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The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (/ m ə ˈ h eɪ w i /) is a major performance space in the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. [1] The theater's name comes from the indigenous Mahican term for "the place downstream" in relation to the Housatonic River . [ 2 ]
The Mahaiwe Block is a commercial and theater building in the heart of downtown Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In addition to smaller businesses, it houses the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, the town's only major performance space. It has been in virtually continuous operation since its construction in 1905.
The Mahican Indians called the area Mahaiwe, meaning "the place downstream". It lay on the New England Path, which connected Fort Orange near Albany, New York, with Springfield and Massachusetts Bay. The first recorded account of Europeans in the area happened in August 1676, during King Philip's War. [2]
Early on, the arts center was to house three established groups — two theaters and a visual arts museum — plus a new museum celebrating freedom. Those plans then changed, though the 9/11 ...
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center; Mosesian Center for the Arts; P. Puppet Showplace; S. Spontaneous Celebrations This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at ...
A multi-use performance space is a single space intended for use by various types of performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. [citation needed]The intended multiple use of performing arts centers in this sense differentiates them from single-purpose concert halls, opera houses, or theatres, although the actual use of single-purpose spaces for other than their intended use is ...
1993: Worrell Professional Center, Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; 1994: Physics and Astronomy Building, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA; 1995: Aronoff Center for Performing Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio [18] [19] 1995: 100 North Main Street (formerly Wachovia Center), Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts.It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the United States.