Nationally recognized architects and designers Mario Gooden, Mabel Wilson and Walter Hood are working to re-imagine the Clinton Church in Great Barrington as a cultural center celebrating African American history.
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Contra dance is alive and growing in the Berkshires
The tradition of contra dancing stretches from coast to coast and back more than 400 years. A caller teaches a series of simple moves, and dancers join in to live music with a beat and a quick melody.
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The Foundry gathers independent and generous souls in West Stockbridge
In its first year, the Foundry has become the kind of place where musicians from Pittsfield High School may play informally on the patio, or a cast of New York and local actors may share a potluck and talk late.
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The Berkshires welcome winter solstice with firelight and evergreens (BTW column)
We have almost reached the longest night of the year, and for hundreds of years people have taken time for it around the world, and in the Berkshires too.
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Shakespeare & Company finds depth and humor in Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is a love story and a story of life and death, and Shakespeare & Company in Lenox will perform a staged reading for the holidays of Kate Hamill’s adaptation.
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Winterlights festival glows on a winter night at Naumkeag — BTW column
At Winterlights, the gardens and the woods are glimmering — Naumkeag in Stockbridge has turned on 200,000 bulbs in its second monthlong festival.
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Young choreographers at Berkshire Pulse earn national attention
Five young women in the Young Choreographers Initiative at Berkshire Pulse have created their own work on the theme of sexual assault. And they have caught national attention.
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In ‘Finding Home’ artists tell stories of travel at the Norman Rockwell Museum
Artists Yuyi Morales, Frances Jetter, David Macaulay and James McMullan in a group show, Finding Home, at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
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A mother fights for her son in a tough contemporary world in ‘Pipeline’ at WAM Theatre
Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Pipeline, is one of the top 10 most produced plays in the country this year and an Obie winner in 2018, and WAM Theatre and Multicultural Bridge are partnering to bring it to the Berkshires.
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Mass Audubon’s Pleasant Valley Sanctuary celebrates 90 years
A quiet walk in Lenox years ago has changed many lives. Mass Audobon’s Pleasant Valley Sanctuary is celebrating its 90th year in Lenox.
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