There are several events this weekend, including a weeklong dance festival, bazaar, live music, and more.
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Wandering Dance Festival
Downtown Pittsfield
Nov. 17 to 23
This weeklong community dance initiative celebrates movement and culture in an effort to foster community connections.
The festival features a variety of dance styles, free workshops, and opportunities for participants to showcase their dancing. It will culminate in a showcase performance at the Colonial Theatre with both professional and local artists.
The parish’s annual two-day bazaar will feature white elephant, craft tables to get Christmas shopping done, raffles, food, and homemade desserts. More information here.
Pinecone Nature Crafts
Mount Greylock Visitor Center, Lanesborough
Time: Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Create a turkey using ingredients found in nature along with art supplies. More information here.
Clue: On Stage Performance
Taconic High School, Pittsfield
Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m.
The school’s theater department will be performing the “farce-meets-murder mystery,” Clue: On Stage.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for students. More information here.
Friday
Standup Comedy
Bounti-Fare, Adams
Time: 8 p.m.
There will be a stand-up performance hosted by Charlie Nadler, featuring headliner Jason Choi and an act by Quentin Davis.
There will be an unveiling of the "Shapes of Togetherness" tile mural created by Pittsfield High School students.
The Pittsfield Let It Shine! Public Art Partnership, led by artist in residence Huck Elling, collaborated with Pittsfield High students for this initiative.
The celebration kicks off with students walking to the mural at 2:35 p.m. and a ribbon-cutting at Burbank Place at 3 p.m.
Play musical bingo to help fundraise for Northern Berkshire United Way. Tickets cost $25 a person, and they include two bingo cards. Additional cards are $5 each.
The Council on Aging is holding a pot luck in its community room. More information here.
Adult Craft Night
Lenox Library
Time: 4 p.m.
There will be an evening of crafting to create a centerpiece using retired library books. More information here.
Rusted Chains Performance
220 W Housatonic St, Pittsfield
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Local band Rusted Chains will perform a tribute to '90s grunge and alt-rock. The band focuses on acoustic renditions of groups like Nirvana, Alice In Chains, and Stone Temple Pilots, with some electric vibes. More information here.
Music Bingo
Berkshire Hills Country Club, Pittsfield
Time: 7 p.m.
Bingo fundraiser for the Berkshire Running Foundation. Tickets are $25 per person, which gets participants four cards and an entry for the door prize.
A 10-piece horn-fueled party band New York's Capital Region will be performing. Tickets are $27.38. More information here.
The Polar Express Showing
The Beacon Cinema, Pittsfield
All Day
The classic Christmas tale is returning to theaters for one day only for $1 admission. Santa will also be making a visit. Advance tickets are recommended here.
Sunday
Domingo Brunch
Dottie's Coffee Lounge, Pittsfield
Time: 10 a.m. to noon
Berkshire-based, acoustic Ameri-Grass-Y band, The Juckets, will be performing at the coffee shop. More information here.
Pancake Breakfast
Holiday Brook Farm, Dalton
Time: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Every Sunday in November, the farm is hosting a pancake breakfast.
The all-you-can-eat buffet includes pancakes, eggs, hash browns, sausage, and more. Free kids' crafts and wagon rides are available, weather permitting.
Pricing is $16.95 for adults, and kids aged 2 to 12 pay their age. More information here.
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Berkshire Veterans Mark 50 Years Since Vietnam War End
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — County veterans gathered over the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War's conclusion, recognizing the horrors that soldiers endured long after returning home.
Master of ceremonies Lenwood "Woody" Vaspra said when most Vietnam veterans returned, there were no tributes, recognition, speeches, parades, or even handshakes.
"For many of them, it was a horrible return home from Vietnam in a very chaotic time," he said to a crowd in Park Square on Saturday, National Vietnam Veterans Day.
The Vietnam War officially ended 50 years ago in May 1975. Fifty-two years ago, the last American troops departed Vietnam. The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 designated March 29 of each year as National Vietnam War Veterans Day.
"We're here to join together as a people, to honor the brave men and women who have stood in defense of our country and for all the countless men and women who are still serving in harm's way all around the world," Vaspra said.
He explained that this day provides the opportunity to pay special tribute to the many Americans who served in the war, the 58,281 names memorialized on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and to those who never received the recognition they deserve.
"It is time to say thank you and honor all Vietnam veterans," he said.
During his remarks, Vaspra explained that many veterans have been able to re-enter society, go to school, find a job, and raise a family, but their war experience never went away.
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