Show your North Adams Pride
Out of 14,000 submissions, North Adams is one of 8 communities selected as a semi-finalist for a $500k downtown investment by the Small Business Revolution.
That’s right, the smallest city in the Commonwealth is representing the Berkshires, Massachusetts, and all of New England in this nationwide competition!
What’s at stake? not only $500k worth of expertise and funding from the Small Business Revolution, but North Adams would be featured in an 8 episode documentary about the process that will be available on Hulu and the SBR website.
How to help: Like the Small Business Revolution on Facebook.
Post to their page your #mynorthadams photos and stories about what makes North Adams such a special place.
Be ready to VOTE! On Feb. 9th the finalists will be announced and an intense 1 week public voting process begins. Be ready to vote for North Adams EVERYDAY from each device you own for 1 week. More details to come!
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Preschool Storytime
North Adams Public Library, 74 Church St
(413) 662-3133
10:30 am
Free!
for more information
Preschool storytime and craft at the North Adams Public Library in the Youth Services Department is held for ages 3 to 6 years old, siblings welcome. Several stories will be read and there is time to share ideas and thoughts as well as complete a craft. |
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After-School Program
UNO Community Center, 157 River St.
(413) 663-7588 Ext. 22
4 - 5 pm
Free!
call for more information
After-School Program Now Through the End of the School Year! Tuesdays 6:30-7:30pm & Thursdays 4-5pm at the UNO Community Center at 157 River St. North Adams. Serving students in 4th Grade - 8th Grade. Healthy Snack, Homework Assistance, Tutoring, Computer Access and Creative Activities. FREE. For more information contact Geoffrey Pawlowski at (413) 663-7588 Ext. 22. |
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Embroidery Basics/Embroidered Patches Workshop
Makers' Mill 73 Main Street
(413) 749-2073
5 pm - 7 pm
$15
for more information
Learn all the stitches necessary to create any kind of image you like with embroidery! Participants will learn basic stitches by making a sampler, and then design and start to create a 3-inch patch that can be sewn on to apparel or accessories. 4-inch hoop, fabric and needle included in workshop fee. Embroidery floss will be provided, but if you would like to use a specific color of embroidery floss, please bring it, as our supply of colors is limited. $15 Register here. Participants are welcome to attend Knitting Night to continue their work! |
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Faces Movie Showing
North Adams Public Library, 74 Church St
(413) 663-7588
6:15 pm
Free!
for more information
"Faces: Five Stories from One Community". Preview a short film by local videographer Joe Aidonidis featuring five local stories related to addiction and recovery. Following the film, there will be Q&A panel discussion focusing on resources available in Northern Berkshire, what resources are needed, and how to build our capacity as a community to support recovery. We welcome community members from all walks of life to attend. For more information about this film screening, contact Wendy Penner at nbCC (413) 663-7588. |
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Trivia Night
Bright Ideas Brewing, 111 Mass Moca Way
(413) 346-4460
6:45 pm - 9 pm
Free!
for more information
Despite current evidence, KNOWLEDGE MATTERS! Join us for a new round of the Bright Quiz with your hosts, Eric & Eric. Teams of 2-4, easy scoring, and beer! Quiz starts promptly at 7. #mynorthadams
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Invasive Plants and Managing Regional Biodiversity
MCLA Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121, 375 Church St
(413) 662-5000
7 pm
Free!
for more information
Every semester the Green Living Seminars center around a different topic, timely and relevant in current sustainability issues.
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Knitting Night
Makers’ Mill, 73 Main St.
413-749-2073, or info@northadamsmakersmill.org
7 pm - 9 pm
for more information
Join us for our every-other-weekly evening of knitting, open to all community members. So bring a friend or make a new one. Need supplies or tools? We’ll have discounted yarn for sale ($5 yarn, $3 crochet) and a grab box of free stuff, needles and hooks for check out, and loads of great reference books. This evening event will be led by local knitter, Michelle Marrocco, who will be available to answer questions and troubleshoot problems. So bring an in-progress project or start up something new!
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Seven Songs for a Long Life
MASS MoCA, 1040 Mass Moca Way
(413) 664-4481, info@massmoca.org
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
$9, $5 students
for more information
Portraits of Power: Women Making an Impact. Documentary Film Series presents "Seven Songs for a Long Life". In this unexpectedly uplifting film, six hospice patients unlock their pasts and illuminate their dreams through song, allowing us into tender, vulnerable, and funny moments of their lives, and revealing an intimate story behind our changing relationship with death. This event will be "up in the club" with cabaret-style seating. Our cafe serves movie snacks and the bar is always well-stocked with Bright Ideas Brewing and Berkshire Mountain Distillery spirits. Be ready to make new friends — our tables seat five and if your party is smaller, you might find others at your table.
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Underground Sounds: Community Open Mic!
ROOTS Teen Center, 43 Eagle Street
rootsteencenter@gmail.com
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Free!
for more information
Come one, come all! ROOTS presents Underground Sounds: An Open Mic series geared toward folks of all ages and open to the community. Come perform with us; poets, musicians, artists, magicians, and all of the like, and enjoy a night out of the cold, surrounded by some awesomely talented individuals! All art forms are welcome. Sign ups start at 6:30pm. Come early to make sure you get on the list. First priority goes to ROOTS Teen members. Not a member? Sign up to be one at the Open Mic or during Drop In hours Wed-Fri 4pm-8pm. Don't forget to invite and share this with your friends! Free Admission, but donations encouraged! All donations will go to support youth friendly activities in the northern Berkshires!
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20th Annual Winterfest
Downtown & Windsor Lake
413-664-6180
10am - 4pm
FREE
for more information
Join us for a full weekend of winter fun!
SATURDAY, FEB. 18TH, DOWNTOWN - All events are FREE! 10am - 4pm | fun in the snow @ Colegrove Park & ice sculpting @ Main/Eagle/Holden Streets. 10am - 3pm |Winter Farmer & Artisan Market
Noon - 2pm | chowder competition @ 85 Main Street & community campfire @ Holden & Main
2 - 4pm | ice skating & FREE skate rentals @ the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Skating Rink, 1267 Church Street, N.Adams,MA.
SUNDAY, FEB. 19TH, WINDSOR LAKE, 10AM - 4PM - Join us at Windsor Lake, located at 200 Windsor Lake
Road (corner of Kemp & Bradley) for a day outdoors! We invite you to spend the day sledding & tubing the hills, building snow creatures, tossing snowballs, and exploring the trails around the lake by snowshoe, boot, or cross country ski. Finally, join us for a bonfire and hot cocoa at the Historic Valley Campground beach from 2-4 PM.
Thank you to our sponsors! We couldn't do this without you!
Greylock Federal Credit Union, MountainOne, Scarafoni Realty, and First Hartford Realty Corp
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Father and Daughter Dance
Eagles Hall, 515 Curran Hwy
(413) 664-9043
6 pm - 9 pm
$10
for more information
All proceeds of our dance go directly to supporting a local organization in our community. We thank you and your community thanks you for your continued support!!
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FBCNA Family Fun Night
First Baptist Church North Adams, 131 Main St
(413) 663-3780, or firstbaptistnorthadams@verizon.net
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Free!
for more information
All in our church family are invited to gather at the church for a wild, fun, engaging, uplifting, challenging, unpredictable, and crazy night of church family fun. Bring your favorite games and activities. This month we're also going to try out some legos! So bring along some legos or a kit you're working on and have some fun! Everyone is also asked to bring a crock pot of soup and bread to share with everyone. Yup... finally another reason to share a super soup meal with the church family. This will be a great night, so invite family and friends to come and share in the fun.
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Home Body ~ fever-pop dance party!
North Adams Elks 487, 100 Eagle St
(413) 663-3327
8 pm - 12 am
$10
for more information
It's time to wake up your bones & shake off those mid-winter blues! Rev your internal engines & go out on a limb! Follow that little spark & bask in the growing glow! Call up your buds & invite them to get down! Home Body is returning to the Berkshires!
