North Adams Happenings: July 15-22| 11:48AM / Wednesday, July 15, 2015 | |
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Save the Date!
Thursday July 30
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DownStreet Art Thursday!
Main Street, North Adams
(413) 663-5253
6PM-9PM
Free
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Join DownStreet Art in a night of pop-up performances and participatory art projects. Featuring new exhibitions by: Joanna Gabler, Richard Harrington, MASS MoCA's Teen Summer Residency, Margaret Noel, and more.
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Bang on a Can 2015 Begins!
1040 MASS MoCA Way
(413) 662-2111
1:30PM
Free with Museum Admission
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Brilliant musicians and composers inhabit the MASS MoCA campus for three rollicking weeks of innovative, unexpected, and ear-expanding music. Set in the museum galleries, recitals featuring Bang on a Can faculty, fellows, and special guests happen almost every day. Space is limited. First come, first served. Check massmoca.org/bang for complete daily listings. |
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Concerts at Windsor Lake: Rakish Paddy
200 Windsor Lake Road North Adams
(413) 664-6180
6:30PM
Free
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Enjoy this Celtic Folk Duo as they smoothly blend their collective rock, classical, gypsy, folk and Celtic influences into a high energy, heart throbbing, foot-stomping mix. These concerts combine great music with the beautiful natural backdrop of Windsor Lake. Pack a picnic, bring a chair or blanket, and let the sweet sounds of music and water carry you away on a warm summer night. People are welcome to bring their own food. Parking is free, and swimming, fishing, kayaking, and canoeing are allowed at the lake. All cancelations will be called by 3PM on the day of the concert. Rain Dates tbd. |
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Family Resource Center's Book Mobile
Greylock Apartments
(413) 664-4821
12PM
Free
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Family Resource Center’s Summer Book Mobile. Greylock Apartments, North Adams. Plan to arrive right at the times listed above; the bookmobile only stays for 30 minutes before it goes on to its next stop. |
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Party in the Park: Zarvis Allen Band
Noel Field
(413) 499-3333
6PM-8PM
Free
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Party in the Park is an annual summer concert series that is free and open the public. The shows run every Thursday night starting at 6:00pm and ending at 8:00pm at the Noel Field behind the Steeplecats baseball diamond. With ample seating and plenty of food vendors, this is a great opportunity to listen to some great music outside. This concert series is presented by local radio stations WNAW 1230AM and WUPE 100.1FM. |
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Collage Club
Makers Mill, 73 Main Street
(413) 749-2073
6PM-11:00PM
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Become part of the Mill community, join our open member studio night filled with all types of making. Painters, silk screeners, collagists, song writers, printers, record player lovers, sewers, weavers, doodlers, dreamers, anyone who likes rock and roll. The record player will act as our bonding force, but the choice of medium is wide open to all. We are creating a club of doers who meet regularly to push and inspire each other to explore themselves in new ways, to work around each other weekly and listen to great records. This weekly creative gathering will be led by Danny O., who has been dreaming about art since he was a small child. He loves collage, painting both acrylic and oil and likes to sing and day dream as well. |
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THIRDsday Comedy Open Mic
The Parlor Cafe, 303 Ashland Street
(413) 346-4279
7PM
Free
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Third Thursday comedy open mics at the Parlor continue! Come enjoy FREE entertainment and a chance to try out your funny material in a friendly atmosphere with tasty food and drink available. Show up at 6:30ish if you want to sign up to perform, as the entertainment will start promptly at 7pm. |
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Steeple Cats Home Game: Keen Swampbats
Joe Wolfe Field, 310 State Street
(625) 915-9577
6:30PM
$5/Adults, $3/Students and seniors,
$1/Youth(6-12), Free/Kids(Age 5 and under)
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Great baseball, great family entertainment, and a great community asset. Cheer on the Steeple Cats as they take on the Keen Swampbats. |
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Chalet Session: Music with Karl Mullen
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
(413) 662-2111
7PM
Free
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Join musician Karl Mullen for drinks and conversation in the Chalet. Adjacent to the summer beer garden, the concert courtyard will be flooded with psychedelic images by Clifford Ross and a soundscape curated by his musical collaborator, John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions): from Sade to Sinatra, madrigals to makossa, Kuti to Kyrie, and beyond. Bring cash for the bar! |
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North Adams Farmers Market
Mayor's Fitness Challenge Celebration with musical guest: Ladies Auxiliary Ukulele Orchestra
St. Anthony’s Municipal Parking Lot
(413) 664-6180
9 AM-1PM
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This week’s musical guest: the Ladies Auxiliary Ukulele Orchestra! Also, the Mayor’s Fitness Challenge will celebrate the end of the 2nd Annual Mayor’s Fitness Challenge and announce their winners at 10:30am with a few words from Mayor Alcombright!
