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Gaia DeNisi

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Gaia DeNisi

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My name is Gaia DeNisi and I’m a recent graduate of Williams College—Class of 2020—and a freelance writer for By the Way Berkshires. I grew up nestled in the coastal redwoods of Northern California but for the last four years the Berkshires have been my home. Having grown up in a small, rural town, I recognized how lucky I was to spend my college years in this unique, tight-knit community, brimming with a thriving arts culture and surrounded by natural beauty.

Wendy Red Star draws out stories in a portrait of Peelatchiwaaxpash / Medicine Crow (Raven). Photo Courtesy of the artist and Mass MoCA.
Peelatchiwaaxpash / Medicine Crow (Raven)
Visual Arts

Wendy Red Star re-imagines care of Native objects and stories

January 25, 2021
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Artist and curator Wendy Red Star, Mass MoCA and MCLA will host a virtual roundtable exploring the ways museums can re-imagine care for Indigenous objects.

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Playwright Shakina Nayfack writes and performs in 'The Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club.' Photo courtesy of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Shakina Nayfack
Theater

Williamstown Theatre Festival premieres ‘The Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club’

December 31, 2020
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In the world premiere of a new audio play, an international group of transgender women band together at a hotel in Thailand as they prepare for gender confirmation surgery.

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Tony award winning actor Audra McDonald will perform as Blanhe in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Photo by Allison Michael Orenstein
Theater

Listening to the darkness — WTF reimagines Streetcar Named Desire

December 3, 2020
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Ariel Shafir and Audra McDonald explore the sounds of New Orleans and the darker sides of the human psyche in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s audible production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Members of Sojourn Theatre's ensemble cast look up at TV monitors of political ads as they pre-set on the stage for the interactive play 'The Race' at Georgetown University's Gonda Theatre in Washington.
Photo by Jonathan Ernst
Theater

‘The Race 2020’- MCLA theater reflects on presidential power

November 6, 2020
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MCLA presents ‘The Race 2020’ — an interactive show by Sojourn Theater that engages audienes in discussing the 2020 presidential election.

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Performers from Soul Step perform in a tradition of African dance and pecussive rhythm. Photo courtesy of Maxine Lyle
Soul Step
Dance

A Rhythm of Resilience—Maxine Lyle brings Step Show to Williams

October 20, 2020
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Rhythm is in the backdrop of our everyday lives — in the pulse rushing through our bodies, the sound of our feet striking the earth, the cadence of our words. Insistent and universal, rhythm is the language of Step — a percussive dance genre rooted in an African American history […]

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Joy Harjo, 23rd United States Poet Laureate, will read her work virtually at Bennington College. Press photo courtesy of Bennington College.
Photo by Matika Wilbur
Writing

Joy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier share loss and strength in poetry

October 7, 2020
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Surrounded by the crumbling world, women begin to sing. The world as they’ve known it has ended, and yet there is movement, and growth, and the promise of new life.

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Berkshire artist, actor and playwright Merudjina Normil will perform at the Foundry in West Stockbridge.
Merudjina Normil
Theater

Don’t Touch the Art — performance moves from pain to healing

September 23, 2020
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Raw, and difficult, and reaching for joy — somewhere trauma is etched in paint as a community breaths towards wholeness, and art offers a space for holding and healing …

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