Sunday is midwinter, halfway between the first day of winter and the first day of spring, and in the Berkshires energy is stirring in performances like Vuyani Dance Company’s Cion, on college campuses and in the woods.
Read articleNationally awardwinning architects and designers set to create cultural center
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.
Read articleYoung 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.
Read articlePilobolus dance company finds movement and connection in organic forms
They swing like saplings — roll and lift and orbit. Six dancers blend into three creatures, four-armed like dancing Shivas. They are wearing spare clothing the colors of their skin and moving in sunlight, to the sound of quiet strings and calling birds. Pilobolus has performed around the world for […]
Read articleGoing Gnome in Great Barrington sculpts friendly figures in wool
It started with a bead store, a fiber festival on a fall weekend, and an amiable, improvisational pair … of gnomes. Across 10 year, a hobby and a gift has evolved into a home-grown business, a nesting dragon, a forest of talking trees and a way of life. On a […]
Read articleMelville and Hawthorne meet on Monument Mountain
On Monument Mountain, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in a thunderstorm more than 150 years ago and began a thunderous friendship.
Read articleCrescendo ensemble sets Norman Rockwell paintings in Song
Blues and Middle Eastern scales blend into children’s voices holding a line as simple as a Shaker tune, with low notes below. A man and a woman stand by their sleeping son and daughter, holding a newspaper with a headline from the blitz. American music of all kinds embraces well-known […]
Read articlePleasant and Main brightens a winter day
My first impression was that you couldn’t get more essentially New England than this. My second was that I didn’t know anyone in New England could make this cup of coffee. I first came to Pleasant and Main in Housatonic on a winter evening after a snowfall. It was tea-time […]
Read articleSongwriters hit the spotlight
Bob Dylan. Mavis Staples. Tanglewood. The Berkshire region gathers acoustic music and iconic singer-songwriters all summer long.
Read articlePeace and Passion in holy week — La Semana Santa gathers communities
In La Semana Santa, the week leading to Easter Sunday, communities across Central and South America will re-create Jesus’ vigil in the garden and the night and day when he died.
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