(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – By pre-booking reservations for WAM Theatre’s November production of The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls, a Canadian comedy about three sisters making its Berkshire premiere November 3-20 at Barrington Stage Company Stage 2 in Pittsfield, by October 15, 2011, ticket-buyers will have the opportunity to be entered into a drawing…
(SOUTHFIELD, Mass.) – The Women’s Cancer Wellness Fund, founded by Bridget Ford Hughes, is presenting the 2nd Annual Wellness Walk on Sunday, October 16, 2011, 9 a.m., at The Pastures, 1100 Clayton Mill River Rd., in Southfield. $25 per person. Proceeds from the Walk benefit the Fund. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Women’s…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) The Harrison Gallery will present a show of two gallery favorites: realist painter Nick Patten and bronze sculptor Susan Read Cronin. The artists will attend the opening reception on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 5 until 7 pm. Nick Patten paints the interiors of rooms in old houses with direct and reflected light…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A simulated horde of zombies will descend on downtown Pittsfield on Saturday, October 8, 2011. The Berkshire-based Zombie Action Committee will present the 2nd Annual Pittsfield Zombie Pub Crawl that evening from 5pm to midnight. Last year’s event, promoted almost exclusively through Facebook, proved extremely popular and was generally considered to be…
(BOSTON) – Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki today appointed Helena Fruscio, an experienced creative economy leader in Berkshire County, to the position of Creative Economy Industry Director for the Commonwealth. Fruscio will help advance the state’s $1 billion creative economy industry, which currently employs over 100,000 Massachusetts workers, according to a…
(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…
BOB DYLAN CELEBRATION with AUTHOR/SINGER SETH ROGOVOY and PHOTOGRAPHER KEN REGAN (NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday will be celebrated in words, music, and pictures with a talk and performance by Dylan author Seth Rogovoy and an exhibition of rarely seen photographs by Ken Regan, one of very few photographers given behind-the-scenes access…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Grammy Award-winning cabaret artist and songwriter Amanda McBroom makes an encore engagement with Michael Brourman at Barrington Stage Company for two performances Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24, 2011, at 8pm at BSC Stage 2 (36 Linden Street, Downtown Pittsfield). McBroom first came to the attention of the music public when…
(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…
