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Actors and puppeteers perform in Shakuntala: A Remix. Press photo courtesy of the '62 Center at Williams College
Shakuntala
Theater

Shakuntala remixes a Sanskrit play and 21st-century love story

May 17, 2023
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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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WAM Theatre and the Elizabeth Freeman Center hold an awareness event together. Press photo courtesy of WAM
WAM Theatre
Theater

‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ explores the future

May 17, 2023
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‘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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Trees show crimson buds at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Fresh cheese and sourdough: Farmers markets and plant sales — #Berkshireweekend

May 11, 2023
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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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Visitors touch clay in Conversations with the Material World, an interactive art exhibit with sound and contact. Press photo courtesy of Catherine Monahon
Anthony Washington, Sound Scene 2022
Visual Arts

Artists collective brings work to hear and touch @ MCLA

May 5, 2023
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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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Crimson tulips bloom at the annual Daffodil and Tulip Festival at Naumkeag in Stockbridge.
Photo by Kate Abbott
newsletter

You’re going to meet some gentle people there — #Berkshireweekend

May 4, 2023
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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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Isaac Rivera '26, Daisy Rosalez '25 and Lama Tashi Norbu share a moment of ritual and sacred smoke in the courtyard outside WCMA. Press photo courtesy of the Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College Museum of Art
Visual Arts

Lama Tashi Norbu fuses Tibetan mantras and tattoo art

May 3, 2023
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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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Trees show new sping leaves along the edge of the field at Lime Kiln Wildlife Sanctuary in Sheffield.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Hikes

Lime Kiln Sanctuary gives a sunlit view in Spring

May 1, 2023
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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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Wild columbine blooms vivid red and yellow at Bartholomew's Cobble in Sheffield.
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Outdoors

Columbine and jazz: Warm days are coming — #berkshireweekend

April 27, 2023
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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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A dark red candle in a glass cup glows with two wicks. Creative Commons ourtesy photo.
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Yom HaShoah honors those who faced the Holocaust

April 26, 2023
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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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Awardwinning poet Ross Gay read from his work on a spring day at Bennington College.
Ross Gay / Photo by Natasha Komoda
Writing

Questing for poets on spring nights — #Berkshireweekend

April 20, 2023
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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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