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Learn more at Bidwill House

A Personal Conversation in Mrs. Washington’s Bedchamber

Bidwell House Museum 100 Art School Road, Monterey, MA
Free – $20

Spend time with Mrs. Washington as she completes dressing for her day, in this interactive and informative program. During your time together, Mrs. Washington will share news of her family, and how the current events in which her husband is so deeply involved have impacted both her family and her developing nation. There will be […]

Berkshire250, History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks

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Everything Has a Story

Lee Senior Center 21 Crossway StreetLee,

Mary Philpott, President Emerita of the Lee Library Association Board of Directors, will give an illustrated talk, Everything Has a Story! at the Lee Senior Center (look for the lantern near the entrance). This fascinating and engaging presentation on the Lee Library Historical Collection, featuring interesting artifacts, rare scrapbooks, and vintage photographs, is perfect for […]

History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks

Conversation with Susan Rosenberg and Kristy Edmunds at MASS MoCA

In Conversation: Kristy Edmunds & Susan Rosenberg

MASS MoCA 87 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA

In between the two performances of Roof Piece, join MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds for an insightful conversation with Susan Rosenberg. Rosenberg is the author of Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art. She is consulting historical scholar at Trisha Brown Dance Company and directs the master's degree program in museum administration at St. John's University, New York, where she is […]

Literature, Lectures, and Talks

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Vincent Valdez in conversation at MASS MoCA

In Conversation: Vincent Valdez & Hanif Abdurraqib

MASS MoCA 87 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA

Join artist Vincent Valdezin conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib in conjunction with Valdez's exhibition Just a Dream... The two will discuss what it means to be American today through the lens of art, politics, music, and basketball. The artists will sign books in MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store following the talk.

Arts and Culture, Literature, Lectures, and Talks

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Laura Ellen Bacon to speak at the clark

Artist’s Talk: Laura Ellen Bacon

Clark Art Institute 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA

The Clark Art Institute presents an artist’s talk with British artist Laura Ellen Bacon, one of the artists featured in this summer’s Ground/work 2025 exhibition. Bacon will be on-site in May building a sculpture out of willow branches. Join her outside at the location of her sculpture to hear about her creation process as it takes […]

Arts and Culture, Literature, Lectures, and Talks

Aaron Lansky will speak at the Yiddish Book Center

Annual Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street, Amherst, MA

The Yiddish Book Center will host its annual Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture featuring Aaron Lansky, the Center’s founder and longtime president. In what will be his final public talk as president, Lansky will reflect on the improbable beginnings of the Center, its evolution over 45 years, and his hopes for the future under the direction of […]

Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event

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Taverns in the Early United States

Tyringham Union Church 128 Main Road, Tyringham, MA

In the first of our four-lecture summer history talk series, Associate Professor of History at Florida International University, Kirsten E. Wood, will discuss her recent book Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States. This talk will explore how entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men went to taverns to raise capital and rally support for favored causes. […]

History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks

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Genesis Baez & Christine Kelly: Book Launch

MASS MoCA 87 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA

Genesis Báez’s visual work merges fiction, personal narratives, and social histories of modern colonization in a conversation around placemaking. Báez’s debut monograph, Blue Sun (Capricious Publishing, 2025) spans a decade of photographic work made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Blue Sun offers a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship through images of the elemental and generational. Christine […]

Literature, Lectures, and Talks

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Three women discuss the arts at the Behind the Curtain Talks
Event Series Behind the Curtain Talks: Shakespeare & Company

Behind the Curtain Talks: Shakespeare & Company

Shakespeare & Company 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA

Theater enthusiasts are invited to go Behind the Curtain this spring and summer, through Shakespeare & Company’s series of discussions led by Shakespeare scholar Ann Berman. Held on select Saturdays throughout the spring and summer at the Shakespeare & Company campus, these free public talks offer audiences insight into the creative process of Season 2025’s productions, […]

Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Performing Arts & Entertainment

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Nicholas Carr's Superbloom will be discussed at MASS MoCA

Nicholas Carr: Superbloom

MASS MoCA 87 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA

A celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratization. He reveals how messaging apps strip nuance from conversation, how digital crowding erodes empathy and triggers aggression, how online political debates narrow our minds […]

Literature, Lectures, and Talks