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Cultural Pittsfield This Week: April 22-28
10:51AM / Friday, April 22, 2016
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April 22 - 28, 2016
From now until Sunday, save on discontinued and seconds of Dash & Albert area rugs, sizes 2'x3' to 12'x16', with up to 90% off retail pricing. Rugs will be displayed in a small tent and in the Outlet store. Also, take 30% off all store quilts, duvet covers, bed skirts, coverlets, decorative pillows, loungewear, napkins and more. Rug pads also will be 20% off.
 
MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE
The Lucky 5 is a hard-swinging jazz band that blends swing and gypsy jazz to create a unique, foot-stomping blend of music that appeals to a wide range of music lovers. The group performs original compositions as well as puts a new spin on old jazz standards. The Lucky 5 is comprised of seasoned touring musicians who have been part of The Hunger Mountain Boys and Lauren Ambrose & The Leisure Class, and have traveled, performed and recorded with artists such as Peter Gabriel, Tony Bennett, Neko Case and Del McCoury, just to name a few. Mission Bar + Tapas, 8 p.m.
Plus... 
FRI Trivia Night to benefit The Elizabeth Freeman Center at Hotel on North 
FRI Blue Light Trio at Rainbow FRI Punk Night at The A | SAT Greg Hall & The Barnhouse Band at Mission SAT The Hotshot Hillbillies at The A | SAT David Bartley sings blue jazz at Rainbow | SUN  The Eagles Band at First United Methodist Church | TUE Alice Spatz at Berkshire Athenaeum WED Gruppo Mondo at Rainbow | THU Dance Music from Around the World at Berkshire Athenaeum
 
FAMILY FRIENDLY
Under the guidance of director Kara Demler, the talented young performers of Berkshire Children's Theater perform this classic fairy tale about the puppet who yearns to be a real boy. Each day at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
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FRI Minions at Berkshire Athenaeum | SAT Kids' Open Studio at Berkshire Paint & Sip ONGOING Baby Animals  at Hancock Shaker Village  
 
GET CREATIVE
Paint "Berkshire Botanical Garden" on a 16 x 20 canvas while you raise money for Berkshire Leadership Program's Scholarship Fund. All painting materials and a light snack included for $35. BYOB. Sip, snack and support! 2-4 p.m. More.
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MON Open Studio at Berkshire Paint & Sip | THU Sonsini Animal Shelter Fundraiser at Berkshire Paint & Sip
 
PERFORMANCES
An evening of comedy with three-time Emmy and three-time Writers Guild Award-winning comedian and writer David Feldman. Feldman has had countless TV appearances, and has written for Real Time With Bill Maher, the Academy Awards, the Emmys, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and others, and is co-host of "The Ralph Nader Radio Hour." $15 in advance, $20 day of show. Dottie's Coffee Lounge. 7:30 p.m.
 
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COMMUNITY
The 5th annual Spring Slideshow to benefit They Dance For Rain, a dance-making project in Nairobi, Kenya. Eat, relax and view new photos and videos. Visit and listen to stories. Add to your Kenyan jewelry collection. Learn more about how the project continues to grow and thrive thanks to support from the community. Suggested donation at the door: $10. Kids welcome. More info here.
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SAT Clean Up for Earth Day at Springside Park | MON Community Document Shredding at Berkshire Community College | THU Sip & Knit at Dottie's Coffee Lounge
 
LEARN
The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires presents "Crane Paper Mills: The Inner Workings from the 19th century to Today" with Peter Hopkins, director of Crane Museum of Papermaking in Dalton. Hopkins will discuss the mills and their historic impact on this region. Hopkins has been associated with the company for almost 30 years. He is keeper of the family archives, and is more than happy to share what you may not know about this company whose products are cherished around the world. Free. Congregation Knesset Israel. 10:45 a.m.
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SUN Presentation on Mountain Lions at Berkshire Museum | MON The History of Gangs class begins at OLLI  | THU Watching Dance with a Dancer's Eye class begins at OLLI  | THU The Jewish War Veterans at Knesset Israel 
 
FILM
Born To Be Blue
at the Little Cinema

In the late 1960s, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) begins a romance with an actress (Carmen Ejogo) while trying to stage a musical comeback
Films on Exhibit: ArtZoo at Berkshire Museum
Enjoy family-friendly short films that bring science and natural history to life through paper-puppet animations by filmmakers and science journalists Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shattuck. 
What's Showing at The Licht
Pittsfield's city-owned community arts center, the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, features nine working artist studios, a ceramics studio, a community room and an art gallery with changing exhibitions, classes, performances + more!
28 Renne Ave. * Wed-Sat, 11-4
Current Exhibit

The Tobin Trifecta

Continuing on the legacy of Group W Arts, The Tobin Trifecta offers a collaboration of color, composition, & sculpture.  The show features Jesse Tobin, Bill Tobin and J.J. Tobin.  It runs through Saturday, April 30.  Click here for photos.
 
 
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