Join Berkshires Jazz for a creative and insightful program that illustrates how many classical themes have been incorporated into popular music and jazz. Their trio performance will include joint numbers with the Elayne P. Bernstein Octet, part of the Kids 4 Harmony after-school music program operated by Berkshire Children and Families.
Ted Rosenthal is an iconic jazz pianist, and has performed worldwide, both as a leader and as a sideman with many jazz greats, including Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Bob Brookmeyer, and Jon Faddis. He has released 15 CDs as a leader or sideman, including new treatments and “derangements” of great American standards, jazz tunes and classical themes, as well as his original compositions. He is equally at home in classical music and jazz, although he is far better-known for is innovative approach to jazz.
Presented in conjunction with ArtWeek, a 10-day celebration of Massachusetts’ rich cultural offerings.
$25 advance tickets, $30 at the door. Members $20 advance, $25 door.
Artists share personal stories, observations, moments of inspiration, and hope, to create a broad poetic tapestry with a goal that the resulting “conversation” will make us stronger and help us find a way forward.
Breathing in America
Take a breath. Catch your breath. Hold your breath. Out of breath. From first breath to last, poets wrestle with breathing — in America.
Free and open to the community.
Join the Berkshire community in creating a series of vivid mini-murals as part of ArtWeekMA and First Fridays Artswalk. Visitors of all ages are invited to add their own unique colors and watch as each image comes to life, one square at a time. The completed murals will be displayed at Berkshire Museum following ArtWeekMA. All materials will be provided.
Free and open to the community.
Join the Berkshire community in creating a series of vivid mini-murals as part of ArtWeekMA. Visitors of all ages are invited to add their own unique colors and watch as each image comes to life, one square at a time. The completed murals will be displayed at Berkshire Museum following ArtWeekMA. All materials will be provided.
Free and open to the community.
Join the Berkshire community in creating a series of vivid mini-murals as part of ArtWeekMA. Visitors of all ages are invited to add their own unique colors and watch as each image comes to life, one square at a time. The completed murals will be displayed at Berkshire Museum following ArtWeekMA. All materials will be provided.
Free and open to the community.
Join us for a screening of Who Will Write Our History followed by a candle lighting to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Film synopsis: In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decides to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vows to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda, not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.
Documentary, not rated, 1 hr. 35 min., 2018
Free and open to the community.
The event is co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of the Berkshires.
Children ages 2 to 4 and their caregivers are invited to explore science, technology, engineering, and math concepts with fun activities designed just for them. Older and younger siblings are welcome.
Free with advance registration.
There are two STEM sessions on each of two Wednesdays per month. Please click below to register. For registration questions, please contact Kendra Knisley at 413.443.7171 ext. 336 or kknisley@berkshiremuseum.org.
Children ages 2 to 4 and their caregivers are invited to explore science, technology, engineering, and math concepts with fun activities designed just for them. Older and younger siblings are welcome.
Free with advance registration.
There are two STEM sessions on each of two Wednesdays per month. Please click below to register. For registration questions, please contact Kendra Knisley at 413.443.7171 ext. 336 or kknisley@berkshiremuseum.org.
Artists share personal stories, observations, moments of inspiration, and hope, to create a broad poetic tapestry with a goal that the resulting “conversation” will make us stronger and help us find a way forward.
Age in America
Poets of a certain age / all ages / ageless, may or may not act their age when we dive into what age means in America. If age is just a number, let’s do the math.
Free and open to the community.
Children ages 2 to 4 and their caregivers are invited to explore science, technology, engineering, and math concepts with fun activities designed just for them. Older and younger siblings are welcome.
Free with advance registration.
There are two STEM sessions on each of two Wednesdays per month. Please click below to register. For registration questions, please contact Kendra Knisley at 413.443.7171 ext. 336 or kknisley@berkshiremuseum.org.