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'Hazy Sun' by Bartlett Hendricks. (Photo Courtesy of Berkshire Museum)
Hendricks exhibit PITTSFIELD — From the twilight stillness of Jiminy Peak's snow-covered hilltops to a bird's-eye-view snapshot of a bustling North Street at Christmas, the photographs of Pittsfield native Bartlett Hendricks capture the beauty of life in the Berkshires. Through Jan. 25, 2005, select photographs, culled from over 4,000 taken during his lifetime, will be on display at the Berkshire Museum in a special exhibition. “Photographer and Friend: The Photographs of Bartlett Hendricks.” The late Hendricks was an important figure at the museum from 1931 to 1989, founding the Berkshire Museum Camera Club (1937) and Little Cinema (1947). He was a local pioneer of bird documentation and authored the popular "Field List of the Birds of Berkshire County." Hendricks was also instrumental in founding Jiminy Peak ski area with several other local citizens, and creating the Mount Greylock Ski Club. "Bartlett Hendricks was instrumental in establishing some of the programs still thriving at the museum today," said Michael Willson, museum interim director, in a news release. “It is our pleasure to honor his many contributions over the years with this exhibition of photographs that showcase the beauty of the Berkshires." The photographs of the late G. Bartlett Hendricks (1910-2002) illustrate his keen sense of observation and humor, as he captured the natural wonders and places of interest in the Berkshires. “Photographer and Friend: The Photographs of Bartlett Hendricks” is curated by Steve Blanchard and the Berkshire Museum Camera Club. Museum hours are Monday to Saturday, 10 to 5, Sundays, noon to 5. Information: 443-7171, ext. 10, or www.berkshiremuseum.org. Fire Crow concert ASHLEY FALLS — Northern Cheyenne flutist Joseph Fire Crow will perform an outdoor concert on Hurlburt’s Hill at Bartholomew’s Cobble on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 3 p.m. A Grammy Award nominee, Fire Crow’s music is a soulful mix of traditional flute and contemporary instrumentation. He first experienced the flute as boy growing up on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana. According to Fire Crow, “The Northern Cheyenne to this day are still very much a traditional and ceremonial people. These things give us our identity. The wooden flute is a tradition that is passed on from one generation to the next. Through our oral history, ceremonies, and songs, our culture is maintained. The flute is kept in the same manner.” Fire Crow has released five albums and is included on many compilations. “Cheyenne Nation” won recognition as the best Native American Music Album at the 43rd annual Grammy Awards. He lives in Winsted, Conn. The concert is sponsored by The Trustees of Reservations. Ticket reservations: 413-229-8600. Tickets for members are $12 for adults, $6 for children 6 to 16; for nonmembers, $15 for adults, $8 for children. Bartholomew’s Cobble is a National Natural Landmark. The reservation includes 329 acres, 5 miles of trails and a small natural history museum and Visitors Center. The property is open year round for hiking, picnicking, bird watching and general nature study for a nominal fee. Guided walks and canoe trips are offered seasonally. Bartholomew’s Cobble is 3 miles north of Canaan, Conn., and 3 miles south of Sheffield. Take Route 7 to Route 7A to Rannapo Road to Weatogue Road and the parking area. Thade concert MANCHESTER, Vt. — Vermont tenor John Thade will celebrate a 10th season of concerts in northern New England on Sunday, Oct. 10, at 4 p.m. at the Arkell Pavilion of the Southern Vermont Arts Center. Thade has become well known to Vermont audiences, performing over 175 concerts throughout the area. He is also a past winner of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce " Top Ten Events." The celebration this season will feature classic Broadway, movie theme all-time favorites, love songs and waltzes by Rodgers and Lehar. There will also be a sprinkling of Irish and Italian showstoppers. To hear free audio files, visit www.johnthade.com. Celebrated Broadway conductor and arranger Dennis Buck will accompany Thade on the piano and also offer his own renditions of classic favorites. Times Argus Arts Editor Jim Lowe called the show "A touching performance with body, power and soul." There will be a reception during which the public can meet the artists after the performance. Tickets are $15 for adults, $7 for seniors. Reservations: 800-559-7070 or www.johnthade.com. The pavilion is accessible to the handicapped. Doors will open one hour before the concert. Contest winners PITTSFIELD — The winners of the Berkshire Museum Camera Club's Amateur Photo Contest are as follows: Adult First Place, “Summer Morning in Hancock” by Vikki Barber, Hancock; Adult Second Place “Farm House in Winter” by Charles Audette, Pittsfield; Adult Third Place, “Female Mallard” by Barbara Norton, Lee.; Adult Honorable Mention, “Of Days Gone By” by Vikki Barber; “First Street Fire & Ice” by Amy Trombley, Lenox; “Marking