The Davis Center at Williams College will screen Food Chains in Paresky Auditorium. The film follows a group of Florida farmworkers as they work to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the U.S.
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The Berkshire Symphony will perform Samuel Barber — Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with soloist Erin Nafziger, soprano; Aaron Copland — Old American Songs with Philip Lima, baritone; and Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 (Romantic) to John Harbison Remembering Gatsby: Foxtrot for Orchestra.
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Williams College invites the community to travel the skies at the Milham Planetarium, inside the Old Hopkins Observatory. The high-precision Zeiss Skymaster ZKP3/B opto-mechanical planetarium projector will show phenomena from motions of the planets to phases of the moon and more.
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Duck egg tacos with hot sausage and greens? Baklava and fresh moussaka? The Williamstown Farmers Market is growing. Farmers, food producers, artists and artisans will gather in the expanded parking lot at the end of Spring Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday into October.
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Come support the Williams Equestrian Team at Bonnie Lea Farm (511 North St. in Williamstown) as they compete against other schools (Bennington, Smith, Amherst, UMass, Mount Holyoke) in their only home competition of the year — and get to know the horses as well.
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A creative writing workshop led by poet Lynn Bowmaster — write a love letter to nature and explore contemporary sculpture along the paths and in the gardens at Chesterwood. Rick and Laura Brown's One impulse from a vernal wood is here this summer and fall, new work they made as artists-in-residence.
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A creative writing workshop led by poet Lynn Bowmaster — write a love letter to nature and explore contemporary sculpture along the paths and in the gardens at Chesterwood. Rick and Laura Brown's One impulse from a vernal wood is here this summer and fall, new work they made as artists-in-residence.
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The National Arab Orchestra will give a free concert at Williams College, directed by conductor and founder Michael Ibrahim. A takht is a small chamber music group of the Middle East that includes ‘oud (Arab lute), qanun (Arab zither), violin, nay (Arab reed flute) and riqq (Arab tambourine).
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H.G. Adler (1910 – 1988) survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps, and he chronicled his experience in two dozen books of history, modernist fiction, poems and essays. Biographer and translator Peter Filkins will give a free talk at Williams College on Adler’s life and work.
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Midweek Music is an ongoing lunchtime music series. The audience sits on the Chapin Hall stage to enjoy the acoustics and atmosphere of a grand hall combined with the intimacy of a chamber concert. Everyone is encouraged to bring lunch and enjoy the music performed by students and faculty.
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