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CONNECTIONS: Part One — We have everything we need to prevail if we can find the will

Redefining is a central piece of any autocratic takeover.

Bits & Bytes: Shakespeare 400th celebration; GBFG Earth Day; Magical Strings at Camphill Ghent; Gospelfest 2016; beekeeping workshop; floral design demonstration; Litchfield Jazz Camp...

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: Mark Oppenheimer at Williams; BHS poetry reading; Ventfort Hall magic show; Passover at Temple Anshe Amunim; Woodland Connections for Women; Facebook...

The "Celebrating Animals in Poetry" event will feature the Church Hill Poets as they read their own work as well as poetry of others focusing on animals in their lives and beyond.

Bits & Bytes: The Wilderness Players at Simon’s Rock; Norfolk poetry reading; Bidwell House internships; cabaret at Helsinki Hudson; Creators’ Studio at Flying Cloud

During the Flying Cloud Institute June session , Creators Studio students will be able to work deeply in such disciplines as robotics, engineering, coding, film, architecture, music composition, and ceramics, and each student will work with a mentor.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Fiddler OFF the Roof;’ Williams interfaith conference; Monument Girls Write On; Matt Tannenbaum book talk; Robert Kopelson in Egremont; Hotchkiss one-acts;...

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: Berkshire Bach concert; BHS kitten shower; William Moomaw on climate change; Litchfield Jazz Camp; Mac-Hadyn auditions; Kids 4 Harmony in national...

Although Berkshire Humane Society has made great strides in decreasing the number of homeless cats through its low-cost spaying and neutering programs, the shelter cared for almost 300 kittens during last year’s kitten season.

Bits & Bytes: Barney Frank at Williams; ‘Chicago’ at Mt. Everett; Andrea Wulf in Hudson; fracking documentary screening; ‘Recursive Threads’ at the Tremaine Gallery;...

"Our ancestors knew what we’re only starting to understand: tending to our world is closely linked to caring for ourselves." --Rabbi Josh Breindel

Business Briefs: Salisbury Bank scholarship program; Dan Smith at James Beard Foundation; Greylock donates to United Way

In addition to long-term partnerships with regional farms and food producers, Dan Smith, chef at John Andrews Farmhouse Restaurant, created his own garden on the property, which supplies additional produce for the restaurant.

Bits & Bytes: Arcadia Viols at Simon’s Rock; painting exhibition call for artists; ‘Real Talk on Race;’ ‘Baseball’ book release; Lenox church partnership; GB...

The course, "Real Talk on Race," is interactive, and will require participants to confront racism explicitly on individual and systemic levels.

Bits & Bytes: Podcasting workshops; STEM Starter Academy at BCC; Popovich Comedy Pet Theater at the Colonial; ‘Berning Man’ at Club Helsinki; Ghent auditions...

BCC's STEM Starter Academy aims to provide students with the tools they need to be STEM-ready in college and the workplace and will include academic support, tutoring, special field trips, guest speakers, and a STEM Academy Success Kit.

Bits & Bytes: Birding 101 at Olana; School Readiness Fair; Purim carnival; Blue Rider Stables Easter egg hunt; IS183 art camp

At IS183 campers will spend the summer as art detectives creating, encountering, and cracking mysteries in a wide assortment of media from clay to paint.

REVIEW: “Boeing, Boeing,” a hilarious comic romp

What Director Cathy Lee-Visscher has managed to do is to take something old and familiar and redefine it into something new and familiar at the same time

Bits & Bytes: Yo La Tengo at Club Helsinki Hudson; ‘Psychiatry Under the Influence;’ Alford caucus; Purim celebration; Kids 4 Harmony concert; ‘Signs of...

Berkshire Children and Families' Kids 4 Harmony is inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema, an intensive, values-driven, ensemble-based approach to teaching classical music to effect social change.

Bits & Bytes: BFWW closing weekend; MGRSD spring musical; Oakes and Smith EP release; bird nest workshop; Ghent Playhouse auditions

The Mt. Greylock high School production of 'Nice Work If You Can Get it' involves more than 40 members of MGRSD’s student body as actors, singers, pit musicians, and crew.

CEWM at the Mahaiwe; Rachel Siegel in ‘Special;’ potholder rug class; WordXWord poetry & story slams; Jacob’s Pillow auditions in Los Angeles; Olana receives...

Created and performed by playwright and actress Rachel Siegel, "Special" is based on personal experience and interviews with mothers of children with special needs.

Bits & Bytes: Writers-in-residence at the Mount; Nature Institute film screening; Ellen Berrey at Williams; Panorama at Olana; Anna Rogovoy dance performance

Anna Rogovoy is a 2009 graduate of Monument Mountain Regional High School. "West" is a technically demanding peek at effort, fame, and tumbleweeds, created in part during a residency at Bennington College.
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