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Berkshire Green Drinks: 'Snakes Are More Interesting Than You Can Imagine'| 12:00PM / Thursday, October 12, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Tom Tyning, an expert on amphibians and reptiles and an authority on New England's natural history, will present at the September Berkshire Green Drinks event on Monday, Oct. 16, in person and online via Zoom. The in-person gathering begins at 5:00 PM at The Barn at Williams Inn, 103 Spring St, Williamstown. The presentation and Zoom meeting start at 6:00 PM. If the weather permits, the in-person gathering will take place outdoors. According to a press release: The life histories, annual behaviors, and evolutionary story of snakes are incredible, fascinating, and remarkable. Tom will focus on our Berkshire/New England snake species, 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Lecture on European Prints| 08:00AM / Thursday, October 12, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Oct. 15, the Clark Art Institute presents a lecture with art historian Alexander Nagel, who examines how prints set in motion a new way of thinking about images as media, continually bringing image-making back to its fundamentals: lines on surfaces. The free lecture takes place at 1 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in its Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Five centuries before photography, printmaking fundamentally transformed western art. Prints made images move like never before, launching new forms of fame, sparking viral memes, and building shared imaginaries. Prints reconfigured all other 0 Comments
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Local Teams Win Titles in Just for Kicks TourneyiBerkshires.com Sports,
12:06PM / Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | |
 DALTON, Mass. -- Youth soccer programs from Adams, Great Barrington and Dalton emerged with team titles from the 26th annual Dalton CRA Just for Kicks Soccer Tournament last weekend. Adams won the under-12 boys Division 2 championship, beating the Williamstown Wizards in the tournament final. The Berkshire Hills U14 boys won the U14 boys title with a victory over South Hadley in the final. And the Dalton Blue squad took the U14 girls crown, beating the Pittsfield Soccer Club Panthers in the title match. One other local squad reached their divisional final in the event, which drew 58 teams from around the region for two days of games at Wahconah Regional High 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Jazz Concert Tribute to Art Blakey | 08:00AM / Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a jazz concert in tribute to Art Blakey with musicians George Cables, David Schnitter, and Steve Davis. The concert takes place at 7 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in its Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Celebrate one of the founding fathers of modern jazz, legendary drummer, and bandleader Art Blakey. Blakey developed more great young musicians than anyone else from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century with his group Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Alumni include Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Keith Jarrett, and Chuck 0 Comments
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Clark Art Artist Talk on Plants and People| 04:00PM / Monday, October 09, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a conversation with exhibiting artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, featured in "Humane Ecology: Eight Positions," and exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger. They discuss Aparicio's sculptural practice and the complex interdependence of people and plants—specifically in Central America and in the Los Angeles neighborhoods where he grew up. This free talk takes place at 3:30 pm in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Aparicio received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2016 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 2012. He has appeared in 0 Comments
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Williams Field Hockey Tops Conn College| 06:33PM / Saturday, October 07, 2023 | |
NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Natalia Nolan scored a pair of goals Saturday to lead the Williams College field hockey team to a 4-1 win over Conn College. Claire Colvin had a goal and an assist, and Gates Tenerowicz stopped three shots for Williams (6-2, 3-1 NESCAC), which goes to New Jersey to play Salisbury University on Sunday. Men's Soccer NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Andrew Coelho scored in the 62nd minute to give Williams a 1-1 tie at Conn College. Ben Diffley stopped four shots for Williams (6-2-2 2-2-2), which hosts Wesleyan on Saturday. Women's Soccer NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Ella Gazo assisted on both goals as Conn College handed Williams a 2-0 0 Comments
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Jane Swift Named to National Education BoardStaff Reports, iBerkshires
01:56PM / Friday, October 06, 2023 | |
 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Gov. Jane Swift will join the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the country's only ongoing, nationally representative assessment of student achievement. Swift was appointed on Friday by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. The Governing Board is a nonpartisan body established by Congress in 1988 to oversee and set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as The Nation's Report Card. NAEP provides objective information on student performance in various subjects and reports on student achievement across the nation, in states, and in select large urban districts. The 0 Comments
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Williamstown Con Comm Looks to Take Custody of Spruces Park, Protect More WetlandsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:15AM / Friday, October 06, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Conservation Commission has decided to move ahead with a plan to ask town meeting to place the Spruces Park property under the panel's "care, custody, management and control." On a vote of 6-0, the commissioners OK'd draft warrant article language about the 114-acre former Spruces Mobile Home Park at 60 Main St. (Route 2). It also unanimously decided to continue working on an article for town meeting that would expand the commission's authority over wetlands and water resources not currently covered under the commonwealth's Wetlands Protection Act. The Spruces Park is a former mobile home park that came into 0 Comments
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Holiday Hours: Indigenous Peoples Day / Columbus Day| 03:00PM / Thursday, October 05, 2023 | |
Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín's 'First landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World,' at San Salvador, W.I., Oct. 12, 1492, from 1862. Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day is being observed Monday, Oct. 9. As Columbus Day, it commemorates Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492. As Indigenous Peoples Day, it commemorates the harm to their cultures and communities that followed Columbus' arrival. Columbus' voyage had been celebrated on significant anniversaries but did not become an official holiday until being recognized by Colorado in 1905. It was declared a federal holiday in 1937.
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Clark Art Screens 'Sankofa'| 08:00AM / Thursday, October 05, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Oct. 12, the Clark Art Institute concludes its four-part film series examining the L.A. Rebellion, presented in celebration and anticipation of the Clark's 2023 Conference, "The Fetish A(r)t Work: African Objects in the Making of European Art History, 1500–1900." The Clark shows "Sankofa" at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Directed by Haile Gerima, "Sankofa" (1993; 2 hours, 4 minutes) was developed from twenty years of research into the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the experiences of African slaves in the New World. 5 Comments
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MCLA Announces Theatre, Music Productions for 2023-2024 Season | 02:00PM / Wednesday, October 04, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre and Music departments announced the 2023-2024 season of performances with four productions including visiting performing artists, guest directors, and student directors in addition to two student concerts. The fall season opens on Nov. 3 with a MainStage production titled "Antigone by Sophocles" translated by Anne Carson and guest director Rudy Ramirez. The show is scheduled to run on Nov. 3-4, 10-11 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. in Venable Theatre. Rudy Ramirez, Benedetti Teaching Artist in Residence, is a director, writer, and teaching artist specializing in 5 Comments
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Clark Art Talk on Oracle Bones Installation | 08:00AM / Wednesday, October 04, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Oct. 11, the Clark Art Institute hosts a conversation with exhibiting artist Elizabeth Atterbury and Anna Hepler. The two discuss process, collaboration, the studio, and Atterbury's current installation, Oracle Bones, at 6 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Atterbury and Hepler share a curiosity for how objects and images shift in form and scale between two and three dimensions and across materials. Both based in New England, they've recently completed their third collaborative public art commission. Tessarae (2023), a mural comprised of handmade ceramic titles, is installed at the 5 Comments
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