Cultural Pittsfield This Week: Sept. 15-21| 11:36AM / Friday, September 15, 2017 | |
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The 7th annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes benefit for the Elizabeth Freeman Center will be the main feature of this season's last 3rd Thursday. Registration begins at 5 p.m. at Persip Park (at the corner of North St. and Columbus Ave.) and the walk begins at 6 p.m.
In addition, enjoy vendors, activities for kids, and live music from the Sister City Jazz Ambassadors featuring Andy Kelly, Matchstick Architects, Rock On!, Critical Mass, The Picky B's and more.
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The $5 Comedy Garage at The Colonial Theatre welcomes stand-up comic and television personality Jordan Carlos, best known for his work as a writer and contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and The Colbert Report. 7:30 p.m.
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Lights, Camera, Action! Pittsfield Community Television (PCTV) and Berkshire Children and Families are looking for help to develop the first and only all-youth-run TV show. Middle school through high school students are welcome to come learn about creating, producing, and hosting a TV program. Food and transportation provided. 5:30-6:30 p.m.
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Rogue Yoga, at 10 Lyman Street, presents yin yoga, a style that targets the connective tissues such as the ligaments, bones, and even the joints of the body that normally are not exercised very much in a more active asana practice. 6-7:30 p.m. $15 per person.
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Barrington Stage Company presents the Creative Place International/And Theatre Company's production - back by popular demand! Jeff McCarthy stars as the self-described "radical lawyer" and civil rights activist William Kunstler. The perpetually rumpled 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. St. Germain Stage.
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Berkshire Paint & Sip invites you to paint "Mt. Greylock at Dusk" on a 16 x 20 canvas to benefit The Key Program. The $35 fee includes instruction, all materials, a donation, and a light snack. BYOB. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
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Berkshire Music School, located at 30 Wendell Ave., will host an open house on Saturday from 10 a.m. to Noon. Check out an instrument, meet faculty members, learn about classes for youngsters, and enjoy refreshments.
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This Saturday, find out how you can win a $25 gift card to the market, pet the silkie chickens from Olsen Farm, tour the renovated common room at Zion Lutheran Church (the new home of the Indoor Market), and enjoy music from Robin O'Herin from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at BCC invites the community to a lecture by University of Albany Associate Professor Suraj Commuri entitled "The Honesty of Hoax: Stories Behind the Consumption of Counterfeits." $10 for OLLI and Museum members, $15 for the general public, and free for those 17 and under and BCC students. 2 p.m.
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When two sisters suspect their father (John Turturro) may be having an affair, it sends them into a tailspin that reveals cracks in the family façade. For the first time, older sister Dana (Jenny Slate), recently engaged and struggling with her own fidelity, finds herself bonding with her wild teenage sister Ali (Abby Quinn). The two try to uncover the truth without tipping off their mother (Edie Falco) and discover the messy reality of love and sex in the process.
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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 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 Illuminated Broadsides: Word & Image, curated by Julio Granda.
In this exhibition, at least 25 poets and artists have collaborated to create works of art that incorporate a variety of printing methods - letter press/offset/silkscreen/inkjet - to achieve an unusual but beautiful marriage of word and image.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARKING METER PLAN
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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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