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October 2002

Through October 6, 2002
Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
Tracey Moffatt: Document
Comprised of three videos - "Heaven" (1997), "Artist" (1999), and "Nice Colored Girls" (1987)Document represents several distinct yet related approaches to video making. While each piece serves as a record of a particular event, concept, or experience, each uses different techniques to express its individual messages, including seemingly unedited surveillance, found footage, and experimental documentary.

Through October 14, 2002
Red Fox Inn
Bondville, VT and more
297-2488
The Boys from Abbeyleix
A traditional Irish session band from County Laois, Ireland will be making a special two week visit to the southern Vermont area October 1-14, 2002. An extremely talented and personal group of lads, they will be guests of Tom and Cindy Logan of the Red Fox Inn in Bondville. They are well loved for their special traditional ballads, sing-songs and sheer instrumental entertainment. Seventy-five year old Paddy o'Rourke was an All Ireland accordian player and is a character not to be missed. Andy O'Connell is famous for his original ballads and he has been known to do some authentic Irish table dancing.

The boys will be performing at a few different venues in the area over the next few weeks. They will be at the Red Fox Inn Oct 3 & 4 and 10, 11 & 12. They will also be performing at Bromley Mt. and at the Jamaica Town Hall on Sunday, Oct. 13 @ 3 & 7 pm. For those in the Saratoga area they will be at the Parting Glass on Sat. Oct. 5 @ 9 pm.

Through October 27, 2002
Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
Prelude to a Nightmare: Art, Politics, and Hitler's Early Years in Vienna 1906-1913
The exhibition will include approximately 275 paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, posters, theatrical designs, vintage film footage, photographs, books, pamphlets, and other examples of material culture.

Through November 3, 2002
The Berkshire Museum
39 South Street (Route 7)
Pittsfield, MA
Artful Mechanisms
The Kinetic Sculpture of Arthur Ganson

Through November 3, 2002
The Berkshire Museum
39 South Street (Route 7)
Pittsfield, MA
Seeing the Unseen
Photographs by Harold E. Edgerton

Through November 10, 2002
Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
An American Portrait: Color Photography from the Farm Security Administration, 1939-1942
This exhibit offers a selection of 64 color photographs from the documentary project carried out for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) between 1939 and 1942.

Through April 16, 2003
Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
From the Collection: New York, New York
Featuring images of New York City, these works were created by artists working in the city since the late 19th century. The show includes work by Maurice and Charles Prendergast, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Aaron Siskind, Louis Faurer, and Gerry Winogrand.

Through April 27, 2003
Clark Art Institute
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA
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 Spring 2003
Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
Uncommon Denominator: New Art from Vienna
This summer, MASS MoCA makes an uncommon move in its exhibition of new art from Vienna. Lush paintings, psychologically charged drawings, deft political commentaries, and challenging conceptual works by 15 of the best artists from this cultural capital come together in Uncommon Denominator.

Thursday, October 3, 2002
Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
Two Viennese and Why They Hated Vienna
an evening with Bachmann and Wittgenstein Co-presented by Shakespeare & Company, Three works by and about seminal Viennese figures. Adaptations of Ingeborg Bachmann's short stories, Among Murderers and Madmen, in which two Jewish men confess their disgust for the ex-Nazis they are dining with and for their own weakness, and Undine's Valediction in which a female creature gives her final farewell to the men who inspired and subjugated her. Plus the world premier reading of David Egan's play Wittgenstein vs. Popper: The Main Event, documenting a brief and not very friendly encounter between two renowned philosophers. 8:00 pm.

Saturday, October 5, 2002
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Intersection Routes 102 & 183
Stockbridge, MA
68th Annual Harvest Festival
The Berkshires oldest and best known community event. An old-fashioned, family-oriented festival with something for everyone: rides, games, food, music, crafts and more. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

The Berkshire Museum
39 South Street (Route 7)
Pittsfield, MA
ORIGINALS IN SONG CONCERT SERIES
Chris Smither
Bonnie Raitt, who recorded his songs, "Love Me Like a Man" and "I Feel the Same, " calls Chris Smither "My Eric Clapton." His powerfully emotional performances leave audiences hypnotized; his guitar work is mesmerizing, accompanied by his rich vocals and his percussive foot-tapping. The result has been called "lowdown high art." 8:30 pm.

