Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
This session will review climate and atmospheric CO2 changes over Earth’s past 500 million years, the tools we use to identify these changes and the implications of past changes for Earth’s future. This is the second Saturday climate change lecture with Suzanne O’Connell Each presentation will build upon previous presentations, but should be understandable as [...]
The third Saturday climate change lecture with Suzanne O’Connell Never in Earth’s geologic history has atmospheric CO2 increased at today’s rate. Prior rapid increases in CO2 caused dramatic biological changes. This session will examine some of anticipated changes and their implications. Suzanne O’Connell is a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Wesleyan University and researches paleoclimate. [...]
Lassor and Mugridge will introduce you to the natural systems at work in Nature. Learn how to work with these systems by using Organics to grow vibrantly healthy food and ornamentals in your landscape. A thriving natural Eco-system and abundant health are natural results. The talk will cover seeing your surroundings from an organic perspective [...]
Classical, Jazz, and Klezmer clarinetist Paul Green will trace the development of Jewish Art Music from biblical times to the present day, and describe what makes music “Jewish.” Historical events, such as the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, will be discussed insofar as they have affected and influenced Jewish music. The lecture/performance will [...]
Simon will describe the writing of his new, celebrated book, Pacific. “We live a very long way from the shores of the Pacific Ocean – a sea so immeasurably vast it could swallow all the continents and have room to spare. But our distance from it should not cloud our realization that this is the [...]
Join local authors/storytellers Courtney Maum and Hallie Goodman for a dynamic performance-based workshop where live reading is used as a revision tool. Reading work out loud is a stupendous way to identify the trouble spots in a piece of writing. With the creative input of other participants, Courtney and Hallie will help fiction and non-fiction [...]
Join Sandisfield poet and scholar Val Coleman for a lively tour through the history of poetry as it has evolved along with our human species, from the development of the hyoid bone (enabling speech and song) to the ancient epic of Gilgamesh and ending somewhere in the weeds of rap. Along the way, you’ll meet [...]
A presentation by George Wheeler Ph.D., the director of conservation, Columbia University; research scholar, Metropolitan Museum of Art Less than an hour after the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed on the Sunday evening of October 6, 2002, the wooden base supporting Tullio Lombardo's marble sculpture of Adam collasped - shattering the sculpture and sending 28 [...]
From Madness To Music is a documentary short produced by Music in Common (MiC) and Beansprout Productions in association with the Pumpkin Foundation. The film follows the progression of Music in Common's roots as a backyard music jam honoring the life of slain journalist Daniel Pearl to its current work as a non-profit organization engaging youth [...]
Join staff of the Berkshire Natural Resources Council for a tour of their Clam River Reserve. Topics of discussion during the tour will include today’s plant and animal communities and the influence that Sandisfield’s human history has on the composition of those communities. We will gather at the Arts Center for a brief talk augmented by [...]
