Studio SFW Click for listing information Sponsored December 22, 2020 Share this post Studio S F W(929) 383-0104Studiosfw.comInquiries@studiosfw.com Share this post Written by Sponsored Style Williamstown Willow Basket Weaver and Teacher Heleny Cook Lets Local Beavers Do the Pruning Heleny Cook spent decades organizing coal miners, running Marion Barry’s summer jobs program, and teaching high school English before she ever picked up a willow switch. She’s made up for lost time. By Jamie Larson • Michaela Carpenter. Photo by Rachel Bock. Style She's Reimagining the Rhinecliff Hotel With Art, Style, and Historic Care, One Room at a Time The business’s new owner Michaela Carpenter is commissioning original work from regional artists for every room, then designing around it—and building a communal gathering space downstairs meant to turn the historic hotel into a home base for local makers. By Jamie Larson • Style Palestine Heirloom Seed Library Fundraiser on Ghent Farm With Designer Neville Wisdom Fashion Show The Jamaica-born, New Haven-based designer premieres "GEORGE" on an outdoor catwalk, with proceeds funding Palestinian seed preservation. By Jamie Larson • Real Estate The Stonewall Estate at Dibble Hill: A Contemporary Barn on 19 Acres, Bordering Conservation Land, in Cornwall A spring-fed pond, a fieldstone fireplace in a 700-square-foot great room, a Wolf and Sub-Zero kitchen, a glass solarium, and an 11.5-acre buildable parcel behind the house—30 minutes to Metro-North. By Jamie Larson • Community Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center Marks Its 20th Anniversary With a Three-Day Forum on Solidarity The Arendt Forum brings George Packer, Rowan Williams, Patrick Deneen, Carol Gilligan, and Zephyr Teachout, among others, to Annandale-on-Hudson to ask “What Are We Fighting For?” By Jamie Larson • Arts FilmColumbia Kicks Off Friday With a Party for Jane Schoenbrun, and a Weekend of Cannes Winners The 26th festival opens with a Q&A with its honoree, a children’s program, a screenwriting workshop, and films from Cannes and the New York Film Festival. By Jamie Larson • Community Hopkins Memorial Forest Fall Festival Brings Cider Pressing, a Cross-Cut Saw Contest, and Owl Banding to Williamstown Williams College’s free festival at its 2,640-acre research forest includes woodworking demonstrations, hikes, live music, and shuttle vans from campus. By Jamie Larson • Arts Tamarack Hollow’s 17th Berkshire Drum and Dance Fest Brings Guinean Masters Namory Keita and Seny Daffe to Windsor Drum classes, a community concert, and an interactive dance class on Saturday benefit the nature center’s building campaign and the conservation of 88 acres of boreal forest. By Jamie Larson • Food Giulia: A New Italian Restaurant With a Few Fresh Twists Worth the Trip The Spettro team’s new restaurant serves chicken parm sandwiches, sourdough pizza, and scratch-made pasta in the historic Juliet building near Vassar. By Melissa Esposito •
Style Williamstown Willow Basket Weaver and Teacher Heleny Cook Lets Local Beavers Do the Pruning Heleny Cook spent decades organizing coal miners, running Marion Barry’s summer jobs program, and teaching high school English before she ever picked up a willow switch. She’s made up for lost time. By Jamie Larson •
Michaela Carpenter. Photo by Rachel Bock. Style She's Reimagining the Rhinecliff Hotel With Art, Style, and Historic Care, One Room at a Time The business’s new owner Michaela Carpenter is commissioning original work from regional artists for every room, then designing around it—and building a communal gathering space downstairs meant to turn the historic hotel into a home base for local makers. By Jamie Larson •
Style Palestine Heirloom Seed Library Fundraiser on Ghent Farm With Designer Neville Wisdom Fashion Show The Jamaica-born, New Haven-based designer premieres "GEORGE" on an outdoor catwalk, with proceeds funding Palestinian seed preservation. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate The Stonewall Estate at Dibble Hill: A Contemporary Barn on 19 Acres, Bordering Conservation Land, in Cornwall A spring-fed pond, a fieldstone fireplace in a 700-square-foot great room, a Wolf and Sub-Zero kitchen, a glass solarium, and an 11.5-acre buildable parcel behind the house—30 minutes to Metro-North. By Jamie Larson •
Community Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center Marks Its 20th Anniversary With a Three-Day Forum on Solidarity The Arendt Forum brings George Packer, Rowan Williams, Patrick Deneen, Carol Gilligan, and Zephyr Teachout, among others, to Annandale-on-Hudson to ask “What Are We Fighting For?” By Jamie Larson •
Arts FilmColumbia Kicks Off Friday With a Party for Jane Schoenbrun, and a Weekend of Cannes Winners The 26th festival opens with a Q&A with its honoree, a children’s program, a screenwriting workshop, and films from Cannes and the New York Film Festival. By Jamie Larson •
Community Hopkins Memorial Forest Fall Festival Brings Cider Pressing, a Cross-Cut Saw Contest, and Owl Banding to Williamstown Williams College’s free festival at its 2,640-acre research forest includes woodworking demonstrations, hikes, live music, and shuttle vans from campus. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Tamarack Hollow’s 17th Berkshire Drum and Dance Fest Brings Guinean Masters Namory Keita and Seny Daffe to Windsor Drum classes, a community concert, and an interactive dance class on Saturday benefit the nature center’s building campaign and the conservation of 88 acres of boreal forest. By Jamie Larson •
Food Giulia: A New Italian Restaurant With a Few Fresh Twists Worth the Trip The Spettro team’s new restaurant serves chicken parm sandwiches, sourdough pizza, and scratch-made pasta in the historic Juliet building near Vassar. By Melissa Esposito •
