June 28 - The world renowned cellist Wendy Sutter peforms with pianists Paul Posnak and Anita Castiglione
Pictured: Amy Dryansky and Hannah Fries
Amy Dryansky’s third book, Ambergris is forthcoming in June 2026. She has two prior collections; Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry) which won the Massachusetts Book award, and How I Got Lost So Close to Home (Alice James Books). Her poetry is included in [...]
Pictured: Joan Barasovska, Jayne Benjulian, Hilde Weisert
A reading and conversation with three award-winning poets on the many forms of kinship: with family, community, heritage, and the natural world.
Jayne Benjulian is the author of Five Sextillion Atoms (Saddle Road Press, 2016). Her [...]
The opening ceremony for our Memorial Garden will honor Val Coleman, longtime friend, volunteer, speaker, and Board member of the Sandisfield Arts Center, whose family's gift in his honor helped turn the plot into a peaceful garden with two all-weather benches and lovely plantings by Snow Farm.
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As we reflect on our 2022 season and begin planning for 2023, we are amazed by and so appreciative of what you--our donors, volunteers, and performers, plus the help of the Sandisfield Cultural Council--made possible this season. Many of our programs were offered at no cost, such as the Voices of [...]
Come together with your neighbors to hear wonderful Christmas and seasonal poetry read by Benjamin Luxon and to join in singing some of your favorite carols! Ben will accompany the carols on the keyboard.
This event is free!
July 15 update: Cornelius Eady and his trio won't be able to present due to a serious family emergency in Cornelius' family. We send our love to Cornelius and hope to have him and his trio, Lisa Liu and Charlie Rauh, present in the future.
Happily, poet and Cave Canem Fellow Kate Rushin will [...]
This short reading by Val of a poem he wrote in honor of the Sandisfield Arts Center for its 25th anniversary (2020) captures more than thousands of ordinary words could about what is so magical in this space.
Video by Peter Baiamonte.
“A large number of the poems I most admire and which seem to be most original are talking back to other poets of other ages.”
—Richard Wilbur
On September 28, 2019 the Sandisfield Arts Center presented "Today's Poets in Conversation with the Masters," with poems of masters such as Frost, Auden, [...]
After your Mother's Day celebration, come to the Sandisfield Arts Center to enjoy a total hodge-podge of fun and pleasure derived from reading and performing poetry. Great poems, melodramatic poems, beautiful, passionate, humorous poems. Serious poems, silly poems.
Join Ben Luxon and Charles [...]