Start your summer dancing! Celebrate the magic of the Berkshires and Jacob’s Pillow with our Season Opening Gala. Known as the ultimate summer kickoff, the Gala is sure to be a spectacular evening of conversation, connection, and inspiration, capped off with lots of dancing. Join us at the Gala and help ensure that Jacob’s Pillow can […]
Celebrate the start of summer with free museum admission on June 21, 2025 during MASS MoCA’s Community Day. Enjoy museum tours, art-making in Kidspace, author talks, and conversations with artists on exhibitions. Stay tuned for a full list of happenings at MASS MoCA.
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
Start your summer dancing! Celebrate the magic of the Berkshires and Jacob’s Pillow with our Season Opening Gala. Known as the ultimate summer kickoff, the Gala is sure to be a spectacular evening of conversation, connection, and inspiration, capped off with lots of dancing. Join us at the Gala and help ensure that Jacob’s Pillow can […]
In its capacity as a center for creativity, Chesterwood presents numerous programs in its performing arts series ArtsAlive! and speakers’ series WordsAlive! from June through September. Season-long series that showcase artists in music, dance, theater, and the literary arts, Arts Alive! and Words Alive! were designed to be a resource to bring community together to experience the arts and feel connected in the […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
After a national tour in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, APHC is pleased to again be taking the stage at Tanglewood Music Center — always a favorite stop and the site of 17 of the show’s national broadcasts. Joining Garrison are music director Rich Dworsky and the band, the […]
Shawn Colvin stopped the industry in its tracks with her arresting 1989 debut, Steady On. The following spring, Colvin took home the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, establishing herself as a mainstay in the singer-songwriter genre. In the ensuing 30 years, Colvin has won three Grammy Awards, released thirteen superlative albums, written a critically acclaimed memoir, […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Martha is invited by Jeffrey Gibson to engage with his installation POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT; she and her touring band will offer Song-scapes — an immersive, congregational concert honoring the space in sound, sonic time travel — connecting the ancestors and descendants, the past and present, unapologetically uplifting the Black and Indigenous interwoven American story in […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library's extensive holdings and presented in the Manton Research Center’s reading room. Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art brings together visually striking book covers, illustrations, and advertisements to showcase the clean lines and bright colors of the mid-century modern design aesthetic in print. […]
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 features paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts made by twenty-five professional women artists in Great Britain who were, in fact, answering Virginia Woolf’s call during her lifetime. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which furthered their […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, History and Heritage