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ArtWeek Berkshires 2024
ArtWeek Berkshires is an annual celebration of local creativity. Enjoy 100+ hands-on or behind-the-scenes events…
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Registrations for local children's camps for the summer are beginning to open. As we learn of them, they will be added to this list. Check back for updates. Berkshire Botanical Garden: Register here for all camps. Berkshire Horseworks: Ranch Life 101 Summer program - register here. Bousquet Mountain: Vacation Camps and the Rippers and Riders […]
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
On the tour you will visit this year’s calves, lambs, kids, piglets, and chicks in the Round Stone Barn, Dairy Ell, and barnyard. Special tickets are required and must be reserved in advance on our website. Hurry, as this popular feature sells out quickly!
Family Friendly, Outdoor Event
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
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
Songs of Earth is a majestic symphony of image and sound. The filmmaker’s 85 year old father is our guide through Norway’s most scenic valley, where living alongside nature means survival.
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
An iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was. Lucy Sante felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Join us for a fun evening with author Ben kimball for a signing and discussion of his new book Trail Running Southern Vermont.
Health and Wellness, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Nature and Recreation
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