(LENOX, Mass.) – Artist and designer Karen Beckwith explains the challenges and triumphs she faced in turning a room in a Gilded Age mansion into “a flexible space for meditation, yoga, journaling and drawing, reading, napping, and occasionally hiding…” Ventfort Hall, the Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, has been transformed room by room by…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff, a native of Adams, Mass., and a graduate of Williams College, will discuss her latest work and recent New York Times #1 best seller, Cleopatra: A Life, on Sunday, June 12, at 5 at the Founders’ Theatre at Shakespeare & Company. Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Never Stand Still, a new documentary about Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass., is receiving a preview screening at the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) on Saturday, June 4, at 7, at the Triplex Cinema, in advance of the film’s official West Coast premiere.
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Tickets to the previously announced They Might Be Giants concert at the Mahaiwe on Friday, September 9 at 8 pm go on sale to Mahaiwe members today, Thursday, June 2 at noon, and to the general public on Saturday, June 4 at noon. They Might Be Giants tickets ($27 to $34)…
(HOUSATONIC, Mass.) – John Gorka, Christine Lavin, Dan Bern, Bill Staines, Rory Block, Jonathan Edwards, Barry McGuire, Vance Gilbert, and, of course, Arlo Guthrie, are just a few of those slated to perform in the 2011 Summer Troubadour Series at the Guthrie Center, located at the Old Trinity Church where Alice of Alice’s Restaurant fame…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – This year’s Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) contains a mini-festival within the greater festival focusing on human rights, featuring screenings of six films that address issues of human rights and panel discussions on the subject. In partnership with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, BIFF presents three filmmakers and six documentaries,…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – One of the original and longest-running alternative rock bands, They Might Be Giants – formed as a duo by John Flansburgh and John Linnell nearly 30 years ago in 1982 – will perform at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Friday, September 9, at 8, in support of their new album,…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Authors Cornelia Brooke Gilder and Richard S. Jackson, Jr. will be at The Bookloft on Saturday, June 11, from 10 until noon, signing copies of the new edition of Houses of the Berkshires, 1870 – 1930, published by Acanthus Press LLC. This revised edition of the award-winning volume Houses of the…
(Becket, Mass.) – The fifth annual Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award will go to Crystal Pite, an internationally renowned Canadian choreographer and artistic director of contemporary dance company Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM. The award honors outstanding visionary artists and carries a prize of $25,000, one of the largest cash awards in the dance industry, to be…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – While the official date of National Trails Day (NTD) is on June 4 this year, The Trustees of Reservations, the nation’s oldest statewide land trust, have events planned at multiple locations – including Monument Mountain in Great Barrington and Field Farm in Williamstown — for all ages throughout the month June. Events…
