Thursday, June 30
DownStreet Art - Meet Your Neighbors!
Downtown North Adams | Main St.
5 PM – 8 PM
Free! 
for more information

It's almost time for DownStreet Art 2016! Join us as we kick off the 9th Annual DownStreet Art summer of Arts, Culture, & Community in Downtown North Adams. Meet Your Neighbors is the theme of DownStreet Art 2016 and we're all about keeping it local - highlighting Artists of all stripes living and working within 20 miles of our little city. 

Don’t forget to stop by the Common Folk GRAND OPENING at 33 Main St as they debut their new space, the new exhibit Brick & Mortar | Flesh & Blood, the band Cactus Attack! And an end-of-night Common Folk Jam!! 

Friday, July 1
Meet us at the Airport: Around the World in 80 Days 
Harriman-West Airport | 836 State Street
(413) 662-2111
8:30 PM 
$14 per Car OR $7 Adults | $3 Kids 12 & Younger
for more information

Travel Around the World in 80 Days as we screen this epic Academy Award-winning adventure film on the largest movie screen in all of New England—the door of an airplane hangar at the North Adams airport! We’ll start the night with classic flight-themed shorts, balsa wood gliders, and hot coals… so come hungry. Lickety Split serves up hamburgers, hot dogs, popcorn, and ice cream as we settle in for this technicolor caper under the stars. B.Y.O.C. (bring your own chair), but don’t B.Y.O.B. (full bar on-site).

MASS MoCA
Hunter Theater
1040 MASS MoCA Way
2:30 - 4:00 PM 
Free!
for more information

Lift Ev’ry Voice is pleased to offer community-based workshops with the Urban Bush Women. These multi-disciplinary movement workshops are free and open to teens and adults. Participants are welcome to register for any or all workshops including a fourth workshop scheduled to take place at Jacob’s Pillow. Participants of all experiences and abilities are welcome. Comfortable active attire is recommended. Registration is on a first come basis.

Community Sewing Bee
Makers Mill | 73 Main Street
(413) 749-2073
5 - 8 PM
Free! 
for more information - Please RSVP 

Join Williams Artist-In-Residence Emily Johnson for a Community Sewing Bee at The Makers’ Mill! We are creating a series of 84 hand sewn quilts. When completed, the quilts will be laid outdoors for an all night performance filled with dance, storytelling and stargazing! For more information on the project please visit the project website. ALL ARE WELCOME. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! We provide all materials as well as beverages and snacks. Feel free to bring drinks or snacks to share. We will be holding Wednesday evening Sewing Bees at Makers’ Mill every other week of the summer. Please join us for any or all of them!

Concerts at Windsor Lake
JP Murphy Band 
Windsor Lake | 200 Windsor Lake Road
(413) 664-6180
6:30 PM
Free!
for more information

Join the community for the next free installment of the Windsor Lake summer concert series! Bring the family, beach chairs, blankets, and a positive vibe to this uplifting community-based concert! THIS WEEK: Featuring the celtic stylings of the JP Murphy Band, a returning local favorite!

Evening LEGO Group 
North Adams Public Library | 74 Church Street 
(413) 664-4700
6 PM - 7 PM
Free!
for more information

Join us for an hour of LEGO fueled fun!

First Annual MILL CHILL Auction/Fundraiser  
Elks Lodge | 100 Eagle Street 
(413) 749-2073
7 PM - 10 PM
$35
for more information

COME SUPPORT A GREAT ARTISTIC COMMUNITY ASSET, The North Adams Makers’ Mill!

Come join your community for a fun night of dancing, auctions, art, and food!

This event is focused on bringing the community together and raising funds for the Mill through an auction of local and locally connected art.

At Makers’ Mill we support makers and artists in a number of ways—through affordable shared studio space and storage, start-up entrepreneurial support, and teaching and community engagement opportunities. In turn these makers support the Mill by helping us build a stronger community through better programing. Our next challenge is to grow the Makers’ Mill community. We need to expand our support for new makers, including workshops, mentoring and community-building.

Drop-In Family Time 
Haskins Community Center | 210 State St
(413) 664-4821
10 AM - 12 PM
Free
for more information

Drop in at The Family Center and play with your child and friends on Friday mornings.

Quiet as a Cricket Storytime 
North Adams Public Library | 74 Church Street
(413) 662-3133
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Free
for more information

Held in the North Adams Public Library Children's room.This is a free, drop in event. StoryWalk at the North Adams Public Library June 21 to July 6. Follow the footprints in the library from page to page of "Quick as a Cricket" and explore the library! Finish the StoryWalk in the Children's Room, get a library card, check out a book, and enter for a chance to win the raffle basket.

Steeple Cats Home Game 
Joe Wolfe Field | 310 State Street 
steeplecats@gmail.com
6:30 PM 
5yo & Younger - Free | 6-12 - $1 | Students & Seniors - $5 | Teens & Adults - $8
for more information

COME ONE, COME ALL! Watch the Steeple Cats take on the Vermont Mountaineers! Show up to cheer on your very own home team as they bat their way to victory this Baseball season. Show them a home-field welcome and bring the whole family! 

Curtain Call Open Mic
The Parlor Cafe | 303 Ashland Street 
(413) 346-4279
7 PM - 11 PM 
Free
for more information

With our closing on June 25th, we thought it appropriate to have one last opportunity to share the stage - We wont go home till you do.

Canal Street Cruise Nite  
Canal Street | Between Union Street & Eagle Street
(413) 664-4021
6 PM - 9 PM
Free to attend | Registration Fee for Vehicles

Join us for this annual event. Daryls Cruise AT NAPA Berkshire Autoworks at Canal Street. (This is a Qualifier event for Cruisin’ New Englands Super Wheels Show)

The North Adams Farmers Market is a producer-only market. We accept CC, Debit, and EBT payments and proudly DOUBLE SNAP benefits thanks to generous funding of our SNAPx2 Program.

This week at the market: Clarksburg Bread Co., Gray Raven Farm, Hop Hollar Farm, Jaeschke’s Orchard, Many Forks Farm, MonArtistic Pet Products, Morin Gardens, Mountain Girl Farm, Natalya's, North Yeast Bakery, Senecal's Sugarhouse, Mark Smigel, Square Roots Farm. Live music from 10-12. Join us!

The North Adams Farmers Market is generously supported by: Adams Community Bank, Berkshire Bank, Berkshire Health Systems, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Greylock Federal Credit Union, MountainOne Bank, The Porches Inn, and Moresi & Associates.

Cruise in for Cancer
Car Show & Flea Market 
North Adams Airport | 836 State Street 
9 AM - 3 PM
Vehicle Registration $15 | Vendor spaces $20 | Free to attend
for more information

Its open to all cars, trucks, atv's, snow machines, motorcycles, airplanes and more.

* Cars, vendors, music, food and fun!!

* Free parking and free admission to spectators.

* Car registration 8am to 11:30am $15 donation

* Flea Market $20 donation

* Vendor space only $20 donation - Open to all Vendors

* Vehicle awards at 2pm

* Dash plaques to the first 100 vehicles

Join us for a day of fun and help raise money for cancer patients at the same time! All proceeds will be donated to PopCares, a local cancer charity where all money raised is donated to local cancer patients and their caregivers in the Northern Berkshires and Southern Vermont. 

Everything Trains
Heritage State Park | North Adams  
(413) 664-4700
10:30 AM - 4 PM 
Free! 
for more information

Everything Trains – Peppersass Comes to North Adams at Western Gateway Heritage State Park. The 150th anniversary of Old Peppersass occurs in 2016. A nationwide tour of the first cog-driven train begins in Waltham in May with North Adams as the second stop in June. The concluding celebration will be in August 2019 at Mt. Washington in NH on the 150th anniversary of the Cog Railway itself. A 48-minute video will be shown twice daily in Building 4N at the Park. Admission is free and there will be a daily drawing for a family pack, four tickets usually priced at $60 each, to ride the actual Mt. Washington Cog Railway. While at the Park be sure to visit the North Adams Museum of History and Science Building 5A to view its railroad exhibits and the Hoosac Tunnel exhibit in the Visitors Center Building 4.

Moon Nets, Alphabet Letters
Opening Reception
outside
10 Ashland St
5:30 PM 
Free!
for more information

outisde gallery is excited to announce their inaugural solo exhibition, Moon Nets, Alphabet Letters Amie Cunat.
 
Amie Cunat is a Japanese-American raised in the rural city, McHenry, IL. Her paintings and installations, characterized by biomorphic forms and comedic hues, investigate parallels between abstraction and the perceptive. Her recent exhibitions include Clue, Cue at Foley Gallery (NY), Blood and Sand at Mountain (NY), Oysters with Lemon at Ventana 244 (NY), Octopi Koen at The Cooper Union (NY), and Marks at AIRY Gallery (Kofu, Japan). She lives and works in New York, NY.

outside gallery is one of four participating Creative Business Incubators for DownStreet Art 2016. 
 

