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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Images Cinema Community Rallies to Aid Departed Managing Director

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff

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.
 
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