Clark Art Screens 'Young Frankenstein'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Jan. 30, the Clark Art Institute screens the latest installment in its Hollywood Auteurs film series, "Young Frankenstein" (1974), at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. 
 
According to a press release:
 
Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, this series captures the explosion of creativity, critical acclaim, and box office success that Hollywood directors found after the fall of the studio system. This film is shown in the Manton Research Center auditorium.
 
As the serious side of New Hollywood took its inspiration from the French New Wave, the comic side embraced burlesque. Writer and director Mel Brooks's pioneering vulgarity looks both tame and edgy from today's perspective—cheap and risky in a way that reflects America back to itself, then and now. Young Frankenstein is a disciplined farce, run amok. A parody of the mad scientist, Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, played by Gene Wilder, stares at the world with nearsighted, pale-blue-eyed wonder. (Run time: 1 hour, 46 minutes)
 
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. 

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Mount Greylock District Updates Williamstown Select Board on Equity Work

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The interim superintendent of the Mount Greylock Regional School District updated the Select Board on Monday on efforts to improve the culture in the public schools, including two that rely on American Rescue Plan Act funds supplied by the town.
 
Joe Bergeron was at Town Hall to talk about the middle-high school's participation in the U.S. Department of Justice's School-Student Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together (SPIRIT) program and a districtwide assessment of its process for responding to incidents of bias and bullying.
 
SPIRIT was a model similar to the DOJ's Strengthening Police and Community Partnerships program in which the town participated in 2022.
 
"The goal of the program is to convene students from many different aspects of life within a school building to come together and identify areas of interest both in terms of existing strengths they'd love to maintain as well as challenges they'd like to work on with the administration," Bergeron said.
 
Students worked in small groups with facilitators trained by the DOJ — mostly volunteers from the community, including social workers already trained in leading such conversations, Bergeron said.
 
"The types of things the students looked at included looking at how the school treats both clubs and co-curricular non-athletic groups along with athletic teams: Do they all feel they have equal funding and have time carved out to explore those endeavors? Do they have time to come back and make sure they have adequate time to make up for an exam or get work done if they miss [school]," Bergeron said. "They had things shared in ways that were constructive and reflective. The opportunity to spend time with peers is an eye-opener for people."
 
At the end of the day, DOJ representatives collected data from the various working groups to compile and inform an "actionable document" for the district, Bergeron said.
 
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