Clark Art to Host Final First Sunday Free with Focus on Art and Wellness

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present its final First Sunday Free of the season on Sunday, May 4, with a focus on Art and Wellness. Free admission will be offered from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
 
The event will feature activities exploring the relationship between art and well-being, including a pop-up installation of prints and drawings in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The installation will showcase works on paper that explore themes of mental, physical, and spiritual healing through drawings, prints, and watercolors.
 
Throughout the day, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors can participate in various activities such as all-ages yoga in the galleries and a guided, mindful walk on the museum's grounds. Art-making and other activities related to self-care and well-being will also be offered.
 
Family programs are supported by Allen & Company.
 
Free admission will be available all day. Certain activities may require registration, and sign-ups will be on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the event. For accessibility inquiries, individuals can call 413-458-0524. 
 
 

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Theater Review: 'Driving Miss Daisy' Is a 'Wondrous' Production

By Alan PetrucelliSpecial to iBerkshires
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" rolled into the St. Germain Stage in late May, marking the opening of Barrington Stage Company's 2026 season.
 
And what a wondrous, welcoming production it is. Uhry won a Pulitzer Prize for his work; he won an Oscar for the 1989 film adaptation of the play, which also won the Best Picture Oscar. Yes, that's how good it is.
 
Daisy Werthan is a 72-year-old white Jewish widow in Atlanta whose car accident destroyed her Packard — and her chance to ever drive herself again.
 
"Mama, we are just going to have to hire someone to drive you," her adult son Boolie tells her. 
 
She is adamant: "What I do not want — and absolutely will not have — is some chauffeur sitting in my kitchen, gobbling my food and running up my phone bill."
 
Enter Hoke Colburn, an unemployed African-American illiterate who grew up in rural Georgia during the Jim Crow-era South. Boolie hires him at $20 a week, and in a span of 85 minutes and a decade or so, this odd couple develop a tight bond that overcomes their cultural, gender and class differences. 
 
Though she's living in a racially explosive time in the South, the irascible Miss Daisy doesn't consider herself racist, nor does she fully accept the realities of the racist culture that has even resulted in a bombing at her own synagogue (a true event in Atlanta, in 1958).
 
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