“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 town's proposed policy says the Police Department will treat undocumented citizens like everyone else and will not be an arm of ICE (the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency).
'Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness' is a one-hour documentary about a town coming together to take action after anti-immigrant violence devastates the community.
Following the staged reading of 'Facing Our Truth,' Multicultural BRIDGE executive director Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant will moderate a discussion with the directors and actors as well as members of the Council for Equity and Inclusion at Simon's Rock.
While town and police department policy already states it will treat undocumented citizens like everyone else, a citizens' petition filed at Town Hall Wednesday lays out a more detailed set of policies modeled after and modified from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) and MiGente trust policies.
The purpose of Radius Playwrights Festival is to cultivate and celebrate local talent, explains Ann Garner, managing director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab.
On Sunday, Dec. 18, from 7 to 9 p.m., the Lucky 5 will perform at the Prairie Whale and will donate all tips received from their performance to the family whose Dresser Avenue home was lost to fire over the weekend.
The concept of an auction to get the fundraising rolling salted some deep historic wounds when one African-American attendee felt the auction process harkened back to the auction blocks of slavery.
Michael Hoberman will draw on oral history research from his scholarly work, “How Strange It Seems,” to discuss the mostly untold story of Jewish farming communities in the Berkshires in the early 1900s.
Monument parent Linda Shafiroff said, while she thought the threat was “deplorable,” both students had been engaging in insults that highlighted racial tensions at the school as well as national political divides and cultural differences.
The NEWSletter and the Great Barrington Democratic Town Committee will hold a forum for all candidates for Berkshire Hills Regional School District (BHRSD) School Committee on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
Aren’t these opportunities perhaps the most important way we have to educate ourselves and our children, to nurture the love and dissolve the hate? Knowing your community has your back makes all the difference.
“We’re going to talk about what the school has experienced, and about how to address our own shortcomings and remain committed to one another."
-- Monument Principal Marianne Young
A facilitated post-show conversation will take place after each weekend matinee and select evening performances of 'The Bakelite Masterpiece'to promote open discussion of the larger issues around truth and reconciliation.
“We have an obligation to use those horrible moments to educate, do counseling, workshops, movies and discussion groups. We do it as part of our work, but sometimes we bring in other outside groups — whoever is best positioned to help us think through that.”
-- Berkshire Hills Superintendent Peter Dillon
Timothy Snyder's talk will look at the structural causes for how Hitler’s ideology could and can function, and how similar risks might be faced today due to climate change and state collapse.
