Families with children up to age 6 are invited to join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a storytime and related exploration in the galleries. Each storytime features a different children’s book about contemporary art, creativity, and/or the themes of the exhibitions on view. Meet in Kidspace at the designated time, and a brief gallery walk-through […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, Family Friendly
A free resource fair for planning, expectant, and new parents, caregivers and families. Over 50 vendors representing organizations, agencies, and practitioners. There will also be children's activities, snacks, raffle prizes, and giveaways.
Family Friendly, Health and Wellness
Welcome the arrival of Spring with our Baby Animals Festival April 18 through May 10! Meet our newest farm babies – lambs, piglets, calves, chicks and kids (goats, that is)–and enjoy events and activities throughout the Village, from daily talks about the farm and the Shakers to craft demonstrations to walks along the Farm & […]
The Berkshires Satellite Reef, part of the global Crochet Coral Reef, opens at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College. The Crochet Coral Reef was created in 2005 by the artists and sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim to raise awareness to the beauty and plight of coral reefs worldwide. The Berkshire iteration features hundreds […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, Family Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment
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 […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Drift back in time to the 1940's for an evening with NYC Jazz singing phenom Georgia Heers (Good Night and Good Luck, Broadway) who comes to Pittsfield for this one night only tribute to Billie Holiday. The bar will be open serving 1940's themed cocktails and Georgia will be backed by Berkshire County's finest jazz […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Berkshires Jazz is pleased to announce the lineup for the Pittsfield CityJazz Festival…our 20th! The festival runs from April 17-25, and includes an open jam session, our annual jazz crawl, the Jazz Prodigy concert (all free events), and two headline events. The headline weekends are a veritable profile of women in jazz, with Georgia Heers’s tribute […]
Belong Berkshires, Festivals, Performing Arts & Entertainment
A joyful queer dance party featuring DJ SülliSwirl. Presented by Indigo Swirls, celebrating community, self-expression, and movement on the dance floor.
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Join Tanya Fredman for an inside look at Shared Living in Israel through the Lens of Youth Artists at the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel. In this special partnership, we will explore how contemporary Israeli artists navigate boundaries using the concept of the parochet (curtain) as a jumping-off point; highlight a new […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series hosted at historic music venues across the country, performs songs created by the most iconic musicians in rock history. The Rock and Roll Playhouse band offers its core audience of families with children age ten and under games, movement, stories and an opportunity to rock out […]
Family Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment