Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
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 [...]
In the Gallery: Paintings by Trevor Hunter Opening Reception : 4th Jun 2016 02:00 PM Date of Show : 4th Jun 2016 - 26th Jun 2016 Artist Trevor Hunter will be featured In the Gallery from June 4-26 at the Sandisfield Arts Center with an Opening Reception on Saturday, June 4, from 2:00 to [...]
This special concert includes note-for-note transcriptions recreating such famous George Shearing Quintet’s signature jazz arrangements as “September In The Rain,” “Lullaby of Birdland,” “I’ll Remember April,” and more. Our historic hall will reverberate as the Quintet plays new arrangements in the Shearing style, adventurous jazz pieces, and presents anecdotes and historical musical notes about the legendary group. The Argiro Quintet members are [...]
Join Sandisfield poet and scholar Val Coleman for a lively tour through the history of poetry as it has evolved along with our human species, from the development of the hyoid bone (enabling speech and song) to the ancient epic of Gilgamesh and ending somewhere in the weeds of rap. Along the way, you’ll meet [...]