Hancock Shaker Village
Route 20, Pittsfield, MA
Shaker Supper
Enjoy a beautiful evening in the Shakers' City of Peace. Relish a hardy Shaker dinner in the candlelight 1830 Brick Dwelling and delight in the beautiful sounds of Shaker music in the meeting room. Guided tour available at 5:30 pm; dinner served at 7:00 pm. Reservations and pre-payment required.

Town Players of Pittsfield
Berkshire Community College's Koussevitzky Arts Center
Robert Boland Theater
Pittsfield, MA
Time Flies
In Time Flies, two lonely but sweet young mayflies meet at a pond and really hit it off. Unforturately, Horace and May watch a nature program on this first night out and discover they have a lifespan of only one day - and their lives are half over.

Sunday, October 6, 2002
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Intersection Routes 102 & 183
Stockbridge, MA
68th Annual Harvest Festival
The Berkshires oldest and best known community event. An old-fashioned, family-oriented festival with something for everyone: rides, games, food, music, crafts and more. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Town Players of Pittsfield
Berkshire Community College's Koussevitzky Arts Center
Robert Boland Theater
Pittsfield, MA
Time Flies
In Time Flies, two lonely but sweet young mayflies meet at a pond and really hit it off. Unforturately, Horace and May watch a nature program on this first night out and discover they have a lifespan of only one day - and their lives are half over.

Tuesday, October 8, 2002
Shakespeare & Company
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
Conclusion of a Two Year Study
The British and American Design Team describes the research and analysis of the history and archaeology of the original Rose and the design recommendations for Shakespeare & Company's Rose Playhouse Project.

Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Clark Art Institute
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA
A Northern Italian ArtVenture: Cruising to Venice
Join Friends of the Clark on a week-long cruise along the Po River that highlights the smaller artistic cities of the Renaissance, including Padua and Ferrara, as well as the northern lakes, Milan, and Verona.

Thursday, October 10, 2002
The Berkshire Writers Room
Water Street Books
Williamstown, MA
Join us during the Apple Squeeze Festival in Lenox to hear Aaron Beatty, Vivian Dorsel, Diana Gordon, Norma Murphy, Sallie Wright, and Phil Timpane. 6:00 pm.

Saturday, October 12, 2002
Arrowhead
780 Holmes Road
Pittsfield, MA
Music at Melville's: A Fall Festival of Music, Food, and Foliage
Enjoy six hours of performances by local bands The O Brothers, The Beartown Mountain Ramblers, The Flying Garbanzos, and the Housatonic Philharmonic. Feast on chili dinners and enjoy spectacular fall foliage. 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Tours of Arrowhead available.

Country Life Dance and Music Society
Pittsfield Grange on Upper West St.
Pittsfield, MA
Contra Dance - Steve Howland with the Band
Come on out and have fun at a traditional Early American Country Dance (traditionally called a Contra Dance) at the Pittsfield Grange. No experience necessary. Fun for the whole family. Come single or bring a partner. No experience is required. Dance is at 8:00PM - 11PM Admission is $5.00. Please wear Soft Soled Shoes.

Berkshire Bach Society
First Congregational Church
Stockbridge, MA
BACH: VIOLIN SONATAS
ANI KAVAFIAN, KENNETH COOPER
7:30pm.

Bidwell House Museum
Art School Road
Monterey, MA
Sarah Grant
"an artist, naturalist and environmental educator" will present a Nature Walk/Nature Journaling Workshop. Treat yourself to a walk in the brilliant fall landscape of New England and observe nature. Ms. Grant will lead you on a tour of The Bidwell House Museum grounds while instructing you in the "process of setting up a nature journal". No previous artistic experience is necessary. The walk is open to adults and children 10 and older. Please bring a sketchbook, pen and pencil. 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Hancock Shaker Village
Route 20, Pittsfield, MA
Shaker Supper
Enjoy a beautiful evening in the Shakers' City of Peace. Relish a hardy Shaker dinner in the candlelight 1830 Brick Dwelling and delight in the beautiful sounds of Shaker music in the meeting room. Guided tour available at 5:30 pm; dinner served at 7:00 pm. Reservations and pre-payment required.

Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
DanceBrazil
Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Influenced by capoeira, a traditional form of Brazilian martial arts, DanceBrazil performs two works, Canavial and A Jornada. The choreography includes acrobatic flip-flops, fiercely thrusting and potentially lethal arms and legs, as well as romantic duets, both languid and torrid. Describing Canavial, The New York Times said "with swaying hips and high jumps [DanceBrazil] cuts loose in an uninhibited celebration." Don't miss the jaw-dropping immediacy of this stunning mix of Brazilian and North American modern dance. 8:00 pm.

Sunday, October 13, 2002
Hancock Shaker Village
Route 20, Pittsfield, MA
Shaker Supper
Enjoy a beautiful evening in the Shakers' City of Peace. Relish a hardy Shaker dinner in the candlelight 1830 Brick Dwelling and delight in the beautiful sounds of Shaker music in the meeting room. Guided tour available at 5:30 pm; dinner served at 7:00 pm. Reservations and pre-payment required.

Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
DanceBrazil
Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Influenced by capoeira, a traditional form of Brazilian martial arts, DanceBrazil performs two works, Canavial and A Jornada. The choreography includes acrobatic flip-flops, fiercely thrusting and potentially lethal arms and legs, as well as romantic duets, both languid and torrid. Describing Canavial, The New York Times said "with swaying hips and high jumps [DanceBrazil] cuts loose in an uninhibited celebration." Don't miss the jaw-dropping immediacy of this stunning mix of Brazilian and North American modern dance. 2:00 pm.

Tuesday, October 15, 2002
The Berkshire Museum
39 South Street (Route 7)
Pittsfield, MA
Cogswell's Grant and Fruitlands Museum
View the fall foliage as we head to Cogswell's Grant in Essex, Massachusetts, which features the folk art collection and home of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little. Next we will venture to the Fruitlands Museum and lunch at their Tea Room. Following this explore the grounds where you'll find Shaker furniture, Native American Art, and Hudson River School paintings.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall
Boston, MA
Weir, Ravel and Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev's score for the epic 1938 film Alexander Nevsky by the great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein evokes through music the life and political world of the thirteenth-century Russian prince. For the concert hall, Prokofiev expanded the original instrumentation to create this dramatic cantata, here featuring mezzo-soprano Nancy Maultsby and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. The chorus is also featured in Moon and Star by the British composer and Tanglewood Music Center alumna Judith Weir. Based on a poem of Emily Dickinson, Moon and Star receives its first American performances here, under returning guest conductor Sir Andrew Davis, who gave the world premiere at the BBC Proms in August 1995. Also returning to Symphony Hall for these concerts, as soloist in Ravel's jazz-inflected Piano Concerto in G, is pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is acclaimed for his performances of the French keyboard repertoire. 8:00 pm.

Friday, October 18, 2002
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall
Boston, MA
Henze, Mozart and Rachmaninoff
Two acclaimed guest artists return to Symphony Hall for this program. The Italian conductor Roberto Abbado, cheered by audiences in Boston and at Tanglewood in recent seasons, and celebrated Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida, a leading interpreter of Mozart, join forces for that composer's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K.467, dating from the time of Mozart's great fame in 1780s Vienna, and which became widely known for the use of its serene slow movement in the film Elvira Madigan. The German-born composer Hans Werner Henze, who has made his home in Italy for several decades, wrote Maritona di danza ("Dance Marathon") for an Italian stage work in the mid-1950s. From that score he derived his Scorribanda Sinfonica (2001), which receives its American premiere at these concerts. Completing the program is Rachmaninoff's finely crafted Symphony No. 3, the composer's penultimate work and one of only a few major pieces he wrote after leaving Russia.

Saturday, October 19, 2002
Arrowhead
780 Holmes Road
Pittsfield, MA
Berkshire Writers Room Reading
Enjoy readings by members of the Berkshire Writers' Room, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Berkshire writers working in all genres. The evening will begin with a viewing of Arrowhead's exhibition: "A Great Neighborhood for Authors: The Berkshires and the American Literary Tradition." Free and open to the the public. 7:30 pm.

