“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.
The Falseworkshop will focus on W.E.B. Du Bois's global reach as a political thinker and activist, in preparation for the town of Great Barrington’s celebration of Du Bois’s sesquicentennial in 2018.
Students from Hong Kong, Germany and India participating in morning workshops at Mount Everett Regional School throughout the week, creating group pieces in spoken word poetry and music.
The faith communities of Berkshire County will gather for a public training on the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan (naloxone) Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Church in Lenox.
This week, four traditional circles -- for new participants and returning sisters -- will begin in Great Barrington and Pittsfield as part of a long anticipated expansion outside of South County.
The proceeds from the added performance will be donated to the One America Appeal to support those affected by the devastation of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.
Part of the national Not in Our Town movement, the campaign will engage Berkshire residents, businesses, town governments, schools, community organizations and others in an effort to educate, organize and mobilize communities to respond to and prevent incidents of hate and injustice.
For nearly 50 years, Bill Morgan has acted as the archivist and bibliographer for writers including Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, Oliver Sacks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Timothy Leary, Susan Sontag and Abbie Hoffman.
"It was unfathomable to me that this president could do something so cruel, so un-American and, quite honestly, something that's just bad policy."
-- Brooke Mead, director of the Berkshire Immigrant Center
'Melissa’s Choice' premiered in 2015 at the Lion Theatre in New York City and was most recently was produced by the University of North Texas with a panel supported by the ACLU.
Based in Israel and operated through a partnership of the Israel Ministry of Education and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Maktabat al-Fanoos has distributed more than 2 million books in Arabic to children ages 3 to 6.
For its new leader, the search panel chose a familiar face, Brooke Mead, who has been at BIC for 15 years, for many of those years the center’s only full-time staff member.
Race Amity Day recognizes that the people of the Commonwealth are its greatest asset and that the state is made up of multicultural, multi-ethnic and multiracial citizens.
An independent study submitted to the town in 2012 by a building consultant found that any developer looking to renovate the school is facing a liability of at least $850,000 in required remediation of just the asbestos and lead paint hazards.
“This isn’t about Black history. It’s about American history. It’s time we bring it into the light where it can be shared and studied.” — state Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli
"Living in fear is the not the quality of a welcoming and safe community — it is instead the very essence of a totalitarian state. A community in which any of our members live in fear is not the kind of community that any of us, regardless of political affiliation, I am sure, want Great Barrington to be."
-- Housatonic resident Anne O’Dwyer
