Berkshire Country Day School Head-elect Jennifer Fox will speak on the educational needs of young people growing up in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.
Tag: Camphill Ghent
Bits & Bytes: ‘Art That Speaks’ at Fuel; Radius Playwrights Festival submissions; ‘Mass. Cast’ at Schantz Galleries; library deliveries; ‘People Paintings’ at Camphill Ghent
Berkshire Playwrights Lab is calling for submissions for its third annual Radius Playwrights Festival, which features five or six new, short plays created by playwrights who live within a 50-mile radius of Great Barrington.
Bits & Bytes: Bernstein piano recital; ‘Opera as Opera’; barbershop quartet concert
Though not listed in the original program, a review of the concert indicated that, for an encore, Bernstein played ‘a shot of boogie-woogie.’
Bits & Bytes: Independence Day at Shakespeare & Company; Terry a la Berry at Lenox Library; blood drive at Camphill Ghent
Shakespeare & Company artists and special guests from the community including U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield; Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli, D-Lenox; and Sen. Adam Hinds, D-Pittsfield, will read the Declaration of Independence as part of Shakespeare & Company’s Fourth of July celebration.
Bits & Bytes: Daniel’s Art Party; CATA art book; ‘Battle of the Bartenders’; Voodoo Orchestra at Club Helsinki Hudson; ‘Backdoor Poetry’ art exhibit
The book “You Can’t Replace Yourself” draws from 25 years of poems, paintings and drawings created in Community Access to the Arts’ weekly arts workshops.
Bits & Bytes: Railroad Street Youth Project awards scholarships; ‘Hamilton’s Women’ at Ventfort Hall; ‘Complementary Eloquence;’ Berkshire Theatre Awards
Railroad Street Youth Project’s Railroad Street Youth Student Empowerment scholarship provides an opportunity for students to explore their after-high school options.
Bits & Bytes: Annual winter lecture; ‘Lenox Through the Years;’ Dead of Winter Jam; Robert D. Kaplan at Stockbridge Library; Drucker, Cooper at Camphill Ghent
In “Earning the Rockies,” author Robert D. Kaplan undertakes a cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age.
Bits & Bytes: ‘God’s Trombones’; Gospel Gang Christmas concert; Dept. of Children & Families toy delivery; ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Camphill Ghent; merit award for Stephen Dietemann
Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli, D–Lenox, worked with the Department of Children and Families’ central office to secure a truck and company to deliver toys from Boston to the departments Pittsfield office on Thursday.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Selected Shorts’ at the Mahaiwe; ‘Billi’ at St. Francis Gallery; Pete Seeger tribute; letter-writing talk; Artful Hike at Olana; poetry at Camphill Ghent
Katherine Grandjean’s research explores early English colonization and the encounter with Native peoples, as well as the origins of American violence.
Bits & Bytes: Dog Film Festival; ‘Displaced Persons’ talk; ‘Jazz for Justice;’ ‘Horses and Hikers for Healing;’ Patrick Stolfo exhibit
Nw York Times reporter Joseph Berger was born in Russia in 1945, spent the postwar years in displaced persons camps in Germany and, after immigrating to the U.S., grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx.
Bits & Bytes: Independence Day at Shakespeare & Co.; ‘Haydn Behind Beethoven;’ swing dancing at Race Brook Lodge; Stockbridge Cemetery walk; Gary Finelli at Camphill Ghent
Stockbridge’s first library was a private lending association with books delivered to members by market basket.
Bits & Bytes: Behold! New Lebanon tours; ‘Generation Block Party;’ Berkshire Children’s Chorus anniversary concert; Stockbridge cemetery walk; John Kamitsuka at Camphill Ghent
Participants in the cemetery walk will explore the lives of Stockbridge people who changed history through the legal system.
Bits & Bytes: Truck Day; Writers Read; paint & oil collection; Petrichor album release; new website for BNRC; Camphill Ghent tribute orchard
Truck Day will feature more 40 vehicles such as dump trucks, bulldozers, snow groomers, 18-wheelers, snowmobiles, police cars, and fire trucks for children to look at, climb on, sit in.
Bits & Bytes: Lecture by audio expert Edgar Choueiri; ‘From the Garden: Still Life’ art exhibit; cellist David Gibson at Camphill Ghent; Pittsfield Repair Cafe; vegetable gardens at Berkshire Museum
Children attending Berkshire Museum’s summer programs and activities will learn about growing and harvesting vegetables.
Bits & Bytes: Shakespeare 400th celebration; GBFG Earth Day; Magical Strings at Camphill Ghent; Gospelfest 2016; beekeeping workshop; floral design demonstration; Litchfield Jazz Camp fundraiser
Great Barrington Fairgrounds’ Community Garden Project will connect people of all levels of expertise and income by providing access to the resources, skills, and information necessary to grow their own food.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Fiddler OFF the Roof;’ Williams interfaith conference; Monument Girls Write On; Matt Tannenbaum book talk; Robert Kopelson in Egremont; Hotchkiss one-acts; Camphill Ghent art opening
Bishop Gene Robinson is an advocate for full rights and marriage equality for gay, bisexual, and transgender people at the state, national and international levels.
Bits & Bytes: Fuel assistance concert; BTCF application deadline; Wintergreen at Berkshire Museum; Williams to support Mt. Greylock; Eugene Drucker at Camphill Ghent
Williams College has announced that it will form a $5 million fund to support the Mount Greylock Regional School District’s capital needs.
