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Cultural Listings.Qxd "A Future for Art!" Billed as the most unusual art exhibition in the world. Take an actual ride in the "Sensory Integrator" through creative space. Introcave, "A Future for Art" with Walter Hopps, Gateway Station, "Sensory Integrator" ride, Space Sculpture Garden, Purity Vacuum, Artifacts Gallery. Next to Natural Bridge State Park, handicapped accessible. Summer: Wed. - Sun.12-5 p.m. EVERETT MANSION AT SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE (802) 447-6327 www.svc.edu Built during 1911-1914, it is the former Estate of millionaire entrepreneur Edward H. Everett. Open BECKET ARTS CENTER OF THE to the public. Facilities are available for rental. P HILLTOWNS Free Rondo Music Festival Concerts at Everett age 13 (413) 623-6635 Theatre, 4 p.m., Sundays: Jul 18, 25, Aug 1, 8. Rte. 8 & Brooker Hill Rd. Call for details. Becket, MA 01223 Vermont & Southern The 2004 Berkshire www. Becketartscenter.org FRELINGHUYSEN MORRIS [email protected] HOUSE & STUDIO Housed in an 1850’s Greek Revival style building, has (413) 637-0166 exhibits, a free Lecture/performance series, free and 92 Hawthorne St. low tuition Young People’s Program (birth-15) Lenox, MA 01240 including week-long performing arts camps, adult www.frelinghuysen.org arts workshops, a Playwrights Festival, a Roadshow Art Deco home located on a 46-acre estate bordering Appraisal Show, Artist Studio Tour and more. Mid Tanglewood. European and American Cubist art col- June through August. lection of American Abstract Artists suzy Frelinghuysen and George L.K. Morris. Tours, THE BENNINGTON CENTER FOR Thurs.-Sun. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL ARTS (802) 442-7158 INKBERRY FOUR SEASONS GUIDE Rte. 9 (413) 664-0775 Bennington, VT 05201 63 Main St. www.benningtoncenterforthearts.org North Adams, MA 01247 Features world-class fine art and theatre and is home www.inkberry.org to the Covered Bridge Museum which focuses on Inkberry offers writing workshops and a reading the history, culture and construction of covered series, year-round. Summer offerings include "What bridges. This year's art exhibitions include Art of Makes Theatre Tick?", "Writing Mysteries & the Animal Kingdom, Impressions of New England, Thrillers," "Introduction To Food Writing." Writers' a small works show and Bridges Over Time. All Resource Library Mon., Thurs., Fri., 1-5 p.m.; work- work is for sale. Hours: 10 - 5, Tues - Sun. shop/reading hours vary. Admission is requested. Located on about 1 mile west of Bennington. IS183, ART SCHOOL OF THE BERKSHIRES BERKSHIRE ARTISANS/ (413) 298-5252 LICHTENSTEIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS Off Rte. 183 (413) 499-9348 Stockbridge, MA 01262 28 Renne Ave. Year-round not-for-profit community art center Pittsfield, MA 01201 offering talks, exhibitions and classes for children, www.Berkshireweb.com/Artisans teen, and adults in painting, fiber arts, ceramics, sculpture etc. Weekly summer art camps for kids. DARK RIDE PROJECT (413) 664-9550 SHEFFIELD ART LEAGUE Historic Beaver Mill, Route 8 (413) 274-3809 North Adams, MA 01247 Great Barrington, MA 01230 www.darkrideproject.org www.sheffieldartleague.org D ALE CHIHULY INSTALLATIONS AND SCULPTURE 14 age P HOLSTEN GALLERIES CONTEMPORARY GLASS SCULPTURE PHOTO BY KEVIN SPRAGUE ELM ST., STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHSETTS 01262 Kevin Coleman in a Shakespeare & Company production of Tel: 413.298.3044 www.holstengalleries.com "Midsummer Night’s Dream." FOUR SEASONS GUIDE The 2004 Berkshire & Southern Vermont Vermont & Southern The 2004 Berkshire ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET P age 15 (866) 476-6964 51 North St., Pittsfield, MA 01201 www.berkshireballet.org Add some sparkle to your holiday season with the Vermont & Southern The 2004 Berkshire Albany Berkshire Ballet’s classical production of The Nutcracker. Highly acclaimed for its dance content, the Albany Berkshire Ballet’s Nutcracker is a must see family event! BERKSHIRE DANCE THEATRE (413) 743-4645, (802) 442-9304 34 Commercial St., Adams, MA 01201 www.berkshiredancetheatre.org [email protected] The BDT offers a full range of classes for children, teens and adults at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels in Adams and Williamstown, MA FOUR SEASONS GUIDE and Bennington, VT. GRECIAN FESTIVAL (413) 499-2780 St. George Greek Orthodox Church 73 Bradford St., Pittsfield, MA 01201 Authentic Greek cuisine, live Greek band and folk dancing. Shop. Pastry sale. Under tent. Rain or shine. Aug 21 and 22. HUBBARD HALL (518) 677-2495 25 East Main St., Cambridge, NY 12816 Dance program, dance company, children’s theatre and cabaret. JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL (413) 243-0745 358 George Carter Rd., Becket, MA 01223 Mail: PO Box 287, Lee, MA 01238 www.jacobspillow.org [email protected] A National Landmark for dance, featuring hundreds of performances and fee events. "The hub & mecca of dancing in North America." – Time N N BERKSHIRE JEWISH 16 FILM FESTIVAL (413) 243-0745 age P 358 George Carter Rd. N Becket, MA 01223 www.jacobspillow.org BERKSHIRE MUSEUM’S LITTLE CINEMA (413) 443-7171 ! 