BTW Winter / Spring 2017 events In the Berkshires & Southern Vermont btwberkshires.com BTW Winter / Spring 2017 From snowstorms to snowdrops, the seasons are changing in the Berkshire region, with music, art, walks, theater, live poetry, dancers trying new chore- ography and sap houses stoking fires. Editor: Kate Abbott Crocuses open Photographer: Susan Geller in full blow. Photo Contributing Writer: Thom Smith by Susan Geller With thanks to Sandy Ryan; Deborah, Tony, Laura and Stephen Abbott; Garrett Lang, Joan Entmacher and Mark Leymaster Cover photo: Chicks keep warm in a bright towel in a basket. Photo by Susan Geller Photo above: Piglets rest together in the straw at Hancock Shaker Village. Photo by Henry Plachcinski, courtesy of Hancock Shaker Village. This magazine is created solely by BTWBerkshires LLC © 2017 Page 2 BTW Winter / Spring 2017 btwberkshires.com Forsythia in bloom. Highlights Photo by Susan Geller Dates given below are all Saturdays. 10x10 Festival Calendars Film February 18 April 8 Farmers Markets Farms February 25 April 15 Dance March 4 April 22 Irish music March 11 April 29 Maple syrup Wildflowers March 18 May 6 Art March 25 May 13 Local directory April 1 May 20 btwberkshires.com BTW Winter / Spring 2017 Page Photo by Keith Perry. Courtesy of Jen Glockner 10 days Danza Organica, above, will perform Feb. 24. Photo courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Matt DeChamplain’s jazz trio will play Feb. 25 at Flavours after fireworks in the 10 nights ... square. Photo courtesy of Atla DeChamplain You may begin with young poets curating an evening of spoken word — or with new short plays, or a rising comedian from New York — or with Brazilian jazz, bossa nova and blues. The sixth annual festival will return from Feb. 16 to Feb. 26, with more than 50 events in downtown Pittsfield. Page BTW Winter / Spring 2017 btwberkshires.com Photo courtesy of Marsha Parilla and Jacob’s Pillow Danza Organica, above, will lead a free workshop and perform at the Boys and Girls Club. Peggy Pharr Wilson, at left, appears in Barrington Stage Co’s New Plays Festival, and Susan Evans Grove’s photography, below, in 10 Spot. The 10x10 Festival keeps growing. This year, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival has joined in with a free workshop and perform- ance by the Boston company Danza Orgánica. And the 10 Spot art exhibit at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts and at the Sohn Gallery has drawn in photographers from New York to the West Coast. Photo by Scott Barrow btwberkshires.com BTW Winter / Spring 2017 Page Like Home, :0 p.m. Thursday Town Hall-style con- versation inspired by Feb. 16 Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paint- ings will explore the 10x10 Festival experiences of today’s refugees, as borders Barrington Stage tighten around the Company — 10x10 world and millions of New Play Festival, people seek a safe 7:0 p.m. Sixth an- place to re-start their nual performance of lives. 9 Route 18, 10 short plays. St. Stockbridge, 1-298- Germain Stage, Norman Rockwell Museum 100, nrm.org Linden Street, Pitts- will host a forum on refugees. field. 1-2-8888, Courtesy photo by Mark Knobil Conversations barringtonstageco.org Art IS183 Art School — Berkshire Athenaeum Berkshire Interna- Contemporary Clay — Fall in Love with tional Film Festival Bard College at Artists, 8 p.m. Talk D Printing, p.m. — 10 short films from Simon’s Rock — Di- with IS18’s studio Make seasonal de- the annual film festi- verse styles from ac- manager, Jared signs in two-part val, 8 p.m., free. Bea- claimed ceramic Gelormino, sharing his workshop. 1 Wendell con Cinema, 7 North artists from around the his approach, tech- Ave., Pittsfield. 1- St., Pittsfield. discov- country in Narrowing nique, and conceptual 99-980, pittsfieldli- erpittsfield.com the Variables: Seven themes in the context brary.org Approaches to the of other contemporary Lichtenstein Center Vessel, reception clay artists. Citizen’s Jewish Federation for the Arts — 10 p.m. with curator and Hall, 1 Willard Hill of the Berkshires — Spot: Photography, faculty member Ben Road, off Route 18, Marcie Greenfield Si- part of Cultural Pitts- Krupka and ceramicist Stockbridge. 