‘19 Questions for Social Justice’ workshop to be held at Simon’s Rock
Great Barrington — Peggy McIntosh, founder of the National SEED Project and a former associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, will lead the interactive workshop “19 Questions for Social Justice” on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Bard College at Simon’s Rock from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Daniel Arts Center. The workshop is free and open to the public.
The workshop, based on McIntosh’s essay “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies,” will lead participants through a series of questions designed to explore the daily effects of white privilege. Simon’s Rock’s Office of Equity and Inclusion Director Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant, members of the College’s Council for Equity and Inclusion, and the community will respond alongside McIntosh to questions from the audience regarding privilege systems and higher education and social justice. Members of the campus and local community and schools will participate in the event. The workshop is part of the Symposium for Social Justice and Inclusion, a week of programming that invites Simon’s Rock and the local community to explore issues of race, privilege and social justice.
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Richmond Library to host journalist Joanna Slater
Richmond — On Saturday, Nov. 19, at 11 a.m., the Richmond Free Public Library will host a talk by Canadian journalist Joanna Slater. Slater’s talk is the fourth in the Lively World Series presented in memory of columnist and novelist Milton Bass. The event is free and open to the public.
Slater followed Syrian refugees on a train across Hungary last year and, for her coverage, was named 2015 Journalist of the Year at the Canadian National Newspaper Awards. Slater’s journey began at a railway station in Budapest where she found thousands of refugees sitting and sleeping on steps and sidewalks. At one point authorities ordered Slater off a train when they learned she was a journalist. Her articles ran in the Globe and Mail (Toronto), which recently made her its U.S. correspondent. Slater is now a Williamstown resident and her move to the Berkshires occurred earlier this year when her husband, Dr. Joel Lee, was named assistant professor of anthropology at Williams College. Her previous connection to the Berkshires was her friendship with Daniel Pearl, the former North Adams Transcript and Berkshire Eagle reporter who was kidnapped and assassinated in Pakistan in 2002; Slater and Pearl were colleagues on the Wall Street Journal staff in Mumbai, India.
For more information, contact the Library at (413) 698-3834 or richmondfreepubliclibrary@gmail.com.
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‘Home of the Brave: When Southbury Said No to the Nazis’
Great Barrington — On Friday, Nov. 18, the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires’ Knosh & Knowledge program will present filmmaker Scott Sniffen, who will screen and discuss his documentary “Home of the Brave: When Southbury Said No to the Nazis,” at 10:45 a.m. at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire followed by a buffet lunch.
In the 1930s, the German American Bund, tied with the Nazi party, was building training camps in rural sections of the U.S. with little resistance from the towns in which they were established. In 1937, the Bund planned to build the largest U.S. camp in Southbury, Connecticut. The film tells the story of how town patriots came to recognize the evil the group represented in 1937 and quickly took action against the camp. Emmy-nominated Scott Sniffen is the principal and chief creative at Sniffen Pictures.
Admission is $11 and includes the lunch. Participants may attend the program only for $5. Advance reservations for lunch are required. For more information or to make reservations, contact the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires at (413) 442-4360 x10 or jfb.officemanager@verizon.net.
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Berkshire Grown to present holiday farmers’ markets
Great Barrington — Berkshire Grown will host six holiday farmers’ markets from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Saturdays of Nov. 19, Dec. 17, Jan. 14, and Feb. 18 at Monument Valley Regional Middle School and the Sundays of Nov. 20 and Dec. 18 at the Williams College Towne Field House. The events will feature locally grown and produced foods and gifts, fun activities for kids, food for lunch, and music. In Williamstown there will be traditional acoustic music by the MoCA jam band. For more information, call Berkshire Grown at (413) 528-0041.
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