The North Adams Farmers Market at the St. Anthony’s Municipal Parking Lot welcomes more than 20 vendors offering a variety of local foods including, fresh local produce, locally raised meat, preserves, eggs, bread, granola, baked treats, plants, handmade goods, and more. The market is great place to find a wide variety of fresh local produce and prepared foods in the northern Berkshire County area. |
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Thoreau Hike on Bellows Pipe
Mt. Greylock
Notch Road gate parking lot, near intersections of Reservoir and Notch Roads, off Route 2 in North Adams
10:00AM
(413) 499-4262
Free
Pre-Register Here
Start your Saturday with a one-way 5.5 mile, or round-trip 11-mile hike along the historic 1844 route of American naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau’s climb to Mount Greylock summit. Featuring selected readings and visits to actual sites from his account; a prelude to his experience at Walden Pond. |
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Bang On a Can: Kids Can Too!
1040 MASS MOCA WAY, Mass MoCA, Club B-10
(413) 662-2111
11:30 AM
$5 member tickets / $8 not-yet-members
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Brilliant musicians and composers inhabit the MASS MoCA campus for three rollicking weeks of innovative, unexpected, and ear-expanding music. Kids Can Too! Invites the whole family to play along with Bang on a Can faculty and fellows in Club B-10. |
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Cheick Hamala Diabate
1040 MASS MOCA WAY, Mass MoCA, Club B-10
(413) 662-2111
8 PM
$12 advance + student / $18 day of / $24 preferred
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A steward of the 800-year-old tradition of the griot, the storytellers of West Africa, the Grammy-nominated Cheick Hamala Diabate creates joyous, danceable grooves on multiple instruments: he's a master of the ngoni, a stringed lute and ancestor to the banjo, a banjo wizard, and a virtuosic guitarist who learned from and has played with the full pantheon of Malian musical greats, including Toumani Diabate (a first cousin), Oumou Sangare, Ali Farka Touré, and Salif Keita to name but a few. |
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Sky Walk Durational Performance with DownStreet Art Artist Chris Page
225 South St., Williamstown
5PM
Free
Email for more information
Artist Chris Page will conduct a durational walk to witness the daytime sky as part of his exhibition Sky Walk is currently on view at DownStreet Arts' C Gallery (33 Main Street). Participants will engage in a process of mindful witnessing of the ever-changing daytime sky as a durational art performance-experience until 6:30 PM. This walk will result in the creation of an artwork to be exhibited in C Gallery beginning July 30th. The rain date is July 19.
Chris Page is a photographer and painter who uses a conceptual approach to witnessing natural processes. He performs durational walks using the sky and the landscape as the subject of the artwork, capturing change in sequences moments over a set period of time. |
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WordxWord Festival Story Slam Prelim
Theme: Learned the hard way
Neck of the Woods Gallery, 87 Main Street
7:00PM
FREE
Sign up online to tell your story
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The WordXWord Story Slam format is similar in many ways to the NPR Moth Story Slam. Storytellers have 4 minutes to tell a true story related/relevant to the theme. Stories and their telling are judged by 3 judges chosen from the audience on a scale of 1-10. Top finishers of each preliminary story slam qualify to move on to the semi-final, opening event of the annual festival. Top four finishers of the semi-final move on to the finals and a chance to win the title (and cash prizes!).
In addition to the competitive tract, a limited number of “open mic,” non-competing slots are available at each of the preliminary events. These are an opportunity for newcomers to try their hand at storytelling in front of a friendly, supportive audience. |
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Figure Drawing Collective
Makers Mill
73 Main Street
(413) 749-2073
$10 (cash accepted)
7:00PM
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Be part of a new figure drawing collective starting up at Makers’ Mill. Sessions will run every Monday and will focus on long poses, and include a warm up consisting of several short poses. We’ll be bringing in local models and a local, figure drawing instructor who will drop-in as available. Get in as at the ground level to shape the direction this collective takes.
Bring your own lap board, paper, pencils, and creative energy! |
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Steeple Cats Home Game: Sanford Mainers
Joe Wolfe Field, 310 State Street
(625) 915-9577
4:30PM
$5/Adults, $3/Students and seniors,
$1/Youth(6-12), Free/Kids(Age 5 and under)
For more information
Great baseball, great family entertainment, and a great community asset. Cheer on the Steeple Cats as they take on the Sanford Mainers. |
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Wednesday July 15
Song for a Future Generation
’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Poker Flats, FieldStetson Road, Williamstown
(413) 458-3200
Free
7:30PM
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July 15-July 24, Free Theatre 2015 season. By Joe Tracz. Directed by Lee Overtree.
