Today BRIDGE is celebrating 15 years in action. Founder and C.E.O. Gwendolyn Van Sant has grown a creative place and a center of community that has reshaped Great Barrington and the Berkshires, people around her will testify.
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Teaching stories — Arantzazú Galdós-Shapiro re-imagines 8th grade
Arantzazú (Zazu) Galdós-Shapiro, an ELA teacher at W.E.B. Du Bois Middle School, talks about the perspectives she and her students are learning together— what they read and hear, who gets to choose, and how they talk about the stories they encounter.
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Professor Asma Abbas finds strength in curiosity
Professor Asma Abbas talks about her life and experience in many ways, in philosophy and theory and listening silence.
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Sunny Banks Ranch keeps visions alive
Bill Robinson and his son, Steve, work a 200-acre ranch in Becket. Clad in thick rubber boots, jeans and a plaid shirt, Steve was outside working near the stables and looked every bit the part of a cowboy.
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La Navidadeña honors Mary’s travels
For nine days before Christmas, throughout Latin America, families are celebrating la novena navidadeña — the travels of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem.
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Starseed sanctuary in Savoy sows light
Satyana Ananda knows that sometimes after destruction, light returns. Sometimes a terrible thing can end in a miracle. Transformation is part of her mission as director of the Starseed Sanctuary.
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Theatre and art leaders commit to change
As the theatre season is reopening in the Berkshires, more than 30 arts and theatre organizations gathered with MCLA (in a virtual event) to talk with two nationally renowned theatre makers.
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Passover brings renewal and a call to action
He remembers the smell of lemon-scented furniture polish. It was the day in spring when his family would open all the windows and rub down the wood. Family was coming for the holiday.
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Will Amado Syldor-Severino speaks to silence
Will Amado Syldor-Severino, a senior fellow with Americorps Massachusetts Promise, is holding his three-week-old son, Abi, on a winter day, as he talks about diversity, his work with local teens and painful issues too often left unsaid.
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Zabian family builds businesses and trust on Main Street
Mike Zabian cuts a striking figure as he strolls in front of the Main Street building that bears his name, wearing dark gray slacks and an orange wool sweater-vest, smiling at people passing by.
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