WBCRlp 97.7FM to celebrate 20th anniversary with benefit concert featuring Grammy-winning, Native American singer-songwriter Bill Miller at Race Brook Lodge
Sheffield— On Sunday, March 23rd from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., WBCRlp Berkshire Community Radio 97.7FM will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a benefit concert featuring Grammy-winning, Native American singer-songwriter Bill Miller at Race Brook Lodge.
Bill Miller is a three-time Grammy Award winning recording artist, performer, songwriter, activist, painter, world-class flute player, and proud member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians in northern Wisconsin with ancestral roots in the Berkshires.
The concert is on Sunday, March 23rd from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in The Barnspace at Race Brook Lodge, located at 864 South Undermountain Road in Sheffield. Food and drink will be available for purchase during the show. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Images Cinema presents the 2025 Earth Month Film Festival
Williamstown— From March 25th and April 22nd, Images Cinema presents the 2025 Earth Month Film Festival, a celebration of our home, the Earth. 2025’s theme is “Animals & Us,” in consideration of how people care for animals and animals care for us from both an agricultural standpoint as well as from a therapeutic standpoint, and how caring for and protecting key species allows animals to care for the planet.
The festival consists of four documentaries and two feature films shown between March 25th and April 22nd, beginning with “Nocturnes” on Tuesday, March 25th at 7 p.m. In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, moths are whispering something to us. In the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on this secret universe. Together, they are on an expedition to decode these nocturnal creatures in a remote ecological “hot spot” on the border of India and Bhutan. The result is a deeply immersive film that transports audiences to a rarely-seen place and urges us all to look more closely at the hidden interconnections of the natural world. At 6 p.m., there will be experiential activities with artist, educator, and citizen scientist Lauren Levato Coyne. At 7 p.m., there will be a pre-screening talk about moths and their significance as pollinators, as well as how gridded night counts work and how you could try one for yourself.
The festival runs from March 25th and April 22nd at Images Cinema, located at 50 Spring Street in Williamstown. Tickets and more information, including the entire festival line-up, can be found online.
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Lenox Library’s Distinguished Lecture Series continues with discussion of Russia and Ukraine with Dr. James Hatt
Lenox— On Sunday, March 23rd at 4 p.m., Lenox Library’s Distinguished Lecture Series continues with discussion of Russia and Ukraine with Dr. James Hatt.
Dr. James Hatt trained as an English lawyer, recruited by the Foreign Service in London, in the USSR in 1988. By 1991, Hatt was introduced to Vladimir Putin. A year later they had agreed on a number of joint ventures between Cable and Wireless (UK) and Putin-approved Russian partners. Between 1992 and 2000, Hatt had befriended a number of the men who, today, constitute the Russian Security Council. Their views on the inevitability of military conflict with Ukraine; their animosity towards NATO and disregard for its members, excepting the US; a belief that the natural partner for Russia would be China; and a determination that the post-World War II order of power and institutions needed to be dismantled already were formed prior to Putin becoming President.
In his lecture, Hatt will discuss why both Europe and America have lost Russia to China, how Russian leadership regards its domestic and international position today, and why those opinions from the 1990s are, from both a Russian and Chinese perspective, doing exceedingly well in 2023.
The lecture is on Sunday, March 23rd at 4 p.m. at the Lenox Library, located at 18 Main Street in Lenox. It is free and open to the public. More information can be found online.
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Bidwell House Museum presents “From Bubbles to Revolutions: Changing Conceptions of Money in England, France, and America, 1690-1781,” a virtual presentation with Simon Middleton
Monterey— On Wednesday, March 26th at 7 p.m., Bidwell House Museum, as part of its 4th annual Zoom lecture series, presents “From Bubbles to Revolutions: Changing Conceptions of Money in England, France, and America, 1690-1781,” a virtual presentation with Simon Middleton.
In this lecture, Middleton considers changing attitudes towards money along with the social and political consequences of those attitudes after the South Sea and Mississippi bubbles up through the American Revolution.
Simon Middleton teaches at the College of William & Mary and writes on work and politics, law and debt, and latterly on the history of money in the 17th and 18th century middle colonies, New York, and Pennsylvania. For the last year he has been writing lectures commissioned by the online content producer, The Great Courses. The lectures offer a history of money from 3000 BCE to the present and will be available on Amazon prime, audible, and other platforms later this year.
The virtual lecture is on Wednesday, March 26th at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Registration and more information can be found online.
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Dalton United Methodist Church Lenten Music Series kicks off with Cross Talk Praise Band
Dalton— On Sunday, March 23rd at 3 p.m., Dalton United Methodist Church Lenten Music Series kicks off with Cross Talk Praise Band.
Cross Talk features Mike Tirrell (lead guitar and vocals,) Ron Provencher (lead guitar,) Rob Provencher (bass,) Charles Redd (vocals,) Lisa McColgan (guitar and vocals,) John Garcia (drums,) and Joe Choon (harmonica,) with John Williams (sound engineer.) The band plays contemporary gospel music with a rock edge.
The concert is on Sunday, March 23rd at 3 p.m. at Dalton United Methodist Church, located at 55 Main Street in Dalton. It is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken. More information can be found online.
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Rescue Berkshires Wildlife presents ‘Rescue Pittsfield Wildlife from Rodenticides’
Pittsfield— On Monday, March 24th from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Rescue Berkshires Wildlife presents “Rescue Pittsfield Wildlife from Rodenticides.”
Raptors, foxes, and other predators balance Massachusetts’ ecosystems, but shocking numbers of these iconic creatures have been sickened and killed after eating poisoned rodents.
Mass Audubon’s Rescue Raptors program supports groups in communities across Massachusetts to reduce the use of these poisons, and wildlife advocates in Pittsfield have organized a local campaign team. Join the Pittsfield chapter of Rescue Berkshires Wildlife for a gathering to learn how rodent poisons harm wildlife and their plans to reduce rodent poison use in Pittsfield.
The hybrid meeting is on Monday, March 24th from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Lee Bank Community Room, located at 180 South Street in Pittsfield and on Zoom. Registration and more information can be found online.
