Join us at the June 20th 3rd.Thursdays!

Guardian Life and the Pittsfield Suns team up to help celebrate the City of Pittsfield's love of baseball at the June 20th 3rd Thursday. From 5pm-8pm, North Street is closed to traffic and open for fun from Park Square to Maplewood! Upstreet Pittsfield will be filled with baseball fun, and the friends, music, food and games you enjoy most at your favorite ballpark. Click here to download your FREE printable map & guide to the June 20th 3rd.Thursdays!

Thursday, June 20 | 5-8pm | Pittsfield's Upstreet Cultural District | 413-499-9348 | FREE

The 4th Annual Green Mile Road Race!

The Green Mile Road Race also heads down North Street at 6pm, organized by the Berkshire Running Center. Expect to see over 250 runners flying by in a race that benefits upstreet Pittsfield's new farmers market. Cheer them on with the first ever 3rd.Thursdays WAVE! The Green Mile is a USA Track & Field certified, one-mile road race. Click here to register.

The Baseball Field of Fun!

Enjoy free fun baseball-themed games on the Baseball Field of Fun in front of St. Joseph's Church, where you will test your strength by throwing at a radar gun; practice your hitting by swinging through water balloons; try your hand at a bean bag toss; round the bases while hoola hooping with Hoop, Hit & Run and Pittsfield City Hoopla and have an opportunity to win Pittsfield Suns souvenirs and game tickets! Suns players will be leading the entertainment and activity in uniform, so you will have a chance to meet each one of them. Oh, and for the ladies, there's a Dancing with the Suns dance contest!  Click here to download your FREE printable map & guide to the June 20th 3rd.Thursdays!

From Bluegrass to Blues to Brazilian Rhythms Outdoors!

3rd.Thursdays features four outdoor stages featuring terrific local bands, from bluegrass to blues to Brazilian rhythms. The Corey Zink Band and Berkshire Bateria perform at the Palace Park Stage on North Street near Fenn, local alternative bands Resident Frequency and Modest Me play in front of the Crowne Plaza, and T-Bone Daddy and Barely Blue rock the outdoor Spice Dragon stage.

Berkshire Rocks presents Constant Change with Christine Bile, Highland and the Max Wiener Jazz Group on the City Stage at North and Eagle Streets. Plus keep your eye out for Andy Kelly and the Jazz Ambassadors' roving 3rd.Thursdays!  Click here to download your FREE printable map & guide to the June 20th 3rd.Thursdays!

Great Restaurants Upstreet!

There is plenty of  great food at 3rd.Thursdays  this month, with barbeque sliders and other comfort food by MadJacks BBQ, Mary's Carrot Cake Cafe for locally baked treats, the Lantern Bar & Grill for the county's best burgers, Spice Dragon for sushi and Vietnamese food, or Mission Bar + Tapas for Spanish wine and tapas and craft beer. Enjoy outdoor seating at Patrick's Pub or try North Street's newest culinary hotspot J. Allen's Clubhouse Grille. 

Great Outdoor Noshing Too!

Other food vendors at 3rd.Thursdays include For the Love of Pie, Lucia's Latin Kitchen, Zucchini's Restaurant and food trucks How We Roll and Amanda's Kitchen. And be sure and visit the historic Popcorn Wagon, now on North Street at Depot. All funds raised during the June 20th 3rd.Thursdays buy the popular Civitan food booth on Persip Park will go towards the fund to restore the Civil War Memorial on Park Square. Plus visit the open air Thistle & Mirth Beer Garden and enjoy local brews from Wandering Star!

Movies, Music & More Into the Evening!

More fun can be found indoors with a screening of the 90's romantic baseball comedy Bull Durham, starring Kevin Costner and Susan Surandon, at the Beacon Cinema as part of its monthly Throwback Thursdays series for $5. At 8pm head over to Patrick's Pub for Rakish Paddy's monthly set of Irish music or check out the Picky Bastards at Mission Bar & Tapas, a collective of rotating local folk, rock and Americana musicians hosted by Dave Brown and Chris Merenda. The Arthur Holmes Blues Band will be in the house at MadJack's BBQ from 7pm to 10pm. All are no cover.  Click here to download your FREE printable map & guide to the June 20th 3rd.Thursdays!

Live Theatre Upstreet!

Enjoy live theatre at this week's 3rd.Thursdays. The Town Players of Pittsfield offer three performances of the short one act, Barrington Stage presents two performance this 3rd.Thursdays. On the Main Stage, they're featuring their new acclaimed new musical On The Town (at left), for which they are offering 25% off a pair of tickets to any active or retired military personnel for the June 20th performance at 8pm. Just ask for the HERO promotion. And at the St. Germaine Stage on Linden Street, enjoy the world premiere of Muckrakers.  Click here to download your FREE printable map & guide to the June 20th 3rd.Thursdays!

Thank you to our sponsors!

We are very grateful to Guardian Life for being our lead sponsor this month! Other 3rd.Thursdays season sponsors include Berkshire Gas, Berkshire Eagle, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Sabic, Berkshire Health Systems and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  Thank you also to our wonderful downtown business sponsors, vendors and volunteers who make 3rd.Thursdays a community favorite!

Next 3rd.Thursdays: 'Under the Sea' July 18!

We're celebrating all things oceanic with the return of the North Street Beach, the Silver Swimmers and much more next month! Then look forward to the August 15th 3rd.Thursdays exploring Weird Science; September 19th's 3rd.Thursdays with the festive theme Festa Italiano; and October 17: Monster Mash. 3rd.Thursdays are held rain or shine and there is plenty of free parking throughout downtown's Upstreet Cultural District. See you there!