Time” by Elizabeth Winthrop, Williamstown. Youth First Place, “Alcatraz” by Ali Herman, 11th grade, Pittsfield High School; Youth Second Place, “Lazy Day” by Ali Hermann, 11th grade, Pittsfield High School. The winners were announced during the exhibition of all 65 entries on Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Cooper Center Gallery, 116 North St. According to the club, many people remarked on the high quality of the photographs in the show. Prizes, certificates for large reprints of the winning entries from Vermont Color Photo Lab, were awarded to all entrants who placed. Keith Emerling and Lisa Gamble judged the 65 entries and picked the winners. Berkshire Museum Camera Club members Karen Joyner, Donna Hallowell, Curt Miller and Steve Blanchard were on the contest committee. Vermont Color Photo Lab locations in Bennington, Vt., Williamstown, Great Barrington, and Greenfield were pickup points for the entries. The Snap Shop of Great Barrington helped defray the costs of the contest. The Store Front Artist Project provided exhibition space in the Cooper Center Gallery. The Berkshire Museum Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday from September through May, at the Berkshire Museum, 39 South St. Pittsfield. The purpose of the club is to enhance the photographic skills of its members and to increase their enjoyment of photography. Information: www.berkshirecameraclub.org. Free day PITTSFIELD — In celebration of the 7th birthday of Wally (the resident dinosaur on the front lawn) the Berkshire Museum will offer a free day on Columbus Day, Monday, Oct.11. The museum will be open from 10 to 5, with a special cake-cutting celebration at noon. Children are invited to make a card for Wally and join the party, free of charge. To RSVP for the party, call 443-7171, ext. 10. The museum is open 10 to 5, Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 on Sundays. Admission is $7.50 for adults, $6 for seniors 65 and older and students with ID, $4.50 for children 3 to 18, and free for members and children under 3. Jazz concert WILLIAMSTOWN — Freddie Bryant, renowned jazz guitarist, will lead his jazz quartet Kaleidoscope in a free concert at Williams College's Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m., following a pre-concert discussion in Presser Choral Hall at 7:15. Members of the combo are Bryant, guitar/leader; Tom Aalfs, violin; Andy Eulau, bass; and Willard Dyson, drums. Bryant has performed with Max Roach, Lonnie Smith and guitar legend Kenny Burrell and has been a member of Tom Harrell’s and Salif Keita’s groups. Aalfs has led his own group and been a featured sideman at a number of venues in New York City, including the Blue Note, Sweet Basil, Birdland, Smalls and the Museum of Modern Art. Eulauhas has performed as a sideman in France, Spain, Switzerland, South Korea and Canada with musicians such as Ralph Williams, Ray Baretto, Bobby Sanabria, Barbara Klap, John Nugent and the Glen Miller Orchestra. Dyson has worked with a diverse group of musicians, including Regina Belle, Grady Tate, Jimmy Scott, The New York Voices, Dakota Staton and Cassandra Wilson. The concert is sponsored by the Williams Jazz Ensemble, directed by Andy Jaffe. Directions: 597-2736. Nields concert NORTH ADAMS — The Railway Café will host Nerissa and Katryna Nields on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m. at St. John’s Parish Hall, 59 Summer St. (next to the post office). The Nields have been a mainstay on the singer-songwriter scene for years, having played at all major venues and festivals throughout their adult lives. They have been singing together since they were children. After a long successful run as a five-piece band, they've gone back to their roots and have been doing duo shows for the past couple of years. Their concerts have been described as no-holds-barred, high-flying energy. Their latest CD, “This Town Is Wrong,” is filled with quirky, emotive songs that narrate the life of a 13-year old girl. It comes with a complimentary novel of the same name, authored by Nerissa Nields. Admission is $12 in advance, $15 at the door, and $10 for students and seniors. There is ample parking available in the former Kmart parking lot. Information: 664-6393, e-mail railwaycafe@juno.com or visit www.fusf.org/railwaycafe. Russo awards PITTSFIELD — The Colonial Theatre announced has announced the first annual Hickey Russo awards for outstanding volunteer service for the theater, given to Bill Munn and Kathi and Mark Clatterbaugh. The Hickey Russo Award was created to honor the legacy of the late Colonial Theatre founding board members Marijane Hickey and Glenn Russo, who were both extraordinary volunteers and advocates for the Colonial. Munn is a retired from Verizon phone company. He lives in Pittfsield with his wife, Peggy, and is president of the Friends of The Colonial Theatre. Munn has spent many years dedicated to The Colonial, including countless hours researching its rich history, recognizing that in order to properly prepare for its future, the community and project leaders would have to fully