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Kidspace at Clark Art Institute
Parenting workshops: Parenting
workshops in Great Barrington are
free and open to the public:
On Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.,
“Children's Rivalry: Learn how to
help children with rivalry, resentfulness, competition,
envy and conflict,”
presented by Scott
Noyes of Empowering Programs, in the
Community Room in
the administrative
building on the CHP
campus, 444 Stockbridge Road.
Registration appreciated and
child care is available, but must be
confirmed by calling (413) 4645095. Information: www.southberkshirekids.org.
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On Tuesday, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.,
and repeating on Wednesday, from
8:30 to 10 a.m., “Listening and
Speaking to Strengthen Relationship(s), Connectedness and Well
Being,” in the Monument Valley
Regional Middle School Student
Center, 313 Monument Valley Road.
Child care will be available on
site and Spanish language interpreters will be at the forum (se
habla español).
RSVP at [email protected]
and indicate: Which session desired,
number of adults attending,
school(s) child(ren) attend(s), number of children who need child care.
Lions and tigers ...
Think …
Learning about ‘gap year’: Today
at 7 p.m., the Mount Greylock PTO
will sponsor a free presentation,
“The Gap Year Option: What Is It,
and Is It For You?” led by Jane
Sarouhan, vice president of The
Center for Interim Programs in
Northampton. This event will be
held in the Meeting Room at Mt.
Greylock School, 1781 Cold Spring
Road (Route 7), Williamstown.
Sarouhan will be joined by four
students who took gap years before
coming to Williams College.
Information: Cecilia Hirsch,
[email protected] or
(413) 458-0934.
See …
‘A Festival of Comics’: On
Saturday, from 1 to 5 p.m., the
Norman Rockwell Museum will
present “Mini-Comic Con: A
Festival of Comics.” The museum is
on Route 183, Stockbridge.
Artist talks and demonstrations,
workshops, signings, comic book appraisals, and tours of
“Heroes & Villains:
The Comic Book
Art of Alex Ross.”
The event is included with regular museum admission (free for
members). Dress
as a superhero
and receive a $2
admission discount.
General public admission is $16
for adults, $14.50 for seniors, $10
for college students, $5 for kids and
teens ages 6 to 18, and free for
active military personnel and kids
age 5 and under. Information:
(413) 931-2221 or www.nrm.org.
Jenn Smith/Berkshire Eagle Staff
Chief exhibit preparator Paul Dion adjusts the placement of this male lion taxidermy in the new Kidspace exhibit, ‘Lions and Tigers and
Museums, Oh My!’ opening Saturday at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown.
Free family fun day to launch new taxidermy exhibit
By Jenn Smith
Berkshire Eagle Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN
f you’re headed to the new Kidspace exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark
Art Institute opening this Saturday,
beware — there’s a lion in there.
The taxidermy male African lion, on loan
from Frank J. Zitz & Co. Craftsmen and Designers, is one of many eye-catching components
for this first-of-its-kind exhibit at the Clark,
“Lions and Tigers and Museums, Oh My!”
The exhibit, along with the Clark’s first
“uCurate” exhibit, created by a fifth-grader,
will be open to the public from noon to 5 p.m.
on Saturday, as part of the museum’s free
family fun day.
Ronna Tulgan Ostheimer, head of education
at the Clark, curated the new Stone Hill
Center exhibit as part of the museum’s collaboration with Mass MoCA and Williams
College Museum of Art under the recently
expanded Kidspace umbrella.
This year, each museum will sponsor its own
exhibition under the Kidspace theme of
“Curiosity,” with activities and arrangements
designed for students in preschool through
Grade 8.
“It’s our opportunity to share our collection
with younger audiences within the context of
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What: Curiosity Family Day, including the opening
of the family-friendly “Lions and Tigers and
Museums, Oh My!” Kidspace and “Giselle’s Remix” uCurate exhibitions at the Clark Art Institute.
This event is free and open to the public.
When: Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Kidspace activities will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Elevenyear-old Giselle Ciulla will join Clark curators
Richard Rand and Kathy Morris for a talk about
her uCurate exhibit at 4 p.m. in the museum’s
auditorium.
Where: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown.
For more information: (413) 458-2303 or visit
clarkart.edu.
our own mission,” Tulgan Ostheimer said.
For the new Kidspace exhibit at the Clark,
Tulgan Ostheimer and a team of curators and
preparators have transformed a portion of the
museum’s Stone Hill Center into a center of
exploration of perspectives typically seen in
art, living history, science and natural history
museums.
The exhibit starts with a centerpiece: Pierre
Paul Ruben’s mural oil painting, “La Chasse
au tigre” (1616). It’s what Tulgan Ostheimer
Play …
Fall Festival of Shakespeare: The
24th annual high school Fall Festival
of Shakespeare will run this Thursday through Sunday at Shakespeare
& Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse, 70 Kemble St., Lenox.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $6
for students, per performance. A
Festival Pass, which includes all 10
plays, is $60 for adults and $30 for
students. Tickets and the schedule
of plays to be presenrted: (413)
637-3353 or www.Shakespeare.org.
describes as a “fantasy” work, featuring an
intense scene of struggle between men of different cultures and big cats — a lion, tigers
and a leopard.
“We think this painting encourages all kinds
of discussions, including the kind between parents and kids about intense subjects,” Tulgan
Ostheimer said.
The work actually hangs at the Musée des
Beaux Arts in Rennes, France. Visitors to
Kidspace at the Clark will be able to see the
French installation and its visitors through a
video screen.
The exhibit also explores other themes of
how people interact with animals. There is a
hall displaying items and readings on falconry,
a reading nook with bean bag chairs and animal books, even a local history exhibit on
mountain lion sightings in and around
Berkshire County.
In conjunction with the “Lions and Tigers
and Museums, Oh My!” exhibit opening on
Saturday, the museum will also host a special
event in its main building to honor the unveiling of “Giselle’s Remix,” the first exhibition
created through the Clark’s interactive
uCurate program. The installation is the creation of 11-year-old guest curator Giselle
Ciulla, a suburban New York resident, who
has grandparents living in the Berkshires.
The Forum
Nessacus students, staff ‘Elect to Move’
DALTON — Last Tuesday, while many folks hit
the polls, students and staff at Nessacus Regional
Middle School in Dalton hit the track at nearby
Wahconah Regional High School as part of its
“Elect to Move” Election Day walkathon.
A total of 458 students, plus teachers and staff,
participated. Nearly 20 community businesses and
families sponsored the wellness-oriented event,
organized by Nessacus nurse Mary Jo EricksonConnor and the Nessacus PTO.
Although the weather was cool, the kids kept
warm by walking or running to a playlist of upbeat
tunes ranging from Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” to
PSY’s “Gangnam Style.”
— Jenn Smith
Grow …
Edible education: On Wednesday,
the Edible Education lecture series
continues with “The Politics and
Economics of Eating Meat” presented at 7 p.m. at the Lecture
Center at Bard College at Simon’s
Rock, 84 Alford Road, Great
Barrington. This series is free and
open to the public.
Information: Matt Novik, (413)
528-9697, Ext. 39 or [email protected].
Left, students from Nessacus Regional Middle
School in Dalton lap the Wahconah Regional
High School track during the Nov. 6 ‘Elect to
Move’ walkathon.
Jenn Smitt / Berkshire Eagle Staff
GOODWORKS INSURANCE PRESENTS
MATT CUSSON
Friday, December 28
BCC’s Boland Theatre
WITH
JAVIER COLON
NBC’s THE VOICE Season One Winner
Tickets: $30-$55 at www.berkshirecc.edu/holiday or 413-236-2185