Even in a time of coronavirus, the Berkshires are a deeply creative place. Actors and dancers are creating new work. Artists are teaching workshops. Farmers markets are moving online. BTW has been gathering them in one virtual space.
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Berkshire Camino invokes a contemporary pilgrimage
As the pandemic keeps people in many countries from walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, Mindy Miraglia is launching Berkshire Camino, bringing the spirit of the quest to Lee and Lenox in a series of guided walks.
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Exploring identity, gardening and the dreams we hold dear
A question on diversity in gardening opens up a deeper discussion on the relationship between the environment and communities in the Berkshires.
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Berkshire arts evolve in the wake of national protest
In wake of the murder of George Floyd and increased national focus on the Black Lives Matter movement, Berkshire arts organizations are re-imagining how to tell stories in the most diverse and equitable way possible.
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Writers share a residency with Edith Wharton in the pandemic
Writers Sue Miller, Patricia Park and Dayna Tortorici shared a residency in Edith Wharton’s home this spring, as Covid-19 transformed the world around them.
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Mass Audubon nature camp adapts in a Covid-19 summer
Mass Audubon’s Berkshire Nature Camp has returned to Pleasant Valley Sanctuary this summer with new guidelines in the pandemic, and children have been getting comfortable outside, spotting the vivid orange of an Oriole or turning nature into crafts.
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At Mass MoCA new artists reclaim land and languages
The word for a spring and an eye are the same in Arabic, says Nasser Alzayani in his new work at Mass MoCA, a lament for a historic water source now gone dry. As I come back for the first time after the shut-down, new artists across the museum are offering a determination to preserve something beautiful, and human, and natural.
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Food to go
In Covid-19, restaurants are open across the Berkshires for takeout and food to go, and many now offer indoor and outdoor dining, curbside pickup and delivery. We’ve updated our listings.
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Composer Jacob Kerzner shapes music from Broadway to Edinburgh to COVID-19
In a rapidly changing world, in the midst of Covid-19 and political unrest, music and musical theater is evolving quickly — and musician and composer Jacob Kerzner is experiencing the evolution firsthand.
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Living historian revives leading suffragist Lucy Stone
Historical interpreter Judith Kalaora performs as Lucy Stone, one of the most powerful voices for women’s suffrage, an abolitionist known across the country in her own time but virtually unknown today.
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Double Edge Theatre brings revolutionary histories alive
“And there was anger and anguish. And forced silence.” Suffragist Lucy Stone speaks to a young W.E.B. DuBois in Double Edge Theatre’s outdoor performance, weaving together national figures who lived here.
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Avery Sharpe’s 400 explores African American history
“Can you imagine 400 years of your history, 400 years of you – where you come from?” composer Avery Sharpe’s niece, Sofia Rivera, speaks her own words aloud in Sharpe’s newest album 400: An African American Musical Portrait. “I can only go back to 1619 in America. As a Black […]
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