understand the Colonial’s historic past. Much of what is known today by the Colonial staff, architects and designers has been learned from research conducted by Munn. In addition, he trains tour guides and volunteers and, because of his wealth of information and passion for the theater, has become a favorite tour guide himself. Kathi and Mark Clatterbaugh recently moved to Pittsfield after having lived several years in Springfield, Pa. Mark Clatterbaugh teaches math at St. Mark’s Middle School, having retired from a management consulting business. Kathi Clatterbaugh is retired from running her own bookkeeping business. The Clatterbaughs coordinate the Colonial’s volunteer organization, which provides manpower for tours, productions, functions and events and office support. Anyone interested in joining the volunteer organization may contact Kathi Clatterbaugh, 448 8084. “We’re pleased to establish this award to honor the memory of founding board members Marijane Hickey and Glenn Russo,” said Executive Director Susan Sperber in a news release. “In their quiet and unassuming ways, each went about their noble work to make our community a better place to live, work and raise our families. We are fortunate that Marijane and Glenn looked upon the Colonial Theatre project as an opportunity to enrich our community and that they committed countless hours to bring this theater back to life.” Square dancing PITTSFIELD — The Pittsfield Squares are continuing their Tuesday evening “Introduction to Western-style Square Dancing” sessions. Cliff Brodeur and his wife and partner, Senta, host the fun evenings. Brodeur has had a nearly 40-year career of professional square-dance calling across the nation. Teens and their parents are welcome. The evenings of entertainment will be offered free to the public throughout October, on every Tuesday evening, at South Congregational Church, 110 South St., from 7 to 9 p.m. Information: 443-3060 or 458-5643. Chamber music WILLIAMSTOWN — The Williams Chamber Players will present the second recital of the academic year on Friday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, second floor of the Bernhard Music Center, accessed via Chapin Hall Drive off Route 2 in Williamstown. The recital is free and all are welcome. “Episodes and Soliloquies: A Sonata for Violin and Piano” by David Kechley, Chairman of the Williams College Department of Music, will be premiered by artists in residence Joanna Kurkowicz, violin, and Doris Stevenson, piano. Stravinsky’s landmark composition “l’Histoire du soldat” will anchor the recital, performed by Jonathan Epstein, narrator (known to Berkshire audiences for his work at Shakespeare and Company and elsewhere); Joanna Kurkowicz, violin; Susan Martula, clarinet; Stephen Walt, bassoon; Eric Latini, trumpet; Timothy Atherton, trombone; Robert Zimmerman, bass; Matthew Gold, percussion; and Ronald Feldman, conductor. Rounding out the varied program will be adjunct instructors Keith Kibler, bass-baritone, performing “Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death,” and Robert Phelps, guitar, performing Frank Martin’s “Quatres pièces brèves.” Richard Giarusso, class of 2000, will speak about the Stravinsky at 7:15 p.m. in Presser Choral Hall. Giarusso is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in historical musicology at Harvard University. He maintains an active career as a singer and conductor in the greater Boston area and is at work on a dissertation on the role and function of the slow movement in Austro-German instrumental music of the late 19th century. David Kechley will also briefly discuss his new composition before concert. Directions: EClark@Williams.edu or 597-2736. Frost program SHAFTSBURY, Vt. — Robert Cotner of Chicago will be the featured speaker in the Sunday Afternoons with Robert Frost lecture series, presented by the Friends of Robert Frost on Sunday, Oct. 10. Cotner will discuss, “Irony and Imagination in Frost’s ‘Two Tramps in Mudtime’ and ‘Out, Out.’” Both poems center on the act of sawing wood but in radically different ways. “Two Tramps in Mudtime” is a philosophical reflection on love and work, while “Out, Out” narrates a terrifying accident. Cotner, who met Frost at the poet’s Ripton cabin in 1962, has devoted a lifetime to collecting and studying his works. He will talk in depth about how Frost chooses to use the act of chopping wood as both a metaphor in one poem and as a dramatic incident in the other. A successful senior executive in Chicago’s nonprofit community, Cotner has served as executive director of The Salvation Army in that city and has just been named director of development for Shriners Children’s Hospital, Chicago. He has been a professor of English and philosophy at Montgomery College in Rockville, Md., and was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in English at the University of Liberia. His academic interests include American material and social culture, natural history (with, like Frost, a particular passion for botany) and American intellectual history. Cotner’s talk, which is free and open to all, will begin at 3 p.m. at the red barn at the Stone House Museum, Route 7A in South Shaftsbury. After the program, everyone will be invited back to the museum for refreshments, a chance to talk with Cotner and to view the permanent collection, as well as the current special exhibit on “The Flowers of Robert Frost.” Information: Carole Thompson, president of the Friends of Robert Frost, 802-447-6200. Harrison Gallery WILLIAMSTOWN — Landscape paintings by San Francisco artist Tjasa Owen will be on exhibit at The Harrison Gallery, 39 Spring St., from Oct. 8 to Nov. 16. