Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
Open Mic Night Comes to the Arts Center! Our free Summer Open Mic Night is a BYOT event—Bring Your Own Talent. What better way to spend a summer evening than with friends singing your favorite songs, and enjoying a tasty libation. If singing isn’t your thing, come and share a joke or read a poem, [...]
"THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT” George Santayana 1863-1952 Our resident historian, Bill Cohn, focusses his remarks on this legendary statement from philosopher George Santayana’s as well as historian Stephen Engle’s observation that today “we live in a world in which what people believe happened is all that matters” – [...]
September In the Gallery Opening Reception : 1st Sep 2018 02:00 PM Date of Show : 1st Sep 2018 - 30th Sep 2018 Artist's Statement: Since I began painting, I have always tried to keep my images simple and uncluttered. Leaving people or animals out of my work creates a sense of stillness and peace. [...]
An Evening of Song has been postponed to 2019.
Val Coleman will argue that the American constitution, indeed the United States itself, was finally secured and ratified by a rail-splitting prairie intellectual named Abraham Lincoln. Val is generally acknowledged as the poet laureate of Sandisfield, regularly publishing poems in The Sandisfield Times and elsewhere. His previous presentations on the history of poetry, and also [...]
Premier performance! Also presented Sunday September 23 as a matinee at St James Place in Great Barringon. Four comic Skits; Five Actors; Costumes, and a very funny evening of what might have happened to Will Shakespeare and his plays. “Groundlings” “My Horse, My Horse” “Waiting on Will” “It’s a Tragedy” Performed by The Sandisfield Players; [...]
Repeat, matinee performance in Great Barrington at St James Place! Four comic Skits; Five Actors; Costumes, and a very funny afternoon of what might have happened to Will Shakespeare and his plays. “Groundlings” “My Horse, My Horse” “Waiting on Will” “It’s a Tragedy” Performed by The Sandisfield Players; Directed by Ben Luxon and Jesse Howard [...]
Celebrate the publication of Soil and Shul in the Berkshires as the author Lorraine German speaks about the development of the book and shares some of the stories of the lives of the Jewish farm community in the Berkshires. Clarinetist Paul Green and keyboard artist/arranger Bob Weiner and their Klezmer group will perform both traditional Klezmer [...]
October In the Gallery Opening Reception : 6th Oct 2018 02:00 PM Date of Show : 6th Oct 2018 - 9th Dec 2018 Artist’s Statement: “My paintings are personal explorations of the world in which I live—the simple and mundane parts of daily life that often go unnoticed. I am inspired by my longtime love [...]
