The indoor winter farmers market offers a warm, welcoming space to shop for local produce and handmade goods while staying cozy during the colder months.
This is a space for painters to work outside of formulas. We'll explore painting as a process of inquiry, guided by prompts and strategic constraints–responding to joy and allowing the work to lead. Come prepared to work playfully and encounter your own unique creative process. All levels welcome! We’ll take a lunch break together in […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
The Clark Art Institute offers a free morning of art, play, and exploration for preschoolers. Start with Art, a program designed for three- to six-year-olds and their caregivers, features fun art-making activities and interactive artwork talks. January’s theme is Animals. Unsure of how to talk about art with your child? Pick up a Start with […]
Arts and Culture, Family Friendly
Ben Nickley, director of Berkshire Bird Observatory, leads a weekly bird walk right in the town of Great Barrington. Come explore GBLC's accessible Riverfront Trail with us in pursuit of birds while enjoying a warm feeling of camaraderie during this cold winter month! Our January Bird Walk group meets at the Berkshire Food Co-op at 10:00 AM […]
Nature and Recreation, Outdoor Event
The Clark Art Institute celebrates the opening of its newest exhibition Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70 with a free lecture. Offering a new take on mid-nineteenth-century French art, exhibition curator Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, introduces the exhibition. The lecture takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium.
Arts and Culture, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) is pleased to announce its third annual Community Sing-Along, a free and welcoming event for singers of all experience levels. The Sing-Along will bring together local vocalists and music lovers from across the Berkshires for an afternoon of joyful music-making. Led by BOF Chorus Master Luca Antonucci, the Sing-Along will feature choruses by Verdi and Wagner […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Join the towns of the Berkshires as we commemorate the 250th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary feats of the American Revolution: Colonel Henry Knox’s daring winter journey to bring the captured cannon of Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army in Boston. In January 1776, Knox’s massive caravan of oxen, sleds, and artillery wound […]
Berkshire250, History and Heritage
Between January 10 and March 17 of 2026, communities across Massachusetts will celebrate this remarkable feat of logistics, courage, and determination that helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War and secured America’s first major victory — the Evacuation of Boston on March 17, 1776. Great Barrington: Saturday 1/10 - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center - […]
Join us as Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires, leads you through the rooms and halls of this historic estate sharing tales of its hauntings. Stand in the places where the eerie encounters occurred, listen to the first-hand accounts of those who experienced them, and maybe even experience something unusual yourself. This is not an […]
Hot Plate is kicking off the New Year by welcoming 5Pound Horse to their taproom for the first time. Known for their fierce folk sound, we're looking forward to sharing their original music with all of you.
Performing Arts & Entertainment