Clark Art Free Concert By William Parker and Patricia Nicholson

08:11AM / Wednesday, June 25, 2025Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —The Clark Art Institute presents an outdoor concert on Sunday, June 29 at 5 pm featuring an evening of visionary improvisation with composer and multi-instrumentalist William Parker and dancer-poet Patricia Nicholson as they present a duo adaptation of "Hope Cries for Justice."

This free event takes place on the Moltz Terrace of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill.

According to a press release:

William Parker, a prolific bassist, composer, and educator, has dedicated his life to the concept of Universal Tonality, blending improvisation, composition, and social consciousness.

Patricia Nicholson, a dancer, poet, and organizer, integrates movement, music, and activism into performances that illuminate and inspire, creating experiences that foster community and collective expression.

This program is presented in collaboration with Belltower Records, North Adams, Massachusetts.

Free. Rain moves the performance to the auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.

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Williamstown, Five Other County Towns Receive Seasonal Community Grants

Staff Reports11:14AM / Wednesday, October 21, 2026

BOSTON, Mass. — Five months after Williamstown's town meeting opted into the commonwealth's Seasonal Communities program, the town has received its first grant from the state under the program.

Gov. Maura Healey Tuesday announced nearly $2 million in Seasonal Community Grants to help all 24 municipalities in the program statewide.

The funding helps communities advance housing projects with the potential to support 594 year-round homes, including affordable housing developments, infrastructure improvements and planning efforts that will help unlock future housing opportunities.

"From the Berkshires to Cape Cod and the Islands, our seasonal communities are an important part of what makes Massachusetts special," Healey in a news release. "But we know these communities face unique challenges, especially when it comes to housing for the people who live and work there year-round. That's why we created the Seasonal Communities designation and are backing it up with funding to help local leaders build more homes, support their workforce and keep their communities strong for generations to come."

That list of awardees includes six Berkshire County towns:

• Egremont — $60,687 to support septic and well construction for Phase II of Town Hall Housing, adding affordable housing units (20 units).

• Great Barrington — $84,731 to conduct a housing needs study, develop a Housing Production Plan and support the design and engineering of roadway and streetscape improvements near Reed Street and Main Street.

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