Berkshire Shenanigans and IS183 Art School of the Berkshires are throwing another awesome Halloween Party...OZ at Shire City Sanctuary. Have the night of your life while you help raise funds for IS183!
The evening begins at 6 p.m. with a pre-party banquet dinner at Hotel on North.
From 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., come to the Sanctuary for a dance party extravaganza, featuring DJ HUSH, projections by Drew Suto and Joe Wheaton, live performances by Heart-Shaped Box and more!
Note: Buy your tickets now. There will be no tickets sold at the door. And don't forget to buy your raffle tickets - $25 to win a 10-day trip for 2 to Australia!
Did you know that everyone Wednesday night, beginning at 7:30 p.m., Gruppo Mondo performs live jazz at Rainbow Restaurant? No cover charge. The core group of expert musicians are often joined by famous friends. You never know who will drop in!
Dinner service begins at 5 p.m. Enjoy a full dinner menu plus specials, wood-fired pizza, a full bar and 20+ craft beers on tap. Make your reservation by calling (413) 443-0002.
In The Lemonade Escapade, adapted from the book by local author Ty Allan Jackson, Danny Dollar is an ordinary kid who also happens to have more odd jobs than you can count on two hands and aspires to be a millionaire by the time he's 21! But his grand ideas don't always go as planned. From his lemonade stand, to town hall, to a big company board room, it's all part of the typical, every-day life of Danny Dollar, Millionaire Extraordinaire! The Colonial Theater, 7 p.m.
Berkshire Yoga, Dance & Fitness welcomes back Luana Dias David, straight from Brazil, for a special Zumba Master Class. This Latin-based dance cardio class is designed to get your heart rate up and your body moving. Enjoy good music, fun moves and get a great workout. Learn salsa, cha cha, merengue, cumbia, swing, reggaeton and more. All ages and abilities welcome. 3:30-5 p.m. $15.
If you're a certified Zumba instructor and a current ZIN member, join Luana early, from 12-3 p.m. for a Reggaeton ZIN Jam Session.
Join Diane Firtell at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts and discover the thrill of transforming surfaces using your own or found images to personalize everything from jewelry to wall art. Use basic collage and image transfer techniques on a wide variety of surfaces including paper, canvas, wood and fabric. All levels welcome. Five Thursdays from 6-8 p.m.
This year's Halloween Parade will be held on Tyler Street from 7-8 p.m. The parade route will begin on at the corner of Tyler and Smith Streets and end at Woodlawn Avenue. See the event website for street closure information.
Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) returns to Berkshire Community College's Boland Theatre for a free OLLI workshop. No theater experience is needed! Lucy Thurber and Laura Savia, creators of "Orpheus in the Berkshires," will lead a two-hour workshop beginning at 10:50 a.m.
This low-budget cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion they come across on a rainy night. Greeting them at the door is a ghoulish butler named Riff Raff who introduces them to a bacchanalian collection of partygoers. The host of this gathering is a transvestite clad in lingerie, Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), a mad scientist who claims to be from another planet. With assistants Columbia and Magenta looking on, Frank unveils his latest creation - a young blonde beefcake. Just when Brad and Janet think things couldn't get any stranger, a biker (Meat Loaf) bursts onto the scene.
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!
The Visual Poetry of Suburban Pittsfield, oil on canvas paintings by artist Morris Bennett, will be on view now through October 29 at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts.
Gay by Steve Suzuki.
Coming in November
The Berkshire Art Association presents its biennial juried show Othering. The exhibit opens during First Fridays Artswalk on Friday, November 4 from 5pm-8pm.
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Ordinances and Rules subcommittee on Monday unanimously supported a pay raise for election workers, free downtown parking for veterans, and safeguards to better protect wetlands.
Workers will have a $5 bump in hourly pay for municipal, state and federal elections, rising from $10 an hour to $15 for inspectors, $11 to $16 for clerks, and $12 to $17 for wardens.
"This has not been increased in well over a decade," City Clerk Michele Benjamin told the subcommittee, saying the rate has been the same throughout the past 14 years she has been in the office.
She originally proposed raises to $13, $14 and $15 per hour, respectively, but after researching other communities, landed on the numbers that she believes the workers "wholeheartedly deserve."
Councilor at Large Kathy Amuso agreed.
"I see over decades some of the same people and obviously they're not doing it for the money," she said. "So I appreciate you looking at this and saying this is important even though I still think it's a low wage but at least it's making some adjustments."
The city has 14 wardens, 14 clerks, and 56 inspectors. This will add about $3,500 to the departmental budget for the local election and about $5,900 for state elections because they start an hour earlier and sometimes take more time because of absentee ballots.
Workers are estimated to work 13 hours for local elections and 14 hours for state and federal elections.
The Ordinances and Rules subcommittee on Monday unanimously supported a pay raise for election workers, free downtown parking for veterans, and safeguards to better protect wetlands.
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