Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ (MCLA) popular Green Living Seminar series returns this spring with Nature and Spirituality, a 12-week exploration of how faith, religion, and spiritual traditions shape our relationship with the natural world.
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Join Christa P. Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, as she shares video highlights from the project’s growing collection. We’ll hear from actors who began their careers on the Eastern European stage, familiar faces from American screens who got their start in Yiddish theater, avid Yiddish theater-goers who share memories […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Contemporary Nature: Tending the Garden is a public symposium featuring a keynote by writer and philosopher Báyò Akómoláfé that poses questions for our ecological future. Artists, scholars, and students convene to share their experiences on what co-becoming means to them in their art, gardening, and land stewardship practices. In addition to Homecoming's Amanda Lovelee and […]
Arts and Culture, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Contemporary Nature: Tending the Garden is a public symposium featuring a keynote by writer and philosopher Báyò Akómoláfé that poses questions for our ecological future. Artists, scholars, and students convene to share their experiences on what co-becoming means to them in their art, gardening, and land stewardship practices. In addition to Homecoming's Amanda Lovelee and […]
Arts and Culture, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
The Clark Art Institute celebrates the opening of its latest installation, Sónia Almeida: Stages, with a conversation between artist Sónia Almeida and exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger, curator of contemporary projects. The free talk takes place in the Clark’s Manton Research Center auditorium.
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Local historian and author, Cornelia Brooke Gilder, will share the human element of Houses of the Berkshires here at the mansion. A tea will follow her presentation. Through her years of research on country house life in Lenox, Cornelia Brooke Gilder has learned an array of poignant, heartbreaking, inspiring and dastardly human dramas of Gilded Age […]
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Third in our 250th Anniversary: Author Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, A Free Woman on God’s Earth that details the effects Elizabeth (Mumbet) Freeman had on freeing slaves in Massachusetts.
Berkshire250, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
The Clark Art Institute offers Meet Me at the Clark, a free gallery talk program designed specifically for people living with dementia and their care partners. Tours meet in the Manton Research Center reading room.
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Family Friendly, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ (MCLA) popular Green Living Seminar series returns this spring with Nature and Spirituality, a 12-week exploration of how faith, religion, and spiritual traditions shape our relationship with the natural world.
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Join professor Justin F. Jackson as he discusses the role that Sheffield, and Berkshire County at large, played in the American Revolution. Justin F. Jackson is a historian and visiting lecturer and scholar with the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also writes a column on history for the Berkshire Eagle. […]
Berkshire250, History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks