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April 2003
Through April 13, 2003
Hancock Shaker
Village
West Pittsfield
Cities of Peace, Love and Union: The Hancock Bishopric
Furniture, manuscripts and personal items that belonged to the members
of the communities in the Hancock Bishopric -- Hancock and Tyringham,
Massachusetts, and Enfield, Connecticut -- are exhibited in this examination
of their personal lives and struggles.
Through April 27, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Tadao Ando: Architect
The winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995 and
the recipient of the 2002 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal,
Tadao Ando is one of the most celebrated architects working today. Masterfully
reconciling the minimalist vocabulary of modern Western architecture and
the environmental sensitivity of Japanese building and garden design,
Ando’s work relates edifice to landscape in a profoundly spiritual
manner. This exhibition, organized by the Saint Louis Art Museum, surveys
Ando’s work of the past thirty years.
Through
May 11, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Renoir and Algeria
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will present the first ever
exhibition devoted to the Algerian subjects of Pierre Auguste Renoir this
spring. Organized by the Clark, Renoir and Algeria will open at the Institute
February 16, 2003, and will later travel to the Dallas Museum of Art and
the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. The exhibition comprises about 15
portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes inspired by the French Impressionist
artist's two trips to Algeria in 1881 and 1882.
Tuesday,
April 1 through December 31, 2003
Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT
The
Battle of Bennington
A
new exhibit incorporating recent scholarship on this historic turning
point in the American Revolution; arms and ammunition relating to the
battle are set against a backdrop of new maps that outline the stages
of the battle. In the Changing Exhibition Gallery and the Flag Gallery.
Thursday,
April 3, 2003
Mass
MOCA
Williamstown
CINEMA LOUNGE
The Brian Epstein Story
Brian Epstien, the
Beatles' original manager, was a leader of the music revolution that changed
popular culture forever. A Jewish homosexual who came of age in Liverpool
in the '50s and '60s, he was a man of many demons. This fascinating glimpse
into his life includes rare early Fab Four footage. B-10 Cinema Lounge
at 8pm. Tickets:
$5.50
Cyberian
Cafe
Corner First and Fenn Street
Pittsfield
Jazz Tap Lessons
By T.A.P.! (Totally Artistic Percussion!)
partially funded
by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Saturday,
April 5 and 6, 2003
Berkshire Music School
30 Wendell Ave
Pittsfield
Student Music Marathon
Students participate in sponsored performing, with the money they raise
going for scholarships for other children for the next year. Parents will
offer baked goods and beverages for sale at the event. The Edgar B. Taft
Recital Hall is at the rear of the school property. There is handicapped
accessible seating and parking. Starting at 9:30 AM
Saturday,
April 5, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Renoir's Still Lifes Family Day
Gallery talks, art activities, and entertainment will be offered during
this program designed to introduce children and their families to still-life
painting and the work of Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Offered
in connection with the exhibition Renoir and Algeria. 1:00
PM
Mass
MOCA
Williamstown
PUPPET
THEATER
Symphonie Fantastique
A one-of-a-kind
under-water marvel combining the magic of puppetry with powerful accompaniments
of music, dance, and abstract art. Symphonie Fantastique is an intimate
show by puppet master Basil Twist, set to the five movements of Hector
Berlioz's 19th-century classical composition of the same name. The hour-long
Symphonie is performed entirely in a specially constructed water tank.
Hunter Center at 2 & 7 pm Tickets: $20 adults / $15 students. To
reserve tickets call 413.662.2111
Sunday, April
6, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Le Petit Soldat
This film by Jean-Luc Godard was banned by the French authorities
for portraying the domestic infection of terror and torture during the
Algerian war. (1960, 88 minutes, French with subtitles). The
film is part of the series "France in Algeria, Algeria in France,"
offered in connection with the exhibition Renoir and Algeria. All films
are shown via DVD projection. 2:00 PM
Bennington
Museum
Bennington, VT
Paul and Ada Paresky Museum Court and Education Center.
"In
Great-great Grandmother"s Day"
Costumed museum teachers will discuss and depict the everyday
life of women from 1850 to 1900. Find out how our grandmothers "kept
house," raise their children, socialized, and dressed. Guest speaker
Susan McLane will give a multi-media presentation entitled "The Saratoga
Season," which will illustrate the customs and habits of Victorian
tourists in nearby Saratoga, New York. Adult $6, senior/student $4.50,
family $12. Museum members receive a discount. 1 to 4 p.m.
