Berkshire International Film Festival presents a screening of ‘WUNDERKINDER’ followed by a Q&A with award-winning screenwriter Stephen Glantz
Great Barrington— On Sunday, November 9th at 3 p.m., Berkshire International Film Festival presents a screening of the award-winning film “WUNDERKINDER” followed by a Q&A with award-winning screenwriter Stephen Glantz.
“WUNDERKINDER” tells a tale of three exceptionally musically talented children who develop a deep and genuine friendship, extending beyond their different religions and nationalities. The two Jewish children, Larrissa and Abrashca, are both virtuosos – one on the piano and the other on the violin. Hanna, a young German girl, is also extremely gifted. Living in Poltava/Ukraine in 1941, they all share one great love: music. Their world is one of the secrets of friends and joyful adventure, but when the Nazis invade the Soviet Union, their families face mortal peril. Due to the insanity of grown-ups at home and abroad, their world is turned upside down, and they are suddenly no longer allowed to be friends.
The screening is on Sunday, November 9th at 3 p.m. at The Triplex Cinema, located at 70 Railroad Street in Great Barrington. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Crandell Theatre presents the U.S. theatrical premiere of ‘The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne’
Chatham, N.Y.— On Sunday, November 9th at 7:30 p.m., as part of the “Free Sonic Sundays” series, the Crandell Theatre presents the U.S. theatrical premiere of “The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne.”
For over five decades, Ozzy Osbourne has personified rock and roll, from his childhood in poverty and time in prison, to fronting metal band Black Sabbath, a successful solo career, and a lovable 21st century television dad. Director Greg Johnston’s documentary follows Ozzy on and off the rails on the crazy train that was his incredible life.
The free screening is on Sunday, November 9th at 7:30 p.m. at the Crandell Theatre, located at 48 Main Street in Chatham. A virtual Q&A with director Greg Johnston will follow. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center and Clark Art Institute present Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s ‘La Bohème’
Great Barrington/Williamstown— On Sunday, November 9th at 1 p.m., the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center and Clark Art Institute present Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s “La Bohème.”
With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings nineteenth-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life.
The broadcast is on Sunday, November 9th at 1 p.m. at The Mahaiwe, located at 14 Castle Street in Great Barrington and The Clark, located at 225 South Street in Williamstown. Tickets and more information can be found online: The Mahaiwe/The Clark.
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Williams College Museum of Art and MASS MoCA presents artist Ohan Breiding and author Lisa E. Bloom in conversation
North Adams— On Saturday, November 8th at 2 p.m., Williams College Museum of Art and MASS MoCA presents artist Ohan Breiding and author Lisa E. Bloom in conversation.
United by their shared interest in artistic representations of climate change, artist and Williams College art professor Ohan Breiding and Lisa E. Bloom, author of “Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic,” will offer an in-depth discussion of Breiding’s multimedia exhibition, “Belly of a Glacier.”
On view through January 4th, “Belly of a Glacier” features an experimental documentary film and a photographic installation that function as a eulogy for the melting Rhône Glacier. Breiding connects collective acts of mourning to ongoing practices of care that strive to preserve ice—a material that contains both remnants of the past and the conditions of a future world.
The talk is on Saturday, November 8th at 2 p.m. at MASS MoCA located at 1040 Mass MoCA Way in North Adams. Registration and more information can be found online.
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Becket Arts Center presents ‘No Background Music,’ a play written and read by actor and voice teacher Normi Noel
Becket— On Sunday, November 9th at 2 p.m., Becket Arts Center presents “No Background Music,” a play written and read by actor and voice teacher Normi Noel.
The play is inspired by Noel’s conversations with Vietnam veteran Penny Rock, a journey the two took together to Vietnam, and letters and recordings Rock preserved from her tour of duty.
The reading is on Sunday, November 9th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Becket Arts Center, located at 7 Brooker Hill Road in Becket. A discussion will follow. Admission is free. More information can be found online.
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Ventfort Hall presents culinary historian Becky Libourel Diamond to talk about her newest book ‘The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook’
Lenox— On Saturday, November 8th at 3:30 p.m., Ventfort Hall presents culinary historian Becky Libourel Diamond to talk about her newest book “The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook.”
“The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook” bridges the past and present, bringing back sugar plums and other confections not typically found in modern cookbooks, while revisiting some beloved favorites. Although most Americans have heard of sugar plums thanks to the famous holiday poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore, many have likely never have had the pleasure of tasting one of these luxuries, or even know what they really are. This is because sugar plums are one of the Gilded Age era holiday sweets that got eclipsed as America moved into the twentieth century.
Becky Libourel Diamond is a food writer, librarian, and research historian. She is also the author of “The Gilded Age Cookbook,” “The Thousand Dollar Dinner,” and “Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School.
The talk is on Saturday, November 8th at 3:30 p.m. at Ventfort Hall, located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox. A tea service will follow. Tickets and more information can be found online.
