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Williamstown Select Board Talks Policy on Plowing Private WaysBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:22AM / Monday, October 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board last week discussed a policy to guide decisions on whether to accept private ways for snow plowing by town personnel. Actually, the town has an existing policy, and the Department of Public Works currently plows 10 private roads under that policy, which was enacted by the board in late 1980s. "The document could be out there somewhere, but we can't find it," DPW Director Craig Clough told the board. "We found reference to it in the minutes [of meetings] and stuff like that, but there is no definitive, 'Here's your guideline.' "It was time to create it." The topic came to the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Reflections Gallery Talk| 11:24AM / Friday, October 11, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute presents Reflections, a monthly gallery experience during which visitors are invited to look contemplatively as they engage with works of art from the Clark's collection. According to a press release: With a gentle tone that encourages investigation and audience participation, the group explores one or two artworks with the help of a Clark educator, working together to explore their meaning, find understanding, and raise questions. Distinct from a conventional gallery tour, Reflections provides an opportunity for close looking and introspection. Free with gallery admission. Advance 0 Comments
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An Evening with Ted Tally: A Fundraiser for Images Cinema| 08:00AM / Friday, October 11, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema announced An Evening With Academy Award-Winner Ted Tally on Wednesday, Oct.16. Ted Tally, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "The Silence of the Lambs" for Best Adapted Screenplay, will be in conversation with American novelist Jim Shepard following a screening of "The Silence of the Lambs" on Wednesday, Oct. 16. Starting at 6pm there will be a cash bar with specialty drinks in the Images Cinema lounge and lobby. Tickets are $20; $18 for members, with the option to pay a higher ticket price to benefit Images Cinema. Tickets are available at https://www.imagescinema.org/movie/an-evening-with-ted-tally Buying
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Williamstown Paving Operations | 08:17AM / Thursday, October 10, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town of Williamstown will be repaving the following roads beginning the week of Oct. 14. North Hoosac Road from Cole Avenue intersection to Bridges Road intersection - mill pavement, and overlay pavement Whitman Street - mill payment, and overlay pavement Paving will take place in no particular order. On street parking for the above listed streets prohibited during the hours of 6 am to 6 pm during construction. Schedule is subject to change due to weather conditions. 0 Comments
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Community Contra Dance in Williamstown| 04:01PM / Wednesday, October 09, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The North Berkshire Contra Dance will hold its monthly community contra dance on Saturday, Oct. 12, with live fiddle music, and all dances taught by caller Quena Crain. Come alone or with a partner; most people change partners for each dance throughout the evening. New dancers and families with children are encouraged to arrive by 7:30 for instruction in the basics. Music will be provided by Cedar Stanistreet on fiddle and Michael Sokolovsky on guitar -- the duo version of the popular contra dance band, Sycamore. The dance will run 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the Community Hall of the First Congregational Church, 906 Main St., Williamstown. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Performance By New Chamber Ballet| 08:18AM / Wednesday, October 09, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — At 4 pm on Sunday, Oct. 13, the Clark Art Institute presents a new ballet by Miro Magloire, set to music by Alyssa Regent and Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León and performed by New Chamber Ballet. According to a press release: Quadrille, inspired by an eighteenth-century dance from France to the Caribbean, merges contemporary ballet with chamber music. New Chamber Ballet's six dancers and a cellist perform Miro Magloire’s choreography, reflecting folk dance symmetries from his Haitian heritage. León's Four Pieces for Cello draws on Cuban Santeria music, while Regent’s Fortis Meam will be paired with a world premiere 0 Comments
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Williams College 'Pluriverse' Pavilion Example of Intersection of DisciplinesBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:51PM / Tuesday, October 08, 2024 | |
Course instructor Giuseppina Forte, left, and college President Maud Mandel at the ribbon cutting. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Williams College class has brought together art and architecture, sustainability and design, and learned a whole lot about carpentry and math, in a curling, open pavilion on Main Street. The product of professor Giuseppina Forte's fall 2023 class "Design for the Pluriverse" took nearly a year to design, model and construct and is meant to be a welcoming space to meditate and connect. President Maud Mandel said she'd been getting quite a few queries about the little structure between First Congregational 0 Comments
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WCMA Community Forum on New Museum Building Project| 11:46AM / Saturday, October 05, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) invites the community to a forum to learn more about the new museum building project at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10. The forum, which will be held in the Williams Inn Ballroom, will kick off the WCMA building project construction phase, slated to begin this fall. Learn about the project schedule and expectations, review updated designs, and hear from our landscape architect, Reed Hildebrand, for a special landscape design presentation. The new Williams College Museum of Art is conceived to serve the college, the local community and visitors to the Berkshires. According to a press release, the new 0 Comments
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Berkshire Green Drinks: Tracking: Out-of-Sight, Out-of-Mind| 03:54PM / Friday, October 04, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Daniel Hansche, the founder of Spur Wander and an evaluator with Tracker Certification North America, will speak at the October Berkshire Green Drinks event on Wednesday, Oct. 9. This free hybrid event will take place online via Zoom and in person at The Barn of the Williams Inn, 101 Spring Street, Pittsfield. The in-person social gathering will begin around 5:30 PM; the presentation and Zoom meeting will start at 6:00 PM. According to a press release: Wildlife tracking has contributed significantly to our awareness of the species cohabitating in the Berkshires alongside our human population. Especially valuable to the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens 'The Three Musketeers - Part II: Milady'| 11:14AM / Friday, October 04, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — As part of its free Alexandre Dumas film series this fall, the Clark Art Institute screens "The Three Musketeers—Part II: Milady" (2023) at 6 pm on Oct. 10 in the Manton Research Center auditorium. The film is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Guillaume Lethière, on view at the Clark through Oct. 14. According to a press release: An unbelievable hit when it was first published, The Three Musketeers has been adapted into film over thirty times, most recently in this two-film version by Martin Bourboulon in 2023. As the Guillaume Lethière exhibition enters its last weeks, celebrate the idealism and 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Lecture on Forthcoming Exhibition| 08:11AM / Friday, October 04, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a free lecture by artist-scholar Andil Gosine (York University / Beinecke Fellow). In it he previews his bronze sculpture Ixora Coccinea from his forthcoming exhibition Nature's Wild at the Art Museum of the Americas (June 2025). According to a press release: Gosine considers contemporary and historical personal and sociopolitical catalysts for his sculpture. Ixora Coccinea is at once invested in contestation of anthropocentrism, observation and documentation of the historical significance of 0 Comments
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Clark Art Offers Event for New Berkshire Residents| 11:29AM / Thursday, October 03, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — At 5:30 pm on Wednesday, Oct. 9, the Clark Art Institute welcomes recent transplants to "The Art of Orientation: Getting to Know the Northern Berkshires," a fun and informal session focusing on the history, geography, resources, and culture of the area. This free evening of connection at the Clark includes conversations with local organizations and individuals, opportunities to connect with cultural and social networks in the region, and free admission to the special exhibitions "Guillaume Lethière and Fragile Beauty: Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass." Light refreshments will be provided by culinary community 0 Comments
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