Clark Art Presents Outdoor Film Series

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In celebration of "A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945," the Clark Art Institute presents a selection of films celebrating women artists working in contemporary cinema.

The three-part outdoor film series is held on Wednesdays in August. All films are free and screened outdoors at dusk on the Clark's Reflecting Pool lawn.

Films in this series include:

LADY BIRD

August 6, 8:10 pm

Lady Bird (2017), directed by Greta Gerwig, stars Saoirse Ronan as a headstrong teenager navigating her senior year of high school in Sacramento. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, the film captures the push and pull between ambition and home, independence and family. Gerwig's directional debut was praised for its writing, emotional honesty, and personal yet universal themes. (Run time: 1 hour, 34 minutes)

SHREK

August 13, 8:10 pm

Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, Shrek (2001) is a subversive take on a classic fairy tale, as the film follows an ogre, a talkative donkey, and a spirited princess who challenge storybook conventions. Jenson, one of the first women to co-direct a major animated feature, shaped the film's sharp humor and heartfelt core. A critical and commercial success, Shrek won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. (Run time: 1 hour, 30 minutes)

TURNING RED

August 27, 7:45 pm

This coming-of-age story follows Mei, a confident yet conflicted teenager who transforms into a giant red panda when she experiences strong emotions. Incorporating relatable family dynamics with a playful take on adolescence, Turning Red (2022) is the first Pixar feature solely directed by a woman, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Domee Shi. (Run time: 1 hour, 40 minutes)

Bring a picnic and your own seating. Inclement weather moves events to the Manton Research Center auditorium. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.

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Mount Greylock School Committee Hears Budget Requests, Pressures

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:32AM / Wednesday, February 18, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee Thursday heard the final rounds of fiscal year 2027 budget requests and heard why those — or any — discretionary increases in spending will be difficult in the year that begins July 1.

Williamstown Elementary Principal Benjamin Torres and middle-high school Principal Jake Schutz each presented the spending priorities formulated by their respective school councils. The requests followed a presentation by Lanesborough Elementary Principal Nolan Pratt at the January meeting.

Superintendent Joseph Bergeron then told the School Committee that state and federal aid to the district is going to be slightly lower than FY26 and reminded the panel that the district spent the last two years spending down its reserve accounts, as requested by the member towns, to the point where those reserves — School Choice, tuition and excess and deficiency — cannot be applied to the operating budget.

"Spending the exact same amount of money from this year to next year — that alone will mean a 4 percent increase [in appropriations] to each of our towns," Bergeron said. "That's the baseline on top of which everything else will happen.

"We know we're seeing an 8.75 percent increase in health insurance, but we also have an increasing number of employees who are taking our health insurance, so that health insurance line is increasing substantially. When it comes to out-of-district tuition as well as transportation, both of those are seeing marked increases as well."

District staff and the School Committee will further refine its FY27 budget over the next five weeks, with a budget workshop scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, and a public hearing and final budget vote on March 19.

The district's appropriations to Williamstown and Lanesborough, which each pay a proportional share of the prekindergarten-Grade 12 district's operating expenses, will face an up-or-down vote at each town's annual meeting, in May and June, respectively.

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