A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(PITTSFIELD and STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The Made in the Berkshires Festival, featuring cutting-edge theatrical works performed as staged readings, live music, film, short stories and dance, all by Berkshire artists, takes place at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass., and the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, Mass., on Friday, October 23 through Sunday, October 25, 2015. The 5th annual Made in the Berkshires Festival features…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – New York-based contemporary dance artists Katie Workum and Kimberly Bartosik are featured in an evening of cutting-edge movement in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at 8pm. Workum brings her new work. “Black Lakes,” full of improvisation, risk, and humor, while Bartosik performs “Ecsteriority4 (Part 2),”…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Pianist Walter Ponce will be sitting in the hot seat in the inaugural concert of this season’s Close Encounters With Music chamber series, in a program of epic piano quartets by Brahms and Dvorak at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, October 24, at 6pm. Joining Ponce are violinist Ara Gregorian, violinist/violist Xiao-Dong…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — The Orchestra Now, an innovative master’s degree program and training orchestra founded by Bard College, will launch its inaugural performance season at Bard College’s Fisher Center this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, October 24-25, with a concert featuring works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Mieczyslaw Weinberg Bard president and TON conductor Leon Botstein will…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Chuck Prophet, one of contemporary rock’s greatest songwriters, plays a rare, intimate solo show at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, October 23, at 9pm. Boston-based twang-rocker Sarah Borges warms up the crowd for Prophet. Chuck Prophet writes and sings wry, trenchant rock songs that connect the dots, musical and otherwise, between Tom Petty…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Wind-Up Fest, the rebooted version of the Williamstown Film Festival, kicks off on Thursday, October 15, with “Olmo and the Seagull,” directed by Petra Costa and Lea Glob, followed by an opening night party with Northampton music favorites And The Kids offering up “apocalyptic pop” along with The Sun Parade. The festival…
LAURIE ANDERSON FILM ESSAY and ROBERT REDFORD’S DAN RATHER FEATURE HEADLINE FILMCOLUMBIA LINEUP (CHATHAM and HUDSON, N.Y.) – FilmColumbia brings prize-winning films, including recent work by masters of modern cinema, to Columbia County for seven days from Monday, October 19, through Sunday, October 25. FilmColumbia will screen narrative and documentary features, animated and live-action short…
(CHATHAM and HUDSON, N.Y.) – FilmColumbia brings prize-winning films, including recent work by masters of modern cinema, to Columbia County for seven days from Monday, October 19, through Sunday, October 25. FilmColumbia will screen narrative and documentary features, animated and live-action short films and contenders by regional filmmakers at venues in both Chatham and Hudson.…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Writer/performer Carl Hancock Rux and composer/musician Theo Bleckmann perform their two-man show, “The Exalted” – the story of the last days of German-Jewish art historian Carl Einstein, one of the first critics to affirm the importance of African sculpture, thus influencing the development of Cubism and the European avant-garde – at the…
(POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – The Hudson Valley Philharmonic’s 56th season kicks off with “This Land,” a program featuring new compositions by David Amram on the 75th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s American anthem, “This Land is Your Land”; a video program of historic Dust Bowl images set to Samuel Barber’s haunting Adagio; and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, lending…
