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Tanglewood Learning Institute and Linde Center announce year-round programming: October 2024 through May 2025

"We are committed to deepening our engagement with local residents and community partners by opening the Linde Center’s doors year-round to present programs that enrich and enliven arts and culture in the Berkshires area," says BSO President and CEO Chad Smith.

Bits & Bytes: virtual Wild Thing trail race; BSC Bash; ‘Real People, Real Stories: Redux’; Virtual Act-Athon for Kids

Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary’s Wild Thing trail race Lenox -- Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary’s fifth annual Wild Thing 5K/10K trail race and 5K walk Wednesday,...

Bits & Bytes: ‘Microplastic Madness’ screening; Hotchkiss virtual concerts; climate justice teach-in

The Hotchkiss School has announced a program of weekly virtual concerts selected from 15-year collection of performances at its Katherine M. Elfers Hall.

New NPC board members; Belmuth joins VIM; Kirkby named top selling agent; new Jack Miller Contractors hires; Bennington prison initiative art degree

Those who are awarded degrees while in prison and are later released have a reduced rate of return to prison and higher rate of employment.

Bits & Bytes: Festive Frolic; Dana Cowin at Scoville Library; ‘Christmas at Trinity’; Jewish music talk; Lenox Historical Society open house

The Park Square tree lighting ceremony will take place Friday at 6 p.m. and include carols performed by the Taconic High School chorus and hot chocolate provided by Patrick’s Pub.

Business Briefs: New building at Porches Inn; CHP adds behavioral health services; McHugh named GB principal assessor; Hawthorne Valley supplement line; food insecurity grant...

In an effort to meet the needs of patients facing life stresses and more serious trauma needs, Community Health Programs has added behavioral health professionals at most of its medical practice locations.

Business Briefs: Main Street Hospitality expands Earthkeeping practices; historic artists’ sites staff convening; Allison Janney pledges matching grant; new designation for Tomkiewicz; Bennington College...

The convening will assemble 80 staff and special guests from over 40 preserved artists’ homes and studios nationwide as well as eight colleagues from preserved sites in the United Kingdom.

Bits & Bytes: Humane Race; neuropsychology lecture; veterans’ info session; prison education conference; ‘What I See’ art exhibit

The keynote address “Fateful Crossroads: The Future of College and Prison” will be given by Daniel Karpowitz, who served for 18 years as a classroom teacher, policy analyst, and national director for the Bard Prison Initiative and the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison.

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Earth Expo; Katherine Bernhardt at Art Omi; volunteer singers sought

The goal of the Cooler Communities Challenge is to reduce a community’s carbon footprint and improve its resilience by showcasing students’ research and activities on climate, energy and environment to inspire people to take action.

Bits & Bytes: Dickens to perform ‘A Christmas Carol’; ‘Beyond Plastics’ at Bennington; AOH seeks storytellers; Rep. Reed at Williams

Former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator Judith Enck will launching the “Beyond Plastics” project, through which she will work with college students and community leaders around the country to reduce plastic pollution.

Bits & Bytes: FODfest 2018; ‘PLASTIC!’ in Housatonic; world music program for kids; Social Change Film Series; ‘Voices of Poetry’ at the Mount

To ease the transition and make tap water more readily available, the Berkshire Women’s Action Group’s Environment Committee is planning a gradual rollout of modern, hygienic water-refill stations around Great Barrington and Housatonic.

Bits & Bytes: Jackie Wang at Simon’s Rock; ‘Reviving Our Hearts for Justice’; oral history workshops; opioid panel at Williams

'Reviving Our Hearts for Justice: An Interfaith Call to Action' seeks to revive people’s spirits for the work of social justice in the Berkshires and beyond.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Music and Art of the Sistine Chapel’; ‘Talking With Teens’ workshop; ‘Should the U.S. be Privatizing War?’; ‘On the Fly’ story...

The Talking With Teens event, videos and ongoing parent support group is part of a collaborative effort to support parents and caregivers who help teenagers navigate through adolescence.

PS21 unveils new building and a new era for arts and culture in Chatham

Over the past decade, PS21 has built up a reputation in Columbia County and the larger upstate New York area as an ideal place for weekenders and locals alike to escape to on a Saturday night to absorb a bit of culture.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Woods and Waters’ at Ventfort Hall; folk concert at Bennington; birding at Green Drinks; ‘Charley’s Horse’; construction class builds fairgrounds booth

Hoffmann Bird Club President Jonathan Pierce will discuss notable local birds and highlight early-summer bird behavior, as well as opportunities to get out and see birds with the Hoffman Bird Club

Bits & Bytes: Ellsworth Kelly exhibit at BBG; ‘Spartan Strong’; ‘Little Stones’ at Mason Library; Susan Stryker at Bennington College; ‘The Little Book of...

Spartan Strong was organized by Railroad Street Youth Project in response to a cluster of deaths among local young people in the last year, many of which involved drug and alcohol use and/or were suicides.
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