Berkshire Botanical Garden presents Glori Wilder and the Moonflowers as part of their ‘Music Mondays’ series
Stockbridge— On Monday, July 7th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Berkshire Botanical Garden, as part of their Music Mondays series, presents Glori Wilder and the Moonflowers.
Wilder’s rich, soulful sound and growing catalog of original, captivating music will be accompanied by the Moonflowers in front of the Fitzpatrick Greenhouse. Food will be available for purchase from Hand Crafted Catering + Events, and beer and wine can be purchased from Another Round Mobile Bar.
The concert is on Monday, July 7th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Berkshire Botanical Garden, located at 5 West Stockbridge Road in Stockbridge. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Mad Rose Gallery presents ‘Fragments in Time,’ the work of distinguished photographers Ashley Gilbertson and Franco Pagetti
Millerton, N.Y.— From July 4th through August 30th, Mad Rose Gallery presents “Fragments in Time,” the work of distinguished photographers Ashley Gilbertson and Franco Pagetti.
Gilbertson and Pagetti’s photographs trace the subtle topography of human experience: where stillness carries weight and absence speaks. From snow-laden vineyards to fractured interiors, each image is an act of bearing witness: restrained, exacting, and quietly profound. Here, the visible and the invisible are held in tension —not explained, merely observed.
Ashley Gilbertson is an Australian photographer and writer living in New York City, recognized for his critical eye and unique approach to social issues. Gilbertson is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, ProPublica, and UNICEF. Gilbertson’s photography is in museum permanent collections across the world, including The Smithsonian, Centre Georges Pompidou, National Gallery of Victoria, Harvard Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Art in Houston, and The National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York.
Franco Pagetti has spent years working in conflict zones, though he has never considered himself a war photographer. His enduring focus lies with the people — traces that history leaves on faces, gestures, and places. With a background in science and a past in fashion, his eye blends rigor with instinct. His photographs have appeared in TIME, The New York Times, Newsweek, and in campaigns for brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, San Pellegrino, Nespresso, and Armani. Whether in Baghdad or backstage, Pagetti doesn’t chase events, he observes what they leave behind.
The exhibit is on view from July 4th through August 30th at Mad Rose Gallery, located at 5 Main Street in Millerton, N.Y. There is an opening reception on Saturday, July 12th from noon to 5 p.m. More information can be found online.
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Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansion & Museum presents a ‘Tea & Talk’ with Roberta Harold, author of ‘Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw’
Lenox— On Tuesday, July 8th at 4 p.m., Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansion & Museum presents a Tea & Talk with Roberta Harold, author of “Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw.”
Annie Haggerty spent her honeymoon with Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in May 1863 at her family’s summer home, Vent Fort, the predecessor to Ventfort Hall, just before Shaw led the Union’s first Black regiment on a doomed mission. Annie’s subsequent life as a widow is largely a mystery. Roberta Harold’s novel “Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw,” set in 1892, imagines Annie’s independent life in Belle Époque Paris, and her struggle to reach a belated coming-of-age as an artist and full participant in the creative and intellectual circles of the “real” Paris.
Roberta Harold is the author of “Portrait of an Unseen Woman” and two historical mysteries, “Heron Island” and “Murdered Sleep,” as well as numerous articles, reviews, short stories, and poems. A native of Scotland, she is 2001 graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English, where she won its 1999 Poetry Prize.
The talk is on Tuesday, July 8th at 4 p.m. at Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansion & Museum, located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox. A tea will be served after her presentation. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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The Mount’s ‘Summer Author Series’ opens with Michelle Young, author of ‘The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland’
Lenox— On Monday, July 7th from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., The Mount’s “Summer Author Series” opens with Michelle Young, author of “The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland.”
Based on troves of previously undiscovered documents, “The Art Spy” chronicles the brave actions of Rose Valland, a key Resistance spy embedded within the Nazi’s Parisian art looting headquarters. A veritable female Monuments Man, Valland has, until now, been written out of the annals, despite bearing witness to the largest art theft in history. “The Art Spy” is a riveting and stylish saga that moves from the glittering days of pre-War Paris when the city was home to geniuses of modern culture, Picasso, Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, and Frida Kahlo, through the tension-riddled cities and resorts of Europe on the eve of war, to the harrowing years of the Nazi occupation of France, uncovering how an unlikely heroine infiltrated Nazi leadership, risking everything, to save the cultural legacy of the West.
Michelle Young is an award-winning journalist, author, and professor whose writing and photography has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, The Forward, and Narratively. She is a graduate of Harvard College in the History of Art and Architecture and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is a Professor of Architecture. She is the founder of the publication Untapped New York.
The talk is on Monday, July 7th from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Mount, located at 2 Plunkett Street in Lenox. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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WordXWord presents Poets Creating Conversation: Wonder/Wander
Pittsfield— On Tuesday, July 8th at 7 p.m., WordXWord presents Poets Creating Conversation: Wonder/Wander.
Poets Creating Conversation is an ongoing series of events that challenges poets to circle loosely around a theme or issue in the current social discourse to create a broad, multi-dimensional “conversation” between poems, poets, and audience. This time the theme is: Wonder/Wander. Question or answer, or the space in between? It’s your call.
The free event is on Tuesday, July 8th at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, located at 175 Wendell Avenue in Pittsfield. More information can be found online.
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Lee Cultural Council announces ‘Sundays in the Park’ music series
Lee— On Sundays from July 6th through August 10th from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., the Lee Cultural Council will present the ‘Sundays in the Park’ music series.
Performing on each date will be:
- July 6th – Fannie Pack, Rounders Revival
- July 13th – Christine Bilé, JoAnne Redding & Benny “Fingers” Kohn
- July 20th – The Sirens
- July 27th – Wildcat O’Halloran
- August 3rd – Daryl Brooke, Eva Cappelli
- August 10th – Aimee Van Dyne
The concerts are on Sundays July 6th through August 10th from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the park in front of the First Congregational Church, located at 25 Park Place in Downtown Lee. The audience is encouraged to bring their own chairs and to bring a picnic or order takeout from any of Lee’s fine restaurants. More information can be found online.
