Of the Hilltowns
Special
Events Special Events - 2010
All events are at the Becket Arts Center unless otherwise specified.
Summer Solstice Bash/40th Anniversary
Saturday, June 19th • 6 pm - 11 pm
BECKET ARTS CENTER is 40 years old! Come celebrate on this magical night designed to bring people together with music, dancing, food and the opening of our 2010 season! Enjoy the fare of our annual potluck dinner paired with wine from our cash bar. Schmooze with the artists until Trio Candela entices you to dance with abandon in our upstairs gallery.
Silk painted scarves that reflect Rebecca Silvers' love of flora, the cold hard metal turned to exquisite life by sculptor Robert Alan Hyde and fine watercolors of Berkshire homes and historic architecture by Marguerite Bride will be on view this evening.
Work by our young members and students of Becket-Washington School will also be on display in the workshop.
We're seeing red!
Ruby is our stone for 40 years of serving the Hilltown communities with exceptional art, workshops and community outreach programs. Wear your ruby slippers/ be the lady in red/ gentlemen sport a red - tie? Show us with that most vibrant color that you support the BECKET ARTS CENTER! And support our party by participating in our drawing for a one-night stay at Shirakaba japanese bed and breakfast and dinner for two.
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Herbal Walk at Canterbury Farm
Sunday, July 11th • 10am
Meet at the Becket Arts Center
Walk: 10 am - 1 pm
Lunch: 1 - 2 pm
Extended Day: 2 - 4 pm
Fee: Walk: $20; Non-Members $25
Lunch $15 (Optional)
Extended Day: No charge
Come walk the trails at Canterbury Farm with Naomi Alson, local herbalist who consults at Lee Family Practice. The grounds at the farm are rich in eco-niches; wetlands, ponds, streams, meadows and woodlands abound. Each niche holds it's own treasures. Naomi will help to unfold for you a whole new world rich in medicinal and culinary herbal properties.
After your invigorating walk come back to the farm house for a wonderful light luncheon prepared by Linda Bacon. Some of the culinary herbs collected on the trail will be incorporated into the meal. Lunch may be purchased for $15 per person.
Extend the day:
For those who love to get their hands in the dirt, Dave Bacon and Pat Parkins will be on hand to discuss low maintenance landscaping and methods of organic gardening and composting. Stay after lunch and take notes, get some tough questions answered and take a tour of Linda's garden!
Donations to the Becket Arts Center for the afternoon session will be accepted.
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Women Burning Bridges
Tuesday, July 13th • 7:30 pm - 9
pm
Free Event
Becket Arts Center
Women participating in this project will have the opportunity to adapt the "bridging" technique from method acting to intuitively/spontaneously build an actual physical representation of an unhealthy or uncomfortable emotional bridge, and then burn it! This practice of constructing one's emotional bridges, and the dramatic act of sending those bridges up in flames, is meant to be both fun and liberating. Women of all varieties are welcome! This opportunity will be facilitated by Zina Jayne, a local artist, librarian, mother, and enthusiastic igniter of things.
Zina Jayne holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art and has performed a number of similar community-based, participatory works.
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Naumkeag Excursion, Stockbridge, MA
Benefit for Becket Arts Center of the Hilltowns
Sunday, July 18th
Carpool Time: 9:30 am at the Arts Center
Tour Time: 10 am - noon
Tour $10; Non-members $12
An architectural gem from the Gilded Age, this 44 room “cottage” served as the summer home for three generations of the Choate family. The house contains original furniture and art, and the guided tour includes beautiful gardens and fountain pools framed by Monument Mountain. For more information go to Naumkeag.
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Donors' Buffet Reception
Monday, July 26th • 6 pm - Becket Arts Center
followed at 7:30pm by a presentation in our Upstairs Gallery,
"UP, UP and AWAY”
A group of four merit scholarship winners from Berkshire Music School will perform
a variety of vocal and instrumental musical selections.
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Becket Community Fair
Saturday, July 24th • 10 am - 4 pm
Site: Becket Arts Center and the entire Historic District
Enjoy face painting on our lawn and our Artists’ Reception in our two galleries-glass collage/watercolor, jewelry, photography and more watercolor (see Exhibits for more details) and The Barrington Jazz Ensemble in our upstairs gallery (see below for details).
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The Barrington Jazz Ensemble
Saturday, July 24th • 1 pm - 4 pm
(during our Upstairs Artist’s Reception)
The Barrington Jazz Ensemble features a delightful mix of classical straight-ahead jazz, blues and Latin music. The quartet consists of a keyboardist, saxophonists, acoustic bassist, guitarist and sometimes expands to include electric bassist and percussionist.
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Mass MoCA Excursion
Benefit for Becket Arts Center of the Hilltowns
Sunday, August 15th • 10 am
Join us for a trip to Mass MOCA. We will arrive in time for the docent tour of the new Sol LeWitt building and a tour of the current exhibits. We will car pool from the Art Center, with a departure time of 10 AM. Standard museum admission fee will apply. Plan on lunch at the museum restaurant.
Any questions and to register call Arnold Drucker after May 1 at 413-744-4511.
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Progressive Dinner Fund Raiser
Saturday, August 28th• 6 pm
Tickets: $50 per couple/$25 per person; Non-members $60 per couple/$30 per person
Singles welcome.
What a bargain for an evening of fun in the Berkshires.
Have you ever been part of a progressive dinner? It is a great way to meet members of the art community. Members open up their home for groups of 4 to 6 couples with a grand gathering at one home. To learn more about how you can host one segment of the dinner contact Joan Terry Drucker at
skylineridge@aol.com.
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Program for 2010
