Happening this Week
1BERKSHIRE PRESENTS: BERKSHIRE BINGO
The creative folks at 1Berkshire have designed a Berkshire Bingo board with each square as an activity to partake in that supports the community and yourself! The activities range from donating to a local nonprofit, taking a virtual class from a local business, planting seeds, writing online positive reviews for your favorite businesses, thanking a healthcare professional or drinking a local beer. Take a picture, screenshot or video to show you completing the activity. After doing five in a row, share it on Facebook and tag 1Berkshire!
While it is called Berkshire Bingo, the activities on the board can be applied to Litchfield and Columbia County or the entire Hudson region. The following are all suggestions to help you fill up that board and celebrate everything your community has to offer!
Click here for the Berkshire Bingo Board!
TMI PROJECT: VIRTUAL WORKSHOP AND PODCAST LAUNCH
April 1st, Wednesday, 7PM - 8:30PM
TMI Project is a nonprofit organization based out of Kingston NY that leads true storytelling workshops leading to inspiring live performances, and now, a podcast. The name is an acronym for “too much information”—encouraging storytellers to “go there” and include the parts of a story typically left out because of shame or stigma. Their “Virtual True Storytelling Mini-Workshop” (hosted on Zoom) will introduce participants to the concept of timed free-writing and provides juicy writing prompts and a supportive space to share your stories.
Click here to register for virtual workshop!
In the new podcast, co-hosts Eva Tenuto and Micah Blumenthal take you through some of the group’s favorite storytellers as they step on stage and transform painful events from their past into powerful, inspiring and often hilarious, monologues of resilience and survival. Donation encouraged.
Click here to get the new podcast!
DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU’S PIPELINE: CLOSE TO LIVE
Through April 5th
After an exceptional run at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox MA last fall, WAM”s production of Dominque Morisseau’s Pipeline traveled to the Central Square Theatre in Cambridge. In lieu of the scheduled live performances, it is now being streamed on the Central Square Theatre’s website—a great way to support and participate in arts during this time. Pipeline tells the story of Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher who is deeply committed to her students and mother, desperate to give her only son opportunities she never had. When a controversial incident in his upstate private schools threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage, and her own choices as a parent. Pipeline received exceptional reviews across the board with Variety describing it as “an emotionally harrowing…drama that raises barbed questions about class, race, parental duty and the state of American education” while The Huffington Post hailed it as “…impactful…fresh and smart…(an) intriguing new American drama.”
Click here to purchase tickets!
READ LIKE EDITH: EDITH WHARTON’S DIGITIZED LIBRARY
Since the summer of 2015, the team of The EdithWhartonsLibrary.org project have been working tireless to digitize, upload, tag and display digital records of all of the 2,7000 books contained in Edith Wharton’s library at The Mount. The site comprises a rough draft version of those efforts, which is added to continually. In addition to reading inspiration from one of the Berkshire’s most visible and valuable members of society use the comments section to help this project flourish!
Edith Wharton’s Digitized Library
To access these titles, you can use Overdrive—an instant digital library card that allows you to borrow and download books and movies for free for limited times…just as if you had gone to library in person! The application can be downloaded onto an iPhone or iPad at the Apple App Store, or, if you have a kindle, it can be downloaded at the Amazon App store.
GROCERY EXPRESS
Several grocery stores offer a “pre-order” option and even delivery!
Hawthorne Valley Farm gives the “pre-order” option for all of their regularly available products. Hawthorne Valley Pre-Order
LaBonne’s offers pickup or delivery for pre-shopped orders. Labonne’s To Go
TAKE AND BAKE: CARBO LOAD
Berkshire Mountain Bakery is offering their delicious pizza in a take and bake fashion—call ahead with your original creation (or pick from one of their classics) and then pick it up curbside. The bakery is open for business taking strong precautions by only allowing 1 person in the store at a time. If you want their exceptionally comforting and simply exceptional chicken pot pies, you’ll want to make sure to be the first person there! They are also offering delivering in South County on Thursdays - Sundays from 4 - 7PM
Click here for Click here for Berkshire Mountain Bakery Online Ordering or call the store at 413.274.1313.