The contest was open to writers in grades nine through 12 attending schools or homeschooled in Columbia County as well as Berkshire County in Massachusetts.
Tag: Scoville Memorial Library
Bits & Bytes: Online poetry reading; ‘Birds in Crisis’ talk; virtual open mic night
The presentation will explain some of the factors behind the 30% drop in bird numbers since 1970, the prognosis for birds in the face of future climate change, and the things that can be done to help birds cope with the challenges they face.
Bits & Bytes: Restoration for Wally; online theater workshop; virtual yoga
Through simple and fun exercises, participants will speak powerful, theatrical language with confidence.
Bits & Bytes: Virtual Bulb Show; decluttering workshop; call for sculpture
Norman Rockwell Museum seeks 3-D, life-size, weatherproof, outdoor submissions that will be juried for awards by a panel of art professionals.
Bits & Bytes: Beyond Flamenco at PS21; Amy LaVere, Will Sexton at the Foundry; BIFF film screening; ‘The Alchemy of Us’; ‘Meet Me at the Clark’; cancellations
“Meet Me at the Clark” welcomes individuals with mild memory loss and their care partners to enjoy private viewing time in the galleries.
Bits & Bytes: BBG Bulb Show; Abraham Keita at Noble Horizons; CIA talk; ‘Tea Time With Simpson & Vail’
Loch K. Johnson is one of the nation’s leading experts on intelligence and has served on the staffs of the U.S. Senate and House intelligence committees as well as on the Aspin-Brown Presidential Intelligence Commission.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Pirates Past Noon’; Ken Gloss at Stockbridge Library; W.E.B. Du Bois talk; ‘Twilight Time’
Ken Gloss, who is also a frequent guest appraiser on PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow,” will talk in part about the history of his historic bookshop, which goes back to around 1825.
Business Briefs: New WAM Theatre board members; Parker to head Fisher Center; Petell joins Berkshire United Way; digital marketing seminar; new BCC hires
WAM Theatre appoints of two new board members Lenox — WAM Theatre has announced the appointment of new board members Erica Barreto and Toni Buckley. Barreto is an alumna of the 2019 Creative Community Fellows program through National Arts Strategies, an advisor to the multicultural alliance program at Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School,
Bits & Bytes: ‘Love Yourself’ at the Colonial; ‘A Little Rebellion Now and Then’; Marie Kendall photography talk; ‘Empowering Women and Girls Worldwide’
Shays’ Rebellion is viewed as an agrarian revolt pitting impoverished farmers in western Massachusetts against the wealthy merchant class of the coastal eastern part of the state.
Bits & Bytes: ‘The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons’; military drone talk; first responders’ support group
Mountainside is hosting free first responders support groups on the last Thursday of every month, offering first responders a safe space to share experiences and receive support.
Business Briefs: Local Farmer Awards applications; NAACP meeting, panel discussion; taxation planning workshops; EforAll pitch contest; new Berkshire Taconic board members
Described as “’Shark Tank’ without the teeth,” EforAll’s friendly, free event features a business showcase followed by pitches from six pre-selected contestants and two more who are added the night of the event.
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: WAM Theatre donations; MCLA lauded for gender equality; Business Model Canvas workshop; holiday house tour volunteers; designation for Russo
A report from the Eos Foundation examining gender equality in Massachusetts colleges and universities has identified Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts as the top four-year public institution among only 40% of schools to achieve gender equality.
Bits & Bytes: Community dialogue on racism; Lenox Land Trust conversation; ‘Love Travels Fast’; Berkshire Theatre Awards
During the presentation, Gwendolyn VanSant will address personal identity and bias and their relationship to systemic racism and cultural barriers.
Bits & Bytes: ‘A Recovering Racist in America’; Shawn Fields art talk; Neil Simon drama excerpts; Neha Das at Lenox Library
As detailed in his memoir, Tim Parrish will discuss his racist upbringing at home and in his church in Louisiana during the 1960s, his involvement in racist violence during high-school desegregation in the 1970s, his ongoing recovery from racism, and the current state of racism in the United States.
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: Chick Corea Trio at the Mahaiwe; Agnès Varda film festival; immigration system talk; the Suitcase Junket at Club Helsinki Hudson
Attendees will be part of an interactive presentation of the overseas security screening process that a typical refugee family passes through before coming to the United States.
Bits & Bytes: Live Out Loud conference; Martin Luther King Jr. tribute concert; ‘Nature Narratives’ at BBG; Cathcart, Klein on philosophy; Blue Art Show
Special guests the Urban Choral Arts Society from Baltimore, Maryland, will make a return appearance at the Cantilena Chamber Choir concert, and Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered in poems and speeches.
