Art 10 X 10 Call for Art Pittsfield Mass

Kind Of Meta: Pittsfield'southward 10x10 Upstreet Festival Turns 10

When you're a festival named "10x10," with events produced in increments of 10 (minutes, dramatic acts, pieces of music, etc.) during 10 days in February, your 10th anniversary looms large. Wouldn't you know, this is the tenth yr of Pittsfield's Upstreet Arts Festival, created a decade agone to go people out of their houses and gin upwards some activity for the creative organizations and merchants in town in the heart of February. Getting out this year? Not so much.

But, despite some initial dubiety, the 2021 festival will proceed, Feb.11-21, because how tin can you ignore a tenth anniversary?

"Usually, we accept more than than x,000 people participating among all our events, which have numbered as many as 75," said Jen Glockner, director of the City of Pittsfield's Office of Cultural Evolution, which organizes the festival. "Nosotros decided to practise 10 signature events to celebrate our ceremony. Art makes people happy, and we're glad to contribute to making people happy."

Many of the events (which number more than 10, to be honest) have to be virtual, of course. Simply 10x10 wouldn't be itself without The Ten Spot Prove at the Lichtenstein Heart for the Arts. All of the past Ten Spot artists accept been invited to be featured in it this year, and many of the all-time of contemporary artists in Berkshire County stepped frontward to participate. A video recording is being produced for viewing online.

The Real Fine art Party (RAP) sponsored past the Berkshire Fine art Association, is ever an ebullient affair at the Berkshire Museum. Artists from the Berkshires and beyond contribute 10x10-inch original artwork that'southward snapped upwardly by ticket-goers, who for their $25 are allowed to choose a piece when their raffle number is chosen. The RAP has been migrated into a sneak peek virtual walking tour and then an online raffle. As always, proceeds will benefit Berkshire Art Association fellowships for higher art majors every bit well as art field trips for loftier school fine art classes.

Some other beloved activity, WordxWord, has named this yr's event "Pandemic Story Slam." A livestreamed event via Zoom, information technology'll be free to attend or perform, but registration is required.

Concluding year, organizers added outdoor activities to the lineup. Mass Audubon is sponsoring an Owl and Wild fauna Prowl at Canoe Meadows, a gentle walk with listening and watching for owls and other nocturnal wildlife. The Berkshire Natural Resources Quango will offer a self-guided story walk at Wild Acres Conservation Area. Weather condition depending, in that location will be water ice sculpture etching at the Berkshire Museum.

Back inside, and virtual, Jacob'southward Pillow is sponsoring a community dance political party; Gypsy Lane Cabaret & Co. has prepared a virtual performance of its sexy, cheeky, musical comedy; the Berkshire Theatre Group is participating with "BTG Plays," student written plays adult during this past summer's BTG'southward Learn From Home online playwriting program; and Trip the light fantastic Ten, a group of local dance companies, contributes an encore performance of a past Dance Ten performance, thank you to past vidoes produced by Pittsfield Community Television, which has also recorded and will release an encore operation of a past "10 Minutes of Fireworks."  Berkshires Jazz volition nowadays a livestreamed concert featuring pianist Matt DeChamplain playing the jazz stylings of 10 different pianists.

Glockner said they're doing whatever they tin can to keep the festival going in a prophylactic way. "We're on a downward trend [in terms of Covid], and we don't desire to mess with that."

But, she added, "Nosotros desire to encourage people to grab takeout from one of our local restaurants." Why not make that one of your activities?

For the total 10x10 schedule, check Discover Pittsfield'due south website.

Back up Rural Intelligence

Please Support Rural Intelligence

Nosotros want to go on delivering the entertaining, informative and upbeat stories in the inimitable Rural Intelligence style, despite a pandemic. But we demand your back up to keep us going. Delight consider making a donation; even a pocket-sized corporeality helps secure our futurity. Back up usa now.

(If you prefer, mail a check to: 45 Pino Grove Ave., Suite 303, Kingston, NY 12401.)

Back up Now

hildebrandount1995.blogspot.com

Source: https://ruralintelligence.com/community/kind-of-meta-pittsfields-10x10-upstreet-festival-turns-10

Share this post