Holliday shop, sip and stroll
December 10, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Great Barrington’s annual holiday celebration returns from 3 to 8 p.m. with an outdoor Holiday Market from 4 to 7 p.m. (outdoors next to the First Congregational Church), shops open late downtown and family activities.
Great Barrington Holiday Stroll 2022
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Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
2 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
9 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Distanced Together — immersive sound
Distanced Together — immersive sound
Mass MoCA presents Distanced Together, composed by MindTravel creator Murray Hidary, a live performance turned into an immersive sound installation.
Kids cook @ Berkshire Botanical
Kids cook @ Berkshire Botanical
BBG educator Rachel Durgin will lead a winter cooking class, where kids will learn to read recipes, gain skills and have fun in the kitchen.
Tarot meetup
Tarot meetup
Wild Soul River holds a weekly gentle exploration into the symbols and stories of the tarot in an affirming environment.
9 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Distanced Together — immersive sound
Distanced Together — immersive sound
Mass MoCA presents Distanced Together, composed by MindTravel creator Murray Hidary, a live performance turned into an immersive sound installation.
Arshay Cooper — The Impact of Access
Arshay Cooper — The Impact of Access
Athlete, awardwinning author and activist Arshay Cooper will speak on The Impact of Access, Relationship Building, and Leaving a Legacy as part of Claiming Williams Day.
Claiming Williams: Conversation with Dr. Kelli Morgan
Claiming Williams: Conversation with Dr. Kelli Morgan
As part of Claiming Williams 2023, WCMA will hold a conversation with Dr. Kelli Morgan, Professor of the Practice and the inaugural Director of Curatorial Studies at Tufts University.
9 events,
Distanced Together — immersive sound
Distanced Together — immersive sound
Mass MoCA presents Distanced Together, composed by MindTravel creator Murray Hidary, a live performance turned into an immersive sound installation.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
New parent museum tour
New parent museum tour
New parents and caregivers are invited to bring their infants into the Clark's galleries for an informal guided visit.
La Seca — Armando Guadalupe Cortés
La Seca — Armando Guadalupe Cortés
Artist Armando Guadalupe Cortés, whose work is on view in the exhibition Ceramics in the Expanded Field, gives a collaborative performance with artist M. Elijah Sueuga.
13 events,
North Adams winter farmers market
North Adams winter farmers market
Chocolate peanut butter cookies, fresh flowers, jams and pickles and cheeses ... the North Adams Farmers Market returns with more than a dozen farmers and makers.
Distanced Together — immersive sound
Distanced Together — immersive sound
Mass MoCA presents Distanced Together, composed by MindTravel creator Murray Hidary, a live performance turned into an immersive sound installation.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Clark weekly gallery tour
Clark weekly gallery tour
Take a guided walk through the permanent collection at the Clark Art Institute, looking at works from the collection and learning more about the museum's history.
5 events,
Domingo brunch — Pete Toigo and Dave Bartley
Domingo brunch — Pete Toigo and Dave Bartley
Every first Sunday of the month, Dottie's hosts morning soulful jazz and blues. Pete Toigo performs on bass and Dave Bartley on piano and vocals as Dottie’s serves Domingo Brunch.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
A Clark educator leads a tour of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Bill Nace and Matt Krefting in concert
Bill Nace and Matt Krefting in concert
Bill Nace and Matt Krefting bring their experimental sounds to the Clark in a concert presented by Belltower Records.
2 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
4 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Nordic Circle at Wild Soul River
Nordic Circle at Wild Soul River
Wild Soul River's Rune Workshop has transformed into a Nordic Circle, and the group will spend six weeks this fall focusing on the Nordic god Frey.
Like trees — Clark art talk
Like trees — Clark art talk
In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Jonathan Flatley talks about human relationships with trees.
9 events,
Queer circle
Queer circle
The Bear and Bee bookshop invites LGBTQ+ folk an informal evening of conversation and quiet activities in a warm community place, every second Wednesday of the month.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Kids cook @ Berkshire Botanical
Kids cook @ Berkshire Botanical
BBG educator Rachel Durgin will lead a winter cooking class, where kids will learn to read recipes, gain skills and have fun in the kitchen.
Tarot meetup
Tarot meetup
Wild Soul River holds a weekly gentle exploration into the symbols and stories of the tarot in an affirming environment.
5 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Afro-Colombian dance – Williams Music
Afro-Colombian dance – Williams Music
Professor Melissa Blanco Borelli will give the Class of 1960 Music Lecture on Displacing the Mapalé: Sankofa Danzafro’s La Mentira Complaciente.
Sound, sculpture and theater
Sound, sculpture and theater
In this Research and Academic Program talk, artist Sergei Tcherepnin (Bennington College) discusses his creative practice and recent work.
Mid-winter Bacchanal
Mid-winter Bacchanal
The Soundry presents an evening of psychedelic jazz-rock with eastern influence with Wes Buckley, Sam McGarrity, Ian Giles, Miles Lally and Brian Kantor.
8 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Drawing closer — Animal Planet
Drawing closer — Animal Planet
The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper invites artists of all experience to work closely from themes in drawings from the Clark’s collection.
Fresh Takes — Emerging art historians explore
Fresh Takes — Emerging art historians explore
Williams graduate students in art will explore the Clark Art Institute's collection and take a new look at old favorites.
Log lunch – ‘Clean’ Energy: What is It?
Log lunch – ‘Clean’ Energy: What is It?
Environmental lawyer Jeff Thaler ’74 will speak at Log Lunch on 'Clean' Energy: What is It? Trade Offs, Hurdles, Job Opportunities.'
12 events,
Pittsfield Farmers Market
Pittsfield Farmers Market
Locally roasted coffee, native plants or gently herbed hand cream ... the regular Pittsfield Farmers Market welcomes in farmers and artisans together.
Start with Art — Movement
Start with Art — Movement
Get preschoolers off to a creative start with themed painting talks, gallery guides, and art-making activities specially designed for this age group.
Sheffield winter farmers market
Sheffield winter farmers market
The Sheffield Farmers Market hold a Winter Market at Dewey Hall on second Saturdays with local food, hot drinks, art and more.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
7 events,
Domingo Brunch — Jason Ennis and Natalia Bernal
Domingo Brunch — Jason Ennis and Natalia Bernal
Jason Ennis and Natalia Bernal perform magical and soothing sounds on vocals and guitar at Dottie's Coffee Lounge, as Dottie’s serves Domingo Brunch with homemade food and live music.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
A Clark educator leads a tour of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Valentine’s Day cardmaking
Valentine’s Day cardmaking
Make a Valentine’s Day card for your sweetheart, friend, or family member and leave with a unique artwork that uses images from the Clark’s collection.
3 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Imagining Other Lives film festival
Imagining Other Lives film festival
In the 2023 French and Francophone Film Festival, characters delve deeply into the lives of others and question the limits of their ability to imagine or enter those worlds.
5 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Nordic Circle at Wild Soul River
Nordic Circle at Wild Soul River
Wild Soul River's Rune Workshop has transformed into a Nordic Circle, and the group will spend six weeks this fall focusing on the Nordic god Frey.
Recital for Berkshire Soloist Competition
Recital for Berkshire Soloist Competition
This is the first of two recitals which give student musicians in the Berkshire Symphony Student Soloist Competition a chance to play their pieces for an audience.
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love
History’s most-known playwright is the subject of a story himself in John Madden’s period comedy-drama, Shakespeare in Love, with an all-star cast of Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck and Judi Dench.
6 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Tarot meetup
Tarot meetup
Wild Soul River holds a weekly gentle exploration into the symbols and stories of the tarot in an affirming environment.
Dewey Drop-in — Show and Tell
Dewey Drop-in — Show and Tell
Dewey Hall and Michael Lesko are partnering to revive a monthly open-mic-meets-variety show with an open creative soirée and a talented headlining act.
Open mic @ the Egremont Barn
Open mic @ the Egremont Barn
The Egremont Barn welcomes all comers to perform on the tavern stage for a night of acoustic music in a friendly space.
5 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Swing dance with the Wanda Houston Band
Swing dance with the Wanda Houston Band
Dewey Hall hosts a TapRoot Swing Dance with live music by the Wanda Houston Band and instruction from Jason Fenton.
Indie Night – Sample The Cat
Indie Night – Sample The Cat
Berkshire band Sample The Cat will play Indy night at the Stationery Factory in a blend of Soul, Rock and Jazz to create a dynamic and engaging vibe.
SUSU plays the Egremont Barn
SUSU plays the Egremont Barn
New York City collective SUSU brings together firebrand female lead vocalists and songwriters Liza Colby of the Liza Colby Sound, Kia Warren of Revel In Dimes and more.
4 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Club Zambezi Dance Party
Club Zambezi Dance Party
All are invited to dance it up and feel the heat blazing from the fire of the Club Zambezi Dance Party with the Zambezi Marimba Band - bring yourself, bring a friend, and bring the family.
Thank God For Science @ the Barn
Thank God For Science @ the Barn
Thank God For Science, a one-of-a-kind musical group, searches for harmony, chaos, enlightenment and every note in between.
13 events,
Free Drop-In Art Making
Free Drop-In Art Making
Berkshire Art Center offers creative multigenerational fun at their new Pittsfield center in the Brothership Building.
Berkshire Grown Farmers Market
Berkshire Grown Farmers Market
Cheeses and honey, apples and winter greens, locally roasted coffee, baked goods and more ... local growers and makers are at work year-round.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Clark weekly gallery tour
Clark weekly gallery tour
Take a guided walk through the permanent collection at the Clark Art Institute, looking at works from the collection and learning more about the museum's history.
5 events,
Domingo Brunch — the Shire String Band
Domingo Brunch — the Shire String Band
Every Sunday, Dottie's hosts serves Domingo Brunch with homemade food and live music, today with the Shire String Band, Dan Broad and Dana Welts on guitar, bass and vocal harmonies.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
A Clark educator leads a tour of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Armando Guadalupe Cortés with Juvenal Cortés
Armando Guadalupe Cortés with Juvenal Cortés
Artist Armando Cortés returns to his installation Castillos, in Ceramics in the Expanded Field, with a new performance of aún los gallos lloran (Even Roosters Cry), activating his artwork.
