The Dulye Leadership Experience has moved to the Berkshires, bringing a network that reaches around the world, and young professionals talk with me about the skills and careers and community they are building.
Read articleLife in these hills goes back thousands of years in wide spirals of stories. Here we honor human stories, from the Mohican people who live and return here today to Elizabeth Freeman and W.E.B. DuBois, people who have come from many parts of the world to work here in the mills, and to live in the cities and the hills today, and many more.
‘The Race 2020’- MCLA theater reflects on presidential power
MCLA presents ‘The Race 2020’ — an interactive show by Sojourn Theater that engages audienes in discussing the 2020 presidential election.
Read articleBerkshire conversations begin to probe the future (November 4 newsletter)
We’re on pause tonight. The country is waiting for a decision that can re-shape our lives, and we’re hunkered down. Daylight Savings is past, and the nights are getting longer and darker. It can be easy to feel cut off on a night like this.
Read articlePeace and passion: Holy Week in a Latina community
Maria Soria from Ambato in Ecuador, Lucia Quizhpi from Deleg in Ecuador, and Gabriela Cruz from Oaxaca in Mexico, came to Multicultural Bridge in Housatonic to talk about La Semana Santa, Holy Week, in the places where they were born.
Read articleBerkshire Mosaics: Storytellers draw the world together
Eight years ago, Gwendolyn VanSant, executive director of Multicultural Bridge, and writer and journalist Roberta McCulloch-Dews and I began a new series of community stories, and they feel timely now.
Read articleIn Bridge’s Happiness Toolbox, youth celebrate their own stories
On a sunny morning, a group of young people stood in the meadow below an open ridge, reading a poem that Theresa (Miller) Beaudieu, a member of the Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of the Mohicans, wrote and set here in 1997 …
Read articleRoe and reproductive rights take a virtual stage at WAM
Late night in a pizza parlor in Dallas. 1970. On the radio, Janice Joplin is singing with rising chords and the raw edge in her voice to a man who will not hear her. Two women are talking. And a national movement is about to change.
Read articleLive poets at Chesterwood feel the pull of current change
In these short weeks before the election, Western Massachusetts poets come together at the historic home and studio of the sculptor of the Lincoln memorial, to share work that feels relevant to this time and in that place.
Read articleTrinh Mai and fellow artists weave immigration and family stories
In her studio in southern California, Trinh Mai Thạch turns to show a life-sized portrait of her husband in an artwork inspired by prayers of protection and migration. She plans to bring her work the country.
Read articleHubbard Hall lifts past and present voices for women’s rights
Women are talking in a public hall, debating passionately. They see the country at a turning point, shaken by an impeachment, an upsurge in violence and disputes over immigration and voting. It’s 1894 — and it’s today.
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