Join the Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires for an informal coffee networking event to connect nonprofits with community members exploring board service. Muffins! Fun! Connections! Free! Get on Board! Berkshires is a free Board Matching Service.
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
The Clark Art Institute hosts a free creative professional development event for educators from across the region. Participants will explore ways to strengthen their students' social and emotional learning through the arts. Evening for Educators is recommended for Pre-K through Grade 12 educators, including school counselors and administrators. Educators can earn professional development points through […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
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
Enjoy this free course from Simon's Rock - American Revolutions: The Nation's Unfinished Promise. These lectures are held each Monday night from January 27 to May 5 (except March 17, during spring break), at the Lecture Center, from 6-7:30 pm, with time for questions and answers and discussion beginning around 7:oo pm. The lecture schedule […]
Berkshire250, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
The Norman Rockwell Museum is partnering with The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home to present Readings at Rockwell, a new literary series that highlights the power of the written word through dramatic readings of stories by three iconic American authors: Shirley Jackson, Toni Morrison, and Edith Wharton. These intimate performances, held on the first Wednesday of […]
Arts and Culture, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Performing Arts & Entertainment
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
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
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
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
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