3 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Imagining Other Lives film festival
Imagining Other Lives film festival
In the 2023 French and Francophone Film Festival, characters delve deeply into the lives of others and question the limits of their ability to imagine or enter those worlds.
3 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Nordic Circle at Wild Soul River
Nordic Circle at Wild Soul River
Wild Soul River's Rune Workshop has transformed into a Nordic Circle, and the group will spend six weeks this fall focusing on the Nordic god Frey.
7 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Visiting Artist: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Visiting Artist: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Andrew Schneider and Bobby McElver have created an immersive, interactive, light and sound installation about grief, community, and the one-way-ness of time.
Tarot meetup
Tarot meetup
Wild Soul River holds a weekly gentle exploration into the symbols and stories of the tarot in an affirming environment.
Dewey Drop-in: Game night
Dewey Drop-in: Game night
Dewey Hall hosts a game night for people of all ages who love playing games to gather with friends and/or join with others that share an interest.
5 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Visiting Artist: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Visiting Artist: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Andrew Schneider and Bobby McElver have created an immersive, interactive, light and sound installation about grief, community, and the one-way-ness of time.
Open Studios @ Mass MoCA
Open Studios @ Mass MoCA
Mass MoCA's artists-in-residence at The Studios — where you may meet a fiber artist, an Affrilachian Poet and a Cave Canem fellow and game designer, a fourth-generation asian American artist exploring collective memory, generational narratives, histories and space, a visual album maker from San Francisco, an Afrofuturist poetry slam champion, […]
Kat and Brad play the Egremont Barn
Kat and Brad play the Egremont Barn
Drawing from 1950s and 1960s pop and American Songbook standards, this duo creates original songs that sound like old Stax records.
7 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Log lunch – Wildlife Rehabilitation: An Unexpected Career
Log lunch – Wildlife Rehabilitation: An Unexpected Career
Sarah Cooperman ’17, from Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary in Shipman, Virginia, will speak at Log Lunch on Wildlife Rehabilitation: An Unexpected Career.
Opening Celebration for ‘Across Shared Waters’
Opening Celebration for ‘Across Shared Waters’
WCMA holds the opening celebration of Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection.
Visiting Artist: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Visiting Artist: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Andrew Schneider and Bobby McElver have created an immersive, interactive, light and sound installation about grief, community, and the one-way-ness of time.
7 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Clark weekly gallery tour
Clark weekly gallery tour
Take a guided walk through the permanent collection at the Clark Art Institute, looking at works from the collection and learning more about the museum's history.
Visiting Artist: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Visiting Artist: N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
Andrew Schneider and Bobby McElver have created an immersive, interactive, light and sound installation about grief, community, and the one-way-ness of time.
My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro
Two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, move with their father to the country while their mother is facing illness and meet gentle forest guardians who help them rediscover hope.
4 events,
Domingo Brunch — Robin O’Herin
Domingo Brunch — Robin O’Herin
Every Sunday, Dottie's hosts serves Domingo Brunch with homemade food and live music, today with Berkshire blues musician Robin O’Herin.
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
A Clark educator leads a tour of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
2 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
3 events,
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Berkshire winter art exhibits
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves ...
Nordic Circle at Wild Soul River
Nordic Circle at Wild Soul River
Wild Soul River's Rune Workshop has transformed into a Nordic Circle, and the group will spend six weeks this fall focusing on the Nordic god Frey.
2 events,
Tarot meetup
Tarot meetup
Wild Soul River holds a weekly gentle exploration into the symbols and stories of the tarot in an affirming environment.
3 events,
Free Drop-In Art Making
Free Drop-In Art Making
Berkshire Art Center offers creative multigenerational fun at their new Pittsfield center in the Brothership Building.
The Ivy League of Comedy Show
The Ivy League of Comedy Show
The Ivy League of Comedy can be seen on late-night TV and Comedy Central, performing well-written stand-up that doesn’t resort to playing on stereotypes or picking on the audience.
4 events,
North Adams winter farmers market
North Adams winter farmers market
Chocolate peanut butter cookies, fresh flowers, jams and pickles and cheeses ... the North Adams Farmers Market returns with more than a dozen farmers and makers.
Berkshire Strings jam session
Berkshire Strings jam session
Berkshire Strings will lead a moderately paced fiddle and contradance jam at 11:30 a.m. and a beginners jam at 10 a.m. on first and third Saturdays.
The Robert Cray Band
The Robert Cray Band
Over the past four decades, Blues Hall of Famer Robert Cray has created a sound that rises from American roots, blues, soul and R&B, with five Grammy wins and 20 acclaimed studio and live albums.
3 events,
Domingo brunch — Pete Toigo and Dave Bartley
Domingo brunch — Pete Toigo and Dave Bartley
Every first Sunday of the month, Dottie's hosts morning soulful jazz and blues. Pete Toigo performs on bass and Dave Bartley on piano and vocals as Dottie’s serves Domingo Brunch.
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
Exhibition tour: Promenades on Paper
A Clark educator leads a tour of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.