Summer 2023

MAC CALL FOR ART

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June

WANG Chen Solo Exhibition

June 2 - July 14 at Gallery 51

WANG Chen is MAC's 2022-2023 Benedetti Teaching Artist-in-Residence

Opening reception June 2

 

The Celestials

Graphic with details about The Celestials

June 8 - 9 at MASS MoCA

The Celestials, a new play by Peter Glazer, is set in North Adams in the 1870s, when 75 young Chinese men and boys were brought from San Francisco to break a strike in a local shoe factory. Adapted from Williamstown author Karen Shepard’s meticulously researched 2013 novel, the play explores how the lives of residents and immigrants alike were affected by the experience. Calvin T. Sampson’s shoe factory, once located across the street from MASS MoCA, and the beauty of the surrounding Berkshires provide the setting for this unusual love story, both historical saga and social commentary. This reading is brought to you in collaboration with MASS MoCA and MCLA Arts & Culture. 

See more details and get tickets HERE!

 

Grace Kelly COncert

Grace Kelly Concert poster

June 15, 7:00pm in Venable Theatre

“…broad tone and tenacious flow on the alto saxophone, clearly in possession of virtuoso talents” – NY Times

Get tickets HERE!

 

July

ReWritten

— at Herman Melville's Arrowhead

July 13 - 16

ReWritten, created by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds of Arrowhead and reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that has shaped American literature. Our third year in residence at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead, this year’s production will prove to be (yet again) different from previous iterations, by weaving in the stories of some of the women central in the lives of Melville and Hawthorne.

Herman Melville’s Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201

Thursday, July 13 - Sunday, July 16, 7:30pm

$15 for BCHS members, $20 for non-members; children 12 and under free, $30 ReWritten ticket and tour of Arrowhead combo. Use your EBT card and get 50% off.

Tickets will be available soon via Arrowhead!

— at the Adams Theatre

July 28 - 29

The Adams Theater is proud to present the first full-length version of ReWritten, a new dance theatre work produced by MCLA Arts & Culture that explores the literary and personal relationship between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.

After an initial year of development and exploration, the first public performance was realized in 2022 as an immersive experience at Arrowhead, the home in Pittsfield where Melville wrote Moby-Dick, and where Hawthorne was a regular guest.

The Adams Theater is excited to present ReWritten in its full-length, site-specific version for two evenings in July 2023. 

Written and Performed by Matthew Cumbie and Tom Truss
Directed by Rudy Ramirez
Projection Design by Roma Flowers 
Set and Lighting Design by Jeremy Winchester

Get tickets at the Adams Theatre HERE!

 

August

Sunny Allis Solo Exhibition

August 4 - September 15 at Gallery 51

Opening reception August 4

 

 

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Adams Theatre

MASS MoCA

City of North Adams