Monday, April
7, 2003
Cyberian Cafe
Corner First and Fenn Street
Pittsfield
Argentine Tango Lessons
Claudia Munafo and Dario Da Silva teach the sultry Argentine
Tango.
6:00 - 7:00 PM Beginner/Intermediate
7:00 - 8:00 PM Intermediate / Advanced
8:00 - 9:30 PM Practica All Levels
Monday, April
7 to May 16
Berkshire
Artisans
Renee Ave., Pittsfield
BERKSHIRE
ART ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION
public reception: April 11, 2003 at 8 pm
Thursday,
April 10, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Desert Island Pictures: Renoir's Bay of Naples with Vesuvius
In
this lunchtime lecture series, offered on the second Thursday of the month,
curators discuss works in the Clark collection that they would take with
them if "stranded on a desert island." This winter the series
focuses on Renoir in the Mediterranean. In this gallery talk Richard Rand,
senior curator, will discuss Bay of Naples with Vesuvius by Pierre-Auguste
Renoir. Each gallery talk lasts about one half-hour; lunch is available
before or after each talk in the Clark Cafe. The talks are free with gallery
admission. 12:30 PM
Cyberian Cafe
Corner First and Fenn Street
Pittsfield
Jazz Tap Lessons
By T.A.P.! (Totally Artistic Percussion!)
partially funded
by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Berkshire
Museum
Pittsfield
Mad Science Presents "Fire and Ice"
Free with museum admission. Mad Scientists will show you simple scientific
techniques that are used to create amazing special effects. 11AM
Friday, April 11, 2003
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield
The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes: A lecture presented by Maureen
Corrigan
Reason and irrationality are at battle in many of the Sherlock
Holmes stories. Using The Hound of the Baskervilles as a basis for her
lecture, mystery maven Maureen Corrigan will show how Arthur Conan Doyle's
own strange fascination with spiritualism triumphs in the tale, which
she describes as a "giant boggy metaphor of the human mind."
Corrigan is a book reviewer for National Public Radio's Fresh Air, Assistant
Professor of Literature at Georgetown University, and Associate Editor
of Mystery and Suspense Writers. She also writes for The Washington Post,
The New York Times, and Newsday.Adults: $12 Non-member, $9 Member, Students
with ID: $7 - 7 PM
Berkshire Artisans
Renee Ave., Pittsfield
BERKSHIRE
ART ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION
public reception at 8 pm
Sunday, April
13, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Renoir and Algeria
Richard
Rand, senior curator, will give a gallery talk on the exhibition Renoir
and Algeria. 2:00 PM
Clark
Art Institute
Williamstown
Concert: Musicians From Marlboro
An ensemble
from the acclaimed Marlboro Music Festival will make its annual appearance
at the Clark. On the program are: Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, Op.
54, No. 2; Bartók's String Quartet No. 3; and Mozart's Divertimento
for Strings and Two Horns in D Major, K. 334. Scheduled to perform are:
Catherine Cho and Todd Phillips, violin; Brian Chen, viola; Sumire Kudo,
cello; Kurt Moroki, bass; and Angela Cordell and Patrick Pridemore, horn.
Tickets are
$10 ($8 for members).
3:00 PM
Monday, April
14, 2003
Cyberian Cafe
Corner First and Fenn Street
Pittsfield
Argentine Tango Lessons
Claudia Munafo and Dario Da Silva teach the sultry Argentine
Tango.
6:00 - 7:00 PM Beginner/Intermediate
7:00 - 8:00 PM Intermediate / Advanced
8:00 - 9:30 PM Practica All Levels
Tuesday,
April 15 - April 16, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Julius S. Held Lecture Series: Mariët Westermann
Mariët Westermann, this year's speaker in the annual series honoring
noted art historian Dr. Julius S. Held, will give two different lectures
on the topic "Performing Forbears: Memory at Work in Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Painting." Westermann is director of the Institute of Fine
Arts at New York University and former associate director of Research
and Academic Programs at the Clark.
On Tuesday, April
15, Westermann will give the lecture "Young Rembrandt and the Lure
of Classical Antiquity." On Wednesday, April 16, she will speak on
"Paradoxes of Jan Steen."
The Julius S. Held
Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Clark Art Institute and the Williams
College Graduate Program in the History of Art.
