(LENOX, Mass.) — The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home has been awarded a $300,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will fund humanities-related programs and staff positions through December 2020. The award allows The Mount to expand its roster of online literary conversations and move forward with reopening as a historic house…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Author Seth Rogovoy will deliver a virtual multimedia presentation called “The Kabbalah of Bob Dylan” on Thursday, June 18, at 7pm, as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s ongoing series of Virtual Public Programs. In the talk, which includes narration, song clips, and video, Rogovoy will review Bob Dylan’s life and career…
(HUDSON, N.Y., May 27, 2020) – Six creative workers will share a total of $3,000 in stipends in a third round of funding from the Hudson Arts Emergency Program, a community-funded, WPA-style project run by the Hudson Development Corporation, supporting individual artists for projects that speak to life in Hudson during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Crescendo, a German film about a Palestinian/Israeli youth orchestra put together by a German conductor to play at a peace conference, is screening online via the Triplex in Great Barrington, Mass. Well-known Berkshirite Stephen Glantz is one of the film’s co-writers. Loosely inspired by Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, award-winning…
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) – The multitalented visual and performing artist Phoebe Legere headlines an all-star list of Lower East Side performers and arts professionals from the Theater for the New City celebrating its 25th anniversary on Saturday, May 23, at 8pm online at Theater for the New City. Other performers include Austin Pendelton, F. Murray…
( HUDSON, N.Y., May 12, 2020) – Sixteen creative workers will share a total of $8,000 in stipends in a second round of funding from the Hudson Arts Emergency Program, a community-funded, WPA-style project, supporting individual artists for projects that speak to life in Hudson during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. The first round of funding…
by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass., May 15, 2020) – There will be no unofficial kickoff to the Berkshire summer cultural season by Sweet Baby James. Tanglewood’s summer 2020 season has been cancelled, another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a huge blow to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and to the Berkshire economy, heavily reliant…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – Author Seth Rogovoy will deliver a virtual multimedia presentation called “The Essential Klezmer” on Thursday, May 14, at 7pm, as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s ongoing series of Virtual Public Programs. In the talk, which includes narration, song clips, and video, Rogovoy will recount the evolution of klezmer from Old World…
(HUDSON, N.Y., May 4, 2020) – Cat Tyc, Spencer Bambrick, Sam Meyerson and Timothy McDowell are the first creative workers to receive funding in the form of $500 stipends from the Hudson Arts Emergency Program, a community-funded, WPA-style project, supporting individual artists for projects that speak to life in Hudson during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.…
(SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Gto., Mexico) – “Silent Acoustic: A Sculpture Conversation with DJ Barrett and Emily C-D” is a collaborative virtual exhibit by two artists from the United States who live in central Mexico. They were in discussions with a gallery in San Miguel de Allende to mount this exhibit when the pandemic hit.…