Based in dreamy western Massachusetts, synthesist Eric Hnatow and vocalist Haley Morgan blend new wave, industrial, and electronic music to create their own "fever-pop" sound, performed from the gut with wild abandon. The duo plays with light, sound, and movement to create wild sonic landscapes buzzing with soul, shadow, and depth. Vivid, visceral, and vivacious! Spectacle with substance! A sensory pleasure ride! + www.helloHomeBody.com
Bonus "90's-now guilty hip hop-ish pleasures" DJ set to immediately follow Home Body live set, up until midnight! Super bonus : tarot card readings and hot popcorn! Proceeds from the show will benefit The Berkshire Food Project in North Adams, www.berkshirefoodproject.org
PS. Come give a congratulatory hi-5 to T.L.! ;-) |
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Jo Firestone with Joe Pera
MASS MoCA, 1040 Mass Moca Way
(413) 664-4481, info@massmoca.org
8 pm - 10 pm
$16, $10 students, $28 preferred
for more information
Absurdist comedy dynamo Jo Firestone, whose off-kilter talents are on display in the HBO series High Maintenance and in her writing for The Chris Gethard Show, is blazing a hilarious trail across the country, hosting over 40 different formats of live performances (e.g. NYC’s Inner Beauty Pageant and her touring show Friends of Single People). She’s everywhere! Club B10 alum Joe Pera opens the show. This event will be “up in the club” with cabaret-style seating. Our café will deliver your dinner, and the bar is always well-stocked with Bright Ideas Brewing and Berkshire Mountain Distillery spirits. Be ready to make new friends — our tables seat five, and, if your party is smaller, you might find others at your table. Cheers to live events up in the club! |
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20th Annual Winterfest
Downtown & Windsor Lake
413-664-6180
10am - 4pm
FREE
for more information
Join us for a full weekend of winter fun!
SATURDAY, FEB. 18TH, DOWNTOWN - All events are FREE! 10am - 4pm | fun in the snow @ Colegrove Park & ice sculpting @ Main/Eagle/Holden Streets. 10am - 3pm |Winter Farmer & Artisan Market
Noon - 2pm | chowder competition @ 85 Main Street & community campfire @ Holden & Main
2 - 4pm | ice skating & FREE skate rentals @ the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Skating Rink, 1267 Church Street, N.Adams,MA.
SUNDAY, FEB. 19TH, WINDSOR LAKE, 10AM - 4PM - Join us at Windsor Lake, located at 200 Windsor Lake
Road (corner of Kemp & Bradley) for a day outdoors! We invite you to spend the day sledding & tubing the hills, building snow creatures, tossing snowballs, and exploring the trails around the lake by snowshoe, boot, or cross country ski. Finally, join us for a bonfire and hot cocoa at the Historic Valley Campground beach from 2-4 PM.
Thank you to our sponsors! We couldn't do this without you!
Greylock Federal Credit Union, MountainOne, Scarafoni Realty, and First Hartford Realty Corp |
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Pedals, Pipes, and Pizza
First Baptist Church North Adams, 131 Main St
(413) 522-4745, sabaileymusic@gmail.com
10 am - 12 pm
Free!
for more information
The Berkshire Chapter American Guild of Organists will host a program titled Pedals, Pipes, and Pizza: An Introduction to the Pipe Organ on Monday February 20th from 10:00AM - 12:00PM. The event, held at The First Baptist Church of North Adams, is open to children ages 8-14, and will offer demonstrations of the pipe organ, the many different pipes and sounds, other keyboard instruments, and video clips of famous organs and organists. Kids will get a chance to play the organ with the help of chapter members and they will get to visit different exhibits set up which offer information about the organ. At the end of the event, the chapter will provide pizza to all who attend. The event is free and is one of the many educational outreach opportunities that the guild provides. For more information visit our website www.berkshirechapterago.org |
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Daycare Provider Storytime
North Adams Public Library, 74 Church St
(413) 662-3133
10:30 am
Free!
for more information
Daycare providers looking for an educational outing for their kiddos are welcome to this 1-2 times a month storytime. Ages birth to 5 years old, siblings welcome. 1 - 2 stories read with lots of songs and gross motor skill activities as well. Mondays at 10:30 am. Call 413-662-3133, ext.14 for dates. |
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Figure Drawing Collective
Makers' Mill 73 Main Street
(413) 749-2073
7 pm – 9 pm
$5/members, $10/drop-in
for more information
Be part of a new figure drawing collective starting up at Makers’ Mill. Sessions will run every Monday and will focus on long poses, and include a warm up consisting of several short poses. We’ll be bringing in local models and a local, figure drawing instructor who will drop-in as available. Get in at the ground level to shape the direction this collective takes. Bring your own lap board, paper, pencils, and creative energy!
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Blood Pressure Checks
Mary Spitzer Center (North Adams Council on Aging), 116 Ashland St
(413) 664-4041
9 am - 11 am
Free!
