Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025

BOB & THE TREES

 Come see the film that won the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic AND won the hearts of Sundance Film Festival attendees! Sandisfield filmmaker Diego Ongara's award winning portrait of Bob Tarasuk and his life as a logger. Also starring Matt Gallagher and Polly MacIntyre. $1 holds your ticket...donations will be accepted at [...]

Increased CO2 & Earth’s climate future: The rate of change is the key

The third Saturday climate change lecture with Suzanne O’Connell Never in Earth’s geologic history has atmospheric CO2 increased at today’s rate.  Prior rapid increases in CO2 caused dramatic biological changes.  This session will examine some of anticipated changes and their implications. Suzanne O’Connell is a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Wesleyan University and researches paleoclimate.  [...]

Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet

The Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet is the union of four veteran guitar soloists and chamber musicians, Joel Brown, Sten Isachsen, Brett Grigsby and Paul Quigley.  FLGQ performs a repertoire that spans several centuries and includes music written for and premiered by them.  They have performed for the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society, Great Lakes Guitar Society, [...]

Swartz Family Art Show

Opening Reception : 7th Nov 2015 02:00 PM Date of Show : 7th Nov 2015 - 30th Nov -0001 Diane Barth, Frederick Swartz, and Samantha Swartz of Sandisfield work in a variety of mediums including oil, pastel, watercolor, sculpture, photography, digital, wood, glass, and leatherwork. Diane Barth grew up in the Berkshires and attended the [...]

TIN (the movie)

 West Cornwall, 1895. A once-glorious tin mine, on which the whole town has depended for generations, is on its last legs. A weather-beaten opera company arrives to give a performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” in the town hall and finds itself tangled up in a scam to offload worthless shares in the mine. When the mine [...]

Organics in the Landscape: Healthy plants = healthy people – with Rich Lassor and Michael Mugridge from Nature Works Land Care

Lassor and Mugridge will introduce you to the natural systems at work in Nature. Learn how to work with these systems by using Organics to grow vibrantly healthy food and ornamentals in your landscape. A thriving natural Eco-system and abundant health are natural results. The talk will cover seeing your surroundings from an organic perspective [...]

Forever Young – Cabaret with Linda Mironti

In song and stories Linda Mironti explores the notion that age has nothing to do with staying young. . . or does it? Come to hear her and see what you think!  Linda's first voice teacher was her Grandmother Angelina who taught her Italian folk songs while showing her how to make gnocchi and pasta. [...]

The Development of Jewish Art Music—Paul Green

Classical, Jazz, and Klezmer clarinetist Paul Green will trace the development of Jewish Art Music from biblical times to the present day, and describe what makes music “Jewish.”  Historical events, such as the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, will be discussed insofar as they have affected and influenced Jewish music.  The lecture/performance will [...]

The Development of Jewish Art Music—Paul Green

Classical, Jazz, and Klezmer clarinetist Paul Green will trace the development of Jewish Art Music from biblical times to the present day, and describe what makes music “Jewish.”  Historical events, such as the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, will be discussed insofar as they have affected and influenced Jewish music.  The lecture/performance will [...]

Simon discusses the development of Pacific, his latest celebrated book

 "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 [...]