International artist and children’s book author Leo Lionni can tell complex stories in bright strokes, as his characters question their worlds with open curiosity … and transform them.
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Surprised by joy in winter holiday walks — #berkshireweekend
This weekend opens the season of downtown celebrations, from a music and horse-drawn wagon rides to wreaths and art and family events …
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Thankful for clear and quiet nights — #berkshireweekend
This is the season for spice and texture — evergreens and candlelight and makers gathering to show what they create by hand …
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New forest paths open at Nightwood
A web spreads overhead in the branches like sails. The strands glimmer as though they’re touched by moonlight. I’m walking up the path in Edith Wharton’s forest, in this winter’s Nightwood at the Mount. And this pathway is new. ...
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Gathering warmth to carry us through the winter — #berkshireweekend
Winter makers and winter harvests are coming to us this week — as the Norman Rockwell Museum opens a retrospective on internationally known illustrator Leo Leonni, the nights are warming up with music.
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Daydreaming collage meets a native winter garden
On a clear November morning, I was walking through the native plant garden at the Bennington Museum, and I found a mouse telling stories.
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Poems ride high tides of feeling and experience
Rage Hezekiah, Robert Carr, Richard Hoffman and Heather Treseler, all nationally acclaimed poets, share their work with Voices of Poetry at the Stockbridge Library, with international opera singer Benjamin Luxon.
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Halloween nightlife — Jack-o-lanterns and comedy — #berkshireweekend
I have to wonder what kind of shapeshifter is visiting the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show tonight. Families are talking on the garden path … and we’re surrounded by creatures made of fire.
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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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