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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 [...]
"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
Join us for this unique poetry program with poems of masters such as Frost, Auden, Wilbur, Plath, Owen, Boland, Kumin, Bynner, and Yeats performed by Ben [...]
Join Hannah Fries for a slide show, reading, and discussion about her new book, Forest Bathing Retreat: Find Wholeness in the Company of Trees. People have been retreating to the woods for quiet, meditation, and inspiration for centuries, and recent research finds that time spent in the forest [...]