Bits & Bytes: BCC dog show; Playhouse seeks directors; watercolors at Camphill Ghent; ‘RE” at Ferrin Contemporary; Crossroads gallery hop
The Ghent Playhouse is seeking proposals from directors interested in directing a musical as part of its 2016-2017 theater season.
Bits & Bytes: ‘The Weir’ at Ghent Playhouse; Matt Pardo at Berkshire Pulse; RSYP open mic; ‘The Brave Little Parrot’ at Camphill Ghent
Pardo has a special connection to Berkshire Pulse: his solo piece “Life.Long” began in the old Berkshire Pulse dance studios.
Bits & Bytes: Shepherd’s Play at Camphill Ghent; 1753 House carol sing; Ron Ramsay and Samantha Talora at The Whit
At the 1753 House in Williamstown, Mass., Deborah Burns and members of her OK Chorale will lead a cappella singing beside a roaring blaze in the fireplace.
Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; Friday night shopping; storytelling talk; 2016 VIM coupon book; Williams fiction reading
Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires (VIM) announces that the launch of the 2016 VIM Coupon Book will take place at the Lenox Holiday Stroll, Saturday, December 5, from noon to 4 at MacKimmie Company and Casablanca.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Cuba in Changing Times;’ Don Wynn at Neumann Fine Art; innovation prize for Behold! New Lebanon; pianist Benjamin Hochman concert
On Sunday, November 15 the Schumacher Center for a New Economics will present Cuban author Rafael Hernández for a talk entitled “Cuba in Changing Time.”
Bits & Bytes: Jacob’s Pillow & MASS MoCA co-production; HD broadcasts at the Mahaiwe; haiku workshops; Middle East talk at Shake & Co.; Alford Road paving
The paving of Taconic Avenue from Castle Hill Avenue to the Railroad bridge at St. James Place will be done next spring. The Town will install speed monitoring signs and stop signs to reduce speeding.
Bits & Bytes: Deb Koffman book launch; Shake & Co. Common Classes; Camphill chamber concert; Williams alum earns physics award; Humane Society grant
“Common Classes at the Fall Festival of Shakespeare are a beautiful example of what education might one day become — nurturing creativity and developing cooperation.”
— Kevin Coleman, Director of Education at Shakespeare and Company
Bits & Bytes: Ventfort Hall silver auction; watercolor exhibit at Camphill Ghent; Haunted Historic Pittsfield walking tour; Jewish War Veterans’ post commander; Lauren Clark Fine Art October events
Hosted by local folklorist and historian Joe Durwin, the tour explores some of the rich history of downtown Pittsfield through the lens of its folklore, legends, and mysteries.
Bits & Bytes: Easy Ridin’ Papas at Dewey Hall; High Holidays with Rimon; ‘The Berkshire Collection’ at St. Francis Gallery; Community Day at Camphill Ghent
St. Francis Gallery in South Lee presents “The Berkshire Collection,” an intensive look at the combined and varied works of a wide range of Berkshire artists.
Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Lyric auditions; Behold! New Lebanon’s Sept. 12 tours; Shred Day at Salisbury Bank; Hevreh High Holy Days services; Music Inn meet-up
Fans, staff, musicians, local historians and music lovers are invited for an evening to celebrate the legendary Music Inn this Sunday, September 13 at 6 p.m. at Bascom Lodge.
Bits & Bytes: Chief Burger appointment; WAM Theatre’s final 2015 reading; pottery show, tour; High Holy Days at Anshe Amunim
Chief Burger looks forward to advancing the fire service in Massachusetts and being an advocate for call and volunteer fire departments.
Bits & Bytes: Events and news of note in the Berkshires
Behold! New Lebanon Aug. 29 tours; Camphill Ghent volunteers honored; Knosh & Knowledge at Hevreh, with a lecture on anti-Semitism in France; Jacob’s Pillow honors outgoing executive director Ella Baff.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Berkshire Mosaic’; Fête des Fleurs; Intentional Jazz; landscape art show; Bidwell House history talk
Multicultural BRIDGE’s ‘Berkshire Mosaic’ book release Pittsfield — On Saturday, August 8 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Multicultural BRIDGE will present its Social Justice in Action campaign fundraiser featuring the release of “Berkshire Mosaic: a Multicultural BRIDGE Living History Project” at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Author Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant, along with some of
Bits & Bytes: Last call for Dig & Dine tickets; The Summer of Greylock Gin; Appalachian Trail celebration; “Moving Through the Tree of Life” in Pittsfield; Historical music concert at Camphill Ghent
Barbara Watkins, owner of Evergreen Fine American Crafts, has led the I Dig GB campaign, organizing sales and special events to draw people to Great Barrington even during the rockiest periods of Main Street Reconstruction.
Bits & Bytes: CATA gala and performances; Bard College chamber ensemble; lecture on Saul Bellow at Ahavath Sholom
CATA performance, gala at Shakespeare & Company Lenox — Community Access to the Arts presents “Ready, Willing & Able,” CATA’s annual performance and gala on Saturday, May 16 at 6 p.m., and a second performance on Sunday, May 17 at 1 p.m. at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse at 70 Kemble Street. “Ready, Willing