A low rhythm rocks warmly, and voices lap together like the tide coming in. Four women are singing in bell-clear in polyrhythms ... A world-touring Swedish Folk'appella group has touched down in West Stockbridge.
Read articleSurprised by joy in winter holiday walks — #berkshireweekend
This weekend opens the season of downtown celebrations, from a music and horse-drawn wagon rides to wreaths and art and family events …
Read articleFreedom 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.’
Read articleMapping wonder in West Stockbridge — #berkshireexperience
I’m looking at the bin of old maps at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge and thinking, how would I draw a map of these hills, and what would I put in? When you have an afternoon in West Stockbridge to explore, how do you find unexpected places?
Read articleOlivia’s Overlook soothes and surprises on a spring day
Lie on your back up here with your feet under the lowbush blueberries and you can hear the wind around you like a river. The cups of the blueberry blossoms and a wild cherry sapling are quivering in the warm air.
Read articleKarlene Kantner shapes wood-fired vessels
On a slope in West Stockbridge, the air smells of wood smoke and frost and the unmistakable, clean sour scent of reduction — fire pulling oxygen from clay.
Read articleChoreographers plumb the Blue Hour @ the Foundry
The blue hour is dusk in a high summer day — it’s the light in the sky before it goes dark, says Moscelyne ParkeHarrison — and in that transforming time, four dancers are imagining four separate worlds.
Read articleWhat’s your first real taste of summer? — #Berkshireweekend
You know the feeling when something hits home and you feel your expression shift instinctively — like tasting something that surprises you with its flavor?
Read articleTurn Park Art Space welcomes the equinox with light
At the top of the hill, cocoons pulse with light. Natalie Tyer has formed organic shapes as translucent as moth wings at Turn Park, and the glimmer intensifies as someone comes close.
Read articleOutdoor sculpture recalls Russian artists in spring (March 17 newsletter)
Don Quixote is sitting in a frozen field by a bare rock face, staring into the center of a daisy. I wonder what he dreams at the end of winter …
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