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Cultural Pittsfield This Week: May 20-26

10:58PM / Thursday, May 19, 2016

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May 20 - May 26, 2016

TONIGHT Third Thursday from 5-8 p.m.

The 10th anniversary season of Third Thursdays is kicking off with a Youth theme. Highlights include: Bowey the Clown, face painting at Sottile Park, the Berkshire Athenaeum Lego Tent, the Community Art Tent and Sidewalk Chalk Art Gallery, the Carr Hardware bounce house, Berkshire Museum's dinosaur egg hunt, the Roaming Railroad, the NAMI Berkshire County walk and more!

With performances from: the Reid Middle School and Taconic High School bands, The Youth Alive Step Team, Kids 4 Harmony, Berkshire Pulse Youth Drummers, Rock On and more! Live 95.9 will be broadcasting live from the event.

Upstreet Cultural District. 5-8 p.m. Get the full schedule.

MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE

THU Le Vent du Nord at The Colonial

Considered a driving force in progressive folk, Quebec's Le Vent du Nord is blazing a path that connects their roots to the wider world. On stage, these four friends achieve peaks of happiness that they eagerly share with their audiences. Winning critical acclaim and audience adoration across the country, the quartet has earned several prestigious awards including two Junos and a Canadian Folk Music Award. The group has a rich and varied instrumentation, well-polished musical arrangements, and wonderful vocals. Thursday at 8 p.m. $35. Get your tickets here.

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FRI The Concert that Once Was at The A | FRI Swing Dancing with The Lucky Five at Shire City Sanctuary | FRI Cards Against Humanity at Hotel on North | FRI Mollie Glazer at South Church | FRI Freddy Shehadi & Friends at Mission | FRI Miss B. Haven at The Colonial | FRI Blue Light Trio at Rainbow | FRI Madison Avenue at J. Allen's | SAT Latin Night with Alan Franco at The A | SAT Comedian Rick D'Elia at J. Allen's | SAT Dan Gingras at Rainbow | SAT Cafe Anshe music fundraiser at Temple Anshe Amunim | SUN The Berkshire Concert Choir at St. Mark's Church | SUN-MON Donna McKechnie at Mr. Finn's Cabaret | TUE Berkshire Brewing Co. Flight Night at Rainbow | WED Gruppo Mondo at Rainbow

FAMILY FRIENDLY

FRI-SUN Our Town at Miss Hall's School

Set in the 1930s in a fictional New Hampshire hamlet, Thornton Wilder's Our Town employs a "play within a play" to explore the ups and downs of day-to-day life. While showcasing the seemingly ordinary goings-on of Grover's Corners, the drama makes the case that the world is also rife with complexities, featuring injustice and hypocrisy as well as virtue and kindliness alongside triumphs and sorrows.

Learn more and reserve tickets.

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ONGOING Short Story Contest at Berkshire Athenaeum | FRI-SAT The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Pittsfield High | SAT Meet the Inventors at Berkshire Museum | TUE Storytime at Berkshire Athenaeum | WED Parent/Child STEM at Berkshire Museum

GET CREATIVE

SUN Open House & Art Show at Berkshire Paint & Sip

View artwork created by Michelle's students and enjoy complimentary wine and snacks. Many of the exhibiting artists will be present to talk about their works and answer any questions you may have about the Berkshire Paint & Sip studio, upcoming events, and art classes. 6-8 p.m.

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TUE Coloring with Tablets at Berkshire Athenaeum | WED Intro to Screen Printing at Shire City Sanctuary

WELLNESS

SAT YMCA Tie Dye Dash at Burbank Park

The Tie Dye Dash is a fun run filled with vibrant colors and you as the canvas! The 5K color run begins and ends in Burbank Park, where victory is in doing your personal best. You can walk, jog, run or hop on one foot as long as you get out there and give it your all. All proceeds support the Y's Bright Futures: Summer Literacy Program. Get all of the details.

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SUN Restorative Yoga with Thai Massage at Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness

PERFORMANCE

FRI+ Presto Change-O at Barrington Stage Company

This exciting new musical world premiere tells the story of three generations of magicians who find themselves under one roof for the first time in years. When the grandfather causes real magic to happen, they must confront their past mistakes and re-examine what it means to be a family. Now - June 11 at the St. Germain Stage.

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FRI-SAT The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Pittsfield High | FRI-SUN Avenue Q at BCC | FRI-SUN Our Town at Miss Hall's School

COMMUNITY

FRI Movers + Shakers Party at Hancock Shaker Village

Help Berkshire United Way celebrate the culmination of their Day of Caring countywide project, where they installed 50 book houses to help children gain access to reading all year long.

Shake the night away with beats from DJ BFG. Enjoy complimentary hors' d'oeuvres and signature cocktails, plus homemade milkshakes from The Scoop, and pop-up dance performances. Tickets are $50/person. 7-11 p.m. Get your tickets before they sell out!

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SAT Downtown Pittsfield Farmer's Market SAT Meet the Inventors at Berkshire Museum | SAT 8th Annual Plant Sale at Zion Lutheran Church | SAT Horizons Plant Sale at Miss Hall's School | SUN Armed Forces Day Tribute Ceremony at ITAM Lodge

LEARN

WED The History of Pittsfield in Postcards at The Library

Peter Bergman of the Berkshire Historical Societypresents "A Celebration of the History of Pittsfield in Postcards." The event is free and there is no registration required. 5:30 p.m.

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FRI Baseball in the Berkshires Exhibit at Country Club of Pittsfield | SAT Learner's Lab: Beekeeping at Berkshire Museum | MON Looking for Strangers with Dori Katz at Knesset Israel | MON Opening Day at Arrowhead | WED Intro to Screen Printing at Shire City Sanctuary | THU Plucked from the Headlines at Knesset Israel | THU Alternative Perspectives: Voice Dialoguing at Shire City Sanctuary

FILM

Mustang

at the Little Cinema

This Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film follows five free-spirited teenage sisters in a village in Northern Turkey as their family overreacts to innocent fun and essentially imprisons the girls in preparation for them to become brides. As the eldest sisters are married off, the younger ones bond together to avoid the same fate. The fierce love between them empowers them to rebel and chase a future where they can determine their own lives in Deniz Gamze Ergüven's powerful film.

Get showtimes.

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

Art in Our Schools

This annual exhibition features the work of middle and high school art students in Pittsfield. A special thank you to the art teachers Michael Boroneic, Mary Beth Eldridge, Alisa Mierzejewski, Lisa Ostellino, Barbara Patton, Colleen Quinn, Lauretta Saldo and Amy Sommers. The exhibit runs through May 28.

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