Nordic skiing and snowshoeing at Notchview in Windsor turn winter into a learning landscape. With miles of groomed and track-set trails, visitors can experience how trail design supports classic skiing, skate skiing, snowshoe travel, and even skiing with dogs, connecting recreation with land use and winter ecology.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At South Egremont's Bash Bish Falls in Mount Washington State Forest, self-directed learning comes alive through geology. A hike to Massachusetts’ tallest waterfall reveals how glaciers, water, and time carved this dramatic landscape, inviting reflection on Earth’s ancient processes.
Families can explore Ventfort Hall in Lenox, a Gilded Age mansion where you can learn through self-guided tours, sketching, or even photographing the historic house and gardens.
Learn about permaculture and biodiversity at the Williamstown library! Discover alternatives to traditional lawns and how treating your yard as an ecosystem can help it thrive. This program is for ages 13+ and explores sustainable, rewarding design for outdoor spaces.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
A musical instrument lending library in Great Barrington offers a free way to explore sound through shared resources. Observing which instruments people choose and how they try them reveals patterns in access, curiosity, and how music traditions grow through collective use.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
The Lenox library offers free art studies in mosaics for ages 10-17. Participants explore creativity and collaboration while designing with soft materials.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
This hands-on workshop at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge invites teens and adults to learn willow basketry as a form of functional art. Bending and weaving willow reveals how material, land care, and craft traditions shape objects made for everyday use.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
The Bousquet Snowbox Derby in Pittsfield is a family-friendly event where teams design cardboard racers to compete on a snowy downhill track. Experience creativity, teamwork, and hands-on winter fun for all ages.
Lee Middle and High School presents "The Addams Family," a musical comedy celebrating the quirks and love that unite every family. This lively musical brings the delightfully odd Addams family to life as they navigate romance, secrets, and acceptance.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
This weekly hands-on class in Pittsfield explores West African and Caribbean drumming and song through shared rhythms and call-and-response. Participants will observe how individual drum parts interlock, building listening skills while learning how music supports storytelling, ceremonies, and community life.
At South Egremont's Bash Bish Falls in Mount Washington State Forest, self-directed learning comes alive through geology. A hike to Massachusetts’ tallest waterfall reveals how glaciers, water, and time carved this dramatic landscape, inviting reflection on Earth’s ancient processes.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
A musical instrument lending library in Great Barrington offers a free way to explore sound through shared resources. Observing which instruments people choose and how they try them reveals patterns in access, curiosity, and how music traditions grow through collective use.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Discover new reads and old favorites at the Berkshire Athenaeum Library Book Sale in Pittsfield. From cookbooks to kids’ titles, this sale supports literacy and self-directed learning.
A musical at Hoosac Valley High School Theatre in Adams brings Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka to the stage through student performance. Songs and movement invite noticing how a familiar story is shaped through collaboration, timing, and theatrical interpretation.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
In Pittsfield, the Winter Farmers’ Market turns shopping into learning. Families meet farmers, taste local foods, and explore how regional agriculture shapes community and the environment. Indoors, it’s a cozy space to connect through food and shared traditions.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Hoffmann Bird Club offers a free ornithology program at Greylock Glen in Adams for adults and teens, where participants can observe bird courtship behaviors. This event highlights the American Woodcock’s calls and displays, providing an engaging introduction to ornithology.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Families can explore Ventfort Hall in Lenox, a Gilded Age mansion where you can learn through self-guided tours, sketching, or even photographing the historic house and gardens.
At South Egremont's Bash Bish Falls in Mount Washington State Forest, self-directed learning comes alive through geology. A hike to Massachusetts’ tallest waterfall reveals how glaciers, water, and time carved this dramatic landscape, inviting reflection on Earth’s ancient processes.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
A musical instrument lending library in Great Barrington offers a free way to explore sound through shared resources. Observing which instruments people choose and how they try them reveals patterns in access, curiosity, and how music traditions grow through collective use.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
"The Little Mermaid" brings a vibrant underwater world to life at the Lenox High School, as Ariel dreams of experiencing the human world beyond the sea. This musical theater production immerses theatergoers in the beloved story, featuring memorable songs and dazzling visual design.
Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge hosts a free community bulb show, offering a hands-on lesson in botany for all ages. Explore blooming tulips and daffodils while learning how plants respond to the seasons and bring color to spring.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Soup-making becomes a way to study process, seasonality, and tradition in this hands-on class led by farmer and chef Tracy Hayhurst at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. Starting with stock, participants observe how heat, time, and simple ingredients shape flavor while learning how soups have long supported nourishment, thrift, and gathering during colder months.
"The Little Mermaid" brings a vibrant underwater world to life at the Lenox High School, as Ariel dreams of experiencing the human world beyond the sea. This musical theater production immerses theatergoers in the beloved story, featuring memorable songs and dazzling visual design.
Great Barrington winter farmers’ market offers more than fresh produce. They support learning in agriculture, economics, and ecology, helping families build awareness around food systems and sustainability through everyday experiences.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
At South Egremont's Bash Bish Falls in Mount Washington State Forest, self-directed learning comes alive through geology. A hike to Massachusetts’ tallest waterfall reveals how glaciers, water, and time carved this dramatic landscape, inviting reflection on Earth’s ancient processes.
Families can explore Ventfort Hall in Lenox, a Gilded Age mansion where you can learn through self-guided tours, sketching, or even photographing the historic house and gardens.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
A musical instrument lending library in Great Barrington offers a free way to explore sound through shared resources. Observing which instruments people choose and how they try them reveals patterns in access, curiosity, and how music traditions grow through collective use.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Winter Tree ID in Lanesborough at Mt. Greylock invites families to notice trees without leaves by observing branching patterns, buds, and bark. A simple walk becomes a lesson in pattern recognition, seasonal change, and close looking, helping learners build observation skills and a stronger connection to place.
"The Little Mermaid" brings a vibrant underwater world to life at the Lenox High School, as Ariel dreams of experiencing the human world beyond the sea. This musical theater production immerses theatergoers in the beloved story, featuring memorable songs and dazzling visual design.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
"The Little Mermaid" brings a vibrant underwater world to life at the Lenox High School, as Ariel dreams of experiencing the human world beyond the sea. This musical theater production immerses theatergoers in the beloved story, featuring memorable songs and dazzling visual design.
Fresh snow becomes a living storybook as participants learn to read tracks, trails, and winter behavior near Lanesborough and Mount Greylock. This winter walk builds skills in observation and pattern recognition while revealing how animals survive and move through cold landscapes.
The Berkshire Art Center in Pittsfield invites caregivers and kids to a free art meetup filled with play and creativity. Together, families can learn through guided projects in color and design while enjoying community connection.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
At South Egremont's Bash Bish Falls in Mount Washington State Forest, self-directed learning comes alive through geology. A hike to Massachusetts’ tallest waterfall reveals how glaciers, water, and time carved this dramatic landscape, inviting reflection on Earth’s ancient processes.
Families can explore Ventfort Hall in Lenox, a Gilded Age mansion where you can learn through self-guided tours, sketching, or even photographing the historic house and gardens.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Explore Chesterwood in Stockbridge through self-guided tours that support art studies. Learn how Daniel Chester French blended sculpture and landscape, and consider how public art reflects history, process, and place.
A musical instrument lending library in Great Barrington offers a free way to explore sound through shared resources. Observing which instruments people choose and how they try them reveals patterns in access, curiosity, and how music traditions grow through collective use.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Explore Chesterwood in Stockbridge through self-guided tours that support art studies. Learn how Daniel Chester French blended sculpture and landscape, and consider how public art reflects history, process, and place.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Explore Chesterwood in Stockbridge through self-guided tours that support art studies. Learn how Daniel Chester French blended sculpture and landscape, and consider how public art reflects history, process, and place.
Berkshire South in Great Barrington invites families to celebrate spring with a cheerful egg hunt for all ages. Enjoy crafts, snacks, and fun egg hunt rounds for children 18 months to 12 years old.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum, visitors learn how art and music intertwined during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz Age Illustration reveals the rhythm of history through vibrant imagery that celebrates creativity, identity, and cultural transformation.
Explore Chesterwood in Stockbridge through self-guided tours that support art studies. Learn how Daniel Chester French blended sculpture and landscape, and consider how public art reflects history, process, and place.
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