Cultural Pittsfield This Week: June 9-15| 11:39AM / Friday, June 09, 2017 | |
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Upstreet Pittsfield's award-winning street festival, 3rd Thursday, returns on Thursday, June 15 with the theme Heathy Pittsfield. The largest free outdoor event series in the Berkshires, 3rd Thursdays are family friendly and open to all. North St. will be closed to vehicular traffic from West St. to Linden St. and will be filled with music, dancing, food and community activities from 5-8 p.m.
Celebrate health with a massive dance party with DJ BFG at Persip Park; enter the Green Mile Road Race (please pre-register; no race-day sign-ups); and enjoy free yoga, Zumba, hip-hop and other classes for all ages with Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness.
Jacob's Pillow will host a pop-up dance performance with the Throwdown Collective on St. Joseph's lawn. Berkshire Theatre Group will present an excerpt from The Music Man. St. Stephen's Church will screen The Cameraman starring Buster Keaton, with live organ accompaniment by Peter Krasinski, you can learn to drum with the Berkshire Rhythm Keepers and more!
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United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Berkshire County are bringing the U.S. Stones to the Berkshires for one night only in a benefit concert for UCP. This American Rolling Stones tribute band portray a young, "in their prime" Stones, capturing the looks, moves and style of the real band. The Colonial Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $28.50/$38.50/$48.50
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The Pittsfield Kiwanis Club presents a Bike Rodeo & Family Safety Day at the First Street Common Park from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Bring your bicycles and ride through the bike course! This event is FREE and open to all Pittsfield schoolchildren in grades K-4. There will be free bike helmets (while they last) and two bikes will be given away!
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Berkshire Yoga, Dance & Fitness presents yoga with Lawrence Carroll every Monday evening from June 12 - August 28 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. All ages and levels welcome. Bring a mat if you have one (some extras available for use). Drop-ins welcome! $10 suggested donation per class.
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Barrington Stage Company presents The Creative Place International/And Theatre Company production starring BSC veteran Jeff McCarthy as the self-described "radical lawyer" and civil rights activist William Kunstler. The colorful, perpetually rumpled defense lawyer whose best-known clients include the Chicago Seven, inmates involved in the Attica prison riots and members of the American Indian Movement, makes a case for his often unconventional style in this wise and revealing play on the St. Germain Stage.
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The Funky Phoenix, located at 441 North Street, will offer a workshop where you can create your own funky wren house with wood and a repurposed license plate of your choice.
There will be a large array of painting and accessorizing supplies available to choose from and all the help you need to bring your ideas to fruition. $30. 6-8 p.m.
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Berkshire Craft Beer Festival & Chug Run 5K is back! The biggest beer fest in the Berkshires returns for its third year with 200+ craft beers, great food, a 5K, live music and more. Plus, every penny goes to local charities! 12-5 p.m. at The Common Park.
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The Jewish Federation's Connecting with Community series presents "An Opera Festival in the Berkshires" with director Jonathon Loy, artistic director Brian Garman and costume designer Charles Caine of the Berkshire Opera Company. They'll share details about BOF's upcoming main stage production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. 10:45 a.m.
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Exhibition on Screen: The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
at The Little Cinema
This film is based on the critically acclaimed exhibition "Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of a Genius at the Noordbrabants Museum," which brought together practically all the artist's major paintings and drawings from around the world..
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Want to have a say in how the local arts community is funded? Interested in learning about cultural programming in the city? Come join us! We're a volunteer group that allocates grants to Pittsfield-based arts and cultural organizations on an annual basis. For more information, contact us at: pittsfieldculture@yahoo.com |
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What's Showing at The Licht
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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. | Hours Wed-Sat 11am-4pm
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The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts presents Face Them, a collaborative exhibit focusing on five current topics: animal cruelty, global warming, gun control, human trafficking and population explosion. Now - June 24. [Shown: One of 5 works by National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer]
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARKING METER PLAN
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1. Always enter your license plate number - even for the FREE first 30 minutes.
2. On-street parking is $1 per hour; lot parking is 50 cents per hour. There are also nearly 400 free parking spaces on the city's side streets.
3. You can pay by coin, credit card, or by downloading the Passport parking app.
4. You do not need to display the parking receipt on your dashboard.
5. Parking is FREE on evenings and weekends!
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