Berkshire arts nonprofits are exploring the need for diversity, equity, fair pay – and for understanding the experiences of their workers and investing in their futures.
Read articleLet it shine murals brighten Pittsfield — #berkshireweekend
Bluebirds are flocking on North Street. Phoenixes are lighting down on the corner and in the park. Migration season is coming … but this is more than I was expecting. The Let It Shine artists are finishing their murals …
Read articleRecord shops are turning up the sound in the Berkshires
Vinyl is growing in the Berkshires — the past few years have seen a new energy and enthusiasm grow around records, and record stores are drawing in new audiences with live music and events.
Read articleA New Brain reckons with illness and endurance
Two men are holding each other in a hospital room. One of them is lying lean and tense in a hospital gown, and the other supports him to lift up. They sit together on the inadequate bed, facing an impossible diagnosis … a powerful image a musical first produced in 1998.
Read articleWomen in the sky in vivid color — #berkshireweekend
Two women holding each other, relaxed and smiling in a swirl of color — they look like the kind of world I want to live in, and they’re vivid and tall as trees in the middle of North Street.
Read articleThom Smith knows the hidden places in the hills
Thom Smith, if you’re reading this, do you remember the day ten years ago in July when you invited me along with friends to look for rose pogonia orchids in Hawley bog?
Read articleAzaleas are in full blow on the Taconic crest
It’s hard to explain the feeling of a whole hillside of azaleas in bloom. Blossoms rise in waves twice my height, blossoms thick on the bushes in clusters ...
Read articleEddie Jaku bares the strength to live through the Holocaust
Broadway and Off-Broadway veteran Kenneth Tigar speaks in a world premiere adapted from the memoir of Eddie Jaku, who lived through the brutality of Buchenwald and Auschwitz — and lost many people he loved.
Read articleHands-on celebrations for Valentine week
Imagine sitting side by side with a quiet man in a slip-spattered t-shirt, in front of an electric pottery wheel. He is teaching you to center a lump of clay.
Read articleWomen reflect across 10 decades in the 10×10 Festival — #throwback
As part of the 2013 10x10 Festival, women across 10 decades think about what gets them moving — and they offer answers in words, performance and art.
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