates
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Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. Columbia County Historical Society — First Columbians benefit with live music and dinner, 100th birthday gala, Info: Directory
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herbs in Museum’s heirloom garden, with Wake Robin Botanicals, 11 a.m. Monterey.
5 to 11 p.m. James Vanderpoel House, 16 Broad St., Kinderhook, N.Y. cchsny.org
Cultural Chaos — Cottage Street festival with music, performances, makers and food. Easthampton. easthamptoncityarts.com
North Adams — Running with the Law 5k or 1-mile walk to benefit PopCares, Inc., 9 a.m. explorenorthadams.com Art
Clark Art Institute — Opening for “Splendor, Myth, and Vision: Nudes from the Prado” exhibition, 8 old masters, never shown before in the U.S., 3 p.m. with free talk. Williamstown.
Monterey Library — “A Parliament of Owls, A Conspiracy of Ravens: David Bacharach Sculpture,” artist’s talk 6 p.m. free. Monterey.
Books and Writers
Northshire Bookstore — Anthony J. Mazzocchi, “KinTable of contents
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Photo courtesy of Railroad Street Youth Project Railroad Street Youth Project will hold a block party.
haven musicians,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
binic and Medieval times. Pittsfield.
Conversations
Berkshire Museum — Imagination Playground, 10 a.m. to noon, get creative with the big, blue blocks. Pittsfield.
Sandisfield Arts Center — An Appreciation of Poetry with Val Coleman, lively history of verse, p.m. Sandisfield.
Northshire Bookstore — Dr. Esther Sternberg on ‘Healing Spaces, The Science of Place and Wellbeing,” and “The Balance Within” at Southern Vermont Arts Center, 5 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
Temple Anshe Amunim — Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rab-
Family
Berkshire South — Regional Community Center family dance afternoon to 3:30 p.m., K-5 students dress for a party with milk and cookies. 15 Crissey Road, Great Barrington. berkshiresouth.org History
Bidwell House — “Home Medicine from Herbal Gardens,” traditional
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North Adams Historical Society — Hoosac Tunnel talk p.m. with Cliff Schexnayder, PE, author of the recently published “Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel: Baldwin, Crocker, Doane, Shanley,” North Adams Public Library. 13-66 - 700 Stockbridge Library — Cemetery Walk: “Courageous Crusaders: Women’s Rights, Freedom from Slavery, and Modernizing the Law,” p.m. Stockbridge Cemetery, Main St 13- 98-5501
Music
Barrington Stage Company —Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don’t Know but Should, 8 p.m., Main Stage, Pittsfield. Berkshire Music School — High School Senior YeeJin Yuk solo piano recital p.m. at Music on Main. First Congregational Church, Main St., Stockbridge.
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Berkshire Strings — Jam session 3 to 5 p.m. in folk, Americana, bluegrass and contradance music, all ages and instruments welcome. Free. Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School or, in good weather, outside at French Park, 65 Prospect Lake Road, North Egremont. berkshiresummerstrings.com
Close Encounters with Music — “Music that Shook the World,” 0thcentury music that caused riots and revolutions, from Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” to Debussy’s Impressionsim and jazz, George Antheil and Fernand Leger and Latin American music with passages from Stravinsky and Antheil’s memoirs, with Michael Chertock on piano and Yehonatan Berick on violin, 6 p.m. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 1 Castle St., Great Barrington. Guthrie Center — Ellis Paul, folk singer / songwriter, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — The National: Benefit con-
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snack. Trailhead at Berkshire South Regional Community Center, 15 Crissey Road, Great Barrington.
Photo by Kate Abbott Classic cars will roll into the Manchester, Vt., show.
cert for Hawthorne Valley and Mass MoCA, 7 p.m. Drinks with The National, 5 p.m. North Adams. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Chainsaw Skills for Women, 8:30 a.m. to :30 p.m. workshop for beginner chainsaw operators looking to gain greater confidence with these powerful machines; no experience necessary. Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield. Bennington Battle Monument — Fight For Air Climb with
the American Lung Association, registration 8:30 a.m., climb begins 10 a.m. Vermont Days: All State Historic Sites and State Parks are admission free. Bennington, Vt.
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Talk and book signing with Jan Johnsen, ‘Designing Serene Outdoor Spaces,” 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Great Barrington Greenways — Three Mile Hill tree ID hike 1 p.m. looking for birds and wildflowers with MassParksGreat Barrington Land Conservancy and Berkshire Natural Resources, free. Bring water and a
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HooRWA — Wetlands Identification walk and talk on fringes of a field, forest and stream, 10 a.m. at Upper Linear Park trailhead at tennis court behind Greylock Insurance Agency on Route . Williamstown. 13- 58- 7 Mass Audubon — Birding expedition 6 a.m., Post Farm Marsh Lenox. Berkshire Summits Hiking series, Race Brook Falls and Mount Race 8 a.m. to p.m., Mount Washington State Forest, Great Barrington. Register 13-637-03 0 Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “Presto Change-o,” three generations of illusionists meet real magic, 3 & 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Living Room Theatre — “Men of Tortuga” by Jason Wells, a Info: Directory
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dangerous comedy, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, secret agents and romance, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Sunday June 12 About Town
Antique and Classic Car Show — Vermont celebrates 30 years antique and classic cars, food vendors and flea market, all day. Tailgate competition and best of 19 0s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Car corral, poker run. Free. Dorr Field at Dorr Farm, Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -6313, 0 -36 - 100. manchestercarshow.com Table of contents
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Photo courtesy of IS183 IS183 Art School will hold an Arts Night Out in the studios on Friday.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m, 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Generation Block Party — Railroad Street Youth Project hosts an intergenerational celebration of successful youth from many programs. Youth Recognition Ceremony, food prepared by the culinary apprentices, a pop-up sidewalk art show, and community
input on the new Du Bois mural design, 1 to :30 p.m. in the Alley by Rubiners. 3v3 basketball, a skate jam, live music and more games 3 to 8 p.m. at the skate park behind the Drop-In Center. Free and all welcome. 13-5 8 75, rsyp.org
Art
Chesterwood — “One of the Greatest Interests of His Life: Daniel Chester French and the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” with Dr. Thayer Tolles, the Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Paintings
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and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pm. Stockbridge.
The Mount — SculptureNow opens 016 show in the grounds, tour 3:30 p.m. and reception 5 p.m. on the terrace. Lenox. Books & Writing
The Bookstore — Claudia Gold reads from “The Silenced Child,” non-fiction, p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox. WordXWord — “In the Dark” story slam hosted by James Burden, 3 p.m.
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hosted by Melissa Quirk Cairns, Dottie’s Coffee Lounge, North St., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org
Dance
Clark Art Institute — “The Art of Flamenco,” talk and flamenco demonstration by Belén Maya and José Luis, 3 p.m. Williamstown. History
Bascom Lodge — “Historic Buildings of Pittsfield,” talk and images 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
Bennington Battle Monument — Tribute to Revolutionary War conflict. Vermont Days: All state historic sites and State Parks are admission free. Bennington, Vt. Music
Berkshire Children’s Chorus — 5th anniversary concert p.m. First Congregational Church of Lee, 5 Park Place, Lee.
Music from Salem — Emerging Artsits Concert, viola seminar, p.m. Works by
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Photo courtesy of Hildene A Bobolink looks over the fields at Hildene, Robert Lincoln’s historic house.
Debussy, Bloch, Copland, Telemann, and New York conductor and composer Victoria Bond’s “Woven.” Mainstage, Hubbard Hall. Cambridge, N.Y. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Fern Walk and Botanical Drawing Workshop 10 a.m. to p.m. with ecologist and botanical artist Elizabeth Farnsworth. Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Set out from Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Berkshire Knapsackers — Kayak Ashmere Lake, with lunch. Rain cancels. Leaders Dotty Taft, 13-7 3-038 , and Jan Chague, 13-6371818, 13- 1-9971.
Bryant Homestead — Morning bird walk on the Rivulet Trail with naturalist John Green, 8 a.m. 07 Bryant Road, Cummington.
Hildene — Community day: Robert and Mary Lincoln’s historic house, farm, Pullman car, visitors center and 1 miles of trails open free, 9:30 a.m. to :30 p.m.
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Picnics welcome. Tree peonies bloom in the garden in early June. Manchester, Vt.
Theater
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, secret agents and romance, p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Info: Directory
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You must swing By Madeline Vuong
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BECKET — If you can dance swing, you can dance to anything. That’s what Broadway tap dancing star Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards was told. She started to wonder how swing had influenced the rhythms and steps of tap. At the outset, she said, she didn’t see much evidence of swing in the tap dancing of today. But as she explored the history of tap, she found that swing had given the foundation for both tap and jazz to emerge in ’ 0s and ’30s America. Delving deeper, SumbryEdwards found herself immersed in the complicated racial politics of swing, jazz, and tap, which all have deep roots in slave culture – something meaningful to her as an African-American dancer. She decided to create a performance that explored the complicated and closely-intertwined history of tap, jazz, and swing, focusing on the continuing legacy of swing in today’s dance. She called this homage, “And Still You Must Swing.” “[The performance] is my artistic response to the missing acknowledgement of the foundation of tap dance, which is swing,” Sumbry-Edwards said. “If you want to be able to reach the highest levels of artistry as a tap dancer, you have to stay connected to
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Dormeisha SumbryEdwards explores jazz, tap and swing at Jacob’s Pillow this summer. Photo by Eduardu Patino, courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
the traditions [of swing].” And so three huge names in tap — Sumbry-Edwards, Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith — will come together with special guest artist Camille A. Brown to present the world-premiere of “And Still You Must Swing,” at Jacob’s Pillow, July 6 to 10. The performance honors the tremendous influence of swing in contemporary dance and exclusively dancers of color. “In terms of who was going to be a part of this project — that was a no brainer,” Sumbry-Edwards said. “I knew exactly who I had to call: I had to reach out to Jason, Derick, and Camille, who I secretly wanted to work with anyway.” The performers willl improvise parts of the dance to live music each night, so no show will be exactly the same, she said. Each artist will have a solo that leaves
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room for them to create a different moment every night. “We all just want to swing, to pay homage to those who came before us,” she said. Jazz dance began among slave communities, tracing its roots back to African dances. Jazz dance, like jazz music, improvises from a basic set of steps, giving dancers both structure and freedom. Tap dance began began the same way, growing from West African step dancing and Irish jigs. Swing emerged in the 1930s and became widely popular. At the same time jazz music was evolving, first among black musicians and then spreading across the country. The first great swing musicians were all black and all influenced by jazz music, call and response between different sections of an ensemble, and by a strong dance beat.
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Photo courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow Derick Grant will perform in ‘And Still You Must Swing.’
Tap music fused West African and British musical styles until it encountered swing and jazz rhythmic motifs, polyrhythm, multiple meters and structured improvisation. Sumbry-Edwards’ interest in tap came early. By age 8, she was dancing in front of thousands in Rome, Italy at the Tip Tap Festival. From there she went on to perform on stages all over the world, gaining critical acclaim, including a Bessie Award and a Fred and Adele Astaire Award for her role in the Broadway show “After Midnight.” Now she is regarded as one of the most in-demand tap performers, choreographers, and instructors of her generation. In 1996 she performed with Grant and Smith in the Tony Award Winning “Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk.” Grant won the Princess Grace Award for
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upcoming young artist and the Helen Hayes Award for outstanding actor for his work in “Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk” and has also gone on to become a major figure in the world of tap as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. He most recently, won the Los Angeles Ovation Aawrd for choreography on his show, “Imagine Tap!” Smith, also widely-recognized, holds an Emmy for “Outstanding Choreography” and an American Choreography Award, and has appeared as a choreographer on “Dancing with the Stars.” He even has a day named in his honor in a small town in Louisiana because of his work to reinvigorate tap. In the journey to recover the continuing echoes of swing in contemporary jazz and tap, these three will join Camille A. Brown, a widelyacclaimed dancer and chore-
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Got that Swing ‘And Still You Must Swing’ will come to the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival July 6 through July 10. See the calendars for dance in both theaters and free talks and Inside/Out stage performances all summer.
ographer in her own right, known for incorporating music into her on-stage storytelling. This year Brown won the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award for her outstanding contributions to dance. She is especially excited to bring alive the rhythms and music that inspired her ancestors in “And Still You Must Swing,” she said. ““It is my hope that I bring … the history of swing that lived in the bodies of our ancestors,” she said, “and that still moves through our bodies through rhythm, gesture, and groove.”
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Let’s dance Photo by Todd Rosenberg
Live action, live sound “And Still You Must Swing” is unique in its exploration of the rhythmic, musical, and racial history of swing, jazz, and tap, but it also captures some of the larger themes at play in this summer’s lineup at Jacob’s Pillow, according to newly-appointed Artistic Director, Pamela Tatge. Live music is a major highlight of this season. “We are pleased to present the most live music engagements in recent years, which so enhances the experience of dancers and audiences alike,” she said. “And Still You Must Swing,” also captures the Pillow’s interest in multiple genres of dance. “The Pillow’s artistic programming is always international and varied in genre,” she said, and this Festival is no exception. In all, I see the Pillow as the convener for the national dialogue in dance, and I intend to continue and strengthen that reputation.” — Madeline Vuong
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Dance at Jacob’s Pillow includes Hubbart Street Dance Chicago, above, and Compagnie Hervé Koubi. Photo by Lou Damars.
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Photo by Rosalie O’Connor / Courtesy of PS 1 The Chase Brock Experience will come to PS21.
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More dance will take the stage at PS21 (Performance Space for the 21st Century) in Chatham, N.Y., and the Marble House Project in Dorset, Vt., and at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington.
Keisha Turner performs in May at Marble House Project in Dorset, Vt. Photo courtesy of Marble House
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Monday June 13
Books and Writers
The Bookstore — M. A. Orthofer: “The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction,” 5:30 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
Wednesday June 15
Live musicians perform at Third Thursday. Photo by Susan Geller
Film
Mason Library — Film: “After Winter, Spring” 7 p.m. Périgord region of southwest France, the last generation of family farmers in a region continuously cultivated for 5,000 years. 31 Main St., Great Barrington.
Conversations
TEDx Berkshires — Talks 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with comic philosophers Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart; Ting Wu, head of the Wu Genetics Laboratory at Harvard; Mike Markham, one of about ten full-time ring announcers in the world; storyteller Judith Black; constitutional law professor Kermit Roosevelt; Reverend Michael Tuck and more. Kripalu, 57 Interlaken Road, Stockbridge. tedxberkshires.com Outdoors
Hevreh — Golf Open, Cranwell Spa & Golf Resort, 7:15 a.m. breakfast and 8:15 start, with reception, awards and raffles, Route 0, Lenox. Table of contents
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Tuesday June 14 About Town
Bennington Battle Monument — “History and Flags,” Betsy Ross will tell the story of the U.S. flag to children and adults. Activities for children, make a flag, American Legion word search and Colonial games, 1 to 3 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Vermont Politics and the 016 Election,” Stewart Ledbetter on his time covering U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ run for the
Food
presidency, 5:30 p.m. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Vt.
Ventfort Hall — “My Father, Victor Borge: Concert Pianist/Comedian” will bring to Ventfort Hall his daughter, actress Frederikke Borge, p.m. tea and talk. Lenox.
Music
Marble House Project — Artseed talk and musical performance by Andrea Clearfield, composer of music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, dance, and multimedia collaborations, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt.
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Hevreh — “The Power of Food: How food sustained our ancestors, and how we can use it to sustain ourselves,” 7 p.m. Great Barrington Music
Band and Barbecue — Concert in the park 5 to 5:30 p.m. outside Lee Congregational Church, free. 5 Park Place, Lee.
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
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Bascom Lodge — “Civilian Conservation Corps,” talk and images with Mount Greylock ranger Judd Stull, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock. Mass Audubon — Evening at the Beaver Ponds, walk to look for wildlife and talk 7:30 p.m., Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox. Theater
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Living Room Theatre — “Men of Tortuga” by Jason Wells, a dangerous comedy, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, secret agents and romance, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
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Photo by Josh Lieberman / Courtesy of Gateway Jazz Trumpeter Bria Skonberg will play Gateway Jazz.
Thursday June 16 About Town
Third Thursday — Street festival: Green Mile Road Race, dance party with DJ BFG, yoga, slasa dance lessons, chair massage and more, 5 to 8 p.m. with live music, performances, food and community. North Street closed to traffic from West to Linden streets. Downtown Pittsfield.
Wanderlust — mindfulness retreat, festival with teachers in mindful living, yoga and meditation, organic food, music, talks, work-
shops and outdoor activities. Stratton Mountain Resort, Stratton, Vt.
Books and Writers
Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and visiting writers. Schedule bennington.edu/ MFAWriting Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Out of the Whirlwind: The Book of Job,” Rev. Bertrand Fay of The College of Saint Rose, 5:30 p.m. Burr and Burton Academy, Hunter Seminar Room, 57 Seminary Ave., Manchester Vt.
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Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — “Hear and Listen to the Voice of God, with Rabbi Neal Borovitz,” talk, 10: 5 a.m. at Congregation Knesset Israel, Pittsfield. “The Future of Jewish Life in Europe,” talk and annual meeting, 7 p.m. at Seven Hills Inn, 0 Plunkett St., Lenox. Free. 13- 360, ext. 10. Food
Marble House Project — Culinary workshop: Spring Salads and New Dressing Ideas – 3 salads, 3 dressings with seasonal MHP vegetables, garden tour, meal and wine pairing. Dorset, Vt. Register marblehouseproject.org Music
Gateway Jazz — “Keep On Keepin’ On,” Justin Kauflin and Clark Terry, documentary screening 6 p.m. at Lee Library to open weekend festival. Free. berkshiregatewayjazz.org
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Barrington Jazz Ensemble, p.m., selections from the Great American Songbook from Kern and Berlin to Gershwin, Rogers, Arlen and Porter. Great Barrington.
with live music by Lucky 5 String Band, lesson 7 p.m. and dance begins at 8. Dance on third Fridays monthly. 0 Melville St., Pittsfield.
A woman comes home from Afghanistan in ‘Ugly Lies the Bone.’ Photo by Matthew Lebandowski
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teen with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, secret agents and romance, and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Table of contents
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Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone,” a woman returning from three tours in Afghanistan, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Friday June 17 About Town
Manchester Streetfest — Live music with The Prescription, food, chef’s support of the Manchester Rescue Squad, children’s activities 6 to 9 p.m. Free. Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -5333
Wanderlust — mindfulness retreat, festival with teachers in mindful living,
yoga and meditation, organic food, music, talks, workshops and outdoor activities. Stratton Mountain Resort, Stratton, Vt.
Books and Writers
Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and visiting writers. Schedule bennington.edu/ MFAWriting
The Bookstore — Photography art opening in Shade Gallery 5 to 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox. Dance
Shire City Sanctuary — Swing dance
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History Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon — Opening weekend, 10 a.m. with summer exhibit, “Wash: There is no dirt in heaven,” daily work of Shaker women and men in communal laundry, and guided tours 1 :30 and :30 p.m., new tour to the North Family Shaker Cemetery and Community Memorial. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. shakerml.org
Music
Gateway Jazz Festival — Gallery art show and reception to 6 p.m., free, music-themed art on display all weekend. Bria Skonberg, trumpeter, vocalist and specialist in hot jazz, in concert 8 p.m. Lee Meeting House. berkshiregatewayjazz.org Guthrie Center — Harpeth Rising, folk banjo and violin, cello and foot percussion, 8 p.m.
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Walks will explore Great Barrington June 18 on Heritage Day. Photo by Kate Abbott
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Gregory Hayes, harpsichord, and Sally Pinkas, piano, music of J. S. Bach, 7:30 p.m. Federated Church, Route , Charlemont.
Southern Vermont Arts Center — Bob Stannard and Those Dangerous Bluesmen with Big Llou Johnson of Sirius XM BB King Bluesville, 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
Tanglewood — Popular artist series: Dolly Parton, country and western, 7 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
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Outdoors
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Cocktails in Great Gardens: Evening summer party in the garden of Alice Platt, Craryville, N.Y. Register for directions.
Mass Audubon — “Wild Thing 5k/10k Trail Race Practice Series-Run the 5k Route” 8 to 11 a.m., free. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox.
Spencertown Academy — Hidden Gardens Tour festivities kick off with the Twilight in the Garden Cocktail Party, 6 p.m. at a private home, Spencertown, N.Y.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher Demos-Brown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teen with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield. Berkshire Playwrights Lab — Opening night gala with original short plays and live perforances, 7:30 p.m. Wyantenuck Country Club, 5 West Sheffield Road, Great Barrington. 13-5 8- 5 , berkshireplaywrightslab.org
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Living Room Theatre — “Men of Tortuga” by Jason Wells, a dangerous comedy, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt. Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, secret agents and romance, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Info: Directory
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Town Players — “Win/Lose/Draw” by Ara Watson and Mary Gallagher, 8 p.m. Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield.
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Books and Writers
Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and visiting writers. Schedule bennington.edu/MFAWriting
The Bookstore — C.W. Huntington reads from “Maya,” a novel, p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
Northshire Bookstore — David Van Wie (7 authors), “The Confluence,” 11 a.m. at Orvis. “An Unlikely Hero,” Adrianna Brown in conversation with John Hyde, 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
About Town
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Photo courtesy of WRLF Kids look for frogs in the pond at Sheep Hill.
and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m.,, 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Bidwell House — “Praying Town to Casino – Current Issues of Sovereignty for Native Americans,” Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches Federal Indian Law and American Indian Tribal Law at Yale
Law School, introduced by Rick Wilcox, who will give a brief history of the Stockbridge Mohicans and how they came to be where they are today. 10 a.m. Tyringham Union Church, Main Road, Tyringham.
Great Barrington Heritage Day — Townwide celebration includes Housatonic river walk and paddle 9 a.m., bike tour of Great Barrington and Housatonic historic highlights 9 a.m., photo walk at Great Barrington Fairgrounds 9 a.m., alternative history tour of downtown 9:30 a.m.; Truman Wheeler Farmstead tour 10 a.m., 11, noon and 1 p.m. on South Main
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Street; Story of Indian Line Farm and CSA farms talk at noon at the farmers market; guided walking tours at W.E.B. DuBois Homesite, noon and p.m.; Behind the scenes at the Mahaiwe, noon; Iron Industry in the Woods hike 1 p.m. at Fountain Pond; story circle p.m.; classic films at the Mahaiwe 10 a.m. and and 7 p.m., and restaurant tastings from 5 to 7. Great Barrington. mahaiwe.org
Wanderlust — mindfulness retreat, festival with teachers in mindful living, yoga and meditation, organic food, music, talks, workshops and outdoor activities. Stratton Mountain Resort, Stratton, Vt.
Weston Vt. Birthday Bash — The Vermont Country Store, the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company and the town of Weston celebrate with a parade, birthday cake and scavenger hunt, live music, local food and drink and an evening Playhouse Party performance.All welcome. Evening performance is free. westonplayhouse.org
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Art
Becket Arts Center — Local Artists show with ceramist Kristin O’Neill, wood designer David Rothstein, photographer Harold Ware and watercolorist Ellen Kaiden opens with reception to p.m. Route 8, Becket. Berkshire Museum — Makers Day, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., see demonstrations by innovative makers who call Berkshires home. Pittsfield.
Chesterwood — Contemporary sculpture show: “The Nature of Glass: Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 016” opens today, curated by Jim Schantz of Schantz Galleries, with 1 nationally recognized glass artists including William Carlson, Daniel Clayman, Richard Jolley, and Tom Patti. Stockbridge.
Hancock Shaker Village — Swallowtail Bookmarks workshop, cut swallowtails and fasten pieces together using copper tacks with behind-the-
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Photo courtesy of Becket Arts Center Photographer Harold Ware will exhibit in Becket.
scenes woodworking tour, 10 a.m. to noon. Pittsfield.
Mass MoCA — Kidspace opens “Here Comes the Sun,” Colombian-born, Miami-based artist Federico Uribe’s magical, colorful, sculptural menagerie of animals, and Chicagobased artist Nick Cave’s “Kaleidoscopic Playground,” free opening celebration with the artists 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. North Adams.
OMI International Arts Center — Charley Friedman will show work in our Visitors Center Gallery with an opening reception
and artist talk, p.m. Free. Ghent. N.Y. Conversations
Stockbridge Library — William Selke Memorial Lecture: “How Paleontology Can Help Save the World,” by Dr. Warren Allmon. p.m. Stockbridge. 13- 98-5501
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rabbinic and Medieval times through Sept. 3. All welcome. Pittsfield. Dance Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Season opening
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gala 5 p.m. with Bridgeman / Packer’s “Truck,” festival artists Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and Dorrance Dance, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, the School at Jacob’s Pillow ballet program in a work created by former Boston Ballet principal dancer Yury Yanowsky and more. Opening of Lois Greenfield photography exhibit, live and silent auctions, dinner and dancing with live music. Becket.
Lenox Contradance — Kathleen Fownes on fiddle and Jim Fownes on piano with calling by Peter Stix, dance to live music, 7: 5 to 11 p.m. Beginners welcome,, no experience or partner needed. Community Center, 65 Walker St., Lenox.
Film
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — “Snow White,” classic Disney film, 10 a.m. “King Kong” (1933), p.m. “Pretty Poison,” 1968 crime classic, 7 p.m. Admission Info: Directory
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with Great Barrington Heritage Day button.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Flying Deer Nature center teaches fier starting. Photo courtesy of Flying Deer Nature center
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Music
Aston Magna Festival — Love and Lamentation,17th Century Italian works by Monteverdi, Marini, Marazzoli and Rossi, 6 p.m., talk 5 p.m., with Erin Headley, guest director, lirone and viola da gamba; Teresa Wakim and Nell Snaidas, sopranos; Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, violin/viola da gamba; Catherine Liddell, theorbo; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord. Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington.
Clark Art Institute — The Nude: Sacred and Erotic, concert by the Four Nations Ensemble, 6:30 p.m. with “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” exhibit; tapas and drinks available. Williamstown.
Gateway Jazz — Jazz brunch with Release the Penguins 11 a.m. to p.m. at Starving Artist Café and Creperie. Jazz Table of contents
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Saturday in the Park, free concerts and food vendors noon to 3 p.m. at Church Park. Jazz pianist Justin Kauflin in concert 8 p.m., and Gallery art show, music-themed art all weekend at Lee Meeting House. berkshiregatewayjazz.org
Guthrie Center — Jemima James, folk, storytelling and soul, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Dan Zanes’ Lead Belly Project, celebrating an American icon, p.m., Courtyard C or Hunter Center. North Adams
Merwin House — Twilight Lawn Concert with local guitarist Nico Wohl and friends in an open air concert on the grounds, picnics welcome, 7 to 8:30 p.m. 1 Main St., Stockbridge. Free. 617-99 -666
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Gregory Hayes, harpsichord, and Sally Pinkas, piano, music of J. S. Bach, 7:30 p.m. Federated Church, Route , Charlemont.
Tanglewood — Popular artist series: Earth, Wind & Fire, blending R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin and African music, 7
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Flying Deer Nature Center — Flying Deer Family Day: 0th anniversary celebration with nature stations, games, barbecue, contradance 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 5 Abode Rd., New Lebanon, N.Y. (518) 79 6687, flyingdeernaturcenter.org
Garden Conservancy Open Days — Garden tours 10 a.m. to p.m. in Falls Village, Kent and Washington, Conn., plus Amenia, N.Y. 888-8 - , opendaysprogram.org Great Barrington Greenways — Great Barrington Heritage Day walks 8: 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. Great Barrington loop hike to Lake Mansfield and Lake Mansfield Conservation Forest Trail, River Walk tour and explore the Du Bois
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interpretative exhibit, canoe ride to Sheffield covered bridge and more. Great Barrington
1970s at an English estate. Dorset, Vt.
Living Room Theatre — “Men of Tortuga” by Jason Wells, a dangerous comedy, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
Hildene — Summer Bird Walk: Vermont Bird and Sky Watch and local birders survey wild birds, 7 a.m., free. Manchester, Vt. Mass Audubon — “Birding the Berks — Mount Greylock” 6 a.m., North Adams. Register 13-637-03 0.
The Mount — Berkshire Botanical Garden leads an off-site trip to Edith Wharton’s gardens with landscape architect Walter Cudnohufsky, 9 a.m. Plunkett St., Lenox.
Spencertown Academy — Hidden Gardens Tour: 1 th annual selfguided celebration, “Artful Landscapes: Village and Country Gardens,” five private gardens in Spencertown and Kinderhook, N.Y. and the gardens of Edna St. Vincent Millay at Steepletop in Austerlitz, N.Y., 10 a.m. to p.m. Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden,
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Photo courtesy of Spencertown Academy Spencertown Acadeny will celebrate Garden Days.
Conn., on deer-proof and resistant landscaping, 8:30 a.m. at the academy; Garden Market with plants, vintage garden décor, containers, furniture and more by 0 dealers, demonstrations in the afternoon, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.on the Village Green, free. Spencertown, N.Y.
Williamstown Rural Lands — 30th anniversary celebration hike at Hopkins Forest, hike meets at 9:30 a.m. WRLF headquarters on Route 7, Williamstown. Theater
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ican Son” premier by Christopher DemosBrown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, and 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,”
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Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an onstage plane crash, secret agents and romance, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Sandisfield Arts Center — “Our Town” by Thorton Wilder performed by The Sandisfield Players, and 8 p.m. Sandisfield.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, redstate vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 3 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone,” a woman returning from three tours in Afghanistan, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Town Players — “Win/Lose/Draw” by Ara Watson and Mary Gallagher, 8 p.m. Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield. Info: Directory
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p.m. at Starving Artist Café and Creperie. Gallery art show, music-themed art all weekend at Lee Meeting House. berkshiregatewayjazz.org
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Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Hancock Shaker Village — Father’s Day at the village with beer talk and sausage tent. Pittsfield.
Wanderlust — mindfulness retreat, festival with teachers in mindful living, yoga and meditation, organic food, music, talks, workshops and outdoor activities. Stratton Mountain Resort, Stratton, Vt.
Art
Clark Art Institute — “Nudity and Nakedness in Renaissance Europe,” 3 p.m., free talk. Father’s Day barbecue 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Williamstown.
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Courtesy photo by Walter J. Pilsak, Waldsassen Stephentown will hold its annual strawberry festival.
Books and Writers
Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and visiting writers. Schedule bennington.edu/MFAWriting Dance
Sandisfield Arts Center — “Inside Jacob’s Pillow and the World of Dance” with Anna-Marie Holmes accompanied by Ramona Pansegrau, p.m. Sandisfield. Food
Strawberry Festival — 35th Annual Stephentown Historical Society cele-
bration, 11 a.m. to p.m. Strawberry shortcake, sundaes, and pies to benefit the society. Place TBA, Stephentown, N.Y. 518-733-5170. Music
Barrington Stage Company — “The Niko Songbook” with composer Niko Tsaklakos, rock, pop and jazz, 8 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Celebration of Jewish Music — Jewish/ African-American Connection, talk and performance p.m., Lenox Library, Lenox.
Gateway Jazz Festival — Jazz brunch with the Rich Vinette Quintet, 11 a.m. to
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Knesset Israel — “Brunch, Blues, and Bach” Gala 10 a.m. with Dr. Eli Newberger and his band of Boston jazz musicians, Eli and the Hot 6, and Kids Harmony Ensemble. 16 Colt Road, Pittsfield. Park McCullough House — Concert with Reeds Amis and JJ Beck, 6 p.m. 1 Park St., North Bennington.
Tanglewood — Popular artist series: Brian Wilson presents “Pet Sounds” with al Jardine and Blondie Chalpin, 50th anniversary celebration, :30 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Father’s Day canoe trip 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield. To register 13- 98-3 39
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Momix will appear at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on July 2 and 3. Photo by Charles Paul Azzopardi, courtesy of Momix
Berkshire Knapsackers — Southern Extension of the South Taconic Trail: Quarry Hill Trail to Shagroy Road, off Route just north of Millerton, N.Y. 13- -3701
Tamarack Hollow — Summer Solstice and Father’s Day Floodplain Forest Canoe trip, 9 a.m. Learn wetland plants and animals with naturalist Aimee Gelinas, Mill River, Easthampton.
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Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher Demos-Brown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 5 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 3 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” p.m.
second play “Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English estate. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone,” a woman returning from Afghanistan, 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “39 Steps,” 150 characters, an on-
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stage plane crash, secret agents and romance, p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Town Players — “Win/Lose/Draw” by Ara Watson and Mary Gallagher, p.m. Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield. WAM Theatre — Fresh Takes play reading, “The Oregon Trail,” 3 p.m. No. 6 Depot, 6 Depot St., West Stockbridge. Info: Directory
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Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe will perform June to 6 at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, and on July 6 on the Inside/Out Stage international Flamenco artist Marina Elana will give a free performance with Hari Krishnan if InDance.
Photo by Em Watson / Courtesy of Jacobs Pillow Che Malambo will bring the traditions of Gauchos to Jacob’s Pillow.
‘Our Last Tango,’ a film about Argentine Tango stars Maria Neves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes (at right), will screen on July 3 film at Jacob’s Pillow and Aug. 3 PS/ 1 in Chatham, N.Y. Clark Art Institute will host a talk on “The Art of Flamenco” and flamenco demonstration by Belén Maya and José Luis, 3 p.m. June 1 in Williamstown.
On July 7 at Tanglewood, Hespèrion XXI will appear with Jordi Savall, director and viola da gamba, and Mexican folklore ensemble Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, performing Folias, Antiguas, and Criollas: From the Ancient to the New World, at 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall, in Lenox.
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Reign in Spain Muses, Graces, legends — and even saints — are strippinng down this summer. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown will present 28 paintings by Old Masters from the Museo Nacional del Prado — 24 never seen before in the U.S., and all of them nude. These luminous works, chiefly by Italian and Flemish artists, came to Inquisition Spain, to the royal palace. Kings collected Rubens, Titian and their kin when Spain considered their works so controversial that they hung in reserved rooms, where only a select few could see them. At times they were nearly destroyed, and one version of Saint Sebastian got touched up, in one version, to expose slightly less to the eye. (Guido Reni’s Sebastian, at right,appears as one of the few men in this show). — Kate Abbott
Guido Reni’s Saint Sebastian will visit the Clark Art Institute this summer. Photo courtesy of the Museo Nacional del Prado.
At Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, David Burgess will perform on Spanish guitar, and Masako Yanagita on violin, at 7:30 p.m. July , presenting the music of Piazzolla and others.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket will open the season with the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, offering an East Coast premiere by renowned Spanish choreographer Cayetano Soto, as well as Alejandro Cerrudo’s ‘Silent Ghost,’ set contemporary rock, electronic, and folk music.
Weston Playhouse will present “Man of La Mancha,” the Tony-awardwinning musical based on Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote,” June 8 to July 16 in Weston, Vt. And on Aug. Manchester Music Festival will travel “Around the World with Music,” from Spanish flair to klezmer, with works by Joaquin Turina, Aaron Copeland, Ralph Vaughn Williams, William Kroll, David Krakauer. Joana Genova and Heather Braun, Kathryn Lockwood, Ariel Rudiakov and Alexis Gerlach on cello with guests Michael Brown, piano and Yousif Sheronick, percussion at Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vt.
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Monday June 20
Tuesday June 21
Clark Art Institute — Body and the Beat: Summer Solstice Gathering, 6 to 9 p.m., free, Williamstown.
Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and visiting writers. Schedule bennington.edu/MF AWriting
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Nico Wohl will perform. Photo courtesy of Merwin House
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Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and visiting writers. Schedule bennington.edu/MFAWriting The Bookstore — Robert Sugarman reads from “Antibes 1950,” a novel, 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox. Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — Talk on “Bosch and the Time of Uncertainty,” Dr. Jane Carroll of Dartmouth College will explore some of Bosch’s major works, 5:30 p.m., Stratton Mountain School, 7 World Cup Circle, South Londonderry Vt. Table of contents
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Music
Barrington Stage Company — “The Niko Songbook” with composer Niko Tsaklakos, rock, pop and jazz, 8 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty Recital, Terry Everson, trumpet, 6 p.m., free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Outdoors
Merck Forest and Farmland Center — Solstice Full Moon experience with Roderick Wilson, followed by a moonlit hike led by Chris Hubbard, 7 p.m. Free. Rupert, Vt.
Theater
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “The Trial of Aaron,” by Jesse Waldinger, 7 p.m. While Moses stood on Mount Sinai, his brother Aaron built a Golden Calf: Why? Pittsfield. WAM Theatre — Fresh Takes class on “The Oregon Trail,” 7 p.m. Berkshire Community College, 1350 West St., Pittsfield.
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Marble House Project — Artseed readings by Judith Torrea, independent investigative blogger, journalist and author based in Ciudad Juárez, México, and Janée J. Baugher, author of two ekphrastic poetry collections, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt. Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “In Defense of Civility — Why It Matters… Or Does It?” Professor James Calvin Davis of Middlebury College on the 016 presidential election cycle, 5:30 p.m. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Vt. Ventfort Hall — Pittsfield historian Jeffry A. Bradway introduces “Joseph
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McArthur Vance, Architect for the Berkshires and Beyond,” designer of Colonial Theatre and more than 50 more, p.m. tea and talk. Lenox. Music
Eagles Band — Broadway show tunes, music from TV, movies, patriotic favorites and marches, free concert in the park 7 p.m. at the Commons, 100 First St., Pittsfield. Tanglewood — Singer-songwriter and Rock-n-Roll hall-of-famer Jackson Browne, 7 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “The Power of Drama” conversation with Christopher DemosBrown, playwright of “American Son,” p.m. Stage II, “American Son” premier by Christopher DemosBrown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
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Jackson Browne will perform at Tanglewood. Photo by Nels Israelson
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Dorset Theatre Festival — New Play reading series: “Employee of the Month” by actor, playwright, HBO Def Poet Brian Dykstra, 7 p.m. Dorset, Vt. 80 -867- 3.
Wednesday June 22 Books and Writers
Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing:
readings with students, faculty and visiting writers. Schedule bennington.edu/MFAWriting Clark Art Institute — StorySlam @ The Clark, 7 p.m., Lunder Center at Stone Hill, free, Williamstown.
The Mount — Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Aspen Santa Fe Ballet celebrates 0th anniversary with Pillow-commissioned work “Huma Rojo” by Spanish choreographer
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Cayetano Soto and Alejandro Cerrudo’s “Silent Ghost” set to Dustin Hamman, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Ólafur Arnolds and Nils Frahm, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe to live music, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside/Out: The Bang Group, percussive and comic, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket. Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty Recital, Eric Ruske, French horn, 6 p.m. String Workshops Faculty: Klaudia Szlachta, violin; Michelle LaCourse, viola; Mihail Jojatu, cello; and Hyun-Ji Kwon, cello, 7:30 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com Info: Directory
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Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher DemosBrown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” and 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
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Conversations
Printing and weaving get hands-on at the Makers Mill. Photo by Kate Abbott
inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Thursday June 23 About Town
Hemmings CruiseIn — New England informal car show 5:30 to 8 p.m., family friendly car gatherings open to all years, all makes and models. Rain cancels, Bennington, Vt. 800- 7- 373 Books and Writers
Arrowhead — Hawthorne House Tour with author Mark Beauregard reading from his
novel “The Whale: A Love Story,” p.m. Herman Melville’s historic house. Pittsfield.
Green Mountain Academy — “Extreme Sports: What Difference Does Gender Make?” Author and adventurer Jan Reynolds reflects on setting world climbing and skiing records as a woman in a maledominated field. 5:30 p.m. Burr and Burton Academy, Hunter Seminar Room, 57 Seminary Ave., Manchester Vt.
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The Bookstore — Mark Beauregard reads from “The Whale: A Love Story,” a novel, 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
The Mount — Le Café Français French conversation, coffee and croissants, 8:30 a.m. Lenox.
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Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — “A Philatelic Tour of the Righteous Among The Nations,” talk, 10: 5 a.m. at Congregation Knesset Israel, Pittsfield. Free. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Aspen Santa Fe Ballet celebrates 0th anniversary with Pillow-commissioned work “Huma Rojo” by Spanish choreographer Cayetano Soto and Alejandro Cerrudo’s “Silent Ghost” set to Dustin Hamman, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Ólafur Arnolds and Nils Frahm, 8 p.m. in
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Ted Shawn Theatre. Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe to live music, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside/Out: Emery LeCrone Dance, innovative ballet, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket. Art
Makers Mill — Mill Chill night of dancing, auctions, art, and food, 7 p.m. Auction of local and locally connected art to benefit the maker space. Elk’s Lodge, 100 Eagle St., North Adams. northadamsmakersmill.org Family
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” from the Emmy Award-winning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science, and politics through song, 1 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt.
Music
Berkshire Music School — Berkshire Blues benefit with Misty Blues p.m. to support scholarship program. Taft Recital
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cal based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
Students will perform free concerts. Photo courtesy of the BU Tanglewood Institute.
Hall, 30 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Muir String Quartet 6 p.m. Wind Faculty Recital with Ronald Haroutunian, bassoon; and Linda Toote, flute, 7:30 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Hevreh — “It takes a village … or at least a duo … to write great songs,” 7:30 p.m. Rabbi emeritus Deborah Zecher performs Kander and Ebb, and Maltby and Shire with pianist Joe Rose. Great Barrington.
Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice
students perform 7 p.m., free. Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vt.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher DemosBrown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teen with a rare aging illness, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musi-
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Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone,” a woman returning from Afghanistan, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Friday June 24
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Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and visiting writers all week long. Full schedule bennington.edu/ MFAWriting Northshire Bookstore — Orgyen Chowang reads from “Our Pristine Mind,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt. Info: Directory
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Art
Chesterwood — Opening for Contemporary sculpture show: “The Nature of Glass: Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 016,” curated by Jim Schantz of Schantz Galleries, with 1 nationally recognized glass artists including William Carlson, Daniel Clayman, Richard Jolley, and Tom Patti. Curatorial tour, silent auction to 7 p.m. Gala benefit 7 to 9 p.m. Stockbridge.
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Painting demonstration with artist Ghetta Hirsch, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox
Dance
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Film
Merck Forest and Farmland Center — Screening of the new documentary “America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment,” Biltmore Estate chief forester Carl Schenck and the first school of forestry in American history. Scheck was cousin and mentor to George Merck, founder the center. 7 p.m. Free. Rupert, Vt.
Suzy Frelinghuysen’s abstracts hang in her art deco historic house. Photo courtesy of the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio
Alejandro Cerrudo’s “Silent Ghost” set to Dustin Hamman, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Ólafur Arnolds and Nils Frahm, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe to live music, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Pillow Talk, “Three Artists, Twe Companies,” 5 p.m. with Tom Mossbrucker and JeanPhilippe Malaty of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, 5 p.m., and Inside/ Out: Urban Bush Women, 6:15 p.m., both free. Becket. Family
Clark Art Institute — Free Fun Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
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free admission, activities, Williamstown.
The Mount — Free Fun Friday with family activities 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., free. Lenox. Tanglewood — Berkshire Music School student ensembles play Tanglewood’s Family Fun Fest, 1 to 5 p.m., free. Route 183, Lenox.
Guthrie Center — Folk icon Tom Rush, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” from the Emmy Award-winning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science, and politics through song, 1 and p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt.
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BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recital with French Horn Workshop 10 a.m. Faculty recital with Mike Roylance, tuba, 6 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Tanglewood — Chris Botti, Grammywinning trumpeter and composer in jazz and pop, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Theater
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Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher Demos-Brown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone,” a woman returning from Afghanistan, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Don’t Talk to the
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and dancing 5 to 8 p.m. Stockbridge.
Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon — Opening party outdoors at the North Family with grilling and beer, North Family picnic with new director and pie auction. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. shakerml.org Art
Kids create at the Mount. Photo by John Seakwood
Actors,” a comic love letter to theater, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Town Players — “Win/Lose/Draw” by Ara Watson and Mary Gallagher, 8 p.m. Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield.
Saturday June 25 About Town
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors
Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Columbia County Historical Society — Belowstairs wine dinner with HudsonChatham Winery, 5 to 10 p.m. James Vanderpoel House, 16 Broad St., Kinderhook, N.Y. cchsny.org Naumkeag — Naum-kegger, summer solstice celebration with drinks, bonfire, live music
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Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — “Has Your Creativity Been Hiding” workshop with Director Kinney Frelinghysen, 10 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox
Salem Art Works — Workshops in ceramics glassblowing, blacksmithing, welding and stained glass for teens and adults. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org. Books and Writers Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and Info: Directory
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Northshire Bookstore — Garden tour p.m., John Doiron reads from “The Widowmaker” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
N. Curran Highway (Route 8) North Adams, 13-66 - 700
Family
Science overflows with Kitchen Ka-boom. Photo courtesy of the Berkshire Museum
Berkshire Museum — Kitchen KaBoom, 11 a.m., wacky science experiments using common ingredients found in most kitchens. All experiments are kid-safe. Pittsfield.
Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rabbinic and Medieval times through Sept. 3. All welcome. Pittsfield. Dance
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Theatre. Pillow Talk: “Finding Our Community” p.m. with Urban Bush Women’s founder-director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Inside/Out: School at Jacob’s Pillow ballet, 6:15 p.m., both free. Becket.
Summer Solstice contradance — Strawberry Season Contra with live music by Boston-based band Anadama and calling by Fern Bradley. Beginner/ family lesson starts at 7:30, contradances at 8, no partner or experience nedded. Dewey Memorial Hall, 91 Main St., Sheffield. 860-67 6101, sheffieldcontradance.wordpress.com
History
Bidwell House — “A Week in the Life of Rev. Adonijah Bidwell, Reimagined,” John Demos, American history professor emeritus meritus at Yale University, 10 a.m. Tyringham Union Church, Main Road, Tyringham.
North Adams Historical Society — “Everything Trains — Peppersass Comes to North Adams,” 150th anniversary of Old Peppersass, nationwide tour of the first cog-driven train with film free at Western Gateway Heritage State Park Building
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Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” from the Emmy Award-winning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science, and politics through song, 1 and p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt. Film
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — “The Third Man,” 19 9 murder mystery, 7 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington. Music
Aston Magna Festival — The Trio Sonata 6 p.m., talk 5 p.m. Handel, Corelli, Purcell, Leclair and an Alex Burtzos world premiere for period instruments;
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with artists Daniel Stepner, and Edson Scheid, baroque violins; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord; Robinson Pyle, trumpet; Jonathan Hess, tympanist. Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington.
Barrington Stage Company — “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teen with a rare aging illness, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recital with String Quartet Workshop, noon. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Guthrie Center — Folk icon Tom Rush, 8 p.m. Doors at 6. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — FreshGrass Presents The Suitcase Junket, 8 p.m., Dré Pavilion or Club B10. North Adams
Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students perform 1:30 p.m., free. Bennington, Vt. 80 - -9197
Tanglewood — “Prairie Home Companion” live with Garrison Keillor, 5: 5 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Info: Directory
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Jazz sax comes to the Mahaiwe. Photo courtesy of Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.
Tannery Pond Concerts — Jasper Quartet with flutist Eugenia Zukerman, Beethoven, Foote, Ginastera and Debussy, 8 p.m. Darrow School, New Lebanon, N.Y. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Berkshire Knapsackers — Pittsfield watershed area along old roads, 6 miles past Ashley Lake, Sandwash Reservoir and
October Mountain Lake, returning along the Appalachian Trail. Meet 9:30 a.m. at Williams Street plaza, Pittsfield. Carl Filios, 13-8 -9119
Garden Conservancy Open Days — Garden tours in Craryville, Hillsdale, Hudson, Millerton and Valatie N.Y. 888-8 - , opendaysprogram.org
HooRWA — BringYour-Own-Canoe for a Water Chestnut Pull, 10 a.m. to remove invasive species from the Hoosic River. Boat launch off Route 67, Johnsonville, N.Y. Register 518-659-5 63
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Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ classic drama “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, and 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Three theaters will partner in 3 plays. Dorset, Vt.
Performance Space 21 — Marquies Productions, “YOL, A New Kind of Circus,” 7:30 p.m. new circus/theater production company founded by a graduate of Ecole Nationale de Cirque, Montréal. Chatham, N.Y.
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Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, redstate vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone,” a woman returning from three tours in Afghanistan, 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Theater Barn — “Don’t Talk to the Actors,” a comic love letter to theater, and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Town Players — “Win/Lose/Draw” by Ara Watson and Mary Gallagher, 8 p.m. Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield.
Sunday June 26 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. North Adams — Berkshire Food Festival with WNAW
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Afternoons with Robert Frost” programs, “You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost,” Frost’s granddaughter Lesley Lee Francis shares intimate details of the poet’s family life, p.m. Shaftsbury, Vt. Dance
North Adams will celebrate local food.
1 30AM and WUPE 100.1FM, bands and car cruise-ins noon to p.m., north Main Street, downtown. explorenorthadams.com
Art
Berkshire Museum — “Painting the Modern Garden: From Monet to Matisse,” film, p.m., documentary about artists and their gardens. Pittsfield.
Salem Art Works — Workshops in ceramics glassblowing, blacksmithing, welding and stained glass for teens and adults. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org. Table of contents
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The Bookstore — Joan Embree reads from “You and Your Stories,” a memoir, 3 p.m. Lenox.
Hevreh — Rabbi Hirsch on “Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading,” by Nancy Malone, an Ursuline Nun who draws from spiritual and secular sources, 10:30 a.m. Great Barrington
Robert Frost Stone House Museum — “Sunday
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Master class with Juan Siddi Flamenco, 10 a.m. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet celebrates 0th anniversary with Pillow-commissioned work “Huma Rojo” by Spanish choreographer Cayetano Soto and Alejandro Cerrudo’s “Silent Ghost” set to Dustin Hamman, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Ólafur Arnolds and Nils Frahm, p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Juan Siddi Flamendo Santa Fe to live music, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Becket. History
North Adams Historical Society — “Everything Trains — Peppersass Comes to North Adams,” 150th an-
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niversary of Old Peppersas, nationwide tour of the first cog-driven train with film free at Western Gateway Heritage State Park Building N. Curran Highway, 13-66 - 700
cluding best-dressed ‘native species’ runners. 13-637-03 0
Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “American Son” premier, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 5 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 3 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Family
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” from the Emmy Award-winning cartoon series that taught history, math, science, through song, 3 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt. Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty recitals, Danby Cho, clarinet, :30 p.m. and Benjamin Fox, oboe, p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Joshua Redman Quartet with Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers and Greg Hutchinson, saxophone with live jazz 7 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Adaskin String Trio, music of Gideon
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Photo by Susan Geller Asparagus appears at the Lenox Farmers Market.
Klein, Beethoven and more, 3 p.m. Federated Church, Route , Charlemont.
Summer Pops Concert — American Salute: Sage City Symphony and Music Company Orchestra, pop favorites and armed forces salute directed by Gerald Lanoue, p.m. to support the Village School of North Bennington’s String Program. 9 School St, North Bennington, Vt. 80 - 5955, vsnb.org Ventfort Hall — Pianist Jessica Roemischer, Gilded Age concert and storytelling, p.m. Lenox.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Bascom Lodge — Beekeeping talk with Northern Berkshire Beekeepers Association, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
Mass Audubon — Wild Thing 5k/10k Trail Race 9 a.m. to p.m. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary through Kennedy Park, Lenox. Benefits Pleasant Valley’s education and programming, awards in-
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Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English estate. Dorset, Vt. Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Don’t Talk to the Actors,” a comic love letter to theater, p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Town Players — “Win/Lose/Draw” by Ara Watson and Mary Gallagher, p.m. Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield. Info: Directory
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Writers on board
Tod Randolph will take the stage as Restoration Playwright Aphra Benn in ‘Or,’ at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Photo by Kevin Sprague
Words come alive ... WordxWord poets will perform throughout Pittsfield in August, and a Restoration playwright comes to Shakespeare & Company.
Photo by Kate Abbott Featured poet Fatima Asghar reads her work at WordxWord as her fellow poet Robbie Q. Telfer listens.
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on stage “This is the time of year when almost every night the frail, illegal fire balloons appear. Climbing the mountain height …”
Elizabeth Bishop wrote a poem for Robert Lowell. They were both Pulitzer and National Book awardwinning poets, two leading voices in the 0th century. They were close friends and deeply involved in each other’s lives, but they often spoke from separate continents. She first wrote to him in the summer of 19 7, when he had written a review of her collection, “North & South” and concluded: “She is one of the best craftsmen alive.” They kept writing to each other — and stayed friends — for 30 years. In their own words, playwright Sarah Ruhl has brought their friendship on stage in “Dear Elizabeth,” coming to the Dorset Theatre Festival July 8 to 3 after an Off Broadway run at The Women’s Project. Ruhl follows Bishop and Lowell through time and highs and lows, marriages and deaths and illnesses, from Maine to Key West to London, and to Brazil, where Bishop saw the flame in the sky that inspired “The Armadillo.” — Kate Abbott
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‘The paper chambers flush and fill with light / that comes and goes, like hearts.’
— Elizabeth Fire balloons rise. Photos by Kate Abbott
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Writers speak Kate Bolick will bring authors to The Mount. Photo by John Seakwood
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Writers all summer Arrowhead — Historic house where Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick.” House tours, 10 a.m. to p.m. daily, May 3 to Oct. Writer-in-residence program. Grounds open free with walking trails, summer art exhibits, Michael Melle straw sculptures and nature trail. Fun on the Farm summer Mondays for preschool children. Home of the Berkshire Historical Society. 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield. 13- -1793. mobydick.org Bennington College — Bennington MFA in writing: readings with students, faculty and visiting writers June 16 to 6. Schedule bennington.edu/MFAWriting
Berkshire Festival of Women Writers — Summer workshops and writing retreats: Memoir June 3 to 5, “Write the Change” Aug. 1 to , Leadership in tensive for teen women Aug. 8 to 1 . berkshirewomenwriters.org
Bloomsday in Williamstown — Daylong “Bloomsday” celebration on June 16, the day James Joyce’s “Ulysses” takes place, with readings in locations around Williamstown that mirror the book.
Bryant Homestead — Boyhood home and later summer retreat of American poet, abolitionist, conserva-
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Photo by Susan Geller Edna St. Vincent Millay’s books stack up at Steepletop.
tionist and editor William Cullen Bryant. House open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday for tours. Rivulet Trail to old-growth trees, fields and sugarbush and stream in Bryant’s 18 3 poem. Grounds open free year-round. 07 Bryant Road, Cummington. National Historic Landmark. Trustees of Reservations, 13-53 -1631 ext. 3110, thetrustees.org
Clark Art Institute — “Sensing Place” exhibit reflects on Stone Hill in the galleries and on the trails, opening July . Free journeling walk July 30, Thoreau walk Aug. 13. Lunder Center at Stone Hill. 5 South Street, Williamstown. 13 58- 303, clarkart.edu Millay Colony for the Arts — Summer workshops: “The Very Short Essay” re-
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treat with Melissa Febos May 31 to June ; “Reading Visual Art and Music as Text: Reflective Writing Strategies” workshop for teachers with Sarah Dohrmann, 1 to p.m. July 7; “Story of a Journey, Tale of a Stranger: Writing of Place” retreat with Best American Travel Writing author Colleen Kinder Aug.30 to Sep. 3. 5 East Hill Road, Austerlitz, N.Y. millaycolony.org
The Mount — Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton’s house, gardens and grounds with Sculpture show opening June 1 . ”Wharton on Wednesdays,” professional actors perform Wharton’s short stories starting June 9. Music after Hours free concerts on the terrace Fridays and Saturdays starting July 1. Talks with storytellers, nonfiction writers and poets, June to
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Photo courtesy of The Mount Writer-in-residence Natalie Dykstra reads in Edith Wharton’s library at The Mount in Lenox.
August; Monday series starts July 11. Touchstone series with Kate Bolick returns Aug. 11. Ghost tours 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays beginning June and French conversation on the terrace 8:30 a.m. Thursdays beginning June 3. Books and Blooms children’s story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Tuesdays starting July 5, Exhibits on Wharton’s writing and life. House and grounds open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with tours through Oct. 31. Plunkett St., Lenox. 13-551-5111, edithwharton.org
Mount Greylock — Henry David Thoreau Hike on Bellows Pipe Trail with Lauren Stevens of HooRWA and DCR Visitor Services Director Jude Stull, reading relevant passages from “A Week on the Concord and
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Merrimack Rivers.” 3 miles to summit or 6 miles roundtrip.10 a.m. July 16 at Notch Road gate. 13- 58-315
Robert Frost Stone House — “Sunday Afternoons with Frost” free talks at the house where Frost lived and wrote “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Museum open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., to May 1 to October. 1 1 Historic Route 7A, South Shaftsbury, Vt. 80 7-6 00, frostfriends.org
Shirley Jackson Day — Celebration of 100th birthday of novelist and short story writer Shirley Jackson on the day when one of her best-known stories, “The Lottery,” is set. Live readings and performances with two of her children, J.S. Holly and Barry Hyman, 7
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p.m. June 7. Left Bank, 1 Bank St., North Bennington. 80 -681-7161
Spencertown Academy — “Festival of Books— A Celebration of Books and Reading,” September, annual extravaganza of all things literary, free readings and book signings by nationally known and local authors, a giant used book sale and children’s events. 790 State Route 03, Spencertown, N.Y. 518-39 -3693, spencertownacademy.org
Steepletop — Home of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Open through to Oct. 1 . Friday to Monday, house tours 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., garden tours noon and 3 p.m., and exhibits. Nature trail marke with lines from Millay poems. 36 East Hill Road
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W.E.B. DuBois Center — Museum of Civil Rights Pioneers at North Stare Rare Bookstore. Hours: weekends, 11 a.m. to p.m., 68 Main St., Great Barrington; DuBoisCenterGB.org
W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite — National Historic Site, Boyhood home of the internationally acclaimed Civil Rights leader, scholar, activist and writer known for “Souls of Black Folk” and other works, who was born and raised in Great Barrington and returned there frequently over the course of his long life. Half-mile long interpretive trail, open to the public from dawn to dusk, leads to the foundation of his boyhood home and tells the story of his life and legacy. Route 3, just west of Route 71. duboisnhs.org
WordXWord Festival— Week-long festival in the downtown Cultural District Aug. 8 to 13, words spoken, written and sung around town. Poetry readings, workshops, story and poetry slams, teen events, free writing workshops with festival poets and writers. Local artists and nationally recognized authors and performers. Poetry and story slams through the summer. Pittsfield. wordxwordfestival.com Writers OMI — Writers and translators in residence at
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Matt Tannenbaum has run The Bookstore in Lenox for 40 years. Photo by Kate Abbott
Book shops
Bennington Bookshop — 67 Main St., Bennington, Vt. 80 - -5059, benningtonbookshop.com The Bookloft — Writers read throughout the year at the independent bookstore, Route 7, Great Barrington. 13-5 8-15 1,
The Bookstore — Live readings of poetry, fiction and nonfiction and concerts weekly all summer at Get Lit Wine Bar, 11 Housatonic St. Lenox, 13-637-3390, Bookstoreinlenox.com Chatham Bookstore — “Lazy Summer Days,” oil paintings June 3 to July 31. 7 Main St., Chatham, N.Y. 518-39 -3005, chathambookstore.com
OMI International Arts Center give readings. 1 05 County
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G.J. Askins Bookseller — Eclipse Mill, 3 Union St., North Adams, #108. 1366 -6 93, eclipsemill.com
Northshire Books — Fiction, nonfiction and poetry readings weekly all summer. Dorset Theatre Festival talks . 869 Main St., Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 - 00, northshire.com. North Star Rare Books — 68 Main St., Great Barrington. 13-6 -9595, duboiscenter.org
Shaker Mill Books — The Bookloft’s Second-hand bookshop, 3 Depot St., West Stockbridge. 13- 3 -0 51 Yellow House Books — 5 Main St., Great Barrington. 13-5 8-8 7, yellowhousebooks.com
Route , Ghent, N.Y., 51839 - 7 7, omiartscenter.org
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Book prospecting
The shelves reached to the ceiling, so that standing on a rolling set of steps I could only reach the third shelf down. The radio played soft jazz — I never cared much for moonlit skies — I never wink back at fireflies — but now that the stars are in your eyes … I’m beginning to see the light. It was a quiet, warm Saturday, when the peppers were turning red and the antique shops in the hilltowns were spilling butter churns and net floats onto the grass, and I was in the old Eclipse Mill, looking through books about Brooklyn. Around the corner, on the floor of his bookshop, G. J. Askins sorted stacks of hardbacks. Every so often he would recommend a source for local history. He had already found for me a copy of the W.P.A. guide to The Berkshire Hills, which I had been tracking down for a year, since I ran into it accidentally in the Berkshire Athenaeum. A team from the Federal Writers’ Project wandered the county, talked with people and told stories about what they found — this is my kind of guide-book. I wish someone would sponsor a collaboration like that again. I’d love to
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Photo by Kate Abbott Volumes catch some sun outside the Bookmill in Montague.
be on that team, interviewing people, combing the back roads. That kind of curiosity keeps the hills alive with stories. It’s one reason my family seems to navigate by second hand bookshops and independent bookstores — like the day my mother found Katharine M. Abbott’s 1907 “Old Paths and Legends of the New England Border” at Yellow House Books in Great Barrington. My parents and I drove up the county with a maidenhair fern in the back seat and a quart of Catalan olive oil from Bizalion’s, and we read aloud stories about Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, who were children in the Connecticut hills before their writing rocked the country between them. I love second-hand
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bookshops for the old stories they keep alive and new independent bookstores pull me in for the way they look with contemporary eyes. On another summer day, coming up for air in an exhausting time, I walked into the Montague Bookmill and fell headlong for Kamila Shamsie’s “Kartography” — two close friends trying to hold onto each other on a warm night in Karachi. I opened the book out of curiosity as two teenagers were discovering a petrified cuttlefish in the back garden … and I surfaced from it slowly two hours later to get to the contradance at the Guiding Star Grange. Sometimes I read the way Ella Fitzgerald sings, just for the glow. — Kate Abbott
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Words come alive ... Shakespeare will come to the Common in Pittsfield (above) and to the Mount in outdoor shows.
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Words come alive ... Dorset Theater Festival will join in a collaboration with Weston Playhouse to perform ‘The Norman Conquests’ (above), and Berkshire Playwrights Lab will read new work.
Photo courtesy of Berkshire Playwrights Lab and Brannon Coffey.
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Monday June 27
Books and Writers
Shirley Jackson Day — Celebration of 100th birthday of novelist and short story writer Shirley Jackson on the day when one of her best-known stories, “The Lottery,” is set. Live readings and performances with two of her children, J.S. Holly and Barry Hyman, 7 p.m. Left Bank, 1 Bank St., North Bennington. 80 -681-7161
Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty recitals, Ken Radnofsky, saxophone, 6 p.m. and BU Trombone Studio with Don Lucas, trombone, 7:30 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Outdoors
The Bookstore — Will Beemer, “Learn To Timber Frame,” 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
Dalton CRA — nd Annual Golf
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ning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science, and politics through song, 1 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt.
The lighthouse crowns the summit of Mount Greylock. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller
History
Ventfort Hall — Cornelia Brooke Gilder, “Past Private Gateposts: Up Winding Drives of Historic Berkshire Houses,” p.m. tea and talk. Lenox. Tournament, benefits Dalton Community Recreation Association and Dalton Youth Center programming, 1 :30 p.m. start Wahconah Country Club, Dalton. 13-68 0 60, dalton cra.org
Williamstown Rural Lands — Firefly hike and campfire on Sheep Hill, 8 p.m. with stories and s’mores. Rain date Juy 1. Williamstown. Theater
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony
awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Tuesday June 28 Dance
Marble House Project — Artseed dance performance by by Joanna Kotze, 013 “Bessie” awardwinner for outstanding emerging choreographer. 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt. Family
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” from the Emmy Award-win-
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Barrington Stage Company — Musical Theatre Conservatory presents “Let the Sun Shine In,” songs from ’60s musicals, Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, 9:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield. BU Tanglewood Institute — String Workshops Faculty with Klaudia Szlachta, violin; Michelle LaCourse, viola; Mihail Jojatu, cello; and Hyun-Ji Kwon, cello, 6 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son”
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premier, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” red-state vs. blue-state comedy 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow revives and rejoins the world, 7:30 p.m. MainStage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Wednesday June 29 Books and Writers
Bascom Lodge — “Mastheads,” Architects Tessa Kelly and
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BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty Recital, String Quartet Workshop, 6 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Kids search the meadow. Photo courtesy of Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation.
Chris Parkinson will present their architectural project-inprogress based on Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes. 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Che Malambo traditional dance of South American cowboys (gauchos), live drum-
ming and 17th-century duel of strength, agility and speed, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Bereishit Dance Company from Soeul, Korea, “Bow” inspired by archery and “Balance and Imbalance” with Korean drummers and pansori singer, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside/Out: Dancewave Company, Brooklyn program for urban youth, free, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
Family
Hubbard Hall — Magician Jim Snack, 6:30 p.m., free. Summer show, Cambridge, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” 1 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt.
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Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com Eagles Big Band — Jazz, Big Band music and swing, free concert 6:30 p.m. at Lilac Park, Main Street, Lenox. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Playwrights Lab — Staged reading series, live performances of new work, 7:30 p.m. Free. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington. Info: Directory
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Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane” by Daniel Elihu Kramer, a contemporary take on Jane Eyre, 8 p.m. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” and 7:30 p.m. second play in “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone,” a woman returning from Afghanistan, 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical based on “The Adventures of Don Quixote,” MainStage, Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Award-
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On Earth: The Work of Robert Hite” opening reception, 6 p.m. Pittsfield.
Courtesy Photo by Susan Geller Painted poles brighten the gardens at Naumkeag.
winner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow rejoins the world, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, an unemployed truck driver reunites with his exwife after she suffers an accident, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Thursday June 30 About town
Manchester Community Library — “Hometown Storytellers,” Vermont
authors Dave Quesnel, Bob Stannard and Terry Tyler, 7 p.m. Free. Manchester, Vt. Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams
Naumkeag — Naumkeag at Night, live music and cocktails in the garden 5 to 8 p.m. Stockbridge. Art
Berkshire Museum — “Robert Hite: Imagined Histories,” 5 p.m., artist Robert Hite gives an illustrated talk. “Living
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DownStreet Art — 016 theme, Meet Your Neighbors, spotlighting local artists. Exhibits around town rotate monthly: DownStreet Art Thursdays with exhibition openings, performance, happenings and downtown art, music and culture. 5 to 8 p.m. North Adams. downstreetart.org
Books and Writers
The Mount — “Rockwell, Wharton, and World War I” with Norman Rockwell Museum’s Curator of Education, Tom Daly, and Wharton scholar Alan Price, p.m. Le Café Français 8:30 a.m. Lenox. Dance
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Theatre. Bereishit Dance Company from Soeul, Korea, “Bow” inspired by archery and “Balance and Imbalance” with Korean drummers and pansori singer, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside/Out: Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY, “GoingSolo,” Q&A with choreographer Danielle Agami, free, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
temporary Jane Eyre, p.m. with talkback, 8 p.m. Chester.
Berkshire Athenaeum — Dave Yubruth, comedy and music, 1 p.m. Pittsfield.
Theater Barn — “Don’t Talk to the Actors,” 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Family
Milne Library — Jungle Jim, magician and balloon sculpture, 3 p.m. Williamstown.
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” 1 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt.
Food
Marble House Project — Unlocking the Mystery of Egg Cookery – Omelets, Soufflés, Hollandaise Sauce? Learn the ABC’s of egg cookery; demonstration and soufflé. Dorset, Vt. Register marblehouseproject.org Info: Directory
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Live music comes to town in North Adams. Photo courtesy of Downstreet Art
Music
Barrington Stage Company — Musical Theatre Conservatory presents “Let the Sun Shine In,” songs from ’60s musicals, noon, Stage II, Pittsfield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recitals, French Horn Workshop, 10 a.m. and Percussion Workshop, 7 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students perform 7 p.m., free. Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vt.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane” a con-
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Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 7:30 p.m. Main Stage, Weston, Vt. Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow rejoins the world, and 8 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. Festival Lawnch opening celebration 6:30 p.m. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
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History all summer
The Round Stone Barn basks in the sun. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller
Berkshires
African American Trail — A program of the Housatonic Heritage to celebrate African Americans. In the Berkshire region, AfricanAmericanTrail.org
Ashintully Gardens— Grounds of Berkshire Cottage estate, trails and gardens open 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays, June 1 to Oct. 8. Hike to the ruins of the former mansion or explore the landscaped paths and water ways created over the course of decades by John McLennan, a composer of modern music. Free. Soden Road, Tyringham. 13- 983 39, thetrustees.org
Ashley House — Site on the African American Heritage trail tells the story of Elizabeth Freeman, who sued for her
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freedom in 1781, helping to end slavery in Massachusetts. Outdoor exhibit on Freeman’s life and legacy and grounds open daily, yearround,for self-guided tours. 117 Cooper Hill Road, Sheffield. 13- 98-3 39, ext. 3013, thetrustees.org
Arrowhead — Historic house where Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick.” House tours, 10 a.m. to p.m. daily, May 3 to Oct. Writer-in-residence program. Grounds open free with walking trails, summer art exhibits, Michael Melle straw sculptures and nature trail. Fun on the Farm summer Mondays for preschool children. Home of the Berkshire Historical Society. 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield. 13- -1793. mobydick.org
Bascom Lodge — Entertainment, talks, hikes, music, Sundays and
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Wednesdays in summer and fall. Opens weekends in May, Tuesday to Sunday in June, daily July through October. Summit of Mount Greylock, access from North Adams, Adams or Lanesborough, Mass. 137 3-1591, bascomlodge.net
Becket Land Trust — Becket historic quarry and trails. Quarry Museum and self-guided tour of nature preserve and 100 years of history. Becket Historic Quarry permanent exhibit now open at Mullen House Education Center. Trails open in daylight hours year round. Quarry off Route 0, 56 Quarry Road, Becket. Mullen House off-site exhibits and office at 1 Brooker Hill Road (off Route 8), North Becket Village, 13-6 3 100, becketlandtrust.org
Berkshire Scenic Railway Lenox — Train museum in
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Lenox, 9 a.m. to p.m. Saturdays, Memorial Day through Labor Day weekend, free admission to the restored, historic Lenox Station, historical exhibits, model train layout and views of October Mountain. For a small donation, ride a “Jitney,” an old fashioned passenger car pulled by a vintage diesel-electric locomotive, to rail yard for guided tour of equipment collection. 10 Willow Creek Road, Lenox. 13-636- 10, berkshirescenicrailroad.com Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Train Rides return to the Berks
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onhires — BSRM’s Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July and Labor Day, through Sept. 18. All trains will depart from 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams; the round trip runs about one hour and 8 miles. hoosacvsalleytrainride.com
Bidwell House Museum — Colonial history museum and historic 1760s house. Antiques, early farm and garden tools, wooded trails, flower and heirloom vegetable gardens. House
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open Thursdays to Mondays, 11 a.m. to p.m. with tours on the hour, Memorial Day to Labor Day. Museum grounds — 19 acres of woods, fields, historic stone walls, trails and picnic sites — open all year free. 100 Art School Road, Monterey. 100 Art School Road, Monterey, 13-5 8-6888, bidwellhousemuseum.org
Bisbee Mill Museum — 19th-century reconstructed grist mill, blacksmith shop, woodworking shop and museum, circa-1835 horsedrawn hearse to old woodworking tools, demonstrations. Open Fourth of July and to 5 p.m. Sundays, June to Columbus Day. bisbeemillmuseum.org
Bryant Homestead — Boyhood home and later summer retreat of American poet, abolitionist, conservationist and editor William Cullen Bryant. House open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday for tours. Rivulet Trail to old-growth trees, fields and sugarbush and stream in Bryant’s 18 3 poem. Grounds open free yearround. 07 Bryant Road, Cummington. National Historic Landmark. Trustees of Reservations, 13-53 -1631 ext. 3110, thetrustees.org
Chesterwood — House, studio and gardens of Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial. Contemporary sculpture show. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily from
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Saturday, Memorial Day weekend to Columbus Day, with interpreters in the studio and residence. Art programs, family-friendly art tours, demonstrations and workshops with Boston Sculptors Gallery, 11—30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays June 6 to Sept. 1 . Chesterfest, Americana music outdoors 5—30 to 7—30 p.m. Sundays in July and August. Williamsville Road, Stockbridge. 13 98-3579, chesterwood.org
Crane Papermaking Museum — Drop-in papermaking artspace and museum documenting papermaking from 1770 to today. All ages welcome for hands-on papermaking with rag pulp, screens and presses, ink and stamps. Museum hours 1 to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday; papermaking Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. off Route 9 and West Housatonic Street, Dalton. 13-68 -6380.
Field Farm — 1967 postmodern guest house and folly designed by Ulrich Franzen for art collector Lawrence Bloedel. Art and architecture tours compare architectural philosophies. Trails and grounds open daily, free. 55 Sloan Road, Williamstown, 13- 583135, thetrustees.org
Hancock Shaker Village — Living history, farm animals, gardens and trails. 0 historic buildings with
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Photo courtesy of Hildene A visitor rests at Robert Lincoln’s historic house and grounds.
demonstrations and interpreters, summer sculpture show. Hours 10 a.m. to p.m. through June 8, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily June 5 to Nov. 1. “Young Shakers” tour 11 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays in July and Aug. “Attics and Basements” behind-the-scenes tours p.m. daily. Routes 0 and 1, Pittsfield. 13- 3-0188. hancockshakervillage.org
Lee Congregational Church — Trompe l’oeil (fool-the-eye ) stenciling, Romanesque architecture, tallest wooden-frame steeple in New England. 5 Park Place, Lee. 13- 6 -8308.
Merwin House — Historic New England house, 1875 summer retreat for William and Elizabeth Dane, with Stockbridge Room, open 11 a.m. to p.m. with hourly tours, June and Aug. 6.
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Mission House — Mohican Museum and free selfguided walking tour of Mohican sites. Gardens and Indian Museum open Saturdays and Sundays, July to Aug. 7. free. Mohican family story hour 3 p.m. Fridays in August. Landscape architect Fletcher Steele designed the Colonial Revival gardens at Mission House, with dooryard garden of circular brick paths enclosed by a cypress fence. A kitchen garden divided by crushed stone walkways contains 100 herbs, perennials and annuals that had culinary or medicinal value. 19 Main St., Stockbridge. 13- 98-3 39, ext. 3013, thetrustees.org Naumkeag — Historic home of the Choate family
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days, May to Aug., and Sundays July to Oct. Maple Street Cemetery, Adams. adamshistorical.org
Lanterns form part of a display on local history at the North Adams Museum. Photo by Kate Abbott
designed in the 1880s by McKim, Mead & White, with world-famous gardens by Fletcher Steele — newly renovated Chinese Gardens, Blue Steps. Weekend house tours through May and daily tours beginning June 1: Backstairs tour, garden tour, Lives at Naumkeag, architecture. 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge. 13- 98-3 39 (weekdays), 13- 98-8138 (weekends). Trustees of Reservations, thetrustees.org
North Adams Museum — “Everything Trains — Peppersass Comes to North Adams,” 150th anniversary nationwide tour of cog railway comes to town June 5 and 6. History and science exhibits from American Indian art, immigration, World Wars to local businesses, railroads, politics and ballooning. Fort Massachu-
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setts 70th anniversary Aug. 0, barracks room replica with Film, models, diary excerpts from Chaplain Rev. John Norton, an eye witness to the 17 6 siege; black light gallery, topographical map. Open Thursday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to p.m. and Sunday 1 to p.m. History and Science Building 5A, Western Heritage Gateway State Park, Route 8, North Adams, 13-66 - 700, northadamshistory.org
Quaker Meeting House — Built in 178 by East Hoosuck Meeting of the Society of Friends, place of worship of the family of Susan B. Anthony. Free tours by Adams Historical Society, Adams Historical Commission, Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum. Open 1 to p.m. Satur-
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Sheffield Historical Society — Old Stone Store with rotating exhibits open 10 a.m. to p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays 159 to 161 Main St., Sheffield. Dan Raymond House Museum and Mark Dewey Research Center. ( 13) 9- 69 , SheffieldHistory.org
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace — American civil rights leader and suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s historic house and exhibits about her career. Rural, Federalstyle home, portrait gallery, legacy room, and birthing room. Open 10 a.m. to p.m., Thursday through Monday, through Columbus Day weekend. 67 East Road, Adams. 13-7 3-71 1, susanbanthonybirthplace.org Ventfort Hall — Jacobean Revival-style mansion built for Sarah Morgan, Museum of the Gilded Age, Tuesday talks series and events. Open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 10 Walker St., Lenox. 13637-3 06, GildedAge.org
Western Gateway — Former railway yard tells the story of the Hoosac railway tunnel. Western Gateway Heritage State Park, Visitors Museum, 115 State St., North Adams, 13-663-631 .
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Williamstown History Museum — Historical exhibits free and open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to noon. History talks, children’s discovery room and research center. In Milne Public Library, 1095 Main St., Williamstown. ( 13) 58- 160, williamstownhistory.org
W.E.B. DuBois Center— The DuBois Center at Great Barrington’s new Museum of Civil Rights Pioneers. Hours— weekends, 11 a.m. to p.m., 68 Main St., Great Barrington; DuBoisCenterGB.org
W.E.B. DuBois Homesite— National Historic Site, Boyhood home of the internationally acclaimed Civil Rights leader, scholar, activist and writer known for “Souls of Black Folk” and other works, who was born and raised in Great Barrington and returned there frequently over the course of his long life. Half-mile long interpretive trail, open to the public from dawn to dusk, leads to the foundation of his boyhood home and tells the story of his life and legacy. Route 3, just west of Route 71. duboisnhs.org
Southern Vermont African American Trail — Heritage trail in Vermont, historicsites.vermont.gov
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Bennington Monument — Tallest structure in Vermont,
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Courtesy photo by Susan Geller Peonies bloom in formal gardens from Naumkeag to Hildene.
306 feet, commemorates the Battle of Bennington in the Revolutionary War, on Aug. 16, 1777. Elevator to the top. Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Oct. 31. 15 Monument Circle, Old Bennington. 80 - 7-0550. benningtonbattlemonument.com Bennington Historical Society — Meeting and local history talk p.m. third Sundays monthly, Bennington Museum. Route 9, Bennington, Vt. benningtonmuseum.org
Dollhouse and Toy Museum — Collection of dollhouses, from a simple cape cod house to elaborate Victorian houses, trains and trucks. Open 1 to p.m. Saturday and Sunday afternoons year round. 1 Union St., Bennington, Vt. dollhouseandtoymuseum ofvermont.com
Dorset Historical Society — Bley House Museum, exhibits of Dorset history and art with Fenton stoneware, paintings by Dorset artists,
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Marble Gallery on 130 years of quarrying, hauling, and finishing marble in Dorset and East Dorset for buildings including the Old Customs House in Erie, Penn., and the New York Public Library. Route 30 at Kent Hill Road, Dorset, Vt. dorsetvthistory.org
Hildene — Mansion of Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, open 9:30 a.m. to :30 p.m. daily: Robert and Mary’s home, goat dairy at Hildene Farm, Pullman car Sunbeam and about 1 miles of walking trails. Guided tours 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. June to September. Celebration of Peonies in late May and early June: Thousands of blooms in the formal garden, many from the original 1907 plants. 1005 Hildene Road off Route 7A, Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -1788, hildene.org Park McCullough House — Historic mansion with hours tours, croquet on the lawn and concerts in the Carriage Barn. Exhibit on
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6 0-acre Hall Farm with artifacts, photographs, books, maps, tools and stories. Living Room Theatre performances July and August. House tours on the hour 10 a.m. to p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to p.m. Sunday through Oct. 10, also on holidays May 30, July , Sept. 5 and Oct. 10. Croquet teams compete in 10 weeks of play on the lawn 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays June 16 to Aug. 18. Grounds and gardens open tree with access to trails in the adjoining woods. 1 Park St., North Bennington, Vt. 80 - 5 1, parkmccullough.org
A smith demonstrates his craft at Bidwell House in Monterey. Photo by Walter J. Engels / Courtesy of Bidwell House.
New York State
Austerlitz Historical Society — Living history museum of post-and-beam houses, a granary, a blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse, church and other historic buildings at Old Austerlitz, Route , Austerlitz. N.Y. 518-39 006 , oldausterlitz.org
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs on Saturdays June to October, opening June : Topics include nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, historic house restoration, local history, homesteading, Shaker historic tours, wild and tame birds and animals, music, pottery, foraging, vintage printing presses and more. Visitors Center, 38 Old
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Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. BeholdNewLebanon.org
Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon — Historic Shaker buildings including Great Stone Barn and Kidspace in the Poultry House. Summer exhibit, “Wash: There is no dirt in heaven,” daily work of Shaker women and men in communal laundry, engineered waterpower systems,dams, ponds, and aqueducts that ran the mechanical washmill, extractors, and elevators to lift clothes from the wash room to the drying
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attic. Museum hours 10 a.m. to p.m., Fridays to Mondays, June 17 to Oct. 10, with guided tours 1 :30 and :30 p.m., new tour to the North Family Shaker Cemetery. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. shakerml.org
Columbia County Historical Society — 100th anniversary summer celebration preserves and interprets the history, heritage and culture of Columbia County, N.Y. with two galleries of changing exhibitions, a research library and reading room. Kinderhook, N.Y. cchsny.org
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July Photo by Katy Levesque / Courtesy of Berkshire Carousel Handmade horses will canter on the new Berkshire Carousel, opening July 1.
Friday July 1
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Berkshire Carousel — Opening today with 33 hand-carved and hand-painted horses, accessible chariot, rocking chariot and spinning tub. Eagles Trombone Ensemble with former Boston Symphony Orchestra principal trombone Ron Barron. Shop wth local artisans, pop corn, ice cream and local food. 50 Center St., Pittsfield. 13- 99-0 57, berkshirecarousel.com Table of contents
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Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Friday night Cabaret trains with local entertainers Samantha Talora and Ron Ramsey. Train leaves 6 p.m. from 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. Schedule at hoosacvalleytrainride.com
First Friday — Street festival with live music, gallery tour, artwalk 5 to 8 p.m. and shops open until 8 p.m. Downtown Bennington, Vt. betterbennington.com
Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth,
Berkshire Arts Festival — 15th annual juried show of more than 00 artists and artisans: ceramics, painting, jewelry, glass, wood, mixed media, sculpture, fashion and photography., live music, workshops, demonstrations, children’s activities,
The Bookstore — Jim Overmyer, Kevin Larkin, Larry Moore, Tom Daly present “Baseball in the Berkshires: A County’s Common Bond,” 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown.
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dining and refreshments. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ski Butternut, Route 3, Great Barrington. berkshireartsfestival.com
First Fridays Artswalk — More than a dozen shows with more than 0 artists in the Upstreet Cultural District, openings 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., free. Afterparty 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.at the Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., free. Downtown Pittsfield 13- 36501, FirstFridays Artswalk.com Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Painting
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demonstration with Morris Bennett, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox
and euphonium p.m., saxophone p.m. and trombone 6 p.m., Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., free. Double bass 10 a.m., viola 1 :30 p.m., cello 3 p.m., violin 5:30 p.m. at Church on the Hill, 169 Main St., free. Opera, full performance of Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, 7:30 p.m., West Street Theatre, 5 West St., free. Lenox.
Housatonic Valley Art League — Annual Juried Art Show with regional artists opening 5 to 7 p.m. 107 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington.
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts — Community Access to the Arts “I Am a Part of Art” opens 5 to 8 p.m. Pittsfield.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Che Malambo traditional dance of South American cowboys (gauchos), live drumming and 17th-century duel of strength, agility and speed, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Bereishit Dance Company from Soeul, Korea, “Bow” inspired by archery and “Balance and Imbalance” with Korean drummers and pansori singer, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Free Fun Friday :30 p.m. on with free daytime activities, classes,
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Mass MoCA will screen ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at the airport. Photo courtesy of Mass MoCA
Kids Corners, guided tour and family performance by hip-hop duo The Wonder Twins. Inside/Out: The WonderTwins Billy and Bobby McClain, hip hop meets the Cotton Club and the Rat Pack, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk, “Improvisation in Dance,” Margaret Beals looks back at her career, 5 p.m., both free. Becket. Family
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Free Fun Friday :30 p.m. on with free activities, classes, Kids Corners, guided tour and hip-hop duo
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Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” 1 and p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt. Film
Mass MoCA — Meet us at the Airport, “Around the World in 80 Days,” 8:30 p.m., Harriman-West Airport. North Adams.
Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recitals, Clarinet Workshop, 10 a.m.; oboe noon; tuba
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Guthrie Center — John Flynn, folk singer / songwriter, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington. Meetinghouse concert — Rod MacDonald 8 p.m., part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs, Unitarian Universalist Church, Bennington, Vt. Mohawk Trail Concerts — Directors of Mohawk Trail Concerts Masako Yanagita, violin; Mark Fraser, cello; Estela Olevsky, piano, works by Bach Beethoven, Brahms, 7:30 p.m. Charlemont. Info: Directory
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The Mount — Music After Hours, guest musicians may include the Benny Sharoni Quartet and the Wanda Houston Band free concert on the terrace 8 p.m. Lenox. Tanglewood — Popular music series: Jerry Gardia Symphonic Celebration with rock, blues, R&B and jazz guitarist Warren Haynes, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany
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Saturday July 2
Musicians will perform free concerts at the Mount on Fridays and Saturdays. Photo by John Seakwood
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher Demos-Brown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow revives and rejoins the world, 8 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, an unemployed truck driver reunites with his exwife after she suffers an accident, 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Hall, 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane” by Daniel Elihu Kramer, a contemporary take on Jane Eyre, p.m. with cast conversation. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Co. — Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m. with
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Jonathan Epstein. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Don’t Talk to the Actors,” a comic love letter to theater, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical based on “The Adventures of Don Quixote,” MainStage, Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee
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Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
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Bidwell House — Township No. 1 Day. A free community celebration of Tyringham and Monterey history, with Colonial re-enactors, live music by local musicians, children’s activities, baking contest, historic craft demonstrations, book talks and more, 1 to 4 p.m. Monterey.
Temple Anshe Amunim — Reunion and celebration of Anshe’s Religious School 5:30 p.m. honoring Emeritus Rabbi Harold Salzmann with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Jewish Education. Pittsfield. Art
Bennington Museum — “Milton Avery’s Vermont,” solo exhibit on the American colorist painter, opens today. 75 Main St., Route 9, Bennington, Vt. benningtonmuseum.org
Berkshire Arts Festival — 15th annual juried show of more than 00 artists and artisans: ceramics, painting, jewelry, glass, wood, mixed
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Momix will appear at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on July 2 and 3. Photo by Charles Paul Azzopardi, courtesy of Momix
media, sculpture, fashion and photography., live musical performances, workshops, demonstrations, children’s activities, dining and refreshments. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ski Butternut, Route 3, Great Barrington. berkshireartsfestival.com Conversations
Barrington Stage Company — “Race, Bias and Culture in America,” free symposium including “The Struggle of Growing Up Biracial — Caught in the Middle” 1
p.m. and “Driving While Black” 3 p.m. with local community speakers, considering themes raised in the play “An American Son,” also July 3. Main Stage, Pittsfield.
Stockbridge Library — Cemetery Walk: “The Stockbridge Library: From Market Basket to Building and Beyond,” p.m. Cemetery on Main Street, Stockbridge. 13- 98-5501
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Torah Plus: Exploring
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Jewish Text and Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rabbinic and Medieval times. Pittsfield. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Che Malambo traditional dance of South American cowboys (gauchos), live drumming and 17th-century duel of strength, agility and speed, and 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Bereishit Dance Company from Soeul, Korea, “Bow” inspired by archery and “Balance and Imbalance” with Korean drummers and pansori singer, :15 and 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside/Out: School at Jacob’s Pillow, Improv Traditions from Ring Shout to Blues to Jazz, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk, “The Dancing Athlete” with National Museum of Dance p.m., both free. Becket.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Momix dance company presents “Viva Momix,” 35th anniversary celebration with selection of favorites, 8 p.m. 1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
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Family
Sharoni Quartet and the Wanda Houston Band free concert on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Berkshire Museum — WeeMuse Art Lab, 11 a.m., artmaking with a science twist. Pittsfield.
Performance Space 21 — Eleventh Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert: Jeremy Kittel Band, 7:30 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover in concert, 10 a.m. behind Town Hall, Great Barrington.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Family Festival: “Home Run! An All American Baseball Day,” 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tribute to the sport and the artists who captured it with handson art making, tours, presentations, an outdoor clinic and a barbershop quartet. Stockbridge
OMI International Arts Center — Children’s workshop 10 a.m. to noon for ages to 1 with themes from Fields Sculpture Park. Ghent. N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” OtherStage, 1 & p.m. Weston, Vt.
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Courtesy of Mohawk Trail Concerts David Burgess will perform on Spanish Guitar.
versions 6 p.m., talk 5 p.m. A Musical Joke and The Horn Quintet, Divertimento, with Todd Williams and Linda Dempf, natural horn and string ensemble. Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recitals, Trumpet 10 a.m., string quartet 1 :30 p.m., Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., free. Flute 11 a.m. and bassoon 1:30 p.m., Church on the Hill, 169 Main St., free. Opera, full performance of Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, :30 p.m., West Street Theatre, 5 West St., free. Lenox.
Guthrie Center — Happy Traum, folk and acoustic guitar, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Ghost Train Orchestra, Roaring like the ’ 0s, 8 p.m., Dré Pavilion or Club B10. North Adams
Mohawk Trail Concerts — David Burgess, spanish guitar, and Masako Yanagita, violin, music of Piazzolla and others, 7:30 p.m. Charlemont.
The Mount — Music After Hours, guest musicians may include the Benny
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Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students perform 1:30 p.m., free. Bennington, Vt. 80 - -9197
Tanglewood — Popular music series: Folk and gospel legends Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Reptile roundup, search forest and field for snakes, frogs and salamanders with a naturalist guide, 10 a.m. Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Mass Audubon — Berkshire Summits Hiking series, Mount
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Greylock and Ragged Mountain 8 a.m. to p.m., Mount Greylock State Reservation, Lanesborough. Register 13-637-03 0
nessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tonywinning comedy: a widow revives and rejoins the world, 3:30 and 8 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, an unemployed truck driver reunites with his exwife after she suffers an accident, 3:30 and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Notchview — Owl prowl 8 to 10 p.m., night walk looking for sights, sounds and traces of owls. Route 9, Windsor. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher DemosBrown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teen with a rare aging illness, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, and 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane” by Daniel Elihu Kramer, a contemporary Jane
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Courtesy of Mohawk Trail Concerts Masako Yanagita will play violin in Charlemont.
Eyre, 8 p.m. with talkback. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Table Manners,” and 7:30 p.m. second play in Anal Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests,” 1970s at an English country estate. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m. “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 3 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone” by Lindsey Ferrentino, a woman returning
from Afghanistan, 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Theater Barn — “Don’t Talk to the Actors,” a comic love letter to theater, and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” and 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical based on “The Adventures of Don Quixote,” MainStage, Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Award-winner Marisa Tomei in Ten-
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Sunday July 3 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Drum Corps Competition — Live percussion at Wahconah Park, Pittsfield. 13- 7-7763, pittsfieldparade.com Art
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artists and artisans: ceramics, painting, jewelry, glass, wood, mixed media, sculpture, fashion and photography., live musical performances, workshops, demonstrations, children’s activities, dining and refreshments. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ski Butternut, Route 3, Great Barrington. berkshireartsfestival.com
Folkie,” Americana for Independence Day at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, 8 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Bascom Lodge — Duo Eamon, music of Ireland, Quebec and New England for fiddle and guitar, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock. Tanglewood — Popular music series: James Taylor 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Conversations
Barrington Stage Company — “Race, Bias and Culture in America,” free symposium including “Institutional Racism: Academic, Political and Local,” p.m. with local community speakers, considering themes raised in the play “An American Son,” continuing from July . Main Stage, Pittsfield. Dance
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Photo by Walter J. Engels / Courtesy of Bidwell House Monterey will celebrate Township No 1. Day.
17th-century duel of strength, agility and speed, p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Bereishit Dance Company from Soeul, Korea, “Bow” inspired by archery and “Balance and Imbalance” with Korean drummers and pansori singer, :15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Film: “Our Last Tango” on legends Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, :30 p.m. Becket.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Momix dance company presents “Viva Momix,” 35th anniversary celebra-
tion with selection of favorites, 8 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington. Family
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” from the Emmy Award-winning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science, and politics through song, 3 p.m. Weston, Vt.
Music
Barrington Stage Company — David Lutken and the Seat of the Pants Band, “Yankie Doodle
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Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Mass Audubon — Lime Kiln Farm Sanctuary through the Seasons Series: “Breeding Birds Songs of Field and Forest” 8 a.m., free. Lime Kiln Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Sheffield. Register 13-637-03 0 Notchview — Tour of the skies 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Northampton Astronomy Club will lead a family astronomy night. Route 9, Windsor.
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Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher Demos-Brown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 5 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 3 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield. Chester Theatre — “My Jane” by Daniel Elihu Kramer, a contemporary take on Jane Eyre, p.m. with panel discussion. Chester.
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone,” a woman returning from Afghanistan, 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Don’t Talk to the Actors,” a comic love letter to theater, p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 3 p.m. Tonywinning musical based on “The Adventures of Don Quixote,” MainStage, Weston, Vt.
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Photo by Walter J. Engels / Courtesy of Bidwell House A re-enactor honors American Revolutionary War history at the Bidwell House.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow re-
vives and rejoins the world, p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, an unemployed truck driver reunites with his exwife after she suffers an accident, and 7
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p.m., Nikos Stage. Lawn talks before Sunday matinee with artists, guests and staff. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Independence Day Parades, fireworks, readings of the Declaration of Independence, live music and more — from Festival Latino dancers to bagpipes — will honor the July 4 holiday across the region.
Photos by Susan Geller Pittsfield’s July 4 Parade will fill the streets with lively sounds.
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Bennington Battle Monument — Independence Day Celebration, annual tradition with Reading of the Declaration of Independence with local actor Willy Jones at 1 p.m., discussion follows, free. Activities for children, sign a Declaration of Independence. Bennington, Vt. Clark Art Institute — Sunrise meditation, 5 a.m., free. Stone Hill center. Williamstown.
North Adams — July Fireworks after the North Adams SteepleCats baseball game, c. 9:30 p.m. Noel Field Athletic Complex, Route 8. explorenorthadams.com Pittsfield July 4 Parade — “Music and Dance Through the Years” theme, parade along North Street and downtown with floats, marching bands, classic cars. 13- 7-7763, pittsfieldparade.com Table of contents
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Fireworks will light up Lenox, Pittsfield, North Adams and more tonight. Photo courtesy of Tony Abbott
Shakespeare & Company — Celebration 1:30 to 5 p.m. with live entertainment and public reading of Declaration of Independence at 3. Free admission and food available for purchase. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Williamstown — Town parade steps off 11 a.m. on Spring Street. Williamstown Theatre Festival actors read the Declaration of Independence and the British reply 1:30 p.m. at Williams College’s Sawyer Library. Chapin Library’s Founding Documents of the United States collection on view. Free.
Barrington Stage Company — David Lutken and the Seat of the Pants Band, “Yankie Doodle Folkie,” Americana for Independence Day at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, 7 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Art
Clark Art Institute — “Sensing Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill” exhibition reflects on Stone Hill in the galleries and on the trails. Williamstown.
Community Access to the Arts — “I Am a Part of Art,” painting, drawing,
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BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty Recital, Franziska Huhn, harp, 6:30 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Free Family Jazz Concert: Miro Sprague on piano, Eric Miller on trombone, Marty Jaffe on bass p.m. Charlemont. Tanglewood — Popular music series: James Taylor 8 p.m. in the Shed to benefit Tanglewood. Fireworks to follow. Route 183, Lenox. Theater
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Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge.
Tuesday July 5 Family
The Mount — Books and Blooms children’s story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Bring a sketch pad. Stockbridge.
Weston Playhouse — “School House, 1 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt.
Film
Performance Space 21 — Music and Dance film series, “The Barkleys of Broadway” 8:30 p.m., 19 9, last film to co-star Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and their only film together in color. Free film on the big screen..Chatham, N.Y.
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Photos by Susan Geller A spectator waits for Pittsfield’s July 4 Parade.
Music
Arrowhead — Concert: The Whale Guitar, time TBA. Herman Melville’s house. Pittsfield. Clark Art Institute — Annie and the Hedonists, 6 p.m., free concert. Williamstown.
Marble House Project — Artseed talk and musical performance by Matthew Kennedy, emerging New England composer of solo, chamber and orchestral music, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt.
Tanglewood — Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland Tangle-
wood Music Center Fellows with Seiji Ozawa, conductor: Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, string quartet excerpts and ensembles, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher DemosBrown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
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Temple Anshe Amunim — “The Corrupting Influence of Materialism” workshop on Arthur Miller’s “The Price” (1968) and David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1983) 10 a.m. with Barbara Waldinger, professor of theater at Queens College in NYC. Pittsfield.
Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone” by Lindsey Ferrentino, a woman returning from Afghanistan, 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Ventfort Hall — “A Sneak Peek at The Pirates of Penzance” with Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, p.m. tea and talk. Lenox. Weston Playhouse — “Man of La ManInfo: Directory
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Award-winner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tonywinning comedy: a widow rejoins the world, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, an unemployed truck driver reunites with his exwife after she suffers an accident, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. Talkbacks after the shows. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Wednesay July 6 Art
Berkshire Botanical Garden — En Plein Air watercolor workshop 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Clark Art Institute — Drop in figure drawing, :30 – :30 p.m. Williamstown. Table of contents
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Hubbard Hall — Anansi the Trickster Spider with The Grumbling Gryphons, 6:30 p.m., free. Summer Library Program. Cambridge, N.Y. Milne Library — Rhode Island Computer Museum teen workshop, p.m. Williamstown.
Courtesy photo by Susan Geller Local wines appear at the Pittsfield Farmers Market.
Books and Writers
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox. Conversations
Hevreh — Rabbi Neal Borovitz, “Zionism and American Reform Jews from 1885 to the Present,” 11: 5 a.m. Great Barrington.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Gauthier Dance, PoCheng Tsai’s “Float-
ing Flowers,” Itzik Galili’s “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” and Cayetano Soto’s “Conrazoncorazon,” created for the company, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “And Still You Must Swing,” three tap luminaries celebrate jazz: Dormeshia SumbryEdwards, Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith with live music and guest artists including Camille A. Brown, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: “Dances for One,” Hari Krishnan of InDance and international flamenco artist Marina Elana with live music, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
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Norman Rockwell Museum — “Creating Together” for ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” 1 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt. Food
Bascom Lodge — Tastings with brewers from Big Elm, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock. Music
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
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Eagles Band — Broadway show tunes, music from TV, movies, patriotic favorites and marches, free concert 6:30 p.m. Vermont Veterans Home, 3 5 North St., Bennington, Vt.
a woman returning from Afghanistan, 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical based on “The Adventures of Don Quixote,” MainStage, Weston, Vt.
Live on the Lake — Free concert with Live 95.9 WBEC FM and Greylock Federal Credit Union, 6 to 8 p.m., Burbank Park, Onota Lake, Pittsfield.
Tanglewood — Tanglewood Brass Spectacular with members of the Boston Pops Brass and Percussion, Boston Crusaders, Phantom Regiment, Bluecoats and The Cadets, leading drum and bugle corps, 7 p.m. in Shed. Route 183, Lenox Outdoors
Manchester Community Library — Summer Wednesdays, “Mount Equinox Hill Climb,” talk on the sports car race up the longest paved hill climb in the world, 7 p.m. Free. Manchester, Vt.
Mass Audubon — Bird Walk 8 a.m.,
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Brass performances resound this month. Photo by Miskatonic
free. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher DemosBrown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musi-
cal based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” Ashman and Menken musical with a mysterious plant, 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane” by Daniel Elihu Kramer, a contemporary Jane Eyre, 8 p.m. Chester.
Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m., “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, red-state vs. blue-state comedy inspired by Shakespeare, 3 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone” by Lindsey Ferrentino,
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow rejoins the world, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, an unemployed truck driver reunites with his exwife after she suffers an accident, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Thursday July 7 About Town
IS183 Art School — 5th Anniversary Fitzpatrick Fandango Gala Celebration Info: Directory
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“Floating Flowers,” Itzik Galili’s “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” and Cayetano Soto’s “Conrazoncorazon” created for the company, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “And Still You Must Swing,” three tap luminaries celebrate jazz: Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith with live music and guest artists including Camille A. Brown, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, repertoir from Aztec-inspired rituals to Caribbean and Mariachi, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams Art
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Diversity, Perception, and Responsibility in Illustration” with Robyn Phillips-Pendleton 5:30 p.m., blatant, subtle or perceived stereotypes created by illustrators, and sanctioned by art directors and publishers have shaped American perceptions of race for more than 00 years. Historic property walks p.m. to Linwood House (1859 Berkshire Cottage), Rockwell’s studio and “Build a Better Baby Carriage” outdoor exhibit. Stockbridge. Williams College Museum of Art — “Enlivening Testure and Textile in Art” with Deb Brothers,
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Bo Bartlett echoes Norman Rockwell in ‘The Deadline’. Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum
costume designer and lecturer in theater at Williams College, p.m.; “The Art and Science of Beer” 5:30 p.m. on the patio with brewer Sam Amoroso and chemistry professor Thomas Smith.15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Williamstown.
Books and Writers
Bryant Homestead — “Rebels of the Hilltowns” talk 7 p.m. at historic house of William Cullen Bryant, 19th-century poet, journalist. Cummington.
The Mount — “Poets on Poets,” Susan Kinsolving on Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Richard
Howard, 5 p.m. Le Café Français 8:30 a.m. Lenox.
Conversations
Hevreh — “Jewish Influences in Comic Films,” 3:30 p.m. Great Barrington
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Planned Parenthood and the Crisis of Reproductive Rights in the 1970s,” 7 p.m. Dr. Robyn Rosen, professor of history at Marist College, on her newest research. 6 Broad St., Pittsfield. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Gauthier Dance, Po-Cheng Tsai’s
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Berkshire Athenaeum — Wayne Martin, puppets, 1 p.m. Pittsfield.
Berkshire Museum — Berkshire Children’s Theater, “The Wizard of Oz,” 11 a.m., young performers present the musical classic. Pittsfield. Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” 1 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt.
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Robert Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Manchester Music Festival — nd Season Opening Night, “If It Sounds Good …” with guest artist soprano Danielle Talamantes, works by Granados, Turina, Ellington and more including “I’m beginning to See the Light,” 7:30 p.m. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt.
Music from Salem — Open rehearsal for “A Wave Lifted Toward You,” works by Prokofiev, Eric Thomas, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky, p.m., free. Brown Farm, 15 Priest Road, Salem, N.Y.
Party in the Park — Free concert 6 to 8 p.m. with WUPE FM and WNAW 1 30AM Greylock Federal Credit Union, Noel Field behind tSteeplecats baseball diamond, in North Adams.
Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students perform 7 p.m., free. Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vt.
Tanglewood — Hespèrion XXI with Jordi Savall, direc-
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Hubbard Hall — “Othello,” summer touring Shakespeare, 7 p.m. Free. in Community Garden, Washington and Spring streets, Cambridge, N.Y.
A tubist rehearses at Tanglewood. Photo by Marco Borggreve / courtesy of Tanglewood
tor and viola da gamba, and Mexican folklore ensemble Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, Folias, Antiguas, and Criollas: From the Ancient to the New World 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier , a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” Ashman and Menken musical, 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane,” a contemporary take on Jane Eyre, p.m. with talkback and 8 p.m. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl, chronicling the 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and
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Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — “Frederikke Borge speaks of her father, Victor Borge,” talk 10: 5 a.m. at Congregation Knesset Israel, Pittsfield. Free. Shakespeare & Company — “The Taming” by Lauren Gunderson, 3 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone” by Lindsey Ferrentino, 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” and 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical based on “The Adventures of Don Quixote” MainStage, Weston, Vt. Info: Directory
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow rejoins the world, and 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, and 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. “Ménage à Deux,” Tom Fontana and Susie Essman perform a dialog between Victor Hugo and Mademoiselle Mars at the Log. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
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About Town
Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown.
Hemmings CruiseIn — New England informal car show 5:30 to 8 p.m., family friendly. Rain cancels, Bennington, Vt. 800- 7- 373 Table of contents
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Cairns, Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., St., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org
The Clark Art Institute will offer family activities on Sundays. Photo courtesy of the Clark.
Art
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Painting demonstration with artist Joanie Ciolfi, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox
IS183 Art School — “Bowl You Over” Arts Night Out 7 to 9 p.m. Make a bowl with handbuilt clay and simple glazes. All welcome. BYOB, 1 and over at Citizens’ Hall, Stockbridge. Books & Writing
The Bookstore — Christopher Nye and Susan Engel present “The End of
Conversations
Knesset Israel — “Women in the House of Study: Anxiety, Difference and the Dangers of Exclusion” by associate professor Marjorie Lehman, 11 a.m. Bernstein Theater at Shakespeare & Company, 70 Kemble St., Lenox. 13 5- 87 , ext.16
the Rainbow,” their work in non-fiction and education, 5:30 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
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Northshire Bookstore — Theresa Rebeck, playwright and author of “The Way of the World” at Dorset Theatre Festival speaks 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
Stockbridge Library — Book sale with 16,000 gently used books, audio books, CDs and DVDs, preview 9 a.m. to noon, free noon to 5 p.m., 6 Main St., Stockbridge. 13- 98-5501 WordXWord — Poetry slam and open mic 7 p.m. hosted by Melissa Quirk
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Gauthier Dance, PoCheng Tsai’s “Floating Flowers,” Itzik Galili’s “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” and Cayetano Soto’s “Conrazoncorazon,” made for the company, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “And Still You Must Swing,” three tap luminaries celebrate jazz: Dormeshia SumbryEdwards, Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith with live music and guest artists including Camille A. Brown, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside
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Hevreh — Tanglewood Shabbat, 7 p.m. gathering on the lawn before the evening concert. Route 183, Lenox.
Sarah Kim will perform on violin / Courtesy of Music from Salem
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Chiara String Quartet, music of Beethoven, Ravel, Bartok, 7:30 p.m., Charlemont.
Becket Arts Center — Families Dance Together program 5 p.m. at Jacob’s Pillow, Becket.
Berkshire Museum — Berkshire Children’s Theater presents “The Wizard of Oz,” 11 a.m., young performers present the musical. Science Night 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., enjoy an evening of science, invention, and fun, free and open to the community. Pittsfield. Hubbard Hall — Children’s Theater Performance of “Peter and the Blue Witch Baby,” 6 p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
Music from Salem — Children’s workshop with MfS musicians 3 p.m. Greenwich Youth Center, 6 Academy St., Greenwich, N.Y.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Kids create” hands-on art for ages 3 to 6, 10:30 a.m. Stockbridge.
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The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert (jazz, blues, soul) on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Performance Space 21 — Mime Eddie Allen 1 p.m., climbs invisible walls, ropes, ladders and more. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” 1 & p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt.
Film
Norman Rockwell Museum — “The Grapes of Wrath,” film from John Steinbeck’s novel on the 1930s Dust Bowl, 5:30 p.m. with Q&A. Stockbridge.
Outdoor Movie — “Minions” at dusk (8:30 p.m.), Clapp Park, Pittsfield.
Music
Green River Festival — Music begins 5 p.m. with Peter Wolf and The Midnight Travelers, NRBQ, The Dustbowl Revival, Charles Neville and the New England Nevilles and Dean’s Beans Latin Music stage with artists. 0 acts in three days. Balloon rides, craft village and more. Greenfield Community College, Greenfield. 13-3 1-3317, greenriverfestival.com
Guthrie Center — No Fuss and Feathers, harmonies, rhythm and humor, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
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Southern Vermont Arts Center — Washington County Band in concert, 7 p.m., at opening of Summer Solo Show in Yester House. Free. Manchester, Vt.
Tanglewood — Boston Symphony Orchestra opening night with Jacques Lacombe, cond., and Joshua Bell, violin: Ravel, SaintSaëns, Prokofiev, 6 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Summer party in the garden of Joyce and Gerald Moore, Hudson, N.Y. RSVP for directions. Info: Directory
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Mass Audubon — “Native Plantings for Home Gardens” 10 a.m., free. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox. Register 13-637-03 0 Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher DemosBrown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” Ashman and Menken musical 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane” by Daniel Elihu Kramer, a contemporary take on Jane Eyre, p.m. with cast conversation. Chester. Table of contents
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Courtesy of Chatham Summerfest Masks and bubbles fill the streets at Summerfest.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl, American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Hubbard Hall — “Othello,” summer touring Shakespeare, 7 p.m. Free.
in Community Garden, Washington and Spring streets, Cambridge, N.Y.
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jim on the Mississippi, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
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Performance Space 21 — “Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-ass Wit of Molly Ivins,” staged reading of play by sisters and journalists Margaret and Allison Engel based on political columnist and humorist Molly Ivins, with Nancy Rothman. 8 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Man-
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cha,” 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical based on “The Adventures of Don Quixote,” MainStage, Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — Fridays@3 new play reading: “Actually I Didn’t” by Anna Ziegler. Backstage tour 6 p.m. “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy, 8 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College. Williamstown.
Saturday July 9 About Town
Bennington Bike Nite — Motorcycle festival with bike blessing, best of show award, photographers, live music by Moose Bell, raffle, vendors, to 8 p.m., free. Bennington Station, Bennington, Vt.
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with
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Duds Rock n’ Roll musicians 7 to 11 p.m. at the Firemen’s Pavilion. Food and beer garden with Wandering Star. Benefits local organizations. Historic District. Route 8, Becket. wordpress.becketarts.org
Nina Evans’ painting. Courtesy of Becket Arts Center
programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Corvettes of Berkshire — Carity car, truck and motorcycle show 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to benefit Berkshire County Kids’ Place, with
food and beverages available, DJ, trophies, bake sale, raffles. Rain or shine. Free. Jiminy Peak Resort, 37 corey Road, Hancock.
Hilltown Brouhaha — Becket-Washington Town Fair, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Bouncy house, water slides, face painting, clowns, fairy houses, balloon sculptures and more; dancers from the School at Jacob’s Pillow perform free on the second floor stage of the Becket Arts Center. Local crafters and artists display work. Federated Church offers food including strawberry shortcake. Dale and the
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OMI International Arts Center — Art OMI Weekend: Dancing Under the Stars with Sambaland, 8 p.m. to midnight. Live music with artists-in-residence and fireflies. Ghent. N.Y.
Summerfest — Food, entertainment, artisan booths, vendors and food trucks, free performances and events on the Arts Spotlight Stage, dance, music, theatre and more, 10 a.m. to p.m. Live 0-minute performance by Columbia County Youth Theater at noon in front of the Crandell Theatre, 8 Main St., Chatham, NY. 51839 -3 5 (Crandell), visitchathamny.com Art
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shop with artist Robert Hite, 10 a.m. to p.m., create architectural sculptures out of found materials at the Berkshire Museum, then to Hancock Shaker Village for lunch and on-site photography of sculptures within the natural landscape. Pittsfield. 13- 3-7171 Clark Art Institute — Plein Air drawing at Thomas Schütte: Crystal installation, Stone Hill, 1 to p.m., free. Williamstown. Salem Art Works — Workshops inblacksmithing and welding for teens and adults. Children’s memory bubble workshop. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org.
Sandisfield Arts Center — Works by Carol Kiendl: “Line, Shape, Color,” solo show opening to p.m. Sandisfield. Books and Writers
Northshire Bookstore — James Kunstler reads from World Made By Hand , “The Harrows of Spring,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt. Table of contents
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BU Tanglewood students will give free concerts.
concert, 10 a.m. behind Town Hall, Great Barrington. OMI International Arts Center — Art 10 a.m. to noon for ages to 1 with themes from Fields Sculpture Park. Ghent. N.Y.
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Stockbridge Library — Annual library book sale 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 6 Main st., Stockbridge. 13- 98-5501 Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Gauthier Dance, PoCheng Tsai’s “Floating Flowers,” Itzik Galili’s “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” and Cayetano Soto’s “Conrazoncorazon,” and 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “And Still You Must Swing,” three tap luminaries celebrate jazz with live music and guest artists including Camille A. Brown, :15 and 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre.
Inside / Out: Improv Traditions and Innovations from Ring Shout to Blues to Jazz, Jacob’s Pillow School, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: “What the Eyes Hear” with New York Times dance critic Brian Seibert, p.m., free. Becket.
Conversations
Bidwell House — “A Tyringham Valley Homestead,” with Woven Roots Farm. Farmer Jen Salinetti speaks on historical and modern agriculture 2 p.m. Monterey. Family
Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover in
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Tanglewood — Family concert with members of the BSO, activities for children ages 3 to 8 begin 1 :30 p.m. abd concert :30 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” 1 & p.m. from Emmy-winning television show OtherStage, Weston, Vt. Music
Aston Magna Festival — J.S. Bach: Sacred and Secular, Singing Contest of Phoebus and Pan and more with Dominique Labelle, soprano; Deborah Rentz-Moore, alto; Frank Kelley, tenor; Jesse Blumberg and Ulysses Thomas, baritones, and baroque ensemble, 8 p.m., talk 7 p.m., Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington.
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BU Tanglewood Institute — Young artists piano program p.m. West Street Theatre, 5 West St., free. Lenox. Green River Festival — Music begins 1 :30 p.m. with Dawes. Shakey Graves, Shovels & Rope, The Suffers, The Felice Brothers, Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds, And The Kids, Amy Helm and The Handsome Strangers, Greyhounds, Anthony D’Amato, The Soul Rebels, Oh Pep!, Mister G, The Alchemystics and more, 0 acts in three days. Balloon rides, craft village and more. Greenfield Community College, Greenfield. 13-3 1-3317, greenriverfestival.com Guthrie Center — Tom Chapin, contemporary folk, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Chiara String Quartet, music of Beethoven, Ravel, Bartok, 7:30 p.m., Charlemont.
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
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exploration with New York State Parks, 10 a.m. Some hiking. Meet at Bennington Battlefield park,Route 67, Hoosick, N.Y. 13- 58-315
Courtesy of Aimee Gelinas Drumming has the beat Mondays at the Lichtenstein.
Performance Space 21 — Sō Percussion modern ensemble performs 0th century and contemporary works, 8 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students perform 1:30 p.m., free. Bennington, Vt. 80 - -9197
Tanglewood — BSO performs Beethoven, Ravel and Orr’s Carmina Burana with Seiji Ozawa and Jacques Lacombe, cond., and Nadine Sierra, soprano; Jean-Francis Monvoisin, tenor; Stephen Powell, baritone; Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Norway Pond Junior
Minstrels, 8 p.m. in Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Garden Conservancy Open Days — Garden tours 10 a.m. to p.m. in East Arlington, Manchester, and Manchester Center, Vt. Tours in Washington and West Cornwall, Conn., and Amenia, N.Y., 888-8 - , opendaysprogram.org HooRWA — Bennington Battlefield
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Mass Audubon — Canoe Trip along the Housatonic River, 8:30 a.m. Meets at New Lenox Road, Lenox. “Bedrock to Birds in the Berkshires,” 10 a.m. to p.m. at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox. Register 13-637-03 0 Tamarack Hollow — Northern Boreal Forest Plant and Tree Hike 9 a.m. at Tamarack Hollow Nature and Cultural Center, Windsor. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “American Son” premier by Christopher Demos-Brown, a biracial couple face a crisis over their brilliant son, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group — TenInfo: Directory
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winner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy, 3:30 and 8 p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, 3:30 and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
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Courtesy photo by Susan Geller Young ballplayers watch the game at Pittsfield’s historic Wahconah Park.
nessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia, and 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” and 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane” by Daniel Elihu Kramer, a contemporary Jane Eyre, 8 p.m. with talkback. Chester.
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Ruhl, friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Hubbard Hall — “Othello,” summer touring Shakespeare 7 p.m. Free. in Community Garden, Washington and Spring streets, Cambridge, N.Y.
Mass MoCA — High Mud Presents Joe Pera, comedy, 8 p.m., Dré Pavilion or Club B10. North Adams
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Co. — “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m. “The Taming” 8:30 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” and 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical. MainStage, Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Award-
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Baseball with Hevreh — Hevreh Family baseball game, p.m. Tickets include hot dogs, hamburgers etc., lemonade. Seating in tent or in stands. Wahconah Park, 105 Wahconah St. Pittsfield. 13-5 8-6378.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. Art
Clark Art Institute — “Creating ‘Sensing Place,’ ” 3 p.m., free talk on exhibit
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razon,” created for the company, p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “And Still You Must Swing,” three tap luminaries celebrate jazz with live music and guest artists including Camille A. Brown, :15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Becket.
Fresh produce comes in bright colors at the Pittsfield Farmers Market. Photo by Susan Geller
History
reflecting on Stone Hill in the galleries and on the trails. Williamstown
The Mount — Artist-led tour of SculptureNow 016 show in the grounds, 11:30 a.m. Lenox.
Norman Rockwell Museum — American Realist: An Evening with Painter Bo Bartlett, :30 p.m. Monumental paintings in the tradition of Thomas Eakins, Andrew Wyeth and Rockwell, with a contemporary twist. Stockbridge. OMI International Arts Center — Art OMI Weekend: Country Brunch with artists-in-resi-
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dence 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Open Studios at the studio barns 1 to 5 p.m. Events and installations. Free. Ghent. N.Y.
Salem Art Works — Workshops inblacksmithing and welding for teens and adults. Children’s memory bubble workshop. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org.
Books & Writing
The Bookstore — Elizabeth Brundage reads from “All Things Cease To Appear,” a novel, p.m. Lenox. Stockbridge Library — Annual library book sale with more than 16,000
used books, CDs and DVDs, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 6 Main st., Stockbridge. 13- 98-5501
WordXWord — “Money” story slam 7 p.m. hosted by James Burden, Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., St., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Master Class with “And Still You Must Swing” artists 10 a.m. Gauthier Dance, PoCheng Tsai’s “Floating Flowers,” Itzik Galili’s “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” and Cayetano Soto’s “Conrazonco-
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Bennington Battle Monument — 1 steps inside the Monument open with guided tours and Revolutionary War history. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Naumkeag — “The Choates’ Return to Naumkeag,” p.m. Mabel Choate’s grand-nephew, Geoffrey Platt, speaks from years of research into his Choate family history and his own memories of summers at the Berkshire Cottage. Stockbridge.
Family
Clark Art Institute — Family art making, activities and performances in celebration of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” show 1 to p.m., activites free. Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Weston Playhouse — “School House Rock,” 3 p.m. OtherStage, Weston, Vt. Film
Images Cinema — Family flicks under the stars: “Pillow Talk” begins at sundown (c. 8:15 p.m.) on Morgan Lawn, Spring Street, Williamstown.
Music
Bascom Lodge — Third annual Mount Greylock jazz festival noon to 6 p.m., with Ben Kohn Quartet, Brian Patneaude Quartet, Wes Brown Trio with Jill Connolly, David Ullmann Quintet and Michael Benedict Quartet, free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Young Artists Vocal Program Faculty, 7 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Green River Festival — Music begins 12:30 p.m. with Wheels Of Soul Tour: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Los Table of contents
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Courtesy photo by Sunridin The Green River Festival blends hot air ballooning and live music.
Lobos, and North Mississippi Allstars; Birds Of Chicago; Margo Price and The Price Tags; Big Sam’s Funky Nation; Sonya Kitchell; the Winterpills; Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear and more. 40 acts in three days. Balloon rides, craft village and more. Greenfield Community College, Greenfield. 413-341-3317, greenriverfestival.com
Music from Salem — “A wave lifted towards you …” pieces by Prokofiev, Thomas, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky, p.m. Mainstage, Hubbard Hall. Cambridge, N.Y.
Sevenars Concerts — David James, Randolph Schrade, Rorianne Schrade, and Lynelle James, piano; Christopher James, cello, p.m. Academy, Route11 and Ireland Street, South Worthington. 13- 38-585 , or sevenars.org
Tanglewood — Boston Pops with Keith Lockhard, cond., and soloist and composer Seth MacFarlane, classic songs from the 19 0s and 1950s, :30 p.m., Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe
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trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Tour de Trustees properties — Form up a peloton and ride in the Hilltowns. Glendale Falls, Bear Swamp, Chesterfield Gorge, Bryant Homestead, Notchview, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch included. Sets out from Notchview, Old Route 9, Windsor. Theater
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teenager with a rare aging illness, 3 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “My Jane” by Daniel Elihu Kramer, a contemporary take on Jane Eyre, p.m. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl, chronicling the 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. p.m. Dorset, Vt.
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Hubbard Hall — “Othello,” touring Shakespeare, 7 p.m. Free. in Community Garden, Washington and Spring streets, Cambridge, N.Y.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice” gala p.m. “The
Courtesy photos by Susan Geller Flowers and vegetables glow at Pittsfield and Great Barrington farmers markets.
Taming” 3 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 3 p.m. MainStage, Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Award-winner
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Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow revives and rejoins the world, p.m., MainStage. “Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok, an unemployed truck driver reunites with his exwife after she suffers an accident, p.m., Nikos Stage. Lawn talks before Sunday matinee with artists. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
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Ice cream By Jess Gamari
Special to BTW Berkshires
After enjoying a delicious meal in a restaurant, some patrons ask to meet the chef. At Maple Valley Creamery, ice cream and dairy lovers ask to meet the cows. “It’s been our desire to open our micro dairy to those who want to see how cows can and should be treated,” said Bruce Jenks of Maple Valley Creamery in Hadley. He and his business partner, Laurie Cuevas, have built their own farm store, Mill Valley Milk Co., where people can not only find raw unprocessed milk “but visit with the ladies who produce it.” Jenks and Cuevas have six to eight Registered Brown Swiss Cows at Maple Valley Creamery which are being milked and a herd upwards of 0 Swiss cows, ranging in age from a week old to 13 years. “All of our animals are a direct result of -H project calves,” Jenks said. He grew up on a dairy farm across the street from what is now Fort River Farm. He and Cuevas have had an ongoing partnership with the farm’s owners, Gordon and Terry Smith, for seven years. Along with a barn and milking area for the cows, Cuevas and Jenks opened their own farm store on the property this past winter, where they sell raw milk, cheese, ice
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Photo by Jess Gamari A calf takes an interest at High Lawn Farm.
cream, yogurt, Angus beef, baked goods, and organically grown vegetables. From the beginning, he said, he and Cuevas have been dedicated to working with local dairy farms and businesses. Maple Valley Creamery works with more than 0 local farms, growers and producers such as McCray’s Farm in South Hadley, Mapleline Farm in Hadley, High Lawn Farm in Lee, and Shaw Farm in Dracut among others, and brings many of locally made products into their ice cream. “We use maple syrup from our friends at the North Hadley Sugar Shack in Hadley in our maple walnut and maple bacon flavors,” he said. “We work with Esselon Coffee for our fresh roasted coffee and tea flavors … taza chocolate for fresh Mexican style chocolates. They have developed new ice cream flavors with the UMass Food Science
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The scoop More local ice cream makers: Lickety Split in North Adams and Williamstown, SoCo Creamery in Great Barrington and county shops and the Chocolate Barn in Shaftsbury, Vt. ...
classes and Amherst College Dining Services. Along with maple, they offer chocolate raspberry truffle, sweet cream, malted-chocolate brownie, and seasonal flavors like eggnog, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and rhubarb. “We produce our ice cream mix fresh,” he said, “… never using a pre-made frozen mix. Our milk’s so fresh it was grass an hour ago.” Different breeds of cows and the milk they produce, he added, can make a distinct difference in the taste of the milk and its make-up. “We hear it daily from our customers, how much better fresh raw milk tastes,” he said. “The amazing thing
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Photo by Jess Gamari Jersey cows rest in the sun at High Lawn Farm in Lee.
about the components of the Brown Swiss Cow is that the protein and butterfat levels of the milk are of equal balance, making it the healthiest milk.” * About 50 miles west of Maple Valley Creamery, the ladies of High Lawn Farm in Lee spend their days relaxing on water beds and take turns getting milked when they choose to be milked, day or night. Since the instillation of the Lely Astronaut robotic milking system in 01 , the cows can line up on their own, said Roberto Laurens, general manager of High Lawn Farm. Laurens has worked on the familyowned farm since 00 . Each of the 1 0 Jersey cows have their own unique collar, he said, which helps
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keep track of when the cow last gave milk, how much milk it gave, and the quality of the milk. The barn has its own machines for climate control, cleaning, and nudging feed closer to the cows. Fans come on when the temperature is too high, and the walls fold down and react like greenhouse walls to help keep the heat in. The cows at High Lawn Farm are happy and well cared for, he said: “We’re the largest around, but we’re still small. Each cow is an important family member.” High Lawn Farm has been processing milk since 19 3 and has delivered glass bottles of milk to homes in Berkshire County up until about eight years ago, Laurens said. Today, High Lawn Farm
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milk appears in grocery stores and coffee shops around the Berkshires and as far as Boston and New York. The farm also provides milk to Williams College, Smith College, Amherst College and a few others. Two years ago that High Lawn decided to enter the world of ice cream making. “We saw ice cream as a good opportunity for us,” Laurens said. “We know a lot about milk, but ice cream is different. It’s a more competitive market.” High Lawn Farm plans to keep their full attention to 10 flavors or fewer to make the best possible. “We make .5 gallon batches at a time,” he said. “We test each batch every day. People bring us their opinions and we make it better.” High Lawn Farm believes in keeping the ingredients simple without adding chemicals, additives or preservatives. The cows are not given synthetic growth hormones or any animal byproducts in their diet, he said. “If you open our container of strawberry, you may wonder why it’s not pink or red. It’s because we don’t add colors,” he said. “We firmly believe Jersey milk is richer and has a better flavor and is high in protein and calcium.” Locally made ice cream means the farm it came from is often 10 to 15 miles away. “Big companies own the market, and local farms are a small part of a big system,” he said. “When you support the local market you’re helping neighbors survive.”
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Farmers Markets
Berkshires
Berkshire Farmers Market — Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8 a.m. to p.m., April 30 through October, Berkshire Mall parking lot, Lanesborough. 13-5693663 or 13-37 -56 6
Pittsfield Farmers Market — Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Live music, crafts and activities. Outdoors May 1 to Oct. 15 on the Common Park, First Street, Route 7. farmersmarketpittsfield.org
Great Barrington CHP Market — Thursdays, to 5 p.m., June 16 through Sept. 8. Community Health Program, Stockbridge Road, 13-5 8-0 57
Great Barrington Farmers Market — Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., May 7 to Oct. 9. 18 Church St., 13-85 3599. gbfarmersmarket.org
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Hancock Farmers Market — Sundays 10 a.m. to p.m. and Wednesdays 10 a.m. to p.m., May to Oct. 1 . 3 10 Hancock Road, Route 3, Hancock, 13- 58-3933
Lee Farmers Market — Saturdays 10 a.m. to p.m., May 1 to Sept. 10. Harvest market Oct. 10. First Congregational Church of Lee, 5 Park Place, Lee. 13-85 -1561, leefarmersmarket.com
Lenox Farmers Market — Fridays 1 to 5 p.m. May 7 to Sept. 30. Lilac Park and Main Street. Lenox.
North Adams Farmers Market — Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June 11 to Oct. , in St. Anthony lot with more than 0 local farmers, food producers, craft vendors, and musicians. St. Anthony Drive and Route 8 / Marshall Street, North Adams.
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Otis Farmers Market — Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., May 7 to Oct. 8. Parking lot of Papa’s Healthy Food and Fuel, 000 East Otis Road, East Otis. 13-357-9919
Sheffield Farmers Market — Fridays, 3 to 6 p.m. June 3 to Oct. 7. First Congregational Church lot, 1 5 Main St., (Route 7), 860-706- , sheffieldfarmersmarket.org West Stockbridge Farmers Market — Thursdays, 3 to 7 p.m., May 19 tho Oct. 6. The Green on Harris Street in the village center. 917 09-09 6, weststockbridgefarmersmarket.org
Williamstown Farmers Market — Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., May 1 to Oct. 8. at the base of Spring Street, 13- 1- 811, williamstownfarmersmarket.org Table of contents
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Southern Vermont
Bennington Farmers Market — Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round, outdoors May to Oct. Fresh greens and vegetables, baked goods, dairy products, meats, crafts, demonstrations with local chefs, live music along the Walloomsac River on Depot Street. Bennington, Vt. benningtonfarmersmarket.org Dorset Farmers Market — Sundays 10 a.m. to p.m. year-round. Vegetables and fruits, home baked breads and pastries, cheeses and wines, grass-fed meat and poultry, free-range eggs, condiments and pickles, specialty goods and hot foods, Vermont crafts, and live, local music. at J.K. Adams, 1 30 Route 30, Dorset, Vt. 80 -353-9656, dorsetfarmersmarket.com
Manchester Farmers Market — Thursdays 3 to 6 p.m., May 6 to Oct 6. Local nonprofits, cooking demonstrations using local foods, music with local bands, Art Farm kids activities, free crafts. Power of Produce Club for kids ages 5-1 in July. Adams Park, Route 7A Manchester, Vt. 505- 70- 37, ManchesterFarmers.org
New York
Amenia, N.Y. — Saturdays, 10 a.m. to p.m. yearround, outdoors May to Oct. Amenia Town Hall parking
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Courtesy photo by Susan Geller Cut flowers gleam in Great Barrington and carrots in Pittsfield .
lot, Route 8 5-373- 11, ameniafarmersmarket.com
Hillsdale, N.Y. — Copake Hillsdale Farmers Market Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 8 to Oct. 9. Roeliff Jansen Park, 91 0 Route . 518-851-7518
Millerton, N.Y. — Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., May 1 through Oct. 9. Millerton Methodist Church, 6 Dutchess Ave. 518-789- 59, millertonfarmersmarket.org
New Lebanon, N.Y. — Sundays, 10 a.m. to p.m.
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June 5 to Oct. 16. Windswept Farm, 36 Old Route 0
Connecticut
Cornwall — Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m., through Oct. 9. 13 Sharon-Goshen Turnpike, 860-67 - 969
— Information from Bennington Farmers Market, Berkshire Grown, Manchester Farmers Market, Lee Chamber of Commerce, North Adams Tourism Table of contents
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Recital, Jennifer Bill, saxophone, 7 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
About Town
Dalton Circus — Zerbini Family Circus, performers, camels, dogs and horses, 5 and 7:30 p.m. benefits Dalton Lions Club at Dalton American Legion Field, Route 9. Tickets at Dalton CRA, Dalton General Store, Greenridge Variety, Harry’s, Val’s Variety and more. 13-8 -5 1 Art
Spencertown Academy — “Capturing Color: Contemporary Pastels” with Joe Baker, Frank Federico, David Francis, Susan M. Story and Marlene Wiedenbaum, opening reception to 6 p.m. Spencertown, N.Y.
Books and Writing
Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — “A Stop at The Red Apple Restaurant,” book talk, 10: 5 a.m. at Congregation Knesset Israel, Pittsfield. Free. Table of contents
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Manchester Music Festival — Opening night: Young Artists concert series, chamber music with students and faculty 7 p.m. at Riley Center for the Arts, Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vt.
Photo courtesy of Berkshire Strings Local musicians jam in North Egremont.
The Mount — Monday book talks: Biographer Jay Parini on his most recent book, “Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,” p.m. Lenox. Dance
Performance Space 21 — Dances for a Variable Population workshop 8:30 a.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Family
Berkshire Athenaeum — Kevin O’Keefe, one-man circus, p.m. Pittsfield.
Film
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival — “Projections of
America” and “The Cummington Story,” p.m. “On the Map,” 8 p.m. Festival’s 30th year. Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox.
Music
Berkshire Summer Strings — Community Singing, worksongs, sea shanties, rounds and madrigals, free, 9 a.m. Community fiddle jam session p.m.; all ages and instruments welcome, sheet music available. All free. French Park Pavilion, North Egremont berkshiresummerstrings.com BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty
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Performance Space 21 — Summer Sing with David Smith, director of Concerts in the Village, on different choral works, 7 to 9 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Summer Noontime Concert — Akiko Kobayashi, violin; Bach and Telemann. Noon. Free. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 35 Park St, Williamstown. 413-458-8131
Williamstown Theatre Festival — Pigpen Theatre Co.: Plugged In, a concert of contemporary folk, 7:30 p.m. Main Stage, ’6 Center, Williamstown.
Outdoors
Naumkeag — Yoga in the gardens, 9 a.m. Stockbridge.
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Theater
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” Ashman and Menken musical, 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Tuesday July 12 About Town
Dalton Circus — Zerbini Family Circus, performers, camels, dogs and horses, 5 and 7:30 p.m. benefits Dalton Lions Club at Dalton American Legion Field, Route 9. Tickets at Dalton CRA, Dalton General Store, Greenridge Variety, Harry’s, Val’s Variety. 13-8 -5 1 Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “The GMALL Debate: The motion before this meeting is that
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mous,” 8:30 p.m., Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical film about touring with rock stars in the 1970s. Free. Chatham, N.Y. Music
‘Remember’ will screen at the Berkshire Jewish Film festival. Courtesy photo
Populism leads to the decay of democracy,” debate based on the form used since 18 3 by Oxford University, 5:30 p.m. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Vt.
Ventfort Hall — Eighth-generation Saratogian Hollis Palmer, in costume, on social history from 1856 to 1906, “See and Be Seen: Saratoga in the Victorian Era,” p.m. tea and talk. Lenox.
Dance
Performance Space 21 — Dances for a Variable Population workshop 8:30 a.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Family
Milne Library — Willinet Special Effects workshop 9:30 a.m. to noon at Willinet Studios on Spring Street. Williamstown.
The Mount — Books and Blooms children’s story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Bring a sketch pad. Stockbridge.
Film
Performance Space 21 — Music and Dance film series, “Almost Fa-
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Berkshire Summer Strings — Community Singing, worksongs, sea shanties, rounds and madrigals from around the world free, 9 a.m. Community fiddle jam session p.m.; all ages and instruments welcome, sheet music available. All free. French Park Pavilion, North Egremont berkshiresum merstrings.com
The Bookstore — John Davidson, “Verse,” reciting singing and telling Stories, 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty Recital, BSO Brass Quintet, 6 p.m. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Clark Art Institute — Across the Pond, 6 p.m., free concert. Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Concert on the Green — Live blues, rock, bluegrass or folk music 6 to 8 p.m. Manchester’s Town Green, Manchester, Vt.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “The Corrupting Influence of Materialism” workshop on Arthur Miller’s “The Price” (1968) and David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1983) 10 a.m. with Barbara Waldinger, professor of theater at Queens College in NYC. Pittsfield.
Berkshire Botanical Garden blooms. Photo by Kate Abbott
Eagles Band — Broadway show tunes, music from movies, marches, free 7 p.m. in Springside Park, 87 North St., Pittsfield. Marble House Project — Artseed vocal performance by Rebecca Ringle performer at the Met, Carnegie Hall and Tanglewood, opera, concert and art song repertoire, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt.
Park McCullough House — New Morse Code, contemporary classical duo, 7 p.m. 1 Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
Tanglewood — Emerson String Quartet 0th anniversary celebration, Haydn, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox.
Outdoors
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demo at put-in at the north end of Cheshire Reservoir, 6 p.m. Register 13-7 3-5900 Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teen with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Becket Arts Center — Talk with Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, on “Producing a Season,” 7:30 p.m. Route 8, Becket. Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!”
Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical based on Mayor LaGuardia’s battle against Tammany Hall, and 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” Ashman and Menken musical, 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Dorset Theatre Festival — New Play reading series: “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen in a new translation by Royston Coppenger, 7 p.m. Dorset, Vt. 80 -867- 3.
Shakespeare & Co. — “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m. “The Taming” redstate vs. blue-state comedy 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
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Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 7:30 p.m. Main Stage, Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow revives and rejoins the world, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. Talkbacks with company and guests. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Wednesday July 13 Art
Berkshire Botanical Garden — En Plein Air watercolor workshop outdoors 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
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Clark Art Institute — Drop-in figure drawing class, :30 – :30 p.m. Williamstown.
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6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
Bang on a Can will return to Mass MoCA. Courtesy photo
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Live on the Lake — Free concert with Live 95.9 WBEC FM and Greylock Federal Credit Union, 6 to 8 p.m., Burbank Park, Onota Lake, Pittsfield.
Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Humanity in the Modern World: Refugee Crisis,” Susan Weiss on her time in Lesbos, Greece, to document the crisis and in Berlin, 5:30 p.m. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester Vt.
Hevreh — Rabbi Neal Borovitz, “Zionism and American Reform Jews from 1885 to the Present,” 11: 5 a.m. Great Barrington.
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, “Solo Echo,” Brahms sonatas by Kidd Pivot, and William
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Forsythe’s “N.N.N.N.,” 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Hubbard Street in “Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure,” a young girl explores a world of vinyl records, film and shadow puppetry, :15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Dance TheYard, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket. Family
Hubbard Hall — Live Raptors 6:30 p.m., Summer Library Program, free. Cambridge, N.Y.
Milne Library — Special Effects workshop 9:30 a.m. to noon at Willinet Studios on Spring Street. Williamstown.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Creating Together” for ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge. Music
Berkshire Summer Strings — Community Singing, worksongs, sea shanties, rounds and madrigals from around the world free, 9 a.m. Community fiddle jam session p.m.; all ages and instruments welcome. Free. French Park Pavilion, 65 Prospect Lake Road, North Egremont berkshiresummerstrings.com Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore
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Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, musicians and composers collaborate. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m., faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang
Tanglewood — Emerson String Quartet 0th anniversary celebration with soprano Renée Fleming, Brahms, Wellesz and Berg, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bascom Lodge — Hiking in the Berkshires, talk with naturalist Lauren Stevens, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock. Info: Directory
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Great Barrington Land Conservancy — Guided birding at Great Barrington River Walk, 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. More than 75 species seen here including bald eagle, great blue heron, kingfisher, and flocks of cedar waxwing. Du Bois River Garden Park, Great Barrington. Mass Audubon — Evening at the Beaver Ponds, walk and talk 7 p.m., Pleasant Valley Sanctuary, Lenox.
Naumkeag — Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, learn about the flowers growing in season, and how to cut, care for and grow them with Naumkeag horticulturalist Eric Ruquist. Stockbridge. Theater
Barrington Stage Co.— “Kimberly Akimbo,” 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Playwrights Lab — Staged reading, live performances of new work, 7:30 p.m. Free. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington. Table of contents
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Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller by Michael West, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
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Local teens care for the Great Barrington River Walk. Photo courtesy of River Walk
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” Pulitzer and Tony awardwinning musical 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl, chronicling the 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Hubbard Hall — “Othello,” summer touring Shakespeare, perform-
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ances at 7 p.m. Free. Salem Art Works, Salem, N.Y.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m., “The Taming” 3 p.m. “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” and 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical. MainStage, Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,”
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Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams Art
Community Access to the Arts — “I Am a Part of Art,” painting, drawing, collage by CATA artists with disabilities opens 7 p.m., Free. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 8 Renne Ave. Pittsfield. 13-5 8-5 85
Flying Cloud Institute — Art-Science Show opens to 6 p.m., student paintings, photographs, ceramics, cyanotypes, film and robots, Meeting House, 15 Hartsville-New Marlborough Road, New Marlborough.
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Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — “Tales of a Judaic Artist: Weavings, Wanderings and Wonders with Wendy A. Rabinowitz,” talk 10: 5 a.m. at Congregation Knesset Israel, Pittsfield. Free.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — “Art, Power and, Politics: Nudes from the Prado,” 7 p.m., free talk on summer show at Clark Art Institute. Great Barrington. Norman Rockwell Museum — “Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World,” reception for show of realists, abstractionists and illustrators, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., remarks at 6:30. Stockbridge.
Williams College Museum of Art — “Museum: The Gathering,” immersive performance p.m. with David GurçayMorris, Williams assistant professor in theater; “No Hook, Finger Crook: Finger Crocheting” 5:30 p.m. Williamstown. Books and Writing
Berkshire Athenaeum — Summer book
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cians 1 p.m. Historic Salem courthouse, 58 E. Broadway, Salem, N.Y. Food
Photo courtesy of the Marble House Project The Marble House will hold a cooking workshop.
sale with books, CDs, DVDs, audio books, puzzles and games, members night (join at the door) to 8 p.m. 1 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. 13- 99-9 80. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, “Solo Echo,” Brahms sonatas by Kidd Pivot, and William Forsythe’s “N.N.N.N.,” 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Hubbard Street in “Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure,” a young girl explores a world of vinyl records, film and shadow pup-
petry, :15 and :15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Class with Boston Ballet faculty Kevin Jenkins p.m. Inside / Out: Kevin Jenkins, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
Performance Space 21 — Dances for a Variable Population workshop 8:30 a.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Family
Milne Library — Willinet Special Effects workshop 9:30 a.m. to noon at Willinet Studios on Spring Street. Williamstown.
Music from Salem — Children’s workshop with MfS musi-
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Marble House Project — Fishing in the Garden, seasonal vegetables from the MHP garden with wild salmon, dinner demonstration with wine pairing. Dorset, Vt. Register marblehouseproject.org Music
Berkshire Strings — Folk, Americana, bluegrass and contradance concert for a week of music jams and concerts with Ari and Mia Friedman, Jordan Tice and Aldo Lavaggi, Eric Martin and Bennett Konesni to the team this year. at 7:30 p.m., place TBA in Egremont or Great Barrington. Community Singing, 9 a.m., and community fiddle jam session p.m., free, French Park Pavilion, 65 Prospect Lake Road, North Egremont berkshiresummerstrings.com Info: Directory
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BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty Recital, Penelope Bitzas, mezzo-soprano, 7 p.m. with pianist Shiela Kibbe, Greek-American Recital: songs by American and Greek composers. Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
Manchester Music Festival — Flirting with Fusion, 7:30 p.m. with special guests Susannah Loewy, flute and Laura Molinelli, guitar and vocals, works by Gabriel Lena Frank, Dora Pejacevic, Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Sato Matsui, dedicated to female business owners of Manchester Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt.
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Tour the garden of Lee Link with horticulturalist Bridget Lynch. 10 a.m. Sharon, Conn.
