West African Artist Brings New Perspective to Lincoln at ChesterwoodBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
08:01AM / Sunday, July 30, 2023 | |
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Chesterwood is having a singular artist's exhibition on display alongside Daniel Chester French's work for the first time in the museum's history. West African artist Georges Adéagbo's evolving exhibit "Create To Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America" opened Saturday and runs through Sept. 4. The exhibit encourages people to see how they are limiting themselves because of external influences but it also about not letting these influences prevent them from doing something important, said Adéagbo. "No one can make your life work. You are the only >> Read More |
State Officials Promote Act for Accessible Creative Economy By Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
05:38PM / Saturday, July 29, 2023 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Local lawmakers and the cultural leaders on Friday called for the inclusion of people of all abilities in the creative economy.
The proposed Accessibility in the Creative Economy Act would would provide grants to organizations focused on arts, culture, humanities, and interpretive sciences that remove barriers for people with disabilities.
Community Access to Arts Executive Director Margaret Keller emphasized that art is for everyone. "We are missing out as a community, as a culture, and as a commonwealth when we fail to include everyone," she said during a press conference at CATA on Friday. "We're missing out on the
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The Classical Beat: Tanglewood + Sevenars = Classical Music HeavenBy Stephen Dankner, iBerkshires columnist
11:54AM / Wednesday, July 19, 2023 | |
 Tanglewood enters its third week, and the highlights are many; indeed, every concert will be memorable. Two beloved masterworks, "Appalachian Spring" and the "New World" Symphony by Aaron Copland and Antonín Dvo?ák, respectively, top this week's listing of stellar performances of great and amazingly diverse musical offerings. Wait … there's more: a Handel opera in concert, a regional Americana classic by Duke Ellington, Richard Wagner's poignant "Siegfried Idyll" and a sampling of Mozart's mature symphonies and piano concerto masterworks amply demonstrate that at Tanglewood, the spectrum of musical offerings is both
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Bidwell House Museum Presents 'Lawyering for Loyalists' Talk | 10:35AM / Wednesday, July 19, 2023 | |
 MONTEREY, Mass. — Bidwell House Museum presents its fourth history talk of the season with Western Michigan University history professor Sally Hadden, who will present "Lawyering for Loyalists." The talk is available via Zoom on Saturday, July 29, at 11 a.m. In the wake of the American Revolution, recovering property lost (or confiscated) in the former colonies provided some lawyers with a new type of client. Individuals such as Christopher Gore and Harrison Gray Otis, John Lowell and William Tudor, lawyers of Boston, became adept at working with displaced loyalists and family members located in many parts of the Atlantic, assisting them in efforts to >> Read More |
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