Tuesday Oct. 11
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown. williams.edu
Art
Bennington College — Visual Arts Lecture Series: Mariam Ghani, artist, writer, filmmaker and teacher with widely exhibited researchbased practice spanning video, installation, photography, performance and text. p.m. Tishman Lecture Hall 1 College Drive, Bennington, Vt. bennington.edu
Conversations
Columbia County Historical Society — Dutch Food and Ceramics: Historian Ruth Piwonka will present a program on Dutch kitchens, kitchen artifacts and activities, p.m. 16 Broad St., Kinderhook, N.Y. 1 - 926 , cchsny.org
Music
Marble House Project — Artseed performance by Boston-based songwriter and string player Sam Moss, original and interpreted folk songs and instrumental
Film
guitar; 6 p.m., free. Open studios follow with poet, essayist and performance artist LeVan D. Hawkins; Danish performance artist Jette Ellgaard; filmmaker Emma PiperBurket. Artists in residence present their work. 1161 Dorset West Road, Dorset, Vt. marblehouseproject.org
Wednesday Oct. 12 Art
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts — Introduction to the Public Art Process workshop : 0 p.m. 2 Renne Ave., Pittsfield. discoverpittsfield.com
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Novelist Brando Skyhorse will read. Photo courtesy of Benningto College
Books and Writing
Bennington College — New literature faculty member Brando Skyhorse, author of ’The Madonnas of Echo Park’ and ‘Take This Man: A Memoir’ will read, p.m. Franklin, 1 College Drive, Bennington, Vt. bennington.edu. Conversations
Williams College — Mark Tercek on Global Conservation, : 0 p.m. President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the global conservation organization, and author of Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature.
BTW Fall 2016
Images Cinema — ‘The Hand that Feeds,’ p.m., documentary on a popular bakery café in the Upper East Side where undocumented immigrant workers face harsh conditions and Mahoma López leads a dangerous effort to make a change. 0 Spring St., Williamstown. 1 -10 9, imagescinema.org Music
Williams College — Song workshop with singer-songwriter-guitarist Toshi Reagon, p.m. — she will return Nov. to present Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, a new opera with Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, adapted from postapocalyptic novel about a woman in futuristic Los Angeles. Directing studio, Williamstown. williams.edu Info: Directory
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