Steeple Cats Home Game
Joe Wolfe Field | 310 State St
steeplecats@gmail.com 
6:30 PM 
Children 5 and Under - Free | Children 6-12 - $1 
Students & Seniors - $5 | Teens & Adults - $8
for more information 

COME ONE, COME ALL! It's time to cheer on your very own home team as they take on the Sanford Mariners! Show them a home-field welcome and bring the whole family!

Additional Ticketing Information & Discounts can be found here

FreshGrass Presents: The Suitcase Junket
MASS MoCA | 1040 MASS MoCA Way 
(413) 662-2111  
8 PM 
$12 Students/Advance | $18 Day of | $24 Preferred
for more information

Artist, tinkerer, tunesmith, swamp Yankee — Signature Sounds artist Matt Lorenz is a one man salvage specialist singing into the hollow of a dumpster guitar, railing on a box of twisted forks and bones, and belting out mountain ballads till the house sings back.

Everything Trains
Heritage State Park | North Adams 
(413) 664-4700
10:30 AM - 4 PM 
Free! 
for more information

Everything Trains – Peppersass Comes to North Adams at Western Gateway Heritage State Park. The 150th anniversary of Old Peppersass occurs in 2016. A nationwide tour of the first cog-driven train begins in Waltham in May with North Adams as the second stop in June. The concluding celebration will be in August 2019 at Mt. Washington in NH on the 150th anniversary of the Cog Railway itself. A 48-minute video will be shown twice daily in Building 4N at the Park. Admission is free and there will be a daily drawing for a family pack, four tickets usually priced at $60 each, to ride the actual Mt. Washington Cog Railway. While at the Park be sure to visit the North Adams Museum of History and Science Building 5A to view its railroad exhibits and the Hoosac Tunnel exhibit in the Visitors Center Building 4.

WUPE FM Presents
the Berkshire Food Festival 
Main Street | North Adams 
(413) 499-3333
12 PM - 4 PM 
Free! 
for more information

This annual Food Festival is presented by local radio stations WUPE FM & WNAW and features some of the best grub the Berkshires has to offer. Join us downtown for tasty bites and brews from 12-4. Food is available in snack sized portions that can be purchased with tickets sold at the event.

Steeple Cats Home Game
Joe Wolfe Field | 310 State Street 
steeplecats@gmail.com
6:30 PM 
5yo & Younger - Free | 6-12 - $1 | Students & Seniors - $5 | Teens & Adults - $8
for more information

COME ONE, COME ALL! Come watch the Steeple Cats take on the Vermont Mountaineers! Show up to cheer on your very own home team as they bat their way to victory this Baseball season. Show them a home-field welcome and bring the whole family! Additional ticketing information and combo discounts here

Join us for this special MONDAY make-up concert for our season kick-off band, Satellite Shine! Music starts at 6:30PM.

Bring the family, beach chairs, blankets, and a positive vibe to this uplifting community-based concert! Please check the link for any weather cancelations. Cancelations announced by 3pm on the day of the event.

The Studios at MASS MoCA

The Studios at MASS MoCA, an initiative by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program, offers residencies up to 8 weeks. Applications are currently accepted through July 8, 2016, for residency sessions between October 2016 and March 2017. To apply, visit our online application page (there’s no application fee!) 

Deadline: 11:59pm, July 8, 2016.

Wednesday, June 22
Benefit Dinner for Park Street Fire Victims  
Eagles | 515 Curran Highway
(413) 664-9043
5 PM - 7 PM 
$7

A benefit fire for the family with three young children who lost everything in the Park Street fire in Adams on June 3 will be held at Eagles on Curran Highway. The dinner will include a pasta dinner, meatballs, bread and salad. There also will be a bake sale, 50/50 raffle and gift certificates and gift baskets. Take out is available.

Thursday, June 23
LaFesta Benefit Dinner
St Elizabeth of Hungary Parish | 70 Marshall Street
(413) 663-5316
4 PM - 7 PM 
$8

A pasta and meatball dinner to benefit the 26th annual LaFesta Baseball Exchange will be held at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish Center. Homemade desserts will be sold separately.

Sunday, June 26
Paint & Sip for North Adams SWAT Robotics Team
American Legion | 91 American Legion Dr
(413) 205-8346
6 PM 
$35
RSVP 

Join us on 6/26 at the American Legion, 91 American Legion Dr, North Adams for a Paint & Sip fundraiser to benefit the North Adams SWAT Robotics Team. You'll learn to paint this tranquil image of "Sunset Lighthouse". All materials and donation included for $35. 50/50 and prize auction also.
 

