‘On Spectacle Pond: Resisting the Pipeline’
Great Barrington — On Saturday, July 16, “On Spectacle Pond: Resisting the Pipeline” will take place in two Berkshires locations and will focus on Kinder Morgan’s Connecticut Expansion Project.
The kick-off rally will begin at noon at the bandstand behind the Town Hall, 334 Main St., with music by Graham and Barbara Dean, Bonner McAllester, David Grover, and Steve Adams. Beth Fairservis and PachaMama Puppet Productions will present “The World We Love,” a celebration of interdependence. Speakers will include Berkshire Environmental Action Team Executive Director Jane Winn, StopNED co-founder and Pipe Line Awareness for the Northeast (PLAN-NE) board member Cathy Kristofferson, Dineen O’Rourke of the Sugar Shack Alliance, and Katy Eiseman of the Massachusetts PipeLine Awareness Network and PLAN-NE. The program will conclude with a live phone linkup to friends and allies in eastern Massachusetts walking in the People Over Pipelines March. The celebration will then move to Lower Spectacle Pond/Otis State Forest in Sandisfield for a solidarity rally from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. that will include musical guests Ben Grosscup, Kate O’Conner, Bonner McAllester, and Steve Adams. Featured speakers will include Rose Wessel from No Fracked Gas in Mass; Susan Theberge of the Sugar Shack Alliance; and Donna and Will Elwell of Ashville, who built a 10-by-15-foot post-and-beam cabin (inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s 1845 “Civil Disobedience” essay and his cabin at Walden Pond) to stand defiantly in the path of Kinder Morgan’s Northeast Energy Direct natural gas pipeline.
The events are free and all are welcome. For more information, see the Berkshire Edge calendar or contact Susan Triolo at (413) 665-8246 or susanltriolo@yahoo.com.
–E.E.
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CATA exhibits at the Clark, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
Great Barrington — Community Access to the Arts (CATA) presents “I Am a Part of Art,” a celebration of creativity and inclusion that features vibrant paintings, drawings, and sculpture created by CATA artists with disabilities and hangs in two Berkshire County locations. The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts exhibit is on display through Sunday, July 31. An opening reception, which is free and open to the public, will be held Thursday, July 14 from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. CATA is also showcasing artwork at the Clark Art Institute’s Lunder Center at Stone Hill through Sunday, August 14, with a “Meet the Artists event to be held Wednesday, July 20, from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
“I Am A Part of Art” features 185 original works of art representing more than 125 artists with disabilities. Works are professionally matted and framed and all pieces are for sale, with proceeds supporting commissions for individual artists. For more information, call (413) 528-5485.
–E.E.
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Tannery Pond Concerts to present pianist Stephen Hough
New Lebanon, N.Y. – On Saturday, July 16, at 8 p.m., Tannery Pond Concerts will present pianist Stephen Hough at Darrow School.
Stephen Hough is not only a pianist; he has also won awards for his poetry, regularly blogs for the Telegraph, is an abstract expressionist-style artist, and has been cited by the Economist as one of 20 living polymaths.
Tickets are $30 and $39. For tickets and more information, see the Berkshire Edge calendar or call (888) 820-1696.
–E.E.
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Harvey Granat to perform ‘The American Songbook’
Great Barrington – Entertainer, music historian, and investment banker Harvey Granat will perform excerpts from his “The American Songbook” series, regularly performed at New York City’s 92nd Street Y, at Berkshire South Regional Community Center. Accompanied by Rob Kelly on piano, Granat will perform the songs of Lerner and Lowe on Thursday, July 14; Jerry Herman on Thursday, July 21; and Rodgers and Hart on Thursday, July 28. Granat’s shows focus on the composer/lyricist, combining his singing of their songs with stories of their lives.
The cost of the concert is $10 for Berkshire South members and $15 for non-members. For tickets and more information, see the Berkshire Edge calendar or call Berkshire South at (413) 528-2810.
–E.E.
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Kabbalat Shabbat service at Tanglewood
Lenox — Rabbi Josh Breindel of Temple Anshe Amunim in Pittsfield will lead a Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by an evening of music at Tanglewood on Friday, July 15, at 7 p.m. All those interested in experiencing a Kabbalat Shabbat service are invited to attend, and to bring a picnic and look for people gathered on the lawn with blue and white balloons. For tickets to and more information on the night’s concert (and all-Mozart program featuring Pinchas Zuckerman), see the Berkshire Edge calendar. To learn more about the service, contact the Temple Anshe Amunim office at (413) 442-5910 or templeoffice@ansheamunim.org.
–E.E.
