Here’s a recap of news and information posted on Hilltown Families this past week, along with a map for finding out what’s happening this weekend and next week throughout Western MA!

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Check out our comprehensive list of summer camps with over 60 summer programs in and around western MA from which to choose! New camps added every week!

Peruse our list of Suggested Events for April 30th-May 6th, 2016 for a comprehensive list of events happening throughout the four counties of Western MA, including Bulletin Board Announcements & Hilltown Family Variety Show.

Also check our weekly column,  Learn Local. Play Local. for 51 Community-Based Educational Highlights: Poetry to Potluck. Homesteading to Oceanography, and our monthly column, Berkshire Family Fun, for a list of premier educational and cultural highlights in Berkshire County for families.

April 30-May 6, 2016

Saturday • Sunday
Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

Placemaking ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Community Meal ♦ Homesteading ♦ Gardening ♦ Nutrition ♦ Arts & Crafts ♦ Ornithology ♦ Animal Husbandry ♦ STEAM ♦ Nature Studies ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Oceanography ♦ Service-based Learning ♦ Civil Engineering ♦ Renaissance ♦ Music Studies ♦ Animation ♦ Performing Arts ♦ Storytelling ♦ Pottery ♦ Cultural Studies ♦ Parenting

RECAP

• Hilltown Families: We Are Creative Free Play
• Department of Conservation and Recreation Park Serve Day
• Hilltown Families: We Are Intergenerational
• Let Them Grow: Spring Craft Idea
• Elms College Bioblitz Encourages Citizen Scientists
• Visual Art in Western MA: May Openings, Closings & Calls for Art
• Hilltown Families: We Are Local Values
• Community Renaissance Festival Makes History Come Alive!
• Homesteading & STEM for All Ages in the Hilltowns
• Open Sesame: Six Novels Written in Verse
• Handbill & Callboard: Theater Studies Through Engagement in Western MA for April
• Hilltown Families: We Are Collaborative Consumption

FIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES

1. Message of the Spring Peepers
2. The Birds are Back!
3. Discovering History Through Pottery-Based Learning
4. What’s Your Favorite Way to Discover and Explore History with Your Kids?
5. Empowering Our Girls: Tips to Building Confidence

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• History Bulletin Board
• Sustainability Bulletin Board
• Theater Bulletin Board
• Visual Art Bulletin Board

• Community Announcements Bulletin Board
• Community Suggested Events
• Community Suggested Camps
• Community Suggested Classes

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