Jim Scherer’s food photography
North Adams — The work of Boston food photographer Jim Scherer will be on display at the Eclipse Mill Gallery through September 20. Entitled “Artful Food,” the show features nearly 50 mouth-watering images of all sizes.
Scherer, whose photographs have graced the food pages of the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine weekly for more than three decades, has also collaborated with Julia Child on three of her cookbooks and worked with food industry giants Trader Joe’s, Ocean Spray, and Au Bon Pain.
An artist’s reception will be held at the gallery Saturday, August 15 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Berkshires Jazz tribute to Billie Holiday and Billy Strayhorn
Pittsfield — Berkshires Jazz will present a centennial tribute to jazz giants Billie Holiday and Billy Strayhorn on Saturday, August 15, at 8 p.m. at Baba Louie’s Backroom with the Matt DeChamplain Trio in its Berkshires debut.
Holiday’s style was strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists and she is credited for pioneering a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo, becoming one of the most heralded jazz and pop singers of her era. As both a pianist and composer, Strayhorn shared credit with Duke Ellington on countless jazz standards. The DeChamplain Trio features pianist Matt DeChamplain, vocalist Atla DeChamplain, and bassist Matt Dwonszyk.
Tickets are $20 online in advance and $25 on the day of the event. Call Baba Louie’s for more information at (413) 499-2400.
–E.E.
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Shred Day at Salisbury Bank
Millerton, N.Y. — Salisbury Bank & Trust Company will sponsor a free Community Shred Day on Saturday, August 15 from 9 a.m. until noon at its Millerton branch. Each person may bring up to four boxes of paper (paper only; no binders) for shredding.
Salisbury Bank is proud to offer this service as a way of enriching the communities it serves. All shredded paper will be recycled.
–E.E.
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Peter Filkins to discuss the life and work of H.G. Adler
Great Barrington — On Friday, August 14 at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires will host Peter Filkins, the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, who will discuss author H.G. Adler’s Shoah Trilogy. This Knosh & Knowledge program begins at 10:45 a.m. and is open to the public.
Born in Prague, H.G. Adler (1910-1988) was a survivor of four concentration camps. He wrote one of the earliest and most important works of Holocaust scholarship, “Theresienstadt 1941-1945 – The Face of a Coerced Community,” published in 1955. Three of his novels, “Panorama,” “The Journey,” and “The Wall,” form the only trilogy in German by a direct survivor of the camps. Professor Filkins, who is working on Adler’s biography, will share selections from his translations of the trilogy and talk about Adler’s life. Filkins is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Berlin Prize, a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. His poems, translations, and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and numerous other publications.
The talk will be followed by a farm-fresh buffet lunch. Admission is $11 and includes the lunch. Participants may attend the program only for $5. Advance reservations are required; to make them, call the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires at (413) 442-4360 x10 or email jfb.officemanager@verizon.net
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State House, Senate restore funding eliminated by Governor’s vetoes
Boston — State Senator Benjamin B. Downing announced that the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate have taken final legislative action on the FY2016 state budget, voting to override approximately 87 vetoes and restore $97 million in spending struck by the Gov. Charlie Baker.
Funds secured by Downing in the FY ’16 budget for local priorities that were vetoed by the Governor and restored by the Legislature this week include:
- $100,000 for the Barrington Stage Company’s Playwright Mentoring Program
- $100,000 for the Berkshire Youth Development Project
- $100,000 for regional EMS services
- $75,000 for the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ Gallery 51
- $55,000 to support regional libraries
- $23,000 for Berkshire Community College
Travel and tourism, one of the state’s largest industries, provides an opportunity for communities to bolster their economies in a way that is unique and appropriate for each region. The Legislature restored $5.17 million in cuts to the Office of Travel and Tourism and $2.37 million to the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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