Arantzazú (Zazu) Galdós-Shapiro, an ELA teacher at W.E.B. Du Bois Middle School, talks about the perspectives she and her students are learning together— what they read and hear, who gets to choose, and how they talk about the stories they encounter.
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Photo by Kate Abbott
Local news reimagined
You want to know what to do this weekend. You want to find places only the local people know. You want to meet people who feel the same way? Come out and explore …
We live in a rare place in Western Massachusetts. We have minds at work out here in the country, and minds at play too. I live and write here. I’m a local journalist, so I get to walk behind the scenes and talk with people about what they love. We all want connection — we want to laugh, share ideas, dance barefoot and listen to music on a mountain at night … Let’s go see what we can find.
Stories of the week
Freedom to read and sense and explore — #bannedbooksweek
I was wandering through North Adams on a quiet afternoon, when I walked into Installation Space and saw Eve Bunting’s ‘One Green Apple’ on a shelf by the door. The shelf said ‘banned challenged books … take one — thank you.’
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Beatriz Cortez’ Portals open across time
Los Angeles artist Beatriz Cortez speaks to people across time in Portals at the Williams College Museum of Art, sharing resonances with Antigua and Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Photo by Susan Geller
About Town
Want to know what’s happening in town this weekend? From North Adams to Lenox, we’re seeing a new energy in the Berkshires. Wherever we are in the pandemic now, locals are adapting and new voices are coming in. If you’re looking for nightlife or a good cup of coffee, a vintage t-shirt or an artisan fair … take a look through our Berkshire towns.
The town names above also become links to their town pages — two to three of them
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Theater and music
We have emerging singer-songwriters, bluegrass legends and Yo-yo Ma on summer nights … sometimes all of them together. We’re known around the world for the people who come here to play, and they can be global travelers or as local and familiar as the farmer’s market on the corner. Or both. And we can dance to the beat.
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Release shares women’s stories of incarceration and courage
A cooperative of women storytellers with the 2nd Street program in Pittsfield share their strength, their pain and their dreams in a new work of theater.
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#FreshGrass music festival rises up singing — #berkshireweekend
Something about moving through familiar spaces with the energy of brilliant voices who were halfway across the country or the world a few days ago … draws me back to FreshGrass every year.
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10th Berkshire Pottery Tour will open studios
Ceramics artists show their art this weekend, as the 10th annual Berkshire Pottery Tour opens studios across Stockbridge, Great Barrington, new Marlborough and Monterey.
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