Stockbridge Library will be featuring artists from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community of Mohicans in Wisconsin from September through November. The show opened on September 8 and will remain on view in the Procter Gallery on the lower level at the entrance to the Museum and Archives through the end of November. Featured artists will be Reva…
These drawings were made when I was staying alongside the Pacific beach, in Playa Coco, Costa Rica. Located along the Pacific coast in Central America, Playa Coco is a world away from the Berkshires. The contrast is most striking when the dark, deep winter makes being outside in Stockbridge a challenge, whereas the sun and…
Click here for the link to today's online poetry session. Malachi Black is also the author of Indirect Light, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2024, and Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the PSA’s New American Poets Series…
Our featured artist of the month for December is Joan Burkhard. Come to the Stockbridge Library and enjoy her artwork on display in our lobby. Artist's statement: In this complex, ever-changing world filled with challenges and deep tension, this exhibit of recent work hopes to lift your spirits, make you smile and, perhaps, evoke familiar…
Join us for a day of winter fun at the Stockbridge Library! All day long we will have a youth craft table where children can decorate a snowflake, indoor winter games, and an outdoor StoryWalk© through our decorated library garden walkway. At 10:45 a.m. on December 2nd, there will be a winter-themed storytime.
Join us for a day of winter fun at the Stockbridge Library! We will have a youth craft table where children can decorate a snowflake, indoor winter games, and an outdoor StoryWalk© through our decorated library garden walkway.
Come practice your Spanish language skills at the Stockbridge Library on the first Monday of every month! Best for beginner and intermediate-level speakers, but advanced and native Spanish speakers are welcome, too. This program is an opportunity for Spanish language learners to practice their conversation skills through fun games, activities, and conversation topics and to…
Click here for the Zoom link. Ellen Steinbaum is the author of four poetry collections and a one-person play. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and is included in several anthologies including The Widows’ Handbook and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems American Places. An award-winning journalist and former Boston Globe columnist, she writes a…
We will be hosting a cookie swap for our December gathering. Please bring two dozen cookies from your favorite recipe to swap and share. There will be no shared meal this day from a common cookbook, however, participants are welcome to share their recipe or brief story behind their selections. Come and enjoy some holiday…
Judy White Staber was born into a theatrical family during World War II and came to America in 1959 working in the visual and performing arts for all her American life. She was a founding member of The Berkshire Arts Alliance and from 1996 through 2004, served as Executive Director for the Spencertown Academy, a…
Click here to join us for this week's poetry session. James Davis is the author of Club Q, which Edward Hirsch selected for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and The Waywiser Press published in 2020. His work has been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio and anthologized in two installments of Best New Poets (2011, selected…
Join us for our December Book Club to discuss The Magician by Colm Toibin. This event will be both in-person and hybrid. Books are available to check out at our Library. In this “exquisitely sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) novel, Tóibín has crafted “a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle…
Fantastical Felt Paintings What magical scene resides in your dreams? A snow-filled landscape, a colorful creature, or gardens galore? In this program, we will bring our visions to life in whimsical felted “paintings”! We’ll learn about dry needle felting: what fibers work best, layering techniques, and how to create texture. There will be lots of…
Click here to join us for this week's online poetry event. Swedish-born Gunilla Theander Kester, Ph.D. is the author and editor of six books in three genres including her full-length poetry book If I Were More Like Myself. In the last two years, she has written and published over 40 poems in various literary magazines…
Join us in January to cook from Ina Garten's Go-To-Dinners. Copies of the book will be available at the circulation desk. Please bring a dish to share. Feel free to call or email with any questions! (413) 298-5501 or info@stockbridgelibrary.org
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