Cultural Pittsfield This Week: July 22-28

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July 22 - July 28, 2016

THURSDAY, JULY 21 3rd Thursday from 5-8 p.m.!

Help celebrate 10 years of 3rd Thursdays with a Food theme. The Downtown Pittsfield Ethnic Fair is joining the fun with food vendors throughout the festival and entertainment at the stage near Park Square.

Free cupcakes to all at the cupcake tent at Persip Park's main stage starting at 6pm. The main stage will feature the bands 8 Foot River and The Chain Letter from 5-8 p.m.

The Palace Park Stage will feature Berkshire Theatre Group's Beauty and The Beast; Barrington Stage Company's The Wiz; and a sneak preview of Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park's The Tempest, which begins its run later that evening at 8 p.m. Pittsfield City Hoopla will also be joining the fun at Palace Park.

Berkshire Young Professionals will hold a scavenger hunt, beginning at the Berkshire Museum and ending at The Lichtenstein. And the Artscape Pittsfield Paintbox Project will be officially unveiled.

Upstreet Cultural District. 5-8 p.m. Get the full schedule.

MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE

MON Banditos Kicks Off Shire City Sessions

Shire City Sessions free summer concert series kicks off at The Common Park with Banditos, a six-member alt-country/garage rock group from Nashville. Local favorites Chris Merenda and The Wheel open. The Common Park at 100 First Street from 6-9 p.m.

Plus...

FRI On Tap at Casey's Billiards | FRI '90s Throwback Dance Party at The Downtown Pub | FRI Blue Light Trio at Rainbow | FRI Hot Mess/Bad Larry Band at The A | SAT Planes on Paper at Mission | SAT Dan Gingras at Rainbow | SAT Chad Tarves, Jordan Franklin, Keep Her Warm & Petrichor at the Whit | SAT On Tap at The A | MON Opera/Broadway Sing-a-long at First United Methodist | MON Argentine Tango at Methuselah | MON Divas: Ann Hampton Callaway & Amanda McBroom at Barrington Stage | WED Live on the Lake with Shyne at Onota Lake | WED Gruppo Mondo at Rainbow | THU Poppet & Diana Alvarez at The Whit

FAMILY FRIENDLY

SAT Pittsfield Track & Field Games

Pittsfield Track & Field Games invites children ages 6--14 to take part in this FREE program which introduces the basics of track and field, including warm-ups and several running and field components. Taconic High School Track, 96 Valentine Road, from 9 a.m. - Noon.

Plus...

ONGOING The Berkshire Carousel | FRI Inside Out Outdoor Movie Screening at Clapp Park | MON-FRI Camp Shakespeare at The Boys & Girls Club | MON-FRI Berkshires Half Day Mountain Biking Camp for Girls at Pittsfield State Forest | WED+ The Wiz at Berkshire Museum

WELLNESS

SAT Yoga & Zumba at Burbank Park on Onota Lake

Yoga & Zumba Classes on Onota Lake on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays from now - August.

Join Rachael Plaine from Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness for yoga from 9-10 a.m., followed by Zumba from 10:15-11:15 a.m. All levels and ages are welcome. $10 suggested donation.

GET CREATIVE

WED Intro to Screen Printing at Shire City Sanctuary

In this introduction to silkscreen printing workshop, you'll learn techniques to create single-colored prints. Skills taught in this class are the foundations of all silkscreen-printing processes. All inks and emulsions are water based and non toxic, and paper is 100% recycled. Bring a t-shirt and print your very own custom design! Shire City Sanctuary at 40 Melville Street, from 6-8 p.m. $35, all inks and paper included in fee.

Plus...

THU Open Studio for Teens & Adults at Berkshire Paint & Sip

PERFORMANCE

WED-SUN Passage at Shire City Sanctuary

Kickwheel Ensemble Theater will premiere a brand-new, entirely original play for five performances only! Passage is a satirical "climate change romance" that links past, present, and future. There are sea otters on Razor scooters, a TED Talk given by an ill-fated naval commander, several appearances by a prestigious self-help guru and lots of trudging. It's a play about human connections and finding what is lost. Wed-Sat at 8 p.m. and Sun at 3 p.m.

Plus...

ONGOING Little Shop of Horrors at The Colonial | ONGOING The Pirates of Penzance at Barrington Stage | ONGOING Peerless at Barrington Stage | ONGOING The Tempest at Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park

COMMUNITY

SAT Gather-in Festival at Durant Park

The Gather-in Festival is the first and only traditionally African-American neighborhood festival in the Berkshires. Enjoy a free, family-friendly and fun event, with live music and performances, food booths, a basketball tournament and much more! Reverend Willard & Rosemary Durant Park, from 12-7 p.m.

Plus...

FRI D.R.E.A.M. Ring Dance Workshop, Talk & Competition at Berkshire Museum | SAT Downtown Pittsfield Farmers Market | WED Tom Lee: Storyteller at Berkshire Athenaeum

LEARN

SAT Envisioning Emancipation at Berkshire Museum

Drawn from the award-winning book, Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, this presentation highlights 19th-century photographs of enslaved and free African-Americans. Author Barbara Krauthamer is a professor of history and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at UMass Amherst. She has written extensively about the history of slavery and emancipation in the United States.

The Berkshire Museum Included with regular admission. 10:30 a.m.

Plus...

FRI D.R.E.A.M. Ring Dance Workshop, Talk & Competition at Berkshire Museum |

SAT-SUN

End-of-Life Doula Training at Moments House |

SUN

Conversation with playwright Jiehae Park at Barrington Stage |

MON

The Process of Aging at Knesset Israel |

WED

Georgia, Justice & Jews: The Leo Frank Case at Anshe Amunim

What's Showing at The Licht

Pittsfield's city-owned community arts center, the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, features nine working artist studios, a ceramics studio, a community room and an art gallery with changing exhibitions, classes, performances + more!

28 Renne Ave. | Wed-Sat, 11-4

I Am A Part Of Art
Now - July 31

Community Access to the Arts (CATA) presents a celebration of its visual artists. The exhibit features over 100 works created by artists with disabilities from across Berkshire County.

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Dalton Zoning Board OKs Conversion of Zip's Bar into Apartments

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
05:49PM / Thursday, May 09, 2024

DALTON, Mass. — The Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday approved the conversion of the former Zip's Bar & Billiards into four apartments.

The owner, Ron Carver, submitted an application for a special permit requesting to convert the first floor of the tavern into residential apartments.

"The former tenant went out of business. He was operating a bar/nightclub and had lost business and decided after COVID that it just wasn't worth his while to continue," board Chair Anthony Doyle said.

"So Mr. Carver is left with an empty commercial space, and the question is do you try to get another bar in there or do you do something else, and he opted to convert."

The detailed application that Carver submitted was described by board members as impressive. The notice of the public hearing was posted on April 23 and 30 to alert neighbors to come and speak.

Despite the public hearing notice, no one attended the meeting to speak against the application, which is a good indication that the neighbors support it, Doyle said.

Carver attended the meeting and provided a letter from one of the neighbors expressing their support for the change.

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