Cultural Pittsfield This Week: Aug. 4-1005:15PM / Thursday, August 03, 2017 | |
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Enjoy more than a dozen different art shows featuring work by more than 20 accomplished regional artists in Pittsfield's bustling Upstreet Cultural District during the First Fridays Artswalk and all month long!
Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. hosts Adriana Sgobba, an artist from Pittsfield's Italian Sister City: Cava De Tirreni. There will be a reception, hosted by the Italian Sister City Committee, during First Fridays Artswalk and open gallery hours Saturday-Saturday, August 5-12 (closed Sunday) 10 a.m.-2p.m. Click here for more information.
The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts hosts Karen Chase's locoMOTION with a preview during First Fridays Artswalk and an opening reception Sunday, August 6 4-6 p.m.
In most venues, artists will be present from 5-8 p.m. A free guided tour begins at 5 p.m. at the Intermodal Center @ BRTA, 1 Columbus Ave. Mary McGinnis, co-founder of First Fridays Artswalk, will bring you through the various art exhibits!
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The last show in the 2017 Shire City Sessions FREE concert series will feature the Boston-based band Vundabar. North Adams' own Francesca Shanks will be the evening's special guest. Concerts begin at 6 p.m. on the First Street Common. Rain moves the show indoors to the Zion Lutheran Church.
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Barrington Stage Company will host the first Youth Empowerment Series event at its Blatt Center on Linden Street. Children under 18 will be admitted free of charge. Speaker Dwana Smallwood is a former principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the architect of the dance program at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. She'll talk to the youth of our community to encourage them to take charge of their lives and to take ownership of their contribution to their communities. 11 a.m.
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Back by popular demand, yoga with goats (and chickens!) will be held 6 more times this season, beginning on Saturday, Aug. 5 from 10 - 11 a.m. at Hancock Shaker Village. The $25 fee includes admission to the entire Village.
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Don't miss the last weekend of Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park's Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's delightful comedy of misplaced passion and mistaken identities. This is a FREE outdoor production on the First Street Common. Featuring live music and slapstick comedy, it is the perfect complement to a beatiful Berkshire summer evening under the stars.
Thurs-Sun 8pm
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The Dirty Brush, located at 141 North Street, will host a paint-your-own-coffee-mug fundraiser for Save Our Shakespeare at Taconic on Tuesday evening from 6-9 p.m. The cost is $30 per person.
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This month's Shire City Kitchen communitydinner will be cooked by Iris Kol and Yukiko Sato, and will feature fresh, cooling dishes such as cream of leek and potato Vichyssoise, watermelon salad with roasted tomato and pistachio, smoked maple blueberry tart with basil-lime sorbet, housemade ginger blueberry ale and a lot more. $25. Arrive any time between 6-8 p.m.
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This Saturday, the market celebrates art and you can, too, by helping to paint the new Morningside Mural! There will also be a pop-up reading party, a story time and book-making for kids. Make an instrument out of vegetables and pose for a guitar selfie. Plus, Tom Gizzi will play live from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
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Abraham.In.Motion invites you to a FREE pre-performance workshop for LGBTQ community members, before the company presents "Dearest Home" at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (running August 2nd-August 6th). Participants of all ages who identify as LGBTQ are encouraged to attend.
No dance experience necessary! The workshop invites participants to recall, contemplate, and discuss their experiences of Love, Longing, and Loss through a series of activities which include writing love letters, mapping memories of love through guided visualization and drawing, creative love mix tapes, and more!
The workshop is FREE to all participants. Those who attend will be offered tickets to the August 4th performance of "Dearest Home" (at 8:15p) at a discounted rate (10$/ticket) and are invited to a reception with the artists immediately following the performance. Free transportation between Pittsfield and Jacob's Pillow willl be provided.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) invites you to a day of discussion, discovery and learning from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at Berkshire Community College. Tickets are $40 for members and $50 for non-members, and include lunch and refreshments.
The day kicks off with a discussion with Williams College professor Charles Dew, one of America's most respected scholars on the history of slavery, and author of the recent memoir The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade.
Over lunch, hear from attorney and activist Tahirah Amatul Wadud, who serves on both the Mass. Commission on the Status of Women and the Mass. Council on Islamic-American Relations.
In the afternoon, artist Setsuko Winchester will share the story of her groundbreaking Freedom From Fear/The Yellow Bowl Project, which has traveled to Japanese-American internment camps and other locations across the U.S. |
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 and more!
28 Renne Ave. | Open Wednesday - Saturday from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts presents abstract paintings by local artist and author Karen Chase.
Preview during First Fridays Artswalk: Friday, August 4 from 5-8 p.m.
Opening Reception:
Sunday, August 6 from 4-6 p.m.
Black and white attire encouraged.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARKING METER PLAN |
Five things to remember about the new downtown parking system:
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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