A star in a far-off galaxy is about to burst, and three party-addled clones want you to join them for a dance-a-thon on their satellite to celebrate the upcoming explosive event. Bring the whole family and a picnic to Poker Flats for an intergalactic party under the stars! Lee Overtree, the brilliant mind behind Story Pirates and this season’s Off-Broadway hit Found, helms Joe Tracz‘s lo-fi, sci-fi spectacle. |
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Friday July 17
Whistler's Mother Talks
The Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street Williamstown
(413) 458-230
3:30 PM
General: $20, member, child (under 18), students (with ID): Free
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A series of three gallery talks about the exhibit "Whistler’s Mother: Grey, Black, and White" begins at the Clark Art Institute with a lecture by Carey Powers, the Clark’s Lunder Special Assistant to the Director. All lectures will be held in the exhibition gallery at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill on the Clark’s campus. Upcoming lectures in the series include a talk July 17 by Leslie Paisley, head of paper conservation at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, and a talk on July 24 by Heather Nolin, Arthur Ross Collection Research Associate and Project Manager, Yale University Art Gallery. |
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Sunday July 19
A Day Above the Tree on Mt. Washington with Kevin Collins
Bascom Lodge, 3 Summit Road, Adams
(413) 743-1591
6-7PM
Free
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Standing at 6,288 feet above sea level, Mt. Washington in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest is the highest point in the northeast, home of the world’s worst weather, and home to some of the nation’s most spectacular scenery. Avid hiker and amateur photographer Kevin Collins finds spending time in this incredible place with his closest family and friends to be among his life’s most rewarding experiences. Join us as he takes you on a virtual journey above tree line to the summit of Mt. Washington and back. You will enjoy beautiful vistas, quiet trails, and light-hearted stories from above tree line; all from the comfort of the Bascom Lodge! |
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Monday July 20
StorySlam Public Contest
First Congregational Church, 906 Main Street, Williamstown
(413) 458-4273
8PM
Free
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Join us for Williamstown’s first StorySlam public contest at the Purple Pub at 8pm. Come hear friends and community members slam their stories on the theme of doubt. This promises to be a not-to-missed event! Sponsored by the First Congregational Church.
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Thursday July 16
Music Block Party
Cheshire Town Hall,
80 Church St,
Cheshire
(413) 717-0673
6-8PM
Free
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Please bring a lawn chair and join in the celebration on July 16, for a Music Block Party at Cheshire Town Hall 6-8 pm. Food and a free raffle for great local items! Headliners include David Grover, Linda Worster, and Puggy Demary. Music for both kids and adults & roving clown Clyde D. Scope.
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Sunday July 19
A Wonderful Thing to Have: Van Gogh's Writing
The Clark Art Institute, South Lawn225 South Street, Williamstown
(413) 458-2303
4-5:30PM
General: $20, member, child(under 18), students(with ID): Free
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Vincent van Gogh was not only a remarkable and influential artist but also a gifted and prolific letter writer. To him, writing served as a means not only to communicate with others but also to develop his own thinking about essential issues regarding his art and life. ‘Nature’ is one of the recurring topics; his letters show that his concept of nature is related to deeply felt, existential emotions as well as to metaphysical or religious notions.
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Sunday July 19
Family Flicks Under the Stars - Viva Las Vegas
Morgan Lawn Spring Street, Williamstown
(413) 458-1039
8PM
Free
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Images Cinema presents its ninth annual Family Flicks Under the Stars outdoor film series on Sundays in July at sundown. Films will be shown on Morgan Lawn at the top of Spring Street. These films are free to attend. In case of rain, films will be shown at Images Cinema at 8 p.m. Concessions will be sold on site. Bring your own blankets, chairs, bug spray, etc.
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Tuesday July 21
Summer Concert at the Clark
The Clark Art Institute
South Lawn 225 South Street, Williamstown
(413) 458-2303
6PM
Free
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A beloved tradition continues at the Clark Art Institute this summer with free live concerts every Tuesday in July at 6 pm. Bands will play on a hill adjacent to the Clark Center. Barbecue fare will be for sale; concertgoers may also bring picnic meals to enjoy on the grounds. Daddy-O! Help the Clark celebrate its 60th anniversary with music of the 1950s on July 21. |
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