North Adams Commons will hold a monthly blood pressure clinic at the Mary Spitzer Center (North Adams Council on Aging) on Ashland Street on the third Tuesday of the month. A nurse from North Adams Commons will record blood pressure and pulse, and offer a light snack and information about upcoming events.
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Toddler Storytime
North Adams Public Library, 74 Church St
(413) 662-3133
10:30 am
Free!
Toddler storytime and songs at the North Adams Public Library in Youth Services Department is held for ages birth to 3 years old, siblings welcome. One to two stories are read with lots of songs and gross motor skill activities as well.
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After-School Program
UNO Community Center, 157 River St.
(413) 663-7588 Ext. 22
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Free!
After-School Program Now Through the End of the School Year! Tuesdays 6:30-7:30pm & Thursdays 4-5pm at the UNO Community Center at 157 River St. North Adams. Serving students in 4th Grade - 8th Grade. Healthy Snack, Homework Assistance, Tutoring, Computer Access and Creative Activities. FREE. For more information contact Geoffrey Pawlowski at (413) 663-7588 Ext. 22. |
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Wednesday 2/15
Free Film: When Marnie Was There
The Clark, 225 South St, Williamstown
(413) 458-2303, pr@clarkart.edu
6 pm - 7:45 pm
Free
for more information
While the exhibition Japanese Impressions looks at the centuries-old tradition of woodblock printing, our free Anime Wednesdays film series celebrates the more contemporary art form of Japanese animation. Films are from Studio Ghibli, a leading animation film studio. When Marnie Was There: Shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside and befriends the mysterious young girl, Marnie, who lives there. The girls form a unique friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
(PG, 2014; 1 hr 45 mins)
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Thursday 2/16
Winter Carnival: Pokémon Snow
Williams College, 880 Main St, Williamstown
(413) 597-3131
2/16 5 pm - 2/19 2 am
Free!
for more information
Winter Carnival 2017 is about to take off! WOC is so excited to share this weekend with you - we have a TON of fantastic events that are free, fun, and open to the public. Stay tuned to this Facebook event for live updates throughout the weekend. It's sure to be a very a-Mew-sing weekend. Can you Diglett?!?
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Friday 2/17
Eavesdrop at Live on North
Hotel on North, 297 North St, Pittsfield
(413) 358-4741
8 pm - 11 pm
Free!
for more information
Hailing from the Northeast, these Pioneer Valley natives provide a sound all their own -- a perfect combination of soulful vocals, intricate harmonies, warm acoustics, and moving rhythm. Stripped-down, raw, and natural, their music flourishes in the most intimate of spaces. Their vibrant dynamic creates a unique experience for each listener -- constantly crossing the lines between something hauntingly beautiful and incredibly fun!
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Sunday 2/19
Concert: Performing Artists in Residence
The Clark, 225 South St, Williamstown
(413) 458-2303, or pr@clarkart.edu
2 pm - 3:30 pm
$25, $20 members, students free
for more information
Artistic co-directors Edward Arron and Jeewon Park perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano. This extraordinary cycle of five sonatas performed in one monumental concert offers a fascinating window into the arc of Beethoven’s compositional career.
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Monday 2/20
Presidents' Day Celebration
The Clark, 225 South St, Williamstown
(413) 458-2303, or pr@clarkart.edu
11 am - 4 pm
Cost of admission
for more information
Celebrate Presidents' Day in style with a trip to the Clark’s shiniest galleries! Learn about colonial silver in the newly opened Henry Morris and Elizabeth H. Burrows Gallery with talks at 11 am and 2 pm. Enjoy an iconic colonial treat available for purchase in Café 7. Make your way to our open studio from 11 am–4 pm for a variety of metallic artmaking activities; discover the art of colonial silver with master silversmith Steve Smithers; and hear an American-themed musical performance in the auditorium at 12 pm and 3 pm.
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Tuesday 2/21
Records and Burpee Zoo Show
Berkshire Museum, 39 South St, Pittsfield
(413) 443-7171 ext 360
1 pm - 2 pm
$15 adult, $8 child. Members: $5 adult, $3 child, free for kids under 3
for more information
The Zoo Show is coming back to Berkshire Museum as a part of Ten Days of Play 2017! Meet seven live animals from the Records and Burpee Zoo and learn about their adaptations, how they survive in the wild, and the consequences of keeping wild animals as pets.
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