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BCHS Offering Two Cemetery Tours in October| 08:36AM / Saturday, September 24, 2022 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire County Historical Society will offer tours of Hillside Cemetery on Oct. 8 and the Stockbridge Cemetery on Oct. 15. Both tours begin at 2 p.m. Sturdy footwear is recommended as the tours traverse a variety of uneven terrain. Reservations are required and can be made at berkshirehistory.org.$10 for BCHS members, $15 for non-members. Join veteran historian and guide Paul W. Marino for a walk through one of the historic cemeteries of northern Berkshire. Children are welcome as a treasure hunt will accompany the tour. Meet at the top of the hill off Brown Street. The rain date for the tour is Oct. 9. Join historian
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Berkshire Mountain Distillery Continuing Live Music Series in Fall| 11:31AM / Friday, September 23, 2022 | |
SHEFFIELD, Mass. – Berkshire Mountain Distillers (BMD) has announce our continued collaboration with Berkshire Busk! Roadside to present Live Music Saturdays in our outdoor pavilion through the autumn season. Musicians will take the stage on Saturdays from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., rain or shine, through Oct. 29th. In inclement weather, performances will take place inside the distillery. Craft cocktails will be available for purchase in BMD’s tasting room as well as complimentary tasting flights and self-guided tours of the production facility for guests 21 years and older. "We’re super excited to continue to work with the Berkshire Busk! team and 0 Comments
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Great Barrington Public Theater to Host Play Readings| 10:47AM / Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Great Barrington Public Theater will present four new play readings at The Foundry, the first look at new work by area playwrights with Berkshire Voices playwrighting collaborative. On four Monday evenings, Oct. 3 to Nov. 21, at The Foundry in West Stockbridge, GBPT will present four readings of new plays written by members of Berkshire Voices. The readings will give audiences a first look at brand-new plays currently in the works. Tickets are free, but capacity is limited. Seats can be reserved now by emailing Tristan.GreatBarringtonPublic@gmail.com. Readings take place Oct. 3 & 17; Nov. 7 & 21, 7:00
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Great Barrington Road Race set for Oct. 16| 10:18AM / Sunday, September 18, 2022 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. Run for the Hills, the Great Barrington Land Conservancy’s road race, will be on Oct. 16. Runners and walkers of all ages and abilities are invited to enjoy the peak fall foliage and help GBLC to raise the funds needed to promote conservation, farm preservation, and community trails. The event will take place at the site of the Kilpatrick Athletic Center at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. More information is available at https://www.gbland.org/run-for-the-hills/details. Early registration is recommended and the first 125 registrants will receive t-shirts. Register through the Berkshire Running Center.
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Bidwell House to Present Three-Part Lecture on Gravestones| 09:52AM / Friday, September 16, 2022 | |
MONTEREY, Mass. — The Bidwell House Museum will present three-part lecture and walk series about gravestone making in 18th and 19th century western Massachusetts on Sept. 24 and on Oct. 1 and 8 All three talks will be held at 1 p.m. the Bidwell House Museum and live streamed via Zoom. For the last two talks, attendees have the option to purchase a ticket for just the talk or the talk and cemetery walk together. First, on Sept. 24, former Director of the New Haven Museum and Connecticut Landmarks, William Hosley, will present "Reflections on the Marble Corridor" about the stone cutting industry along the Taconic Ridge (today’s Rte 7) that was a hive of
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Local Writer and Artist wins Honeybee Creative Nonfiction AwardCommunity Submission,
10:31AM / Saturday, September 10, 2022 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — An essay by local writer and artist Suzi Banks Baum has won the Honeybee Creative Nonfiction award from The Good Life Review. Baum's winning essay, "Connect: Disconnect" was inspired by the New York Times Magazine cover article by Merritt Tierce entitled "The Abortion I Didn't Have." Baum's essay delves into adolescent life, sexual exploration, sexual identity, confusion, and education or lack thereof in midwestern American culture in the 1970s. In addition to the award from the Nebraskan publication, Baum received a jar of Nebraskan honey. However the winning review from the award indicates 0 Comments
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Mozart Sonata Performances at Simon’s Rock Sept. 4| 11:07AM / Wednesday, August 31, 2022 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — After completing two previous cycles of violin and viola sonatas, by Brahms and Beethoven, violinist Ronald Gorevic and pianist Larry Wallach will perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Sept. 4, at 2:00 p.m. in the McConnell Theater of the Daniel Arts Center on the campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock. The program will include four sonatas, drawing on the three main periods of Mozart’s sonata production: no. 6 in D major (k. 306), no. 11 in G major (k. 379) no. 4 in E minor (k. 304) which is probably the most familiar of the sonatas, and no. 15 in A major (k. 526), the most extensive of these works. Gorevic has had a career as both a
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Guild of Berkshire Artists Holds Exhibit in its First Brick-and-Mortar BuildingBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
04:49AM / Wednesday, August 31, 2022 | |
Bruce Shickmanter WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Guild of Berkshire Artists has leased its first brick-and-mortar building for the next year to provide artists with the opportunity to curate a show and present their work while also contributing to the vibrancy of downtown West Stockbridge. In the past, the guild would rent out spaces from organizations to host group shows. This new space, located at 38 Main St., makes it easier for artists to receive feedback on their work due to there being fewer artists apart of the exhibit. "It was really up to the artists 0 Comments
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Sandisfield Arts Center Hosting Art Retrospective| 01:02PM / Monday, August 29, 2022 | |
 SANDISFIELD, Mass. — The Sandisfield Arts Center has announced the upcoming exhibition California Dreamin' A Retrospective of Art from 1990 to 2020, a curated collection of works by Jaye Alison Moscariello, Opening is September 10, 2022, from 4 - 6 pm. Moscariello is an artist-interpreter of her external surroundings, inner personal landscapes, worldly issues, environmental worries and political concerns. She creates work in response to whatever is most pressing to her. Moscariello’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, has appeared in print, film, television, the internet and Off Off Broadway. One project, an artistic residential
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9th Berkshire Pottery Tour Begins Sept. 24| 08:57AM / Friday, August 26, 2022 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. —The self-guided 9th Annual Berkshire Pottery Tour will take place the weekend of Sept. 24-25, 2022, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The potters and their locations include Daniel Bellow (Great Barrington), Ben Evans (Richmond), Ellen Grenadier (Monterey), Linda Skipper (New Marlborough), and Paula Shalan (Stockbridge), and The Berkshire Art Center (Stockbridge). The tour is designed in a geographic loop and participants can start at any of the 5 studios. Orange and white Berkshire Pottery Tour road signs will be posted at key turns on the weekend of the event. At each of the five core studios, the potters will be available to talk about their
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