Thursday, July 17, 2025

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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."

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: 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: 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: 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.

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Berkshire Museum in national program; busy real estate market; BUW campaign kick-off; new art storage facility; new Jack Miller Contractors hires

The median price for single-family homes rose by 19.5% to $490,000 and condominium prices rose by 10.5% to $420,000 when compared to September 2019.

Bits & Bytes: Mahaiwe virtual party; Mark Plotkin talk; ‘Kabuki 2’ at Lauren Clark Fine Art; ‘From Sharon to Spoon River’

Plotkin studied with ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes at Harvard in addition to the Yale School of Forestry, and earned his doctoral degree from Tufts University.

BUSINESS BRIEFS: East Mountain Medical reorganizes; CHP expands; ‘Empower Hour’; BMM sponsors BETA; Greylock annual meeting

The two-year, $150,000 Massachusetts Health Insurance Navigator Grant grows the current health insurance navigator staff from two to four positions.

Bits & Bytes: SculptureNow video tours; ‘Old Country Barns’; ‘The Founding Fortunes’; National Moth Week workshop

Two large, lit screens will be set up in different locations and participants will collect data to document and identify as many species of moths as they can.

Bits & Bytes: Mahaiwe drive-in movies; Howardena Pindell at Art Omi; online theater workshop; screenplay submissions

During the workshop, guest choreographers Becky and Jamal Ahamad, Community Works alums and creators of the dance troupe dysFUNK, will show how movement tells a story.

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Greylock expands to Hudson; Downtown Pittsfield ambassadors; Villages of the Berkshires grant; Jacob’s Pillow commission; new Mezze co-cowners

Villages of the Berkshires is launching an effort to provide volunteer services such as friendly visitors or companionship, local transportation, technology support, and basic household repairs and assistance to seniors in the Berkshires.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Corona Diary’; Crystal Radio Sessions Upstate; Wild Air movies

The featured reading is "Too Young for The Blues" by Chatham-based playwright and author Wesley Brown.

Bits & Bytes: Gedney Farm sculpture show; Hershey Felder livestream; photography workshop; intergenerational conversation series; virtual staged reading

Gedney Farm exhibits sculpture by artist Susan Clinard New Marlborough -- On Saturday, July 11, from 1 to 8 p.m., Gedney Farm will host an...

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Artists at Work program; Spoon in Williamstown; Berkshire Agricultural Ventures grant; painting fellowship for Bradley

Zero-interest, forgivable loans and grants will be provided to help farmers adapt to new realities, overcome significant income challenges, and ensure farms remain viable and sustainable and can continue to meet demand for healthy local food.
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