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MCLA Gallery 51 To Open ‘Branching Together’ Exhibit| 09:00AM / Wednesday, February 22, 2012 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On Thursday, Feb. 23, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Gallery 51 will present “Branching Together.” The exhibit will bring together the work of Helen Hiebert, Sun Young Kang and Michelle Wilson, three artists who use the physicality of paper as a means of telling a story.
An opening reception will be held from 5 - 7 p.m. The event, sponsored by Storey Publishing, is free and open to the public, and will include a book signing by Hiebert with her three books on paper-making, all of which will be available for purchase.
Just prior to the reception, at 4:30 p.m., Heibert also will give a short talk about paper and her work in the show.
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CATA Exhibits At North Adams Public Library| 11:14AM / Tuesday, February 21, 2012 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Community Access to the Arts, the non-profit organization that provides arts workshops to over 500 people with disabilities in Berkshire County, announced that the North Adams Public Library is exhibiting CATA artwork during February and March. A reception will be held on Thursday, Feb. 23 from 4 to 6 p.m. and is free to the public.
This exhibit is part of CATA’s “Art on Tour” program, funded in part by Rhee Kasky and Bill Cohn. CATA’s artwork travels to museums, galleries, restaurants, and other public spaces in keeping with the organization’s mission to nurture and celebrate the creativity of people with disabilities through shared 0 Comments
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Third Annual Sekou Sundiata Evening of Spoken Word & Poetry| 10:59AM / Tuesday, February 21, 2012 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Internationally acclaimed poet, playwright and activist Shailja Patel will host MCLA’s third annual Evening of Spoken Word and Poetry, which will be dedicated to the life and work of the great poet and performer, Sekou Sundiata. The event will feature students from MCLA and Williams College and will take place on Friday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m., in MCLA Gallery 51 on Main Street as part of the college’s MCLA Presents! performance series.
Sundiata was an African American activist, internationally known for his poetry, performance, music and theater. He became a teacher at The New School in New York City where he taught famous musicians, such as Ani DiFranco 0 Comments
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'Tricks of the Trade' Series Looks at Arts & Community| 03:59PM / Tuesday, February 07, 2012 | |
Tricks of the Trade 2011-2012Integration of Art and Community:
Round-Table Discussion Part I
MCLA Gallery 51
51 Main Street, North Adams, MA Speakers/Panelists: - Hosted by , Director of Special Programs at MCLA
-, Mayor of North Adams
-, North Adams City Councilor
-, North Adams City Councilor
-, North Adams City Councilor
-, North Adams City Councilor
-, Director of North Adams Office of Tourism
-, Florida Town Administrator How can you effectively reach out and collaborate with the community through art? Panelists will discussas well as possible , sharing obstacles, community reluctance as well as benefits and tangible improvement of public engagement and participation. Ifyou would
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Public Invited To Free Artist Talks At MCLA| 11:44AM / Tuesday, February 07, 2012 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — This spring semester, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will offer MCLA Creates! artist talks that are free and open to the public.
, at 3 p.m. in Bowman Hall Room 204, Helen Hiebert will present the business of being an artist, and how she juggles the administration side with the production and creative process of the artist.
, at 4:30 p.m. in MCLA Gallery 51, Hiebert will talk about how paper is made, how artists have "discovered" it within the past 50 years and use it to make drawings, sculptures, artists books and installations.
Hiebert is a paper artist who exhibits her experimental work with handmade paper and teaches and lectures about 0 Comments
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'The Grey': Shades of HorrorBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
04:31PM / Thursday, February 02, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Open Roads
Liam Neeson has to hope is bite is worse than his bark in the wilderness survival film 'The Grey.'
Death, the great unknown, haunts at every instance in director Joe Carnahan's "The Grey," a tale of survival as exhausting as it is unsettling. This is brutal, in-your-face stuff, a big, icy metaphor set in Alaska that won't relent in its harsh fatalism. Yet, just because it has some high-falutin' philosophy doesn't earn it the right to pawn off a copout ending.
Starring Liam Neeson in a sharp turn as Ottway, the oil company-employed hunter who takes charge when a group of plane crash survivors are left stranded in 0 Comments
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'Red Tails': ... And Stout of HeartBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
05:15PM / Friday, January 27, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Twentieth Century Fox
The saga of the Tuskegee Airmen benefits from air support in the George Lucas' film 'Red Tails.'
When first the Tuskegee Airmen take to the sky in "Red Tails," director Anthony Hemingway's action-filled chronicle inspired by the African-American 332nd Squadron's service during WWII, you want to be a pilot, too. At least I did. And the six 15-year-old boys to my right, who quieted down once the pageantry began, apparently agreed.
Cut it any way you wish, this is a war movie, proving that all-black casts are subject to the same bromides that have been a mainstay of the genre ever since the earliest 0 Comments
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MCLA Hosts Annual Blues & Funk Festival| 10:51AM / Thursday, January 26, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The 7th annual MCLA Blues and Funk Festival will bring two nights of “soul-pumpingmusic,” featuring the Berkshires' own Misty Blues and rising star Blitz the Ambassador on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3-4.
According to Jonathan Secor, director of special programs at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, audiences can expect a little old school, a little new school, and an all-around weekend of great music and musicians.
"We kick it off old-school style with Gina Coleman and Misty Blues channeling the great women of the blues — from the great Etta James, whom we recently lost, to Bessie Smith," Secor said. "Gina and the band will 0 Comments
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MCLA Presents! To Showcase DownStreet Art Artist| 12:52PM / Friday, January 20, 2012 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — C. Ryder Cooley, one of the featured artists from this summer"s DownStreet Art, will present her fully staged "extinction" cabaret "XMALIA" as part of the MCLA Presents! series on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Venable Gym at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
This is the second performance in Cooley's ongoing series called "Animalia," which was presented at MCLA two years ago. "XMALIA" is a multimedia performance that combines live and recorded music, taxidermy, video projections, and aerial and ground-based movement. An interdisciplinary artist, musician and performer, Cooley blends fantasy visions with 0 Comments
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Solid Sound Festival Takes Year OffStaff Reports,
01:01PM / Friday, January 13, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Solid Sound Festival will not return this summer but will be back in 2013.
The last two years the concert, organized by the band Wilco, attracted thousands of people to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts. This year will be a hiatus for the festival but it is scheduled to return in June of 2013.
"The festival is dearly loved by all of us - from the band to the staff who organize and execute it - so the decision to take 2012 off was not an easy one," said festival co-organizer and Wilco manager Tony Margherita in a press release. "However, with the release of Wilco's latest album, The Whole Love, on their own newly launched label, 24 Comments
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