Los Angeles artist Beatriz Cortez speaks to people across time in Portals at the Williams College Museum of Art, sharing resonances with Antigua and Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Release shares women’s stories of incarceration and courage
A cooperative of women storytellers with the 2nd Street program in Pittsfield share their strength, their pain and their dreams in a new work of theater.
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#FreshGrass music festival rises up singing — #berkshireweekend
Something about moving through familiar spaces with the energy of brilliant voices who were halfway across the country or the world a few days ago … draws me back to FreshGrass every year.
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10th Berkshire Pottery Tour will open studios
Ceramics artists show their art this weekend, as the 10th annual Berkshire Pottery Tour opens studios across Stockbridge, Great Barrington, new Marlborough and Monterey.
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FreshGrass 2023
The 2023 FreshGrass festival will round the globe, from oldtime Appalachia and Bluegrass legends to North African desert blues.
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Amal brings unexpected brightness — #berkshireweekend
Amal, the 12-foot puppet, has come to Ashfield. She steps onto the town common, and she takes a visible breath and squares her shoulders, facing the crowd who have come to see her …
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Neighbors open questions of time and healing — On Cedar Street
A woman and a man sit together on the edge of possibility — two charismatic, intelligent people living alone, old enough for grown children and teenage grandchildren, testing the ground for how much they can trust.
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High culture, low pay — Local arts groups push for change
Berkshire arts nonprofits are exploring the need for diversity, equity, fair pay – and for understanding the experiences of their workers and investing in their futures.
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Let it shine murals brighten Pittsfield — #berkshireweekend
Bluebirds are flocking on North Street. Phoenixes are lighting down on the corner and in the park. Migration season is coming … but this is more than I was expecting. The Let It Shine artists are finishing their murals …
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Walk with Amal — a global traveler crosses America
Amal — a 12-foot-tall puppet, a moving work of theater creating community and art across three continents — comes to Mass MoCA and to Ashfield to find rest and music and home.
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