Clark Art Presents Performance By Luke Fischbeck

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Jan. 31 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents an original musical performance by Luke Fischbeck inspired by special exhibition Raffaella della Olga: Typescripts. 
 
The performance takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium.
 
Raffaella della Olga considers her practice of typewriter art in musical terms, with the machine itself as an instrument and the resulting works as graphic scores. In this program, Williams College lecturer Luke Fischbeck, of the collaborative sound art group lucky dragons, performs two works inspired by della Olga’s practice: a solo piano composition by Parisian composer Alexandra Grimal, Typewriter #2, for Piano, and his own live mix of an electronic sound piece based on recordings made on the Clark campus.
 
Raffaella della Olga:Typescripts is on view through May 31, 2026 in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper in the Manton Research Center.
 
Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 college students, $5 children 17 and under). Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For tickets, visit events.clarkart.edu.

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Williamstown Community Preservation Act Applicants Make Cases to Committee

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee on Tuesday heard from six applicants seeking CPA funds from May's annual town meeting, including one grant seeker that was not included in the applications posted on the town's website prior to the meeting.
 
That website included nine applications as of Tuesday evening, with requests totaling just more than $1 million — well over the $624,000 in available Community Preservation Act funds that the committee anticipates being available for fiscal year 2027.
 
A 10th request came from the town's Agricultural Commission, whose proponents made their cases in person to the CPC on Tuesday. The other four are scheduled to give presentations to the committee at its Jan. 27 meeting.
 
Between now and March, the committee will need to decide what, if any, grant requests it will recommend to May's town meeting, where members will have the final say on allocations.
 
Ag Commissioners Sarah Gardner and Brian Cole appeared before the committee to talk about the body's request for $25,000 to create a farmland protection fund.
 
"It would be a fund the commission could use to participate in the exercise of a right of first refusal when Chapter [61] land comes out of chapter status," Gardner explained, alluding to a process that came up most recently when the Select Board assigned the town's right of first refusal to the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation, which ultimately acquired a parcel on Oblong Road that otherwise would have been sold off for residential development.
 
"The town has a right of first refusal, but that has to be acted on in 120 days. It's not something we can fund raise for. We have to have money in the bank. And we'd have to partner with a land trust or some other interested party like Rural Lands or the Berkshire Natural Resources Council. Agricultural commissions in the state are empowered to create these funds."
 
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