Friday 6/24

"Win/Lose/Draw" 
Whitney Center for the Arts | 42 Wendell Ave, Pittsfield 
(413) 443-9279
8 PM
$15 | $12 Students, Seniors, or groups of 10+ | $10 Town Players Members
for more information

"Win/Lose/Draw" by Ara Watson and Mary Gallagher, a fully staged production being directed by Melanie Rivers for two weekends. "Win/Lose/Draw, an Off-Broadway hit in the 1980s, consists of three one-acts which range in mood from high comedy to near tragedy. The plays are unified by a common theme; each contrasts women from different social and intellectual levels in situations where they react with attitudes characteristic of their backgrounds. The cast includes Diedre Bollinger, Jackie DeGiorgis, Dana Grieb and Mae Rogers.

Saturday 6/25

Berkshire Mountain Faerie Festival
Bowe Field | 371 Old Columbia St, Adams 
10 AM - 10 PM
Free!
for more information

This event is powered by the Adams Arts Advisory committee. It was created to celebrate the arts in a Whimsical manner. There will be performances throughout the day...singing, dancing, puppets and more. Art workshops, vendors, food and so much more. 

Saturday June 25

FINDING OUR COMMUNITY
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Blake’s Barn
358 George Carter Road, Becket MA
(413) 243-9919
4 PM
Free!
for more information

A moderate talk by Urban Bush Women’s founder-director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar who is passionate about engaging her audiences in meaningful ways. Here she reflects on her company’s deep Pillow roots and current mission.

Sunday 6/26

Yoga on Mount Greylock
Bascom Lodge | 3 Summit Road, Adams 
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 
$10
for more information

Stretch and strengthen your body while quieting your mind and nourishing your spirit on the highest mountain in Massachusetts. Enjoy breathtaking mountain views as you surround yourself with nature and become one with the beautiful Berkshires in this all-level yoga class 3,491 feet in the sky at Bascom Lodge atop Mount Greylock. All ages and levels welcome!

Wednesday 6/22

Cheese Tasting with Cricket Creek
Bascom Lodge | Mt Greylock Summit
(413) 743-1591
6 PM 
Free! 
for more information

Cheesemakers from Cricket Creek return to tantalize us with their Berkshire-made cheeses.

6:00pm, free and open to the public.

Friday 6/24

Free Fun Fridays at the Clark
The Clark | 225 South Street, Williamstown
(413) 458-2303
10 AM - 5 PM  
Free!
for more information

On Friday, June 24, enjoy free admission to the Clark from 10 am to 5 pm and lots of fun as part of the Highland Street Foundation’s Free Fun Fridays statewide cultural initiative. Free Fun Fridays is an annual summer program that invites Massachusetts residents and tourists to visit designated cultural attractions every Friday this summer with free admission. No registration or tickets required—just visit and enjoy! For more information and the complete schedule of participating venues and dates, click here or call (617) 969-8900. Free Fun Friday is sponsored by the Highland Street Foundation.

Friday 6/24

"American Son" 
Barrington State Company | 30 Union St, Pittsfield
(413) 236-8000
8 PM
$20-$69
for more information

Winner of the Laurents/Hatcher Award for Best New Play of 2016, "American Son" stars Tamara Tunie, Michael Hayden, Luke Smith and Andre Ware. This new drama examines our nation's racial divide through the eyes of an estranged, interracial couple. Previews begin June 17, opens June 22, and runs through July 9. Schedule: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7, Thursday through Saturday at 8, Wednesday and Friday at 2, and Sunday at 5. No matinee on Friday, June 17, and no performance on Saturday, June 25.

Saturday 6/25

BFAIR Walk for Independance
Adams Visitor Center | 3 Hoosac Street, Adams
(413) 664-9382 x 40
10 AM
$20 Adults | $10 Children | Free 5 & Younger
for more information

BFAIR (Berkshire Family & Individual Resources) will hold its first-ever Walk for Independence at the Adams Visitor’s Center on the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Adams. A stroll to Cheshire and back (with or any distance in between), the walk will be a fundraising event that the BFAIR participants, community members and sponsors can enthusiastically get involved in through sponsored walking, lunch, bucket raffles, and entertainment. Registration includes a picnic lunch and giveaway.

Tuesday 6/28

Summer Speaker Series - Contemporary Economic Issues
AIER Stone House Ballroom | 250 Division Street, Great Barrington
(413) 528-1216
4 PM - 5 PM 
Free!
for more information

What is Happening to our Jobs? It used to be taken for granted that economic growth adds jobs (and good ones). But the jobless recovery from the Great Recession has called that into question. This lecture will explore whether the link between output growth and jobs has changed and why.