The Yiddish Book Center explores the vitality of an international living language as it transforms into ‘the first comprehensive museum of modern Yiddish culture in the world.’
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.
BRIDGE celebrates 15 years of active change
Today BRIDGE is celebrating 15 years in action. Founder and C.E.O. Gwendolyn Van Sant has grown a creative place and a center of community that has reshaped Great Barrington and the Berkshires, people around her will testify.
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Teaching stories — Arantzazú Galdós-Shapiro re-imagines 8th grade
Arantzazú (Zazu) Galdós-Shapiro, an ELA teacher at W.E.B. Du Bois Middle School, talks about the perspectives she and her students are learning together— what they read and hear, who gets to choose, and how they talk about the stories they encounter.
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Freedom 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.’
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Beatriz Cortez’ Portals open across time
Los Angeles artist Beatriz Cortez speaks to people across time in Portals at the Williams College Museum of Art, sharing resonances with Antigua and Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Release shares women’s stories of incarceration and courage
A cooperative of women storytellers with the 2nd Street program in Pittsfield share their strength, their pain and their dreams in a new work of theater.
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Amal brings unexpected brightness — #berkshireweekend
Amal, the 12-foot puppet, has come to Ashfield. She steps onto the town common, and she takes a visible breath and squares her shoulders, facing the crowd who have come to see her …
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High culture, low pay — Local arts groups push for change
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.
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Let 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 …
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Walk with Amal — a global traveler crosses America
Amal — a 12-foot-tall puppet, a moving work of theater creating community and art across three continents — comes to Mass MoCA and to Ashfield to find rest and music and home.
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