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SUMMARY:ReWritten Returns to Arrowhead
DESCRIPTION:Friday through Sunday\, July 22\, 23\, 24 and July 29\, 30\, 31\n7:30 pm \nReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives\, work\, and remaining letters\, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that helped shape American literature. Through dance\, live music\, visual art\, projection\, and text this performance questions what happens when we say no to dreams when we want to say yes. Co-created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie. \nTickets are $10 for BCHS members\, $15 for non-members. Use your EBT card and get 50% off. Tickets for children 12 and under are free. Click here to purchase tickets. This event will sell out in advance! \nThis event is sponsored in part by Lee Bank Foundation and is funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts\, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies. \nBerkshire Historical Society at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead\n780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\n413.442.1793\nwww.mobydick.org
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/rewritten-returns-to-arrowhead-2/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:ReWritten Returns to Arrowhead
DESCRIPTION:Friday through Sunday\, July 22\, 23\, 24 and July 29\, 30\, 31\n7:30 pm \nReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives\, work\, and remaining letters\, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that helped shape American literature. Through dance\, live music\, visual art\, projection\, and text this performance questions what happens when we say no to dreams when we want to say yes. Co-created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie. \nTickets are $10 for BCHS members\, $15 for non-members. Use your EBT card and get 50% off. Tickets for children 12 and under are free. Click here to purchase tickets. This event will sell out in advance! \nThis event is sponsored in part by Lee Bank Foundation and is funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts\, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies. \nBerkshire Historical Society at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead\n780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\n413.442.1793\nwww.mobydick.org
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/rewritten-returns-to-arrowhead/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance,Theatre
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210905T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture and Film Screening: Professor Michael Hoberman and the film “Call Us Ishmael\,” directed by Dr. David Shaerf
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 5\, 3 to 6 pm \nMichael Hoberman\, an American literature professor at Fitchburg State University\, will make his case that Melville is an ideal writer for people who describe themselves as skeptical romantics. His talk highlights his own path to Melville’s writing\, and it will also offer a brief discussion of how he teaches two lesser-known texts (“Benito Cereno” and “The Encantadas”). Call Us Ishmael chronicles filmmaker David Shaerf’s journey into the world of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Throughout his quest he encounters artists\, musicians\, professors\, and performers\, all of whom are singularly seeking the white whale. Call Us Ishmael gives viewers an insight into a community devoted to this timeless text. \n$15 BCHS members\, $20 not-yet-members
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/lecture-and-film-screening-professor-michael-hoberman-and-the-film-call-us-ishmael-directed-by-dr-david-shaerf/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational
ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210815T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210815T210000
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SUMMARY:Performance: ReWritten
DESCRIPTION:ReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives\, work\, and remaining letters\, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that helped shape American literature. Through dance\, live music\, visual art\, projection\, and text this performance questions what happens when we say no to dreams when we want to say yes. Co-created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie. \nAugust 13\, 14\, and 15 at 7 pm \n$10 for BCHS members; $15 for not-yet-members \nUse your EBT card and get 50% off \nKids 12 and under free \nTo purchase tickets\, click here!
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/performance-rewritten-3/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Educational,Music,Theatre
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210814T190000
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SUMMARY:Performance: ReWritten
DESCRIPTION:ReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives\, work\, and remaining letters\, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that helped shape American literature. Through dance\, live music\, visual art\, projection\, and text this performance questions what happens when we say no to dreams when we want to say yes. Co-created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie. \nAugust 13\, 14\, and 15 at 7 pm \n$10 for BCHS members; $15 for not-yet-members \nUse your EBT card and get 50% off \nKids 12 and under free \nTo purchase tickets\, click here!
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/performance-rewritten-2/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Educational,Music,Theatre
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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SUMMARY:Performance: ReWritten
DESCRIPTION:ReWritten is an immersive performance that explores the often-silenced intimate relationship between authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Moving between their lives\, work\, and remaining letters\, ReWritten reimagines an intergenerational queer love story that helped shape American literature. Through dance\, live music\, visual art\, projection\, and text this performance questions what happens when we say no to dreams when we want to say yes. Co-created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie. \nAugust 13\, 14\, and 15 at 7 pm \n$10 for BCHS members; $15 for not-yet-members \nUse your EBT card and get 50% off \nKids 12 and under free \nTo purchase tickets\, click here!
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/performance-rewritten/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Educational,Music,Theatre
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210729T100000
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SUMMARY:Moby-Dick Fifth Annual Read-A-Thon
DESCRIPTION:Join the Berkshire County Historical Society at Arrowhead for the fifth annual Moby-Dick Read-A-Thon! \n“Call me Ishmael” and sign up to read part of Melville’s masterpiece on the site where it was written. Come on your own or bring a group to read with us until we finish the book. 10am-5pm on Thursday 7/29\, Friday 7/30\, Saturday 7/31\, and Monday 8/2\, and from 1pm-5pm on Sunday 8/1. \nWe are thrilled to announce that Shakespearean actor and Moby-Dick audiobook narrator Johnny Epstein will be opening the Read-A-Thon! \nReading will be a mix of live readers and remote participants on Zoom. Please sign up through this link and claim your spot today! While you’re welcome to sign up for as many ten minute slots as you would like\, we encourage you not to read for more than one consecutive slot. \nWhen you sign up\, please specify whether you will be at Arrowhead in person or through Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to you closer to the event. \nThis year\, we are suggesting a $5 donation so we can continue to offer this event. Donations can be made by clicking here.
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/moby-dick-fifth-annual-read-a-thon/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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SUMMARY:“Art@Arrowhead: A Whale of a Show!” Guild of Berkshire Artists Art Show
DESCRIPTION:The Guild of Berkshire Artists is thrilled to announce that it is mounting its first in-person show in two years at Arrowhead\, the bucolic home of Herman Melville in Pittsfield.  The show will take place outdoors under a large white tent – think white whale! – on Saturday and Sunday\, July 24 and 25\, from 10 am to 5 pm each day.  The location is Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA. The show is free and open to the public. \n\nIn making this announcement\, the Guild’s President Margie Skaggs said: “Arrowhead represents the intersection of the arts\, culture and landscape of the Berkshires. Our Guild’s visual artists have often gained inspiration from these surroundings\, as did writers such as Herman Melville\, who spun his tale of the great white whale while gazing from his studio at the snow-covered eminence of Greylock Mountain.” \n\nApproximately 40 artists from among the Guild’s more than 170 members will be exhibiting works in oil\, watercolor\, acrylics\, sculpture\, ceramics\, stained glass\, mixed media and wood working.
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/artarrowhead-a-whale-of-a-show-guild-of-berkshire-artists-art-show-2/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210724T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210724T170000
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SUMMARY:“Art@Arrowhead: A Whale of a Show!” Guild of Berkshire Artists Art Show
DESCRIPTION:The Guild of Berkshire Artists is thrilled to announce that it is mounting its first in-person show in two years at Arrowhead\, the bucolic home of Herman Melville in Pittsfield.  The show will take place outdoors under a large white tent – think white whale! – on Saturday and Sunday\, July 24 and 25\, from 10 am to 5 pm each day.  The location is Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA. The show is free and open to the public. \n\nIn making this announcement\, the Guild’s President Margie Skaggs said: “Arrowhead represents the intersection of the arts\, culture and landscape of the Berkshires. Our Guild’s visual artists have often gained inspiration from these surroundings\, as did writers such as Herman Melville\, who spun his tale of the great white whale while gazing from his studio at the snow-covered eminence of Greylock Mountain.” \n\nApproximately 40 artists from among the Guild’s more than 170 members will be exhibiting works in oil\, watercolor\, acrylics\, sculpture\, ceramics\, stained glass\, mixed media and wood working.
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/artarrowhead-a-whale-of-a-show-guild-of-berkshire-artists-art-show/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190803T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190803T170000
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SUMMARY:Free Community Event at Arrowhead!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 3\, 10 am to 5 pm\n\n\n \n\n\nCelebrate Herman Melville’s 200th birthday with a FREE event at Arrowhead!\n\n\n \n\n\nMeet Delilah – a giant\, inflatable North Atlantic Right Whale – that you can walk through! Learn about a whale’s anatomy and what we can do to save these amazing animals.\n\n\n \n\n\nAlso for kids of all ages – we will have an inflatable bounce house. Other workshops and events to be added!\n\n\n \n\n\nThanks to Whale and Dolphin Conservation of Plymouth\, MA and to generous support from Cultural Pittsfield. Special thanks to Carr Hardware for supplying one of their wonderful bounce houses for the weekend.
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/free-community-event-at-arrowhead/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,Family Fun,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190731T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190731T203000
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SUMMARY:‘The Act Of Reading’ Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, July 31st\, at 7pm\, come celebrate the eve of Herman Melville’s 200th birthday with his great-great-grandson Peter Whittemore and the filmmakers behind The Act of Reading! We will ‘sneak peek’ the 87-minute long film in the Arrowhead barn in anticipation of its fall premiere and in honor of the author’s bicentennial. \nThe film takes the form of a 15 year-late book report/documentary on Moby-Dick\, following the filmmaker as he attempts to make amends with the high school English teacher whose class he failed. We are then brought on an often surprising journey into the world of Herman Melville\, literacy\, high school English teachers\, and magical reenactments. Herman Melville’s Arrowhead and the Berkshires are heavily featured in the film — come and experience a fresh take on the area and its literary history! \nFilmmakers present will include director Mark Blumberg\, editor Nathan Berkowitz\, and executive producer Alissa Blumberg. \n  \nTickets are $20. Call 413-442-1793 or email melville@berkshirehistory.org to reserve a spot.
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/the-act-of-reading-film-screening/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational
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ORGANIZER;CN="Herman Melville%E2%80%99s Arrowhead":MAILTO:melville@berkshirehistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190730T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190730T203000
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CREATED:20190609T072728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190609T073144Z
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SUMMARY:The Mastheads Summer Finale @ Melville's Arrowhead
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the summer with us! Our five writers-in-residence will give a reading of the work they produced in The Mastheads studios this July.
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/the-mastheads-summer-finale-melvilles-arrowhead/
LOCATION:Melville’s Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,Family Fun,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Mastheads":MAILTO:info@themastheads.org
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