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October 2020
Encore BSO Recitals
A weekly online series featuring 50 musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in nine studios stream performances released every Thursday at BSO.org at Noon. With newly recorded musicians and special live Q&A for selected programs, the Encore Recitals series reprises programming initially recorded and aired this past summer for the Tanglewood 2020 online festival.
Find out more »Creative Writing Workshop Series: Healing Through Nature
Join Artists-at-Work artist-in-resident Lia Russell-Self for a series of workshops for queer people of color to reclaim and connect with land, time, and healing. These workshops will take place both on site and online. Space is limited. More information and registration on website.
Find out more »After School at Home: Archaeologists’ Club
A series of archaeological activities takes students, Grade 1 & 2, on a journey through history that reveals stories from ancient civilizations around the world.
Find out more »The Incredible Naumkeag Pumpkin Show
The Incredible Naumkeag Pumpkin Show is BACK! This year with more pumpkins, more fun, and an expanded schedule! Explore our famous gardens as we transform Naumkeag into a celebration of autumn with over 1,500 jack-o-lanterns, hundreds of mums, pumpkins and countless gourds – most of which were grown right here at Naumkeag! Hot cider and fall treats will be available for sale on-site. Reservations for time ticket entry required.
Find out more »Virtual Creative Reading Workshop: Imagining Reclamation and Healing
Each session will introduce core concepts and include time for conversation and personal reflection, as well as recommendations for further learning and actions. Workshops take place online over Zoom.
Find out more »After School at Home: Museums & Mummies
This guided, kid-friendly Dungeons & Dragons campaign set in the Berkshire Museum is filled with mystery, history, diplomacy, and adventure. Grades 3 - 6.
Find out more »A Coat of Heavenly Brightness: A Virtual Conversation @ Online (Zoom)
The Shakers lived in a colorful world. Their architecture, interiors, furniture, and clothing reverberated with surprising brilliancy. At Hancock Shaker Village, artist-in-residence Brece Honeycutt has been exploring the Shaker palette of yellows, blues, reds, and greens, experimenting with natural dyes and pigments she creates from Hancock’s gardens and forests. Moderated by curator Sarah Margolis-Pineo, this conversation will provide an overview of Honeycutt’s ongoing research, mining the collection of Hancock Shaker Village to showcase the colors of the Shakers. Registration required.
Find out more »Online: Page Dickey Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again
Enjoy a lecture with author Page Dickey about her new book, Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again, available for purchase through the BBG online shop. Uprooted follows Dickey’s fresh start in life and evolution from old to new, cultivated to wild, and from one type of gardener to another. It is a story for anyone who has had to begin anew.
Find out more »Virtual: Black and White, Reconsidered
Among the most prominent collaborative works involving both an African American and Asian American artist, Black & White (1993) by Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim occupies something of exemplary space in an art history particularly attuned to multiculturalism and its analogues.
Find out more »Pumpkin Fest
Come join us for FUN in the pumpkin patch!
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Fall at the Mount
Fairfield Marriott
Maple Glen at Red Lion Inn
The Red Lion Inn
Gourmet Getaway Cafe Boulud at Blantyre