Discover the rich history of the Caribbean Carnival through dance and visual art. Following a Carnival dance showcase, meet the dancers and learn a few dance moves, then create your own Carnival headpiece to complete your experience.

The U.S. Army’s oldest musical ensemble presents a performance in celebration of America’s vast & diverse musical heritage. Comprised of graduates from America’s finest music schools, this versatile ensemble entertains and inspires audiences through innovative programming and world-class performances

In partnership with The Mount, Readings at Rockwell, features local actors reading stories by writers highlighted in Anita Kunz’s exhibition Original Sisters. This session will be introduced by Jamie Franklin, Director of Collections at Bennington Museum, and features local actress Tod Randolph reading Shirley Jackson's "The Tooth."

The award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power. Taking shape as an interview, this wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world. There will be a post-show talk on April 6th with the writers and creators of the show.

What is a collection? How do you start? Is there such a thing as a “good” collection? As an artist, how do I connect with collectors? Steven Holmes will lead this conversation about collecting art that looks at collecting from both sides of the relationship: collectors and artists.

NEA Jazz Master, composer, and multi Grammy award-winning musician Paquito D’Rivera brings to life the eclectic fusion of his extensive travels with unparalleled improvisations, multinational rhythms, and original orchestrations.

Berkshire Bach presents a concert performance of Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas with professional soloists, chorus, and orchestra, led by BBS choral director James Bagwell.

Join Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden as he retraces his evolution as a 67-year-old rock gardener and renowned plantsman. Learn about his favorite rock garden-sized plants, his failure-derived cultivation insights and his salute to those on whose shoulders he has been blessed to stand upon.

Back by popular demand, HYPROV delights audiences with its unique blend of hypnosis and improvisation. A guaranteed hilarious, imaginative and utterly unpredictable night of comedy.

TThe Orchestra Now (TON)’s tenth season at the Fisher Center concludes with a program of dazzling and colorful music by three European composers: Kaija Saariaho’s Laterna Magica, Carl Maria von Weber’s virtuosic Clarinet Concerto No. 2, and the luminous and beautifully crafted final symphony of French composer Albéric Magnard.

Join the Sherman Chamber Ensemble for this memorable afternoon with an all-Bach concert featuring music by Johann Sebastian Bach and his two sons, Johann Christian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The program spans the evolution of music from the Baroque period to the birth of the Classical era.

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Svitlana Tymkiv (City Museum of Lviv, Ukraine / Futures Fellow) examines how issues of national identity in Ukraine have become particularly relevant in the country since the outbreak of the full-scale war.

Relive the magic of timeless hits and classic rock anthems in an unforgettable night of Rock & Roll, featuring Silver Bullet Band classics like Night Moves, Old Time Rock & Roll, and Hollywood Nights along with deep cuts that will satisfy the most die hard Bob Seger fan.

The Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity.

LeAnn Rimes is an international multi-platinum selling acclaimed singer and ASCAP award-winning songwriter. She has sold more than 48 million units globally, won 2 Grammy® Awards; 12 Billboard Music Awards; and many other accolades.

In celebration of their newly installed solar panels, Berkshire Botanical Garden has partnered with Berkshire International Film Festival to bring the 2025 Solar Film Forum. Event includes screenings of short and feature-length films, a panel, and a tour of the new solar installation.

Berkshires-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Billy Keane has paved his way as one of the most exciting new acts in the indie-folk genre through extensive touring with his backing band The Waking Dream.

Passion meets power. Opera meets intimacy. Baroque music like you’ve never heard it. Experience the thrill of Handel’s Giuolio Cesare though the production by visionary opera director, R.B. Schlather and early music band Ruckus. Schlather draws from the incredible talent of the Hudson Valley
featuring a production team of regional craftspeople and a cast of rising stars and baroque specialists.

Festival events include the popular Jazz Crawl, the jazz prodigy concert, and headline concerts featuring local keyboardist Ben Kohn and his trio, The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, and vocalist Dawning Holmes with Grammy-winning pianist Jeff Holmes and special guest Avery Sharpe.

Old Crow Medicine Show is an American roots band known for their blend of traditional country, old-time string music, bluegrass, and folk. With music that not only honors the traditions of the past but also continues to inspire new generations of fans, the band has become a beloved fixture in the American music landscape.

Arts Connected is a celebration of the talent, passion, and deep connections that make our creative community thrive. Award-winning designer and arts advocate Diane von Furstenburg and granddaughter Antonia Steinberg are honorary co-chairs.

Yacht Rock at the Warner Theatre is setting sail again with live jams by Anchor Management, tasty themed cocktails, delicious food, and a dance floor big enough to boogie the night away!

The boundaries of gravity and creativity blur, offering an intimate window into the essence of creativity itself with Pilobolus’ re:CREATION Tour, bringing their celebrated collection of repertory to delighted audiences from coast to coast. There will also be an 8PM performance.

Madeleine Peyroux is an American jazz singer and songwriter who began her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris. For the ardently civic-minded Peyroux, Let’s Walk continues the scintillating conversation with her audience – and with the world at large. Bettye LaVette was hailed by The New York Times as “one of the great soul interpreters of her generation,” and is a singer in the tradition of great vocalists.

