MCLA Gallery 51 Annual Holiday Art Show Opens Thursday| 10:31AM / Thursday, December 05, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Gallery 51 opens its Made by Hand Holiday Art Show will on Thursday, Dec. 5, just in time for the holiday season. All art will be priced below $100 and will be available for purchase that evening through Dec. 28. The public is invited to attend the show's official opening from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday at Gallery 51 on Main Street. There will gifts choices from more than 40 local makers and artisans. The holiday art show celebrates the artwork of local and regional artists and includes sculpture, ceramics, watercolors, jewelry, paintings, cards, collages, fiber, book arts, photography, and 0 Comments
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Sommer Center for Music & Art to Open Former Adams ChurchBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
03:59AM / Thursday, December 05, 2019 | |
ADAMS, Mass. — The Olga C. Sommer Center for Music & Art will open in the former St. Mark's Episcopal Church and host the Berkshires Academy for Advanced Musical Studies. A group of New York-based musicians look to breath new life into the former church on Commercial Street. On Wednesday, residents and town leaders were asked to imagine what the Berkshires Academy for Advanced Musical Studies (BAAMS) could bring to Adams and the greater region. "I like to say that every one of us have little candles in our heads that sometimes go unlit for our entire lives," Adams-Anthony Center President William Kolis said during a brief tour of the church. 0 Comments
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Mass MoCA Launches Winter Season With Free AdmissionBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
01:05AM / Thursday, December 05, 2019 | |
Mass MoCA spokeswoman Jodi Joseph welcomes the gathering of museum employees and volunteers to the winter season update. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is offering an early Christmas present to Berkshire County residents: Free admission to the galleries from Dec. 6 through Dec. 22. "We do this once a year. We do it as a pop up," said Jodi Joseph, director of communications. "We delight in throwing open the doors to bring our friends and neighbors from all over the county here." Art, she said, edifies and enriches us in these uncertain times. "It comforts, it nourishes, teaches, it inspires, 0 Comments
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'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood': What This World Needs NowBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:03PM / Friday, November 29, 2019 | |
 Can you say inspirational? I can't remember the last time I left the movie theater thinking that what I had just seen was inspirational. Crazy? Yes. Funny? Yes. Sad and foreboding? Yes, quite often. But inspirational, in this cynical environment, with the Philistines at the gate? Nah, couldn't be. Who'd buy it? But true enough, relying on the wonderfully positive legacy Fred Rogers bequeathed us, that's the overriding motif of director Marielle Heller's splendidly etched "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." You see, borrowing from Mr. Rogers' overwhelmingly positive spiel, I believe even the most disingenuous supporters of the evil 0 Comments
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Williamstown, Great Barrington Join 'Fair Saturday' Celebration| 05:05PM / Thursday, November 28, 2019 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Cultural District is participating in the first celebration of "Fair Saturday" in the United States. Williamstown will be involved as part of the state's inaugural participation, which is being coordinated by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In Berkshire County, the town of Great Barrington also is participating. The complete list of participating towns and cities and more information can be found online.
Fair Saturday is an independent not-for-profit organization, based in Bilbao, Spain. Since 2015, it has been committed to developing a better world through the promotion of arts and culture. Every year, on the last Saturday
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Mac-Haydn Theatre, Shakespeare Take Top Honors at Berkshire Theatre Awards| 04:20PM / Thursday, November 21, 2019 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Theatre Critics Association presented the Berkshire Theatre Awards on Nov. 11, the fourth year the awards have been presented to honor and celebrate the excellence and diversity of theater in the greater Berkshire region.
The 2019 awards really display the commitment of regional theaters to presenting new and diverse work. Women and minorities were well-represented among the nominees and the winners in all categories. Nominees represented theaters in Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Connecticut.
Critics J. Peter Bergman and Macey Levin once again hosted the ceremony, which saw top honors for Outstanding Play Production go to the Shakespeare
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'Ford v Ferrari': Or, Goliath v DavidBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:39PM / Thursday, November 21, 2019 | |
 The red-blooded American portion of me, the part that in my youth soaked up John Wayne movies, was gratified by the spirit of director James Mangold's studiously executed "Ford v Ferrari." Rah, rah and all that good stuff. Ferrari had been dominating world auto racing and its reign might have gone on for a bit longer had it not been for il Commendatore's dissing of the Deuce. That's car enthusiast colloquium for Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford II. And the automobile industry version of "The Cask of Amontillado" to which I allude concerns Ferrari adding insult to industry when he not only rebuffed the Detroit magnate's attempt to buy his Prancing 0 Comments
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Fall Festival Of Shakespeare Finale Performances Run Nov. 21-24| 01:19PM / Thursday, November 21, 2019 | |
 LENOX, Mass. — The annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare is back, bringing hundreds of teenagers from 10 area high schools to the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company.
Beginning on Nov. 21, the four-day festival marks the culmination of the award-winning program that places Shakespeare & Company Education Artists in 10 high schools across Berkshire and Columbia counties for nine weeks. During the program, students explore creative thinking, teamwork and Shakespeare as they create a 90-minute fully produced performance to be shared with their neighboring communities.
The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is nationally recognized for its innovative teaching, emotional
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Berkshire Museum Will Be Free for Children Under 18 in 2020| 01:06PM / Thursday, November 21, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — All children under 18 years of age will receive free admission to the Berkshire Museum in 2020 through an initiative honoring Elizabeth "Buzz" McGraw, president of the museum's Board of Trustees.
The museum's annual gala in June raised more than $300,000 to support the museum's education programs and expand free access to its youngest visitors. Free admission for youth will begin in January 2020.
"We are so grateful to the many supporters who are making it possible for us to give back to the community in such a powerful way," said Jeff Rodgers, executive director of the Berkshire Museum. "And all of this in honor of Buzz
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'Parasite': For Richer or PoorerBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:44PM / Thursday, November 14, 2019 | |
 "You see, sir, rich people and theorists, who are usually rich people, think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches, as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned." I think I was about 6 or 7 when someone thought it whimsically wise to inform me that, "The rich get richer and the poor have more children." If memory serves, I at first thought the aphorism rather 0 Comments
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