Every week, our stage comes alive with a symphony of diverse talents, from seasoned virtuosos to emerging performers. Our cutting-edge facilities ensure an immersive experience for both performers and audience, with top-notch acoustics and lighting that elevate every note, word, and joke to its full potential. Join us at Studio 9’s Weekly Open Mic, where […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Marking the 200th anniversary of the Marquise de Lafayette’s visit to the Berkshires, New York Times-bestselling author Sarah Vowell joins us for a conversation. Vowell’s book, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, explores the patriot founders' alliance with France as personified by the teenage volunteer in George Washington's army, the Marquis de Lafayette. This talk […]
Berkshire250, History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Images Cinema announces the 2025 Earth Month Film Festival, a celebration of our home, the Earth. 2025’s theme is Animals & Us, thinking about how people care for animals and animals care for us, from both an agricultural standpoint as well as from a therapeutic standpoint, as well as how caring for and protecting key […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Mariel Capanna (b. 1988) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions […]
Berkshire Art Center - 2025 Young Artist Summer Program - registration opens 2/17/25 Berkshire Horseworks - Ranch Life 101 - registration opens 2/10/25 Berkshire Museum - Summer Camps - Check the link for camps ages Pre-K through Grade 8!
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Family Friendly, School Vacation
The idyllic tranquility of the lives of shepherds became a prominent subject in literature, music, and the visual arts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A new exhibition at the Clark Art Institute, Pastoral on Paper, explores artistic depictions of rural life by considering their representations of the people and animals who inhabited the landscapes. […]
In the long nights of winter we dream of spring and take in the subtle beauty of the ice world around us. The Coming of the Light consists of thirteen works of art selected from Guild of Berkshire Artists applicants by jury. Media include oils, textiles, pastels, and photography. Styles range from realistic to geometric […]
Ben Nickley, director of Berkshire Bird Observatory, leads a weekly bird walk right in the town of Great Barrington, in collaboration with The Great Barrington Land Conservancy. Learn to find, identify and more fully appreciate migratory and resident birds on these community birds walks. Bring binoculars if you have them--if not, we can share. Beginners […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Nature and Recreation
Spotted salamanders and wood frogs spend their days under logs, stones, and other forest-floor objects, venturing out only on cool, moist evenings. Venture into woods and wetlands to search with your family for these fascinating nocturnal animals. This is a program designed for families with children. Each registration requires at least one adult and one […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Family Friendly, Outdoor Event