Cultural Pittsfield This Week: June 24-30| 01:32PM / Friday, June 24, 2016 | |
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FREE Lecture and Demonstration
SAT How We Got To The Funk Dance Party
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Tonight, Urban Bush Women will offer a FREE lecture and demonstration at First Church on Park Square at 6 p.m.
On Saturday, The Crowne Plaza will host a How We Got to the Funk Dance Party at 7 p.m. that is free and open to the public. How We Got to the Funk will be led by Urban Bush Women's founder-director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. It is an evening of fun, dance and examining history through the lens of African American social dances from 1955 through the present. No experience needed. Come ready to boogie! View the full Urban Bush Women residency schedule. |
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Methuselah Bar & Lounge will host Argentine Tango with Emiliano every Monday night, beginning this Monday at 6 p.m. with a free beginner's class. An intermediate class will follow, at 6:30 p.m., for $10. Dancing for everyone begins at 7 p.m.
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Kids, teens and adults can all participate in the Summer Reading Programs at the Berkshire Athenaeum. Children will enjoy performances and sports-themed movies, and both children and teens can enter drawings for books, games, and gift certificates to the Beacon Cinema and Ayeleda. Teens and adults can fill out a BINGO card to track their reading and enter full cards to win prizes. Stop by the library and get reading!
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Radiance Yoga will host a free injury prevention and recovery workshop for runners of all levels on Saturday from 2-3:30 p.m. Karden Rabin, LMT and founder of Boundless, and Kent Lemme of the Berkshire Running Center will show you how to keep doing what you love, even after an injury.
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Beginning Tuesday and running for five Tuesdays in total, enjoy art-making focused on nature with Marney Schorr in a private studio at NuArts, 311 North Street, from 1:30-3 p.m.
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Winner of the prestigious Laurents/Hatcher Award for Best New Play of 2016, this explosive world premiere drama by Christopher Demos-Brown examines our nation's racial divide through the eyes of an estranged, interracial couple (Tamara Tunie of Law & Order: SVU and Michael Hayden of Murder One). Over the course of an evening, the couple's disparate backgrounds collide as they confront an unexpected crisis involving their son, the police, and an abandoned car. Now - July 9 at the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage.
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Barrington Stage Company's annual gala will feature a one-night-only performance by song-and-dance-man Tony Yazbeck, the Tony-nominated star of On The Town. He will give a tour de force performance of The Floor Above Me, which will feature his On The Town co-stars Clyde Alves and Katie Huff. 5 p.m.
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The OLLI Distinguished Speaker Series presents MCLA professor Michael Birch, who will speak on mental health stigma in the news and on social media. 10:30 a.m. at Berkshire Community College's Koussevitzky Arts Center, 1350 West Street. Admission is $10 for OLLI members, $15 for the general public, and free for BCC students, staff and those 17 years of age and younger.
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A Light Beneath Their Feet
Emotionally raw and bracingly honest, this coming-of-age drama balances the pull of family obligation against personal aspirations.In a commanding performance, SAG-award-winning actress Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) plays a mother, wrestling with bipolar disorder and an imminent empty nest. Her dedicated daughter has a bright future ahead, but must decide if she will stay near home to care for her unpredictable mom or follow her own path.
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What's Showing at The Licht
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Pittsfield's city-owned community arts center, the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, features nine working artist studios, a ceramics studio, a community room and an art gallery with changing exhibitions, classes, performances + more!
28 Renne Ave. | Wed-Sat, 11-4
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Beginning July 1, Community Access to the Arts (CATA) presents a celebration of its visual artists. The month-long exhibit features over 100 works created by artists with disabilities from across Berkshire County. The soft opening will take place on Friday, July 1 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. during First Fridays Artswalk. The opening reception, which is free and open to the public, is Thursday, July 14 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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