Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
"We live a very long way from the shores of the Pacific Ocean--a sea so immeasurably vast it could swallow all the continents and have room to spare. But our distance from it should not cloud our realization that this is the ocean around which all our futures will play out--for it is where mankind's [...]
Simon will describe the writing of his new, celebrated book, Pacific. “We live a very long way from the shores of the Pacific Ocean – a sea so immeasurably vast it could swallow all the continents and have room to spare. But our distance from it should not cloud our realization that this is the [...]
Opening Reception : 12th Dec 2015 02:00 PM Date of Show : 12th Dec 2015 - 30th Nov -0001 In conjunction with this original theatrical production of Hansel and Gretel, students from the Farmington River School, under the guidance of Art Teacher Laura Catullo, will exhibit art work with the fairy tale as their inspiration. [...]
To celebrate the holiday season the Sandisfield Players and children from Sandisfield and neighboring towns will bring you this beloved fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The production is directed by Ben Luxon, and is staged with music, dance, and scenery. Young and old alike will be spellbound watching the performers bring this story to [...]
Opening Reception : 30th Apr 2016 02:00 PM Date of Show : 30th Apr 2016 - 30th Nov -0001 Artist Statement Born and raised in rural Connecticut I was always out in the woods and in nature. I always appreciated the natural world, but never had a way to express my love for nature and [...]
Special guest Rep Smitty Pignatelli will be on hand to proclaim the opening of the Arts Center 2016 Season! Join us at 3:30 outside the Arts Center for refreshments, cookies, and balloons to celebrate the opening of our 21st season. Hear Rep Pignatelli read the official opening Proclamation and renowned bagpiper Nancy Tunnicliffe pipe us into Spring [...]
Join us for a poetry reading with music and a reception celebrating the opening of the Arts Center's 2016 season and the beginning of spring. Poets: Hannah Fries, Zack Finch, Emily Pulfer-Terino, Hilde Weisert. Poets will read their own poems as well as classic poems of spring. The afternoon includes two Sandisfield poets, Hannah Fries, author [...]
Join local authors/storytellers Courtney Maum and Hallie Goodman for a dynamic performance-based workshop where live reading is used as a revision tool. Reading work out loud is a stupendous way to identify the trouble spots in a piece of writing. With the creative input of other participants, Courtney and Hallie will help fiction and non-fiction [...]
Local historian Ronald Bernard, and consultant to the Sandisfield Historical Commission, Bonnie Parsons, will review with interested homeowners and others the results of the recently completed official survey of the town's architecturally and historically significant assets. Some one hundred surviving antique houses and buildings were surveyed and submitted to the Massachusetts Historical Commission. That body [...]
Against all odds, the Arts Center (“a gem in the woods”) offers a wealth of performances, art exhibits, and education programs that enliven the spirit and enrich the lives of young and old alike. If you were there last year, you know what a fun and entertaining evening it was, if you’ve never been, then [...]
