Enjoy 18 different art shows featuring work by more than two dozen accomplished regional and student artists in Pittsfield's bustling Upstreet Cultural District during the First Friday Artswalkand all month long!
In most venues, artists will be present from 5-8 p.m. A free guided tour begins at 5 p.m. at the Intermodal Center @ BRTA, 1 Columbus Ave.
The Lichtenstein Center for the Artswill host HAPPY, an abstract art show by Jesse Tobin McCauley for the month of August. There will be an opening reception during First Fridays Artswalk from 5-8 p.m. The exhibit runs through August 31.
Kids and teens, pick up the August 2nd Scavenger Hunt flyer for a chance to win a prize! Grab yours at the Artswalk table in Crawford Square, 137 North St., during the Artswalk or print one from the website.
Berkshires Jazz brings five of the most popular regional bands to the stage for the 2019 Berkshire Jazz Showcase, on the Pittsfield Common from 12-5 p.m. The wide-ranging lineup for this jazz extravaganza includes Gina Coleman and Misty Blues, Paul Green and Two Worlds, Andy Wrba's Berkshire Jazz Collective,
First Take with Mary Ann Palermo and the Kyle Murray Quintet. FREE.
Hancock Shaker VillagewelcomesBerkshire Opera Festival as they pay homage to American opera by composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Carlisle Floyd. The recital, "Ain't it a Pretty Night," will feature soprano Caroline Worra, tenor John Riesen and pianist Lynn Baker will explore this essential part of the musical fabric of our country.7:30 p.m. $18-$25.
Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks animated film, Shrek The Musicalis a Tony Award-winning fairytale adventure featuring all new songs from Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie) and a side-splitting book by David Lindsay-Abaire. Shrek brings all the beloved characters you know from the film to the stage and proves there's more to the story than meets the ears. The Colonial Theatre through August 9. $35 and up.
Join Rachael from Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness every 1st and 3rd Saturday (June through August) for outdoor yoga and Zumba classes at Burbank Park on Onota Lake. Yoga begins at 9 a.m. and Zumba at 10:15 a.m. Come to one class or both! $10 suggested donation per class. Rain cancels.
If I Forget is apowerful tale of a Jewish-American family and a culture at odds with itself. Three siblings reunite to celebrate their father's 75th birthday. As long-held secrets bubble to the surface, they negotiate - with biting humor and razor-sharp insight - how much of the past they're willing to sacrifice for a chance at a new beginning.At the St. Germain Stage through September 8.
The third annual Moby-Dick marathon reading at Arrowheadwill commence on Friday, Aug. 2 at 10 a.m. and continue for the next three days from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The reading is interrupted, for the morning of Sunday, Aug. 4, for the Monument Mountain hike celebrating the day that Herman Melville met Nathanial Hawthorne. On Saturday, Aug. 3, a FREE Community Day will includea giant, inflatable whale that you can walk through, nautical knot-tying, a letterpress demonstration, and more!
On Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., hear the bellows blow, smell the coal smoke, and watch hot iron worked by hammer and anvil as New England blacksmiths converge on Hancock Shaker Village for Age of Iron. Talk with blacksmiths and see traditional and modern methods in use.On Sunday at 4 p.m., join chef Brian Alberg for Maker's Day: Eat the Landscape. Gather ingredients from the Village's gardens, learn to prepare and cook a farm-to-table dinner in the beauty of the outdoors, then relax with a glass of wine and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
In the style of 13th, Manufacturing Consent, and All Governments Lie, this film explains how President Trump is the result of failed neoliberal globalist policies and a "corporate coup d'état" in which corporations and billionaires were able to gradually take control of the political process in the U.S. and elsewhere. Threaded through the film are the stories of the ultimate victims - working class and poor people in "sacrifice zones" like Camden, N.J. and Youngstown, Ohio. Many working-class whites voted twice for Barack Obama, but in 2016 they felt abandoned by the elites of both parties and voted for someone who promised he would be different.
Let's Go Pink is a cancer awareness exhibit that will be on view at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield throughout October, 2019. The opening reception will be Friday, Oct. 4 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. as part of that month's First Friday Artswalk. Twenty percent of sales will go to BTG PLAYS!, 15% to BMC Integrative Health Program's intuitive painting class for cancer patients, and the other 65% to the artist. Submissions accepted until Friday, Sept. 6.Artists will be notified of acceptance on or before Sept. 9. For more info, email the Let's Go Pink team: auntsessy1@gmail.com
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EPA Lays Out Draft Plan for PCB Remediation in Pittsfield
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
Ward 4 Councilor James Conant requested the meeting be held at Herberg Middle School as his ward will be most affected.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency and General Electric have a preliminary plan to remediate polychlorinated biphenyls from the city's Rest of River stretch by 2032.
"We're going to implement the remedy, move on, and in five years we can be done with the majority of the issues in Pittsfield," Project Manager Dean Tagliaferro said during a hearing on Wednesday.
"The goal is to restore the (Housatonic) river, make the river an asset. Right now, it's a liability."
The PCB-polluted "Rest of River" stretches nearly 125 miles from the confluence of the East and West Branches of the river in Pittsfield to the end of Reach 16 just before Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The city's five-mile reach, 5A, goes from the confluence to the wastewater treatment plant and includes river channels, banks, backwaters, and 325 acres of floodplains.
The event was held at Herberg Middle School, as Ward 4 Councilor James Conant wanted to ensure that the residents who will be most affected by the cleanup didn't have to travel far.
Conant emphasized that "nothing is set in actual stone" and it will not be solidified for many months.
In February 2020, the Rest of River settlement agreement that outlines the continued cleanup was signed by the U.S. EPA, GE, the state, the city of Pittsfield, the towns of Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, and Sheffield, and other interested parties.
Remediation has been in progress since the 1970s, including 27 cleanups. The remedy settled in 2020 includes the removal of one million cubic yards of contaminated sediment and floodplain soils, an 89 percent reduction of downstream transport of PCBs, an upland disposal facility located near Woods Pond (which has been contested by Southern Berkshire residents) as well as offsite disposal, and the removal of two dams.
The estimated cost is about $576 million and will take about 13 years to complete once construction begins.
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