On the tour you will visit this year’s calves, lambs, kids, piglets, and chicks in the Round Stone Barn, Dairy Ell, and barnyard. Special tickets are required and must be reserved in advance on our website. Hurry, as this popular feature sells out quickly!
Family Friendly, Outdoor Event
Explore the captivating worlds of mystery and wonder in this exhibition featuring highlights from the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Permanent Collection, which now holds almost 25,000 illustrations by prominent artists working across genres and time periods. On display are cover art for award-winning novels and mysteries, children’s book illustrations inspired by classic tales, fantastical anthropomorphic drawings, […]
Arts and Culture, Family Friendly
In conjunction with the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will present newly commissioned and recent works by Sadie Barnette, Alfred Conteh, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith in a new exhibition visualizing Black freedom, agency, and the legacy of the Civil […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Family Friendly, History and Heritage
Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training presents Tuning Your Instrument, a two-day workshop focused on voice and movement practices on Thursday, April 18, and Friday, April 19 at its Lenox, Mass. campus. Led by Shakespeare & Company’s Director of Training Sheila Bandyopadhyay and Faculty Member Ariel Bock, Tuning Your Instrument is open to artists at all experience […]
Printmaking by hand is never perfect and that is part of its beauty. We'll carve intricate drawings into reusable blocks to create stamps for printing artwork. Templates will be provided to get the mind moving, as well as linocut tools, ink colors, handheld brayers, and cardstock. Take home finished prints and reuse your stamp to […]
Arts and Culture, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Hancock Shaker Village opens for the 2024 season with the Baby Animals Festival, an annual signal of spring for many Berkshire residents. A family favorite for more than twenty years, visitors are invited to experience the ritual of renewal by welcoming this year’s baby animals and the newest arrivals – lambs, piglets, calves, chicks, and […]
Arts and Culture, Family Friendly, Outdoor Event
You might already be familiar with his Petit Sirah or Zinfandel, and perhaps you have even tried his Skull wine. Along with his winemaking partner, Pax Mahle, Patrick has been busy creating exceptional wines in California, wines that evoke California days past. Think of a focus on heritage varieties over an abundance of over-oaked cabernet. […]
Arts and Culture, Food and Drinks
Taught on Thursdays, April 18 to May 23, by Chuck Schnell and Walter Cudnohufsky, participants in this class will focus on the free-hand drawing techniques that precede the more precise and highly technical world of hard-line drafting of construction documents. Students will learn and put into practice Conceptual and Schematic style graphics which may appear […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
The Writers at the Rock: Poetry & Fiction Series readings will take place in-person on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. in Blodgett House on the campus of Simon’s Rock. All readings are free and open to the public. The first reading in the series will take place on Thursday, March 7 with author Tiana Clark. See […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Shakespeare & Company has announced a series of four open-captioned performances of the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, staged from April 17 through 20 to coincide with Massachusetts and New York States’ April vacation week. Open-captioned shows, accessible to deaf or hard-of-hearing audience members, feature projection screens above and to the sides of the […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Family Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment