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THE BERKSHIRES The big news this weekend is the grand opening
of the Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation at the Berkshire Museum
in Pittsfield, Mass. Check out the Museums & Galleries
box in this week’s calendar for details; check out next week’s
Metroland for a big-old, in-depth arts feature about
the “new” Berkshire Museum by Kathryn Lange. Anyway—this is
the transition, pay attention—one of the “innovators” honored
in the new Hall of Innovations is Great Barrington-born author-journalist-intellectual
W.E.B. Du Bois. Tonight (Thursday, March 27), at 7 PM in the
Daniel Arts Center at Bard College at Simon’s Rock
in Great Barrington, author-scholar (and MacArthur fellowship
winner) John Edgar Wideman will deliver the 13th annual
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture. Wideman, professor of Africana Studies
and English at Brown University, is the only person to have
won the International Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction twice.
The lecture is free, and a reception will follow. For more
info, call (413) 528-7395.
CALL FOR FILMS—BY TEENAGERS The 8th annual Reel Teens Festival
will be held “at the movie theater” in Hunter on the weekend
of June 6-8. There is still time to submit an entry; the deadline
is April 15. (Just like taxes! Yay!) The film/video should
be made by a teenager, be no more than 30 minutes in length
and be postmarked by April 15 (address to follow). The nine
categories are: fiction, short fiction (10 minutes or less),
documentary/news magazine, short documentary/news magazine
(10 minutes or less), animation, claymation, visual arts,
music video, and public service announcement. The address
to send your flick is Reel Teens, PO Box 1246, Woodstock NY,
12498. But you should probably visit www.reelteens.org for
an entry form and complete info. And if you need to chat with
a human, call (845) 246-1598.
ART NIGHT Finally, let’s not forget that it’s that time of
the month again: Troy Night Out. Everyone has their
partisan choice among the various art nights; I will not take
sides. They all have something wonderful to offer. So, tomorrow
(Friday, March 28) go to beautiful downtown Troy and check
out the numerous opening shows at the numerous galleries—including
Deborah Bayly’s landscape and still-life paintings
at the Clement Art Gallery at 201 Broadway. And if,
having seen the art, you decide to have a libation or two
in one of Troy’s fine establishments, be sure to say howdy
to Metroland News Editor Chet Hardin—he’s always out
and about.
—Shawn
Stone
sstone@metroland.net
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