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Bits & Bytes: Ben Cosgrove at Dewey Hall; ‘Rigged’ screening; ‘The Pollinators’ at Simon’s Rock; ‘Tannery Sessions’ video concerts; Becket Art Center call for artists
“The Pollinators” features the filmmakers talking to farmers, scientists, chefs, economists and academics to give a broad perspective about the threats to honey bees and what it means for food security.
Business Briefs: Pillow Lab artist residencies; BTCF receives investment; new head of Darrow School; digital marketing seminar; designation for Bills
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation conducted community-based research into barriers to arts participation experienced by lower-income residents and communities of color, including immigrants.
Bits & Bytes: Berkshire County School Fair; Lenox Library construction; West Main Connection open house; Bennington College Young Writers Awards; Diaper Need Awareness Week
The Lenox Library will be closed for construction starting Tuesday, Sept. 24, and will open again Tuesday, Oct. 1.
Business Briefs: BNRC upgrades trails; Juntos Avanzamos designation for Greylock; award for Darrow School; home-buying seminar; Berkshire Workforce Board meeting
Berkshire Natural Resources Council upgrades trails for summer season Lenox — On June 10, Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli, D-Lenox, joined members of the Berkshire Natural Resources Council board of directors, volunteers, staff and nature trail enthusiasts to unveil a redesigned trailhead kiosk and enhanced on-trail signage at BNRC’s flagship conservation reserve, Yokun Ridge South at
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: Father-and-son birding talk; corpse flowers at Darrow School; BCD head-elect on education; Ulrike Grannis at Camphill Ghent
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.
PREVIEW: Boston Symphony Orchestra to perform free community chamber concert at Darrow School
The main reason they’re giving a concert Sunday, March 10, at Darrow School is because they enjoy performing music we usually don’t associate with the BSO: folk, especially in the traditional Celtic style.
Bits & Bytes: Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service; ‘Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms’; Leah Penniman at Darrow School
In Interfaith Celebration program will begin with a service opened by Rev. Cara Davis and officiated by Wray Gunn of the Legacy Festival and Clinton Church Restoration with a performance by Olga Dunn School of Dance and songs from local congregations.
Business Briefs: Flying Deer passes capital campaign goal; BerkShares accounting seminar; grants for Shake & Co.; Darrow selected as innovation lab school; BCC Awards Night
Current and prospective BerkShares businesses are invited attend the June 27 accounting seminar in order to learn more about handling BerkShares at their businesses.
Bits & Bytes: Truck Day; Family Cabaret Night at Sandisfield Arts Center; Narrative Film Festival; Polaris Piano Trio at Roe Jan Library
The Polaris Piano Trio performs programs that explore works by women and composers of African descent from the 19th century through the present.
Building a sustainable food chain at Climbing Tree Farm
Farming at Climbing Tree is particularly labor-intensive given its hillside location, but there is a significant upside: the view. The farm looks out on a small lake, forests and the mountainous terrain of Massachusetts.
Flying Deer Nature Day: A celebration of nurturing all life
I will be at Flying Deer Nature Day, as the proud Mama to one of 13 girls in Moon Tribe, the rites-of-passage program for girls between the ages of 11-13, designed to support girls as they move through early adolescence, learning about themselves and the world and discerning their identities as young women.
Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Pulse performance; MASS MoCA Building 6 grand opening; Digging Darrow excavation; substance abuse loss support group
The Digging Darrow excavation intends to map out the entire Shaker settlement, locate long-lost workspaces and unearth evidence of Shaker life and culture at the site.
First ‘Student Film Festival of the Berkshires’ attracts enthusiastic entrants, large crowd
The films were all across the board in terms of genre and length. There were horror films, documentaries, comedies, and absurdist takes on the art form.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Wild Berkshires’ art show; ‘All in the Timing;’ ‘Images of America: Lenox;’ Gabriel Tajeu at Club Helsinki Hudson
‘All in the Timing’ is directed by Mount Everett Regional High School student Charles Kerzner and the cast is comprised of students from Taconic High School, Bard College at Simon’s Rock and the Darrow School.
Business Briefs: Roots Rising meets goal; MNN meeting; GBRSS announces development director; Artist’s Resource Trust Fund awards grants; artist-in-residence sought
A number of emerging public policy issues at the state and federal level will have an immediate impact on Massachusetts nonprofits and span across subsector, budget size and region.
Bits & Bytes: VIM chosen as award finalist; increased enrollment for Richmond Consolidated School; Darrow student wins art competition; dairy farmer becomes veterinarian
Richmond Consolidated School Principal Monica Zanin works with her teachers to implement the latest research in student learning and to provide rich professional development.
Bits & Bytes: Holiday Handcraft Fair; Berkshire Human Rights Speaker Series; ‘Othering’ spoken word performance; ‘EN•LIGHT•EN’ sculpture exhibit; ‘The Burial at Thebes’ at Darrow School
Janice Johnson Dias’ Human Rights talk will explore how notions of black mystical appeal stymie black humanity and harm black women and girls.
Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Grown Harvest Supper; Diana Felber Gallery fall exhibition; Tannery Pond concert; ‘Creating the Constitution;’ stone wall walk
Williams College’s Chapin Library houses an original printing of the Declaration of Independence.
Bits & Bytes: Free Fun Friday at Berkshire Museum; Blue Rider Stables Fun Day; OLLI open house & climate change talk; Norfolk Library book sale; St. Lawrence String Quartet
Immediately following OLLI’s open house at 3 p.m., Williams College professor Ralph Bradburd will give an illustrated talk about confronting climate change.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Resisting the Pipeline;’ CATA art exhibits; Stephen Hough at Tannery Pond; Harvey Granat at Berkshire South; Shabbat at Tanglewood
The ‘Resisting the Pipeline’ celebration will move to Lower Spectacle Pond/Otis State Forest in Sandisfield for a solidarity rally from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, that will include musical guests Ben Grosscup, Kate O’Conner, Bonner McAllester, and Steve Adams.
Bits & Bytes: Behold! New Lebanon tours; ‘The Nature of Glass’ at Chesterwood; Heeyeon Chi piano concert; ‘Mar Vista, Part IV;’ Bidwell House history talk; paint & oil collection
‘The Nature of Glass’ is curated by Jim Schantz of Schantz Galleries and features a diverse range of media and styles, with some created in response to sources of inspiration found by the artists at Chesterwood.
Bits & Bytes: Joshua Redman Quartet at the Mahaiwe; Museum & Archives reopening; Berkshire Blues Benefit Jam; Eugenia Zukerman & Jasper Quartet; stamp collecting talk
Following the ribbon-cutting ceremony, members of the Stockbridge community who have donated items to the Stockbridge Library’s Museum & Archives will be present to chat with visitors about their contributions to the collection, the town, and its history.
Bits & Bytes: Adam Ezra Group; First Fridays Artswalk; Joe Goodwin solo show; ‘Sembene!’; ‘A Mitzvah for Berkshire County Kids’ Place;’ 5k run/walk; bird walk
The feature-length documentary “Sembene!” tells the story of the “father of African cinema,” self-taught novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembéne, who fought a 50-year battle to give African stories to Africans.
Bits & Bytes: Fifth annual Made in the Berkshires Festival
Made in the Berkshires is a locally grown festival of new works including theatre, film, dance, poetry, music, short stories, performances, and visual art.