It must be March. One day I’m braving the wind on North Street for tacos from Placita Latina, and the next I’m walking across a hayfield in the snow …
Read articleThis place is a living ecosystem of people and places and ideas, and this broad category brings together their stories — you may find stories of healing, teaching, celebrating, taking care of people and the land, reaching out to many parts of the world and feeling the roots of this one, in the past, present and future.
Contemporary Tibetan voices navigate ‘Across Shared Waters’
Marie-Dolma Chophel’s 'Inner Dialog' holds me still as I navigate the new show of contemporary and traditional Tibetan paintings, photographs, sculpture and collage at the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Lama Tashi Norbu imagines links in spacetime
Lama Tashi Norbu forms a contemporary collage of bright color in paint and wood, and in the petals he sees a gulf and a bridge between worlds.
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Sunny Banks Ranch keeps visions alive
Bill Robinson and his son, Steve, work a 200-acre ranch in Becket. Clad in thick rubber boots, jeans and a plaid shirt, Steve was outside working near the stables and looked every bit the part of a cowboy.
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Q-Mob affirms queer community and connection
In a new year and an emergence of social activity after the peak of fear and isolation in Covid, a new community is taking root in Great Barrington — Q-Mob, Queer Men of the Berkshires.
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Q-Mob explores Berkshire arts with a queer lens
A new community of friends is looking for stories like these and encouraging the telling. Tom Truss and Bart Church have helped to found a new affinity group in Great Barrington, Queer Men of the Berkshires. And among their friendly activities, a group is forming to explore the arts.
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Raise a glass to freedom and friendship — #Berkshireweekend
On the eve of the first 10×10 Festival, 11 years ago, I wrote a question — with a Smartphone and inside knowledge, what kind of film would I make about Pittsfield?
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Hands-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.
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Tibetan artists talk through time — Across Shared Waters
A new exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art will gather traditional Thangka paintings and contemporary Tibetan artists from around the world.
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Happy New Year! — #berkshireweekend
I’m southeast of the Berkshires this week with my family for the holidays — we’re taking a walk to the pond to look for the beaver lodges or sitting by the fireplace …
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