(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez, the author of Arctic Dreams and twelve other works of fiction and nonfiction, will speak on “A Different Kind of Citizenship: Maintaining Good Relations with the Earth,” at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center tonight (Thursday, September 22, 2011) at 8, in a program sponsored by…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Norman Rockwell Museum has named illustrator David Macaulay as 2011-2012 Artist Laureate. An award-winning author and artist whose work has helped readers better understand the workings of everything from simple gadgets to monumental structures, Macaulay employs pictures and words to reveal the secret lives of buildings, the wonders of the human body,…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – As the language of yoga – the word ‘yoga’ itself derives from Sanskrit — it is impossible to separate the practice of yoga from the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit. Upcoming language, chanting, and musical programs at Sruti Yoga Center draw upon Sanskrit, “the language of the gods,” with visiting teachers…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Close Encounters With Music (CEWM) opens its 20th anniversary season with the renowned Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in a program of music by Dvorak, Elgar, Shostakovich, and Bach, on Sunday, October 30, 2011, at 2 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. The critically acclaimed chamber music series featuring astute commentary by artistic…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is closing in on a record-setting single ticket sale total of $1 million for the first time in the theater’s 17-year history for the 2011 season. The landmark is expected to be passed this weekend with cabaret singer Amanda McBroom’s two performances on Friday and Saturday, September 23…
(ALBANY, N.Y.) – Violinist Alicia Svigals, the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Klezmatics, will present a program of ecstatic Jewish melodies at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:30pm. Svigals will be accompanied by Patrick Farrell on accordion and Brian Glassman on…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Orson Welles’s legendary radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds that caused panic among listeners who mistook the fictionalized program about an alien invasion for an authentic news bulletin when first broadcast on Halloween in 1938 has now been wrought for the stage and is being presented by Shakespeare &…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Bluegrass legend Del McCoury and progressive bluegrass/jam-band Yonder Mountain String Band headline FreshGrass: A Festival of Bluegrass + Art, MASS MoCA’s first-ever bluegrass festival, on Saturday, September 24, 2011, from 6 to 11 p.m. and Sunday, September 25 from 11 to 6 in MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center and Courtyard C. FreshGrass…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Chesterwood will mark the harvest season with food, spirits and live music at the second annual Cider Mash Bash on Saturday, September 17, 2011, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Guests will enjoy beverages by Berkshire Mountain Distillery Spirits, Furnace Brook Winery, Wandering Star Brewing Company, and Woodchuck Hard Cider, and dinner by…
(LENOX, Mass.) — Berkshire Grown’s annual Harvest Supper celebrating local food and farms takes place Monday, September 19, at 6:30-8:30 pm at Eastover Hotel and Resort in Lenox. The Farm to Table feast features dishes prepared by Berkshire Grown member chefs using fresh ingredients from local farms. Food will be paired with samplings from regional…