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, Oct. 9, from 4 to 7 p.m., and the public is invited. Owen combines a love of landscape, travel and written correspondence in works that focus on coastal scenes. Her large-format printings are often composites of places she has been, rather than a specific location. She often includes a painted post cancellation and words such as “par avion” in the works. She works in acrylic and oil pastel on canvas. Currently based in San Francisco, she exhibits nationally, and her paintings are in numerous private and public collections, including the Saatchi Collection. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 to 5:30, and Sunday from noon to 5. Information: 458-1700 or www.theharrisongallery.com. Toddler programs PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire Museum will offer “Animal Expeditions,” a weekly program in the natural science galleries that teaches young children ages 2 to 4 about animals from the prehistoric times to the present through furs, tracks, stories and games. The program began on Oct. 5 and will run through Dec. 7, Tuesday mornings from 10 to 11 a.m. “Aquarium Adventures,” also a weekly program, will take place in the Berkshire Museum Aquarium Friday mornings from 10 to 11 a.m., Oct. 8 through Dec. 10. Museum educators will host playtime in the Discovery Room, followed by a storytime about one of the aquarium's residents. Then youngsters will have the opportunity to meet an aquarium "friend" up close. Admission is $7.50 for adults, $6 for seniors 65 and older and students with ID, $4.50 for children 3 to 18 and free for members and children under 3. Information: 443-7171, ext. 10. WriteAngles An award-winning investigative journalist and magazine editor and a freelance writer who has a martial arts black belt will be the featured speakers at New England’s longest-running writers’ conference. The annual WriteAngles conference, sponsored by the Western New England Chapter of the National Writers Union, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 16, at Smith College in Northampton. The one-day forum will be presented in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Division of Continuing Education and co-sponsored by the Smith College English Department, the Poetry Center at Smith College, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Keynote speaker Karen Rothmeyer is the managing editor of The Nation, one of the country’s most outspoken news magazines. She is a veteran investigative journalist and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for her writing. Before going to The Nation, Rothmyer worked at Newsday and the Wall Street Journal and taught at the Columbia Journalism School. Special guest speaker Jennifer Lawler is a writer and Tae Kwon Do black belt. She is the author of 20 books, many of them on aspects of martial arts, including the forthcoming “Dojo Wisdom for Writers: 100 Simple Ways to Become a More Inspired, Successful, and Fearless Writer.” The theme of WriteAngles 2004 is “AWriting That Matters.” Attendees will choose among eight panel sessions and writers’ workshops with experienced professionals. There will be three genre panels, on Mysteries, Children’s Books and Science & Health; four how-to sessions, on beating writer’s block and other obstacles, ghostwriting, creating your own promotional Web site and writing for the Web; and an interactive discussion with literary agents looking for new clients. A catered continental breakfast and buffet lunch are included in the conference fee. The cost is $60 in advance, $65 at the door, for National Writers Union members, students and seniors (65 and over), $85/$95 for nonmembers (includes a $5 registration fee). Space is limited and advance registration is strongly encouraged. To register: UMass Division of Continuing Education, 413-545-3653. Information about WriteAngles: www.nwu5.org or contact the Western New England NWU chapter, 413-586-8844 or info@nwu5.org. Manchester gallery MANCHESTER, Vt. — Loreen Adams, portrait and landscape artist, will host an open house at her new Atelier and Gallery, Saturday, Oct. 9, from 3 to 7 p.m. The Atelier is opposite The Mark Skinner Library on historic Route 7A in Manchester Village. Adams is a protégé of modern master Burton Silverman. She came to Manchester from New York City, after studying extensively in London and New York, including The National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, The New York Academy of Figurative Art, The Art Students League