Bidwell House Museum
Art School Road
Monterey, MA
Open House
Open House at the museum. In addition, Jim Kelly of Woodside Orchards will demonstrate the art of Apple Cider pressing. This will mark the end of the 2002 museum season. 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Hancock Shaker Village
Route 20, Pittsfield, MA
Shaker Supper
Enjoy a beautiful evening in the Shakers' City of Peace. Relish a hardy Shaker dinner in the candlelight 1830 Brick Dwelling and delight in the beautiful sounds of Shaker music in the meeting room. Guided tour available at 5:30 pm; dinner served at 7:00 pm. Reservations and pre-payment required.

Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
Williamstown Film Festival
Indie Film Premiere & Morning Kid's Event
On the morning of the 19th, introduce your children to independent film at a screening of several short indies for kids. Then, in the evening join us for an exciting premiere (in the vein of Tape and Shadow of the Vampire) with special guest artists from the film answering audience questions after the show.

Sunday, October 20, 2002
Hancock Shaker Village
Route 20, Pittsfield, MA
Shaker Supper
Enjoy a beautiful evening in the Shakers' City of Peace. Relish a hardy Shaker dinner in the candlelight 1830 Brick Dwelling and delight in the beautiful sounds of Shaker music in the meeting room. Guided tour available at 5:30 pm; dinner served at 7:00 pm. Reservations and pre-payment required.

Sunday, October 20, 2002
Bennington Museum
West Main Street
Bennington, VT
"Great Songs of Hollywood" Concert
The 2002-2003 Sunday Concert Series opens with the appealing sound of jazz and popular music. Andrea Wolper, vocalist, will perform popular tunes from the big screen. Ms. Wolper, who has performed extensively in jazz clubs in New York City, has been praised for her "beautiful phrasing and amiable wit." 2 pm in the Ada Paresky Education Center.

Friday, October 25, 2002
The Berkshire Museum
39 South Street (Route 7)
Pittsfield, MA
Black Bears in Myth and Reality: Dr. Lynn Rogers
Regarded by many as the Jane Goodall of black bears, Dr Rogers' innovative career is world-renowned. "The Man Who Walks With Bears" as seen on the Animal Planet, will instill a new appreciation and understanding of how these animals live. The stunning slides and amazing stories present the best of Rogers' discoveries from over three decades of close-up study of the black bear. The facts, slides, video, and tapes of bear vocalizations in this lecture help replace the bears of our imagination with bears of reality. It answers the most frequently asked questions about people and bears and what to do if you see one. 7:00 pm.

Cyberian Cafe
Corner of First & Fenn Streets (Off of Route 7)
Pittsfield, MA
Ras Moon
Hoppin' Cape Verdian and Roots Reggae from 8:00PM till ???? - Admission $5.

Saturday, October 26, 2002
Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
Honoree Film
The second weekend, WFF's annual honoree (past honorees include John Frankenheimer, David Strathairn, and Sigourney Weaver) chooses one of their favorites among their movies, then introduces the film and takes questions from the audience after the screening. A special chance for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a movie classic. Screening is preceded by a separate lunch and discussion at Eleven at 1:00 PM. Call for program and ticket information. 3:00 pm.

Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum
Willow Creek Road, Lenox, MA
Childrenıs Event
Spooks, goblins, and witches will visit the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum Saturday October 26th and Sunday October 27th for the annual Halloween Express. The station and passenger coach will be decorated for the event that will also feature a not so scary ³Haunted Caboose.² Witches will ride the Halloween Express with treats for all riders.

The Museum located on Willow Creek Road in Lenox, is open 10:00am to 3:30 pm Admission to the Museum is free, Tickets for the Halloween Express are $2.50 Adults, $2.00 Seniors, and $1.00 for children. For more information call (413) 637-2210.

Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
Hoi Polloi & Sara Sweet Rabidoux Poised
World Premier
Choreographer Rabidoux was inspired by the story of the four towns in Western Massachusetts flooded in 1937 to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir, a water source for Boston. In this dance/theater piece she and her troupe explore themes of premeditated loss, the isolation of history, and what it means to be forgotten. 8:00 pm.

