Community Calendar

Your holiday wine list starts here.

Before the Thanksgiving rush and the holiday party season, spend an evening at Black Birch Vineyard, Hatfield's award-winning boutique winery, tasting your way to the bottles that will make your holiday table. Wine author Carlo DeVito (How to Drink Wine; publisher of East Coast Wineries) is your guide, helping you discover new favorites for every gathering, from Thanksgiving dinner to the perfect bottle to give as a gift.

Your ticket includes:
- A wine tasting at Black Birch Vineyard
- Delicious local food
- A shot at the Blind Bottle Raffle

Raise a glass for a great cause. Every ticket supports Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County, a program of CHD, which matches young people with caring adult mentors who help them build confidence and reach their full potential.

Tickets are $50 for the first 25 sold and $60 general admission. A limited number will be available at the door, so reserve yours early. Guests must be 21 or older to taste.

Thank you to our sponsor, Greenfield Savings Bank.

Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/plan-your-holiday-table

The Capital Craft Beverage Trail presents our first-ever Drink Amsterdam Holiday Market, a festive celebration of local craft beverages, holiday shopping, and live music at the Clocktower in Amsterdam, hosted in partnership with Second Act Spirits.
Join us on Friday, November 13th for an evening of local drinks, food, holiday cheer, and live music in a unique historic setting. Enjoy craft beverages from local producers while browsing holiday offerings and supporting local businesses. Come celebrate the season, discover something new, and enjoy an evening in Amsterdam.
Shop Local. Drink Local. Support Local.
Friday, November 13th Clocktower, Amsterdam, NY
Enjoy live music by Evan Conway, Evan Gavry, Bob Morris
For the first time ever your ticket includes food and samples of local craft beverages!

Ticket Pricing:
Early Bird: $45 + taxes & fees
General Admission: $50 + taxes & fees
At the Door: $60
Designated Driver: $15 (No beverage sampling, but enjoy the music, food and holiday craft beverage shopping.)
Fabulous LOCAL craft beverage producers already lined up to pour at this event are:
Adirondack Winery
Albany Distilling Company
Autumn’s Harvest Vineyard
Broken Loop Brewing Co.
The Bull & Bee Meadery
Erie Canal Distillers
Harvest Spirits
Kessler Brewing
Meadowdale Winery
Nine Pin Cider Works
Second Act Spirits
Springbrook Hollow Farm Distillery
Whitman Brewing Company
Wolf Hollow Brewing Company
Yankee Distillers

Paul Taylor Dance Company’s 2026 Lincoln Center Season, featuring classics by Paul Taylor alongside world premieres by Resident Choreographers Lauren Lovette and Robert Battle, a New York premiere by Pam Tanowitz, company premieres of Battle’s "No Longer Silent" and Alwin Nikolais’s "Tensile Involvement" and the return of Battle’s "Under the Rhythm."

The Berkshire Nature Talk Series continues with a look at the insects most of us take for granted until they're gone. Kyle Bradford of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program (FEP) joins the series to talk about bees and how they hold ecosystems and our food systems together, and what puts that work at risk.

Bradford has spent more than a decade in the field, from ant surveys in Columbia County to insect pest detection in California vineyards to graduate research on ants in the pine barrens of western Massachusetts. That range is reflected in how he talks about bees, not as an isolated topic but as one thread in a much larger web of human-managed land, landscape history, and the conservation choices we’re making right now. Expect a talk grounded in fieldwork and, given Bradford’s side career as a nature photographer, expect it to look as good as it sounds.

Bradford holds an MS in Conservation Biology from Antioch University New England and a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont. He first found his footing in insect ecology as an FEP intern in 2012, and his interests have ranged across biogeography, rare species conservation, and the question of how landscape history should shape the conservation work being done today.

This event is free for West Stockbridge Historical Society members and open to the public with a suggested $10 donation for non-members. Seating is limited to 80 attendees. Cash only at door. To reserve your spot, go to weststockbridgehistory.org

DARLIN’ — A World Premiere at Bridge Street Theatre!

Mothers. Daughters. Family secrets. And a whole lot of unfinished business.

Bridge Street Theatre presents the world premiere of “DARLIN’,” a wickedly funny, wildly imaginative new play by two-time PEN USA Award-winning playwright Michelle Carter, November 5–15, 2026.

Kate's just lost the job she's had for nearly three decades. Her 82-year-old mother, Liza, is as sharp-tongued and impossible as ever. And the family stories she's been telling for years? Let's just say the truth is considerably more interesting.

With the help of an unconventional caregiver, Kate tumbles into a journey through her mother's past, landing in 1958 San Francisco, where a teenage Liza confronts the mother who abandoned her. What unfolds is a deliciously unpredictable collision of three generations, full of sharp wit, surprising revelations, and unexpected tenderness.

Directed by Katy Early, featuring Barbara Pitts, Amanda Duarte, and Phil Mansfield.

November 5–15, 2026. Thursday–Saturday at 7 PM; Sunday at 2 PM. November 5 is a pay-what-you-wanna preview.

Tickets: https://bridgest.org/darlin/

The Hotchkiss Dramatic Association opens its 26–27 season with Something Rotten!, a hilarious musical comedy set in 1590s England. Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but find themselves competing with Renaissance rock star William Shakespeare. When a soothsayer predicts that the future of theater involves singing, dancing, and acting all at once, the brothers set out to create the world’s very first musical.

Performances are Friday, November 13, and Saturday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, November 15 at 2 p.m. in Walker Auditorium at The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT.

Free and open to the public.

Artist Lecture: Wednesday, October 28 at 5 pm (Graham Hall, Hillyer Hall)
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 28 at 6-7 pm
Monday through Friday only.

An exhibition of work by current students in 200- and 300-level studio courses in the Department of Art. Monday through Friday only.

This November, UAlbany is bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to life at its annual STEM and Nanotechnology Family Day. This year’s event will shine a special spotlight on the power of nanotechnology - from semiconductors and CHIPS manufacturing to smart materials - and the many ways discoveries at the smallest scale are shaping our world.

Families and students in grades 2–8 can explore more than 20 hands-on activities spanning nanotechnology, engineering, robotics, atmospheric and climate science, cybersecurity and more. Participants can test robots, investigate weather and climate, mix non-Newtonian fluids such as oobleck, build with LEGOs and conduct nano-inspired experiments involving thin films, light-bending materials and self-cleaning surfaces.

Partners include:

UAlbany’s College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering
UAlbany’s College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and New York State Mesonet
New York State Master Teacher Program
NY CREATES’ Albany NanoTech Complex
Corporate and community partners
UAlbany student organizations
Designed to spark curiosity and make STEM accessible, the event gives young learners and their families a lively look at the research, technologies and careers shaping tomorrow’s world.

Registration required.

Photo Credit: University at Albany

Voices in Stone: A Journey of Seals Across Cultures brings the traditional Chinese art of stone seal carving into a modern, multicultural context. The project will feature twenty hand-carved seals that blend Eastern technique with Western meaning, using words and phrases drawn from poetry, philosophy, scripture, and names familiar to American audiences.

By combining meaningful Western texts with the aesthetics of Chinese seal carving, the project creates a quiet dialogue across cultures, inviting viewers to reflect on shared values and the beauty of cross-cultural expression.