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Kate Abbott
In Trinh Mai's diptych 'When We Became Trees,' a husband and wife find quiet in a garden in Southern California.
Trinh Mai
Visual Arts

Unison stronger than fission: Poetry and art hold a light in hard times

December 22, 2020
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Artist Trinh Mai and poet Shann Ray have created a book of words and paintings probing a world where the beauty of high canyons and loving relationships can exist at the same time as fission and division.

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American poet Ocean Vuong reads his new work rooted in the U.S. and Viet Nam.
Ocean Vuong / Photo by Tom Hines
Writing

Ocean Vuong holds calm in chaos with contemporary poetry rooted in Viet Nam

April 4, 2018
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In honor of National Poetry Month we honor and thank a poet who recently came to visit. Five years ago he was giving readings in Brooklyn —  Zachary Finch heard of them through a friend in the city and listened, awe-struck, to poems like Aubade with Burning City. Ocean Vuong […]

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Trumpets. Courtesy photo
Trumpets / Courtesy photo
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Mothering takes grit and soul — By the Way column

May 11, 2017
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May and Mother’s Day — and women are coming to town this week, dancing and playing music and telling stories, and drawing energy like trees in the rain. As I look through this week’s calendar, I read about Portuguese jazz, and I think of my mother singing to Ray Charles and […]

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Nikki Giovanni joins MCLA students and visitors at the MCLA Institute for the Humanities' inaugural symposium in June 2019.
Nikki Giovanni / MCLA
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Internationally acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni celebrates life and liberty in the Berkshires

March 10, 2017
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Internationally acclaimed poet and writer, professor and activist Nikki Giovanni took the mike and talked about “life, liberty and — what I most love — ‘the pursuit of happiness.’”

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Elizabeth King's exhibit, 'Radical Small' opens articulate hands at Mass MoCA. Photo by Kate Abbott
Elizabeth King / Mass MoCA
Visual Arts

Art in her hands at International Women’s Day — By the Way column

March 9, 2017
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Women known around the world in art and music have come to the Berkshires, and we remember them as Women’s History Month honors International Women’s Day.

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Crysta Cheverie played Henry V in a cast of women in an MCLA theater production in November 2016.
Crysta Cheverie / MCLA
Theater

MCLA women take on Shakespeare’s Henry V with an all-women cast

January 12, 2017
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An all-women cast performs Shakespeare’s Henry V and relishes the freedom it brings them at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams.

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A candle burns in the dark.
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Journalism

Standing together: Thoughts before the electoral vote — By the Way column

December 12, 2016
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Since the election, I have been trying to think. Like many people I love, I am afraid for the country I live in, and I’m afraid for people I love.

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'The Chronicles of Rose' tells the story of Rose Valland, part of the French Resistence in World War II.
Photo courtesy of David Lane
Visual Arts

Puppet theater remembers the woman who saved the Louvre in World War II

November 4, 2016
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Paris. August 28, 1939. The Mona Lisa is carried out of the Musée du Louvre in a stretcher and taken away in an ambulance. Six days later, Germany has declared war on France, and the museum has sent more than 3,600 paintings and sculptures into hiding. Many hands helped. “Café […]

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Christine Bile as Orpheus, left, meets gods and fabulous monsters in her journey. Photograph by Daniel Rader, courtesy of WTF.
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Theater

A Berkshire Orpheus faces gods and monsters at Williamstown Theatre Festival

July 20, 2016
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Orpheus, the Greek singer who walked into the underworld, is walking into an old mill town on a summer night. But she is a new Orpheus. She is a woman with a strong alto voice and a fall of braids down her back. When she and her mother and grandmother […]

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Tunisian singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi, who now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., has appeared in the Berkshires at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and at Mass MoCA in North Adams.
Emel Mathlouthi / MCLA
Music

Tunisian and New York musician Emel Mathlouthi sings freedom and peace at MCLA

March 28, 2016
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Tunisian composer, singer and songwriter Emel Mathlouthi has performed at the ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize — and at MCLA in North Adams.

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