Touki Delphine, an artist collective of musicians, performers, and visual artists, brings its multimedia work FIREBIRD, inspired by composer Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite,” to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., with viewings today and Saturday. The “rule-breaking” concert program includes an “orchestra” of light -- over 600 recycled car taillights sourced locally in the Berkshires -- that will illuminate the dance of the firebird. (Fri-Sat, Feb 2-3)

Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institute began as a child dominoes hustler in a miners pub. “My granddad would have me play dominoes and bet on me, and every time I won, I would get a ginger beer.” This week on Person Place Thing - the making of a scholar.