39 South St. "# "$ Rte. 7 Pittsfield FOUR SEASONS GUIDE MA 01201 ! www.berkshiremuseum.org % &% ' & ()*+, -! IMAGES CINEMA )++," #$%# (413) 458-5612 " 50 Spring St. ..N /, 0 Williamstown MA 01267 & www.imagescinema.org ' ( " ) ' A single-screen non-profit cinema in downtown * $ + 1 Williamstown, Images shows independent releases, 2 " 3 foreign films, documentaries, and presents a sum- 4 ' " # 3 mer brunch & film discussion series. A true com- The 2004 Berkshire & Southern Vermont Vermont & Southern The 2004 Berkshire munity theatre, hosting a variety of events. Open every night, with matinees on Saturday, Sunday, , ! ! -# ! and Wednesday. % ' & " ' 5 ! " ! 3 TRIPLEX CINEMA &3 14 .1 " !# ' ! (413) 528-8885 & 70 Railroad St. Great Barrington MA 01230 " " www.thetriplex.com 3 " " % WILLIAMSTOWN ./0123435 FILM FESTIVAL 6&7484!& 65557 (413) 458-9700 45845 7 7 Williamstown, MA 01267 999:# 9 % % :! www.williamstownfilmfest.com Owns and operates Arrowhead, home of Herman Melville 1850-1863. Local history library and archives, exhibits, lecture series. THE BIDWELL HOUSE MUSEUM (413) 528-6888 100 Art School Rd., Monterey, MA 01245 www.bidwell housemuseum.org Register of Historic Places: c.1750 parsonage of Rev. Bidwell, the area’s first minister. Original architec- ture, collection of 18th and 19th century furnishings, gardens and trails. Open Memorial Day – Columbus Day, Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. CHAPIN LIBRARY ARROWHEAD (413) 597-2462 P (413) 442-1793 Stetson Hall, Williams College age 17 780 Holmes Rd., Pittsfield, MA 01201 Williamstown, MA 01267 www.mobydick.org Rare books and documents, including Founding Arrowhead is the idyllic home where the great Documents of the United States. Historical prints, Vermont & Southern The 2004 Berkshire American author, Herman Melville, wrote his manuscripts. Special exhibits year round. May-June, renowned masterpiece, Moby Dick. The charming Winston S. Churchill. July-September, Count Harry 18th century farmhouse where Melville and his fam- Kessler and the Cranach Press. Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.- ily lived from 1850 to 1863 highlights period furnish- noon, 1-5 p.m. Closed holidays, except July 4. Free. ings and is surrounded by inspiring natural surround- ings. Tours are offered on the hour, from 10 until 4 CHESTERWOOD and is open daily from Memorial Day weekend to ESTATE AND MUSEUM Columbus Day weekend. There is an admission (413) 298-3579 charge. Arrowhead is owned and operated by the 4 Williamsville Rd., Stockbridge, MA 01262 Berkshire Historical Society. www.Chesterwood.org Open 10 to 5 daily May 1- Oct. 31. The 122-acre BENNINGTON BATTLE MONUMENT estate of sculptor Daniel Chester French, the artist (802) 447-0550 who created the Lincoln Memorial, the Minute Man FOUR SEASONS GUIDE 15 Monument Circle and other public monuments. Special events Old Bennington, VT 05201 throughout the season and Contemporary Sculpture Open daily mid April-Oct. 31. The monument was at Chesterwood July 1 through Columbus Day. dedicated in 1891 to commemorate the August 16, 1777, Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington. DAN RAYMOND HOUSE (413) 229-2694 BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN Main St. (413) 298-3926 Sheffield, MA 01257 Routes 102 & 183 Sheffield Historical Society. Tours of 1774 brick Stockbridge, MA 01262 colonial house, Parker Hill Law Office, Carriage www.berkshirebotanical.org House. Thurs-Sat. 11 a.m.-4 p.m., May 29-Oct. 31. A 15-acre country garden featuring intimate land- Exhibits and shopping in the Old Stone Store. Spring scapes with fragrant and colorful perennial and Party May 22, "Pieces of History" silent auction and annual gardens, terraced herb garden, pond garden, tag sale July 10, Cemetery Stroll Oct. 16. rock garden, children’s garden, ornamental veg- etable garden, greenhouse and other specialty col- THE FOLLY AT FIELD FARM lections. Educational classes and workshops offered (413) 298-8123 year-round. Open daily May through October, 10 Sloan Rd. a.m. to 5 p.m. Williamstown, MA 01267 www.thetrustees.org BERKSHIRE COUNTY Designed by Ulrich Franzen in 1964, his Modern- HISTORICAL SOCIETY style cottage is now a historic house museum. (413) 442-1793 Sculpture garden and nature trails on 296 acres. 780 Holmes Rd. Open Sat. June 26-Oct. 16, 12 to 5 p.m. Guided Pittsfield, MA 01201 tours $5; ages 6-12, $3. Trustees members, free. HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE An original "Berkshire cottage" designed by McKim, (413) 443-0188 Mead & White in 1885. Gardens designed by Route 20 Fletcher Steele. Open Memorial Day to Columbus Pittsfield, MA 01201 Day. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. House & Garden, $10. Garden Original Shaker community (1783-1960), now an only, $8. Ages 6-12, $3. The Trustees members, free. outdoor history museum with 20 restored buildings, historic gardens and farm animal farms. PARK-MCCULLOUGH HOUSE (802) 442-5441 HILDENE 1 Park St., North Bennington, VT 05257 (802) 362-1788 The thirty-five room French Empire style mansion, Historic Rte. 7A completed in 1865 for Trenor and Laura Park, was Manchester, VT 05254 home to two of Vermont’s governors.
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