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The Stockbridge Library is pleased to offer virtual gentle chair yoga!  Please join us for a half-hour session with yoga instructor, Michael Pulitzer, Jr.  Gentle Chair Yoga offers participants an opportunity to be grounded in the body and uplifted with the breath. Working to access energy, ease in sensation and movement, and stilling the patterns of…

Join us as we welcome poet Angela Dribben to our Online Poetry: Medicine for the Soul series on May 5, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. A note from Angela Dribben: First, I'd like to share how I ended up being fortunate enough to be present for Susana's afternoon. When Dead Shark on the N Train came…

We invite all home chefs and budding culinarians to join us for a virtual cookbook club meeting! This month’s featured book is Nopalito: A Mexican Kitchen by Gonzalo Guzmán and Stacy Adimando. Here’s how virtual cookbook club works: Each of us will prepare a recipe from this month’s cookbook. Copies are available at the library.  To…

The Stockbridge Library is pleased to offer virtual gentle chair yoga!  Please join us for a half-hour session with yoga instructor, Michael Pulitzer, Jr.  Gentle Chair Yoga offers participants an opportunity to be grounded in the body and uplifted with the breath. Working to access energy, ease in sensation and movement, and stilling the patterns…

Join us  as we welcome poet Elizabeth Mikesch to Online Poetry: Medicine for the Soul on May 12, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.  ELIZABETH MIKESCH is the author of Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me (Calamari). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Believer, Keith LLC, Juked, Dreginald, Unsaid, Sleepingfish, and Caketrain. She wrote a minivan opera…

WORD EVOLUTION: LANGUAGE CHANGE ACROSS TIME   Join Stewart Edelstein for an entertaining one-hour (including Q&A) exploration of language change over the past six decades, featuring scores of images. We’ll start with a nostalgic look back to the world of the 1960s, then see how words have been repurposed for our tech world, and delve…

Join us for our monthly book club to discuss this month’s selection Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. The book is available in large print, regular print, audio, and on Libby.  Stop by or call the Library at 413.298.5501 to place a hold on a copy. The book club…

The Stockbridge Library is pleased to offer virtual gentle chair yoga!  Please join us for a half-hour session with yoga instructor, Michael Pulitzer, Jr.  Gentle Chair Yoga offers participants an opportunity to be grounded in the body and uplifted with the breath. Working to access energy, ease in sensation and movement, and stilling the patterns…

Lisken Van Pelt Dus was raised in England, the US, and Mexico, but has lived in the Berkshires ever since landing at Williams for college, where she earned a BA in Religion before later earning a Masters in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is an award-winning teacher of writing and languages;…

The Stockbridge Library is pleased to offer virtual gentle chair yoga!  Please join us for a half-hour session with yoga instructor, Michael Pulitzer, Jr.  Gentle Chair Yoga offers participants an opportunity to be grounded in the body and uplifted with the breath. Working to access energy, ease in sensation and movement, and stilling the patterns…

Howie Faerstein is the author of two chapbooks: Play a Song on the Drums, he said and Out of Order (Main Street Rag) and two full-length collections: Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn and Googootz and Other Poems, both published by Press 53. He has been a featured reader at dozens of venues throughout New England and the Southwest. His poetry…