1-298- mons, interfaith chap- field’s 10 x 10 Up- Sam Taylor. Daniel 22, is18.org lain at Berkshire street Arts Festival, Arts Center, 8 Alford Medical Center, opening reception to Road, Great Barring- Manchester Commu- speaks on Healing the 7 p.m., free. 10 photo- ton. simons-rock.edu nity Library — Film Spirit as Well as the graphs by 10 artists, screening on art forger, Body in a Health Care 100 photographs in all, Clark Art Institute — conman and prankster Setting, 10: a.m., in collaboration with Impressions of East Mark Landis and con- free. Knesset Israel, Sohn Fine Art Gallery Anglia, noon. Ariel versation on POV’s Art 1 Colt Road, Pitts- in Lenox, through Feb. Kline, 2017 MA candi- and Craft with Jamie field. 1-2-0, 27 at the Lichtenstein date in the Williams Franklin, curator at the ext. 10. Kosher lunch and March 20 at Sohn Graduate Program in Bennington Museum, at noon, 1-2-2200. 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Third Thurs- and arrangements of days talk, 7 p.m. 1 music from a pivotal Route 7 South, Ben- year in jazz history, nington, Vt. oneworld- 199, which saw the conservationcenter.org release of the best selling jazz album of Williams College — all time, Miles Davis’s John Kleiner, Profes- Comedian Myq “Kind of Blue”, and the sor of English “The Kaplan will appear most popular single at Laugh Lounge. Hydraulic Wig or What Photo by Mindy track of all time, Dave Stage Tricks Tell Us Tucker, courtesy Brubeck’s “Take Five.” about Emotion,” :1 Myq Kaplan Free. Brooks-Rogers p.m. Thompson Chem - Recital Hall, Berhdard istry, Wege Auditorium. Music Building, Route Jodi Byrd, Variations umentary: New Eng- p.m. Michael Dorsey 2, Williamstown. Under Domes tication: land has lost over is a talented actor, but music.williams.edu Neoliberalism, Indi- 10,000 dairy farms in no one will hire him, geneity, and the Logics the past 0 years; and he’s willing to Theater of Dispossession, as- about 2,000 farms re- play the role of a life- sociate professor of main. Collectively, time. 1 Main St., Berkshire Theatre English and women’s they tend 1.2 million Bennington, Vt. ben- Group — Laugh and gender studies at acres of farmland and nington.com Lounge: Myq Kaplan, the University of Illinois produce almost all of 7:0 p.m. Last Comic at Urbana-Champaign, the milk consumed in Music Standing Finalist, and citizen of the Chicka- New England. Screen- has appeared on The saw Nation and a ing and presentation Iron Horse — San- Tonight Show with leading scholar in the with director Dave Si- tina King, Bruce King Conan O’Brien, The fields of Native Ameri- monds and producer and Dennis Avery 20 Late Show with David can and Indigenous Sarah gardner, 9 Center St., Northamp- Letterman and Com- Studies, :0 p.m., Central Ave., Albany, ton. iheg.com edy Central Presents. Schapiro 129, 2 Hop- N.Y. thelinda.org The Garage, 111 kins Hall Dr. Route 2, Troy Music Hall — South St., Pittsfield. Wiliamstown. Mass MoCA — Troy Chromatics Con- 1-997-, berk- Seven Songs for a certs presents the Na- shiretheatregroup.org Dance Long Life, 7:0 p.m. tional Symphony of Six hospice patients the Ukraine, MCLA — Afro House share their pasts and Volodymyr Sirenko, Friday Zumba Workshop to dreams through song, conductor and Alexei learn popular African tender, vulnerable, Grynyuk, piano Feb. 17 dances, 7:1 to 8:0 and funny moments of soloist, 7:0 p.m. 0 p.m. in the Campus their lives, revealing a 2nd St., Troy, N.Y. Center Dance Com- changing relationship 18-27-008, troy- 10x10 Festival plex. Church Street, with death. 87 Mar- musichall.org North Adams. mcla.edu shall St., North Barrington Stage Adams. 1-2- Williams College — Company — 10x10 Film 2111, massmoca.org Williams Jazz Faculty New Play Festival, Concert, 8 p.m. The 7:0 p.m. Sixth an- The Linda — Forgot- Oldcastle Theatre — Williams Jazz Faculty ten farms, 7 p.m. doc- Film Series: Tootsie, 7 Concert with original Info: Directory btwberkshires.com BTW Winter / Spring 2017 Page 7 nual performance of Williams College — 10 short plays. St. Club Zambezi Dance Germain Stage, Party, 8 p.m. Co- Linden Street, Pitts- sponsored by the field. 1-2-8888, Dance and Music De- barringtonstageco.org partments, Kusika en- semble dedicated to Berkshire Museum performing dance, — 10 Days of Play ex- drumming, and story- panding throughout telling from Africa and the museum with the the African diaspora, launch of the Curiosity performs with the Incubator, new interac- Zambezi Marimba tive stations, 11 a.m. Band, inspired by tra- to p.m. Community Sierra Leone’s Refugee All- stars will perform at The Egg.