Cultural Pittsfield This Week: May 4-10| 10:45AM / Friday, May 04, 2018 | |
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Enjoy more than a dozen different art shows featuring work by more than two dozen accomplished regional and student artists in Pittsfield's bustling Upstreet Cultural District during the First Friday Artswalk, and all month long!
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.
This month's Artswalk is part of Massachusetts ArtWeek, and will feature a community painting of Pittsfield at Berkshire Paint and Sip; open studios and art demos at the Lichtenstein and NUarts; burlesque life drawing at Dottie's; and art making during the opening reception for the Art in Our Schools exhibit at the Lichtenstein.
The Whitney Center for the Arts will feature The View from Behind the Bars: Therapeutic Art by Massachusetts Inmates, including a gallery walk-through talk by curator and author Phyllis Kornfeld. There will also be an opportunity to participate in a free therapeutic art project.
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BERKSHIRE LIGHTSCAPES PROJECT |
The Lightscapes project has secured a dollar-for-dollar funding match of up to $50,000 from MassDevelopment if its crowdfunding goal is reached by Wednesday, May 16. When events are scheduled in Pittsfield's Park Square, City Hall or Dunham Mall, the City will close off these areas to traffic. Colorful, energy-efficient LED lighting will illuminate these spaces. Examples of events include dance and music performances, yoga, craft shows, public school events, food tastings and more. Please consider funding these beautiful and exciting permanent lighting projects.
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Berkshires Jazz presents Matt DeChamplain performing solo stride piano in a special dinner concert that will be part of the statewide Artweek celebration. An optional Italian buffet dinner will be available. Legion Hall, 41 Wendell Ave. 7:30 p.m. $25 performance, $42 dinner and performance.
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Berkshire Theatre Group presents Encore! An Evening to Celebrate High School Musicals, featuring 10-minute encore performances from this year's Berkshire County high school musicals. Ticket proceeds benefit BTG PLAYS!, Berkshire Theatre Group's year-round education program. 7 p.m. Adults: $15, children 16 & younger: $10.
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Artist Crispina ffrench will show you how to make a hand-sewn posey garland from recycled fabrics in her studio at Shire City Sanctuary. $75. 2-5 p.m.
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Join Tammy Rose at Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness for an 8-week Summer Shape-up series held Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 6-7 a.m. beginning May 8 and running through June 28. $160 for the entire series or $15 per class drop-in rate.
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Hancock Shaker Village and Greenagers (the organization that brings you the Farmer Olympics) will be on hand to run you through your farm paces with friendly and hilarious competitions: Egg Transport, Gourd Toss, Bucket Carry, Wheelbarrow Push, Hay Bale Roll, and more. 1-3 p.m.
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OLLI's Distinguished Speaker Series presents an interdisciplinary lecture by Jennifer Browdy, Ph.D. "Navigating Climate Change in Uncertain Times: Cultivating Personal and Political Resilience for a Thriving Future" draws on literature, history, philosophy, environmental studies, politics and economics to situate climate change as an urgent personal and political call to action. 3 p.m.
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The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci (Veep). Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweeby Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), the wily Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), and the sadistic secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale). But as they bumble, brawl and backstab their way to the top, just who is running the government?
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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. Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
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The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts will present the annual Art in Our Schools exhibit, a 30-plus-year tradition held each spring honoring art education and creative young people. Art from students in grades 6 through 12 in the Pittsfield Public Schools will be on display throughout the month of May.
There will be art making during the opening reception on Friday, May 4 from 5-8 p.m. during First Fridays Artswalk. Artists from the studios housed within the Lichtenstein - Sean McCusker, Michael Rousseau, Peg Dotchin, Jim Horsford and more - will hold open studios and some will feature live art demonstrations.
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Your opinion matters and Berkshire United Way would like to know what you think.
If you are available for 2 hours on either Wednesday, May 16 or Thursday, May 17 and are interested in finding out if you are eligible to participate in a research study, please answer a few questions here.
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