Clarinetist Eric Thomas will perform. Photo courtesy of Music from Salem
Music from Salem — Open rehearsal for “The Unbroken Message…,” works by Luigi Boccherini, Thomas Oboe Lee and Ernest Chausson, p.m., free. Brown Farm, 15 Priest Road, Salem, N.Y. “Célébrez le Jour de la Bastille en Provence” party and benefit dinner with music and silent auction, 6 p.m., 105 McKie Road, Cambridge, N.Y.
Party in the Park — Free concert 6 to 8 p.m. with WUPE FM and WNAW 1 30AM Greylock Federal Credit Union, Noel Field behind the Steeplecats baseball diamond, in North Adams.
Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students perform 7 p.m., free. Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vt.
Tanglewood — The Knights with Alex Sopp, flute; Christina Courtin, vocalist; Gabriel Kahane, electric guitar, piano, and voice, perform The Times, They Are A-Changin’ — Haydn, Kahane, Haggart / Baudud, Cat Stephens / P.P. Arnold, the Troggs, Bob Dylan, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoor
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Evolution of a Landscape:
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Hildene — Eco Tour of the Dene with Hildene’s horticulturist, education director and Dene Farm manager on wetlands, meadows, invasive plants, local ecology and birds including bobolinks and other pollinators, 9:30 a.m. to noon. Rain date July 1. Manchester, Vt. 80 -3677960 to register. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Kimberly Akimbo,” 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” and 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord de-
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Berkshire residents perform alongside Festival actors, free. ’62 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
spairing of humankind, p.m. with talkback and 8 p.m. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth,” friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Hubbard Hall — “Othello,” summer touring Shakespeare, performances at 7 p.m. Free. The Geori, Shushan, N.Y.
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” Shakespearean comedy, 6 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone,” 3 p.m. “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
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The sun sets at Tannery Pond before a concert. Photo by Christian Steiner
Walking the Dog Theater — “Shakespeare’s Supernaturals,” faeries, witches, magic and mysteries, 7 p.m. Hawthorne Valley School, 330 County Route 1C, Ghent, N.Y.
WAM Theatre — Stars in the Orchard benefit midsummer party 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. with music, live entertainment and auction, Hilltop Orchards, Route 95, Canaan, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 7:30 p.m. Tony-winning musical. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris,
by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Award-winner Marisa Tomei, 2 and 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller by Michael West, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. “Orpheus in the Berkshires,” 7:30 p.m., Greylock Works production by Lucy Thurber a new spin on the myth, set in Western Massachusetts: A teenage girl sets out to save her hometown, 75
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Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Friday night Cabaret trains with local entertainers Samantha Talora and Ron Ramsey. Train leaves 6 p.m. from 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. Schedule at hoosacvalleytrainride.com
Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown. Manchester Streetfest — Live music and entertainment, street food, children’s activities 6 to 9 p.m. Free. Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -5333
North Adams — Eagle Street Beach Party: tons of sand trucked in for a beach more than 3 Info: Directory
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wacky skits and shticks for laughs. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
hours away from the ocean, 3:30 to 10 p.m. Family-friendly party in the afternoon, artmaking with DownStreet Art, adult fiesta at night with margaritas, volleyball. explorenorthadams.com
Southern Vermont Arts Center — SolarFest, New England renewable energy festival with live music on two stages, singer / songwriter showcase, theater in the woods and more. Manchester, Vt. solarfest.org Art
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Painting demonstration with Terry Wise, 11 a.m. art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox
Books and Writing
Berkshire Athenaeum — Summer book sale with CDs, DVDs, audio books, puzzles and games, 10 a.m. to p.m., free. 1 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. 13- 99-9 80.
Dance
Becket Arts Center — Families Dance Together program 5 p.m. at Jacob’s Pillow, Becket.
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Outdoor Movie — “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” begins at dusk (around 8:30 p.m.), in Clapp Park, Pittsfield. Music
Courtesy photo by Susan Geller Plums ripen at local orchards and farm stands.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, “Solo Echo,” Brahms sonatas by Kidd Pivot, and William Forsythe’s “N.N.N.N.,” 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Hubbard Street in “Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure,” a young girl explores a world of vinyl records, film and shadow puppetry, :15 and :15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: SOLE Defined percussive dance led by Cirque de Soleil’s Ryan K. Johnson, “Motaps” Motown hits, sand dancing, tap, stepping and body per-
cussion, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk, “Ann Hutchinson Guest’s Dancing Life,” 5 p.m., both free. Becket.
Shire City Sanctuary — Swing dance with live music by Lucky 5 String Band, lesson 7 p.m. and dance begins at 8. 0 Melville St., Pittsfield. Family
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Kids create” hands-on art workshop for ages 3 to 6, 10:30 a.m. Stockbridge.
Performance Space 21 — KidSchtick 1 p.m., Zukerman, Rothman and friends bring
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Berkshire Summer Strings — Community concert of traditional music 5:30 p.m. Community Singing, worksongs, sea shanties, rounds and madrigals from around the world free, 9 a.m. Community fiddle jam session p.m.; all ages and instruments welcome, sheet music available. All free. French Park Pavilion, 65 Prospect Lake Road, North Egremont berkshiresummerstrings.com
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recital :30 p.m. with BUTI Young Artists Wind Ensemble Free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St., Lenox.
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Guthrie Center — Steve Katz, bluesrock, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
cal based on Huckleberry Finn, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Performance Space 21 — “Summer Shtick: An Evening of Comic Mayhem!” Comedy and music with Nancy Rothman, Robert Zukerman and friends, 8 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, musicians and composers collaborate. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert (blues, jazz, soul) on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox. Tanglewood — BSO prelude concert 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall; BSO with Pinchas Zukerman, cond. and violin, allMozart program, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Shabbat at Tanglewood” 7 p.m., welcome the Sabbath on the lawn with potluck picnic, Tanglewood Music Center, 97 West St., Lenox.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Full moon canoe trip 9 to 10:30 p.m. to see the life of the river at
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Photo courtesy of PS 1 Rioult will dance at PS21 in Chatham.
night. Rain date Saturday. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” Debra Jo Rupp as a teenager with a rare aging illness, 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” musical based on Mayor LaGuardia, 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Hor-
rors,” 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord despairing of humanity, p.m. with cast conversation. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Hubbard Hall — “Othello,” summer touring Shakespeare, performances at 7 p.m. Free. in Wood Park, Hoosick Falls, N.Y.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musi-
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Shakespeare & Company — Riotious Youth 10 a.m., “The Taming” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Walking the Dog Theater — “Shakespeare’s Supernaturals,” faeries, witches, magic and mysteries, 7 p.m. Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent, N.Y. Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” 7:30 p.m. Info: Directory
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MainStage. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — Fridays@3 new play reading: “Where Storms Are Born” by playwright-inresidence Harrison David Rivers. “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Award-winner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams comedy, 8 p.m., MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller, 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. “Orpheus in the Berkshires,” 7:30 p.m., Greylock Works production by Lucy Thurber a new spin on the myth, set in Western Massachusetts: A teenage girl sets out to save her hometown, 75 Berkshire residents perform alongside Festival actors, free. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown. Table of contents
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8 a.m. to p.m. Farm festival with familyfriendly farm activities, vendors and local foods. Merck Forest and Farmland Center, Rupert, Vt. merckforest.org
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Saturday July 16 About Town
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m, 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Bryant Homestead — “Bryant Day,” celebrate William Cullen Bryant’s birthday 10:30 a.m. to p.m. with Agriculture in the Hilltowns theme, talk with Brian Donahue, Old Growth Forest Walk, Contradancing with The Muddy Roads String Band, historic Quilt show and raffle, tours of the Homestead, local historic societies and agricultural product displays at historic house of 19th-century poet and journalist. Cummington.
Sheepdog Trial and Farm Festival — Annual two day event with some of the Northeast’s best border collies in trials,
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Salem Art Works — Alzheimer’s Glass and Iron and Salem Art Works free brunch on Alzheimer’s Awareness. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org
Southern Vermont Arts Center — SolarFest, New England renewable energy festival with live music on two stages, singer / songwriter showcase, theater in the woods. Manchester, Vt. solarfest.org
Art
Becket Arts Center — Art exhibit with mixed-media artist Esther Budnick, painter and collage artist Nina Evans and photographer Pat Gilhooley opens, p.m. Becket. Berkshire Woodworker’s Guild — Annual show of work by local artists and artisans, from end tables to armoirs, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge.
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Clark Art Institute — Plein Air drawing at Thomas Schütte: Crystal installation on Stone Hill, 1 to p.m., free. Williamstown.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Centennial Celebration: Norman Rockwell Models Reunion Day 1 to 5 p.m. 100thyear anniversary of Rockwell’s first Saturday Evening Post cover honors who appear in favorite Rockwell magazine and calendar illustrations. Stockbridge.
Salem Art Works — Artists in residence open studios to share work in progress. Anagama / Train unloading of large wood kiln, conversation with firers and potters. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org
Sandisfield Arts Center — “After the Fall: The Conservation of Tullio Lombardo’s ‘Adam,’ ” p.m. Sandisfield. Books and Writing
Berkshire Athenaeum — Summer book sale with books, CDs, DVDs, audio books, puzzles and
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Irish and New England sound, Ben Schreiber fiddle and Michael Sokolovsky guitar and calling by Susan Petrick from Calif., dance to live music, 7: 5 to 11 p.m. Beginners welcome early, no experience or partner needed. Community Center, 65 Walker St., Lenox.
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Contradancers join hands. Photo courtesy of Lenox Contra
games, 10 a.m. to p.m., free. 1 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. 13- 99-9 80. North Adams Library — Writing workshop and circle with Millie Calesky 10 a.m. to noon, encouragoing writers of all kinds to break through barriers. North Adams. Conversations
Hevreh — “An Orthodox Rabbi walked into a Reform Synagogue,” Scholar-inResidence Shabbaton with Rabbi Yonah Berman. Great Barrington Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Hubbard Street
Dance Chicago, “Solo Echo,” Brahms sonatas by Kidd Pivot, and William Forsythe’s “N.N.N.N.,” and 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Hubbard Street in “Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure,” a young girl explores a world of vinyl records, film and shadow puppetry, 11:15 a.m. and :15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out:School at Jacob’s Pillow contemporary, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: ‘Curriculum in Motion” on future of Pillow school programs, p.m., both free. Becket. Lenox Contradance — Music by SF Bay area “Uncle Farmer,”
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Berkshire Museum — Imagination Playground, 10 a.m. to noon, get creative with the big, blue blocks. Pittsfield. ( 13) 3-7171 or berkshiremuseum.org Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover in concert, 10 a.m. behind Town Hall, Great Barrington. Hancock Shaker Village — “Spirit Houses and Woodland Wonders,” summer show opens with family activities, miniature spirit houses made out of twigs, pebbles, pine cones and things found on the Farm and Forest Trail. Routes 0 and 1, Pittsfield. Info: Directory
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Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, Kids Can Too event 11:30 a.m. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang
Tanglewood — BSO rehearsal 10:30 a.m. and concert with Christoph von Dohnányi, cond., and Renée Fleming, soprano: Ives, Strauss and Tchaikovsky, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
OMI International Arts Center — Art workshop 10 a.m. to noon for ages to 1 with themes from Fields Sculpture Park. Ghent. N.Y. Film
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — “Sunset Boulevard,” 1950s film noir shows Hollywood behind the scenes, 7 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington. Music
Berkshire Jazz — The Laszlo Gardonay Quartet. Award-winning pianist from Boston makes his first Berkshires performance in 0 years. 8 p.m., place TBA. berkshirejazz.org
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gram 11 a.m., free, p.m. West Street Theatre, 5 West St. Orchestral Concert with Young Artists Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Loh, Wagner, Brahms and Shostakovich, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox.
Guthrie Center — Grand Slambovians, “Hillbilly-Pink Floyd,” 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — The Triplets of Belleville: Le Hot Jazz, Le Tour, 8:30 p.m. Courtyard C or Hunter Center. Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016. Gallery recitals
Tannery Pond Concerts — Pianist Stephen Hough plays Schubert, Franck, Liszt and his own work, 8 p.m. Darrow School, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Kids Can Too at Mass MoCA. Photo courtesy of Mass MoCA
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most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Andrew Garland, baritone and Estela Olevksy on piano perform Schumann’s Dichterliebe song cycle, Cole Porter and others, 7:30 p.m., Charlemont.
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert (blues, jazz, soul) on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students 1:30 p.m., free. Bennington, Vt. 80 - -9197
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Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Clark Art Institute — Sensing Place Hike on Stone Hill, 10:30 a.m., free. Meet at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Williamstown. Hildene — Summer Bird Walk: Vermont Bird and Sky Watch and local birders, 7 a.m., free. Manchester, Vt. HooRWA — Warmup for the Hoosic
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River Ride: 30-mile bike trip on secondary roads in Bennington and Hoosick Falls. Meet at the Hoosac School, Route 103 and N.Y. Route 7, Hoosick Falls, N.Y. 13- 58-853
Mass Audubon — Canoe Trip to Upper and Lower Goose Ponds, 8:30 a.m. Meets at Upper and Lower Goose Ponds, Lee. Register at 13-637-03 0
Mount Greylock — Henry David Thoreau Hike on Bellows Pipe Trail with Lauren Stevens of HooRWA and DCR Visitor Services Director Jude Stull, reading relevant passages from “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.” 3 miles to summit or 6 miles round-trip. Meet 10 a.m. at Notch Road gate. 13- 58-315
Pittsfield Garden Tour — 0th annual self-guided tour presented by the Pittsfield Garden Tour Committee. Retrospective of 8 of most popular and loved gardens from the last two decades in
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Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Hubbard Hall — “Othello,” touring Shakespeare, performances at 7 p.m. Free in Commons, Greenwich, N.Y. The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” 11 a.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
The view spreads out from Mount Greylock. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller.
various parts of Pittsfield. 10 a.m. to p.m., directions on registration. Tickets at Carr Hardware, Crown Jewelers, Berkshire Mountain Bakery & Pizza Cafe, Ginger & Dory and Different Drummer in Pittsfield and at The Bookstore in Lenox. Tour HQ on the lawn across from Park Square on Bank Row. opens 9 a.m. 13- 3-183 .
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Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Kimberly Akimbo,” 3 and 7:30 p.m. Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Fiorello!” and 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” and 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord despairing of humanity, 8 p.m. with talkback. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl, 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert
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Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Performance Space 21 — “Summer Shtick: An Evening of Comic Mayhem!” Comedy and music with Nancy Rothman, Robert Zukerman and friends, 8 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m., “The Taming” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Merchant of Venice,” 7:30 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Info: Directory
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Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Walking the Dog Theater — “Shakespeare’s Supernaturals,” faeries, witches, magic and mysteries, and 7 p.m. Hawthorne Valley School, 330 County Route 1C, Ghent, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Man of La Mancha,” and 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams comedy, 3:30 and 8 p.m., MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller by Table of contents
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of Albany, N.Y. Games, children’s activities, raffles. noon to 6 p.m., free. St. Joseph Church, Pittsfield.
Sheepdog Trial and Farm Festival — Annual two day event with some of the Northeast’s best border collies in trials, 8 a.m. to p.m. Farm festival with family activities and local foods. Merck Forest and Farmland Center, Rupert, Vt. merckforest.org
Bachelor’s Buttons grow thickly on the Money Brook Trail. Photo by Kate Abbott
Michael West, 3:30 and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. “Orpheus in the Berkshires,” 7:30 p.m., Greylock Works production by Lucy Thurber a new spin on the myth, set in Western Massachusetts: A teenage girl sets out to save her hometown, 75 Berkshire residents perform alongside Festival actors, free. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Sunday July 17 About Town
Bascom Lodge — Legal Issues for Artists with Paul Rapp, quick and entertaining overview
with Q&A, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
Art
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — BSRM’s Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Polish Picnic — Polish and American food available (hot and frozen) from kielbasa to kapusta, golumbki and pierogi, also hot suasages, fried dough, beer and wine and more. Dancing to live music with the Rymanowski Brothers
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Berkshire Woodworker’s Guild — Annual show of work by local artists and artisans, from end tables to armoirs, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge. Conversations
The Bookstore — Ron Kaplan presents “The Jewish Olympics: The History of The Maccabiah,” p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Hubbard Street
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Dance Chicago, “Solo Echo,” Brahms sonatas by Kidd Pivot, and William Forsythe’s “N.N.N.N.,” 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Hubbard Street in “Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure,” a young girl explores a world of vinyl records, film and shadow puppetry, 11:15 a.m. and :15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Becket.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — “Paul Taylor: Dancemaker,” documentary on choreographer and company, 3 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
Family
Clark Art Institute — Family art making, activities, and performances in celebration of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” show 1 to p.m., activites free. Williamstown.
Hancock Shaker Village — “Spirit Houses and Woodland Wonders,” summer show opens with family activities, miniature spirit houses made out of twigs, pebbles, pine cones and things found on the Farm and Forest Trail. Pittsfield.
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Peonies bloom in gardens and farm stands. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller.
Film
Images Cinema — Family flicks under the stars: “Inside Out” begins at sundown (c. 8:15 p.m.) on Morgan Lawn, Spring Street, Williamstown. History
Naumkeag — “The Choates Return to Naumkeag — Nicholas Platt and Diplomacy in China,” p.m. US Ambassador to China in 1973, the first year that the U.S. had diplomats resident in Beijing, Mabel Choate’s grand-nephew Nicholas Platt will recount stories and show his Super-8 movies of setting up
America’s first resident diplomatic office in the PRC. Stockbridge Music
Barrington Stage Company — Fyvush Finkel, Emmy award-wining stage and screen performer with comedy and song and life stories, along with his sons, 7 p.m. at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Wind Ensemble Concert with Young Artists Wind Ensemble and conductor David J. Martins, :30 p.m., works by Dahl, Dukas, Harbison,
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McTee, Nelson, Newman and Salfelder, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood. Faculty recital with Young Artists Vocal Program Faculty 7 p.m., free,Trinity Church, 88 Walker St. Lenox.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Andrew Garland, baritone and Estela Olevksy on piano perform Schumann’s Dichterliebe song cycle, Cole Porter, 3 p.m., Charlemont. Music from Salem — “The Unbroken Message…,” p.m., works by Luigi Boccherini, Thomas Oboe Lee and Ernest Chausson, with Calvin Wiersma on violin, Lila Brown on viola, Kari Ravnan on cello, Peggy Pearson on oboe and Nina Tichman on piano. Pay-whatyou-can, all welcome. Hubbard Hall. Cambridge, N.Y. Info: Directory
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Sevenars Concerts — Greenwood Chamber Players with Christina Jennings, flute; Jesse Holstein, violin; Matthew Dane and Ron Gorevic, violas; Volcy Pelletier, cello perform Kuhlao and Ginastera, p.m. Academy, Route 11 and Ireland Street, South Worthington. 13- 38-585 , or sevenars.org Tanglewood — BSO with Gustavo Gimeno, cond., and Yuja Wang, piano: Prokofiev, Ravel, Gershwin and Stravinsky, :30 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — The Skivvies perform comic songs stripped down (literally), 7:30 p.m. at the Log, 78 Main St., Williamstown.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield. Table of contents
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Photo by Kate Abbott A human-sized ceramic jar graces the Berkshire Botanical Garden.
Garden Conservancy Open Days — Garden tours 10 a.m. to p.m. Canaan, New Lebanon and Spencertown, N.Y. “Digging Deeper: Bringing Back Natural Landscapes” walk and talk :30 p.m. in the garden of Linda Horn, 5015 Route 7, Spencertown, N.Y., 888-8 - Pittsfield Garden Tour — 0th annual self-guided tour presented by the Pittsfield Garden Tour Committee. Retrospective of 8 of most popular and loved gardens from last
two decades in Pittsfield. noon to p.m., directions on registration. Tickets at Carr Hardware, Crown Jewelers, Berkshire Mountain Bakery & Pizza Cafe, Ginger & Dory and Different Drummer in Pittsfield and at The Bookstore in Lenox. Tour headquarters will be on the lawn across from Park Square on Bank Row opens 11 a.m. 13- 3-183 .
Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 5 p.m., Main Stage, Pittsfield.
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,”
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” :30 p.m. Shake-
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Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord despairing of humanity, p.m. with panel discussion. Chester. Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. p.m. Dorset, Vt.
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Courtesy photo by Susan Geller Markristo Farm grows cut flowers as a summer crop and brings them to local markets.
speare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company —“Merchant of Venice,” p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a
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mystery, p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Walking the Dog Theater — “Shakespeare’s Supernaturals,” faeries, witches, magic and mysteries, p.m. Hawthorne Valley School, 330 County Route 1C, Ghent, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust,
Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother, 3 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rose Tattoo,” Academy Awardwinner Marisa Tomei in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning comedy: a widow revives and rejoins the world, p.m., MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller by Michael West, a vi-
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sionary in artificial intelligence tries to preserve his wife’s memory, and 7 p.m., Nikos Stage. “Orpheus in the Berkshires,” 5 p.m., Greylock Works production by Lucy Thurber a new spin on the myth, set in Western Massachusetts: A teenage girl sets out to save her home, 75 Berkshire residents perform with Festival actors, free. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown. Info: Directory
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A garden tour farewell By Kate Abbott BTW Berkshires
PITTSFIELD — A group of women has changed the look and feel of the city, one trowel of earth at a time. This year will mark the 0th annual Pittsfield Garden Tour — and the last one. On July 16 and 17 the tour will take a look back at eight of the most beloved gardens it has covered in its time. The tour has done what it set out to do, said Anne Pasko, co-founder of the tour with Sue Langman. Back in 1996 “Pittsfield saw itself as having a low image, compared to the rest of the Berkshires,” she said. By now Pasko and her committee and volunteers have opened more than 100 gardens to the public, all across the city. “I do think, in some ways, we have changed Pittsfield’s image of itself,” she said. Knowing that it can have a garden tour has given Pittsfield a new confidence in itself, she believes, because it has green and blossoming places people will come to see. But she and the committee of gardeners that has grown to support the tour are brightening Pittsfield in many ways. Funds from the tour have supported master gardeners at Springside Park and funded a garden at Provi-
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‘Infinite Dance’ balances on the Common. Photo by Kate Abbott
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‘... We have changed Pittsfield’s image of itself.’
— Anne Pasko dence Court where people in wheelchairs can garden, Pasko said. The committee has supported Pittsfield Artscape and the Colonial Theatre. And three years ago they gave the city “Infinite Dance,” a lithe bronze woman on the Common, a 13-foot-tall sculpture by California artist Carol Gold, who was born here. Pasko’s committee of gardeners has done more than display a community of gardens. They have built a com-
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Photos by Kate Abbott Marigolds bloom nearby in a greenhouse in Lanesborough.
munity of gardeners — and they are building gardens. For most of the last 0 years, they have raffled off their own skills at making gardens or caring for them. “If you win, eight members of the committee, all gardeners, will come to work in your garden,” Pasko explained. “We transplant, build walls or dig new ground. At the end, we bring out a table cloth and candles and serve a family dinner.” The garden tour has taken long planning every year, Pasko said. The gardeners they have chosen live here, and they have all dug and planted and watered and imagined their gardens in their spare time,
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for the love of it. The women on the selection committee would assemble long lists of gardens. They would ask for recommendations and get responses from all over the city; postal workers often see gardens on their routes and pass the word along. Then in late summer the committee would quarter the city, looking over plantings in sun and shade, flowers and vegetables, large and small. “We want something people would say ‘wow’ about,” she said. “We want a place where you can’t stand in one place and see everything. … A few years ago we saw one that had 600 varieties of daylilies.”
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Taking a break
Berkshire Botanical Garden blooms in late summer. Photo by Kate Abbott
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STOCKBRIDGE — The hippopotamus came from Judy McKie. She is a Boston-born artisan and designer with an international following, and her sub-Saharan stone bench now wallows amiably in the grass at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Her work has led the garden to a theme of peace and quiet in its annual summer exhibit, “Benched: Come Take a Seat in the Garden,” running June 3 to Sept. 15, and a restful tone in its annual show of container gardens, said communications director Lee Buttala. “It’s a break, a rest to enjoy what we have,” he said. “We don’t always think of sitting still in a garden.”
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Ruth O’Hara donated the hippo to the garden in honor of the Larkins; Matt Larkin is the chairman of the board. Around it, the garden has built a show of 5 to 30 benches from garden designers like Bunny Williams, antiques from Barbara Israel, Barbara Brockbader and Munder Skiles, and work by local artisans from concrete artist Justin Madsen to Peter Thorne and fellow members of the Berkshire Woodworkers Guild. Some have created a seat with a specific site in mind, Buttala said. Across the 13 acres of gardens, around herbs and roses, the day lily walk and the pond, a bench may draw someone forward down a path to a place with a view or simply give a place to
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sit and relax and look out. They come in many shapes and sizes. “Benches range in style as much as gardens range in style,” he said, linear beds with modernist benches, Victorian-style chaises with crazy bedding plants.7 The garden now has a double bench for story time and camps, he said, and a giant “BerkChair” where people can lounge like Lily Tomlin playing Edith Anne, her familiar 5-and-a-halfyear-old character — and that’s the truth. The artisans have looked to many kinds of materials: glass, steel, twigs, different woods. Their benches come soft and curving or spare with long, clean lines. Hancock Shaker Village has offered a traditional Shaker seat, simple and unadorned. Some come attached to container gardens, as Naumkeag’s echoes the afternoon garden at Mabel Choate’s Gilded Age summer retreat, where fuscias bloom in pots between the fountains and the brightly painted Venetian poles. The Botanical Garden has enjoyed reaching out to local organizations for this summer show, Buttala said, to celebrate the area and help each other. From the Mount, they have a day bed in honor of Edith Wharton. He hopes people will stretch out on it and read in the sun.
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... in the gardens
A quiet visitor opens a book on the lawn at Naumkeag. Photo courtesy of Trustees of Reservations.
By Kate Abbott BTW Berkshires
The dragon came from the Forbidden City — the imperial palace of the Ming and Ching dynasties, in the middle of Beijing. He coils over a stone slab only the emperor would have been carried across. He is sunning himself now at Naumkeag, the Choate family’s Gilded Age house and gardens. Mabel Choate, working with garden designer Fletcher Steele, created the Chinese Garden with its brick temple to hold her collection of Chinese art; the original tiles came from the same company that made tiles for the Summer Palace. They set it on a slope where a viewing platform looked over bright beds of cutting flowers as early as 189 , and the Choates saw the Chinese Garden take shape by 1955. But a garden designed and planted 60 years ago has changed over time, said Brian Cruey, Brian Cruey, Trustees of Reservations general manager for Southern Berkshire County, who oversees the property. “It can grow past its life,” he said. In the last year and more The Trustees
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have worked to restore the Choates’ original vision, with new plants and trees and shrubs and evergreens and tree peonies. The restored Chinese Garden will open to visitors May 9, with a celebration July 3. They have touched up the circular Moon Gate, tile and brick garden walls and brought back the water runnels, plantings, sculpture and moss. The garden’s reopening marks another step in an ongoing restoration in all of of the gardens at Naumkeag. Last fall they rebuilt stone walls about the Choates’ well-known tree peonies, Cruey said, and replanted them to restore them to their original order. Carrieanne Petrik-Huff, Trustees of Reservations’ engagement manager for Southern Berkshire County, said taking in these gardens at quiet times is one of the pleasures of her job. She enjoys walking on a summer night through the grove of birches planted in the rocks — she enjoys the way the Choates have used the landscape to create the sense of another place. From the pagoda, she said, she can see some of the best sunsets in Berkshire County.
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Monday July 18
Journey,” Beethoven and Strauss, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox.
David Lutken will perform at Barrington Stage. Photo courtesy of David Lutken
Books and Writing
The Mount — Monday book talks: Louisa Thomas on her book, “Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams,” p.m. Lenox.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — The Skivvies perform comic songs stripped down (literally), 7:30 p.m. at the Log, 78 Main St., Williamstown. Theater
Conversations
Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — “Some Puzzles and Solutions in Science and Torah,” 10: 5 a.m. at Congregation Knesset Israel, Pittsfield. Free. Film
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival — “Ave Maria” and “Breakfast at Ina’s,” p.m. “Remember,” 8 p.m. Festival’s 30th year. Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox. Music
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his sons, 7 p.m. at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Young Artists Piano Program 7:30 p.m., free. Ventfort Hall, 10 Walker St. Lenox.
Manchester Music Festival — Young Artists concert, chamber music with students and faculty 7 p.m. at Riley Center for the Arts, Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vt.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang
Performance Space 21 — Summer Sing with David Smith, director of Concerts in the Village, on different choral works, 7 to 9 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Summer Noontime Concert — Emily Kalish, violin; James Bergin, viola; Peri Morris, cello; Scott Bailey, piano; Dohnanyi and Faure, noon. Free. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 35 Park St, Williamstown. 13- 58-8131
Tanglewood — TMC Orchestra with Christoph von Dohnányi, cond., TMC Conducting Fellows and Richard Sebring, horn: Wagner, “Siegfried’s Thine
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Berkshire Theatre Group — “Fiorello!” 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield. Dorset Theatre Festival — New Play reading series: “Three Quarter Inches of Sky” by Sherry Kramer, 7 p.m. Dorset, Vt. 80 -867- 3.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Actor and activist Alan Cumming, gala 8 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
Tuesday July 19 Art
Naumkeag — Plein Air Watercolors 10
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Concert on the Green — Live blues, rock, bluegrass or folk music 6 to 8 p.m. Manchester’s Town Green, Manchester, Vt.
a.m. to 3 p.m., flower painting. Stockbridge. Books and Writers
Marble House Project — Artseed readings by Laura McCullough, essays, memoirs, stories, and poetry from American Poetry Review to Guernica, and Michael Broek is the author of “Refuge/es,” winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award for poetry, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt. Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Averting the Next Global Financial Crisis: New Risks and Regulatory Challenges,” 5:30 p.m. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Vt.
Ventfort Hall — Edward Achorn, editorial page editor with The Providence Journal, “1883: That First Summer of Baseball, Beer and Whiskey,” in1880s, Chris Von der Ahe knew founded the franchise that became the St. Louis Cardinals — to sell more beer. p.m. tea and talk. Lenox.
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Becket Arts Center will host a talk with Berkshire Mountain Bakery. Photo courtesy BAC
Family
Berkshire Athenaeum — Caryn Lon Rogers, Bach to Rock: The science of sound, 1 p.m. Pittsfield.
The Mount — Books and Blooms story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Bring a sketch pad. Stockbridge.
Film
Performance Space 21 — Music and Dance film series, “Pete Seeger: The Power of Song,” 8:30 p.m., Seeger’s
story and the mindchanging ability of music, Free. Chatham, N.Y.
Food
Becket Arts Center — “Art of Bread-Baking” with Richard Bourdon, head baker at Berkshire Mountain Bakery, 7:30 p.m. Route 8, Becket. Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty recital, Axiom Brass, 7 p.m., free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St. Lenox.
Clark Art Institute — Wanda Houston Band, 6 p.m., free concert. Williamstown.
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Dorset Theatre Festival — Singer / songwriter Howard Fishman, concert benefit for DTF’s Giving Back Program, 8 p.m. Dorset, Vt. 80 -867- 3
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang Outdoors
Notchview — Thunder Moon hike, 7 p.m. through the boreal/spruce-fir forest with the full moon rising to the east, with Tamarack Hollow. Route 9, Windsor Williamstown Rural Lands — 30th anniversary celebration hike on Stone Hill near the Clark Art Institute, hike meets at 9:30 a.m. WRLF headquarters on Route 7, Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Pittsfield.
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Fiorello!” 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield. The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” 6 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Shakespeare & Co.— Artistic Insights talk 5 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” by Lindsey Ferrentino, a woman returning from three tours in Afghanistan 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “The Corrupting Influence of Materialism” workshop on Arthur Miller’s “The Price” (1968) and David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1983) 10 a.m. with Barbara Waldinger, profesTable of contents
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Courtesy photo by Lu Frenchr Lu French will speak on Havana, Cuba, today.
sor of theater at Queens College in NYC. Pittsfield.
Weston Playhouse — “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. Talkbacks with company and guests. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Wednesday July 20 Art
Berkshire Botanical Garden — En Plein Air watercolor workshop 10 a.m. outdoors. Stockbridge.
Clark Art Institute — Drop-in figure drawing workshop, :30 to :30 p.m. Williamstown.
Manchester Community Library — “Going Native in Havana — off the beaten path and into the beating heart of today’s Cuba” illustrated talk with Lu French, 6:30 p.m. Free. Manchester, Vt.
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Green Mountain Academy — “If Walls Could Talk: Stone Walls of New York and New England,” 5:30 p.m. Bennington Museum, Bennington Vt.
Hevreh — Rabbi Neal Borovitz, “Zionism and American Reform Jews from 1885 to the Present,” 11: 5 a.m. Great Barrington. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — “BalletX’ Philadelphia company, “Sunset, o639 Hours,” Matthew Neenan and Rosie Langabeer’s interpretation of Edwin Musick’s inaugural airmail flight across the Pacific with live cabaret band, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. ZviDance, Israeli-born Zvi Gotheiner’s “Es-
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Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch” by Sherman Bitterman, struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 7 p.m., Main Stage, and “Fiorello!” 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
cher/Bacon/Rothko, ” 0th-century masters, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: New Work from NYC with UNA Projects, Abarukas and and Kyle Marshall Choreography, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket. Family
Milne Library — Alex the Jester (all ages) - medieval comedy, combines music, juggling, prop comedy and stage magic, 6:30 p.m. Williamstown.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Creating Together,” ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge. Music
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
Live on the Lake — Free concert with Live 95.9 WBEC FM and Greylock Federal Credit Union, 6 to 8 p.m., Burbank Park, Onota Lake, Pittsfield.
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Sunset on Pontoosuc Lake. Photo by Susan Geller
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang
Tanglewood — François Leleux, oboe; Lisa Batiashvili, violin; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Lynn Harrell, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano: Saint-Saëns, Mozart, Debussy, Britten and Mozart, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bascom Lodge — “The Birds and the Bees and Your Backyard” with Leslie Reed-Evans, Execu-
tive Director of the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
Mass Audubon — “Evening with Birds and Bats” 7 p.m., Pleasant Valley Sanctuary, Lenox.
Naumkeag — Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, learn about the flowers growing in season, with Naumkeag horticulturalist Eric Ruquist. Stockbridge. Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Pittsfield.
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Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord despairing of humanity, 8 p.m. Chester. Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl, chronicling the 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m.,“Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” Info: Directory
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by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m.,“The Taming” 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Weston Playhouse — “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew 7:30 p.m., a new widow moves in with her sister to start again, MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi AI thriller, and 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Thursday July 21 About Town
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graphs of Gardens in China and at Naumkeag,” p.m. Have a glass of wine with photographer Lois Conner, whose large prints hang throughout the house. Stockbridge.
Music livens Third Thursday. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller
to midnight, sales, live music and entertainment. Bennington, Vt. 80 - -5758, bettterbennington.com
Hemmings CruiseIn — New England informal car show 5:30 to 8 p.m. Rain cancels, Bennington, Vt. 800- 7- 373
Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams.
Third Thursday — Street festival: chefs, demonstrations, birthday bash, Pittsfield Paintboxes unveiling and more, 5 to 8 p.m.
with live music, performances, food. North Street closed to traffic from West to Linden streets. Downtown Pittsfield.
Art
Norman Rockwell Museum — ““Realism and the Persistence of Memory,” art historian Jane Eckert and painters Robert Cottingham and Eric Forstmann, 5:30 p.m. Historic property walks p.m. to Linwood House (1859 Berkshire Cottage), Rockwell’s studio and “Build a Better Baby Carriage” outdoor exhibit. Stockbridge.
Albany Institute of History and Art — “From Naughty to Nice: Nudes from the Prado,” 5:30 p.m., free talk on Clark Art Institute’s summer show. 1 5 Washington Ave., Albany, N.Y. albanyinstitute.org, 518- 63- 78
Williams College Museum of Art — “Labeling: A History Lesson,” Katarzyna Pieprzak, professor of French, Francophone and comparative literature at Williams, p.m. “Food Lab” with artist and chef Lexa Walsh, 5:30 p.m. Williamstown.
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The Bookstore — Will Boyce reads from “The Roads That Dreams Take,” poetry, 5:30 p.m. Lenox.
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Art of Cut Paper, 10 a.m., Stockbridge.
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Dorset Theatre Festival — “Comedy of Manners: What do William Congreve and Theresa Rebeck have in common?” Talk with theatre historian Maya Cantu,” 6 p.m., free. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, Vt.
Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students perform 7 p.m., free. Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vt.
Tanglewood — Festival of Contemporary Music: TMC Fellows perform works by Lutoslawski, Salonen, Lindberg and Stucky, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox.
Conversations
Hevreh — “Jewish Influences In Comic Films,” 3:30 p.m. Great Barrington Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — “BalletX’ Philadelphia company, “Sunset, o639 Hours,” Matthew Neenan and Rosie Langabeer’s interpretation of Edwin Musick’s inaugural airmail flight across the Pacific with live cabaret band, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. ZviDance, Israeli-born Zvi Gotheiner’s “Escher/Bacon/Rothko,” 0th-century masters, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Swing dance class with Caleb Teicher, p.m. Inside / Out: Caleb Teicher & Company, American tap, lindy hop and jazz, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
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Third Thursday becomes a beach party. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller
Food
Hevreh — Israeli Cooking with Julie Gale, owner and chef at the Kitchen Table Cooking School, noon. Great Barrington.
Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty recital, Vento Chiaro Woodwind Quintet, 7 p.m., free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St. Lenox.
Dalton CRA — Eagles Band Concert on the lawn, 7 p.m. 00 Main St., Dalton. Rain date July . 13-68 -0 60, dalton cra.org
Manchester Music Festival — Music
from Russia and Armenia, works by Aram Khachaturian, Modest Mussorgsky and Mikhail Glinka, 7:30 p.m. at Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang
Party in the Park — Free concert 6 to 8 p.m. with WUPE FM and WNAW 1 30AM Greylock Federal Credit Union, Noel Field behind the Steeplecats baseball diamond, in North Adams.
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Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” by Jiehae Park, twins will stop at nothing to get into college, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch” by Sherman Bitterman, struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 7 p.m., Main Stage, and “Fiorello!” musical, and 7 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” and 7 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield. Info: Directory
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Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord despairing of humanity, p.m. with talkback and 8 p.m. Chester. Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Metawee River Theatre — Show drawn from a ancient Korean talewith masks, giant puppets and other visual elements. Work-in-progress performance, 8 p.m., Methodist Church lawn, Sandgate, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice,” 3 p.m., “The Taming” 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m.,
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and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown.
Art
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Encaustic painting demonstration with local artist Ali Herrmann, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox
A horse grazes in Pittsfield. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller
Conversations
on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and Round the Garden,” third play of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy “The Norman Conquests,” 7:30 p.m. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother,
7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew 7:30 p.m., a new widow moves in with her sister to start again, MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller, and 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Friday July 22
About Town
Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth,
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The Bookstore — Jo Page, “Preaching in My Yes Dress,” 7 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox. JTS in the Berkshires — “Redrawing the Boundary Between Jew and Other: Maimonides” by Rabbi David Hoffman, 11 a.m. Shakespeare & Co. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Knesset Israel — “Wildman Series Weekend Scholar Rabbi David Hoffman speaks after 5:30 p.m. musical service and shabbat dinner on “Google, God and Facebook: Challenges to Jewish Notions of Intimacy in an Internet Age.” Pittsfield.
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Dance
Berkshire Museum — D.R.E.A.M. Ring in collaboration with Jacob’s Pillow, Master Class, 1 to 3 p.m.; Dance Competition, 6 to 9:30 p.m. Free. Pittsfield.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Weekend Out at the Pillow, celebration of LGBTQ connections, history and community with talks, tours, film and more. “BalletX’ Philadelphia company, “Sunset, o639 Hours,” Matthew Neenan and Rosie Langabeer’s interpretation of Edwin Musick’s inaugural airmail flight across the Pacific with live cabaret band, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. ZviDance, Israeli-born Zvi Gotheiner’s “Escher/Bacon/Rothko” 0th-century masters, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Chase Brock Experience with Brooklyn and blue grass company 6:15 p.m., PillowTalk: “Choreography as Visual Art” with Susan Rosenberg and Zvi Gotheiner, 5 p.m., both free. Becket.
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with local barbecue and beer available, Stockbridge.
Guthrie Center — Annie Guthrie CD Release Show, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Jazz sax legend Charles Neville is shown here at the Mount’s free Music after Hours concert. Photo by John Seakwood, courtesy of the Mount
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Paul Taylor Dance Company, 8 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington. Family
Becket Arts Center — Families Dance Together program 5 p.m. at Jacob’s Pillow, Becket.
Hubbard Hall — Youth Theater Performance of “Alice in Wonderland,” 7 p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Kids create” art for ages 3 to 6, 10:30 a.m. Stockbridge. Performance Space 21 — Vanaver Caravan –
Celebration of American dance styles, 1 p.m., with audience participation. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
Film
Outdoor Movie — “Inside Out” begins at dusk (around 8:30 p.m.), Clapp Park, Pittsfield. Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recital, chamber music with students in the BUTI Young Artists Wind Ensemble :30 p.m., free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St. Lenox.
Chesterwood — Chesterfest, Americana music outdoors 5:30 p.m.
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Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and faculty :30 p.m., July 13 to 30. massmoca.org/bang
Meetinghouse concert — Kalpas tet: A world music band with Brian D’Angelo on percussion 7:30 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Bennington, Vt.
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Jaime Laredo, violin, and Sharon Robinson, cello, music of Kodaly, Mozart and others, 7:30 p.m., Charlemont.
The Mount — Music After Hours, guest musicians may include the Benny Sharoni Quartet and the Wanda Houston Band free concert on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox. Info: Directory
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Performance Space 21 — Vanaver Caravan’s “Turn, Turn, Turn! Celebrating Pete Seeger in Dance and Music” inspired by 0-year relationship with the music legend and activist: multimedia production with original choreography, 8 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Tanglewood — Festival of Contemporary Music: Works by Phibbs, Abrahamsen, Currier and Dennehy, :30 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. BSO prelude concert 6 p.m. in Ozawa Hall; BSO with Sir Andrew Davis, cond., and Lisa Batiashvili, violin, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Cocktails in Great Gardens: summer party in the garden of Amy Zuckerman, Lenox. Register for directions.
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Work-in-progress performance, 8 p.m., Gurney Lane Park, Queensbury, N.Y.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m. “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Merchant of Venice,” 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Tanglewood on the lawn: Henna. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller
on fields throughout Dalton. 13-68 0 60, dalton cra.org Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” by Jiehae Park, twins will stop at nothing to get into college, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch” by Sherman Bitterman, struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 8 p.m., Main Stage, and “Fiorello!” 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre,
Stockbridge. “Little Shop of Horrors,” 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord despairing of humanity, p.m. with cast conversation, Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Metawee River Theatre — Show drawn from a ancient Korean tale with masks, giant puppets and other visual elements.
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Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Shakespeare on Main Street — Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” 7:30 p.m. Hunter Hall at Maple Street School, 3 Maple St., Manchester, Vt.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and
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Round the Garden,” third play of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy “The Norman Conquests,” 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — Fridays@3 new play reading. Backstage tour 6 p.m. “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew 8 p.m., new widow moves in with her sister to start again, MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Saturday July 23 About Town
Arts Alive in the Hilltowns — Cabaret Alive V, cohosted by Arts Alive in the Hilltowns and
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and dogbane while dyeing skeins in an outdoor dye bath, 11 p.m. Monterey.
Clark Art Institute — Plein Air drawing at Thomas Schütte: Crystal installation Stone Hill, 1 to p.m., free. Williamstown.
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The Worthington Historical Society, 3 3 Huntington Road, Worthington. Cocktails at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6, disco theme. 13- 38-5593
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and
11:30 a.m.,1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Naumkeag — Garden party to 7 p.m. Trustees President and CEO Barbara Erickson and Honorary Co-Chairs Yo-Yo Ma and Jill Horner unveil of the newly-renovated Chinese Temple Garden. Midsummer Night Swing 8 to 11 p.m., live music, swing dancing and drinks. Stockbridge.
Art
Bidwell House — “Plant Dyes and Fibers,” learn to process wool and plant-based fibers such as milkweed
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Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — “Has your Creativity Been Hiding” workshop with Director Kinney Frelinghysen, 10 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox
Hilltown6 Pottery Tour — Open Studios tour of nine ceramics artists with guest artists and demonstrations of hand building, wheel throwing and decoration, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Ashfield, Cummington, Westhampton, Windsor and Worthington. Map and full schedule at hilltown6.com Norman Rockwell Museum — “Building Cathedral and Other Books,” talk Info: Directory
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with David Macaulay 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., award-winning author and artist who has helped us to understand “The Way Things Work” from simple gadgets to monumental structures. Children and families can design and build their own creative structures. Stockbridge. North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show — 19th annual group show of 38 nationally known and local artists, outdoor and largescale work curated by Joe Chirchirillo, opens to 8 p.m. Sculpture Park, 8 Main St., North Bennington.
Spencertown Academy — “Mysterious and Unexpected: the Merger of Art and Science,” Carrie Crane, Kay Hartung, Larry Kagan, Gwenn Mayers, Karen Schoolman and Catherine WilcoxTitus, opening reception to 6 p.m. Spencertown, N.Y. Books & Writing
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Northern Berkshire Sculpture Show will open July 23. Courtesy photo
etry” readings and open mic p.m. Route 8, Becket.
Northshire Bookstore — J.T. Greenwood with Miranda Beverley Whittemore read from “Where I Lost Her” and “Bittersweet” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
West Stockbridge Library — Annual book sale 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Town Hall, 1 State Line Road (Route 10 ), West Stockbridge.
Conversations
Knesset Israel — “Wildman Series Weekend Scholar Rabbi David Hoffman speaks on “Google, God and
Facebook: Challenges to Jewish Notions of Intimacy in an Internet Age,” 10:30 a.m. during service and after lunch. Pittsfield. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Weekend Out at the Pillow, celebration of LGBTQ connections, history and community with talks, tours, film and more. Late night dance party with DJ BFG. “BalletX’ Philadelphia company, “Sunset, o639 Hours,” Matthew Neenan and Rosie Langabeer’s interpretation of Edwin Musick’s inaugural airmail flight across
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the Pacific with live cabaret band, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. ZviDance, Israeli-born Zvi Gotheiner’s “Escher/Bacon/Rothko,” 0th-century masters, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Jacob’s Pillow School contemporary 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: “New Director, New Directions with the Pillow’s new director, Pamela Tatge, p.m., free. Becket. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Paul Taylor Dance Company, 3 and 7:30 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
OMI International Arts Center — Dance Omi Salon at the studio barns 5 p.m., diverse group of dancers-in-residence from all over the world share work, free. Ghent. N.Y. Family
Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover in concert, 10 a.m. behind Town Hall, Great Barrington. Hubbard Hall — Youth Theater Performance of “Alice
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in Wonderland,” p.m. Teen Theater Performance of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!,” 7 p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
blues, jazz, folk and funk. Sandisfield. Summer Sonatina — Piano and voice students perform 1:30 p.m., free. Bennington, Vt. 80 - -9197
OMI International Arts Center — workshop 10 a.m. to noon for ages to 1 with themes from Fields Sculpture Park. Ghent. N.Y. Music
Berkshire Choral Festival — Beethoven, Mass in C Major; Symphony #9 ( th Movement) with conductor John Sinclair of Bach Festival Society and Springfield Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Open dress rehearsal 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.,talk 6:15 p.m. Berkshire School, Sheffield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Young artists piano program 11 a.m. West Street Theatre, 5 West St., free. Lenox.
Guthrie Center — Vance Gilbert, jazz folk with rock and blues, 8 p.m. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer
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Photo Katy Levesque Berkshire Carousel will open this month.
Music Festival 016. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and Pianist Vicky Chow plays compositions by founders Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, plus a world premiere by composer Chris Cerrone, :30 p.m., AllStars perform Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports” 8 p.m., and new music including works by Roomful of Teeth’s Caroline Shaw, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Gabriella Smith, Rene Lussier, etc. massmoca.org/bang
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Jaime Laredo, violin, and Sharon Robinson, cello, music of Kodaly, Mozart and
others, 7:30 p.m., Charlemont.
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Performance Space 21 — Vanaver Caravan’s “Turn, Turn, Turn! Celebrating Pete Seeger in Dance and Music” inspired by 0-year relationship with the music legend and activist: multimedia production with original choreography, 8 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Sandisfield Arts Center — Triple Play with Chris Brubeck, Peter Ruth and Joel Brown, 8 p.m.
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Tanglewood — Festival of Contemporary Music: Fromm Concert with the Fromm Players performing works by Gee, Ogonek, White, Jalbert, Crockett and Levering, :30 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. BSO rehearsal 10:30 a.m. and concert with Juanjo Mena, cond., Garrick Ohlsson, piano, and Raquel Lojendio, soprano: Tchaikovsky and Falla’s “The Threecornered Hat,” 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
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Tournament more than 30 teams from the Northeast play on fields throughout Dalton. 13-68 0 60, dalton cra.org
Flying Deer Nature Center — Bird Language: Listening for Connection, talk with naturalist Jon Young, Berkshire South Community Center, 15 Crissey Road, Great Barrington. 518-79 6687, flyingdeernaturecenter.org
Great Barrington Greenways — Community celebration, hikes and picnic: 7-mile hike in Beartown State Forest, 11 a.m.; Benedict Pond Loop Trail afternoon easy hike, p.m.; Appalachian Trail community potluck picnic with the Berkshire Ukulele Band, AT volunteers and hikers, swimming and campfire, 5 p.m., all free. Register 13-5 8-090 , Great Barrington.
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of Horrors,” and 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord despairing of humanity, 8 p.m. with talkback. Chester. Dorset Theatre Festival — “Dear Elizabeth” by Sarah Ruhl, chronicling the 30-year friendship of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
The studio at Chesterwood lets in the sun. Photo by Paul Rocheleau, courtesy of Chesterwood
Ride begins at Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton, Conn., and continues to Montreal. Stops along the way to talk about the interstate bicycle route in Sculpturedale at studios of Denis Curtiss, sculptor; on Route 7 in Kent, Conn.; July in Lenox; July 5 in Williamstown; July 6 in Manchester, Vt. wnegreenway.org
Mass Audubon — Canoe Trip along the Housatonic River, 8:30 a.m. Meets at New Lenox Road, Lenox. Register 13-637-03 0 Race for the Cure — Susan G. Komen race, 5 and 10K
course, 8:30 a.m. start, Riley Rink, Hunter Center, Manchester, Vt. komenvtnh.org
Metawee River Theatre — Show drawn from a ancient Korean talewith masks, giant puppets and other visual elements. Work-in-progress performance, 7:30 p.m., Mountain School lawn, Shrewsbury, Vt.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” by Jiehae Park, twins will stop at nothing to get into college, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch” by Sherman Bitterman, and 8 p.m., Main Stage, “Fiorello!” and 8 p.m. Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. “Little Shop
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The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” Shakespearean comedy, 11 a.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of
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Huckleberry Finn, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, one night with 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Merchant of Venice,” 7:30 p.m., “The Taming” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Shakespeare on Main Street — Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” 7:30 p.m. Hunter Hall at Maple Street School, 3 Maple St., Manchester, Vt.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and Round the Garden,” third play of trilogy “The Norman Con-
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ramics artists with guest artists and demonstrations of hand building, wheel throwing and decoration, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Ashfield, Cummington, Westhampton, Windsor and Worthington. Map and full schedule at hilltown6.com Books & Writing
Bang on a Can returns to Mass MoCA. Photo Courtesy of Mass MoCA
quests,” and 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits from her mother, and 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew 3:30 and 8 p.m., new widow moves in with her sister to start again, MainStage. “The Chinese Room,” sci-fi thriller by Michael West, a visionary in artificial intelligence
tries to preserve his wife’s memory, 3:30 and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Sunday July 24 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. Art
Hilltown6 Pottery Tour — Open Studios tour of nine ce-
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West Stockbridge Library — Annual book sale 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Town Hall, 1 State Line Road (Route 10 ), West Stockbridge. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Master class with ZviDance, 10 a.m. Weekend Out at the Pillow, celebration of LGBTQ connections, history and community with talks, tours, film “Feelings are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer” on revolutionary modern dance artist, :30 p.m. “BalletX’ Philadelphia company, “Sunset, o639 Hours,” Matthew Neenan and Rosie Langabeer’s interpretation of Edwin Info: Directory
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Musick’s inaugural airmail flight across the Pacific with live cabaret band, and 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. ZviDance, Israeli-born Zvi Gotheiner’s “Escher/Bacon/Rothko,” 0th-century masters, :15 and 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Becket.
Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Family
Clark Art Institute — Family art making, activities, and performances in celebration of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” show 1 to p.m., activites free. Williamstown.
Hubbard Hall — Teen Theater Performance of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!,” p.m. Cambridge, N.Y. Film
Images Cinema — Family flicks under the stars: “Groundhog Day” begins at sundown (c. 8:15 p.m.) on Morgan Lawn, Spring Street, Williamstown. Music
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BUTI horn students rehearse. Photo courtesy of BUTI
recital, Thomas Weaver, piano, 7 p.m. West Street Theatre, 5 West St., free. Lenox.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, musicians and composers collaborate. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and Fellows and faculty perform John Cage’s ethereal Atlas Elipticalis :30 p.m., massmoca.org/bang
Sevenars Concerts — From Leipzig to Paris, French repertoire with Adela Peña, violin; Joel Bard, oboe; Stephen Walt, bassoon; Sayuri Miyamoto,
piano p.m. The Academy, Route 11 and Ireland Street, South Worthington. 13 38-585 , sevenars.org
Tanglewood — Festival of Contemporary Music: Works by Hillborg, Dean, Harvey, Boulez, Donatoni and Meltzer, 10 a.m. in Ozawa Hall. BSO with Juanjo Mena, cond., and Veronika Eberle, violin: Alberto Ginastera (on 100th anniversary of his birth), Mozart and Beethoven, :30 p.m. in the Shed. Posh Picnic benefit for Berkshire Film & Media Commission begins at noon.
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Bascom Lodge — Krysha, “Herbs and Health,” 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
Dalton CRA — 6th Annual Dalton CRA Invitational Softball Tournament more than 30 teams from the Northeast play on fields throughout Dalton. 13-68 0 60, dalton cra.org
Heritage Tour 2016 — Informal bike ride end-to-end ride of the Western New England Greenway, with Housatonic Heritage, all welcome. Ride begins at Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton, Conn., and continues to Montreal. Stops along the way to talk about the interstate bicycle route in Sculpturedale at studios of Denis Curtiss, sculptor; on Route 7 in Kent, Conn.; July in Lenox; July 5 in Williamstown; July 6 in Manchester, Vt.
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wnegreenway.org Tour de Trustees properties — Form up a peloton and ride between some of our most beautiful properties in the Hilltowns. Glendale Falls, Bear Swamp, Chesterfield Gorge, Bryant Homestead, Notchview, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch included. Sets out from Notchview, Old Route 9, Windsor. 13-53 -1651 Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “The pressure cooker young people face on order to get into college,” conversation with Jiehae Park, playwright of “Peerless,” 1 p.m., and “Peerless” 3 p.m., Stage II; “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 5 p.m., Main Stage Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “Oh God” by Anat Gov, a therapist meets the Lord despairing of humanity, p.m. Chester.
Metawee River Theatre — Show drawn from a ancient Korean tale with masks, giant puppets. Work-in-progress, 7:30 p.m., Georgi Mu-
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ZviDance will perform at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Photo by Heidi Gutman, courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow
seum, Shushan, N.Y. The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” :30 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “Big River,” musical based on adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice,” p.m., “The Taming” 3 p.m., “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, one night with 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Shakespeare in the Park — “The
Tempest,” 8 p.m., on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Shakespeare on Main Street — Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” p.m. Hunter Hall at Maple Street School, 3 Maple St., Manchester, Vt.
Theater Barn — “Towards Zero,” Superintendent Battle’s holiday becomes a mystery, p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and Round the Garden,” third play of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy “The Norman Conquests,” 3 p.m.,
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew and 7 p.m., new widow moves in with her sister to start again, MainStage, ’6 Center. Lawn talks before Sunday matinee. “The Rise and Fall of Marcus Monroe,” comedy about a juggler’s pursuit of fame 7:30 p.m., Goodrich Hall, 880 Main St., Williams College, Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Southern Vermont
Appalachian Trail — 150 miles of trail in Vermont runs south to north through Bennington County. Parking area and trail head on Vermont Route 9 east of Bennington, on the Molly Stark Scenic Byway. West of Prospect Mountain and Woodford, Vt. appalachiantrail.org Garden Conservancy — Garden tours through the summer in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont. No reservations; rain or shine. For times and places — 888-8 - or gardenconservancy.org
Hildene — Mansion of Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, open 9:30 a.m. to :30 p.m. daily: Goat dairy at Hildene Farm and about 1 miles of walking trails. Celebration of Peonies in late May and early June: Thousands of blooms in the formal garden, many from the original 1907 plants. 1005 Hildene Road off Route 7A, Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -1788, hildene.org Lake Paran — 35-acre lake in North Bennington, Bennington and Shaftsbury. Swimming hole on Northwest shore. State fishing and boating access on south shore. Robert Frost Trail — 1 6 acres along the shore and Paran Creek were once
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Photo courtesy of Flying Deer Nature Center A paddler appreciates mud at Flying Deer Nature Center.
a farm owned by Robert Frost. North Bennington, Vt. northbennington.org/paran
Merck Forest and Farmland Center — 3,100-acre property open to the public daily, free. Working farm, draft horses, sugar shack, 30 miles of trails for hiking and horseback riding. Visitors center open 9 a.m. to p.m. daily. Wagon rides by appointment through midOctober. Cabins and camping year-round. Family farm chores to p.m. Thursdays: Join Merck Forest’s staff for afternoon on the
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farm, peek in the nest boxes to look for eggs, feed pigs or water sheep, move horses to pasture. 3 70 Route 15, Rupert, Vt. 80 39 -7836. merckforest.org
Mount Equinox — 1 trails from Pond Loop to 1.8-mile Mountain Bluff. Route 7A, Manchester, Vt., 80 -36 - 37 , equinoxpreservationtrust.org One World Conservation Center — Trails, walks and workshops, programs for children and adults. 13 Route 7, Bennington, Vt. oneworldconservationcenter.org
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Park McCullough House — Historic mansion with exhibit on 6 0-acre Hall Farm with artifacts, photographs, books, maps, tools and stories. Croquet teams compete in 10 weeks of play on the lawn 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays June 16 to Aug. 18. Grounds and gardens open tree with access to trails in the woods. 1 Park St., North Bennington, Vt. 80 - -5 1, parkmccullough.org
Strobridge Recreation Complex — 735 acres of forest land, including ,000 feet of frontage on the Hoosic River, for hiking, fishing and paddling. Off Route 3 6 in North Pownal, Vt., 80 -8 3-7757, hoorwa.org Vermont Challenge 2016 — 5th annual cycling tour of New England Aug. 11 to 1 , routes for low-key and adept riders, all day. Southern and Central Vermont over four days including a signature Gran, Medio and Piccolo Fondo for all riders on Saturday. vtchallenge.com
Vermont Summer Festival Horse Show — Celebrating its 3rd year as Vermont’s premier hunter/jumper competition: Olympic equestrians in events for $750,000 in prizes, Tuesday to Sunday, July 5 to Aug. 7. Sixweek show on the Beebe Farm in East Dorset, Vt. vt-summerfestival.com
Woodford State Park — Hiking trails with .7-mile
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Photo courtesy of Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation Kids look for frogs in the pond at Sheep Hill in Williamstown.
trail around the lake. Follow Route 9 east from Bennington to Woodford, Vt. 80 7-7169, vtstateparks.com
Berkshire region Appalachian Trail — Runs north and south throughout the Berkshire region in Western Massachusetts, through Department of Conservation and Recreation properties— Clarksburg State Forest, October Mountain State Forest, Mount Greylock State Reser-
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vation, Ashuwillticook Rail Trail, Beartown State Forest, Jug End State Reservation, Mount Washington State Forest and Mount Everett State Reservation. Also Dalton, Cheshire. appalachiantrail.org
Berkshire Natural Resources Council — Trails and properties maintained by nonprofit land conservation organization to protect farms, forests, streams and ridgelines. Weekly guided hikes. bnrc.net
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Locals look after the Housatonic River. Photo courtesy of Great Barrington River Walk
Hoffmann Bird Club — Birding expeditions across Berkshire County and the region. hoffmannbirdclub.org
Northern Berkshires
Bascom Lodge — Lodging, restaurant and mountains views on the Appalachain Trail and many more trails with talks, walks and performances Wednesdays and Sundays 6 p.m., free. Open Memorial Day to Columbus Day. Summit of Mount Greylock. bascomlodge.net
Cascades — Short, flat trail along the river to the waterfall. Small amount of parking at trail head on Marion Ave., off Route , just west of downtown North Adams
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Clark Art Institute — Trails up Stone Hill and through the woods on the museum property. Guided walks with exhibit at the Stone Hill Center. 5 South St., Williamstown. clarkart.edu
Field Farm — A 1967 postmodern guest house designed by Ulrich Franzen for art collector Lawrence Bloedel. Art and architecture. Trails and grounds open daily, free, year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset. 55 Sloan Road, Williamstown, 13 58-3135, thetrustees.org HooRWA — Hoosic River Watershed Association
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leads walks, bike rides and paddles along the river, June to August in Williamstown and Southern Vermont. 13 58- 7 , hoorwa.org Hopkins Forest — Trails maintained by Williams College in Williamstown and along the Taconic crest. Trail heads on Northwest Hill Road in Williamstown and on Route in Petersburgh, N.Y. 13-597- 353, williams.edu/CES Linear Park — Upper Linear Park trailhead at tennis court behind Greylock Insurance Agency on Route . Lower Linear Park along the Green River on Route 3 just south of the Route intersection. Williamstown.
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tive programs July 11 to Aug. 30. Children’s summer programs in June and July including Beginning Blacksmithing for 11 to 1 -yearolds, two sessions July 18 to 3. Nature Center open weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., fields and trails on Sheep Hill at a former dairy farm. 671 Cold Spring Road, Route 7, Williamstown. 13- 58- 9 , wrlf.org
Great Barington Greenways leads walks and foraging expeditions. Photo courtesy of GBG
Mount Greylock State Reservation — Trails and entrances in Williamstown, North Adams, Adams and Lanesborough, open through mid-October. Hiking access to the Appalachian Trail, Scenic Byway, Veterans War Memorial, Bascom Lodge and breathtaking views. Auto road to summit. Visitors centers at 30 Rockwell Road in Lanesborough and 115 State St. in North Adams (Gateway Heritage State Park). Williamstown trail head to the Hopper and more through Mount Hope Park on Route 3. 13- 99 6 , mass.gov
Mountain Meadow — Wild meadows at the homesite of Grace Greylock Niles, the woman who wrote “Bog-Trotting for Orchids” a century ago. Entrances on Benedict Road in Pownal, Vt., and Mason Street in Williamstown. Free. 13- 58-3135, thetrustees.org
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Natural Bridge — Geological phenomenon, arch carved by water into 550million-year-old bedrock marble in 8-acre park. Follow Route 8 north from North Adams to entrance. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seasonally through Columbus Day. 13-663-639 , Massachusetts DCR. mass.gov
Pine Cobble Trail — .1 miles of moderate to strenuous hiking through oak forest interspersed with white pines, expanse of 600-million-year-old gray Cheshire quartzite cliffs overlooking most of Northern Berkshire County from an elevation of ,100 feet. Trail begins 0.1 miles north of North Hoosac Road on Pine Cobble Road in Williamstown.
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Windsor Lake — Free concerts on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays June 8 to Aug. 31. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com Williamstown Library — Croquet tourney June 8 to July 7 on the library lawn, games 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Teams of four compete over 8 weeks (entry fee for full tourney). Mallets required but experience is not. Routes and 7, Williamstown. Register at the library, milnelibrary.org
Central Berkshires
Arrowhead — Historic house where Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick” open May 3 to Oct. Grounds open free with walking trails, summer art exhibits, Michael Melle straw sculptures and nature trail. Fun on the Farm Mondays for preschool children. 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield. 13 -1793. mobydick.org
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Ashuwillticook Rail Trail — Flat, paved trail from Cheshire to Adams, following the old railway line along Cheshire Lake and Route 8. Converted railroad corridor now a paved path running 11. miles from Adams to Lanesborough. Access at Visitors Center in downtown Adams, Cheshire Lake on Route 8, near the Berkshire Mall in Lanesborough or along the route. 13- -89 8 or mass.gov
Bryant Homestead — Boyhood home and summer retreat of American poet, abolitionist, conservationist and editor William Cullen Bryant. House open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday for tours. -mile Rivulet Trail to old-growth trees, hemlock and cherry, fields and sugarbush and stream in Bryant’s 18 3 poem. Grounds open free year-round. 07 Bryant Road, Cummington. National Historic Landmark. 13-53 -1631 ext. 3110, thetrustees.org
Canoe Meadows — Mass Audubon property with trails, boardwalks, ponds and wetlands on Holmes Road, Pittsfield. 13-63703 0, massaudubon.org
Cheshire Cobble — Section of the Appalachian Trail in Cheshire follows a switchback to views of the valley. Parking at the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail or on Main Street. Trail head without parking on Furnace Hill Road. appalachiantrail.org
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A kayak sets out across Pontoosoc Lake. Photo by Susan Geller
Chesterfield Gorge — A dramatic rock canyon first carved by centuries of glacial melt water and the Westfield River, the gorge is the gateway to the East Branch Trail. Open during the warm season, daily, from sunrise to sundown, for hiking, picnicking, mountain biking, anglers. River Road, Chesterfield. 13-53 -1631.
Glendale Falls — A quarter-mile trail to the falls and a wood road to land owned by the Massachusetts Division of Fish & Wildlife. From intersection of Routes 1 3 and 11 in Worthington, take Route 1 3 West to River Road. Turn right onto Clark Wright Road to entrance. 13-53 -1631
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Hancock Shaker Village — Living history, farm animals, gardens, CSA Farm and trails. Farm and Forest Trail on village grounds and trailhead for “Mount Sinai” hiking trails across from the main village. Routes 0 and 1, Pittsfield. 13- 3-0188. hancockshakervillage.org Notchview Reservation — Twenty-five miles of trails, historic hayfields and pastures, stone walls and cellar holes. Open from sunup to sundown, daily, year round. Visitor Center with picnic area and rest rooms. 83 Old Route 9, Windsor. 1368 -01 8, thetrustees.org Onota Lake — Lifeguards on duty at the public beach
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Southern Berkshires
Ashintully Gardens — Grounds of Berkshire Cottage estate, trails and gardens open 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays, June 1 to Oct. 8. Hike to the ruins of the former mansion or explore the landscaped paths and water ways created over the course of decades by John McLennan, a composer of modern music. Free. Soden Road, Tyringham, 13- 983 39, thetrustees.org
Runners watch the sunset at Onota Lake.
periodically in summer, check at cityofpittsfield.org
Pittsfield State Forest — 65 acres of wild azaleas in bloom in June. Berry Pond, one of the highest natural bodies of water in the state. 30 miles of trails. 10 1 Cascade St., Pittsfield. 13 -899 , mass.gov
Springside Park — Trails across 37 acres of woods and meadows. Master Gardeners workshops select Saturday mornings. Master Gardeners demo behind Springside House gardens. music series. Springside Park, North Street, Pittsfield. Gardeners, 13-7 35193. Park, 13-3 7-381 .
Taconic Crest Trail — 35 miles of trail along the ridge
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from Pittsfield north into New York and Vermont with access in Pittsfield along Route 0 and in Williamstown at the trail head on Petersburgh Pass (Route ) in Hopkins Forest.
Tamarack Hollow — Highland valley nature and cultural center in boreal forest. Hikes on the property and in neighboring conservation lands in Windsor and Savoy with naturalist Aimee Gelinas. 1515 Savoy Hollow Road, Windsor. 13-58 3009, tamarackhollow.com
Windsor Jambs — Windsor State Forest with granite gorge, waterfall, sandy beach along Westfield River. Entrance off Route 9 or Toute 116 in Windsor. 13-339-550 , mass.gov
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Bartholomew’s Cobble — River and unique wood and meadow habitat with bald eagles, turtles and abundant wildlife: 800 species of plants and one of North America’s greatest diversities of ferns. Hikes and nature programs. Housatonic River guided canoe trips Saturdays and Sundays, June 5 to Sept. 5. Open year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset; museum and visitors center open yearround, daily, 9 a.m. to :30 p.m. 105 Weatogue Road, Sheffield. 13- 9-8600, thetrustees.org
Beartown State Forest — 1.5 mile Benedict Pond Loop Trail open year-round. From Route 3 in Monterey, turn left on Blue Hill Road, follow signs. 13-5 8-090 Bear Swamp — 3 miles of trails with moderate hiking, strenuous in places. From the intersection of Route
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Bascom Lodge opens the season with a festival of American Indian tales, music and celebration. Photo courtesy of Peter Dudek, Bascom Lodge
11 , Route 116, and Hawley Road in Ashfield, follow Hawley Road to entrance on left.
Becket Land Trust — Becket historic quarry and trails. Quarry Museum and self-guided tour of nature preserve and 100 years of history. Becket Historic Quarry permanent exhibit now open at Mullen House Education Center. Trails open in daylight hours year round. Quarry off Route 0, 56 Quarry Road, Becket. Mullen House exhibits at 1 Brooker Hill Road (corner Route 8), Becket. 13-6 3 100, becketlandtrust.org
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Berkshire Botanical Garden — 6 display areas including perennials, thousands of annuals, rock, rose, pond, children’s and native plant gardens. “Benched: Come Take a Seat in the Garden” display and “Contained Exuberance” exhibits. Greenhouses, an arboretum and a woodland preserve. Open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Columbus Day, tours 11 a.m. Monday to Saturday. Route 183 and Route 10 , Stockbridge. 13- 98-39 6, berkshirebotanical.org Great Barrington Land Conservancy — Walks
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and talks across town in summer and fall. 13-5 8 160, greatbarringtonlandconservancy.org
Great Barrington River Walk — Native landscaped path along the Housatonic River in downtown Great Barrington and National Recreation Trail; entrances at 195 Main St., River Street, Bridge Street and Dresser Ave. W.E.B. Du Bois River Garden Park. William Stanley Overlook. Laboratory for natural resource protection. Open in daylight hours, free. 135 8-3391, gbriverwalk.org
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Housatonic Heritage Area — Trails and historic sites along the river from Connecticut to Berkshire County. heritage-hikes.org Housatonic Valley Association — Paddle on the Housatonic. hvatoday.org
Jug End State Reservation — Two-mile Jug End Loop Trail through open fields, northern hardwood and Eastern Hemlock woodlands. From Route 1 in South Egremont, take a right onto Mount Washington Road and to Jug End Road, to entrance. 135 8-0330, mass.gov
Lime Kiln — Mass Audubon property with miles of walking trails, 568 Silver St., Sheffield. 13-63703 0, massaudubon.org
McLennan Reservation — 1.5 moderate miles. From Tyringham center, take Main Road south. Turn left onto Fenn Road (dirt road). Park at the roadside, 13 98-3 39, thetrustees.org
Monument Mountain — Moderate loop trails and beautiful views at the top. Parking at trail head near Monument Mountain High School, Route 7, Great Barrington. 13- 98-3 39, thetrustees.org
Mount Washington State Forest — Thirty miles of trails over rugged terrain, wilderness camping. Hike
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The meadows at Notchview invite exploration. Photo by T. Kates courtesy of the Trustees of Reservations.
the South Taconic Trail to the , 50-foot summit of Alander Mountain for amazing views. From Route 1 in South Egremont, take a quick right onto Mount Washington Road and follow to park entrance. 135 8-0330, mass.gov
Naumkeag — Historic home of the Choate family designed in the 1880s by McKim, Mead & White, with world-famous gardens by Fletcher Steele: Chinese Gardens, Blue Steps. Open Memorial Day to Columbus Day. Yoga 9 a.m. Mondays July to Aug. 9. Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, Wednesdays July 13 to Sept. 8. 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge. 13- 98-3 39 (weekdays), 13- 98-8138 (weekends). thetrustees.org
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Table of contents October Mountain State Forest — Scenic trails leads including Schermerhorn Gorge, which has intrigued generations of geologists. or 13- 31778, 13- 99-9370.
Pleasant Valley Sanctuary — Mass Audubon property with trails, ponds and boardwalks, canoe trips and nature programs yearround. 7 West Mountain Road, Lenox. Berkshire Sanctuaries, 13-637-03 0, massaudubon.org Tyringham Cobble — Walk through mountain meadows and up hillside trails to watch for bobolinks. Jerusalem Road, Tyringham. Trustees of Reservations. thetrustees.org
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Monday July 25
Weston Playhouse — Benjamin Scheuer in concert Off-Broadway and Off-West End performer brings songs from “The Lion” and other works. Weston, Vt.
Art
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Jackson Pollock and the Rise of Abstract Expressionism,” with Helen A. Harrison, 5:30 p.m. Historic property walks p.m. to Linwood House (1859 Berkshire Cottage), Rockwell’s studio and “Build a Better Baby Carriage” outdoor exhibit. Stockbridge. Books and Writing
The Mount — Monday book talks: Janice P. Nimura on “Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back,” p.m. Lenox.
Film
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival — “Zemene,” p.m. “Love and Taxes,” 8 p.m. Festival’s 30th year. Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox.
Music
Barrington Stage Company — “Divalicious,” song-writ-
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Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum Brad Holland’s ‘The Long Shot comes to Stockbridge.
ing divas cabaret musician Amanda McBroom and jazz vocalist Ann Hampton, 8 p.m., Main Stage, Pittsfield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty recital, Boaz Sharon, piano, 7:30 p.m., free. Ventfort Hall, 10 Walker St. Lenox.
Manchester Music Festival — Young Artists concert, chamber music with students and faculty 7 p.m. at Riley Center for the Arts, Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vt. Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, Kids Can Too event 11:30 a.m. Gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and World
Premier Composers Concert: More than 0 young exciting composers and performers from around the world debut festival work, :30 p.m. massmoca.org/bang
Performance Space 21 — Summer Sing with David Smith, director of Concerts in the Village, on different choral works, 7 to 9 p.m. Chatham, N.Y.
Shire City Sessions — Live music concerts for all ages, 6 p.m., free. Pittsfield Common. shirecitysessions.com
Heritage Tour 2016 — Informal bike ride end-to-end ride of the Western New England Greenway, with Housatonic Heritage, all welcome. Ride begins at Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton, Conn., and continues to Montreal. Stops along the way to talk about the interstate bicycle route in Sculpturedale at studios of Denis Curtiss, sculptor; on Route 7 in Kent, Conn.; July in Lenox; July 5 in Williamstown; July 6 in Manchester, Vt. wnegreenway.org
Naumkeag — Yoga in the gardens, 9 a.m. Stockbridge. Theater
Summer Noontime Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Concert — Robert Hansler, organ, noon. Stone Witch,” strugFree. St. John’s Epis- gling young writer copal Church, 35 Park sent to help a recluSt, Williamstown. Table of contents 13- 58-8131
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sive children’s book author, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
recital, Young Artists Orchestra Faculty, 7 p.m., free. Trinity Church, 88 Walker St. Lenox.
Pythagoras Theatre Works – One-Acts from the Gilded Age at Historic 185 Town Hall, 9 Main St., West Stockbridge. Pythagoras Theatre.org
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “The Rise and Fall of Marcus Monroe,” comic performance follows a juggler’s pursuit of fame 7:30 p.m., Goodrich Hall, 880 Main St., Williams College, Williamstown.
Tuesday July 26 Art
Naumkeag — “Plein Air in Abstract” with abstract painter Arthur Yanoff, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stockbridge. 13- 983 39, ext. 3016 Books and Writing
Marble House Project — Artseed readings by Karen Weiser, librettisng and author of two full length collections of poetry, and Amy Parker, fiction writer with monastic practice at
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Clark Art Institute — Folk singer / songwriter Bernice Lewis, 6 p.m., free concert. Williamstown.
Bernice Lewis will perform at the Clark. Courtesy photo
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt.
to become a dancer. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
The Mount — Books and Blooms children’s story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox.
Ventfort Hall — Gary Darden, associate professor of history, Fairleigh Dickinson University, “The British Aristocracy from Victorian Decline to the Great War,” p.m. tea and talk. Lenox.
Family
Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Bring a sketch pad. Stockbridge.
Film
Performance Space 21 — Music and Dance film series, “Enter the Faun,” 8:30 p.m., choreographer trains a young man with cerebral palsy
History
Music
Becket Arts Center — “Music, Music and More Music” talk with Boston University Tanglewood Institute students, 7:30 p.m. Route 8, Becket.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Faculty
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Concert on the Green — Live blues, rock, bluegrass or folk music 6 to 8 p.m. Manchester’s Town Green, Manchester, Vt.
Eagles Big Band — Jazz, Big Band dance music and swing, free concert 7 p.m. at Springside Park, 87 North Street, Pittsfield.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. and Martin Bresnick’s 70th birthday celebration, :30 p.m. massmoca.org/bang Outdoors
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come. Ride begins at Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton, Conn., and continues to Montreal. Stops along the way to talk about the interstate bicycle route in Sculpturedale at studios of Denis Curtiss, sculptor; on Route 7 in Kent, Conn.; July in Lenox; July 5 in Williamstown; July 6 in Manchester, Vt. wnegreenway.org Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” by Jiehae Park, twins will stop at nothing to get into college, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch” struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” 6 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox. Table of contents
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from her mother, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Tanglewood holds a family concert Photo by Hilary Scott
Pythagoras Theatre Works – OneActs from Gilded Age at the Historic 185 Town Hall, 9 Main S., West Stockbridge. Pythagoras Theatre.org
Shakespeare & Company — Artistic Insights 5 p.m., “Merchant of Venice,” 7:30 p.m., “The Taming” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Southern Vermont Arts Center — Northshire Performing Arts event, bringing music, theater and dance to the region, 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “The Corrupting Influence of Material-
ism” workshop on Arthur Miller’s “The Price” (1968) and David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” (1983) 10 a.m. with Barbara Waldinger, professor of theater at Queens College in NYC. Pittsfield.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew 7:30 p.m., new widow moves in with her sister to start again, MainStage. Talkback with company and guests. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Wednesday July 27 Art
Berkshire Botanical Garden — En Plein Air watercolor workshop outdoors 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and Round the Garden,” third play of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy “The Norman Conquests,” 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits
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Clark Art Institute — Drop-in figure drawing workshop, :30 to :30 p.m. Williamstown.
Books and Writers
Arrowhead — Book release party and reading, “Red Barn, Vol. ,” 6 p.m. free with book sale. Herman Melville’s house. Pittsfield.
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by
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professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Georgia, Justice and Jews, The Leo Frank Case,” 11:30 a.m. Atlanta, 1913, a girl is found murdered in the basement of the factory where she worked, and suspicion falls on Leo Frank, superintendent, a Yankee and a Jew. 11:30 a.m. Pittsfield.
ing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
Live on the Lake — Free concert with Live 95.9 WBEC FM and Greylock Federal Credit Union, 6 p.m., Burbank Park, Onota Lake, Pittsfield.
Hevreh — Rabbi Neal Borovitz, “Zionism and American Reform Jews from 1885 to the Present,” 11: 5 a.m. Great Barrington.
Words,” former NYC Ballet star Wendy Whelan and choreographer Brian Brooks with contemporary chamber group Brooklyn Rider, solos and duets, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Arias Company, “a rather lovely thing,” Brian Arias’ new work set to Chopin, Nico Muhly and Max Richter among others, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: “Dances for Two,” Donnell Oakley, Schoen Movement and Manuel Vignouelle, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — “Some of a Thousand
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz TYA,” musical
Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Magic, Science and Religion,” Professor Ehud Z. Benor of Dartmouth College on ritual, 5:30 p.m. Burr and Burton Academy, Hunter Seminar Room, 57 Seminary Ave., Manchester Vt.
Dance
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Musicians play live at Mission Tappas. Photo by Susan Geller
Wizard of Oz, 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Athenaeum —Tom Lee, storyteller, 1 p.m. Pittsfield.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Creating Together” ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Music
Bascom Lodge — Dublin Porter trio plays traditional Irish music, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fish-
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Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. Born in Macau and now between Paris and Poestenkill, Bun-Ching Lam spins a virtuosic East / West fusion :30 p.m. Free concert and avant-variety show at Windsor Lake, 7 p.m. massmoca.org/bang
Tanglewood — Chanticleer, “Over the Moon,” works by Monteverdi, di Lasso, des Prez, Parsons, Elgar and Mahler; contemporary composers Finn Jakko Mäntyjärvi, Stephen Paulus and Mason Bates; jazz standards by Mancini and Bart Howard, and more, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Info: Directory
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Outdoors
a musical inspired by the real suicide of a gay college student, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Ron Ransey performs cabaret with Samantha Talora. Photo by Susan Geller
Mass Audubon — Evening at the Beaver Ponds, walk and talk 7 p.m., Pleasant Valley Sanctuary, Lenox.
Thursday July 28
Naumkeag — Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, learn about the flowers in season. Stockbridge.
About Town
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, and 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” by Jiehae Park, twins will stop at nothing to get into college, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Fringe — Kickwheel Ensemble Theater presents “Passage,” a new comedy exploring the catastrophic history and politics of the melting Northwest Passage, 8 p.m., Shire city Sanctuary, Pittsfield. bazaarproductions.org
Berkshire Playwrights Lab — Staged readings, live performances of new work, 7:30
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p.m. Free. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington. Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch” struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge
Pythagoras Theatre Works – One-Acts from the Gilded Age at the West Stockbridge Historic 185 Town Hall, 9 Main Street, West Stockbridge. Pythagoras Theatre.org
Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m., “Merchant of Venice” p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s
Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “The Taming” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and Round the Garden,” third play of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy “The Norman Conquests,” and 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew 7:30 p.m., new widow moves in with her sister to start again, MainStage. “Poster Boy,”
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Marble House Project — Bites and Flights, wine tasting and tapas pairing with foods from around the world. Dorset, Vt. Register marblehouseproject.org
Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams Art
DownStreet Art — 016 theme, Meet Your Neighbors, spotlighting local artists. Exhibits around town rotate monthly: DownStreet Art Thursdays with exhibition openings, performance, happenings and downtown art, music and culture. 5 to 8 p.m. North Adams. downstreetart.org
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MCLA Gallery 51 — “Wayfinding,” Melanie Mowinski installations, letterpress, book arts and collage, opening 5 to 8 p.m., free. North Adams.
The interlopers perform. Photo by Susan Geller
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Real or Imagined? Adventures in Visual Culture” series 5:30 p.m., talks and performances. Historic property walks p.m. Stockbridge.
Williams College Museum of Art — “State of the Art / Art of the State” with Christina Simko, assistant professor of Sociology at Williams College, p.m.; “WTF X WCMA” 5:30 p.m. guided tour with Williamstown Theatre Festival actors. Williamstown.
Books and Writers
The Mount — Le Café Français 8:30 a.m. Lenox.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — “Some of a Thousand Words,” former NYC Ballet star Wendy Whelan and choreographer Brian Brooks with
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contemporary chamber group Brooklyn Rider, solos and duets, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Arias Company, “a rather lovely thing,” Brian Arias’ new work set to Chopin, Nico Muhly and Max Richter among others, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Dark Circles contemporary dance from Soeul Korea, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz TYA,” musical Wizard of Oz, and 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student recital, Percussion Ensemble, 6 p.m. West Street Theatre, 5 West St., free. Lenox.
Manchester Music Festival — Handel to Modern 7:30 p.m., works by Handel, Steven Dankner, Mozart, Joana Genova, violin; Ariel Rudiakov, viola; Thomas Landschoot, cello; David Deveau piano with guest Benjamin Capps, cello. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt. Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Fes-
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tival 016, gallery recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. Ashley Bathgate performs Bach Unwound for solo cello, written by the Sleeping Giant collective, :30 p.m. Rare outdoor performance of Ten Thousand Birds by John Luther Adams, 7:30 p.m. After hours at the Chalet, spontaneous music jam with fellows, 10 p.m. massmoca.org/bang
Music from Salem — Open rehearsal for “The Winged Energy of Delight,” works by John Kennedy, Federico Mompou, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Erich Korngold, p.m., free. Brown Farm, 15 Priest Road, Salem, N.Y.
Party in the Park — Free concert 6 to 8 p.m. with WUPE FM and WNAW 1 30AM Greylock Federal Credit Union, Noel Field behind the baseball diamond, North Adams.
Tanglewood — Danish String Quartet: Norgard, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Info: Directory
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Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” by Jiehae Park, twins will stop at nothing to get into college, 3 and 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Fringe — Kickwheel Ensemble Theater presents “Passage,” a new comedy exploring the catastrophic history and politics of the melting Northwest Passage, 8 p.m., Shire city Sanctuary, Pittsfield. bazaarproductions.org
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch”struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge
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Friday July 29
About Town
Art fills North Adams on 4th Thursdays. Photo courtesy Downstreet
Pythagoras Theatre Works – One-Acts from the Gilded Age at the West Stockbridge Historic 185 Town Hall, 9 Main Street, West Stockbridge. Pythagoras Theatre.org
Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, one night with 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Theater Barn — “Forever Plaid,”
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Friday night Cabaret trains with entertainers Samantha Talora, Ron Ramsey. Train leaves 6 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. hoosacvalleytrainride.com
’50s musical with barbershop quartet melodies 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and Round the Garden,” 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew and 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Poster Boy,” a musical inspired by the real suicide of a gay college student, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage.
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Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown. Art
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Painting demonstration with artist Tony Conner, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox Books & Writing
Northshire Bookstore — Larry Olmsted, “Real Food, Fake Food” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
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WordXWord — Poetry slam semifinals 7 p.m. Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., St., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org
(8:30 p.m.), Clapp Park, Pittsfield.
A corkscrew of a sculpture catches the eye at Fields Sculpture Park. Photo by Kate Abbott
History
Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — ““Sabbath of Story” 5:30 p.m., as an actor and storyteller, Rabbi Josh will perform stories from ancient sources to Hasidic tales, from Rabbinic myths to modern literature. Pittsfield. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — “Some of a Thousand Words,” former NYC Ballet star Wendy Whelan and choreographer Brian Brooks with contemporary chamber group Brooklyn Rider, solos and duets, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Arias Company, “a rather lovely thing,” Brian Arias’ new work set to Chopin, Nico Muhly and Max Richter among others, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Voloshy Ukranian Dance Ensemble, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk:
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Treasures Recovered, Ted Shawn from the New York Public Library, 5 p.m., free. Becket.
Performance Space 21 — Miracle and Monstah: Dance Omi Alumni Concert at PS 1, 8 p.m., celebrates 5 years of Art Omi with multi-disciplinary solo performances. Chatham, N.Y.
Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz TYA,” musical Wizard of Oz, 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Becket Arts Center — Families Dance Together program 5 p.m. at Jacob’s Pillow, Becket.
Music from Salem — Children’s workshop with MfS musicians 3 p.m. Greenwich Youth Center, 6 Academy St., Greenwich, N.Y. Norman Rockwell Museum — “Kids create” art for ages 3 to 6 with adults along, 10:30 a.m. Stockbridge.
Performance Space 21 — West African Dance and Drum Workshop performance 1 p.m. with choreographer and dancer Jamal Jackson and drummer Frank Malloy IV. Free. Chatham, N.Y. Film
Outdoor Movie — “Hotel Transylvania ” begins at dusk
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Bennington Battle Monument — Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps of Michigan in concert, an afternoon of 18thcentury music with fifes, 8 drums and 1 color guard, 1 p.m. Fifing and drumming was used in battle to relay commands to soldiers, direct movements of units and give marching rhythm. Authentic wool regimental uniforms, replicas of George Washington’s personal guard. Bennington, Vt.
Music
Chesterwood — Chesterfest, Americana music outdoors 5:30 p.m. with local barbecue and beer available, Stockbridge.
Guthrie Center — Bill Staines, singer / songwriter 8 p.m. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, gallery Info: Directory
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recitals most days, fellows 1:30 p.m. Music for percussion by John Luther Adams, :30 p.m. After hours at the Chalet, spontaneous music jam with fellows, 10 p.m. massmoca.org/bang
Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Kickwheel Ensemble will perform ‘Passage.’ Courtesy photo
Shakespeare on Main Street — Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” 7:30 p.m. Brandon Town Hall Theatre, 1 Conant Square, Brandon, Vt.
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Tanglewood — BSO prelude concert 6 p.m. in Ozawa Hall with Paul Lewis, piano; concert with Andris Nelsons, cond., and Jonathan Biss, piano: Mozart and Mahler, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — “The Secret Life of Bats” p.m., learn about their role, their challenges and ways to help. Sheffield. Theater
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less” by Jiehae Park, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Fringe — Kickwheel Ensemble Theater “Passage,” a new comedy, 8 p.m., Shire city Sanctuary, Pittsfield. bazaarproductions.org
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch” 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge. Rita Rudner, Las Vegas comedian of the year, 8 p.m., Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” premiere by Theresa Rebeck, contemporary
retelling of William Congreve’s 18thcentury drama, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Pythagoras Theatre Works – One-Acts from the Gilded Age at the West Stockbridge Historic 185 Town Hall, 9 Main Street, West Stockbridge. Pythagoras Theatre.org
Shakespeare & Co. — Riotous Youth 10 a.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams on 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
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Theater Barn — “Forever Plaid,” ’50s musical with barbershop quartet melodies 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and Round the Garden,” 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — Fridays@3 new play reading: “Hannah and the Dread Gazebo.” “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew 8 p.m., MainStage. “Poster Boy,” a musical inspired by the real suicide of a gay col-
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lege student, 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Saturday July 30 About Town
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
North Adams Library — Tours of historic mansion, 1 p.m., history of the library as a private house. 7 Church St. Street, North Adams. Southern Vermont Arts Center — Color Dash 5K Race, registration 8 a.m. and race 10
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Europa rides in the Clark Art Institute show. Photo courtesy of Museo del Prado and Clark
a.m. Color explosion 11:30 a.m. Manchester, Vt. Art
Clark Art Institute — Plein Air drawing outside at Thomas Schütte: Crystal installation on Stone Hill, 1 to p.m., free. Williamstown.
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — “Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson,” slide lecture by author Hugh Howard on his new book, 3 p.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox
Books and Writers
The Bookstore — Deborah and Susannnah Melone Farmers Market poetry and performance 3 p.m. Get Lit Wine Bar, Lenox.
Northshire Bookstore — Midnight party for release of new Harry Potter book, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” parts I and II. Manchester, Vt.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — “Some of a Thousand Words,” former NYC Ballet star Wendy Whelan and choreographer
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Brian Brooks with contemporary chamber group Brooklyn Rider, solos and duets, and 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Arias Company, “a rather lovely thing,” Brian Arias’ new work set to Chopin, Nico Muhly and Max Richter among others, :15 and 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: School at Jacob’s Pillow contemporary, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: What Rehearsal Directors Do, p.m., both free. Becket. Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz TYA,” musical Wizard of Oz, p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Museum — Kitchen Ka-Boom, 11 a.m., wacky science experiments using common ingredients found in most kitchens. Pittsfield.
Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover concert 10 a.m. Town Hall, Great Barrington. Info: Directory
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OMI International Arts Center — Art 10 a.m. to noon for ages to 1 with themes from Fields Sculpture Park. Ghent. N.Y.
casting and more with singers from this year’s production, p.m. Pay what you can, all welcome. Hubbard Hall. Cambridge, N.Y.
Flowers appear at Great Barrington Farmers Market Photo by Susan Geller
History
Bidwell House — “Memory Places: Rethinking Historic Landscapes in Native American and Colonial New England” by Christine M. DeLucia, assistant professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, 10 a.m. Tyringham Union Church, Main Road, Tyringham. Music
Berkshire Choral Festival — Dvorak, Requiem with conductor Gary Thor Wedow of NYC Opera and Julliard and Springfield Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Open dress rehearsal 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and talk 6:15 p.m. Berkshire School, Sheffield. BU Tanglewood Institute — Student recital, Young Artists Piano Program 11 a.m., West Street Theatre, 5 Table of contents
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Performance Space 21 — Howard Fishman Band, Dixieland, Bluegrass and Gypsy swing, 8 p.m., Chatham, N.Y.
West St., free. Orchestral Concert with Young Artists Orchestra and Paul Haas, conductor: Mahler symphony No. 6, Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox. Guthrie Center — Christine Lavin and Don White, folk and comedy, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
The Mount — Music After Hours, guest musicians may include the Benny Sharoni Quartet and the Wanda Houston Band free concert on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — The Fab Faux — “A Hard Day’s Night” Beatles tribute 8
p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 016, annual music marathon performance to10 p.m. 6-hour festival finale with more music by guest composer, EcoRevolutionary John Luther Adams, plus a special renditions of Steve Reich’s early classic Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Julia Wolfe’s raucous Tell Me Everything, and a world premiere by Ken Thomson. massmoca.org/bang
Music from Salem — “Music From Salem Listening Club: Madama Butterfly,” talk on Puccini,
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Tanglewood — Rehearsal 10 a.m. and concert with Andris Nelsons, cond., and Augustin Hadelich, violin: Corigliano, Sibelius and Beethoven, 8 p.m. Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Clark Art Institute — Sensing Place Hike: Nature Journaling on Stone Hill, 10:30 a.m., free. Meet at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Williamstown. Garden Conservancy Open Days — Garden tours 10 a.m. to p.m. in Lakeville and Wash-
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ington, Conn., and Millbrook and Millerton, N.Y. “Digging Deeper: A Native Meadow on Wononskopomuc Lake” walk and talk p.m. at Montgomery Glazer Property, 1 0 Millerton Road, Lakeville, Conn. “Exploring Twin Maples,” :30 p.m., Salisbury, Conn. opendaysprogram.org
Green Mountain Academy — Forester Alan Calfee will lead an exploration in northern hardwood forests of the Taconic Mountains on tree identification, natural history of the forest, wildlife interactions, threats to the forest and strategies for their management. 9 a.m. to noon, Intersection of Three Maple Drive and Wideawake Road, Manchester Vt.
Mass Audubon — Canoe Trip to Buckley-Dunton Lake, 8:30 a.m. Meets at Buckley-Dunton Lake, Becket. Register 13-637-03 0\
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,”
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1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Merchant of Venice,” 7:30 p.m., “The Taming” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Berkshire gardens bloom lushly. Photo by Kate Abbott
Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” 3 and 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Fringe — Kickwheel Ensemble Theater new comedy “Passage,” 8 p.m., Shire city Sanctuary, Pittsfield. bazaarproductions.org
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch” by Sherman Bitterman, struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, and 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge
Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” premiere by
Theresa Rebeck, contemporary retelling of William Congreve’s 18thcentury drama, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt. The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” Shakespearean comedy, 11 a.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Pythagoras Theatre Works – One-Acts from the Gilded Age at the West Stockbridge Historic 185 Town Hall, 9 Main Street, West Stockbridge. Pythagoras Theatre.org
Shakespeare & Company — “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams,
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Shakespeare on Main Street — Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” 7:30 p.m. Brandon Town Hall Theatre, 1 Conant Square, Brandon, Vt.
Theater Barn — “Forever Plaid,” ’50s musical with barbershop quartet melodies and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Round and Round the Garden,” and 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Forever,” 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt . Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Info: Directory
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Dummies” by Boo Killebrew 3:30 and 8 p.m., new widow moves in with her sister to start again, MainStage. “Poster Boy,” a musical inspired by the real suicide of a gay college student, 3:30 and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Sunday July 31 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Old Austerlitz — 17th annual Blueberry Festival with 19th-century craft demonstrations and wares, antiques, live music and entertainment, magic act, activities for children, animals, birds of prey, sheep-shearing, craft vendors and artisans, 9 a.m. to p.m. blueberries gaTable of contents
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Blueberries ripen and inspire Mount Washington’s fair. Photo by Susan Geller
celebration of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” show 1 to p.m., activites free. Williamstown. Film
lore and a blueberry pancake breakfast, baked goods and silent auction. Route , Austerlitz, N.Y. oldausterlitz.org
Books & Writing
Hevreh — Rabbi Neil Hirsch speaks on “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” by bestselling author Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, 10:30 a.m. Great Barrington.
WordXWord — Story slam semifinals leading to summer festival. 7 p.m. The Mount, Lenox. Free. wXw365.org
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Master class with
Arias Company, 10 a.m. “Some of a Thousand Words,” former NYC Ballet star Wendy Whelan and choreographer Brian Brooks with chamber group Brooklyn Rider, solos and duets, p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Arias Company, “a rather lovely thing,” Brian Arias’ new work set to Chopin, Nico Muhly and Max Richter, :15 p.m. in Doris Duke. Becket. Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Clark Art Institute — Family art making, activities, and performances in
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Images Cinema — Family flicks under the stars: “School of Rock” begins at sundown (c. 8:15 p.m.) on Morgan Lawn, Spring Street, Williamstown. Music
Barrington Stage Company — “The Lilias White Effect,” blues and Broadway, 8 p.m. at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
Bascom Lodge — JoAnne Spies and the Elemental Orchestra, 5:30 p.m., original songs, poems, and stories, free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student recital, chamber music with BUTI Young Artists Wind Ensemble, free, Trinity Church, 88 Walker St. Wind Ensemble Concert with young Artists Wind Ensemble and H. Robert Reynolds, conductor: Bates,
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wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Chick Corea will play Tanglewood. Photo courtesy of the BSO
Etezady, Grainger, Holst, Stamp, Strauss and Wagner / Caillet, :30 p.m., free. Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox.
Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — Neshama Carlebach and Josh Nelson live in Concert!” 7 p.m. Benefits the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Fund for Victims of Terror. Lenox Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox.
Music from Salem — “The Winged Energy of Delight,” works by John Kennedy, Federico Mompou, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Erich
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Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 5 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” by Jiehae Park, twins will stop at nothing to get into college, 3 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Korngold, p.m. with Saul Bitran and Sarah Kim on violin, Lila Brown on viola, David Russell on cello and Judith Gordon on piano and toy piano. Pay what you can, all welcome. Hubbard Hall. Cambridge, N.Y.
Sevenars Concerts — Manchester Music Festival at Sevenars with Joana Genova, violin; Ariel Rudiakov, viola; Ben Capps, cello; Vassily Primakov, piano prform Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Faure, p.m. The Academy, Route 11 and Ireland Street, South Wor-
thington. 13- 38585 , sevenars.org
Tanglewood — Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert: Tanglewood Music Center orchestra with Andris Nelsons, cond., and Paul Lewis, piano: AllBrahms program, :30 p.m. in the Shed. Chick Corea Trio with Christian McBride and Brian Blade, 75th Birthday Celebration, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river,
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Berkshire Fringe — Kickwheel Ensemble Theater presents “Passage,” a new comedy exploring the melting Northwest Passage, 38 p.m., Shire city Sanctuary, Pittsfield. bazaarproductions.org Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” premiere by Theresa Rebeck, contemporary retelling of William Congreve’s 18thcentury drama, p.m. Dorset, Vt.
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” :30 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox. Info: Directory
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Courtesy of IS183 IS183 Art School offers workshops of varying sizes all summer as well as arts nights out in Stockbridge.
Pythagoras Theatre Works – One-Acts from the Gilded Age at the West Stockbridge Historic 185 Town Hall, 9 Main Street, West Stockbridge. Pythagoras Theatre.org
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice,” p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” by Lindsey Ferrentino, a woman returning from Afghanistan 8:30 p.m., 70 KemTable of contents
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ble St., Lenox. Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Shakespeare on Main Street — Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” p.m. Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Square, Brandon, Vt. Theater Barn — “Forever Plaid,” ’50s musical with barbershop quartet melodies p.m.
Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Town Players — “Jake Revolver — Freelance Secret Agent” by Matthew Konkel p.m. Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield.
from her mother, 3 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Weston Playhouse — “Forever,” Pulitzer finalist Dael Orlandersmith: in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, by the graves of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison a daughter inherits
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Romance Novels for Dummies” by Boo Killebrew p.m., new widow starts again, MainStage. “Poster Boy,” a musical inspired by the real suicide of a gay college student, and 7 p.m., Nikos Stage. Lawn talks before Sunday matinee. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
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New lens Courtesy of Berkshire Jewish Film festival Berkshire Jewish Film Festival will screen ‘Ave Maria,’ above, and PS/21 will explure ‘Unfinished Spaces,’ below.
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A weathered wooden smokehouse in the apple orchard, a free-standing fence enclosed in morning glories, a 0-foot tower where an invisible watcher can look out over the Round Stone Barn — new structures seem to have taken root Hancock Shaker Village this summer. And up the road at the Berkshire Museum they appear on the walls. Robert Hite, an artist based in the Hudson Valley, has brought sculptures from his “Imagined History” series to the Berkshires — miniature buildings that settle into the landscape and seem to hold their own stories. In place, they can be haunting, even etherial, said Lesley Herzberg, curator at Hancock Shaker Village. “His work has such a range,” she said, “photography, sculpture, painting,” in a blend of nature, science and art. He began as a painter, he said, as he walked through the Shaker village considering sites for this new work,
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which he has built in his workshop in Esopus, N.Y. He places his sculptures carefully in a landscape, and then he often photographs them as a permenant record. The land itself drew him to the Berkshires, he said. And then he saw a Shaker gift drawing, “Bower of Mulberry Trees.” An arch of birds in light strokes hover over an arch of bold green leaves and, below them, arcng lines of script. It struck him powerfully, not the fine woodworking he first thought of as a Shaker craft but a painting, an homage to nature. It had an effect on him. He began to think about the Shakers’ way of living on the land and in the world. “The Shakers have so many qualities that should be retained,” he said. “They had a profound sense of community. … They were conscious of what they ate and how they grew it They were making things functional but beautiful.” When Herzberg saw his work, she and Maria Minga-
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Spirit houses Buildings with soul come to Berkshire Museum and Hancock Shaker Village.
lone at the Berkshire Museum felt it settle into their own places. He sources wood from renovations, she said, from houses built before 19 0, adapting and re-using things people have lived with — floor joists, wall studs, lathe. “They have a patina that enriches,” he said. As he makes his own quixotic houses, he imagines the beings who live in them like familiar spirits. Herzberg recalled the story behind “Sister, Sister,” a work not in this show: Two aging sisters who had a falling out were living together in the family home — and they cut it in half, so they lived apart in two sides. Hite’s stories move between experience and fiction, he said. He does not usually tell them, because he wants people to find their own, and they do. People have thought of
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Acclaimed New York sculptor Robert Hite will bring his work to the Berkshires. Photos courtesy of Robert Hite.
their family heritage in other countries. Viet Nam veterans have told him that a miniature stilt-house on a lake shore reminds them of their time on the delta. The stilts come from a common Southern architectural element, he said. They are often used to protect against snakes and rising water. For him they also have a transitional aspect, in buildings, structure, life. Here the place itself is in transition, the New England hills returning to forest, cattle in the pastures, stone walls, old clapboard houses and farm outbuildings. Hite looked across the garden to the Round Stone Barn and said quietly that it was one of the most beautiful buildings he had seen in all his life. Places that move him can fine their way into his work, and so do places where he has lived. He grew up in Virginia, outside of a town of 500 people, and he left there young. But his hometown still influences the
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forms of his sculptures, the kinds of architecture he brings in and the stories he invents around it. “A sociological thread runs underneath,” he said. As he made the pieces in this show, he thought of people with few resources and few choices and of the underlying philosophies in the way the Shakers lived — their simplicity and independence, the way they shared work within their own community and the way they became a refuge for the communities around them, taking in families and children and sharing what they had in hard times. His work also moves between light and dark. He finds a sense of freedom in fence that will not fence anything in. “Night Whistler’s House” comes from a story with a gristly aspect, he said, with a fire tower and someone watching and waiting with an ominous intention. He grew up in an area where people have to watch for fires, and the idea
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of guarding has extended for him into the future. This tower invokes “things we have to watch out for,” he said, “things coming, like climate change — what’s the next step for us as a species?” But the Night Whistler may have a lighter element to it. He will train flowering vines up the tower, and they will also climb in another work along the fence. Hancock Shaker Village has grown morning glories and moonflowers in the greenhouse, Herzberg said. They started the seeds in April. So the pieces will look different over time as the flowers grow and the season moves. From his beginning as an artist, he said, he has thought about nature and man interacting with nature, and making living plants a part of the work plays to that theme. Morning glories grow quickly, and they are beautiful — blue in contrast to the houses in shades of red and brick and yellow.
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Composer Craig Harris will present ‘Heartbeat, Warble and the Electric Powwow’ at Mason Library. Photo courtesy of Craig Harris
Monday Aug. 1
Books and Writers
Arrowhead — Old Salts Day at Arrowhead: any sailor, mariner, marine may visit free. Herman Melville’s house. Pittsfield.
The Mount — Monday book talks: Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Howard Blum discusses his most recent book, “The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure and Betrayal,” p.m. Lenox. Table of contents
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Film
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival — “Brundibar Revisited,” p.m. “Sabena Hijacking: My Version,” 8 p.m. Festival’s 30th year. Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox.
Performance Space 21 — Film Festival, “Construct It!” about buildings and designers, “Unfinished Spaces” 8:30 p.m. about Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, neglected, nearly forgotten, then rediscovered as a masterpiece. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
History
August
Stephentown Historical Society — “Planters and Plain Politics: How Van Buren Changed Party Politics,” a talk by James McKay of Lindenwald, 7:30 p.m., Staples Road, Stephentown, N.Y. Free. (518) 733-0010. Music
Barrington Stage Company — “The Lilias White Effect,” blues and Broadway, 8 p.m. at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
Manchester Music Festival — Young Artists concert, chamber music with
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students and faculty 7 p.m. at Riley Center for the Arts, Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vt.
Shire City Sessions — Live music concerts for all ages, 6 p.m., free. Pittsfield Common. shirecitysessions.com Summer Noontime Concert — Andrew King, piano; music of J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, noon. Free. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 35 Park St, Williamstown. 13- 58-8131
Outdoors
Naumkeag — Yoga in the gardens, 9 a.m. Stockbridge.
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grass or folk music 6 to 8 p.m. Manchester’s Town Green, Manchester, Vt.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch,” struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge
Tuesday Aug. 2 Art
Marble House Project — Artseed reading by Erin Morgan Gilbert, writer, translator and Bennington MFA, open studios with artists Christopher McNulty, Lien Truong and Dempsey Rice 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt.
Naumkeag — “Plein Air in Style” with a live model dressed in costume of 1 5 years ago, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stockbridge. 13 98-3 39, ext. 3016
Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Populism in the 016 Election: Where Does It Come From and What Will Be Its Impact?” on belief in the power of regular people, 5:30 p.m.
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Jan Müller-Szerwas will perform on violin. Photo courtesy of Music from Salem
Burr and Burton Academy, Hunter Seminar Room, 57 Seminary Ave., Manchester Vt. Family
Berkshire Athenaeum — Sports film, popcorn, p.m. Pittsfield.
The Mount — Books and Blooms story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Bring a sketch pad. Stockbridge.
Film
Performance Space 21 — Film Festival, “Construct
It!” “Bauhaus in America,” 1995 documentaryexplores impact of Bauhaus on American architecture and design, 8:30 p.m. Introduced by filmmaker Judith Pearlman. Free. Chatham, N.Y. Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Performances, Tanglewood on Parade, chamber music :30 p.m., Young Artists Orchestra and Chorus, Koussevitzky Music Shed. Paul Haas and Katie Woolf, cond., p.m. Tanglewood, Lenox.
Concert on the Green — Live blues, rock, blue-
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Tanglewood — Tanglewood on Parade: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with Stéphane Denève, Giancarlo Guerrero, and John Williams, cond., perform Ravel, Tchaikovsky’s 181 Overture with cannon and more, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Fireworks to follow. Route 183, Lenox.
Ventfort Hall — “The Making of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly: Berkshire Opera Festival” with director Jonathon Loy and artistic director and conductor Brian Garman, p.m. tea, talk. Lenox. Outdoors
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Large and Small: Two Gardens, field study of Maywood Garden and garden of Peter Wooster in the Litchfield hills in Bridgewater and Roxbury, Conn. Meets 10 a.m. at Maywood. Info: Directory
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Theater
Music, Rodeos and Animation” 11:30 a.m. with Aaron Manela, from Tin Pan Alley and magic lanterns, to silent movies, Vaudeville, baseball games and circuses. Pittsfield.
The Chalet offers local brews at Mass MoCA. Photo courtesy of Mass MoCA
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan, 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Becket Arts Center — “Theatre at Its Best,” talk with Obie awardwinning actor John Douglas Thompson, 7:30 p.m. Route 8, Becket.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “The Stone Witch,” young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” 6 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Shakespeare & Company — Artistic Insights talk 5 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Scene Study,” perform passages from wellknown plays 10 a.m. Pittsfield. Table of contents
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Dance
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Poster Boy,” a musical inspired by the real suicide of a gay college student, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. Talkback with company and guests. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Wednesday Aug. 3 Art
Berkshire Botanical Garden — En Plein Air watercolor workshop 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Clark Art Institute — Drop-in figure drawing workshop, :30 - :30 p.m. Williamstown.
Manchester Community Library — “From Rembrandt to Vincent Van Gogh and Beyond” with author and art educator Carol Berry, 7 p.m. Free. Manchester, Vt.
Books and Writers
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Khosn Cowboy Mazl Tov: Wild West Jewish Cowboy Clowns in
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Compagnie Hervé Koubi, “What the Day Owes to the Night,” French-Algerian choreographer and all-male company of dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, capoiera, martial arts, hip hop and contemporary dance, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. New York Theatre Ballet, Antony Tudor’s “Dark Elegies” to Mahler and “Song Before Spring” to Philip Glass with live steel drum ensemble, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Francine E. Ott / The Walk, hip hop, house, modern and African dance, 6:15 p.m. free. Becket.
Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical
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Wizard of Oz, and 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Barrington Stage Co. — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan and 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Athenaeum — Bob Otto, New England percussion, 1 p.m. Pittsfield.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Creating Together” ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Aron Manela: Wild West Jewish Cowboy Clowns Photo courtesy of Temple Anshe Amunim
Film
Performance Space 21 — Film Festival, “Construct It!” about buildings and designers, “Metropolis,” 19 7, in a futuristic city sharply divided, the city’s mastermind’s son falls in love with a working class prophet. 8:30 p.m. Free. Chatham, N.Y. Music
Bascom Lodge — Creative resident Amelia de Neergaard presents work, free. 6 p.m., Summit of Mount Greylock.
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
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Live on the Lake — Free concert with Live 95.9 WBEC FM, Greylock Federal Credit Union, 6 p.m., Burbank Park, Onota Lake, Pittsfield.
Mason Library — Craig Harris: Heartbeat, Warble and the Electric Powwow, :30 p.m. reading, music and new book drawing on more than one hundred interviews with musicians, producers, ethnographers, and record-label owners,writers and musicians. Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. 31 Main St., Great Barrington.
Tanglewood — Nelson Freire, piano: J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Chopin, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Mass Audubon — Bird Walk 8 a.m., free. Evening with Birds and Bats 7 p.m. Pleasant Valley Sanctuary, Lenox.
Naumkeag — Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, learn about the flowers growing in season, and how to cut, care for and grow them with Naumkeag horticulturalist Eric Ruquist. Stockbridge.
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Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” by John Kolvenbach, sisters on Cape Cod meet a stranger, 8 p.m. Chester. Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” premiere by Theresa Rebeck, contemporary retelling of William Congreve’s 18th-century drama, and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Living Room Theatre — “Playing with Fire” by August Strindberg and “Overruled” by George Bernard Shaw, comic one-acts, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt. Info: Directory
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Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Cry Havoc” by Stephan Wolfert, his military experience in Shakespeare’s words and his own 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” by Wendy Wasserstein, a woman tapped for U.S. Surgeon General faces her past, 7:30 p.m. MainStage. “Poster Boy,” a musical inspired by the real suicide of a gay college student, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage, ’6 Center. “Baby Wants Candy,” long-running improvisational musical comedy 8 p.m., Goodrich Hall, 880 Main St., Williams College, Williamstown.
Thursday Aug. 4 About Town
Great Barrington car show — Firefighters Antique Car Show, downtown
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Conversations
Hevreh — Dr. Bonnie Saks, therapist and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Florida in Tampa, on “Sex and the Senior,” 3 p.m. on intimacy in the silver and golden years. Great Barrington. Dance
Photo courtesy of Marble House Project Marble House will host garden cooking workshops.
Great Barrington. Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, 13-5 8- 8 .
Hemmings CruiseIn — New England informal car show 5:30 to 8 p.m.,Rain cancels, Bennington, Vt. 800- 7- 373
Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams
Art
Norman Rockwell Museum — Historic property walks p.m. to Linwood House (1859 Berkshire Cottage), Rockwell’s studio and
“Build a Better Baby Carriage” outdoor exhibit. Stockbridge.
Williams College Museum of Art — “After Images: Photography and Its Shifting Stories,” Emilie Boone, Mellon Curatorial Fellow, p.m. “Athletics and Aesthetics: Mini-Golf” putt on the patio 5:30 p.m. Williamstown. Books and Writing
The Mount — Slate Presents: Cultural Gabfest Le Café literary live show with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner on Wharton and her legacy, 7 p.m. Le Café Français 8:30 a.m. Lenox.
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Compagnie Hervé Koubi, “What the Day Owes to the Night,” French-Algerian choreographer and all-male company of dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, capoiera, martial arts, hip hop and contemporary dance, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. New York Theatre Ballet, Antony Tudor’s “Dark Elegies” to Mahler and “Song Before Spring” to Philip Glass with live steel drum ensemble, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Kate Wallich and the YC, 6:15 p.m., Free. Becket. Norman Rockwell Museum — “Rock-
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well Suites with the Albany Berkshire Ballet,” 5:30 p.m. Work premiered for the museum’s grand opening in 1993, choreographed by artistic director Madeline Cantarella Culpo, bringing art to life. Stockbridge.
Yousif Sheronick will bring a beat to the Manchester Music Festival. Courtesy photo by Sari Goodfriend
Theater
Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Film
Performance Space 21 — Film Festival, “Construct It!” — “Eames: The Architect and the Painter,” 8:30 p.m., on husband-andwife team Charles and Ray Eames, influential industrial designers. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
Food
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival — Copake Hillsdale Farmers Market presents pre-festival tastings and farm market to 7 p.m. with local foods, distilleries, wineries, breweries and farmers. County Road 7D,
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Tanglewood — Daniil Trifonov, piano: J.S. Bach, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox.
Hillsdale, N.Y. FalconRidgeFolk.com
Hevreh — Israeli Cooking with Julie Gale, owner and chef, Kitchen Table Cooking School, noon. Great Barrington. Marble House Project — Culinary workshop: make ravioli and gluten free chestnut pasta paired with two quick garden-inspired sauces, ending with a meal and wine pairing. Dorset, Vt. Register marblehouseproject.org Music
Manchester Music Festival — Around the World with Music, 7:30 p.m., Spanish flair to
klezmer, works by Joaquin Turina, Aaron Copeland, Ralph Vaughn Williams, William Kroll, David Krakauer and more with Joana Genova and Heather Braun, violins; Kathryn Lockwood and Ariel Rudiakov, violas; Alexis Gerlach, cello with guests Michael Brown, piano and Yousif Sheronick, percussion. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt.
Party in the Park — Free concert 6 to 8 p.m. with WUPE FM and WNAW 1 30AM Greylock Federal Credit Union, Noel Field behind baseball diamond, North Adams.
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Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless,” 3 and 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch,” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” by John Kolvenbach, sisters on Cape Cod meet a stranger, p.m. with talkback and 8 p.m. Chester. Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” premiere by Theresa Rebeck, contemporary retelling of William Congreve’s 18th-century drama, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt. Info: Directory
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Living Room Theatre — “Playing with Fire” by August Strindberg and “Overruled” by George Bernard Shaw, comic oneacts, 7:30 p.m., ParkMcCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Cry Havoc” by Stephan Wolfert, who tells the story of his military experience in Shakespeare’s words and his own 3 p.m., “Two Gentlemen of Verona” Shakespeare comedy 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Theater Barn — “Forever Plaid,” ’50s musical with barbershop quartet melodies 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Mamma Mia!” musical with ABBA music, a girl on a Greek island wants to know her real father, 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. Weston, Vt. Table of contents
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First Fridays Artswalk — More than a dozen shows with more than 0 artists in the Upstreet Cultural District, openings 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., free. Afterparty 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.at the Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., free. Downtown Pittsfield 13- 36501, FirstFridays Artswalk.com
Adams Agricultural Fair will bring farm animals to town. Photo by Susan Geller
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter,” a woman tapped for U.S. Surgeon General faces her past, 7:30 p.m. MainStage. “Poster Boy,” and 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage, ’6 Center. “Baby Wants Candy,” long-running improvisational musical comedy 8 p.m., Goodrich Hall, 880 Main St., Williams College, Williamstown.
Friday Aug. 5
About Town
Adams Agricultural Fair — Truck pull 6 p.m., pedal tractor contest 6:30, Bits and Pieces
Dance 7 p.m., midway, rides, animals, live entertainment, games, demonstrations and exhibits, antique tractors, beekeepers, spinning, wood-turning and more to 10 p.m. Bowe Field, off Route 8, Adams. AdamsAgricultural-Fair.org
Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown. First Friday — Street festival with live music, gallery tour, artwalk 5 to 8 p.m. and shops open until 8 p.m. Downtown Bennington, Vt. betterbennington.com
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Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Painting demonstration with local artist Sean McCusker, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Lenox Housatonic Valley Art League — Annual Members’ Show with Berkshire artists, opening 5 to 7 p.m. 107 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington.
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts — “Jazz” paintings, photographs and sculpture curated by Marguerite Bride and Lee Everett opens 5 to 8 p.m. at Artswalk. Pittsfield.
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Southern Vermont Art and Craft Festival — Juried fine art and artisans, specialty foods and spirits, food trucks and local breweries, music and live entertainment 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Part of Bennington Arts Weekend, art, performances at local museums, galleries and theaters, Camelot Village, 66 Colgate Heights, Bennington, Vt. Books and Writers
The Bookstore — Vivian Werner, “A Richard Wright Story,” autobiography and storytelling, 7 p.m., Lenox. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Compagnie Hervé Koubi, “What the Day Owes to the Night,” French-Algerian choreographer and all-male company of we dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, capoiera, martial arts, hip hop and contemporary dance, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. New York Theatre Ballet, Antony Tudor’s “Dark Elegies” to Mahler and “Song Before Spring”
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Film
Performance Space 21 — Film Festival, “Construct It!” —“My Architect,” 8:30 p.m., Director Nathaniel Kahn on his father, renowned architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 197 . Free. Chatham, N.Y.
A smith works an anvil at the Bidwell House. Photo by Walter J. Engels, Courtesy Bidwell House
to Philip Glass with live steel drum ensemble, 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Preeti Vasudevan & Thresh Performing arts Collaborative, Indian and modern dance, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: Making Dances for Stage and Screen, 5 p.m., both free. Becket. Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Becket Arts Center — Families Dance Together program 5 p.m. at Jacob’s Pillow, Becket.
Music
Hancock Shaker Village — Free Fun Friday, activities and family events with free admission all day. Pittsfield.
Mission House — Mohican Story Hour 3 p.m., stories about the Stockbridge American Indians and their way of life. Stockbridge.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Kids create” art for ages 3 to 6, 10:30 a.m. Stockbridge.
Performance Space 21 — Rioult Dance N.Y. Workshop performance 1 p.m., program of modern dance pieces inspired by choreographer Pascal Rioult. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
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Chesterwood — Chesterfest, Americana music outter Hours, free concert 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Tanglewood — BSO Prelude concert 6 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Boston Symphony Orchestra with Giancarlo Guerrero, cond., and Yefim Bronfman, piano: Dvorak, Liszt, Mahler and Brahms, at 8 p.m. in the Shed. UnderScore Friday concert. Route 183, Lenox.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield. Info: Directory
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Saturday Aug. 6
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, 8 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” by John Kolvenbach, sisters on Cape Cod meet a stranger, p.m. with cast conversation. Chester. Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” premiere by Theresa Rebeck, contemporary retelling of William Congreve’s 18th-century drama, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Living Room Theatre — “Playing with Fire” by August Strindberg and “Overruled” by George Bernard Shaw, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, when adversaries on the Senate floor talked to each other, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Table of contents
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Historic trains return to Hoosac Valley. Photo courtesy of Berkshire Scenic Railway
Shakespeare & Company — “Two Gentlemen of Verona” comedy p.m. “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn 7:30 p.m., “Cry Havoc” by Stephan Wolfert, his military experience in Shakespeare’s words and his own 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Theater Barn — “Forever Plaid,” ’50s musical with barber-
shop quartet 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with Abba music, a girl on a Greek island wants to know her real father, 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — Fridays@3 new play reading: “Huzzah.” “An American Daughter” 8 p.m. MainStage. “Poster Boy,” 8 p.m., Nikos Stage, ’6 Center. “Baby Wants Candy,” long-running improvisational musical comedy 8 p.m., Goodrich Hall, 880 Main St., Williams College, Williamstown.
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Adams Agricultural Fair — Sheep, goats and cattle judging 10 a.m., horse pull 11 a.m., Pups in the Air, sheep shearing 1 :30 p.m., truck pull, Shyne concert 7 p.m., games and exhibits, antique tractors, beekeepers, spinning, wood-turning and more, midway, rides, animals, live entertainment to 10 p.m. Bowe Field, off Route 8, Adams. Adams-AgriculturalFair.org
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
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Community Tag Sale — Stephentown Historical Society event with wide range of vendors 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Gardner’s Field, 15879 Route , Stephentown, N.Y.
Hancock Shaker Village — Age of Iron meets Age of Wood, weekend devoted to two essential Shaker trade crafts with blacksmithing and woodworking, HSV visiting artisans from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. Shaker stool workshop and ash cathead basket workshop 10 a.m. Turn on the water turbine. Talks on tool sharpening, wood identification and more. Pittsfield.
Merwin House — Wicket Good Fun at Merwin, croquet games and U.S. Croquet Association on hand to teach, mallets and balls provided, noon to p.m. 1 Main St., Stockbridge. Free. House open 11 a.m. to p.m. for hourly tours. 860-9 8- 07
Mount Washington Church Fair — Annual celebration for
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Rockwell to reflect the realities of 1st century life. Oneday workshop for teens 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on panoramic drawing from the Renaissance to IMAX. Stockbridge.
Photo by Susan Geller Daylilies bloom in Mount Washington.
more than 75 years with blueberries, “Mountain Cookery” recipes, silent auction, antiques appraisals 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., quilt raffle, art, crafts, pet shop treats, gently used fashions, fresh flowers, food, games, live entertainmentand more.10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Rain or shine, Church of Christ, East Street and Cross Road, Mount. Washington.
Art
Bryant Homestead — “Plein Air Painting at Bryant,” local landscape artist on summer landscape, perspective, color, and composition 1 to 5 p.m. at historic
house of William Cullen Bryant,19thcentury poet, journalist. Cummington.
Clark Art Institute — Plein Air drawing at Thomas Schütte: Crystal installation on Stone Hill, 1 to p.m., free. Williamstown.
Craft Fair and Festival — 16th annual juried show, 9 a.m. to p.m., free. First Congregational Church of Lee, 5 Park Place, Lee.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Van Der Zee to Rockwell and Beyond: Art and Civil Rights,” an evening with Maurice “Pops” Peterson 5 p.m., artist has re-imagined
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OMI International Arts Center — Dance Omi Showing in The Fields to p.m., diverse group of dancers-inresidence from all over the world share site-specific performances, free. Ghent. N.Y.
Sandisfield Arts Center — In the Gallery: Joe Baker: “Paintings and Pastels,” show opening to p.m. Sandisfield.
Southern Vermont Art and Craft Festival — Juried fine art and artisans, specialty foods and spirits, food trucks and local breweries, music and live entertainment 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Part of Bennington Arts Weekend, art, performances and more at local museums, galleries and theaters, Camelot Village, 66 Colgate Heights, Bennington, Vt. Info: Directory
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Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rabbinic and Medieval times. Pittsfield.
History
Improv musical comedy comes to Williamstown Theatre Festival. Photo courtesy of WTF
Stockbridge Library — Cemetery Walk: “The Red Lion Inn: Stagecoach Stop, Community Center,” p.m. Cemetery on Main Street, Stockbridge. 13- 98-5501
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Compagnie Hervé Koubi, “What the Day Owes to the Night,” French-Algerian choreographer and all-male company of dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, capoiera, martial arts, hip hop and contemporary dance, and 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. New York Theatre Ballet, Antony Tudor’s “Dark Elegies” to Mahler and “Song Before Spring” to Philip Glass with live steel drum ensemble, :15 and 8:15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Jacob’s Pillow School musical theater, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: “The Art of Grace” with Pulitzer prizewinning Washington Post dance critic Sarah Kaufman, p.m., both free. Becket. Table of contents
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Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Museum — WeeMuse Art Lab, 11 a.m., artmaking with a science twist. Pittsfield.
Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover in concert, 10 a.m., Town Hall, Great Barrington.
OMI International Arts Center — Art 10 a.m. to noon for ages to 1 with themes from Fields Sculpture Park. Ghent. N.Y.
Barrington Stage Company — Mtc Musical Shorts, Musical Theatre Conservatory ensemble, 10 p.m. Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
Film
Performance Space 21 — Film Fest, “Construct It!” —“Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center,” 8:30 p.m., Writer and director Bob Eisenhardt intoduces film on the 1 -year project. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
Food
Naumkeag — “All the Tea in China,” p.m. Third-generation tea-maker Michael Harney hosts tasting of different types of black, green and white teas and special blends created in his Connecticut-based boutique. Stockbridge.
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Berkshire Choral Festival — Stephen Paulus, “To Be Certain of the Dawn,” and Bernstein, “Chichester Psalms,” with conductor Kathy Saltzman Romey of Minnesota Chorale and Oregon Bach Festival, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Open dress rehearsal 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and talk 6:15 p.m. Berkshire School, Sheffield.
Berkshire Jazz — Samirah Evans and Her Handsome Devils, jazz/blues artist brings her quintet directly from the Springfield Jazz Festival, 8 p.m., place TBA. Berkshirejazz.org
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BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recital with Young Artists Piano Program, 11 a.m., West Street Theatre, 5 West St. 50th Anniversary Concert with students, faculty, and alumni from BUTI’s Young Artists Programs, :30 p.m., Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox. Falcon Ridge Folk Festival — Annika Bennett, Eric Schwartz and Freebo, Gina Forsyth, Sarah Potenza, Scott Wolfson and Other Heroes, Nerissa & Katryna Nields Annie Wenz, Beth Molaro, Brother Sun, Buddy System, Falcon Ridge House Band, The Gaslight Tinkers, George Marshall, Heather Maloney, Ivy Vine Player, Jim and Madeline Christensen, Kathryn Wedderburn, Mike and Ruthy Band, Patti O’Brien Melita, Paul Rosenberg, Peter Mulvey, Pete’s Posse, Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, Slambovian Circus of Dreams, SONiA disappear fear, Storycrafters, Vance Gilbert and more 10 a.m. to
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and Daniil Trifonov, piano: Adams’ Harmonielehre, Chopin an Strauss, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox
Tannery Pond Concerts — Miro Quartet, Brahms and Beethoven, 8 p.m. Darrow School, New Lebanon, N.Y. Outdoors
Friday night Cabarets return to Williamstown. Photo courtesy of Williamstown Theatre Festival
a.m. Folk music and dance, children’s activities, Dodds Farm, County Road 7D, Hillsdale, N.Y. FalconRidgeFolk.com Guthrie Center — John Gorka, folk singer / songwriter with acoustic integrity, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Mariachi Flor de Toloache, South of the Border Swing, 8 p.m., North Adams
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Sandisfield Arts Center — Evening of 0th Century
American Songs and Dinner, 6 p.m., from a stroll down Tin Pan Alley to a “Walk in the Woods,” more than 100 years of great and popular American Song. Sandisfield.
Southern Vermont Arts Center — Phantom Leading Ladies, Mary D’Arcy, Karen Culliver and Teri Bibb, stars from Broadway and National Tour who performed as Christine Daee in “Phantom of the Opera,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
Tanglewood — BSO rehearsal 10:30 a.m. and concert with Giancarlo Guerrero, cond.,
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Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield. Berkshire Botanical Garden — Epimediums, ground cover from China, 1 p.m., cosponsored wiht North American Rock Garden Society. Stockbridge.
Bidwell House — “Wigwams and Shelter-Building,” learn to build a shelter with supplies from the forest floor. 11 p.m. Monterey. Gear Up for Lyme — Ride up Mount Equinox, part of the Bike Up Mountain Point Series, beneInfo: Directory
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Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., outdoors on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
fits Lyme disease and local charities. Manchester, Vt.
Mass Audubon — Canoe Trip along the Housatonic River, 8:30 a.m. Meets at New Lenox Road, Lenox. Berkshire Summits Hiking series, Alander Mountain 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Mount Washington State Forest, Great Barrington. Register 13-637-03 0
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Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Peerless” 3 and 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, and 8 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” and 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” by John Kolvenbach, sisters on Cape Cod meet a stranger, 8 p.m. with talkback. Chester. Table of contents
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Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with Abba music, a girl on a Greek island wants to know her real father, and 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. Weston, Vt.
Blueberries glisten with rain in washington, Mass. Courtesy photo by Susan Geller
Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” premiere by Theresa Rebeck, contemporary retelling of William Congreve’s 18th-century drama, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Living Room Theatre — “Playing with Fire” by August Strindberg and “Overruled” by George Bernard Shaw, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt.
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,”11 a.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in
Washington, when adversaries on the Senate floor talked to each other, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Theater Barn — “Forever Plaid,” ’50s musical with barbershop quartet melodies and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m.,“Or,” 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn p.m., “Cry Havoc” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” by Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m., “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” 3:30 and 8 p.m. Main Stage. “Poster Boy,” 3:30 and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage, ’6 Center. Lawn talks before Sunday matinee. “Baby Wants Candy,” long-running improvisational musical comedy and 8 p.m., Goodrich Hall, 880 Main St., Williams College, Williamstown.
Sunday Aug. 7 About Town
Adams Agricultural Fair — Sheep, goats and cattle judging 10 a.m., ox pull 11 a.m., Pups in the Air, birds of prey at noon, sheep shear-
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ing 1 p.m., demolition derby, games, demonstrations and exhibits, antique tractors, beekeepers, spinning, wood-turning and more, midway, rides, animals, live music to 10 p.m. Bowe Field, Route 8, Adams. Adams-Agricultural-Fair.org Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m, 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Hancock Shaker Village — Age of Iron meets Age of Wood, weekend devoted to two essential Shaker trade crafts. Artist Rob Hite, whose sculpture is on site, demonstrates his creative process. Blacksmithing and woodworking demonstrations, HSV visiting artisans from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. Swallowtail bookmark workshop 1 to 3 p.m. Turn on the water turbine. Talks on tool sharpening, wood identification and more. Pittsfield.
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Art
The annual Greek Fest brings music and dance. Photo courtesy of Greek Fest
Southern Vermont Art and Craft Festival — Juried fine art and artisans, specialty foods and spirits, food trucks and local breweries, music and live entertainment 10 a.m. to p.m. Part of Bennington Arts Weekend, art, music and more at local museums, galleries and theaters, Camelot Village, 66 Colgate Heights, Bennington, Vt. Books and Writers
Arrowhead — Melville Day: Special bus tour of the Melville Trail, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pittsfield.
Robert Frost Stone House Museum — “Sunday Afternoons with Robert Frost” programs, “Robert Frost as a Renaissance Man: New Revelations in his poem ‘New Hampshire,’” with Donald Sheehy’s close readings of an often overlooked long poem written in the kitchen of the Stone House Museum. p.m. Shaftsbury, Vt.
Conversations
Hevreh — Great Ideas Talk with Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, 10:30 a.m. Great Barrington.
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Master class with New York Theatre Ballet, 10 a.m. Compagnie Hervé Koubi, “What the Day Owes to the Night,” French-Algerian choreographer and all-male company of dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, capoiera, martial arts, hip hop and contemporary dance, p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. New York Theatre Ballet, Antony Tudor’s “Dark Elegies” to Mahler and “Song Before Spring” to Philip Glass with live steel drum ensemble, :15 p.m. in Doris Duke. Becket.
Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield. Clark Art Institute — Family art making, activities, and performances in celebration of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” show 1 to p.m., activites free. Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — An evening with Kelli O’Hara, Broadsay’s golden girl, 7 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington. Sevenars Concerts — George Bowerman, piano, p.m. The Academy, Route 11 and Ireland Street, South Worthington. 13 38-585 , sevenars.org
Film
Performance Space 21 — Film Festival, “Construct It!”— “Playtime” 8:30 p.m., Jacques Tati’s attempt to answer the question: in the midst of an increasingly impersonal world, how do we keep our humanity? Free. Chatham, N.Y.
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Tanglewood — BSO concert with Moritz Gnann, cond., and Nelson Freire, piano: Mozart and Mahler, :30 p.m.; and Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma 8 p.m. in the Shed. UnderScore Friday concert. Route 183, Lenox.
August highlights iron work. Photo by Walter J. Engels, courtesy of Bidwell House
Musical Shorts, Musical Theatre Conservatory ensemble performs short musicals by emerging writers, 8 p.m. at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
Bascom Lodge — Rakish Paddy, footstomping Celtic music, free. 6 p.m., Summit of Mount Greylock.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recitals, Young Artists Harp Program 11 a.m., West Street Theatre, 5 West St.; Young
Artists Vocal Program 3 p.m., Trinity Church. New Music recital with young artists composition program, 5:30 p.m. West St. Theatre. Free. Lenox.
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival — The Felice Brothers, Matt Nakoa, Metropolitan Klezmer, Tom Rush and many more, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Folk music and dance, children’s activities, Dodds Farm, County Road 7D, Hillsdale, N.Y. FalconRidgeFolk.com
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — Jull Kargman’s Meta Metal, novelist and television creator brings head-banging comedy, 7:30 p.m. at the Log, 78 Main St., Williamstown.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
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Mass Audubon — Lime Kiln Farm Sanctuary through the Seasons series: “Butterflies and Dragonflies of the Pond and Meadows,” 9 a.m., free. Lime Kiln Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Sheffield.
Falcon Ridge
John Gorka will play the annual folk fest. Courtesy photo by Skip Billian, Plainfolk
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 5 p.m., Main Stage. Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” by John Kolvenbach, sisters on Cape Cod meet a stranger, p.m. with panel discussion. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” premiere by Theresa Rebeck, contemporary retelling of William Congreve’s 18th-century drama, p.m. Dorset, Vt.
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” :30 a.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, when
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adversaries on the Senate floor talked to each other, p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice” p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m. “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Shakespeare in the Park — “The Tempest,” 8 p.m., on First Street Common, Pittsfield.
Theater Barn — “Forever Plaid,” ’50s musical with barbershop quartet p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with Abba music, a girl on a Greek island wants to know her real father, 3 p.m., Mainstage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter,”
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a woman tapped for U.S. Surgeon General faces her past, and 7 p.m. MainStage. “Poster Boy,” a musical inspired by the real suicide of a gay college student, p.m., Nikos Stage, ’6 Center. “Baby Wants Candy,” improvisational musical comedy p.m., Goodrich Hall, 880 Main St., Williams College, Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Behold New Lebanon
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NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — Can a small town become a museum? Social historian Ruth J. Abram, the founding president of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in Manhattan, has come to New Lebanon, N.Y., to find out. Abram has launched a new kind of museum in Behold New Lebanon. The place is the town itself, and the experts, the guides, are people who live there — farmers, gemologists, naturalists, jazz musicians, a sculptor, letterpress printers, a trainer of horses, Shaker historians and many more. They will take people into their houses and fields
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in a steady series of weekends from June to October. Visitors want to connect to the place, she said, and the rural guides enjoy teaching the skills that have made them successful. She has found many visitors surprised at the diverse a group of people living in a small town, she said. Young people caring for a farm share their philosophy and ideas about living with the land. Artisans and artists share their craft. And new people are coming forward to join the effort. “Many people do things privately, and they think of it as just something they do,” Abrams said. “Now they’re learning that it’s fascinating — like making quince jam
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from your own trees.” She wants to give an authentic and visceral experience of life in the hills. “If you have a forrager who identifies plants and assembles a meal in a house, that just doesn’t hack it,” she said. “We send visitors into the forest. A horse trainer is not giving a slide show — she’s showing you the horse. You see what the environment looks like around someone, in a home, a kitchen, a barn, and it’s intimate; you see how it resonates.” These intimate spaces are usually, by nature, hard for a casual visitor to find. “If you drive through New Lebanon, you might think nothing’s happening,” she
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Photo by Uli Rose / courtesy of Behold New Lebanon Evan Thayler-Null stables his horses (page 194), and Cynthia Creech greets her cows above.
said, “because there’s no sign saying ‘this way to the heritage cows.’” To point the way more clearly to the heritage cows, Behold New Lebanon has established a visitors center on the first floor of a Victorian house on Route 0 and developed a general store to carry local art and crafts and locally raised and produced foods. “The town has turned itself inside-out to do this,” Abrams said. She has worked with a growing number of volunteers and local merchants, she said. Michael Deegan and Sarah Conley, internationally known design consultants of opera, theater, the Big Apple Circus and tel-
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evision productions such as ABC’s ‘The View,’ designed the visitors center space — and lyric soprano and arts manager Eleanor Oldham and former Columbia Artists Management Inc. vice president John Luckacovic have worked with the guides to polish their presentations. “Most museums don’t necessarily think of their neighborhood as a focal point,” she said. They focus on the work of the museum. But she has wanted from the beginning to help the community, she said, and the community has responded. “People are taking part with — I was about to use the word ‘joy,” she said. “They’re dedicated to mak-
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ing this work.” She has come to presentations to hear the guides in action. “The postmaster, Melissa Eigenbrodt, is a hunter,” she said, “and she took visitors into the woods without a gun — with umbrellas, in the rain.” She doubted anyone in the group had noticed getting wet. “We were mesmerized by her description of how a hunter thinks and acts,” she said, “being that quiet for an extended time. She said if, at the end of her stay in the forest, she had no deer — which she would use to feed her family for the year to come — she still had heard the leaves, and the animals crossing her path, and it would still be a glorious afternoon.”
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Monday Aug. 8
Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
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Weston Playhouse — Recognizes an artist of national importance, celebrating actor and Weston company member Christopher Lloyd, who will be there. Weston, Vt.
The Mount — Monday book talks: Charlotte Gordon on “Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelly,” p.m. Lenox.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “Inside Joke” comedy with Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR’s “Ask Me Another,” 7:30 p.m. MainStage, ’6 Center. Williams College, Williamstown.
Film
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival — “Je Suis Charlie,” p.m. “ Very Semi-Serious,” 8 p.m. Festival’s 30th year. Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox.
Music
Barrington Stage Company — Broadway and Beyond 8 p.m., Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley celebrate life and love, Main Stage. Pittsfield.
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recitals, Young Artists Vocal Program 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Trinity Church. Young Artists Piano Program, 7:30 p.m., Ventfort Hall. Free. Lenox. Table of contents
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Manchester Music Festival — Young Artists concert, chamber music 7 p.m. at Riley Center for the Arts, Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vt.
Shire City Sessions — Live music concerts for all ages, 6 p.m., free. Pittsfield Common. shirecitysessions.com Summer Noontime Concert — Michael Strauss, viola; Scott Bailey, piano; music of Robert Schumann and Ernest Bloch, noon. Free. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 35 Park St, Williamstown. 13- 58-8131 Tanglewood — Tanglewood Music
Center Orchestra with TMC Conducting Fellows, Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Sanford Sylvan, baritone, and TMC Vocal Fellows and Nicholas Muni, stage director: Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins” and Shostakovich, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Tuesday Aug. 9 Art
Naumkeag — Yoga in the gardens, 9 a.m. Stockbridge.
Theater
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, 7 p.m. at the Unicorn
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Becket Arts Center — “Visiting India, Myanmar and Bhutan,” talk with nationally recognized photographers Sally Eagle and Dan Mead, 7:30 p.m. Route 8, Becket.
Books & Writing
WordXWord — Annual spoken word festival with poetry, storytelling, performances, writing work-
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shops. WXW Poetry sCrawl downstown, starts 6 p.m. at Dottie’s Coffee Lounge, North St., and Youth Speak poetry slam and open mic 7:30 p.m. at Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 7 p.m., Main Stage. Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “The Life of Solomon Northup,” R. Paul McCarty, executive director of the Old Fort House, on Northrup in the Fort Edward area and his kidnapping from Saratoga Springs, 5:30 p.m. Burr and Burton Academy, Hunter Seminar Room, 57 Seminary Ave., Manchester Vt.
Ventfort Hall — Architectural historian, top-rated guide by Travel and Leisure and adjunct professor at New York University, Frances Morrone, “When Incandescence Met Iridescence: Edison and Tiffany,” p.m. tea and talk. Lenox.
Dance
Marble House Project — Artseed dance Performance
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Photographers Sally Eagle and Dan Mead: Visiting India and Myanmar. Photos courtesy of Becket Arts Center
by Wendy Rein and Ryan Smith of RAWdance, an awardwinning company known for transforming theaters and public spaces, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt. Family Berkshire Athenaeum — David Garrity, magic, 1 p.m. Pittsfield.
The Mount — Books and Blooms story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Film
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and Dance film series, “Paul Taylor Creative Domain” 8:30 p.m., cinematographer Tom Hurwitz on Taylor with his dancers. Executive Producer Robert Aberlin will introduce the film. Free. Chatham, N.Y. Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recitals, chamber music with students in the BUTI Young Artists Orchestra, 6 p.m. Free. Trinity church. Lenox.
Concert on the Green — Live blues, rock, bluegrass or folk music 6 to 8 p.m. Manchester’s Town Green, Manchester, Vt.
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The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” 6 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox. Shakespeare & Company — Artistic Insights talk 5 p.m., “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Scene Study,” perform from well-known plays 10 a.m. with Barbara Waldinger, professor of theater at Queens College in NYC. Pittsfield.
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA, 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. Weston, Vt. Info: Directory
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” by Wendy Wasserstein, a woman tapped for U.S. Surgeon General faces her past, 7:30 p.m. MainStage. Talkback with company and guests. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Wednesday Aug. 10 About Town
North Adams — 0th Annual Downtown Celebration 5:30 to 9 p.m. outdoor festival andcommunity expo with vendors, food, music, performances and more, artmaking with DownStreet Art, Main Street and Downtown North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
Art
Berkshire Botanical Garden — En Plein Air watercolor workshop 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
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Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Dorrance Dance, tap director at the Pillow School, “ETM: Double Down” with Nicholas Van Young’s electronic music, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “Monument” by Adam H. Weinart, revival of iconic works by legends of modern dance, Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: RawDance excerpts from Double Exposure, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
‘Cry Havoc’ at Shakespeare & Co., Photo courtesy of Stephan Wolfert
the Arts at Lukyas Van Alen House and Ichabod Crane School, all day. 589 Route 9H, Kinderhook, N.Y. Clark Art Institute — Drop-in figure drawing workshop, :30 to :30 p.m. Williamstown. Books & Writing
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
WordXWord — Annual spoken word festival with poetry, storytelling, performances, writing workshops. Feature night:
poetry and spoken word 7:30 p.m. at Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org
Conversations
Chesterwood — “Lincoln Speaks” narrated by Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer with readings from the writings of Abraham Lincoln in Daniel Chester French’s studio. p.m., Stockbridge.
Green Mountain Academy — “What is Art? Tolstoy and the Legacy of the Great Russian Novel,” Tolstoy’s 1897 essay asks what place beauty, feelings and morals have in artwork. 5:30 p.m. Ben-
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Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, and 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Creating Together” ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge. Music
Bascom Lodge — Berkshire Highlanders concert on the mountaintop, free. 6 p.m., Summit of Mount Greylock.
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BU Tanglewood Institute — Student Recitals, chamber music with students in the BUTI Young Artists Orchestra, 6 p.m. Free. Trinity church. Lenox.
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
Hubbard Hall — Opera Theater: “Madama Butterfly” by Puccini, 7 p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
Eagles Band — Broadway show tunes, music from movies, marches, free concert 7 p.m. Kimball Farms, 35 Walker St., Lenox
Live on the Lake — Free concert with Live 95.9 WBEC FM, Greylock Federal Credit Union, 6 p.m., Burbank Park, Onota Lake, Pittsfield.
Tanglewood — Boston Symphony Chamber Players with Jeremy Flower, computer and piano: works by Flower, Françaix, Beethoven and Spohr, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox.
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Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, when adversaries on the Senate floor talked to each other, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
WordXWord comes to Pittsfield., Photo by Susan Geller
Outdoors
Mass Audubon — Evening at the Beaver Ponds, walk and talk 6:30 p.m., Pleasant Valley Sanctuary, Lenox.
Naumkeag — Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, learn about flowers in season, Stockbridge.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan, and 7 p.m., Main Stage. Pittsfield.
Berkshire Playwrights Lab — Staged reading, live performances of new work, 7:30 p.m. Free. Mahaiwe, Great Barrington.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge. Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” by John Kolvenbach, sisters on Cape Cod meet a stranger, 8 p.m. Chester.
Living Room Theatre — “Playing with Fire” by August Strindberg and “Overruled” by G.B. Shaw, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, North Bennington, Vt.
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Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m.,“Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” 5:30 p.m., “Or,” on 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn 7:30 p.m., “Cry Havoc” military experience in Shakespeare’s words 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA, and 7:30 p.m., Main stage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” 7:30 p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” by Tom Holloway, Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek, a loving couple face the wife’s terminal illness, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Thursday Aug. 11 About Town
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Beauty and the Beast,” community performance, 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Peaches appear at farm stands and farm markets. Photo by Susan Geller
Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams
Music from Salem — Children’s workshop with MfS musicians 1 p.m. Historic Salem courthouse, 58 E. Broadway, Salem, N.Y.
Art
Columbia County Historical Society — Plein Air painters from Columbia County Council for the Arts at Lukyas Van Alen House and Ichabod Crane School, all day. 589 Route 9H, Kinderhook, N.Y.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “A Tribute to Elvis Presley and Early Rock and Roll with Elvis Impersonator Joe Borelli, 5:30 p.m. Historic property walks p.m. Stockbridge.
Williams College Museum of Art — “Markets and Museums: the Economics of Aesthetics” with Stephen Sheppard, professor of Economics, p.m.; “Dance Class: Salsa!” 5:30 p.m. Williamstown. Table of contents
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The Mount — “Touchstones: In Conversation with A.O. Scott,” journalist Kate Bolick with New York Times film critic on “Better Living Through Criticism,” 5:30 p.m. Lenox.
WordXWord — Annual spoken word festival with poetry, storytelling, performances, writing workshops. Outspoken: Invitational Youth poetry slam 7:30 p.m. at Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Dorrance Dance, tap director at the Pillow
School, “ETM:Double Down” with Nicholas Van Young’s electronic music, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “Monument” by Adam H. Weinart, revival of iconic works by legends of modern dance, Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Soul Steps, African-American step dance, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, and 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Athenaeum — Sports film with popcorn, p.m. Pittsfield.
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Manchester Music Festival — Voices Together! An Orchestral Experience, Stefan Milenkovich, violin, with the Manchester Festival Orchestra and Manchester Community Chorus, works by Mozart, Dvorak, Brahms and Barber7:30 p.m., Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt.
Music from Salem — Open rehearsal for ““The Great Arch of Unimagined Bridges,” with works by pieces by Schubert, Prokofiev, Dvorak, and Glazunov, p.m., free. Brown Farm, 15 Priest Road, Salem, N.Y. Party in the Park — Free concert 6 to 8 p.m. with WUPE FM and WNAW
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1 30AM Greylock Federal Credit Union, Noel Field behind baseball diamond, in North Adams.
Hoffer ‘10 and Cate McCrea ‘13; actor Josiah Bania (IRONBOUND), director Andrew Neisler, and Off-Broadway theater company ArsNova. Open Lab Weekend with workshop production of Caroline McGraw’s “Believeland” and work created through the summer.
Outdoors
Vermont Challenge 2016 — 5th annual cycling tour of New England, routes for low-key and adept riders, all day. Southern and Central Vermont over four days including a signature Gran, Medio and Piccolo Fondo for all riders on Saturday. vtchallenge.com Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan romp, 8 p.m., Main Stage. Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” and 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” p.m. with talkback and 8 p.m. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
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Living Room Theatre — “Playing with Fire” by August Strindberg and “Overruled” by G.B. Shaw, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, North Bennington, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, D.C., and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice” p.m., “Two Gentlemen of verona,” 7:30 p.m. “Cry Havoc” 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!” musical weaving in
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Allan Sherman’s song parodies 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt. Williams College Summer Theatre Lab — 1 th season, Williams students work with visiting artists and returning alumni professionals to develop new work, guest artists include alumni Michael Winther ‘85, Eben
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” and 7:30 p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” by Tom Holloway, Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek, a loving couple face the wife’s terminal illness, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Friday Aug. 12 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Friday night Cabaret train with entertainers Samantha Talora and Ron Ramsey. Train leaves 6 p.m. from 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. Info: Directory
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Bennington Battle Day — Downtown festivities celebrating 1777 Battle of Bennington victory in Revolutionary War. Bennington, Vt. betterbenninton.com.
storytelling, performances, writing workshops. Story slam finals 6 p.m., place TBA. “The Ragged Edge of Truth” 8 p.m. at Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org
Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown.
Columbia County Historical Society — Plein Air painters from Columbia County Council for the Arts at Lukyas Van Alen House and Ichabod Crane School, all day. 589 Route 9H, Kinderhook, N.Y.
Sheffield Antiques Show — 016 show of antiques vendors from silver to sideboards, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mount Everett High School 91 Berkshire School Road, Sheffield. Art
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Photo courtesy of Sheffield Antiques Show Sheffield Antiques Show brings a wide range of vendors.
traditional jewelry, furniture, ceramics, textiles, glassware and more, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. indoors at Monument Mountain Regional High School, Route 7, Great Barrington. berkshirecraftsfair.org
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Painting demonstration with local artist Scott Taylor, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists. Lenox
IS183 Art School — “Stab Binding” Arts Night Out 7 to 9 p.m. Japanese book binding technique using scraps of different weights, textures and colors cut to the same
size. All welcome. BYOB, 1 and over at Citizens’ Hall, Stockbridge. Books & Writing
Jewish Federation of the Berkshires — N.Y. Times Writer Joseph Berger, “Displaced Persons: Holocaust Survivors and the Paradoxical Lives They Built in America,” 10: 5 a.m. (reservations for lunch), Hevreh, Great Barrington.
Northshire Bookstore — Robin MacArthur reads from “Half Wild,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
WordXWord — Annual spoken word festival with poetry,
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Dorrance Dance, tap director at the Pillow School, “ETM:Double Down” with Nicholas Van Young’s electronic music, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “Monument” by Adam H. Weinart, revival of iconic works by legends of modern dance, Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: FJK Dance ballet and ballroom 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: “LoisGreenfield: Moving Still” on photography and exhibit p.m., both free. Becket.
Performance Space 21 — Rioult Dance N.Y., 8 p.m. Choreographer Pascal Rioult’s unexpected interpretations of great musical scores. Chatham, N.Y.
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Family
Tanglewood — BSO prelude concert p.m. in Ozawa Hall and concert with Charles Dutoit, cond., and Emanuel Ax, piano: Mozart, Debussy and Ravel, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Becket Arts Center — Families Dance Together program 5 p.m. at Jacob’s Pillow, Becket.
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Family Fridays, programs in the garden, birds of prey 11 a.m. with wildlife rehabilitator Tom Ricardi. Route 10 , Stockbridge.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Beauty and the Beast,” community performance, 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Free Fun Friday: David Grover and his gang concert 10 a.m. and “Mary Poppins” film on the big screen 1 p.m., free. p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
Mission House — Mohican Story Hour 3 p.m., stories about the Stockbridge American Indians and their way of life. Stockbridge.
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Outdoors
Ceramics abound in studios and gardens. Photo by Kate Abbott
Naumkeag — Free Fun Friday, familyfriendly activities at the Gilded Age mansion and in gardens, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. highlandstreet.org. Free. Stockbridge. Norman Rockwell Museum — “Kids create” art for ages 3 to 6, 10:30 a.m. Stockbridge. Film
Norman Rockwell Museum — Friday Night at the Movies series, John Ford’s “Just Pals” 5:30 p.m. with Q&A, Stockbridge.
Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Opera scenes with students
in the Young Artists Vocal Program, 6 p.m. Free. West Street Theatre, Lenox.
Chesterwood — Americana music outdoors 5:30 p.m. with local barbecue and beer available, Stockbridge. Williamsville Road, Stockbridge.
Guthrie Center — Folk singer / songwriting, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Hubbard Hall — Opera Theater: “Madama Butterfly” by Puccini, 7 p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
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Barrington Stage Company — “Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan, and 8 p.m., Main Stage. “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” musical with R&B and Funk, 7:30 p.m., Stage II. Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” 8 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge. Info: Directory
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Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” p.m with cast conversation. Chester.
Bennington victory in Revolutionary War. Bennington, Vt. betterbenninton.com
Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” contemporary retelling of 18thcentury drama, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt. Living Room Theatre — “Playing with Fire” by August Strindberg and “Overruled” by G.B. Shaw, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, North Bennington, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Co. — Riotous Youth 10 a.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” 5:30 p.m., “Two Gentlemen of Verona” 7:30. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!” musical weaving in Allan Sherman’s song parodies 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Table of contents
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The Suns play ball at Wahconah Park. Photos by Susan Geller
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA, 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williams College Summer Theatre Lab — 1 th season, Williams students, visiting artists and returning alumni professionals develop new work, guest artists include alumni Michael Winther ‘85, Eben Hoffer ‘10 and Cate McCrea ‘13; actor Josiah Bania (IRONBOUND), director Andrew Neisler, and OffBroadway theater company ArsNova.
Open Lab Weekend with workshop production of Caroline McGraw’s “Believeland” and work created through summer.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — Backstage tour 6 p.m. “An American Daughter” 8 p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek, 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Saturday Aug. 13 About Town
Bennington Battle Day — Downtown festivities celebrating 1777 Battle of
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Bennington Battle Monument — Celebration of the Battle of Bennington with living history encampment, drill presentations, musket and artillery demonstrations, exhibits and activities for children hourly. Authentic cannons on display and fired periodically. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., free. 11th annual 5K race that starts and ends at the Monument with the firing of a cannon. half-mile Kids fun Run. Registration opens 8 a.m. and race at 9:30. Bennington, Vt.
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, homesteading, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides be-
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tween North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
and in the open studios display work, reception 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part of the Art School’s 5th Anniversary Celebration at Citizens’ Hall, Stockbridge.
Bidwell House — Adonijah Bidwell’s 300th Birthday Bash, benefit for 1750s museum with silent and live auction, to 7 p.m. Monterey.
Norman’s Attic — More than 60 New England artisans with woven items, pottery, art, jewelry, china, linens, antiques, dried flowers, home made jams, knitwear 9 a.m. to p.m. along Route 7A, Food court at St. James’ Episcopal Church, celebration of artist Norman Rockwell and his family’s hometown from 1939 to 1953, Arlington, Vt.
Rock, Rattle and Drum — 11th annual powwow, “The 11th Hour,” American Indian music, dance, education, entertainment, arts and crafts vendors and cultural festivities 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Grand Entry at 1 p.m. Vermont Veterans Home, 3 5 North St., Bennington, Vt.
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Books & Writing
Sheffield Antiques Show — 016 show of antiques vendors from silver to sideboards, 10 a.m. to p.m. Mount Everett High School 91 Berkshire School Road, Sheffield.
Art
Becket Arts Center — BAC Members Art Show opens p.m. with local artists, Route 8, Becket.
Berkshire Crafts Fair — 3rd annual juried festival of master artisans from Camifornia to Florida to Maine in contemporary and traditional jewelry, furniture, ceramics, textiles, glassware and more, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. indoors at
Monument Mountain Regional High School, Route 7, Great Barrington. berkshirecraftsfair.org
Clark Art Institute — Plein Air drawing at Thomas Schütte: Crystal installation on Stone Hill, 1 to p.m., free. Williamstown.
Columbia County Historical Society — Plein Air painters from Columbia County Council for the Arts at Lukyas Van Alen House and Ichabod Crane School, all day. 589 Route 9H, Kinderhook, N.Y.
IS183 Art School — IS183 Art School Summer Art Show and open house, artists in adult classes
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WordXWord — Annual spoken word festival with poetry, storytelling, performances, writing workshops. Poetry slam finals 6 p.m., place TBA. Festival finale 8 p.m. at Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. Free. wXw365.org Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rabbinic and Medieval times. Pittsfield. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Dorrance Dance, tap director at the Pillow School, “ETM:Double Down” with Nicholas Van Young’s electronic music, and 8 p.m. Info: Directory
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in Ted Shawn Theatre. “Monument” by Adam H. Weinart, revival of iconic works by legends of modern dance, Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: School at Jacob’s Pillow music theater, :15 and 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: “Dancing Data” p.m., both free. Becket.
Performance Space 21 — Rioult Dance N.Y., 8 p.m. Choreographer Pascal Rioult’s unexpected interpretations of great musical scores. Chatham, N.Y. Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz TYA,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, 7 p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Beauty and the Beast,” and 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover in concert, 10 a.m. behind Town Hall, Great Barrington. Table of contents
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Photos courtesy of Music in Common Music in Common (also page 207) will screen a film at Sandisfield Arts Center.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Uncle Andy’s Cats and Other Pet Stories” 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. with James Warhola, the illustrator of more than two dozen children’s picture book, including “Uncle Andy’s” and “Uncle Andy’s Cats,” nephew of famed Pop artist, Andy Warhol. Storytelling, art making and talks. Stockbridge.
Film
Sandisfield Arts Center — “From Madness to Music” documentary and discussion p.m. by Music in Common (MiC). Sandisfield.
Music
BU Tanglewood Institute — Orchestral Concert with Young Artists Orchestra :30 p.m. with Ken-David Masur, cond., works by Enesco, Gershwin, Brahams, Ozawa Hall, Lenox. Student recital with Young Artists Piano Program , 11 a.m., and Opera scenes with students in the Young Artists Vocal Program, 6:30 p.m., free. West Street Theatre, Lenox.
Guthrie Center — Seth Glier, folk singer / songwriter, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
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Hubbard Hall — Opera Theater: “Madama Butterfly” by Puccini, 7 p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
Mass MoCA — Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, soul music, 8 p.m., Courtyard C or Hunter Center. North Adams
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert on terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Tanglewood — BSO rehearsal 10:30 a.m.; John Williams Film Night with Boston Pops, John Williams and Richard Kaufman, cond., 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
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Outdoors
Chester Theatre — “Sister Play,” sisters on Cape Cod meet a stranger, and 8 p.m. with talkback. Chester.
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Grow Show, annual celebration of flowers, fuits and vegetables with contests and family activities, organized with members of the Lenox Garden Club. Stockbridge.
Clark Art Institute — Sensing Place Hike: Thoreau walk, 10:30 a.m., free. Meet at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Williamstown.
HooRWA — Hoosic River Ride: Biking on secondary roads by pastures and streams in Berkshires and Taconics, rides from 30 to 100 miles and a gentle family ride with bicycle mechanics, aid stations and picnic. the association’s annual benefit. Meet 8 a.m. at the Hoosac School in Hoosick Falls, Route 103 and N.Y. Route 7, N.Y. 13- 58- 7
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Dorset Theatre Festival — “The Way of the World,” contemporary retelling of 18th-century drama, and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Mass Audubon — Canoe Trip to Upper and Lower Goose Ponds, 8:30 a.m. Meets at Upper and Lower Goose Ponds, Lee. “Native Plantings for Home Gardens” 10 a.m., free. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox. Register 13-637-03 0 Vermont Challenge 2016 — 5th annual cycling tour of New England, routes for low-key and adept riders, all day. Southern and Central Vermont over four days including a signature Gran, Medio and Piccolo Fondo for all riders on Saturday. vtchallenge.com
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Barrington Stage Company — Broadway Bounty Hunter,” new comic musical with R&B and Funk, 7:30 p.m., Stage II; “Pirates of Penzance,” 8 p.m., Main Stage, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, and 8 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” by Sherman Bitterman, struggling young writer sent to help a reclusive children’s book author, 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
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Living Room Theatre — “Playing with Fire” by August Strindberg and “Overruled” by G.B. Shaw, 7:30 p.m., Park-McCullough House, North Bennington, Vt. The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” 11 a.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Two Gentlemen of Verona” p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” 5:30 p.m., “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, one 7:30 p.m., “Cry Havoc” 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Info: Directory
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Theater Barn — “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!” musical weaving in Allan Sherman’s song parodies and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA, and 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” and 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williams College Summer Theatre Lab — 1 th season, Williams students work with visiting artists and returning alumni professionals to develop new work, guest artists include alumni Michael Winther ‘85, Eben Hoffer ‘10 and Cate McCrea ‘13; actor Josiah Bania (IRONBOUND), director Andrew Neisler, and Off-Broadway theater company ArsNova. Open Lab Weekend with workshop production of Caroline McGraw’s “Believeland” and work created in summer.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” , 3:30 and 8 p.m. Table of contents
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11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Berkshire Botanical Garden will host its annual Grow Show. Photo by Susan Geller
MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” 3:30 and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Sunday Aug. 14 About Town
Bennington Battle Day — Downtown festivities celebrating 1777 Battle of Bennington victory in Revolutionary War. Downtown Parade. Bennington, Vt. betterbenninton.com.
Bennington Battle Monument — Celebration of the Battle of Bennington with living history encampment, drill
presentations, musket and artillery demonstrations, exhibits and activities for children hourly. Authentic cannons on display and fired periodically. Fife and drum corps on the lawn by the Seth Warner Mount Independence Fife and Drum Corps from Mount Independence, Vt., and Marquis of Granby Jr. Ancient Fyfe & Drum Corps from Granby, Conn. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., free. Bennington, Vt.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and
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Rock, Rattle and Drum — 11th annual powwow, “The 11th Hour,” American Indian music, dance, education, entertainment, arts and crafts vendors and cultural festivities 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Grand Entry at 1 p.m. Vermont Veterans Home, 3 5 North St., Bennington, Vt.
Sheffield Antiques Show — 016 show of antiques vendors from silver to sideboards, 11 a.m. to p.m. Mount Everett High School 91 Berkshire School Road, Sheffield.
Art
Berkshire Crafts Fair — 3rd annual juried festival of master artisans from Camifornia to Florida to Maine in contemporary and traditional jewelry, furniture, ceramics, textiles, glassware and more, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. indoors at Monument Mountain Regional High School, Route 7, Great Barrington. berkshirecraftsfair.org
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The Mount — Artist tour of SculptureNow 016 show in grounds, 11:30 a.m. Lenox.
OMI International Arts Center — Music Omi Improvises in the Café, newly arrived residents, musicians and composers from all over the globe, 3 p.m. free. Ghent. N.Y.
Books and Writers
The Bookstore — Peter J. Daly and John F. Myslinski read from “Strange Gods,” a novel, 3 p.m. Lenox. Conversations
Weston Playhouse — An Evening with David E. Sanger, New York Times’ National Security Correspondent ,in “A Raucous Election. A World Afire,” talk and Q&A. Weston, Vt. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Master class with Adam H. Weinert, 10 a.m. Film “Tap World” on contemporary tap around the world, :30 p.m. Dorrance Dance, tap director at the Pillow School, “ETM:Double Down” with Nicholas Van Young’s electronic music, p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. “Monument” by Adam H. Weinart, revival of iconic works by legends of modern dance, :15 p.m. in Doris Duke Theatre. Becket.
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Contests at the Grow Show will weigh entries from thyme to tomatoes. Photo by Susan Geller
Family
Barrington Stage Company — “The Wiz,” soulful musical Wizard of Oz, p.m., Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group — “Beauty and the Beast,” and 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Clark Art Institute — Family art making, activities, and performances in celebration of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” show 1 to p.m., activites free. Williamstown.
Music
Eagles Band — Broadway show
tunes, music from movies, marches, free concert p.m. Hinsdale Fire House, 95 Maple St., Hinsdale
Music from Salem — “The Great Arch of Unimagined Bridges,” p.m. with works by pieces by Schubert, Prokofiev, Dvorak, and Glazunov. Pay what you can, all welcome. Hubbard Hall. Cambridge, N.Y.
North Adams — Levitt AMP North Adams concert series 3 p.m., outdoor performance with vendors, food, music and more Colegrove Park, North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
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Sevenars Concerts — Jazz improvizations with Jerry Noble, piano; Bob Sparkman, clarinet; Joel Pitchon, violin; Volcy Pelletier, cello; Christopher James, guitar and cello, p.m. The Academy, Route 11 and Ireland Street, South Worthington. 13- 38585 , sevenars.org
Tanglewood — BSO with David Afkham, cond., and Igor Levit, piano: Beethoven and Schumann, :30 p.m. in the Shed. Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert. Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret: Australian Chamber Orchestra with Barry Humphries — Australia’s greatest entertainer, best known to audiences around the world as Info: Directory
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Berkshire Museum will gather a show of Northwest Pacific artwork in Pittsfield.
Stan Wamiss, ‘Thunderbird’
Dame Edna Everage — with Richard Tognetti, director and violin, and Meow Meow, cabaret artist, performing music of Berlin’s Weimar Republic (19 0s-1930s) including jazz, cabaret, tango, and Broadway musical style, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield. Table of contents
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Bascom Lodge — John Wheeler, local wild mushroom enthusiast and founding member of the Berkshire Mycological Society, free. 6 p.m., Summit of Mount Greylock.
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Grow Show, annual celebration of flowers, fuits and vegetables with contests and family activities, organized with members of the Lenox Garden Club. Stockbridge.
Tour de Trustees properties — Form up a peloton and ride between some of our most beautiful properties in the
Hilltowns. Glendale Falls, Bear Swamp, Chesterfield Gorge, Bryant Homestead, Notchview, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch included. Sets out from Notchview, Old Route 9, Windsor. 13-53 -1651.
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Hunter” conversation with Joe Iconis, Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams talk about writing a show together, 1 p.m., “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” Annie Golden (starring as herself) as a bounty hunter after a South American Drug Lord, musical with R&B and Funk, 3 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield. Chester Theatre — “Sister Play” sisters on Cape Cod meet a stranger, p.m. Chester. Hubbard Hall — Hubbard Hall Opera Theater: “La Pizza con Funghi” by Seymour Barab, 7 p.m.
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Hello Faddah!” musical weaving in Allan Sherman’s song parodies p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with Abba music, a girl on a Greek island wants to know her real father, 3 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 3 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
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Freight Depot, Cambridge, N.Y.
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” :30 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Con-
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versation,” 1979 in Washington, when adversaries on the Senate floor talked to each other, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, one night with 1660s poet, spy and play-
wright Aphra Behn p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” by Lindsey Ferrentino, a woman returning from three tours in Afghanistan 3 p.m., “Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Theater Barn — “Hello Muddah,
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” by Wendy Wasserstein, a woman tapped for U.S. Surgeon General faces her past, p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” by Tom Holloway, Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek, a loving couple face the wife’s terminal illness, and 7 p.m., Nikos Stage. Lawn talks before Sunday matinee with artists, guests and staff. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Classical cannon Classical music thrives in the region from Boston University Tanglewood Institute, above, to Katie Lansdale at Music from Salem — and violinists start young at the Berkshire Music School.
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Night music Andris Nelsons conducts at Tanglewood, above, and an audience collects at dusk before a concert at Tannery Pond, below.
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Monday Aug. 15
Copley, Sargent and others. p.m. tea and talk. Lenox.
Conversations
Books and Writers
The Mount — Biographer Kate Clifford Larson discusses her book, “Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter.,” p.m. Lenox.
Green Mountain Academy — “Yesterday’s Cuba: A Historical Context to Our Close Neighbor” 5:30 p.m. Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester Vt.
Austen Briggs performs at Third Thursday. Photo by Susan Geller
Family
Berkshire Athenaeum — Robert Riviest, mime, 1 p.m. Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group — “Beauty and the Beast,” 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield. Film
Berkshire Jewish Film Festival — “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy,” p.m., “The Great Dictator,” 8 p.m. Festival’s 30th year. Lenox High School, 197 East St., Lenox. Music
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Family
Shire City Sessions — Live music, 6 p.m., free. Pittsfield Common. shirecitysessions.com
Summer Noontime Concert — David Haughey, cello; Zach Harmon, percussion. Improvisations, noon. Free. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Williamstown.
Tanglewood — TMC Orchestra, TMC Conducting Fellows and Gil Shaham, violin: Kodály, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Theater
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lations,” 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch”7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Tuesday Aug. 16 Art
Becket Arts Center — “Now and Zen, Chaos Theory and Art,” talk with Philip Philip Pryjma, curator of Saint Francis Gallery, 7:30 p.m. Route 8, Becket.
Ventfort Hall — “Swagger: Portraits of Power” with Kathryn Calley Galitz, associate museum educator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on works by Ingres,
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Berkshire Athenaeum — Sports film, popcorn, p.m. Pittsfield. Milne Library — Pinto Bella Hoops (all ages), fun with hula hoops, p.m. Williamstown.
The Mount — Books and Blooms story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox. Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Bring a sketch pad. Stockbridge. Film
Performance Space 21 — Music and Dance film series, “Labyrinth,” 8:30 p.m., 1986 British/American fantasy film starring David Bowie and
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Jennifer Connelly, directed by Jim Henson. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
Art
History
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Plein Air watercolor workshop 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Bennington Battle Monument — Bennington Battle Day: All State Historic Sites are admission free. Bennington, Vt. Music
Concert on the Green — Live blues, rock, bluegrass or folk music 6 to 8 p.m. Manchester’s Town Green, Manchester, Vt.
Eagles Band — Broadway show tunes, music from movies, marches, free concert 7 p.m. Commons’ Performance Pavilion, 100 First St., Pittsfield Marble House Project — Artseed talk and music by Zach Sheets, flutist, composer, and chamber musician, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt. Outdoors
Williamstown Rural Lands — 30th anniversary celebration hike on the Sara Tenney Trail, hike meets at 9:30
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Flowers are ready for harvest. Photo by Susan Geller
a.m. WRLF headquarters on Route 7, Williamstown. Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” musical with R&B and Funk, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” 6 p.m. Shakespeare & Company actors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Shakespeare & Company — Artistic Insights 5 p.m.,
“Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Scene Study,” perform well-known plays 10 a.m. Pittsfield.
Weston Playhouse — “Mamma Mia!” musical with ABBA, 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” comedy, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” 7:30 p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. Talkbacks. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
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Clark Art Institute — Drop-in figure drawing workshop, :30 - :30 p.m. Williamstown.
Books and Writing
Arrowhead — Reading and book sale 5 p.m. at Herman Melville’s house, free. Pittsfield.
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Conversations
Hevreh — Rabbi Jodie Gordon: “Feminism, Theology, and Prayer,” 11: 5 a.m., from the tkhines of 17th century women to the radical feminist reimagining of Passover Maggid (story), with writing, art. Great Barrington. Info: Directory
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Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Flexn, electrifying street dance evolving from Jamaican bruk-up style with Brooklyn native Reggie Gray and director Peter Sellars, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Pam Tanowitz Dance, “Heaven on One’s Head” and “the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces,” unpredictable rhythms and romantic ballet with live FLUX quartet, 8:15 p.m. Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Kilowatt Dance Theatre, swing-era jazz, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket. Family
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Beauty and the Beast,” and 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Creating Together” ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge. Music
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and “The Stone Witch” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Young visitors enjoy the Mount. Photo by John Seakwood
Hubbard Hall — Hubbard Hall Opera Theater: “La Pizza con Funghi” by Seymour Barab, 7 p.m. Freight Depot, Cambridge, N.Y.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
Live on the Lake — Free concert with Live 95.9 WBEC FM and Greylock Federal Credit Union, 6 to 8 p.m., Burbank Park, Onota Lake, Pittsfield.
Tanglewood — Gil Shaham, violin: J.S. Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bascom Lodge — “Greylock in Time
and Space,” with Mount Greylock ranger Jude Scull, free. 6 p.m., Summit of Mount Greylock. Tamarack Hollow — Full “Sturgeon” Moon Beaver Natural History and Ecology Canoe 6 to 10 p.m. Mass Audubon sanctuary’s Mill River at dusk for beaver. Easthampton. Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” musical with R&B and Funk, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre
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Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m., “Merchant of Venice” p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” 5:30 p.m., “Or,” 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA music, and 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” by Wendy Wasserstein, a woman tapped for U.S. Surgeon General faces her past, 7:30 p.m. MainStage. “And
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No More Shall We Part” by Tom Holloway, Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek, a loving couple face the wife’s terminal illness, 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
nalist Kate Bolick talks with Katie Roiphe about “The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End,” 5:30 p.m. Lenox.
Kate Bolick brings writers to the Mount Photo by John Seakwood
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Mass Audubon — “Evening with Birds and Bats” 6:30 p.m., Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox
Naumkeag — Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, learn about the flowers growing in season, and how to cut, care for and grow them with Naumkeag horticulturalist Eric Ruquist. Stockbridge.
Thursday Aug. 18 About Town
Hemmings CruiseIn — New England informal car show 5:30 to 8 p.m. Rain cancels, Bennington, Vt. 800- 7- 373 Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean
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Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams
Third Thursday — Street festival: Trucks from bulldozers to police cars and fire engines, 5 to 8 p.m. with live music, performances, food and community. North Street closed to traffic from West to Linden. Downtown Pittsfield. Art
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstraction with Erika Doss,” 5:30
p.m. American art from regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 19 0s. Historic property walks p.m. Stockbridge.
Williams College Museum of Art — “Aesthetics of Evolution: Natural and Sexual Selection in the Era of Abbott Handerson Thayer” with Luana Maroja, assistant professor of Biology, p.m.; “WTF X WCMA: The Dinner Party” 6 p.m. with Williamstown Theatre Festival actors. Williamstown. Books and Writers
The Mount — “Touchstones,” cultural critic and jour-
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Flexn, electrifying street dance evolving from Jamaican bruk-up style with Brooklyn native Reggie Gray and director Peter Sellars, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Pam Tanowitz Dance, “Heaven on One’s Head” and “the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces,” unpredictable rhythms and romantic ballet with live FLUX quartet, 8:15 p.m. Doris Duke Theatre. Class with Elisabeth Motley, p.m.; and Inside / Out: Elisabeth Motley, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket. Family
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Beauty and the Beast,” and 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield. Food
Marble House Project — Culinary
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workshop: Improvisational Cooking, explore the garden and help harvest the evening’s meal. Dorset, Vt. marblehouseproject.org
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Katori Hall’s ‘The Mountaintop’ will come to Chester. Photo courtesy of Katori Hall
Music
Dalton CRA — Malibu Brothers with Vinnie Brandi Concert on the Memorial Lawn, 6 to 8 p.m. 00 Main St., Dalton. Rain date July . 13-68 0 60, dalton cra.org
Hubbard Hall — Hubbard Hall Opera Theater: “La Pizza con Funghi” by Seymour Barab, 7 p.m. Freight Depot. “Madama Butterfly” by Puccini, 7 p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
Manchester Music Festival — Season Finale, A Night at the Opera, Rising Stars from the Metropolitan Opera along with Caren Levine will perform arias, duets and ensemble pieces 7:30 p.m. at Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt.
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Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, D.C., and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
FM and WNAW 1 30AM Greylock Federal Credit Union, Noel Field behind baseball diamond, North Adams.
Tanglewood — Charles Dutoit, 016 Koussevitzky artist, with violinist Chantal Juillet and Chamber Actors Ensemble, program to include Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Clark Art Institute — Sensing Place Hike: Full moon sensory hike on Stone Hill, 7 p.m, free. Meet at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Williamstown.
Shakespeare & Company — “Or,” 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn p.m., Shakespeare & Young Company 5 p.m., “Two Gentlemen of Verona” 7:30 p.m., “Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a Jewish-Cuban man seeks out a woman separated from her lover years before during World War II 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “Tribes,” a young deaf man stands up to his hearing family, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” and 7 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “The Mountaintop” Dr. Martin Luther King encounters a hotel maid on April 3, 1968. p.m. with talkback and 8 p.m. Chester.
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Theater Barn — “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!” musical 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA music, 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” comedy 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” and 7:30 p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” and 7:30 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Friday Aug. 19 About Town
Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown.
Dalton CRA — Crane Paper Sale, fine stationery and specialty papers produced by Crane and Co. of Dalton, benefits Dalton Community Recreation Association and Dalton Youth Center programming. 00 Main St., Dalton. 13-68 0 60, daltoncra.org
Green Mountain Academy — “A Night in Old Havana” benefit dinner and auction with live music by High Definition Band, 6:30 p.m. Cuban-inspired menu, island dress. 80 -867-0111.
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Art
Larry Rivers’ ‘Stravinskyll’ Photo: Norman Rockwell Museum
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Artist Sally Tiska Rice demonstrates her watercolor technique, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists. Lenox Books and Writing
The Bookstore — Joe Berger reads from “The Pious Ones,” nonfiction, 7 p.m. Lenox.
Lenox Library — Book sale with paperbacks and hardcovers, special interest and collections, CDs, LPs, DVDs, sheet music and more, also artwork: original paint-
ings, prints and photos, grand opening 11 a.m. to p.m. and free admission to 6, Lenox.
Northshire Bookstore — Joseph Cardillo reads from “Body Intelligence,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
Conversations
JTS in the Berkshires — “Heresy and Community: The Case of Baruch Spinoza” 11 a.m. Shakespeare & Company, 70 Kemble St., Lenox. 13 5- 87 , ext.16
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Flexn, electrifying
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street dance evolving from Jamaican bruk-up style with Brooklyn native Reggie Gray and director Peter Sellars, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Pam Tanowitz Dance, “Heaven on One’s Head” and “the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces,” unpredictable rhythms and romantic ballet with live FLUX quartet, 8:15 p.m. Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Loren, Royse & Co in “Spun,” physical comedy and Cyr wheel, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: The Art of Social Justice with Flexn, both free. Becket. Performance Space 21 — Chase Brock Experience, 8 p.m., high-energy, witty and upbeat Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company. Chatham, N.Y. Shire City Sanctuary — Swing dance with live music by Lucky 5 String Band, lesson 7 p.m. and dance at 8. 0 Melville St., Pittsfield. Family
Becket Arts Center — Families Dance
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Together program 5 p.m. at Jacob’s Pillow, Becket.
in Ozawa Hall. BSO concert with Charles Dutoit, cond.; Menahem Pressler, piano; Simona Saturova, soprano, Marianna Pizzolato, mezzosoprano; Matthew Polenzani, tenor; Riccardo Zanellato, bass; and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” Mozart and Rossini, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Family Fridays, programs in the garden, Caterpillar Lab 11 a.m. with Keene, N.H., butterfly and moth experts. Stockbridge.
Berkshire Museum — Kindergarten Night, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., activities and information for children. Free and open to the community. Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group — “Beauty and the Beast,” 7 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Free Fun Friday: David Grover and his gang concert 10 a.m. and “Mary Poppins” film on the big screen 1 p.m., free. p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
Mission House — Mohican Story Hour 3 p.m., stories about the Stockbridge American Indians and their way of life. Stockbridge. Table of contents
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Bang on a Can Photo courtesy of Mass MoCA
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Kids create” art for ages 3 to 6, 10:30 a.m. Stockbridge. History
Bennington Battle Monument — 1 steps inside the Monument open with guided tours and Revolutionary War history. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Music
Chesterwood — Chesterfest, Americana music outdoors 5:30 p.m. with local barbecue and beer available, Stockbridge.
Guthrie Center — Tenzin Chopak &
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Rockwood Ferry, folk harmonies and original songs, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Full moon canoe trip 9 to 10:30 p.m. to see the life of the river at night. Rain date Saturday. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Hevreh — Tanglewood Shabbat, 7 p.m. gathering on the lawn before the evening concert. Route 183, Lenox.
Mass MoCA — Roomful of Teeth, Grammy-winning vocal titans, 8 p.m., Hunter Center. North Adams
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Tanglewood — BSO prelude concert with Dejan Lazić, piano, 6 p.m.
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Berkshire Botanical Garden — Cocktails in Great Gardens: summer party in the garden of Jack Hyland and Larry Wente, Millerton, N.Y. Register for directions. Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “Tribes,” a young deaf man stands up to his hearing family, 8 p.m., Main Stage;
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“Broadway Bounty Hunter,” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
p.m. and monument and shop open until 8. Bennington, Vt.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” 8 p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “The Mountaintop” Dr. Martin Luther King encounters a hotel maid on April 3, 1968. p.m. with conversation. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Co. — Shakespeare & Young Company 5 p.m., “Two Gentlemen of Verona” 7:30 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!” musical with parodies 8 p.m.
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Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Great Barrington will hold a Bike and Fly event. Courtesy photo
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Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA music, 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” comedy 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — Fridays@3 new play reading: “Cutie & Bear.” “An American Daughter” by Wendy Wasserstein, 8 p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” a loving couple face the wife’s terminal illness, 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Saturday Aug. 20 About Town
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Bennington Battle Monument — 1 5th Anniversary of the opening of the Monument, steps will be open for guided tours, birthday party 8 to 6
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Berkshire County 4-H Fair — 76th annual youth fair with hall exhibits, livestock, food, activities. Opens 9 a.m., -H Fairgrounds, Utility Drive, Pittsfield. 13- 8-8 85, mass h.org Bike and Fly — Rotary event 10 a.m. to p.m. Airport, Route 71, Great Barrington. 13-5 8- 8
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Greek Fest — Greek food, pastries, music and dancing, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 73 Bradford St., Pittsfield. 13- -8113, christisrisen.com Art
Clark Art Institute — Plein Air drawing at Thomas Schütte: Crystal installation on Stone Hill, 1 to p.m., free. Williamstown. Monterey Library — “Rediscovered and Reconsidered: Anne Shatas and William Carlson, Sculpture and Ceramics” artists’ talk 6 p.m., reception 6:30 to 8. free. Monterey.
Stockbridge Summer Arts and Crafts Show — 5th annual juried show of more than 80 artisans and crafters, from paintings to ceramics, fiber to glass blowing, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. grounds of the Stockbridge Town Offices and Bidwell Park, 50 Main St., Free. Stockbridge. Table of contents
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Lucky 5 String Band plays swing. Photo courtesy of Shire City Sanctuary
Books and Writers
The Bookstore — Anna Ornstein reads, “My Mother’s Eyes,” autobiography, p.m., Lenox.
Lenox Library — Book sale with CDs, LPs, DVDs, sheet music and more, also artwork: original paintings, prints and photos,10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lenox. Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rabbinic and Medieval times. Pittsfield. Dance
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ton fiddle, Mark Murphy bass and Calling by Quena Crain of Vt., dance to live music, 7: 5 to 11 p.m. Beginners welcome, no experience or partner needed. Community Center, 65 Walker St., Lenox.
street dance evolving from Jamaican bruk-up style with Brooklyn native Reggie Gray and director Peter Sellars, and 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Pam Tanowitz Dance, “Heaven on One’s Head” and “the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces,” unpredictable rhythms and romantic ballet with live FLUX quartet, :15 and 8:15 at Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: School at Jacob’s Pillow musical theatre, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: “Battling Inequality in the Arts,” p.m., both free. Becket.
Lenox Contradance — Music by Spare Parts, Liz Stell flute, Bill Matthiesen keyboard, Eric Budding-
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Performance Space 21 — Chase Brock Experience, 8 p.m., high-energy, witty and upbeat Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company. Chatham, N.Y. Choreographer Chase Brock talk on “Making a Dance” 3:30 p.m. at Chatham Public Library, free, 11 Woodbridge Ave., Chatham. N.Y. Family
Berkshire Museum — Imagination Playground, 10 a.m. to noon, get creative with big, blue blocks. Pittsfield. Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover in concert, 10 a.m. behind Town Hall, Great Barrington. Food
Naumkeag — “Teas from the Garden,” p.m., learn
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dance by keyboardist Geoffrey Gee and movement artist Kimerer LaMothe,” 7 p.m. Manchester, Vt.
Stockbridge Sinfonia — Community concert p.m. at Norman Rockwell Museum, Route 183, Stockbridge.
History
Bidwell House — Paper Pilgrims: Letter Writing and Communication in Early America. Katherine Grandjean, Wellesley College history professor, 10 a.m. Tyringham Union Church, Main Road, Tyringham.
North Adams Historical Society — 70th anniversary of the 17 6 siege of Fort Massachusetts: Tribute 1 p.m. at St. Francis Indian Ledge on Mass. Ave. with speakers, music — the Fort Massachusetts Suite composed for the 75th anniversary of the Drury Band and “Chester,” the unofficial anthem of the colonies — and dedication of a statue of a St. François/Abenaki Indian. Film, models, diary excerpts from Chaplain Rev. John Norton, an eye witness, in Bar-
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Oxen at Hancock Shaker Village Courtesy photo by Susan Geller
racks room replica at North Adams Museum of Science and History, Western Gateway Heritage State Park Building 5A. North Adams. 13-66 - 700
North Adams Library — Tours of historic mansion, 1 p.m., history of the library. 7 Church St. Street, North Adams.
Music
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the legacy of Jim Crow” with Vermont Public Radio’s jazz expert Reuben Jackson, free. Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, Vt. 80 -867- 3
Guthrie Center — Lucy Kaplansky, folk singer / songwriter, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Buckwehat Zydeco, Louisiana music, 8 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Silent film “Sherlock Jr.” with live score by the BQE Project, 8 p.m., North Adams
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Southern Vermont Arts Center — “The Ever Unfolding Present,” music and
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Tanglewood — BSO rehearsal 10:30 a.m. and concert, Verdi’s “Aida” acts I and II, Andris Nelsons, cond., and cast to include Kristine Opolais, soprano (Aida), Violeta Urmana, mezzo-soprano (Amneris), Andrea Carè, tenor (Radames),,Alfred Nigro, tenor (Messenger), Morris Robinson, bass (The King), Kwangchul Youn, bass (Ramfis) and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield. Info: Directory
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Farmer Olympics — Greased ‘pig’ rodeo, moo juice squeeze, gourd toss, wheelbarrow race, hay bale stack and more, familyfriendly conests and fun 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the Greenagers, rain date Aug. 1. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield.
Garden Conservancy Open Days — Garden tours in Copake Falls, Hudson and Valatie, N.Y. 888-8 - , opendaysprogram.org Hildene — Summer Bird Walk: Vermont Bird and Sky Watch and local birders survey wild birds, 7 a.m., free. Manchester, Vt. Theater
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Cuban man seeks out a woman separated from her lover during World War II 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Farmer Olympics — the game’s afoot! Photo courtesy of Greenagers
Theater Barn — “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!” and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
p.m. at the Unicorn Theatre and “The Stone Witch” and 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “The Mountaintop” Dr. Martin Luther King encounters a hotel maid on April 3, 1968. 8 p.m. with talkback. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Hubbard Hall — Opera Theater: “La Pizza con Funghi” by Seymour Barab, 7 p.m. Freight Depot. “Madama
Weston Playhouse — “Mama Mia!” musical with ABBA music, and 7:30 p.m., Mainstage. “Murder for Two,” and 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Butterfly” by Puccini, p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
The Mount — “Twelfth Night,” 11 a.m. Shakespeare & Company actors outdoors Plunkett St., Lenox.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The City of Conversation,” 1979 in Washington, p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Two Gentlemen of Verona” p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Emperor on the Moon” Restoration comedy 5:30 p.m.,“Merchant of Venice” 7:30 p.m., “Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a Jewish-
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Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter” 3:30 and 8 p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” 3:30 and 8 p.m., Nikos Stage. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown.
Sunday Aug. 21 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
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Dalton CRA — Crane Paper Sale, fine stationery and specialty papers produced by Crane and Co. of Dalton, benefits Dalton Community Recreation Association and Dalton Youth Center programming. 00 Main St., Dalton. 13-68 0 60, dalton cra.org
Greek Fest — Greek food, pastries, music and dancing, noon to 6 p.m. St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 73 Bradford St., Pittsfield. 13- -8113, christisrisen.com Art
Stockbridge Summer Arts and Crafts Show — 5th annual juried show of more than 80 artisans and crafters, from paintings to ceramics, fiber to glass blowing, 10 a.m. to p.m. grounds of the Stockbridge Town Offices and Bidwell Park, 50 Main St., Free. Stockbridge.
Books
Lenox Library — Book sale with CDs, LPs, DVDs, sheet
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operated for more than 100 years. 10:30 a.m., Triplex Cinema, 70 Railroad St., Great Barrington
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — Branagh Theatre’s “Romeo and Juliet” broadcast in HD, 1 p.m.1 Castle St., Great Barrington. Romeo and Juliet on the big screen. Photo courtesy of Mahaiwe
music and more, also artwork: original paintings, prints and photos,10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lenox. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Flexn, electrifying street dance evolving from Jamaican bruk-up style with Brooklyn native Reggie Gray and director Peter Sellars, p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Pam Tanowitz Dance, “Heaven on One’s Head” and “the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces,” unpredictable rhythms and romantic ballet with live FLUX quartet, :15 p.m. Doris
Duke Theatre. A Jazz Happening, musical theater program show and live music, 5 p.m. Becket.
Family
Clark Art Institute — Family art making, activities, and performances in celebration of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” show 1 to p.m., activites free. Williamstown. Film
Hevreh — Hevreh goes to the movies: “Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort,” on one of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, family-owned and
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History
Old Austerlitz — Annual meeting and presentation with Austerlitz Historical Society, p.m., free. Route , Austerlitz, N.Y. oldausterlitz.org Music
Bascom Lodge — Oakes and Smith acoustic folk and pop, free. 6 p.m., Summit of Mount Greylock.
North Adams — Levitt AMP North Adams concert series 3 p.m., outdoor performance with vendors, food, music and more Colegrove Park, North Adams. explorenorthadams.com Stockbridge Sinfonia — Community concert p.m. at Lenox Info: Directory
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Visitors talk by the reflecting pool at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown.
Memorial High School, 197 East St., Lenox.
Tanglewood — BSO with Andris Nelsons, cond., Robert Sheena, English horn Dejan Lazić, piano: Berlioz overture to “Béatrice et Bénédict,” Tsontakis “Sonnets,” Saint-Saëns and Prokofiev, :30 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Temple Anshe Amunim — “Tikkun Olam: To Repair the World — A Tribute
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to American Icon Pete Seeger,” 7 p.m., an evening of song with folk musicians and the audience, dessert and coffee. Pittsfield
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Flying Deer Nature Center — “Song of the Forest Work-
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shop” programs for adults and for kids 6-1 , 9 a.m. to p.m. Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, 7 West Mountain Road, Lenox. 518-79 6687, flyingdeernaturecenter.org
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Barrington Stage Company — “Different Methods of Communication in Deaf Culture,” conversation with members of the deaf community on lip-
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reading and signing, p.m., “Tribes,” a young deaf man stands up to his hearing family, 5 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” Annie Golden as a bounty hunter after a South American Drug Lord, musical with R&B and Funk, 3 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield. Chester Theatre — “The Mountaintop” Dr. Martin Luther
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King encounters a hotel maid on April 3, 1968. p.m. with panel. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Hubbard Hall — Hubbard Hall Opera Theater: “Madama Butterfly” by Puccini, p.m. Cambridge, N.Y.
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Shakespeare & Company — “Merchant of Venice” p.m.,“Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a JewishCuban man seeks out a woman separated from her lover during World War II 3 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Theater Barn — “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!” musical with Allan Sherman song parodies p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
WAM Theatre — Fresh Takes play reading, “Samsara,” 3 p.m. No. 6 Depot, 6 Depot St., West Stockbridge.
Weston Playhouse — “Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 3 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Williamstown Theatre Festival — “An American Daughter”
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by Wendy Wasserstein, a woman tapped for U.S. Surgeon General faces her past, p.m. MainStage. “And No More Shall We Part” by Tom Holloway, Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek, a loving couple face the wife’s terminal illness, p.m., Nikos Stage. Lawn talks before Sunday matinee. ’6 Center, Williams College, Williamstown. Info: Directory
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Photo courtesy of Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival Trying Zumba and watching dance on the Inside / Out Stage, families find ways to keep active outdoors.
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Family time From art and kitchen science to drumming and frog ponds, kids have choices every day of the week. For more, see the calendars and the family listings at btwberkshires.com btwberkshires.com
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Monday Aug. 22
landmark decisions, 5:30 p.m. Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester Vt.
Books and Writers
Ventfort Hall — “Artful Dining Among the Arias,” operatic origins of Melba toast, Rossini’s “sorbet arias” and why Verdi encouraged gambling during performances, p.m. tea and talk. Lenox.
The Mount — Monday book talks: Ruth Franklin discusses her forthcoming book, “Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life,” p.m. Lenox.
Family
Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Amazing Volcanic Eruptions: The Destruction of the Ancient City of Pompeii” 5:30 p.m. Burr and Burton Academy,57 Seminary Ave., Manchester Vt. Music
Barrington Stage Company — “No Tune like a Show Tune,” Wanda Houston performs musical show-stoppers, 8 p.m. at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
Summer Noontime Concert — Lucy Bardo, Anne Legene, violas da gamba; Larry Wallach, harpsichord. Music of Marais, Table of contents
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Bikers gear up for long or short rides. Photo by Susan Geller
Schenk, Wallach, noon. Free. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Williamstown. Theater
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Congregation Knesset Israel — “Choices,” playwright: Donald Drake. Conjoined twins share a heart; religious parents and their consultants disagree on the right decision. 7 p.m., with talk-back. Pittsfield. 13- 5- 87 .
WAM Theatre — Fresh Takes class on “Samsara,” 7 p.m. Berkshire Community College, 1350 West St., Pittsfield.
Tuesday Aug. 23
Conversations
Marble House Project — Artseed readings by writers Cris Beam, author of “To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care,” and novelist Fatima Mirza, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt. Green Mountain Academy — “Power of the Supreme Court,”
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The Mount — Books and Blooms story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox. Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Bring a sketch pad. Stockbridge. Film
Performance Space 21 — Music and Dance film series, “Our Last Tango,” 8:30 p.m., a story of love between two famous dancers, María Nieves Rego and Jan Carlos. Free. Chatham, N.Y. Music
Tanglewood — Train with Andy Grammer, 7 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
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Barrington Stage Co. — “Tribes,” a deaf man stands up to his hearing family, 87 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” musical with R&B and Funk, 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Shakespeare & Company — Henry IV.six all day festival, all six parts by actors of all ages. “Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a JewishCuban man seeks out a woman separated from her lover during World War II 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Scene Study,” perform well-known plays 10 a.m. Pittsfield.
Weston Playhouse — “Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
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“Solo” Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and based in Brooklyn, and Sylvestre Koffitse Akakpo-Adzaku perform “Yimbégré,” grounded in African traditions, with master drummer Mamoudou Konate, 8:15 p.m. Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: “Women Making Work” with Tiffany Mills Dance Company, Nadine Bommer Dance Company and Yin Yue Dance, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
Souleymane Badolo performs. Photo by Nina Mouritzen, courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow
Wednesday Aug. 24 Art
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Plein Air watercolor workshop 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Clark Art Institute — Drop-in figure drawing workshop, :30 - :30 p.m. Williamstown.
Books and Writers
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Conversations
Hevreh — Rabbi Jodie Gordon: “Feminism, Theology, and Prayer,” 11: 5 a.m., from the tkhines of 17th century women, to the radical feminist reimagining of the Passover Maggid (story), with writing and art. Great Barrington. Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Pacific Northwest Ballet, “Sum Stravinsky” and “3 Movements” set to Steve Reich’s minimalist score, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Souleymane
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Norman Rockwell Museum — Art for ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge. Music
Bascom Lodge — Wintergreen, folk trio, free. 6 p.m., Summit of Mount Greylock.
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert with Eagles brass band 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and fishing allowed. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com Info: Directory
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Live on the Lake — Free concert with Live 95.9 WBEC FM and Greylock Federal Credit Union, 6 to 8 p.m., Burbank Park, Pittsfield.
Tanglewood — Jeremy Denk, piano, “Medieval to Modern,” program from Renaissance worlds of Machaut, Couperin, and Frescobaldi to Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, and modernists Stravinsky, Cage, Ligeti, and Adams, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Mass Audubon — Evening at Beaver Ponds, walk and talk 6:30 p.m., Pleasant Valley Sanctuary, Lenox.
Naumkeag — Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, Stockbridge. Theater
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Cummington Fair — Rides, farm animals, horse pulls, live music and entertainment, exhibitions and contests, fair fare, midway. 97 Fairgrounds Road off Route 9, Cummington. cummingtonfair.org
Tyler Street Festival gears up. Photo courtesy of Tyler Street committee
Hunter,” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m., “Or,” 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn p.m., “Two Gentle-
men of Verona” 7:30 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, comedy with two pianos 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Thursday Aug. 25 About Town
Berkshire Museum — Pecha Kucha Night #15, 7 p.m., lightning-fast presentations: 0 slides, 0 seconds each. Pittsfield.
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Discover Tyler Street Festival — A celebration of the unique and diverse Morningside neighborhood with live music, entertainment, local restaurants and foods including a minifarmers market, family-friendly activities for kids and adults, innovation and technology demos, an auto show and more. 5 to 8 p.m., corner of Woodlawn Ave. and Tyler Street, Pittsfield. 13- 8-6 57, tylerstreetpittsfield.c om/discovertyler Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams Art
DownStreet Art — 016 theme, Meet Your Neighbors,
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spotlighting local artists. Exhibits around town rotate monthly: DownStreet Art Thursdays with exhibition openings, performance, happenings and downtown art, music and culture. 5 to 8 p.m. North Adams. downstreetart.org MCLA Gallery 51 — “PaperWorks” opening 5 to 8 p.m., Brandon Graving, humanness and the natural world. Free. North Adams.
Norman Rockwell Museum — “The Visual Narrative: Three Perspectives” with Marshall Arisman, Anita Kunz, and Thomas Woodruff, 5:30 p.m., three award-winning illustrators who also create personal works. Historic property walks p.m. Stockbridge.
Williams College Museum of Art — “What’s in a Name? The Politics of Identification in African Art” with Michelle Apotsos, assistant rofessor of art at Williams College, p.m.; badminton on the patio with sound artist Crank Sturgeon, 5:30 p.m. Williamstown.
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Orchestra with Nicholas McGegan, cond.; Suzana Ograjenšek, soprano; Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano; Clint van der Linde, countertenor; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Douglas Williams, baritone; and members of the Philharmonia Chorale perform Scarlatti’s “La gloria di primavera,” 7:30 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Route 183, Lenox.
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Tractor season kicks in at the Cummington Fair. Photo by Susan Geller
Books and Writers
The Mount — “Touchstones,” cultural critic and journalist Kate Bolick in conversaiton with Emma Straub about “Modern Lovers,” 5:30 p.m. Lenox.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Pacific Northwest Ballet, “Sum Stravinsky” and “3 Movements” set to Steve Reich’s minimalist score, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Souleymane “Solo” Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and based in Brooklyn, and Sylvestre Kof-
fitse Akakpo-Adzaku perform “Yimbégré,” grounded in African traditions, with master drummer Mamoudou Konate, 8:15 p.m. Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: American Collage Dance Association Gala highlights, 6:15 p.m., free. Becket.
Music
Party in the Park — Free concert 6 to 8 p.m. with WUPE FM and WNAW 1 30AM Greylock Federal Credit Union, Noel Field behind baseball diamond, North Adams.
Tanglewood — Philharmonia Baroque
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Barrington Stage Co. — “Tribes,” a deaf man stands up to his hearing family, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” 3 and 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possible lifelong love, 7 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall, Dr. Martin Luther King encounters a hotel maid on April 3, 1968. p.m. with talkback and 8 p.m. Chester. Info: Directory
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Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Ugly Lies the Bone” 3 p.m., “Two Gentlemen of Verona” 7:30 p.m., “Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a Jewish-Cuban man seeks out a woman separated from her lover during World War II 8:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Theater Barn — “The Wedding Singer” musical comedy, the life of the party’s fiancée leaves, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s Tony awardwinning play, a father confronts the past, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Murder for Two,” a smalltown cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt. Table of contents
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Art
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — Painting demonstration with a local artist, 11 a.m. Historic art deco house of ‘ 0s artists. Lenox Conversations
Friday Aug. 26 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Friday night Cabaret trains with local entertainers Samantha Talora and Ron Ramsey. Train leaves 6 p.m. from 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams. Schedule at hoosacvalleytrainride.com
Bryant Homestead — “Rebels of the Hilltowns” talk 7 p.m. at historic house of William Cullen Bryant, 19th-century poet and journalist. Cummington.
Caretaker Farm soaks up sun. Photo by Susan Geller
Clark Art Institute — Tapas bar 3 to 7 p.m., on the theme of “Splendor, Myth, and Vision” exhibit of art from the Prado, Williamstown.
Cummington Fair — Rides, farm animals, horse pulls, live music and entertainment, exhibitions and contests, fair fare, midway and more. 97 Fairgrounds Road off Route 9, Cummington. cummingtonfair.org
North Adams — Motorama weekend with Swap Meet, vendors, food and a car corral, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Downtown North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
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Temple Anshe Amunim — ““Sabbath of Story” 5:30 p.m., as an actor and storyteller, Rabbi Josh will perform stories from ancient sources to Hasidic tales, from Rabbinic myths to modern literature. Pittsfield.
Dance
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Pacific Northwest Ballet, “Sum Stravinsky” and “3 Movements” set to Steve Reich’s minimalist score, 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Souleymane “Solo” Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and based in Brooklyn, and Sylvestre Koffitse Akakpo-Adzaku perform “Yimbégré,” grounded in African traditions, with master drummer Mamoudou Konate, 8:15 p.m. Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Just
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Sole! Street Dance Theater Company 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: “Multifaceted Collaborators” with Doug Fullington, Pacific Northwest Ballet, free. Becket. Performance Space 21 — Dance Heginbotham, 8 p.m., known as a dancer with Mark Morris Dance Group, artistic director John Heginbotham with vibrant athleticism, humor, and theatricality. Chatham, N.Y. Family
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Family Fridays, programs in the garden, Frogs and Turtles 11 a.m. with Tom Tyning, environmental science professor at Berkshire Community College. Stockbridge.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Free Fun Friday 10 a.m., free admission and activities. “Kids create” art for ages 3 to 6, 10:30 a.m. Stockbridge.
Music
Chesterwood — Americana music outdoors 5:30 p.m.
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ble lifelong love, 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge.
Chester Theatre — “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall, Dr. Martin Luther King encounters a hotel maid on April 3, 1968. p.m. with conversation. Chester.
with local barbecue and beer, available, Williamsville Road, Stockbridge.
Guthrie Center — Matt Nakoa, singer / songwriter, 8 p.m. Great Barrington.
The Mount — Music After Hours, free concert on the terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
Southern Vermont Arts Center — Ragtime and Boogie Woogie with internationally acclaimed pianist Bob Milne, 7:30 p.m.concert, Manchester, Vt. Tanglewood — Tanglewood Festival Chorus prelude
Sun sets at Tanglewood. Photo by Kate Abbott
concert 6 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Boston Pops with Keith Lockhart, cond., perform score to Indiana Jones’ “Raiders of the Lost Ark” with Orchestra, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “Tribes,” a deaf man stands up to his hearing family, and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to possi-
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Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt. Shakespeare & Company — Riotous Youth 10 a.m., “Two Gentleen of Verona” 7:30 p.m., “Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a Jewish-Cuban man seeks out a woman separated from her lover years before during World War II, 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Theater Barn — “The Wedding Singer” musical comedy, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
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awardwinning play, a father confronts the past, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Murder for Two,” comedy, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
low Basketry, weave a basket and learn how to sustainably harvest willow and techniques of coiling, weaving and twining. p.m. Monterey.
Saturday Aug. 27
Clark Art Institute — Plein Air drawing at Thomas Schütte: Crystal installation Stone Hill, 1 to p.m., free. Williamstown.
About Town
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, local history, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Cummington Fair — Rides, farm animals, horse pulls, live music and entertainment, exhibitions and contests, fair fare, midway. 97 Fairgrounds Road off Route 9, Cummington. cummingtonfair.org Table of contents
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Dalton CRA — Kelly’s Beerfest, a charity beer festival hosted by Kelly’s Package Store with at least 60 breweries, beer, live music and farmfresh food. Benefits Dalton Community Recreation Association and Dalton Youth Center programming. Dalton American Legion, Route 9, Dalton 13-68 -0 60, dalton cra.org
North Adams — Motorama weekend with Swap Meet, vendors, food and a car corral, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Downtown North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
Farmers markets earn a smile in the rain. Photo by Susan Geller
Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon — Annual benefit party with creators of “Angel Reapers,” Macarthur Genius awardwinning choreographer Martha Clarke and Pultizer Prize winning playwright Alfred Uhry. 6 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Art
Becket Arts Center — Exhibit with Mary Anne Davis, Arthur Hillman and Scott Taylor, mixed media, paintings and photographs opening p.m. Route 8, Becket. Bidwell House — Introduction to Wil-
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Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — “Has Your Creativity Been Hiding” workshop, 10 a.m. Historic art deco. Lenox
Hubbard Hall — “The Freight Project: A Collaboration of Artists in Residence,” 7 p.m. Pay what you can, all welcome. Cambridge, N.Y.
Salem Art Works — Workshops in ceramics, glassblowing, blacksmithing, welding and stained glass for teens and adults. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org. Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and
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Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rabbinic and Medieval times. Pittsfield.
Pond life draws a crowd. Photo courtesy of WRLF
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Pacific Northwest Ballet, “Sum Stravinsky” and “3 Movements” set to Steve Reich’s minimalist score, and 8 p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Souleymane “Solo” Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and based in Brooklyn, and Sylvestre Koffitse Akakpo-Adzaku perform “Yimbégré,” grounded in African traditions, with master drummer Mamoudou Konate, :15 and 8:15 p.m. Doris Duke Theatre. Inside / Out: Nico Brown, 6:15 p.m., and PillowTalk: “PS Dance!” filmmakers on documentary about dance in schools, free. Festival finale dance party with DJ BFG 8 p.m. Becket.
Performance Space 21 — Dance Heginbotham, 8 p.m., known as a dancer with Mark Morris Dance Group, artistic director John Heginbotham with vibrant athleticism, humor,
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and theatricality. Everybody Dance intergenrational workshop 10 a.m., free. Chatham, N.Y. Family
Berkshire Museum — Kitchen KaBoom, 11 a.m., wacky and fun science experiments using common ingredients found in most kitchens. Pittsfield. Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover concert, 10 a.m. Town Hall, Great Barrington. Naumkeag — Mad Hatter’s Tea Party to p.m. with wacky hats, games cake
and fun from Alice in Wonderland. Stockbridge.
Southern Vermont Arts Center — “Beethoven’s Wig: A Wigged-Out Stage Show” live with animation by Smiley Guy Studio, p.m. Manchester, Vt.
Music
Guthrie Center — Joe Crookston, folk singer, 8 p.m. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Rubblebucket, Psychedelic indie pop, 8 p.m., North Adams
The Mount — Music After Hours, free
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concert on terrace 5 to 8 p.m. Lenox.
OMI International Arts Center — Music Omi Concert in The Fields 5 p.m., new collaborations with musicians and composers from all over the globe, 3 p.m. free. Ghent. N.Y.
Park McCullough House — Yoshiko Sato and Christopher Lewis, third concert in the Beethoven sonata series, p.m. 1 Park St., North Bennington.
Sandisfield Arts Center — Eric Martin (violin, viola, voice) and Karen Axelrod (piano, accordion) 8 p.m., traditional music. Sandisfield.
Tanglewood — BSO rehearsal 10:30 a.m. and concert with Michael Stern, cond., and Yo-Yo Ma, cello: Bernstein, Haydn, Willians and Respighi, 8 p.m. in Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Tannery Pond Concerts — St. Lawrence String Quartet, Haydn, Adams, Golijov, 8 p.m. Darrow School, New Lebanon, N.Y. Info: Directory
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Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Theater Barn — “The Wedding Singer” musical comedy, the life of the party’s fiancée leaves, and 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Dance Heginbotham will perform in Chatham, N.Y. Photo courtesy of PS21
Weston Playhouse — “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s Tony awardwinning play, and 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Murder for Two,” and 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Clark Art Institute — Sensing Place Hike: Landscape Histories of Stone Hill, 10:30 a.m., free. Meet at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Williamstown. Mass Audubon — Canoe Trip to Buckley-Dunton Lake, 8:30 a.m. Meets at Buckley-Dunton Lake, Becket. Register 13-637-03 0
Tamarack Hollow — Highland “GhostTown” Berry Foraging Trek at the hollow and the Notchview Smithers Woodland Preserve, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cellar holes, stone wells, witness trees, wild edible plants and trees concluding with high bush blueberry foraging. Windsor. Theater
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to his hearing family, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” musical with R&B and Funk, 3 and 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — “Constellations,” from first encounter to lifelong love, and 8 p.m., Main Stage, Stockbridge. Berkshire Opera Festival’s “Madama Butterfly” 7:30 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield
Chester Theatre — “The Mountaintop” Dr. Martin Luther King encounters a hotel maid on April 3, 1968. 8 p.m. with talkback. Chester.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 p.m., “Or,”1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn p.m., “Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a Jewish-Cuban man seeks out a woman separated from her lover during World War II 3 p.m., “Two Gentlemen of Verona” 7:30 p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” 8:30 p.m. p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
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Arrowhead — Craft fair / tag sale all day at Herman Melville’s historic house. Pittsfield. Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Cummington Fair — Rides, farm animals, horse pulls, live music and entertainment, exhibitions and contests, fair fare, midway. 97
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Goldrich and Marcy Heisler, 8 p.m. at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
North Adams — Motorama weekend: Car Show on Main, Holden and Eagle Streets, closed to all but pedestrian traffic as downtown North Adams fills with cars, trucks, motorcycles, snowmobiles, tractors and more, with Swap Meet, vendors, food and a car corral, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Downtown North Adams. explorenorthadams.com Art
Salem Art Works — Workshops in ceramics, glassblowing, blacksmithing, welding and stained glass for teens and adults. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org.
Books and Writers
Hevreh — Rabbi Hirsch on Meg Wolitzer’s bestseller “The Interestings,” novel on a group of friends who met at a Berkshire summer camp, 10:30 a.m. Great Barrington.
Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — 9th Annual Hilda Vallin
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Bascom Lodge — Moonshine Holler folk duo on fiddle, banjo, Hawaiian guitar, harmonica and ukulele, free. 6 p.m., Summit of Mount Greylock.
‘Marcy and Zina’ will perform at Barrington Stage Company. Photo courtesy of BSC
Feigenbaum Lecture presents Howard Dean: “Election 016: Which Path Will America Choose,” 7:30 p.m. Free. 6 Broad St., Pittsfield. 13- -5910, ansheamunim.org
Faso and based in Brooklyn, and Sylvestre Koffitse Akakpo-Adzaku perform “Yimbégré,” grounded in African traditions, with master drummer Mamoudou Konate, :15 p.m. Doris Duke. Becket.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — Master class with Souleymane “Solo” Badolo, 10 a.m. Pacific Northwest Ballet, “Sum Stravinsky” and “3 Movements” set to Steve Reich’s minimalist score, p.m. in Ted Shawn Theatre. Souleymane “Solo” Badolo, born in Burkina
Clark Art Institute — Family art making, activities, and performances 1 to p.m., activites free. Williamstown.
Dance
Family
Music
Barrington Stage Company — The Marcy and Zina Show, acclaimed songwriters Zina
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North Adams — Levitt AMP North Adams concert series 3 p.m., outdoor performance with vendors, food, music and more Colegrove Park, North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
Tanglewood — BSO with Christoph von Dohnányi, cond.; Rachel WillisSørensen, soprano; Ruxandra Donose, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Kaiser, tenor; Günther Groissböck, bass, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus: Beehoven Symphony No. 9, :30 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Outdoors
Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 Info: Directory
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p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife and history. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
South African artist Zanele Muholi’s photographs appear at the Williams College Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of WCMA
Garden Conservancy Open Days — Garden tours 10 a.m. to p.m. in Cornwall and West Cornwall, Conn. 888-8 - , opendaysprogram.org
HooRWA — Green River Cleanup in South Williamstown to pick up pieces of trash that have eroded from the landfill. Meet 1:30 p.m. at the Store at Five Corners, Routes 7 and 3. 13- 58- 7
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Tribes,” a young deaf man stands up to his hearing family, 5 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” musical with R&B and Funk, 3 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Chester Theatre — “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall, Dr. Martin Luther King encounters a hotel maid on April 3, 1968. p.m. Chester. Table of contents
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Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — “Two Gentlemen of Verona” p.m., “Ugly Lies the Bone” by Lindsey Ferrentino, a woman returning from three tours in Afghanistan 3 p.m.,
“Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, one night with 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn 7:30 p.m., 70 Kemble St., Lenox. Theater Barn — “The Wedding Singer” musical comedy, the life of the party’s fiancée leaves, p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
p.m. by Joe Starzyk, Whitney center for the Arts, Pittsfield.
Town Players — “Wedding Secrets , Samantha’s Turn”
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Weston Playhouse — “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s Tony awardwinning play, a father confronts the past, 3 p.m., MainStage. “Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 3 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
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Photo courtesy of the Berkshire Cultural Resources Center Art exhibits open around North Adams at Downstreet Art, above, and a group show of contemporary artists brings images from Fabrice Monteiro’s ‘Prophecy’ series to the Williams College Museum of Art, below.
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Monday Aug. 29
ages 7 and up, 10 a.m. Bring a sketch pad. Stockbridge.
Books spark a festival in Spencertown. Photo by Susan Geller
Film
Books and Writers
Performance Space 21 — Music and Dance film series, “Paris Is Burning,” 8:30 p.m., a chronicle of New York’s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality. Free. Chatham, N.Y.
The Mount — Book talk: Simon Winchester “Pacific: A Biography of the Pacific Ocean,” p.m. Lenox Music
Barrington Stage Company — The Marcy and Zina Show, acclaimed songwriters Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler, 8 p.m. at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, Stage II, Pittsfield.
Summer Noontime Concert — Nora Krohn, viola; Jad Bernardo, piano. Music of Rebecca Clarke, Paul Hindemith, Avro Part, noon. Free. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Williamstown.
Tuesday Aug. 30
Conversations
Green Mountain Academy — “Forecasting the 016 Presidential Election: Who Will Win, Table of contents
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and Why?” on the 016 presidential race, 5:30 p.m. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Vt.
Ventfort Hall — Author and screenwriter David Jaher on Mrs. Mina Crandon, 19 story of mystery and rivalry, “The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction and Houdini in the Spirit World,” p.m. tea and talk. Lenox. Dance
Marble House Project — Artseed dance performance by Coco Karol followed by open studios with artist Kyle
Peets, conceptual and mosaic artist Samantha Holmes and artist Gowry Savoor, environmental sculpture, works on paper and the Indian art of Rangoli, 6 p.m., free. Dorset, Vt.
Performance Space 21 — Parsons Dance workshop 1 p.m. for students ages 13 to 18, Chatham, N.Y.
Barrington Stage Co. — “Tribes,” a young deaf man stands up to his hearing family, 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Berkshire Opera Festival’s “Madama Butterfly” 7:30 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield
Family
The Mount — Books and Blooms story hour in the garden, 10 a.m. Lenox.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Summer Sketch Club for
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Shakespeare & Company — “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, one night with 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn 7:30 p.m., “Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a Jew-
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ish-Cuban man seeks out a woman separated from her loverduring World War II 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s Tony awardwinning play, a father confronts the past, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Murder for Two,” a smalltown cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Wednesday Aug. 31 About Town
Columbia County Fair — Animals, fair fare, agricultural showcase, pageant, petting zoo, firefighters parade, Columbia’s Got Talent, tractor pull, local bounty cooking contest, motorcycle stunts, canine cabaret, rides, midway, noon to 11 p.m. Fairgrounds, Route 66, Chatham, N.Y.
Art
Clark Art Institute — Drop-in figure
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fishing. Bradley Street and Kemp Ave., North Adams. explorenorthadams.com
The Bridge of Flowers blooms in Shelburne Falls. Photo by Kate Abbott
drawing workshop, :30 - :30 p.m. Williamstown.
Books and Writers
The Mount — Wharton on Wednesdays, short stories read by professional actors, 5 p.m. on the terrace. Ghost Tour of the house and grounds, 7:30 p.m. Lenox.
Conversations
Hevreh — Rabbi Jodie Gordon: “Feminism, Theology, and Prayer,” 11: 5 a.m., from the tkhines of 17th century women, to the radical feminist reimagining of the Passover Mag-
gid (story), with writing and art. Great Barrington.
Family
Norman Rockwell Museum — “Creating Together” ages and up with adults, 10 a.m. Stockbridge.
Performance Space 21 — Parsons Dance workshop 10 a.m. for students ages 13 to 18, Chatham, N.Y.
Music
Concert at Windsor Lake — Free concert on the shore 6:30 to 8 p.m. Kayaking, canoeing, swimming and
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Green Mountain Academy — “Soulful Jazz: The Relationship Between Jazz Vocalists and Piano Accompanists” Eugene Uman, Director of the Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro, and Vocalist Wanda Houston will choose from their wide repertoire of jazz standards and walk listeners through their processes in real time, 5:30 p.m. Bennington Museum, Bennington Vt. Outdoors
Bascom Lodge — Project Pangaea update on effort to extend the Appalachian Trail from Maine through Canada and Greenland to Scandinavia and Europe, ending in Morocco. Talk 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
Naumkeag — Art of Cut Flowers, 10 a.m. in the cutting garden, Stockbridge. Info: Directory
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to the Arts, 5 p.m. Le Café Français 8:30 a.m. Lenox.
A re-enactor salutes. Photo by Walter J. Engels
Barrington Stage Co. — “Tribes,” a young deaf man stands up to his hearing family, and 7 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Conversations
Hevreh — “Handicapping the Presidential Election,” 3 p.m. panel on the the electoral history, demographics, character, and influences of key states, looking toward the U.S. president in November. Great Barrington.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Shakespeare & Company — Backstage walk 10:30 a.m., “Or,” 1660s poet, spy and playwright Aphra Behn p.m., “Two Gentlemen of Verona” 7:30 p.m., “Sotto Voce” by Nilo Cruz, a Jewish-Cuban man seeks out a woman separated from her lover during World War II 8:30 p.m. 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Weston Playhouse — “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s Tony awardwinning play, a father confronts the past, and 7:30 p.m., MainStage. Table of contents
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“Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Thursday Sept. 1 Art
showcase, pageant, petting zoo, firefighters parade, Columbia’s Got Talent, tractor pull, local bounty cooking contest, motorcycle stunts, canine cabaret, rides and midway, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fairgrounds, Route 66, Chatham, N.Y.
Norman Rockwell Museum — Historic property walk p.m. to Linwood House (1859 Berkshire Cottage) and studio. Stockbridge.
Mass MoCA — The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden with music and local brews, 5:30 p.m. ’til late. North Adams
Columbia County Fair — Animals, fair fare, agricultural
The Mount — A Poetry Reading with Community Access
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Books and Writers
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Performance Space 21 — Parsons Dance workshop 10 a.m. for students ages 13 to 18, Chatham, N.Y. Music
Tanglewood — Popular music series: NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! comedy news quiz program live with Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox. Outdoors
Berkshire Botanical Garden — Nationally recognized floral artist Ariella Chezar leads a tour of her cut-flower
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farm, Zonneveld, 10 a.m. in Columbia County, N.Y. Register for directions.
p.m. to 8 p.m., free. After-party 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Whitney Center for the Arts, Wendell Ave., free. Pittsfield 13- 3-6501, FirstFridaysArtswalk.com
Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Tribes,” a young deaf man stands up to his hearing family, 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” Annie Golden (starring as herself) as a bounty hunter after a South American Drug Lord, musical with R&B and Funk, 3 and 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Theater Barn — “The Wedding Singer” musical comedy, the life of the party’s fiancée leaves, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s Tony awardwinning play, a father confronts the past, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Murder
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Norman Rockwell Museum — Meet Rockwell’s Models 3 p.m., find out what it was like to pose for an illustrator. Stockbridge.
Bikers soar at Columbia County Fair. Photo courtesy of the fairground
for Two,” a smalltown cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Friday Sept. 2
About Town
First Friday — Street festival with live music, gallery tour, artwalk 5 to 8 p.m. and shops open until 8 p.m. Downtown Bennington, Vt. betterbennington.com
Columbia County Fair — Animals, fair
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fare, agricultural show, pageant, petting zoo, firefighters parade, Columbia’s Got Talent, tractor pull, local bounty cooking contest, motorcycle stunts, rides, midway, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fairgrounds, Route 66, Chatham, N.Y.
Hevreh — Hot Shabbat 6 p.m. party with picnic dinner, games and music. All welcome. Great Barrington. Art
First Fridays Artswalk — More than a dozen shows with more than 0 artists openings 5
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Performance Space 21 — Parsons Dance, 8 p.m. “Almah” by Kate Skarpetowska, developed in residency here last summer. Chatham, N.Y.
Film
Norman Rockwell Museum — “American Graffiti” film and Q&A 5:30 p.m. college friends’ last night in 196 . Stockbridge. Music
Guthrie Center — Vishten, Prince Edward Island trio blending Celtic, French and Cajun sound, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington. Info: Directory
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Tanglewood — Boston Pops with Keith Lockhart, cond., and the B-5 s, 8 p.m. in the Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
BSRM’s Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Theater
Barrington Stage Co. — “Tribes,” a young deaf man stands up to his hearing family, and 8 p.m., Main Stage; “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” 7:30 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Berkshire Theatre Group — Berkshire Opera Festival’s “Madama Butterfly” 7:30 p.m. Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The Consul, the Tramp and America’s Sweetheart,” Charles Chaplin film masterpiece “The Great Dictator” and Germany’s attempts to stop the movie from being made, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Table of contents
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Theater Barn — “The Wedding Singer” musical comedy, the life of the party’s fiancée leaves, 8 p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Weston Playhouse — “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s Tony awardwinning play, a father confronts the past, 7:30 p.m., MainStage. “Murder for Two,” a smalltown cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Columbia County Fair — Animals, fair fare, agricultural showcase, pageant, petting zoo, firefighters parade, Columbia’s Got Talent, tractor pull, local bounty cooking contest, motorcycle stunts, canine cabaret, rides and midway, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fairgrounds, Route 66, Chatham, N.Y.
The annual garlic and herb festival celebrates garlic flavors — from pop corn to fudge to ice cream. Courtesy photo by David Monniaux
Saturday Sept. 3 About Town
Behold New Lebanon — Townwide museum with programs including nature walks, cooking and food, the speedway, auctioneering, farming, local history, art, music and more. Visitors Center, Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Train Rides return to the Berkshires —
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Southern Vermont Garlic & Herb Festival — Garlic lovers unite with live music and food and crafts from hundreds of vendors, from pizza to peanuts to fudge to ice cream, many kinds of garlic, cooking demonstrations, samplings and more, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Camelot Village, Route 9, Bennington, Vt. lovegarlic.com Art
Salem Art Works — Workshops in
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blacksmithing, glassblowing and welding for teens and adults. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org.
Courtyard C or Hunter Center. North Adams
Tanglewood — Boston Pops swing orchestra with Keith Lockhart, cond., “Dancing under the Stars” 8 p.m., Shed. Route 183, Lenox.
Sandisfield Arts Center — Michelle Arnot, “Shodou: Traveling along the Long Path of Writing,” solo show of Japanese Calligraphy, opening to p.m. Sandisfield.
Outdoors
Books and Writing
Spencertown Academy — Festival of Books, 11th annual extravaganza of all things literary, including a giant used book sale and readings, book signings and children’s programs, 9 a.m. to p.m. Spencertown, N.Y. Conversations
Temple Anshe Amunim — “Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and Culture,” 9:30 a.m., stories from Rabbinic and Medieval times. Pittsfield.
Dance
Performance Space 21 — Parsons Dance, 8 p.m. “Almah” by Kate
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Skarpetowska, developed in residency here last summer. Chatham, N.Y.
Family
Great Barrington Bandstand — David Grover in concert, 10 a.m. behind Town Hall, Great Barrington.
History
Stockbridge Library — Cemetery Walk: “Stockbridge Schools: Smart From the Start,” p.m. Cemetery on Main Street, Stockbridge. 13- 98-5501
Jack in the Pulpet seeds turn brilliant colors near the Money Brook trail. Photo by Kate Abbott
Music
Clark Art Institute — Sense of Place through Music, p.m., free concert by Leading players of The Orchestra Now and Juilliard, terrace at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Williamstown.
Guthrie Center — Berkshire Ramblers, 8 p.m. Doors open at 6. Great Barrington.
Mass MoCA — Everton Blender, Reggae dance party, straight from Jamaica, 8 p.m.,
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Bartholomew’s Cobble — Canoe trips 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with guided talk about the river, wildlife. Wheatogue Road, Sheffield.
Mass Audubon — Canoe Trip along the Housatonic River, 8:30 a.m. Meets at New Lenox Road, Lenox. Berkshire Summits Hiking series: Lenox Mountain, 9 a.m., Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox. Register 13-637-03 0 Theater
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Photo courtesy of tColumbia County Fair Dragon riders raise their hands in the air on the midway at the Columbia County Fair.
Dorset Theatre Festival — “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” Lanie Robertson’s look at jazz legend Billie Holliday, and 7:30 p.m. Dorset, Vt.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The Consul, the Tramp and America’s Sweetheart,” Table of contents
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Charles Chaplin film masterpiece “The Great Dictator” and Germany’s attempts to prevent the movie from being made, and 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt.
Theater Barn — “The Wedding Singer” musical comedy, the life of the party’s fiancée leaves, and 8
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roles and two pianos, and 7:30 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Sunday Sept. 4 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Nar-
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rated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Columbia County Fair — Lonestar country music concert 7 p.m. Animals, fair fare, agricultural showcase, pageant, petting zoo, firefighters parade, Columbia’s Got Talent, tractor pull, local bounty cooking contest, motorcycle stunts, rides and midway, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fairgrounds, Route 66, Chatham, N.Y.
Southern Vermont Garlic & Herb Festival — Garlic lovers unite with live music and food and crafts from hundreds of vendors, from pizza to peanuts to fudge to ice cream, many kinds of garlic, cooking demonstrations, samplings and more, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Camelot Village, Route 9, Bennington, Vt. lovegarlic.com Art
Salem Art Works — Workshops in blacksmithing, glassblowing and
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welding for teens and adults. 19 Cary Lane, Salem, N.Y. salemartorks.org.
Books and Writing
Spencertown Academy — Festival of Books, 11th annual extravaganza of all things literary, including a giant book sale and readings, book signings and kid’s programs, 9 a.m. to p.m. Spencertown, N.Y. Music
Bascom Lodge — Marafanyi Drum, Lara Gonzalez and Yael Shacham songs and spoken word with traditional West African rhythm and dance, 6 p.m., free. Summit of Mount Greylock.
North Adams — Levitt AMP North Adams concert series 3 p.m., outdoor performance with vendors, food, music and more Colegrove Park,
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Bartholomew’s Cobble — Labor Day Canoe Campout p.m. to 10 a.m. on Monday. Family campout and paddle from the covered bridge down to Bartholomew’s Cobble for a campfire, stories and s’mores. Sheffield. 13- 983 39, ext. 3013 Theater
Barrington Stage Company — “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” Annie Golden (starring as herself) as a bounty hunter after a South American Drug Lord, musical with R&B and Funk, 3 p.m., Stage II, Pittsfield.
Oldcastle Theatre — “The Consul, the Tramp and America’s Sweetheart,” Charles Chaplin film masterpiece “The Great Dictator” and Germany’s attempts to prevent the movie from being made, 7:30 p.m. Bennington, Vt. Theater Barn — “The Wedding Singer” musical comedy, the life of the party’s fiancée
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leaves, p.m. Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Weston Playhouse — “All My Sons,” Arthur Miller’s Tony awardwinning play, a father confronts the past, 3 p.m., MainStage. “Murder for Two,” a small-town cop investigates the death of a novelist, two actors playing 13 roles and two pianos, 3 p.m., OtherStage. Weston, Vt.
Monday Sept. 5 About Town
Berkshire Scenic Railway North Adams — Hoosac Valley Service Narrated train rides between North Adams and Adams 10 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m. 98 Crowley Ave., North Adams.
Columbia County Fair — Animals, fair fare, agricultural showcase, pageant, petting zoo, firefighters parade, Columbia’s Got Talent, tractor pull, local cooking contest, motorcycle stunts, rides and midway, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fairgrounds, Route 66, Chatham, N.Y.
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Directory of Places Animagic — Museum of Animation Special Effects and Art. 77 Main St., Lee. 13-8 1-6679, mambor.com Arrowhead — Home of Herman Melville and Berkshire Historical Society, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield. 13- 1793, mobydick.org
Aston Magna Concert Series — Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Alford Road, Great Barrington, 13-5 8-3595, astonmagna.org Barrington Stage Company — Main stage 30 Union St., and Stage II, 36 Linden St., Pittsfield. 13- 99-5 6, barringtonstageco.org Bartholomew’s Cobble — 105 Weatogue Road, Sheffield. 13- 98-3 39, ext. 3013, thetrustees.org
Becket Arts Center for the Hilltowns — 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket. 13-6 3-6635, becketartscenter.org
Behold New Lebanon — Visitors Center, 38 Old Route 0, New Lebanon, N.Y. Schedule: beholdnewlebanon.org
Bennington Center for the Arts — Gypsy Lane, Bennington, Vt. 80 - -7158, benningtoncenterforthearts.org
Bennington College — 1 Bennington College Drive, Bennington, Vt. bennington.edu Bennington Museum — 75 Main Street/Route 9 west, Bennington, Vt. 80 - 7-1571, benningtonmuseum.org
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Berkshire Choral Festival — Berkshire School, Route 1, Sheffield. 13- 9-1999, berkshirechoral.org
Berkshire Fringe — Shire City Sanctuary, 0 Melville St., Pittsfield. 13-3 0- 175, berkshirefringe.org. Berkshire Museum — 39 South St., Pittsfield. 13- 37171, berkshiremuseum.org
Berkshire Playwrights Lab — Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 13-5 8- 5 , berkshireplaywrightslab.org
Berkshire Music School — Taft Recital Hall, 30 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield. 13- -1 11, berkshiremusicschool.org
Berkshire South Regional Community Center — 15 Crissey Road, Great Barrington. 13-5 8- 810, berkshiresouth.org Berkshire Strings — French Park Pavilion, 65 Prospect Lake Road, North Egremont. berkshiresummerstrings.com
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Berkshire Theatre Group — Mainstage and Unicorn Theatre at 6 East St., Stockbridge. Colonial Theatre, 111 South St., Pittsfield. 13-997- , berkshiretheatre.org
Bidwell House — 100 Art School Road, Monterey, 13-5 8-6888, bidwellhousemuseum.org Chamber Music Conference — Bennington College, 1 College Drive, North Bennington, Vt. 80 - -5 01, cmceast.org Chester Theatre Company — Main St., Chester. 13-35 7771, chestertheatre.org
Chesterwood — Williamsville Road, Stockbridge. 13- 983579, chesterwood.org Clark Art Institute — 5 South St., Williamstown. 13- 58- 303, clarkart.edu
Colonial Theatre — Berkshire Theatre Group.111 South St. Pittsfield, thecolonialtheatre.org Dorset Theatre Festival — Playhouse 10 Cheney Road, Dorset, Vt., 80 -867-5777, dorsettheatrefestival.org.
First Fridays Artswalk — Downtown Pittsfield, 13- 36501, FirstFridaysArtswalk.com Flying Cloud — 731 New Marlboro Sandisfield Road, New Marlborough, 13- 933 1, flyingcloudinstitute.org
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio — 9 Hawthorne St., Lenox, frelinghuysen.org
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Ghent Playhouse — 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, N.Y. 800838-3006, ghentplayhouse.org
Great Barrington Land Conservancy — 13-5 8- 160, greatbarringtonlandconservancy.org Green Mountain Academy — Locations vary. 80 -867-0111, greenmtnacademy.org Guthrie Center — Van Deusenville Road, Great Barrington, 13-5 8-1955, guthriecenter.org Hancock Shaker Village — 18 3 West Housatonic St., Pittsfield. 13- 3-0188. hancockshakervillage.org
Hildene — 1005 Hildene Road off Route 7A, Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -1788, hildene.org
Hubbard Hall — 5 E. Main St. Cambridge, N.Y. 518-677- 95, hubbardhall.org Images Cinema — 50 Spring St., Williamstown. 13- 58-561 , imagescinema.org Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival — 358 George Carter Road, Becket. 13- 3-07 5, jacobspillow.org
Lichtenstein Center — 8 Renne Ave, Pittsfield, 13- 9993 8, discoverpittsfield.com Living Room Theatre — Park-McCullough House, One Park St., North Bennington, Vt. 80 - -53 , lrtvt.org Mahaiwe Performing Arts — 1 Castle St., Great Barrington, 13-5 8-0100, mahaiwe.org
Manchester Community Library — 138 Cemetery Ave., 80 -867-0111, mclvt.org
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Manchester Music Festival — Arkell Pavilion, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -1956.
Notchview — Route 9, Windsor. 13-53 -1651, ext. 3110, thetrustees.org
Mass MoCA — 87 Marshall St. North Adams. 13-66 111, massmoca.org
OMI International Arts Center — 1 05 County Route , Ghent, N.Y., 518-39 - 7 7, omiartscenter.org
Mass Audubon — 7 West Mountain Road, Lenox. 13637-03 0, massaudubon.org
Oldcastle Theatre Company — 331 Main St., Route 9 West, Bennington, Vt. 80 - 7-056 , oldcastletheatreco.org
Merck Forest and Farmland Center — 3 70 Route 15, Rupert, Vt. 80 -39 -7836. merckforest.org
Performance Space 21 — 980 Route 66, Chatham, N.Y. 518-39 -61 1, ps 1chatham.org
Millay Colony for the Arts — 5 East Hill Road, Austerlitz, N.Y. millaycolony.org
Mission House — 19 Main St., Stockbridge, 13- 98-3 39, ext. 3013, thetrustees.org
Mohawk Trail Concerts — Federated Church, Route , Charlemont. 13-6 5-9511, mohawktrailconcerts.org.
The Mount — Plunkett Street, Lenox. 13-551-5111, edithwharton.org
Monterey Library — 5 Main Road, Monterey. 13- 83795, montereymasslibrary.org Music & More at the Meetinghouse — 15 New Marlborough Road, Route 57, New Marlborough, 13- 9- 785; newmarlborough.org Naumkeag — 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge, 13- 983 39, thetrustees.org Norman Rockwell Museum — 9 Glendale Road, Route 183, Stockbridge; 13- 98 100, ext. 0, nrm.org
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Sandisfield Arts Center — 5 Hammertown Road, Route 57 Sandisfield. 13- 58- 100, sandisfieldartscenter.org
Shakespeare & Company — 70 Kemble St., Lenox. 13637-3353, Shakespeare.org
Shakespeare in the Park — First Street Common, Pittsfield. pittsfieldshakespeare.org
Shakespeare on Main Street — Vermont. 80 - 8 - 581, ShakespeareOnMainStreet.org
Shire City Sanctuary — 0 Melville St., Pittsfield. 13- 369600, shirecitysanctuary.com
Southern Vermont Arts Center — West Road, Manchester, Vt. 80 -36 -1 05. svac.org Spencertown Academy — 790 Route 03, Spencertown, N.Y. spencertownacademy.org. Steepletop — 36 East Hill Road (off Route ), Austerlitz, N.Y. 518-39 -336 . millay.org Tanglewood Music Festival — Boston Symphony Orchestra, 97 West St., Lenox. 13637-5165 tanglewood.org
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Tamarack Hollow — Nature and Cultural Center, 1515 Savoy Hollow Road, Windsor. tamarackhollow.com
Tannery Pond Concerts — New Lebanon, N.Y., Shaker Tannery at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village and Darrow School, Route 0. 888-8 0-9 1 tannerypondconcerts.org. Theater Barn — 65 Route 0, New Lebanon N.Y. 51879 -8989, theaterbarn.com
Trustees of Reservations — Outdoor and historic sites across Massachusetts, 13 98-3 39, ext. 3000, thetrustees.org Ventfort Hall — Mansion and Gilded Age Museum 10 Walker St., Lenox. 13-6373 06, GildedAge.org Weston Playhouse Theatre Company — 703 Main St. Weston, Vt., 80 -8 -8167, westonplayhouse.org
Williams College Museum of Art — 15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Williamstown. 13-597- 9. wcma.williams.edu
Williamstown Rural Lands — SheepHill, 671 Cold Spring Road, Route 7, Williamstown 13- 58- 9 , wrlf.org Williamstown Theatre Festival — Main and Nikos stages at ’6 Center, 1000 Main St., Williamstown. 13-597-3 00 June to August, wtfestival.org
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WordXWord — Locations across Pittsfield. wXw365.org
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