Artist and curator Wendy Red Star, Mass MoCA and MCLA will host a virtual roundtable exploring the ways museums can re-imagine care for Indigenous objects.
Read articleThere are virtual Berkshire multimedia resources online in art and performance, food and the outdoors, local shops and events, programs and more.
Williamstown Theatre Festival premieres ‘The Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club’
In the world premiere of a new audio play, an international group of transgender women band together at a hotel in Thailand as they prepare for gender confirmation surgery.
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Only in My Dreams gives the Berkshires in a package
Imagine fresh coffee, or tea and honey, coming to you as a gentle surprise. Oskar Hallig and his husband, Michael Zippel, have evolved Only in My Dreams in the pandemic to offer locally sourced gift boxes and care packages.
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IS183 lifts artists in virtual holiday market
Blue marbled cups and sunset in canyon country, beads of polished wood … IS183 Art School of the Berkshires is creating a virtual holiday market for artists in the region with Mill Town Capital, through December 11.
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Listening to the darkness — WTF reimagines Streetcar Named Desire
Ariel Shafir and Audra McDonald explore the sounds of New Orleans and the darker sides of the human psyche in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s audible production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
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The Mohican nation honors their homeland with WAM Theatre
Heather Bruegl imagines Mohican people telling Mohican stories and histories, on Mohican land. She is the cultural affairs director for the Stockbridge Munsee community of the Mohican Nation, and she talks with me, and with WAM Theatre, as they prepare for this weekend’s performance of ‘The Thanksgiving Play.’
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Satire for a post-election season: Larissa FastHorse’s ‘The Thanksgiving Play’
Larissa FastHorse, a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and a nationally recognized playwright, asks probing questions in satire as WAM Theatre virtually performs of the acclaimed comedy ‘The Thanksgiving Play.’
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Acclaimed writer Danielle Evans navigates grief and strength
On a fall evening, acclaimed writer Danielle Evans is talking about her newest book with a clear eye and compassion, humor and deep sadness.
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Song and Survival: Bernice and Mariah Lewis perform in national folk festival
Berkshire singer/songwriter Bernice Lewis has performed nationwide since she first came to the Kerrville Folk Festival four decades ago. This year, in Covid-19, she and her daughter Mariah have returned to festival — online.
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MCLA and Berkshire museums bring energy in hard times
This spring, museums in the Berkshires are moving online. Cultural and creative places have faced abrupt disruption, and they are cutting back, but at the same time they are reaching out.
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