Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
It’s Friday night at the movies at the Arts Center. This month’s selection for the whole family is Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2. Popcorn and snacks are provided. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team Guardians of the Galaxy, produced by Marvel [...]
Michelle is the author of Crossword Puzzles for Dummies and Four Letter Words: Secrets of a Crossword Insider. She is also an official at the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Stamford, CT, and a resident of Sandisfield. Michelle's crossword workshop last season drew a packed (and passionate) house, so reserve early! Late-breaking news! This [...]
We are thrilled to bring back Frederick Moyer after his wonderful recital (and the debut of our Stainway) last year. Moyer is equally at home with Bach, Rachmaninoff, and Schoenberg as well as Ellington and Peterson. His recitals are engaging and generally include time-honored favorites. His MoyerCam is a projection system that allows the audience [...]
Have you ever wondered how a fully-staged opera is brought to life? Have you wondered if opera was something you'd enjoy? Berkshire Opera Festival co-founders Brian Garman and Jonathon Loy will answer all your questions through an interactive presentation on their summer 2019 production of the comic opera Don Pasquale, which will be performed at [...]
Free opening reception Saturday, August 3rd, 2:00 - 4:00 PM. After the opening reception, the show will run until August 28, and can be seen before performances or by appointment. Call 413-258-4100. Artist's Statement: “Wherever I go I cannot help but see the colors and scenes around me as a painting. Watercolor always provides a [...]
It’s Friday night at the movies at the Arts Center. This month’s selection for the whole family is "The Empire Strikes Back" The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space-opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan wrote [...]
Early in the Depression, on February 2, 1931, Silas H. Strawn, Chairman of the United States Chamber of Commerce, warned, “in a condition of this kind, the thing to be feared most is fear itself.” In March 1933 President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt echoed this same sentiment in his inaugural address when he told the American [...]
Jana Laiz, writer in residence at Herman Melville's Arrowhead, will read from and talk about recent books such as Blanket of Stars and Billy Budd in the Breadbox: The Story of Herman Melville, as well as two books in development for film, Weeping Under This Same Moon and A Free Woman on God’s Earth: The [...]
Free opening reception Saturday, September 7th 2:00-4:00 PM. After the opening reception, the show will run until September 28, and can be seen before performances or by appointment. Call 413-258-4100. Artist’s Statement: All around us, the natural world offers a distant mirror of our experiences: in the sky and water and on the earth. Great [...]
Join us for this Academy Award - winning classic (Best Foreign Language Film, 1971), setting the context for historian Robert Maryks’ talk the next day, which will include correspondence from the Finzi-Continis. Amid the ravages of WWII, the Finzi-Continis, a cultured Jewish family, live in aristocratic splendor on their Eden-like estate in Ferrara, Italy. As [...]
