An exhibit of sculpture and paintings by Miriam Berg will open with a reception Thursday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and will remain on view through February, 2017, at Applewood, One Spencer Drive in Amherst.
Berg, 89, has lived at Applewood since 2009. She received a bachelor’s degree in art education from Hofstra University and a master’s degree in arts in 1973. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Florida, in the Nassau County Art Competition and by the Long Island Craftsman’s Guild.
Berg describes her work as being realistic or recognizable abstractions; it is centered on themes of family, mothers and children, lovers and other people.
She began to paint in oil and acrylics several years ago when sculpting became too difficult.
Hours for viewing are Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment on weekends.
The show will feature Haas’ theater students the Ookie-Wookies (grades 1-5) and the Pickle Heads (grades 6-8), as well as the Northampton High School troupe, Funktionlust.
Admission costs $5 at the door, to benefit the Survival Center.
Screwball chamber music
The Wet Ink Ensemble will present the premiere of “IPSA DIXIT,” an evening-length work of theatrical chamber music, Friday at 8 p.m. at Helen Hills Hills Chapel on the Smith College campus in Northampton.
In composer and vocalist Kate Soper’s “IPSA DIXIT,” the ensemble blends elements of monodrama, Greek theater and screwball comedy. In addition to Soper, the performers will be Erin Lesser, flutes; Ian Antonio, percussion; and Josh Modney, violin. For information, visit www.smith.edu/smitharts. Free.
Humorist and performing artist Seth Lepore will present an adapted version of Mike Daisey’s “Trump Card” Tuesday at 7 p.m. at The West End at Eastworks, Suite 160 (across from Riff’s), 116 Pleasant St. in Easthampton.
Daisey’s play about the Republican presidential nominee “is about how we build our individual realities and how an artful lie illuminates what we believe to be the truth more than any actual accounting of objective reality (The Guardian).
Using the bones of Daisey’s script, Lepore chops up and mixes his own personal story into the fold. Linda McInerney of Eggtooth Productions directed Lepore’s version.
Tickets cost $10 and are available online at set-hums.com.
Lepore repeats the performance Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. at the Shea Theatre in Turners Falls. Tickets cost $15, also available at sethums.com.
“Fire from Heaven,” a concert by the UMass Symphony Orchestra, will be presented Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall at UMass. Tian Hui Ng conducts.
On the program: Beethoven’s Overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus” and Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 51 (with Elizabeth Chang, violin soloist), and Hindemith’s symphony “Mathis der Maler.”
Tickets cost $10; $3 by UMass students; $5 for other students, children and seniors. To purchase, call 545-2511 or visit www.fineartscenter.com/musicanddance.
Gilles Vonsattel, a music department professor of piano at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will present a piano concert Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Bezanson Hall on the UMass campus.
Vonsattel has performed with the Boston Symphony, Tanglewood and San Francisco Symphony. He received an Avery Fisher Career Grant, won both the Naumburg and Geneva competitions and also became a Honens laureate.
On the program: music by Schumann, Brahms, George Benjamin and Webern.
Tickets cost $10; $3 by UMass students; $5 for other students, children and seniors. To purchase, call 545-2511 or visit www.fineartscenter.com/musicanddance.
UMass alumni Andrew Stetson (trumpet) and Becca Zeisler (piano) will present a free concert of works by American composers Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall.
Stetson has performed with the Albany Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Lubbock Symphony and Colorado Music Festival Orchestras. Zeisler is a staff pianist for Texas Tech University, Ballet Lubbock and Boston Ballet School.
The concert will feature the world premiere of a piece by Mark Hagerty. For information, visit www.umass.edu/music.