Cultural Pittsfield This Week: June 9-15

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THURSDAY, JUNE 15 is 3rd Thursday: Healthy Pittsfield!

Upstreet Pittsfield's award-winning street festival, 3rd Thursday, returns on Thursday, June 15 with the theme Heathy Pittsfield. The largest free outdoor event series in the Berkshires, 3rd Thursdays are family friendly and open to all. North St. will be closed to vehicular traffic from West St. to Linden St. and will be filled with music, dancing, food and community activities from 5-8 p.m.

Celebrate health with a massive dance party with DJ BFG at Persip Park; enter the Green Mile Road Race (please pre-register; no race-day sign-ups); and enjoy free yoga, Zumba, hip-hop and other classes for all ages with Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness.

Jacob's Pillow will host a pop-up dance performance with the Throwdown Collective on St. Joseph's lawn. Berkshire Theatre Group will present an excerpt from The Music Man. St. Stephen's Church will screen The Cameraman starring Buster Keaton, with live organ accompaniment by Peter Krasinski, you can learn to drum with the Berkshire Rhythm Keepers and more!

MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE

SAT U.S. Stones Benefit for UCP at The Colonial

United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Berkshire County are bringing the U.S. Stones to the Berkshires for one night only in a benefit concert for UCP. This American Rolling Stones tribute band portray a young, "in their prime" Stones, capturing the looks, moves and style of the real band. The Colonial Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $28.50/$38.50/$48.50

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FAMILY FRIENDLY

SUN Bike Rodeo & Family Safety Day on The Common

The Pittsfield Kiwanis Club presents a Bike Rodeo & Family Safety Day at the First Street Common Park from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Bring your bicycles and ride through the bike course! This event is FREE and open to all Pittsfield schoolchildren in grades K-4. There will be free bike helmets (while they last) and two bikes will be given away!

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FRI WeeMuse: Adventures at Berkshire Museum | SAT Pop-up Play Day at Berkshire Museum | SAT FREE David Grover Concert at The Colonial | SAT Chow Time at Berkshire Museum | MON Tiny Tots Story Time at Berkshire Athenaeum | TUE WeeMuse: Littlest Learners at Berkshire Museum | TUE Sensory Story Time at Berkshire Athenaeum | WED Culture, Identity & Art (CIA) for Teens at NuArts | THU Farm Friends at Hancock Shaker Village | THU Preschool Play & Learn at Berkshire Athenaeum

WELLNESS

MON Yoga at Springside Park with Lawrence Carroll

Berkshire Yoga, Dance & Fitness presents yoga with Lawrence Carroll every Monday evening from June 12 - August 28 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. All ages and levels welcome. Bring a mat if you have one (some extras available for use). Drop-ins welcome! $10 suggested donation per class.

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SAT Hike with Healers at Springside Park | MON Nutrition Wellness Talk at Berkshire Athenaeum | TUE Mixxed Fit Class at Berkshire Salsa | WED Run to North at Hotel on North

PERFORMANCE

NOW-SAT Kunstler at Barrington Stage

Barrington Stage Company presents The Creative Place International/And Theatre Company production starring BSC veteran Jeff McCarthy as the self-described "radical lawyer" and civil rights activist William Kunstler. The colorful, perpetually rumpled defense lawyer whose best-known clients include the Chicago Seven, inmates involved in the Attica prison riots and members of the American Indian Movement, makes a case for his often unconventional style in this wise and revealing play on the St. Germain Stage.

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THU+ The Birds at Barrington Stage

GET CREATIVE

FRI Make A Repurposed Wren House at Funky Phoenix

The Funky Phoenix, located at 441 North Street, will offer a workshop where you can create your own funky wren house with wood and a repurposed license plate of your choice.

There will be a large array of painting and accessorizing supplies available to choose from and all the help you need to bring your ideas to fruition. $30. 6-8 p.m.

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SAT Bicone Bead Earring Class at Yummy Treasures | SAT Make a Picnic Blanket from Recycled Materials at Shire City Sanctuary | TUE Craft on North at Hotel on North

COMMUNITY

SAT Berkshire Craft Beer Festival & Chug Run 5K

Berkshire Craft Beer Festival & Chug Run 5K is back! The biggest beer fest in the Berkshires returns for its third year with 200+ craft beers, great food, a 5K, live music and more. Plus, every penny goes to local charities! 12-5 p.m. at The Common Park.

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MON Advocating for Healthy Affordable Food in MA at Knesset Israel

LEARN

THU An Opera Fest in the Berkshires at Knesset Israel

The Jewish Federation's Connecting with Community series presents "An Opera Festival in the Berkshires" with director Jonathon Loy, artistic director Brian Garman and costume designer Charles Caine of the Berkshire Opera Company. They'll share details about BOF's upcoming main stage production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. 10:45 a.m.

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MON Drum Class at The Lichtenstein | MON Advocating for Healthy Affordable Food in MA at Knesset Israel

FILM

Exhibition on Screen: The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch

at The Little Cinema

This film is based on the critically acclaimed exhibition "Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of a Genius at the Noordbrabants Museum," which brought together practically all the artist's major paintings and drawings from around the world..

Click here for screening dates and times.

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ONGOING

See What's New at The Beacon Cinema

The Pittsfield Cultural Council is seeking new members!

Want to have a say in how the local arts community is funded? Interested in learning about cultural programming in the city? Come join us! We're a volunteer group that allocates grants to Pittsfield-based arts and cultural organizations on an annual basis. For more information, contact us at: pittsfieldculture@yahoo.com

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. | Hours Wed-Sat 11am-4pm

The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts presents Face Them, a collaborative exhibit focusing on five current topics: animal cruelty, global warming, gun control, human trafficking and population explosion. Now - June 24. [Shown: One of 5 works by National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer]

INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARKING METER PLAN

Five things to remember about the new downtown parking system:

1. Always enter your license plate number - even for the FREE first 30 minutes.

2. On-street parking is $1 per hour; lot parking is 50 cents per hour. There are also nearly 400 free parking spaces on the city's side streets.

3. You can pay by coin, credit card, or by downloading the Passport parking app.

4. You do not need to display the parking receipt on your dashboard.

5. Parking is FREE on evenings and weekends!

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Toy Library Installed at Onota Lake

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
05:33PM / Friday, April 19, 2024

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Feel free to use or leave a toy at Onota Lake's newest infrastructure meant to foster community and benefit kids.

Burbank Park now has a toy library thanks to Wahconah Regional High School senior Alexandra Bills. Located along the wall at the beach area, the green and blue structure features two shelves with sand toys that can be used to enhance children's visits.

The Parks Commission supported Bills' proposal in February as part of her National Honors Society individual service project and it was installed this month. Measuring about 4 feet wide and 5.8 feet tall, it was built by the student and her father with donated materials from a local lumber company.

Friends and family members provided toys to fill the library such as pails, shovels, Frisbees, and trucks.

"I wanted to create a toy library like the other examples in Berkshire County from the sled library to the book libraries," she told the commission in February.

"But I wanted to make it toys for Onota Lake because a lot of kids forget their toys or some kids can't afford toys."

Bills lives nearby and will check on the library weekly — if not daily — to ensure the operation is running smoothly. A sign reading "Borrow-Play-Return" asks community members to clean up after themselves after using the toys.

It was built to accommodate children's heights and will be stored during the winter season.

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