In James Turrell’s hands, light is more than simply a source of illumination: it is a discrete, physical object. His sculptures and architectural interventions elevate our experience and perception of light and space.

“Untitled” embodies the productive liminality Gonzalez-Torres embraced throughout his practice, refusing fixed meanings or categories and unfolding at the intersection of private and public, interior and exterior, and domestic and institutional.

For more than 30 years, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has continually investigated the possibilities inherent in film—as a material, a documentary tool, and a storytelling medium—resulting in work that is formally inventive and politically pointed.

Letters and photographs of World War II Army nurse Helen Wersebe.

re-reads the magical and fantastical figures found in folktales and lore, with a particular focus on those from South Asia, the Middle East, and other Muslim and immigrant traditions.

Amy Podmore is propelled by an interest in surrealist strategies of transformation and the line between stillness and motion in sculpture.

Like Magic brings together artists who employ technologies of magic to resist systems that attempt to surveil and control people’s lives and stories, often because of their race, ability, sexuality, gender identity, indigeneity, or immigration status.

For the inaugural exhibition of the new gallery space, the Morrison Gallery is introducing new artists and estates alongside the existing roster of artists. United not only through their epochs, these works are also brought together through scale, materiality, and consideration.

Portraits of Tenacity and Courage. A stunning series of portraits by internationally acclaimed illustrator Anita Kunz. These portraits honor contemporary and historical women—both noted and little-known—who have made important contributions to art, science, technology, history, politics, education, and more.

Each month, the Happy Hour Piano Series offers an eclectic mix of musical genres, showcasing the region’s wealth of talented pianists. Held on the fourth Fridays, from 5 to 7 pm, the piano series extends AMP’s exhibit hours.

In 2019, Iceland constructed the first memorial to mark the death of its Okjökull glacier. Since then, funerals have been held around the world to mark the melting of glacier bodies. Consisting of an experimental documentary and photography that mourn the imminent loss of the planet’s ancient icescapes, Ohan Breiding’s Belly of a Glacier connects this act of mourning to ongoing practices of preservation that strive to protect the ice — a material that contains both remnants of the past and the conditions of a future world.

"If These Walls Could Talk," is a group exhibition featuring painters of interiors and architecture. Exhibiting artists include Richard Britell, Kathryn Freeman, Brigid Kennedy, Glenn Palmer-Smith, and Judith Wyer. These artists similarly explore how built environments can be emblematic of inward human experience. Artists reception on February 22nd from 5PM - 7PM

Mariel Capanna (b. 1988, Philadelphia, where she lives and works) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshow, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. Opening lecture on 2/15 and special event on 5/17.

The Winter 2025 Exhibit features gallery artists in a rotating exhibition.

“I Am My Mother’s Savage Daughter”, by Patricia Miranda at the Torrington Savings Bank Gallery.
“The Tale of Lost Water”, by Susan Hoffman Fishman at the Torrington Downtown Partners Gallery.
“Figuring it Out”, featuring Shona Curtis, Sonja Czekalski, Gail Gelburd, Susan Keiser, Jean Scott at Five Points Gallery.
Opening reception on February 26th and Artist Talk on March 28th.

Enjoy works from the celebrated mid-twentieth century visual humorists who served on the faculty of the Famous Artists Cartoon Course--a popular correspondence course designed to teach artists to be funny. Original cartoons and instructional drawings from the cadre of noted artists will explore the wit and wisdom of the Famouse Artists Cartoon Course.

Celebrating 30 years of exhibition programming and art consulting. Director's Choice brings together some of the many artists who helped establish the gallery and with whom we have long-standing relationships. Gallery talk with artist Margaret Lanzetta April 12th at 4PM.

This exhibition presents seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European books, drawings, and prints of idealized landscapes. Exploring the romantic and historicizing lenses through which many of the leading artists of the Baroque and Rococo periods represented rural life, this exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the emergence of landscape as an independent genre. Opening lecture on March 16th.

This dog themed group show brings together a curated collection of art depicting the dog by some of the most exciting contemporary artists. 10% of gallery profits from this show’s sales will be donated to support the amazing work Beastly Rescue does every day.

Solo exhibition of mixed media paintings, oil paintings and sculpture. Opening reception with the artist on March 29th from 1PM - 5PM.

Few artists have shaped the scope of contemporary art and influenced younger generations more than Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968). Wolfgang Tillmans’ artwork has been featured in major museum exhibitions throughout the world, including MoMA, the Tate Modern and the Beyeler Foundation.
Opening reception March 29th from 5PM - 7PM.

The works presented in Polly Shlinder's solo exhibition are her reflections of quiet moments, sometimes seemingly mundane memories, but when they are cobbled together, they reflect life and the person, or people, living it.Opening reception on March 29th from 4:30PM - 6:30PM. Artist talk on May 3rd.

Welcome the arrival of Spring with Hancock Shaker Village's Baby Animals Festival! Meet the newest farm babies – lambs, piglets, calves, chicks and kids (goats, that is)–and enjoy events and activities throughout the Village, from daily talks about the farm and the Shakers to craft demonstrations to walks along the Farm & Forest Trail.