She is a teenager, and she is in a court room. She is tall and broad shouldered, her dark hair is cut short, and she is wearing a man’s buttoned shirt — one reason she is here, fighting for her life. She is a poorly educated farm girl from a small […]
Read articleFrench films honor World War I and a Williams professor who fought in the trenches
On a late summer morning he walks across the quad carrying a stack of French novels. He is dark-haired, spectacled and 40, a quiet man returning to his office. He came here from a farming town in the south of France to teach. And a year ago he was mired […]
Read articleProject Native honors the earth on film
A 90-year-old man takes care of more than 300 nest boxes for bluebirds. An Alabama native turns his camera on toxic chemicals. A young woman faces death threats in an effort to save one of the most polluted rivers in Mexico …
Read article10×10 Festival heats up in Pittsfield
Drum beats and improvisation, bonfires, dance, oil paintings and spoken word ... the city is getting ready. As I revise the poem I'm working on for the WordxWord Project on Friday, Pittsfield is preparing for its annual 10 days of performance and art — with tacos. And chocolate.
Read articleJames Baldwin wrestles with what it means to be American
Karen Thorsen screens “James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket” at Mass MoCA in the summer-long Lift Ev’ry Voice festival of African American arts and culture across the Berkshires.
Read articleWomen lead in the early years of film and animation
Nannina Gilder, a Berkshire screenwriter and film historian, speaks about pioneer film animator Lotte Reiniger in a series of talks and screenings, “Behind the Camera: Women in film.”
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