Community Calendar

Join us at Shaker for a create your own Barn Quilt workshop, taught by Darcy Leigh of The Creative Jam!
Create a stunning Tulip 18-inch round wood barn quilt

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll paint and assemble your quilt from pre-cut wood pieces, then finish it off with a sturdy hanger so it’s ready to display.

While each design will be the tulip design featured above, your colors are entirely up to you. You can go with classic red, white, and blue, soft pastels, brilliant rainbow, or something completely unexpected with patterns and blends. Make it your own masterpiece.

All materials are included, no experience needed — we’ll guide you step-by-step. Just bring yourself and your creativity.

Trash Chic!, at The Sketchbook Gallery, is a celebration of creativity that transforms the often discarded, overlooked, and thrown away. This diverse group of artists challenge the ideas of value, beauty, and permanence while highlighting the potential within what we throw away. We invite viewers to reconsider what “trash”is and discover how imagination can turn trash into something striking, meaningful, and new.

This exhibition is in conjunction with Matter Out of Place at Jane St. Art.

This exhibition brings together six invited artists who work with found objects, transforming overlooked materials into works of new meaning and possibility. Through the process of reimagining, these artists advocate for environmental concerns, drawing attention to using discarded materials while approaching their own creative practices with intentionality and care.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Trash Chic! at The Sketchbook Gallery.

“Bite the Bullet,” Washington’s Headquarters’ Program on Revolutionary era medicine, is designed to acquaint audiences with the state of medical knowledge and some of the practices of medicine in the time of George Washington. Physicians were frequently confounded by the causes of illness, treated symptoms, and relied heavily on the healing powers of nature. Many remedies stocked by apothecaries were herbal in nature, and the best doctors of the time still healed with herbs. In 1775, the US had 3,500 doctors, but only 300 had medical degrees. The profession of physician / surgeon was open only to men, but the system relied heavily on women who could be and were midwives. The lecture quotes from the diary of traveling midwife, Martha Ballard, of northern Massachusetts who kept a record of her work as a healer and a midwife, which provides an unparalleled window into practical medicine in the quarter century straddling 1800.

Showcasing the expressive beauty and elegance of individual wind instruments with piano accompaniment, the performance offers a richly varied chamber program that ranges from romantic to playful to refined.

Program:

Schumann, Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
Saint-Saens, Sonata for Oboe and Piano
Poulenc, Sonata for Flute and Piano
Mozart, Quintet for Piano and Winds K452 (Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Piano)

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The Stockbridge Sinfonia uses music as a tool to develop the leadership of youth, recognize the talents of adults, and build community across Berkshire County. All of this is accomplished through our mission of “classical music for the love and fun of it!”

Under the direction of Music Director Tracy Wilson and President Christine Singer, the Sinfonia presents several free concerts throughout Berkshire County, maintaining its commitment to accessibility and community engagement.

For more information, please visit www.stockbridgesinfonia.org or call either 413-822-1318 or 413-298-3137.

Concert is in the Sanctuary (fully accessible), free and open to the public. Donations appreciated.

Celebrate the opening of Vulnerable Earth at an Artist Reception on Saturday, April 25 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT. Curated by Greg Lock, the exhibition brings together video, photographic, and digital media by artists who have participated in The Arctic Circle, reflecting on the rapidly changing Arctic landscape and the broader ecological questions surrounding climate change. The reception offers an opportunity to view the exhibition and engage with its themes of environmental transformation, observation, and responsibility.

Experience the sights, sounds and aromas of the electrifying midway with exciting rides and games for all ages and deep-fried treats, sweets and other tantalizing carnival eats.

Admission and parking are free.

Unlimited ride wristbands (for riders 36" & taller) are $37 on site ($35 cash price) or online before 5 pm Thurs., April 16 for $29 each, 2/$55 or 4/$99.

Visit the website for pre-sale ride ticket savings and discount coupons for rides and food.

Midway hours: 5-10 pm Monday - Thursday, 5-11 pm Friday, noon-11 pm Saturday, noon-10 pm Sunday

Guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult age 21+. Please check the website for event updates before attending.

More information: 866-666-3247 or DreamlandAmusements.com
https://dreamlandamusements.com/upcoming-events-amusement-carnival/jefferson-valley-mall-carnival/

Berkshires Jazz is hosting the twentieth annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which runs from April 17-25 in venues throughout the City’s Upstreet Cultural District. Presenting the gamut of artists, from prodigies and local musicians to rising stars and top names, headline concerts feature Grace Kelly, Veronica Swift, and Georgia Heers. Most of the events are free, including an open jam session, the annual jazz crawl, and a jazz prodigy concert.

The 15th Annual Hotchkiss Film Festival, hosted by the Hotchkiss Film Club, will be held on April 25, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Walker Auditorium at The Hotchkiss School. This milestone event features a curated program of original short films by student filmmakers from around the world, showcasing excellence in storytelling, cinematography, and artistic vision. The selected films will be judged by alumni Brian Ryu ’13 and Luke Gardiner ’21, with awards presented for Grand Jury, Best Cinematography, and Best Story.

A thrift-store painting. A possible masterpiece. A battle over who gets to decide what’s real.

Bridge Street Theatre opens its 2026 MainStage Season with "Bakersfield Mist" by Stephen Sachs, directed by Mark Perry.

When Maude, an unemployed bartender, believes she’s discovered a long-lost Jackson Pollock, a New York art expert arrives to prove her wrong. What follows is a sharp, funny, and increasingly personal battle over art, authority, and who gets to decide what something is worth.

As the stakes rise, the question shifts from the painting itself to something deeper: who gets believed — and why.

April 16–26, 2026. Thursdays–Saturdays at 7:00pm, Sundays at 2:00pm.
Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. Tickets at BridgeSt.org.

Bridge Street Theatre is a professional theatre in Catskill, NY, creating bold, intimate live performance in the Hudson Valley.