Monday, March 23, 2026

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Emily Edelman

Emily Edelman is an audio and media professional who enjoys working and playing in her native Berkshires.

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Presidential election outcome sparks concern, fear in local LGBTQ+ community members

“We were, in many ways, prepared for this, and in many ways not,” said maayan nuri héd, executive director of Seeing Rainbows. “You can never fully be prepared, especially when our community in particular was the target of so much vitriol during the campaign."

BUSINESS BRIEFS: LitNet, CLuB partner; BSC grants; certification for Mountainside; Spencertown Academy capital campaign; Leger joins Salisbury Bank

Spencertown Academy Arts Center has announced the completion of its three-year $600,000 capital campaign.

Bits & Bytes: Pink Martini livestream; Wanda Houston at Egremont Barn; ‘Runnin’ to Grace’; award for Wynn; winter help for families

“Runnin’ to Grace” is a multi-part performance series that relays the experiences, emotions, and strategies of interdisciplinary scholar-performer Braggs as a Black faculty member surviving the double pandemic of systemic racialized violence and COVID-19.

Bits & Bytes: Virtual Fall Festival of Shakespeare; ‘BSC’s Holiday Getaway’; virtual cook-along; ‘A Virtual Christmas Spectacular’

Due to COVID-19, RSYP invites the community to experience culinary apprenticeship cooking virtually along with alumna Kirsten Thorn to make one dish together as a community.

PERSPECTIVES: Berkshire United Way Volunteer Center; award for Maguire; Berkshire HorseWorks grants; Shaker Museum trustee; Salisbury Bank hire

The Latham Grant for Humane Education of $5,000 will support Berkshire HorseWorks’ “PEACE: Bully Prevention/Intervention” program, making it more widely available for Berkshire County students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Bits & Bytes: Hancock Holidays; ‘A Gift of Dance’; Dust Bowl Faeries at Club Helsinki; intergenerational theater class

Members of two different age groups (ages 18-30 and ages 60-plus) will be matched to study, rehearse and present scenes from published plays.

Bits & Bytes: MCLA art exhibit; ‘Miracle on Walker Street’; communication class for high-schoolers

“Miracle on Walker Street” is a COVID-19-friendly adaptation of the ornate and over-the-top holiday decoration trend seen in recent years with pop-up concepts in cities like Washington, D.C., Chicago and Denver.

Bits & Bytes: Wu wins Kapetyn Prize; ‘A Christmas Carol’ video; Clipping at MASS MoCA; Aaron Likness at Simon’s Rock; Bidwell House auction

In 1993, Dickens created as his first one-man show, “A Christmas Carol,” inspired by Charles Dickens’ own energetic readings of the 1860s in the United States and elsewhere.

Bits & Bytes: Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas; Shakespeare & Company gala; animation talk; solar eclipse lecture

Shakespeare & Company will celebrate community Saturday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. with its virtual “New Horizons” gala.

Bits & Bytes: ‘An Old-Fashioned Christmas’; ‘Thanksgiving on the Farm’; Berkshire Bounty food drive; new Berkshire history books

Food donors may also drop their food donation at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire or at the People’s Pantry.

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Community foundations partnership; Puciloski honored; ‘We Believe’ at Salisbury Bank; Hawthorne Valley expansion; Baldwin joins Sharon Playhouse

Community foundations announce new partnership to support nonprofits in the wake of COVID-19 Boston -- A statewide coalition of community foundations has announced the formation...

Bits & Bytes: Lucinda Williams at the Mahaiwe; PJ Library Pajama Drive; ASL class; HVA auction; Hawthorne Valley Yuletide Fair

The pajama drive runs through Wednesday, Dec. 16. Donations will be received by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families’ Pittsfield office and distributed to local families during the holiday season.

Bits & Bytes: ‘The Thanksgiving Play’; 24-Hour Pajama Read-A-Thon; NightWood at the Mount; Shining Star program; kids’ music workshop

Inspired by the natural beauty and architecture of the Mount, NightWood will immerse visitors in a series of vignettes designed to evoke elements of fantasy, mystery and whimsy.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Illustrators and the Armed Forces’; ‘One Big Home’ screening; Tony Cenicola lecture; online theater workshop

The lecture will feature Kristopher Battles, Michael Fay, Victor Charles Juhasz, Elize McKelvey and Steve Mumford, who will discuss their experiences as embedded illustrators across the branches of the armed forces and the power of art to tell personal stories.

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Gala nets $90k; O’Sullivan joins Berkshire United Way; Berkshire Museum welcomes Belair; Greylock promotes Stanford; Salisbury Bank’s Cook graduates

O’Sullivan comes to BUW from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where he served as director of major gifts for nearly 10 years.

Bits & Bytes: November Reading Series; election post-mortem; ‘Rising Tides in a World on Fire’; faculty music recital

In conjunction with the Berkshire Earth Expo, WordXWord Festival has asked poets to wrestle with climate change and environmental justice as the world feels its way to a new post-pandemic normal.
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