Clark Art Hosts Dither and I/O Ensemble

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—On Sunday, Jan. 18 at 3 pm, the Williams College Department of Music and I/O Fest 2026 welcome the intrepid electric guitar quartet Dither to the Clark for a program featuring selections from The Expanding Universe, the iconic 1979 album by the electronic composer and computer-music pioneer Laurie Spiegel.

This concert takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

According to a press release:

In 1977, one Spiegel composition, Kepler’s Harmony of the Worlds, was included on "The Sounds of Earth," an LP compilation that accompanied the Voyager spacecraft as it traversed the solar system. Dither captains its concert voyage of The Expanding Universe with four electric guitars through a galaxy of live effects.

Tickets $10 ($8 members, free for college students and children 17 and under). For more information, visit events.clarkart.edu. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. 

This program is presented by the Williams College Department of Music and the Clark.

Images Cinema Community Rallies to Aid Departed Managing Director

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:34PM / Thursday, March 12, 2026

Janet Curran's friends started a gofundme to help her through the transition.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The community is rallying to support the longtime managing director of Images Cinema after her job was eliminated late last year.

 

As of Thursday morning, a Gofundme campaign for Janet Curran had raised more than $12,500 from 90 contributors.

 

"I feel really held and supported by the community right now," Curran said this week. "I'm really moved that people appreciate the work that I did at Images."

 

Curran did that work for about a quarter of a century, first as a volunteer in 2000, then as an intern in 2002 and finally as the managing director, a position she held since 2007.

 

"If you've been to Images Cinema in the last 25 years … you've probably been helped by her, welcomed by her, or had a conversation with her that you still think about," the creators of the Gofundme campaign wrote.

 

"Janet is one of those people who makes a place worth living in. She's kind without making a show of it, dependable in a way many people aren't, and she has given more to this community than she'd ever say herself."

 

Two days before Thanksgiving 2025, Curran learned from the Spring Street theater's board of directors and Executive Director Dan Hudson that her position was being eliminated. Her last day at the non-profit movie house was Jan. 2.