Plus: Creative teams for Williamstown Theatre Festival are announced, and applications open for the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop.
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Help is on the way from the state â totaling nearly $1 million â for Berkshire County cultural projects in Becket, Lenox, North Adams, Stockbridge, Williamstown and Windsor.
The cultural facilities awards are from MassDevelopment through the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund. Statewide, the agencies approved $9.1 million in grants to nonprofits, colleges and towns that own or operate facilities primarily focused on the arts, humanities and sciences.
The awards are targeted for the acquisition, design, repair, renovation, expansion and construction of nonprofit and municipal cultural facilities. The grants range from a maximum of $200,000 to $2,400 and require one-to-one matches from the private sector or other non-state sources.
And a Downtown Celebration. And SteepleCats games and a farmers market and movies at Colegrove Park and music at Windsor Lake. It s going to be the best summer ever, said the city s Tourism Director Suzy Helme. Helme was updating members of the North Adams Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday on the events that will be taking place this summer now that the state of emergency instituted during the pandemic is set to be lifted by mid-June. It was a lost summer last year for residents and tourists alike with the cancellation of several high-profile anniversaries including the city s 125th anniversary along with concerts, exhibitions and local community events.