'AV Club' Brings Immersive Visuals, Dance Party to the Adams Theater

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ADAMS, Mass. — Artists Joe Wheaton and musician Geoffrey Carter are collaborating at the Adams Theater this Halloween for a multisensory electronic dance experience, "AV Club," with visuals and DJs Glass Arrowhead, Jason Manatee, H2GO, and TruSounds. 
 
The show will take place from 8pm-midnight on Oct. 31, with 20 percent of profits going to the ACLU. Tickets are $35 at the door; get tickets for $25 in advance at adamstheater.org/events
 
Snacks and bar drinks will be available. Costumes are optional. 
 
Wheaton is an artist who has lived in the Berkshires for decades and has done lots of visual installations for years, many at the Adams Theater (he’s also a board member). Carter is a musician and producer who grew up in the Berkshires and runs BeatNest, a popular local program that introduces kids in the Berkshires to electronic music.
 
Weaton will work from inside a giant birdcage as he runs his visual installation, which will combine disparate footage of costumed humans "from Burning Man to ethnic tribal people of Burma" to create a surreal feeling against dance music, niche hip hop, and drum and bass. 
 
The Adams Theater participates in Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program, in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children Nutrition Program, and the Mass Health Connector.
 
EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders receive free admission to our shows and events by presenting their cards at our Box Office. See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.
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Hoosac Valley Seeks to Prevent 'Volatile' Assessments

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
ADAMS, Mass.— The "volatile" shifts in Hoosac Valley Regional School District's town assessments year to year is hard for smaller towns to absorb; however, a proposed change to the regional agreement would fix that. 
 
During the Select Board meeting last week, Superintendent Aaron Dean presented the proposed change to the regional agreement that would set assessments based on a five-year rolling average rather than the annual student enrollment.
 
"The long-term goal is to make the assessment process a little bit more viable for people from year-to-year," he said. 
 
An ad hoc committee was convened to review the district's agreement, during which concerns arose about the rapid fluctuations in assessments.
 
"I think you have to look short term, and you have to look long term. The goal is to kind of level it off and make planning easier and flatten that curve in terms of how it's going to impact both communities," Dean said. 
 
Every year, it is a little more difficult for one community because they are feeling disproportionately impacted compared to the other, he said. 
 
"The transient nature of this population right now is like nothing I've ever seen," Dean said. 
 
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