WORDS, WORDS

Long Trail School

Dorset 802-867-5717

Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. LTS’s Community Classroom Series: "Anharad Edson and France"

Bennington College

North Bennington

Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. Poetry at Bennington

Tishman Lecture Hall FILM

Cinema7

Bennington 802-442-8179

Call for regular film schedule.

Images Cinema

Williamstown, Mass. 413-458-5612.

Call for regular film schedule.

DANCE

EMPAC

Troy N.Y.

Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. Dimitris Papaionnou’s Primal Matter dance-theater performance.

The Palace Theater

Albany, N.Y.

Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Moscow Ballet’s "Great Russian Nutcracker"

Williams College

Williamstown, Mass.

Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. -- Dance All Company (MST)

MUSIC

Bennington College

North Bennington

Dec. 2 at 4 p.m. Sage City Symphony with Kaori Washiyama.

Ski for Heat

Manchester

Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. Benefit concert at the Eagles Hall.

The Egg

Albany, N.Y. 518-473-1845

Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. A John Waters Christmas

Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Dark Star Orchestra

EMPAC

Troy, N.Y. 518-276-3921.

Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. Jennifer Koh’s "Bach and Beyond"

Kevin’s Sports Pub

Bennington

Nov. 23 -- Paul the Harmonic Duo

Nov. 24 -- White Water Duet

Nov. 30 -- Ransom Notes

Grafton Inn

Grafton

Nov. 24 at 8 p.m. Spike Dog Tooth acoustic music.

Dec. 1at 8 p.m. Dusty Pilgrims

Palace Theatre

Albany, N.Y. 518-465-3335.

Nov. 24 at 8 p.m. -- Thanksgiving Soul Jam

Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. -- Albany Symphony Orchestra: "Beethoven’s Fifth"

Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. -- Tedeschi Trucks Band

Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. -- Albany Symphony Orchestra: "Magic of Christmas"

Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. -- Albany Symphony Orchestra: "Magic of Christmas"

South Street Café

Bennington 802-447-2433.

Nov. 25 at 11 a.m. Sunday morning Jazz Revival with Darryl Kniffen and Dave Banulis.

Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse Café

Bennington 802-440-9816.

Dec. 14 at 8 p.m. -- Woods Tea Company, returning for annual local crowd favorite.

United Church of Dorset and East Rupert

Dorset

Nov. 24 at 4 p.m. Manchester Music Festival.

Williams College

Williamstown, Mass. 413-597-3146.

Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Kusika and the Zambezi Marimba Band.

Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Williams Percussion Ensemble.

Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. Williams College Wind Ensemble

Dec. 8 at 4 p.m. Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. Williams Student Symphony

THEATER

Dorset Playhouse

Dorset

Nov. 30 and Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 1, 2, 8, and 9 at 2 p.m. The Dorset Players’ Holiday Hallapalooza Variety Show.

Hoosick Falls Central School

Hoosick Falls, N.Y.

Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. HFCS Drama Club presents "And Then There Were None."

Opera House of Enosburg

Enosburg

Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. "Wrestling is Awesome" professional wrestling performance.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

North Adams, Mass.

Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. "Broadway’s Next H!t Musical" at the MCLA Church Street Center.

Long Trail School

Dorset 802-867-5717

Nov. 30, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. "Once Upona Mattress"

MASS MoCA

North Adams, Mass.

Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Sundance Insitute Theatre Lab presents Tim Crouch’s "My Arm."

Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Half Straddle and PS 122 present "Seagull (Thinking of You)."

Montpelier City Hall Arts Center

Montpelier

Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Lost Nation Theater Presents "David Budbill’s Two for Christmas."

Williams College

Williamstown, Mass.

Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. -- Acting I presentation

MUSEUMS/GALLERIES

Opening, Closing, Events

Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts

Chester

Nov. 30 at 5:30 p.m. Opening for "Expressions." Through Jan. 27.

Bennington Museum

Bennington

Nov. 24 at 10 a.m. Festival of Trees: Family Day and Children’s Shopping Day.

Dec. 1 at 3 p.m. Meet Gregory Scheckler artist of "Air Quintets and Other Bird Paintings." The exhibit goes on display on Nov. 24.

Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. Festival of Trees: Around the World Gala

Dec. 21 at 8 p.m. Festival of Trees: "Afterglow," a holiday dance party.

Christopher Piece Studio

Shushan, N.Y.

Nov. 24 at 5 p.m. Opening for Pierce’s new exhibit.

Nov. 25 and 26 at 11 a.m. Exhibition open to the public.

Williams College Museum of Art

Williamstown, Mass. 413-597-2429.

Closing Nov. 25 -- "Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series," described by curator as "Onto these timeless, genderless figures we can project a multitude of scenarios encompassing anything from schoolyard bullying to racial crimes." Free.

Continuing

Williams College

Williamstown, Mass.

Through April 21, 2013 Kidspace at WCMA.

Slate Valley Museum

Granville, N.Y. 518-642-1417

"Slate Abstracts 2009-2012," photographs by Alyssha Eve Csük, from her photographic sojourns to the quarries of New York and Vermont’s Slate Valley, as part of First Friday in Granville. Free.

Bennington Free Library

Bennington 802-442-9051

Through Jan. 31, 2013 -- Wall Works’s presents "Landschap," which features recent works by Aimee LaPorte. Free.

Bennington College

North Bennington 802-379-5116.

"Middle Falls"

Vermont Veterans’ Home

Bennington

Vermont Arts Exchange presents "MIND MAPS"

Berkshire Community College

Pittsfield, Mass.

"Dwelling in Clothes," by Kate S. Hamilton goes on display through Dec. 14.

Equinox Village

Manchester Center

Mixed media collage artist Linda Durkee. Through Jan. 14.

Berkshire Museum

Pittsfield, Mass. 413-443-7171.

Through Jan. 6, 2012 -- "Rethink! American Indian Art," contemporary and historic art objects.

MASS MoCA

North Adams, Mass. 413-663-8548.

Through 2012 -- "Sanford Biggers: The Cartographer’s Conundrum," in Building 5; "New Work" by Anna Betbeze.

Thorugh Jan. 2, 2013 -- With Williams College/Clark Art, "Making Room: The Space Between Two and Three Demensions."

Through Feb. 4, 2013 -- Group show: "Invisible Cities," titled after Italo Calvino’s book which re-imagines Marco Polo’s poetic descriptions of China’s cities.

Through Feb. 4, 2013 -- Anna Betbeze: New Work.

Permanent -- Sol LeWitt: "A Wall Drawing Retrospective."

One Corner Gallery

Arlington

Photographs Around Southern Vermont

North Adams Regional Hospital

North Adams, Mass.

Community Art Program

South Street Café

Bennington 802-447-2433.

Through Nov. 30 works by Rebekah Garder and Nikolas Reed.

Williams College Museum of Art

Williamstown, Mass. 413-597-2429.

Through Dec. 9 -- "Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid." Multi-media show on artist style and science of Sol LeWitt. Free.

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