Bits & Bytes: French biography launch; ‘Leon: The Professional’ at Big Elm Brewing; medical cannabis talk; International Women’s Day celebration
For the first time since the program’s inception, a medical marijuana dispensary, Still River Wellness, will open in nearby Torrington, providing more access for residents interested in becoming patients.
Bits & Bytes: W. E. B. Du Bois tribute; ‘The Vagina Monologues’ at the Whit; ‘Elegant Entertaining in the Gilded Age’
The program will also honor Du Bois biographer David Levering Lewis, who will receive the town’s first W. E. B. Du Bois Legacy Award honoring recipients for “embodying and preserving W. E. B. Du Bois’ legacy as a scholar and activist for freedom.”
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.
Bits & Bytes: Lee students on TV; ‘A Forgotten History’; Radius Playwrights Festival auditions; sustainability at GB Green Drinks
The Radius Playwrights Festival features six new short plays written, directed and performed by talent living within a 50-mile radius of Great Barrington and selected via a blind submission process.
Bits & Bytes: Barnstar! at Race Brook Lodge; Robert Bullard at Williams; Stockbridge Halloween parade; ‘The Concert’ at CAS; Lyme disease talk
For decades, Robert Bullard has been a leading voice against environmental racism—the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color—including the Flint water crisis and hurricane recovery in Houston and Puerto Rico.
Bits & Bytes: ‘She Kills Monsters’ at MCLA; childhood anxiety talk; papercrafting workshop; mindful eating class
The Mindfulness Based-Eating Awareness Training program uses mindfulness meditation, eating exercises, instruction and self-reflection to cultivate awareness and help repair the relationship an individual has with food.
Bits & Bytes: ‘The Climate Issue Is a Human Issue’; Sagarin on the future of education; JoAnne Redding, Robert Kelly at Music on Main; ‘48 Famous and Fascinating Minds Talk About God’
Sagarin will discuss the topics of decreasing enrollment, burgeoning costs, standardized testing, the role of technology, budget cuts and more
Bits & Bytes: ‘Raising Innovative Children’; ‘We Are the Storytellers’; French film festival; swing dancing at Dewey Hall
Stephen Brand’s presentation at BCD will explore how parents and educators can create experiences that inspire children to become innovators.
Bits & Bytes: Great Barrington Kennel Club Dog Show; ‘Visiting Mr. Green’; Berkshire County High School Art Show; Peter Sykes organ concert; ‘Jazzing Up the Garden’
The staged reading of ‘Visiting Mr. Green’ reunites director and Edge columnist Dan Dwyer with Berkshire actor Ralph Petillo and newcomer and Berkshire student Evan Silverstein.
Bits & Bytes: Gardening in climate change; ‘Is the Moon Still There When Nobody Looks?’; CHP Walking Loop Trail guided hike; NMVA winter house concert
Bard College physics professor Matthew Deady’s talk will provide a historical survey of quantum mechanics leading up to current experiments and theories that weigh on the questions that beset Einstein, Bohr and others.
Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; Sandra Steingraber on health and the environment; Frank Mason documentary; Indian classical music at Simon’s Rock
Sandra Steingraber’s 1997 book “Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment” changed the way many people think about toxic chemicals and their connections to cancer.
Bits & Bytes: Norman Rockwell Museum to honor first responders; ‘Halloween in Boosatonic;’ ‘The Ambulance Drivers’ at Ventfort Hall; organ concert to benefit food pantry; ‘Stupendous Child Prodigies’
Visitors to the first responders’ event will have the opportunity to view official police cars, fire trucks and an ambulance; and take photos with a special mock-up of the diner from “The Runaway.”
Bits & Bytes: ‘A Story of Fascism;’ ‘Writing Fire’ book launch; Kyra Xuerong Zhao at Music & More; Marty Podskoch at Scoville Memorial Library
The Writing Fire book launch will feature readings from contributors including Sharon Coleman, Anni Crofut, Barbara Dean, Susie Kaufman, Barbara Newman and Hilde Weisert.
Bits & Bytes: Columbia County Fair; ‘Melissa’s Choice’; #EmpowerYouthAgainstHate; ‘First Saturday Free Films;’ origami workshop
‘Melissa’s Choice’ premiered in 2015 at the Lion Theatre in New York City and was most recently was produced by the University of North Texas with a panel supported by the ACLU.