St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.
Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.
First Congregational Church, North Adams, 9-2.
Nov. 28 Becket Federated Church, Route 8, holiday bazaar from 9-3. Lunch, crafts, baked goods, holiday and other items. Information: Mary Peltier, Parish House, 413-623-5217.
Dec. 5
Holiday Fair at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, Lee, from 10 to 3; handcrafted items, raffles, children's shop, bake sale, cut Christmas trees and lunch from 11 to 1. Includes angel-themed goods from SERRV. Information, 413-243-1033 or www.ucc-lee.org.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
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Mammography Dispute The government's issued controversial new guidelines stating that women shouldn't get annual mammograms until age 50, rather than age 40.
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New Workshop beginning at The Berkshire Writers Room
12:56PM / Tuesday, November 04, 2008
As part of Berkshire Writers Room's ACROSS THE ARTS program, The Berkshire Writers Room Artistic Director, Richard Way, will host a series of monthly workshops at Chapters Bookstore, 54 North St. in Pittsfield, on the third Tuesday of every month from 7-9pm.
Way will discuss his self-published chapbook, "The Wrinkling Bath," at Chapters on Tuesday November 18th.
The Wrinkling Bath" series-- eight paintings paired with eight poems-- was first exhibited at Le Petite Muse in 2006. Readings followed at Ramsdell Public Library in Housatonic as guest-poet in Berkshire Writers Room's "Poetry and Pastry" program, and at Wild Sage in Pittsfield for BWR's "The Creative Experience" program.
In 2007, Way's second exhibit at Le Petite Muse, "Eight Days to Never," combined base-relief sculpture with accompanying poems.
"Not all my art has a built-in narrative," Way said, "But I have noticed similarities in the creative process of painting and sculpture with that of poetry. They really are branches of the same tree. In a sense, all our muses are collaborating."
ACROSS THE ARTS workshops interpret visual art through collaborative poetry. "My hope is to showcase local artists' works to stimulate the works of local writers," Way said, "The surrealists used techniques of collaboration in their written and visual art. We'll incorporate some of the ideas of the surrealists, we'll explore some of the similarities between poetry and the plastic arts, and we'll collaborate on poetry inspired by local artists."
