Click Image To Watch Topia Arts Center Infomercial

Topia Arts Center is a new “green” artist led performing arts and educational center in development in Adams presenting quality music, dance, theater, circus arts, film and visual art exhibits as well as educational and community programs. More than just a historical site and raw theater space, Topia, which means landscapes in Greek, hopes to provide fertile ground for convergent creative paths and act as an economic stimulus for a charming New England town poised for renaissance. In July, 2004 Nana Simopoulos and Caryn Heilman, two performing artists from New York City, formed Topia Arts, LLC and purchased the theater structure with the vision of building on the already tangible energy of this historic cultural site. They were drawn by the opportunity to make a difference in the town by offering their own art as well as the art of their international community of talented friends, who would never have otherwise had a reason to come to Adams. They began making a name for Topia Arts Center around the Berkshires and beyond as a place to find quality arts and education. The non-profit (501(c)(3) Topia Art Center, Inc. was created to steward the renovation of the theater. The theater is being used as a raw space with more than five years of artistic events taking place, with ongoing community classes, workshops and after-school cooperative programming at Cafe Topia now called Stone Soup and Topia Inn. There has also been programming in the raw theater space that will continue throughout the phases of redevelopment of the theater.

Robert Long of Theater Consultants Collaborative has created a design concept for the theater which would make a multipurpose flexible space. With the help of a grant from the Berkshire Taconic Comunity Foundation and Massachusetts Cultural Council, Topia Arts Center completed an independent marketing study and business plan performed by theater management specialists Duncan Webb and Associates.