Council on Aging

Post date: Apr 24, 2017 5:20:10 PM

The Williamstown Theater Festival held a very successful open call session at the Harper Center on Saturday May 13. The day was for for new actors to read for the new Berkshire based creation and WTF Associate Director Laura Savia indicated that they had found quite a few new individuals to participate in the latest WTF Community Works outreach effort. The new play, written by award winning playwright Lucy Thurber and directed by Laura Savia, is titled "Once Upon a Time in the Berkshires". Rehearsals will begin in June and the play itself will be performed on the Main Stage at the "62 Center August 13-16. More to follow!

Naturalist John Root will be at the Harper Center on Friday May 26th presenting a lecture on the topic of "Butterflies of the World". Root has been a presenter at the Harper Center quite a few times in the recent past offering programs on music, edible flowers and crop circles. His program is funded in part by a grant from the Northern Berkshire Cultural Council. The program is at 12:45 and preceded by a cookout at noon. free.