Whitney Battle-Baptiste, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center and associate professor of anthropology at UMass Amherst, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual NAACP – Berkshire County Branch Freedom Awards dinner.
Tag: Rev Tor Band
Bits & Bytes: ‘Social Media, Aggression and our Youth’; First Fridays Artswalk; Baske on ocean health; ‘Dance! For Dogs and Cats’
“Courageous Conversations: Social Media, Aggression and our Youth” will include insights to help families recognize different forms of aggression in social media and strategies to encourage young people to speak up and speak out when they and their friends encounter aggression.
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: Holiday cooking safety tips; Writers Read; ‘The Gift Show;’ Last Waltz Live; Muddy Brook online auction
The online auction is the Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School PTA’s main fundraiser and supports a wide range of enrichment programming, including artist residency programs and field trips.
Bits & Bytes: Live on the Lake; CHP dental clinic; the Capitol Steps at Cranwell; stargazing workshop; ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ preview; Pittsfield Garden Tour
CHP dentists Dr. Lina Bermudez and Dr. Minwood Jang will conduct exams and offer fluoride treatments for children up to age 16; those over 16 will receive an oral exam only.
Bits & Bytes: ThunderFest; Berkshire Award; Winter Melt dance party; MMRHS pops concert; prison symposium at Williams College
The Monument Mountain Regional High School concert at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is part of the bands’ celebration of national Music in Our Schools Month.
Bits & Bytes: Dead of Winter Jam; BCC workshops; Ferrin Contemporary in NYC; Tu b’Shevat talk; Berkshire School science awards
The midwinter celebration of the music of the Grateful Dead will feature area blues/jam band the Rev Tor Band.