Weekend Highlights 2/12-2/14

Submitted by Seth Rogovoy on February 11, 2010 - 3:07pm

  

The arts community continues to rally together to help raise funds for Haitian earthquake relief. This Sunday, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion headline a cast of Berkshire and regional folk music all-stars, including Martin Sexton, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, Kris Delmhorst, the Mammals, Bobby Sweet, Meg Hutchinson, the Guthrie Family, Tift Merritt, and Vetiver, at 7 at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. The concert is sold out, but there will be activities - including free music and a silent auction - in the lobby, free and open to the public, beginning at 4:30.
 
 
 
A Concert for Loved Ones in Haiti
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Martin Sexton, The Mammals, Bobby Sweet,
Vetiver, Tift Merritt, Meg Hutchinson, Kris Delmhorst
Sunday, February 14, 2010
The Colonial Theatre 111 South Street Pittsfield, Mass.
Showtime: 7pm All Ages Tickets: SOLD OUT
Ticket Info: 413.997.4444, www.thecolonialtheatre.org
 
 
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Several new exhibitions open in North Berkshire museums this weekend, and social gatherings are planned around them.
 
 
 
At MASS MoCA in North Adams, a new group exhibition explores the line between visibility and invisibility. InVisible opens Saturday and remains on view through June 14.
 
 
 
The exhibition includes works that test the limits of perception, examining the demands and subtleties of the viewing experience from anatomical, cognitive, and philosophical perspectives. Drawing attention to what is often unnoticed at first glance, many of the works heighten viewers' awareness of inconspicuous details, focusing on the negative spaces in our surroundings that are often overlooked.
 
 
 
Some of the works, pushed to the edge of legibility, disappear into the gallery space itself, and blur the distinction between medium and ground. Several artists manipulate ephemeral phenomena, harnessing the potential of light and shadow, while still others use strategies of erasure and find the "something" in what might be otherwise described as "nothing."
 
 
 
InVisible brings together artists from Germany, Los Angeles, Australia, New Mexico, Barcelona, and Connecticut.
 
 
 
Saturday also happens to be a free day at MASS MoCA. The galleries will be open from 11 to 8 with gallery tours, hip hop dance demos, kids art activities, a special sale at HARDWARE, ice cream tastings, a furniture building contest and more.
 
 
 
The day’s events culminate in an evening dance party, a ticketed event featuring the Latin funk of Yerba Buena alumnus Pedritio Martinez at 8.
 
 
 
Tickets: $15 in advance/ $19 day of show, $10 students, and kids 12 & under free.
 
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Also on Saturday, The Clark in Williamstown celebrates the opening of its new exhibition of early works by Giovanni Boldini with a themed party called "Picture Yourself at the Clark,” which will take place from 6 to 8. The party includes live music and live portraiture, and will transform the museum into 19th century France, in honor of the opening of the exhibition, Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris.
 
 
 
Through approximately seventy oil paintings and drawings, the exhibition presents an innovative look at Boldini's Paris - its places of entertainment and leisure, its inhabitants, and its environs - at a time when the Impressionists were investigating the same sites and subjects. The exhibition illuminates Boldini's early career when he lived in Paris and painted the city's bustling streets, cafes, and concert halls, as well as charming scenes of its sunny suburban landscapes, while developing his unique style
 
 
 
Tickets for the opening reception are $50 per person ($40 per member). Space is limited; RSVP by February 5 to 413-458-0524 or online at The Clark
 
 
 
The Clark is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm (daily in July and August). Admission is free November through May. Admission is $15 June 1 through October 31. Admission is free for children 18 and younger, members, and students with valid ID. For more information, call 413-458-2303 or visit The Clark.
 
 
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Trumpet and organ will combine for a Valentine Bouquet program presented by the Berkshire Bach Society on Sunday at 4 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Pittsfield, Mass. The program will feature the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers in his circle, performed by organist Peter Sykes and a quintet of brass instrumentalists led by trumpeter and early music specialist Allan Dean.
 
 
 
Sykes will be playing a major Bach masterpiece as well as an 1844 Sonata for organ by Felix Mendelssohn and a prelude and fugue by Johannes Brahms.
 
 
 
The brass musicians assembled for this concert are Berkshire Bach's Allan Dean and Neil Mueller, trumpets; Laura Klock, French horn; Tom Hutchinson, trombone; and Morris Kainuma, tuba.
 
 
 
Selections from Bach's Art of the Fugue and various chorales will be performed, as will compositions for brass by Gottfried Reiche, Bach's trumpet player, and a work by his son, Johann Christophe Bach.
 
 
 
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
67 East Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Tickets: $20 ($15 for BBS and AGO members)
 
 
 
 
 
Theater fans can take heart, too. Dangerous Liaisons is up and running at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, and a traveling production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, presented by The Acting Company and The Guthrie Theater, is at the Colonial in Pittsfield tonight at 8. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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