Thursday,
April 17, 2003
Cyberian
Cafe
Corner First and Fenn Street
Pittsfield
Jazz Tap Lessons
By T.A.P.! (Totally Artistic Percussion!)
partially funded
by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Sunday, April
20, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Overseas
Brigitte Rouan directs this film about three beautiful French
sisters in colonial Algeria who confront social and political agitation.
(1990, 96 minutes, French with subtitles). The film is part of the series
"France in Algeria, Algeria in France," offered in connection
with the exhibition Renoir and Algeria. All films are shown via DVD projection.
2:00 PM
Monday, April
21, 2003
Cyberian Cafe
Corner First and Fenn Street
Pittsfield
Argentine Tango Lessons
Claudia Munafo and Dario Da Silva teach the sultry Argentine
Tango.
6:00 - 7:00 PM Beginner/Intermediate
7:00 - 8:00 PM Intermediate / Advanced
8:00 - 9:30 PM Practica All Levels
Monday, April 21 - 26, 2003
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield
The Puppet People
The Last Dragon
This whimsical retelling of the fairy tale by E. Nesbitt, features classical
music, large rod puppets, mouth puppets, a 7 ft dragon and a life-size
knight on horseback for a jousting scene you will never forget! 11 AM,
also at 2 PM on 4/26 Members: $5 adults, $3 children Non-Members: $8 adults,
$5 children, includes admission to the Museum
Wednesday,
April 23 - 26, 2003
Williamstown Jazz Festival
Williamstown
Williamstown Jazz Festival
Featuring Kenny Barron's "Canta Brasil", John Scofield
and his Jam Band, John Blake Quartet, College Jazz Bands, Jazz Violin
Lecture, Tap Dance Workshops, Film and much more.
Thursday
April 24, 2003
Mass
MOCA
Williamstown
CINEMA LOUNGE DOUBLE FEATURE
A Great Day in Harlem/ Setting the Record Straight
The former uses a photograph of a rare gathering of the pantheon
of Harlem's jazz greats as an ingenious narrative vehicle for telling
each one's remarkable story. The later pays homage to the often overlooked
blues violin trailblazer Papa John Creach (best known for his work with
Jefferson Airplane) who influenced a startling collection of rock's heaviest
hitters. Total run time 2 hours. B-10 Cinema Lounge at 8 pm Tickets: $5.50
To reserve tickets call 413.662.2111
Cyberian
Cafe
Corner First and Fenn Street
Pittsfield
Jazz Tap Lessons
By T.A.P.! (Totally Artistic Percussion!)
partially funded
by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Friday April 25, 2003
Mass
MOCA
Williamstown
CONCERT
John Scofield co-presented with Williamstown Jazz Festival
This peerless jazz guitarist has styles encompassing post-bop
and fusion, straight-ahead and funkified. The musically mercurial John
Scofield is as easy to enjoy as he is hard to predict. As part of the
Williamstown Jazz Festival Scofield and his band bring layer upon layer
of sound and energy to North Adams for one unforgettable and undeniably
fun night.Hunter Center at 8 pm Tickets: $16 adults / $10 students To
reserve tickets call 413.662.2111
Saturday,
April 26, 2003 through June 15, 2003
Hancock Shaker Village
West Pittsfield
Baby Animals: New Life on the Farm
See the cycle of life on the farm through this interactive presentation
focused on baby animals and their early development. See baby sheep, hatching
chicks, kids, piglets, and other newly arrived livestock with their moms
and learn about the special bond between them.
Sunday, April
27, 2003
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown
Jonathan Gosnell: "Colonial Realities vs. Artistic Representation
in French Algeria"
Jonathan Gosnell, professor of French language and literature at Smith
College, will speak in connection with the exhibition Renoir and Algeria.
2:00 PM
Bennington
Museum
Bennington, VT
Ada Paresky Education Center
Bennington String Quartet
Program to be announced. Adult $10, member $8; senior/student
$8, member $6.50; family $15, $12.50 members. 2 PM
Monday, April
28, 2003
Cyberian Cafe
Corner First and Fenn Street
Pittsfield
Argentine Tango Lessons
Claudia Munafo and Dario Da Silva teach the sultry Argentine
Tango.
6:00 - 7:00 PM Beginner/Intermediate
7:00 - 8:00 PM Intermediate / Advanced
8:00 - 9:30 PM Practica All Levels
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