Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
In The Belle of Amherst, we journey with Emily Dickinson through her life. We explore her typical 19th c. girlhood and increasingly reclusive adulthood where words became her life, and friends her “estate”. Through sharing letters, books and poems she explores her truths with nature, man and God. Mari Andrejco is an actor, teaching artist, [...]
Join us for two literary launches—a new poetry book from Sandisfield poet Hilde Weisert and the new journal Stone Walls II, with arts, history and culture of the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts, co-edited by Worthington’s poet Antonia Lake. Weisert will read from her first poetry collection, The Scheme of Things. Lake and others will read [...]
Meet state forester Tom Ryan and learn about the woodlands of Sandisfield and surrounding areas. Some of the topics covered will include land use history, current forestry programs, grant opportunities and related state laws and examples of forest management. Learn what you can do to be more proactive with your woodland. A Q&A will follow. [...]
Opening Reception : 3rd Oct 2015 02:00 PM Date of Show : 3rd Oct 2015 - 30th Nov -0001 Lucinda Shmulsky collects pieces of distressed wood, rusty tools, broken antiques and vintage silver and brass items and combines them in unique ways to preserve and extend their life in her collection of "Antiques & Assemblages." Each [...]
This session will review climate and atmospheric CO2 changes over Earth’s past 500 million years, the tools we use to identify these changes and the implications of past changes for Earth’s future. This is the second Saturday climate change lecture with Suzanne O’Connell Each presentation will build upon previous presentations, but should be understandable as [...]
Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Company, hailed as “a sexy highpoint of classic burlesque entertainment in the Berkshires” by Berkshire magazine, has been wooing and wowing sold-out crowds since 2010. They’ve blazed a trail that has taken them to stages across New England and beyond, appearing in the Wanderlust Festival, the New York Boylesque and Burlesque [...]
A COMMUNITY TAG SALE TO BENEFIT THE SANDISFIELD PLAYERS' PERFORMANCE IN ENGLAND IN 2016! When: Sunday, October 11th, 9 AM to 5 PM Where:The town green at the corner of 57 and New Hartford Rd Mark your calendars, clean out the attic, the garage, and the shed and donate your stuff to support the Sandisfield [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
