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June 17, 2004
• Best Bets Best Bets Travel back in time at Eden Hill this weekend The Colonial Carriage and Driving Society will hold its sixth annual Pleasure Driving Show at Eden Hill on Sunday at 9. Visitors can sit under the trees and watch a variety of horses and ponies hitched to restored carriages that are suited for a "turn-of-the-century" or "Currier and Ives" type of appearance. Drivers will be dressed in period costumes as they compete for prizes in various classes. Free carriage rides will be given between 11 and 1. Eden Hill is located on Pine Street in Stockbridge. For more information, visit www.colonialcarriage.org . Local folk trio to perform at Arrowhead this weekend The Berkshire Historical Society at Herman Melville's Arrowhead will sponsor a concert of traditional New England regional folk music by the local trio Wintergreen tomorrow evening at 8. The performance will be held in the 1840s barn and is supported in part by the Pittsfield Cultural Council. Featuring instruments such as a hammer dulcimer, mandolin, a guitar and a bass, Wintergreen's performance will include opportunities for audience participation. The concert will provide music of our shared heritage such as ballads, works songs and dance tunes. The performers will explain the cultural circumstances in which these types of music arose and flourished in our region. The trio will meet with the audience after the show and answer questions. Arrowhead is located at 780 Holmes Rd. in Pittsfield. For more information, call 442-1793. Mass MoCA to open a new installation
Award-winning dancer/filmmaker and performance artist Laurie McLeod will premiere her new installation, "Waterhaven No. 1 (LuoYong's Dream)," Saturday in Mass MoCA's Cinema Courtyard. The piece will be on view through October. "Waterhaven No. 1" is a six-minute underwater dance portrait of the acclaimed Chinese actor and dancer LuoYong Wang. Trained at the Peking Opera and a veteran of years on Broadway, Wang is a performer of astonishing physicality. This "liquid portrait" of his life and personal history is based on interviews with Wang and original music is composed and performed by Mark Orton of Tin Hat Trio. Mass MoCA, which is located at 87 Marshall St. in North Adams, is open daily (except Tuesdays) from 11 to 5. For more information, call 662-2111. SKH Gallery is open for the season The SKH Gallery of Fine Art & Craft in Great Barrington opened for its 2004 season last Saturday. The opening exhibition, "A Group Show," will run through July 14, and feature the work of 20 of the gallery's artists, with representative works in painting, photography, ceramics, fine craft, mixed media and printmaking. The gallery will present five exhibitions and one special art event between mid-June and mid-October, with artists represented in such media as painting (Shawn Baker, Bessie Boris, Claude Carone, Nicolas Carone, Lew Graham, Wendy Goldberg, Joe Goodwin, Bernd Haussmann, John Greene, Robert Kipniss, Daniel Kohn, Stephen LoMonaco, Helga Orthofer, Valerie Petersen, Larry Preston and Michael Zelehowski); photography (Brian Natinsky and Anna Shteynshleyger); ceramics (Paul Chaleff, Susan Halls, Ani Kasten, Hyejoeng Kim, Judith Soloman and Rupert Spira); fine craft (Catherine Mandel, Jonathan Kline, Jim Rose and Janet Reich Elsbach); mixed media (Dorothy Caldwell, Maggie Hogin, Don Maynard and Campion Tillbrook); and printmaking (Steven Sorman). Many of the artists were formerly represented by the Ute Stebich Gallery in Lenox, which closed last October. Now in its third year of operation, the SKH Gallery has expanded on its original concept of featuring three dimensional art, by reconfiguring the larger of its two gallery spaces for the exhibition of two dimensional work. The smaller gallery space will continue to feature three dimensional work. SKH Gallery is located at 46 Castle St. at the train station in Great Barrington. Hours are Thursday, Friday and Sunday from 11 to 5; Saturday from 9 to 4, or by appointment. For more information, call 528-3300. |
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