Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center presents Pilobolus’ debut of ‘re:CREATION’
Great Barrington— On Saturday, May 3rd at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center presents Pilobolus’ debut of “re:CREATION.”
Step into a realm where imagination knows no limits. The boundaries of gravity and creativity blur, offering an intimate window into the essence of creativity itself with “re:CREATION,” a transformative odyssey of reinvention where both audience and artists rediscover, redefine, and recreate timeless narratives through new visions of history, myth, and the innate human need for expression.
Testing the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies since 1971, Pilobolus has performed on Broadway, at The Oscars, and at the Olympics.
The performances are on Saturday, May 3rd at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, located at 14 Castle Street in Great Barrington. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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The Foundry presents The Humanist Project’s ‘A Crucible: A Puritanical Celebration of Witches & Turkeys’
West Stockbridge— On Saturday, April 26th at 7:30 p.m., The Foundry presents The Humanist Project’s “A Crucible: A Puritanical Celebration of Witches & Turkeys.”
It’s Thanksgiving in the small town of Danvers, and the town’s beloved community theater group, the Onion Town Community Players, is preparing their annual production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” —sort of. Complete with missteps, misunderstandings, and a ridiculous amount of turkey, this play-within-a-play celebrates women, food, villainous men, and the uniquely American tradition of passionately participating in a good argument. With absurdity and wit, it highlights themes of ignorance, deception, and modern-day witch hunts, making it more relevant now than ever before.
The Humanist Project is a Brooklyn-based theater company with a mission to recenter play in performance, emphasizing the importance of centering play at the heart of the work.
The performance is on Saturday, April 26th at 7:30 p.m. at The Foundry, located at 2 Harris Street in West Stockbridge. The doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Berkshire Music School presents Grammy nominated alum Matt Cusson for a celebration of community
Pittsfield— On Saturday, April 26th at 6 p.m., Berkshire Music School (BMS) presents Grammy nominated alum Matt Cusson for a celebration of community.
Getting his start at BMS, Cusson has collaborated with names like Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Dua Lipa, Boys II Men, and Christina Aguilera. He is Grammy nominated and won a Billboard Songwriting Award and a Maxell Song of The Year Award.
The concert will also feature performances by BMS scholarship winners and community group classes, including Artois Sancho, Zoe-Ruth Brizan, James Ryan, the Berkshire Music School Adult Flute Ensemble, and Youth Rock Band.
The concert is on Saturday, April 26th at 6 p.m. at Barrington Stage Company’s St. Germain Stage, located at 36 Linden Street in Pittsfield. Tickets includes a meal served by BBs Hot Spot. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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OtherWords presents a poetry reading with Abigail Child and Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim at Mason Library
Great Barrington— On Saturday, April 26th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., OtherWords presents a poetry reading with Abigail Child and Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim at Mason Library.
Abigail Child is a media artist and writer whose original montage pushes the envelope of sound-image-text, combining fragments and interruptive elements in a lyric and measured frame. She is the author of six books of poetry, among them “A Motive for Mayhem and Mouth To Mouth” (2017 Lambda Award.) Her writing has appeared in many online journals and anthologies, and has been translated into French, Russian and Dutch.
Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim’s poems have appeared in E-flux magazine, the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s newsletter, Apogee, Columbia Journal, and Mizna. They are the author of the books “BLK WTTGNSN,” “Tel Aviv,” “James Baldwin’s Lungs in the 80s,” and “Black Bedouin” (co-written with Tenaya Nasser.)
The reading is on Saturday, April 26th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Mason Library, located at 231 Main Street, Great Barrington. It is free and open to all. Wine, cider, and snacks will be served. More information can be found online.
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Stargazing over Baldwin Hill in Egremont
Egremont— On Saturday, April 26th from 8:45 p.m. to 10 p.m., in conjunction with the International Dark Skies Week Celebration join The Berkshire Edge’s “Eyes to the Sky” columnist Judy Isacoff and popular amateur astronomer Rick Costello for stargazing over Baldwin Hill.
Judy and Rick will talk about our night sky and what is up to see as we look up into the sky and through the telescope we will venture deeper into space to look at Jupiter and its moons, the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades star cluster, as well as a few globular clusters and other objects in our galaxy and then we will look even deeper into space as we look at other galaxies in the universe, such as the Sombrero Galaxy and other galaxies in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, a group of a 1,000 galaxies stretching out to 55 million light years away from us.
To get to Baldwin Hill from Great Barrington, travel one and a half miles west on Route 23 and take a right onto Route 71. After passing the Great Barrington Airport on your right, Baldwin Hill will be ¾ of a mile on the left. The rain/cloud date Sunday, April 27th from 8:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
