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		<title>Senate Rejects Effort to Restore MCC Funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 23, 2012, Boston, MA-The Massachusetts Senate today rejected an amendment to restore funding for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC). The amendment would have increased the total state appropriation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 9th Tricks of the Trade Public Art Panel at Gallery 51</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 at 6:30pm,  MCLA&#8217;s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center will present a  free Tricks of the Trade panel discussion on Public Art at MCLA Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA. Panelists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barrington Stage Company Purchases Pittsfield V.F.W.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stage 2 Becomes Permanent Home for New Plays and Musicals and All-New Cabaret Space (PITTSFIELD, MA)  Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, has purchased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regional Organizations and the City of Pittsfield Collaborate to Celebrate Herman Melville &amp; His Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Summer the City of Pittsfield will Celebrate Herman Melville and his works with Theatre, Art, History, Film and an Online Community Reading of Moby Dick. (Pittsfield, Mass.) The great American novel Moby Dick wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Barrington named one of the 20 Best Small Towns by Smithsonian Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smithsonian Magazine publishes a list of the 20 Best Small Towns in America. First on the the list was the Berkshires' own Great Barrington, MA.]]></description>
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		<title>State designates Downtown Pittsfield as one of the first Cultural Districts in Massachusetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Mass. Cultural Council Initiative Seeks to Stimulate Cultural Activity &#38; Commerce [Pittsfield, MA] – Mayor Daniel Bianchi announced today that the Massachusetts Cultural Council has named downtown Pittsfield one of the first state-designated Cultural Districts in Massachusetts. The newly designated district will be called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10X10- Inaugural Downtown Pittsfield Contemporary Arts Festival Announces Line-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(PITTSFIELD, MA) 10X10 On North </strong>announces the schedule of events for the Berkshires' first-ever winter contemporary arts festival, creatively enlivening downtown Pittsfield, February 16-26 with art, dance, film, music, theatre, and more.]]></description>
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		<title>The Berkshires&#8217; First-Ever Winter Contemporary Arts Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;10X10 On North&#8221; Debuts in Downtown Pittsfield February 16 &#8211; 26, 2012 The City of Pittsfield Joins with North Street Arts Organizations and Businesses for Inaugural Festival (PITTSFIELD, MA) 10&#215;10 On North, the Berkshires&#8217; first-ever winter contemporary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words, not music, for a Y Bar crowd</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people would like to share a word with you. Several words, actually. The newly launched Writers Room weekly series at Y Bar on North Street is built to inject a literary spirit into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist Storefront Closes On A Successful Note</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a decade promoting the fine arts community in Pittsfield,  Massachusetts, a shop known as the &#8220;Storefront Artist Project&#8221;  closes its doors Monday. As New England Public Radio&#8217;s Jeremy Goodwin reports, &#8220;Storefront&#8221; was an early [...]]]></description>
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