WORDS, WORDS

Bennington Free Library

Bennington

Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. Tom Weakly

Berkshire Museum

Pittsfield, Mass.

Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. The Eskimo and the Oil Man: The Battle at the Top of the World for America's Future"

Congregation Beth El

Bennington

Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. Author Douglas J. Gladstone.

The Egg

Albany, N.Y. 518-473-1845

Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. John Oliver

Jan. 18 8 p.m. Bruce Bruce

Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. Lisa Lampanelli

April 11 at 8 p.m. David Sedaris

April 13 at 8 p.m. Amy Schumer

John G. McCullough Library

North Bennington

Jan. 13 at 3 p.m. Author Tom Fels.

Southern Vermont College

Bennington

Feb. 12 at 2:20 p.m. Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea

FILM

Cinema7

Bennington. 802-442-8179

Call for regular film schedule.

Images Cinema

Williamstown, Mass. 413-458-5612.

Call for regular film schedule.

DANCE

Bennington College

North Bennington

The Egg

Albany, N.Y. 518-473-1848

The Clark Art

Williamstown, Mass. 413-458-0524.

Jan. 27, 2013, at 1 p.m. -- Live in HD Video: Ludwig Minkus's "Don Quixote," the Dutch National Ballet performs as the story of Miguel Cervantes's haphazard hero is brought to life. Kevin Rhodes conducts.

Williams College

Williamstown, Mass.

Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. -- Dance Winter Study Showing (Dance Studio)

Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. -- Club Zambezi Dance Party (CST)

Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. -- Club Zambezi Dance Party (CST)

March 8 at 8 p.m. -- The Rite of Spring (MST)

March 8 at 3 p.m. -- The Rite of Spring (MST)

March 9 at 8 p.m. -- The Rite of Spring (MST)

March 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. -- INISH (CST)

April 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. -- Kusika and the Zambezi Marimba Band (MST)

April 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. -- Sankofa

May 3 and 4 at 8 p.m. -- CoDa

MUSIC

Bennington County Choral Society

Bennington

March 24 at 3 p.m. "Faure's ‘Requiem'" at the First Baptist Church

June 16 at 3 p.m. "A Patchwork of American Folk" at the Second Congregational Church.

The Egg

Albany, N.Y. 518-473-1845

Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. The Gibson Brothers, Noam Pikelny & Friends

Jan. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Solas, The Duhks

Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. Jesse Cook

Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Joe Lovano "Us Five"

Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. Loudon Wainwright III

Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. The Manhattan Transfer

Jan. 27 at 3 p.m. Alfie Boe

Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. Greg Brown

Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Josh Ritter

Feb. 14 at 7:29 p.m. Albert Lee, Kate Taylor

Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. The Wiyos, Mike & Ruthy

Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Shawn Mullins

March 2 at 8 p.m. Enter the Haggis

March 9 at 7:30 p.m. Altan

March 10 at 7:30 p.m. SFJAZZ Collective

March 17 at 7:30 p.m. Maura O'Connell

March 24 at 7:30 p.m. Kurt Elling

April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Al Dimeola & Gonzalo Rubalcaba

April 17 at 7:30 p.m. Renaissance

April 26 at 8 p.m. Leo Kottke

April 27 at 7:30 p.m. Time for Three

Kevin's Sports Pub

Bennington

Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. Buzz Saw Boys

Jan 12. at 7 p.m. Ray with Karaoke

Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. Bud and James

Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. DJ Jimmy

Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. Mayhem

Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. OCD

Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture

Montpelier

Jan. 18-20 Winter Folk Music Festival

Palace Theatre

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

May 11, 2013 at 8 p.m. -- An Evening with Joe Bonamassa, award-winning blues rock guitar and singer-songwriter.

South Street Café

Bennington. 802-447-2433.

Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse Café

Bennington. 802-440-9816.

Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. -- Claudia Schmidt the remarkable singer of original and folk stories and songs, returns.

Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. -- The Modern Grass Quintet, a Vermont group, which includes Steve Light, an award-winning banjoist and a staple of the Northeast acoustic scene.

March 15 at 8 p.m. -- Dafé Brudäjo, the Williamstown, Mass., plays an eclectic mix of contemporary folk, jazz and original compositions.

April 19 at 8 p.m. -- Singer/songwriter Chuck Brodsky, whose songwriting pokes fun at political corruption, road rage, mischief he made as a kid.

Williams College

Williamstown, Mass.

Jan. 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. "Motzart's Figaro, Unplugged." at the ‘62 Center.

THEATER

Hubbard Hall Opera Theater

Cambridge, N.Y. 518-488-7733.

Feb. 7-15, 2013 -- Verdi's "La Traviata," fully costumed and staged and sung in Italian, at Proctors Theater.

The Egg

Albany, N.Y. 518-473-1845

May 2 at 8 p.m. "SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody"

May 3 at 8 p.m. "SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody"

Williams College

Williamstown, Mass.

Jan. 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. -- Motzart's "Figaro," unplugged.

March 7-9 at 7:30 p.m. -- The Crucible

May 2-4 at 7:30 p.m. -- Broken Glass

MUSEUMS/GALLERIES

Opening, Closing, Events

Berkshire Museum

Pittsfield, Mass.

Opening Feb. 2 "Nature Magnified: Photographs by Andreas Feininger" on display through June 2.

Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. "Nature Magnified: Photographs by Andreas Feininger" opening reception.

Equinox Village

Manchester Center

Closing Jan. 14 Mixed media collage artist Linda Durkee.

Equinox Village

Manchester Center

Jan. 17 at 5:30 p.m. Katherine Buchmayr show opening.

Continuing

Williams College

Williamstown, Mass.

Through April 21, 2013 Kidspace at WCMA.

Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts

Chester

"Expressions." Through Jan. 27.

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.

Bennington. 802-379-5116.

"Middle Falls"

Vermont Veterans' Home

Bennington

Vermont Arts Exchange presents "MIND MAPS"

MASS MoCA

North Adams, Mass. 413-663-8548.

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

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