and Parsons School of Design. She has received awards from The Salmagundi Club, Arts For The Parks, The Portrait Society of America, The American Society of Portrait Artists, The Portrait Society of Atlanta and The Arnot Musem. Adams will also offering a variety of group and private classes, with all levels of artistic ability welcome. Information: 802-362-1334. To see Adams’ work online: www.portraitartist.com/adams. UNIFEM winners GREAT BARRINGTON — The Berkshire chapter of UNIFEM, the United Nations Fund for Women, awarded four prizes at its juried art exhibition, "FEMINART," at the Berkshire South Community Center. Thirty-seven women from the area submitted 70 pieces of art for the exhibit examining “the role of women in an emerging world.” The exhibit’s goal was to increase local awareness of the plight of women in the developing world and to raise funds for women’s centers in Afghanistan. Adrienne Goldberg of New York City and Ancramdale, N.Y., won first prize for her painting “Border Crossing.” Goldberg’s work has appeared in many galleries, including the Times Square Lobby Gallery and Brooklyn College gallery. Also cited were Rosalind Mae Reis of Berkshire County for her work, “I Open My Hand,” Peggy Braun of Lenox for “Red Mountain” and Julie Edmonds of Stockbridge for “Leonard Doodle.” Judging of the show was done by Maureen Hickey, fine art expert and former Great Barrington gallery owner, and Janis Dorgan of the Albany Art Institute. UNIFEM is the United Nations fund that provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programs around the world. The organization promotes women’s rights, political, economic and social. According to the organization, the Afghan centers funded by UNIFEM are fulfilling an urgent need for safe meeting places for women to discuss their priorities, gain access to social services and improve their education. Berkshire UNIFEM is already at work on next year’s art exhibition, the theme of which will be “A Woman’s Focus.” It will be held at the Lenox Library beginning Aug 6, 2005. Information, Adrea Seligson, chapter president, in Becket, 623-5418, or e-mail Adreade@aol. BTF grant STOCKBRIDGE — The Berkshire Theatre Festival has received an organizational support grant of $13,160 from the Massachusetts Cultural Council The matching grant was awarded through the council’s Organizational Support Program and will support the festival’s performance, training and education programs. According to a news release from the theater company, the grant signifies that Berkshire Theatre Festival provides a high level of quality in its programs, community service and administrative ability. The council was particularly impressed that the Berkshire Theatre Festival artistic programming has been developed with an eye towards expanding and introducing young audiences to BTF’s stages, to supporting a diversity of theatrical styles and artistic points of view, to supporting plays that speak to issues that reverberate in society and to establishing a vigorous and unique arts education program both for area schoolchildren and young actors. The Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, has a budget of $8.4 million for fiscal 2005. Its funds reach every community in Massachusetts. Its mission is to promote excellence, education, access and diversity in the arts, humanities and interpretive sciences in order to improve the quality of life for all Massachusetts residents and to contribute to the economic vitality of its communities. The council’s panel ratings for the BTF included the following: “Director’s leadership at all levels is impressive; excellent production values; well structured internship training program; notable national reviews.” The MCC also noted the festival’s “outstanding evidence of community and business collaborations, excellent children’s programs and a very diverse and strong board.” Fall Open MANCHESTER, Vt. — Janet Fish, the internationally known artist chosen as juror and curator for the Southern Vermont Arts Center’s prestigious 48th National Fall Open, has announced the winners of this year’s Juror’s Choice Awards. "As you’d expect from an exhibit curated by an artist of Janet Fish’s stature, the National Fall Open, which historically attracts top talent from across the country, has been raised to an even higher level, Christopher Madkour, SVAC’s executive director, said in a news release. Longtime SVAC instructor and exhibitor Thomas Torak took the Juror's Choice in Painting for his oil on canvas painting, "Hubbard Squash" (Gallery I, Catalog 12). Sculptor Terry Findeisen’s "Sisyphus' Task" in soapstone, bronze and cherrywood, was the Juror's Choice in Sculpture (Entrance Gallery, Catalog 23). Richard Brown’s "Approaching Storm," an archival pigmented photograph, won the Juror’s Choice for Photography (Gallery 5, Catalog 126). These three works, along with the approximately 200 other juried pieces of painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media that Fish chose for the exhibit, will be on display through Oct. 24 throughout the galleries of SVAC’s Yester House. Daily