The News In Revue
Westbank Cafe
42nd Street and 9th Ave.
New York
A troupe of singing satirists who perform topical parody. Their national reputation has steadily built from their beginnings as an Off Broadway show in New York to their series of PBS specials.They delight in musically skewering public events and figures from Yassir Arafat to Bill Clinton, from Janet Reno to Lorena Bobbit.

Clark Art Institute
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA
New Members Reception
Members who have joined Friends of the Clark in the past year are invited to enjoy refreshments, meet Clark staff, participate in special tours, and learn more about Clark activities and the benefits of membership. Reservations are required. 2:00 pm.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall
Boston, MA
Opening Night at Symphony
To open the 2002-03 season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, renowned Spanish conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos returns following acclaimed recent appearances at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood with the Verdi Requiem, one of the world's supreme masterpieces for orchestra, soloists, and chorus. Joining him, the orchestra, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, is a stellar quartet of vocal soloists, including Barbara Frittoli, Larissa Diadkova, and Giuseppe Sabbatini in their BSO debuts, and Reinhard Hagen in his Symphony Hall debut. Written following the death of the great Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni, Verdi's dramatic setting of the Mass for the Dead is nearly operatic in its vivid text setting and musical theatricality. 6:30 pm.

Sunday, October 27, 2002
Bennington Museum
West Main Street
Bennington, VT
Annual Open House and Halloween Party
Kids and grownups alike won't want to miss this popular event featuring games, a scavenger hunt, and a masquerade parade. Refreshments served; free and open to the public. 1 to 4 pm in the Paul and Ada Paresky Museum Court and Education Center.

Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum
Willow Creek Road, Lenox, MA
Childrenıs Event
Spooks, goblins, and witches will visit the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum Saturday October 26th and Sunday October 27th for the annual Halloween Express. The station and passenger coach will be decorated for the event that will also feature a not so scary ³Haunted Caboose.² Witches will ride the Halloween Express with treats for all riders. The Museum located on Willow Creek Road in Lenox, is open 10:00am to 3:30 pm Admission to the Museum is free, Tickets for the Halloween Express are $2.50 Adults, $2.00 Seniors, and $1.00 for children. For more information call (413) 637-2210.

The News In Revue
Westbank Cafe
42nd Street and 9th Ave.
New York
A troupe of singing satirists who perform topical parody. Their national reputation has steadily built from their beginnings as an Off Broadway show in New York to their series of PBS specials.They delight in musically skewering public events and figures from Yassir Arafat to Bill Clinton, from Janet Reno to Lorena Bobbit.

Monday, October 28 to December 6
Berkshire Artisans
28 Renne Avenue
Pittsfield, MA
JOEL RUDNICK and GYULA VAROSY
Juried by Flood Adams, Santa Fe, N.M., public reception: November 1, 2002 at 8 pm.

Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Arrowhead
780 Holmes Road
Pittsfield, MA
Ghostly Tales
Join us at the Arrowhead Barn for an evening of scary stories told by nationally-known storyteller Mary Murphy. Weather permitting, a spooky walk on Arrowhead's Nature Trail follows. Refreshments will be served and costumes are welcomed. Participants should bring their own flashlights. 6:30 pm.

Thursday, October 31, 2002
Mass MOCA
North Adams, MA
Halloween Dance Party with GlobeSonic
MASS MoCA does it again with a not-to-be-missed Halloween bash. Get your extra-freaky Halloween groove on at GlobeSonic's multi-phonic world music dance party. From Asian Massive to Arab Electronica to Brazilian Jungle and beyond, it's the 21st-century soundtrack of our planet. Costumes strongly encouraged, with prizes provided for the most inventive dress. 8:00 pm.

The News In Revue
Westbank Cafe
42nd Street and 9th Ave.
New York
A troupe of singing satirists who perform topical parody. Their national reputation has steadily built from their beginnings as an Off Broadway show in New York to their series of PBS specials.They delight in musically skewering public events and figures from Yassir Arafat to Bill Clinton, from Janet Reno to Lorena Bobbit.











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