Cultural Pittsfield This Week: Aug. 24-30

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August 24 - August 30, 2018

SUNDAY Painted Piano Project Auction at the Berkshire Music School

Celebrate the culmination of the Berkshire Music School Painted Piano Project. The pianos will all be on display on the lawn of the Berkshire Music School. Panels from the pianos will be up for auction with proceeds benefiting the Berkshire Music School. 5-7:30 p.m.

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MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE

SAT Berkshire Jazz Showcase at The Common Park

The inaugural Berkshire Jazz Showcase is a free event featuring a wide range of Berkshires-based artists, including Gruppo Mondo, Andy Kelly Gypsy Jazz, the Ben Kohn Quartet, the Jason Ennis Quintet with vocalist Natalia Bernal, and The Lucky 5. Food vendors include Lucia's Latin Kitchen and Ernie's Hot Dog Cart. Assembly Coffee Roasters will be selling coffee and Wandering Star Brewery and Balderdash Cellars will be hosting a beer and wine garden. 1-6 p.m.

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FRI Hot Plate at Mission | FRI One More Than 4 Dance Performance at Berkshire Museum | FRI Blue Light Trio at Rainbow | FRI Brian Benlien at Hotel on North | FRI Bad Habits at Rusty Anchor | SAT Latin Night & Bachata Lesson at The A | SAT Hardcore & Punk Night at Crossroads | SAT Mary Ann Palermo at Mission | SAT Tom Corrigan at Rusty Anchor | MON Jazz Night at Mission | WED Live on the Lake w/Generation X Rock at Onota Lake | WED Gruppo Mondo at Rainbow | THU Comedian Luke Mones at The Colonial | THU Misty Blues at Mazzeo's | THU Brewmaster Jack Tap Takeover at Thistle & Mirth

FAMILY FRIENDLY

TUE Pirates & Popsicles Party at The Whitney

Enjoy popsicles while pirates delight you with song at the Pirates & Popsicles Party! Dance and sing after the show and get your photo taken with a pirate. $10. 1-3 p.m.

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ONGOING Young Shaker Tours at Hancock Shaker Village | ONGOING Aquarium Tide Pool Tank at Berkshire Museum | ONGOING Make a Miniature Planet at Berkshire Museum | FRI WeeMuse: Adventures at Berkshire Museum | FRI Paint & Sippy Cup at Berkshire Museum | FRI-THU Parenting Classes & Play Groups at Berkshire Children & Families | SAT Berkshire Carousel | SAT Kitchen Ka-Boom! at Berkshire Museum | SAT Chow Time at Berkshire Museum | MON Creative Healing Workshop w/Funky Phoenix at Berkshire Museum | TUE WeeMuse: Littlest Learners at Berkshire Museum | TUE Youth Chill Zone at Tyler Street Lab | TUE Preschool Story Time at Berkshire Athenaeum | WED Teen Open Mic Night at The Whit | THU Farm Friends at Hancock Shaker Village

WELLNESS

SAT Goat Yoga at Hancock Shaker Village

Bring a mat and a towel and join the fun! Hancock Shaker Village will offer yoga with goats on Saturday from 10-11 a.m. The $25 fee includes admission to the Village for the day.

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FRI-THU Various Classes at Berkshire Running Center | FRI-THU Various Classes at Berkshire Family YMCA | FRI-THU Various Classes at Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness | FRI-THU Various Classes at Radiance Yoga | FRI-THU Various Classes at Modig Internal Disciplines | SAT City Street Ride at Downtown Pittsfield Farmers Market | SAT An Evening of Kirtan at Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness

PERFORMANCE

SAT+TUE Berkshire Opera Festival's Rigoletto

When his daughter is seduced and abducted, a devoted father is driven to murder in this devastating story of love, betrayal and vengeance. Berkshire Opera Festival returns to The Colonial for three performances only. There will be a discussion (free for all ticket holders) with Cori Ellison, dramaturg of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, an hour before Saturday's show. Performances are

Saturday, Aug. 25 at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 28 at 7:30 p.m. and Friday, Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m.

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ONGOING West Side Story at Barrington Stage | ONGOING Well Intentioned White People at Barrington Stage | SUN Staged Reading of Orion with Town Players at BCC | THU Annual Play Readings at Knesset Israel | THU+ Fall Springs Staged Reading at Barrington Stage

GET CREATIVE

MON Creative Healing Workshop at Berkshire Museum

Join Tina Cardot from the Funky Phoenix and learn how you can turn junk into amazing art! If you were a fan of our Tinker Lab during Ten Days of Play, this is another opportunity to deconstruct objects and recombine them into a product of your imagination!

Mondays, July 2 to August 27, 11 am to 1 pm

Included with regular Museum admission.

COMMUNITY

WED Teen Open Mic at the Whitney

Rock On! Teen Open Mic Night

Hosted by Abbey McGrath, Rock On! Intern

Sign-in begins at 6:30.

Wednesday, August 29th 7-10pm

$5 Suggested Donation

*This is a monthly teen open mic night hosted by the young musicians of Rock On!*

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FRI Wrestling Under the Stars at Wahconah Park | ONGOING The Mastheads at Hancock Shaker Village | FRI Dogs on North at Hotel on North | SAT Downtown Pittsfield Farmers Market at The First Street Common | SAT Berkshire Carousel | TUE Rainbow Seniors/Live Out Loud Youth Project Potluck BBQ at State Forest Ski Lodge

LEARN

WED Shakespeare's Relevance at Berkshire Museum

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) presents the lecture Shakespeare's Relevance in these Troubled Times with Shakespeare & Company founder, author, actress, director and teacher Tina Packer. Berkshire Museum, 3 p.m. $10 for OLLI at BCC members; $15 for the general public; free to BCC students and youth 17 and younger.

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MON West African & Caribbean Drumming Class at The Licht | MON Etched in Glass: The Legacy of Steve Ross at Knesset Israel

FILM

FRI-MON Support the Girls at The Little Cinema

Lisa Conroy is the last person you'd expect to find in a highway-side "sports bar with curves," but as general manager of Double Whammies, she's come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction.

See website for dates and times.

Plus...

ONGOING See What's New at The Beacon | MON Etched in Glass: The Legacy of Steve Ross at Knesset Israel

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 and more!

28 Renne Ave. Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts will feature Dreaming of Light, paintings by Sean McCusker, for the month of August.

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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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