Events from February 23 – July 6, 2024 › Books, Talks & Spoken Word › – The Berkshire Edge
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Book Donations

The Lenox Library Association collects books throughout the year for its Annual Book Sale. Donated books are also sold at our Book Nook, which is located in the Library year-round. […]

Free

Litvaks in Love, a conversation with Prof. David G. Roskies

Online

Format: Zoom Admission: Free Registration link: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/events/upcoming-public-programs/litvaks-love-conversation-prof-david-g-roskies Description: In David Roskies’s memoir, Yiddishlands, a son acts as his mother’s medium as they conjure up Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Armed […]

Free

Author event with Eoin Higgins

Lenox Library 18 Main Street, LENOX, MA, United States

The Bookstore is pleased to partner with our friends from The Lenox Library to present journalist and historian Eoin Higgins as he discusses his brand new book, Owned: How Tech […]

Inventing the Modern

Cornwall CT Library 30 Pine Street, Cornwall, Connecticut

The Cornwall Library is excited to present MoMA insiders Ann Temkin and Romy Silver-Kohn in conversation about their new book, Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped […]

Free

Book Club on End-of-Life Issues

Berkshire Food Coop 34 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA

For Immediate Release: New book club to focus on dying, death and end-of-life issues. A new End-of-Life Book Club focused on dying, death, grief and the after-life will have its […]

Free

Book Donations

The Lenox Library Association collects books throughout the year for its Annual Book Sale. Donated books are also sold at our Book Nook, which is located in the Library year-round. […]

Free

Book Club – “Horse”

Becket Athenaeum

Join us to discuss "Horse" by Geraldine Brooks! All are welcome to join us for lively conversation inside the library or on a separate virtual meeting. Email to request a physical book or register for the separate virtual meeting. If attending in person, masks are optional. Automated closed caption available on virtual meetings.

Free

IWOW Open Mic

center for peace through culture 137 Front Street, Housatonic, MA, United States

IWOW (In Words Out Words) is an open mic event for storytellers, writers, musicians, and all artists on the first Tuesday of every month at 7PM. Mark your calendar, sign up to perform, grab a friend, and come join us! Sign up for a slot ahead of time - email: iwowartspace@gmail.com $5 suggested donation

Book Donations

The Lenox Library Association collects books throughout the year for its Annual Book Sale. Donated books are also sold at our Book Nook, which is located in the Library year-round. […]

Free

“The Road” & “The Bear” – Film & Book Discussion

Becket Athenaeum

Join us for this Big Read program at the Becket Athenaeum! Following a screening of John Hillcoat’s The Road, the 2009 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Becket Athenaeum Director Nicole Schulze will lead a discussion that compares the film to the Becket Athenaeum Big Read title – The Bear by Andrew […]

Free