It’s a humid summer night in a break between storms when Cindy de la Cruz steps on stage in ‘Border of Lights’ by Guadalís Del Carmen, opening the first week of ‘Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination.’
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Nine playwrights celebrate Black Radical Imagination
Eartha Kitt is singing in the year 2043, and the future is a complex and raw and beautiful place … In nine new plays, actors are traveling in space and time, from a moon of Mars to Haiti, to Brooklyn on a summer night.
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Nikolai Astrup revives the spirit of Norway
It’s summer solstice, and the bonfires are lit. People from up the valley are piling tall cones of green branches. The flames churn golden and flow downhill over a glacial outcrop and coil like a dragon around the embers.
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James Joyce voyages on Spring Street
Under the rafters in a sound old wooden barn, a group of people sit over a glass of red wine or a corona with lime, hearing the rhythms of a newspaper office in Dublin in 1904.
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Walking up to the Dome Trail
It’s a hot, bright day up here on the back roads — late spring spilling into summer. I’ve climbed up Henderson Road until the land flattens out, and everywhere I walk I can hear the sound of a brook close by.
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Les Lalanne cast humor in bronze
Copper and bronze shapes appear around corners, like the veined rippling cup of a giant cabbage leaf … Sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne are known around the world for their whimsical organic lifeforms.
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Feel the earth under our feet again (April 21 newsletter)
‘You have a moth on your neck,’ she said. We were sitting outdoors on either side of the fire, on a lawn that stretched into fields. Somewhere farther up the hill, land conservancy trails waltz with the brook.
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Young farmers celebrate the land
They are awake in the dark, washing last week’s milk bottles. They are kneeling in the birthing pen, holding a newborn kid goat. They are setting out seedlings in trays and tuning up the 1940s tractor.
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Chasing wildflowers on the Dome and Agawon Trail (April 14 newsletter)
It’s the first time I’ve ever taken my shoes off in the woods to get a better grip. It’s the first time in New England I’ve ever wound up on a trail so steep I can imagine sliding straight off the mountain. …
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Starships and salamanders are on the move (March 31 newsletter)
Standing water spills over at the edge of the marsh, and the peepers are loud — high, rising, calling all around us. It feels too early to believe in spring yet, but the frogs are awake.
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