Williams professor of theater Shanti Pillai has gathered together an ensemble of student actors and guest artists, musicians, puppeteers, a Bollywood choreographer … and they are creating a new work together.
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‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ explores the future
‘The constitution … is a living, warm-blooded, steamy document,’ Heici Schreck argues in her Tony-nominated play — and she asks with a deeper understanding, what world could we imagine if that could really be true — for her, and for everyone.
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Fresh cheese and sourdough: Farmers markets and plant sales — #Berkshireweekend
And suddenly it’s May. We feel the change coming for weeks, fizzing in catkins and lapping up the lower slopes — and then the sun comes out and the maples open their leaves, and the world turns green again.
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Artists collective brings work to hear and touch @ MCLA
In downtown North Adams, Oakland, Calif., artist Catherine Monahon is creating an exhibit in clay, glass, wood, wool — and you can hold the art.
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You’re going to meet some gentle people there — #Berkshireweekend
Naumkeag’s annual spring festival is far enough along that the daffodils are wide open and just starting to give ground, and the tulips are all in full blow.
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Lama Tashi Norbu fuses Tibetan mantras and tattoo art
Isaac Rivera, Williams College ’26, honors his Zapotec and Chinantec roots, as Tibetan Lama Tashi Norbu offers him a tattoo drawn from Buddhist iconography and a mantra crafted uniquely for him.
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Lime Kiln Sanctuary gives a sunlit view in Spring
The sun came out, and the undergrowth turned softly green — ten minutes ago I’d been traveling in raw weather and now I’d found spring. I was walking through Lime Kiln Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time.
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Columbine and jazz: Warm days are coming — #berkshireweekend
The splash of red is vivid and unexpected — wild columbine. I wouldn’t have looked for them this early, or at this bend in the trail, with the white trillium growing thickly up the slope.
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Yom HaShoah honors those who faced the Holocaust
Poetry surfaces in the Berkshires in real and immediate places. On April 16, a group of us were gathered at Congregation Beth Israel to honor people who have withstood hate and anger with courage.
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Questing for poets on spring nights — #Berkshireweekend
Why is April called poetry month? Why now, in a precarious early spring? Ross Gay and Robert Hass remind me that poetry is physical. Immediate. Close as skin or rain on birchbark.
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