gallery admission for the 48th National Fall Open is $6 for adults, $3 for students, free for members and children under 13. Information: 802-362-1405 or drop by the arts center, which is just off West Road, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 5, Sunday noon to 5. Information: www.svac.org. Gala reminder LENOX — Tickets are still available for Shakespeare & Company’s star-studded “Autumn Gala: Hawthorne Revisited,” on Saturday, Oct. 9, at Ozawa Hall. The gala will feature Jane Fonda, Marisa Tomei, David Strathairn and Mike Wallace. Tickets and information: 637-1199, ext. 113. Weber gallery CHATHAM, N.Y. — Weber Fine Art has opened a new exhibition of paintings designed to offer an important historical view of the integral relationship between abstract and representational painting, two genres that are often segregated. “A Lineage of Influence: Hans Hofmann, Vaclav Vytlacil, Bessie Boris and Mary Sipp-Green” opened on Oct. 1 and will run through Nov. 14. There will be a special gallery talk by painter Mary Sipp-Green on Saturday, Oct. 9, from 4 to 6 p.m. A cocktail reception will follow the discussion, and the public is invited. According to the gallery, each artist in "A Lineage of Influence" had a direct relationship with the next, as teacher, friend and sometimes colleague. All four artists in the exhibition are distinguished painters with impressive biographies, including long lists of exhibitions and public and private collections. Hans Hofmann and Vaclav Vytlacil are internationally renowned and arguably two of the most influential painters and teachers of their respective generations. Bessie Boris and Mary Sipp-Green are two important regional artists who painted the landscapes of the Berkshires together for a time. The exhibition is free, and all works are available for purchase. Weber Fine Art is at 8 Park Row. Autumn hours are Thursday through Sunday, 10:30 to 5:30, and by appointment. Information: 518-392-5335 or e-mail weberfineartchat@aol.com. Rock concert PITTSFIELD — The Trapps, an original rock band from the Hudson Valley area of New York, will performing live at the Berkshire Music Hall on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 9 p.m. A local acoustic act to be announced will open the show. The Trapps will play two sets. Tickets will be $5 at the door. Details: 499-5575. The Trapps are a quartet, with Sean Schenker on guitar and lead vocals, Jason Sarubbi on vocals and bass, Warren Gold on lead guitar and Brian Reid on drum). The band is known for rock anthems, Southern jams and melodic song structures. It has opened for such groups as The North Mississippi Allstars and Antigone Rising. Among its influences are The Black Crowes, Neil Young and The Cult. Information: www.berkshiremusichall.com or www.thetrappsband.com. Art benefit WILLIAMSTOWN — Local artist Robin Brickman has joined nearly 200 other children’s book illustrators and designed an original piece of art on a 5-inch wooden snowflake that will be auctioned online in a program called “Robert’s Snow: for Cancer’s Cure.” The snowflakes will be on display at The Child at Heart Gallery in Newburyport through Oct. 23, at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst from Nov. 1 to Dec. 12 and at The Society of Illustrators Member’s Gallery in New York City from Nov. 9 to Nov. 24. The auction will begin on Oct. 31 and last through Dec. 12. All proceeds will benefit Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Brickman is best known for illustrating the book, “BEAKS.” Information about the author: www.RobinBrickman.com. The idea for Robert’s Snow started when childen’s book author and illustrator Grace Lin learned that her newlywed husband had been diagnosed with cancer just after their wedding. Lin focused her creative energy and rallied her colleagues to help her create the unique fundraiser. Bids can be made online at eBay via www.robertssnow.com. Information: www.robertssnow or www.jimmyfund.org.
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Friends of Great Barrington Libraries Holiday Book Sale

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Friends of Great Barrington Libraries invite the community to shop their annual Holiday Good-as-New Book Sale, happening now through the end of the year at the Mason Library, 231 Main Street. 
 
With hundreds of curated gently used books to choose from—fiction, nonfiction, children's favorites, gift-quality selections, cookbooks, and more—it's the perfect local stop for holiday gifting.
 
This year's sale is an addition to the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce's Holiday Stroll on this Saturday, Dec. 13, 3–8 PM. Visitors can swing by the Mason Library for early parking, browse the sale until 3:00 PM, then meet Pete the Cat on the front lawn before heading downtown for the Stroll's shopping, music, and festive eats.
 
Can't make the Holiday Stroll? The book sale is open during regular Mason Library hours throughout December.
 
Proceeds support free library programming and events for all ages.
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