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.
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.
DEI Outdoors grows confidence and excitement in natural play
Rachel Hailey, founder of DEI Outdoors, has inspired more than 100 organizations nationwide in creating diversity, equity and belonging.
Read articleMoving right along — Tony Sarg gives puppets an artist’s hands
Tony Sarg has come a long way to reach the Norman Rockwell Museum this summer. An artist and illustrator in Germany, London and New York, he influenced puppetry across America — even to the Muppets.
Read articleBeninois artist Georges Adéagbo invokes Abraham Lincoln
An internationally acclaimed artist crosses the Atlantic to open a site-specific work, ‘Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America,’ a mosaic of ideas, stories, music and sculpture at Chesterwood.
Read articleHere be dragons … real ones #berkshireweekend
I met a dragon in the ruins at Ashintully. A live one — really. She’s a bearded dragon named Phoebe, and she came up with a young couple exploring the hills …
Read articleJuneteenth celebrates global Black American music — #Berkshireweekend
Guitar and percussion are racing, warm and complex as a river in the rain, and Tendai Muparutsa is singing songs he grew up knowing … laughing, drawing in the audience to clap, playing the rhythms against one another.
Read articleYom HaShoah honors those who faced the Holocaust
Poetry surfaces in the Berkshires in real and immediate places. On April 16, a group of us were gathered at Congregation Beth Israel to honor people who have withstood hate and anger with courage.
Read articleBard Queer Leadership Project readies for launch
Bard College at Simon’s Rock envisions the Bard Queer Leadership Project — a new field of study and degree program — as the first intentionally queer-serving college in the world.
Read articleProfessor Asma Abbas finds strength in curiosity
Professor Asma Abbas talks about her life and experience in many ways, in philosophy and theory and listening silence.
Read articleTibetan art and tacos in the snow — #Berkshireweekend
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 …
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