Registrations for local children's camps for the April (April 15-19, 2024) break and summer are beginning to open. As we learn of them, they will be added to this list. Check back for updates. Barrington Stage: KidsAct! Spring Break Camp - April 15-19 Barrington State: TeensAct! Spring Break Camp - April 15-19 Berkshire Botanical Garden: […]
Spend 2-nights (or more!) and create a family tradition of mindfulness at Miraval Berkshires! Extend the gift of wellness to the next generation with our new Family Connection Package, offered from April 14 – April 21, 2024. Enjoy $300 resort credits per stay for our unique menu of family-friendly wellbeing offerings. Create unforgettable moments and explore how mindfulness […]
Family Friendly, Health and Wellness
The 18th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival runs April 18-18, 2024. As close followers know, our festival is a highlight of Jazz Appreciation Month, a national observance that was conceived by the Smithsonian Institution in 2001, and later sanctioned by Congress. It also falls on the eve of another celebratory event, Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday anniversary, […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Explore the captivating worlds of mystery and wonder in this exhibition featuring highlights from the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Permanent Collection, which now holds almost 25,000 illustrations by prominent artists working across genres and time periods. On display are cover art for award-winning novels and mysteries, children’s book illustrations inspired by classic tales, fantastical anthropomorphic drawings, […]
Arts and Culture, Family Friendly
In conjunction with the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will present newly commissioned and recent works by Sadie Barnette, Alfred Conteh, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith in a new exhibition visualizing Black freedom, agency, and the legacy of the Civil […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Family Friendly, History and Heritage
Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training presents Tuning Your Instrument, a two-day workshop focused on voice and movement practices on Thursday, April 18, and Friday, April 19 at its Lenox, Mass. campus. Led by Shakespeare & Company’s Director of Training Sheila Bandyopadhyay and Faculty Member Ariel Bock, Tuning Your Instrument is open to artists at all experience […]
Printmaking by hand is never perfect and that is part of its beauty. We'll carve intricate drawings into reusable blocks to create stamps for printing artwork. Templates will be provided to get the mind moving, as well as linocut tools, ink colors, handheld brayers, and cardstock. Take home finished prints and reuse your stamp to […]
Arts and Culture, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Hancock Shaker Village opens for the 2024 season with the Baby Animals Festival, an annual signal of spring for many Berkshire residents. A family favorite for more than twenty years, visitors are invited to experience the ritual of renewal by welcoming this year’s baby animals and the newest arrivals – lambs, piglets, calves, chicks, and […]
Arts and Culture, Family Friendly, Outdoor Event
You might already be familiar with his Petit Sirah or Zinfandel, and perhaps you have even tried his Skull wine. Along with his winemaking partner, Pax Mahle, Patrick has been busy creating exceptional wines in California, wines that evoke California days past. Think of a focus on heritage varieties over an abundance of over-oaked cabernet. […]
Arts and Culture, Food and Drinks
Taught on Thursdays, April 18 to May 23, by Chuck Schnell and Walter Cudnohufsky, participants in this class will focus on the free-hand drawing techniques that precede the more precise and highly technical world of hard-line drafting of construction documents. Students will learn and put into practice Conceptual and Schematic style graphics which may appear […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios