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Summer begins June 20th! Event highlights for the week ahead in & around #StockbridgeMA (June 20 -26)
Coming up this week in the #StockbridgeMA area: Live performances, Summer Solstice celebrations, Lectures, Cooking Classes, Storytime, Painting demos, Season openings of dance, theatre, exhibitions and more.
Tanglewood Music Festival Popular artist series kicks off with Top Gun: Maverick in Concert. Featuring music by Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga and Hans Zimmer, with the score produced by Lorne Balfe. (June 20, 8pm), A Prairie Home Companion. After a national tour in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, APHC is pleased to again be taking the stage at Tanglewood — always a favorite stop and the site of 17 of the show’s national broadcasts. Joining Garrison are music director Rich Dworsky and the band, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors (Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and sound-effects wizard Fred Newman), and guest performers too. (June 21, 7pm) and TLI Boston Conservatory at Berklee (June 21, 1pm) |Stockbridge/Lenox
Chesterwood “Arts Alive” Ian Spencer Bell dances Isadora Duncan. Choreographer and poet Ian Spencer Bell will present a program within Daniel Chester French’s historic Studio that features a pair of 1904 Isadora Duncan works, set to live music by pianist Lauren Aloia. Bell will also premier a new piece “Two Impromptus” inspired by intensive training with Sanakai Juku, a butoh dance troupe in Japan (June 19 & 20, 5:30-6:30pm) plus FREE Community Ice Cream Social for Children (June 22, 3pm) | Stockbridge, MA
Norman Rockwell Museum Summer Saturdays for Family, a fun and interactive programming inspired by the art of Norman Rockwell and Walter Wick, creator of the I SPY books for children. (June 21, 11am-3pm), New exhibition on view I SPY! Walter Wick's Hidden Wonders. Explore the museums fascinating exhibits and beautiful grounds. Buy tickets and reserve guided tours of the Gallery and Rockwell's Studio |Stockbridge, MA
Berkshire Botanical Garden Summer Bird Walks (June 20, 8:30am), Family Fridays, Drag of the Berkshires Story hour. Bringing literacy and diversity to the Berkshires through dynamic storytelling! Drag Story Hour captures the imagination and playfulness of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids can see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where everyone can be their authentic selves! (June 20, 11am to noon) Rhubarb and Strawberry Cooking Class (June 21, 10am), Wine Tasting and Cheese Pairing (June 26, 5-7pm) |Stockbridge, MA
Naumkeag Backstairs Tour offers a look at the servants’ life at Naumkeag—and rarely seen areas of the house, including the 3rd floor (June 20, 21 & 22 9:30-10:30am) |Stockbridge, MA
The Mission House Mohicans Missionaries and Migrating Colonists: A Guided Tour (June 20, 11am or 1pm)
Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives Family Movie Afternoon – Matilda (June 20, 2:30-4pm), Family Storytime (June 24, 10:30-11am), Teen Craft Club (June 24, 3-5pm), Family Reading and Music Party with LitNet (June 25, 10:30-12:30) Play With Clay (June 25, 3:30-4:30pm) |Stockbridge, MA
Nejaime's Wine Cellars BIG Summer Spectacular Tasting/Free & Sale! Dynamic industry experts will be pouring exciting selections. (June 21, 1-5pm) | Stockbridge & Lenox, MA
Jacob's Pillow Week 1 of the Festival (June 25 – June 28) on the picturesque Henry J. Leir outdoor stage will feature the experimental Prehistoric Body Theater from Indonesia channeling dinosaurs and igniting themes of ancestry, art, and science (June 25 - June 26 at 5:30pm) |Becket, MA
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center rock band Los Lobos Beyond the accolades, and the source of it all, is heart. Los Lobos have dedicated their off-stage time to helping others, working for peace and justice. Their compositions have transformed the hard cries from the East L.A. barrio into songs of hope, tales of common folk finding ways to endure.
(June 20, 8pm); singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Rodney Crowell. (June 21, 8pm) |Great Barrington, MA
Shakespeare & Company 48th season begins with the World Premiere of The Victim by Lawrence Goodman featuring Annette Miller. Three women: A successful New York doctor whose racial diversity training has gone horribly wrong; a health aide grappling with racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a Holocaust survivor facing her own horror, and finding her way back to love and healing. Who gets to call herself a victim? Who is the perpetrator? “The Victim” is about identity, our blindness to others, and the human capacity for cruelty and compassion. (June 19 - July 20) |Lenox, MA
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio Painting demonstration with professional artist Ellie Kreischer, Mixed media paper (June 20, 11am), Lecture series: Elizabeth Cowling, Professor Emerita of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, Picasso expert, author, and curator for the Tate, the Met, and the Clark will speak on Juan Gris: Hidden Compositions and Collage Masterpieces using our Fruit Dish on a Striped Tablecloth. (June 21, 11am), Thoughtful Thursday Films "Young Picasso" (June 26, 2pm) |Lenox, MA
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum Summer Season of Tea & Talk, The Story of Festival House: The story of culture and inclusive community during the Festival House era at Ventfort Hall 1950 – 1961, presented by Chelsea Gaia, Director of Programming and Events at Ventfort Hall (June 24, 4pm), Ghost Tour with Robert Oakes (June 21, 7pm), Tarot 101, Step into the world of Tarot with an introductory workshop led by Chelsea Gaia, the mansion’s director of programming and events. The experience includes tea, snacks, and a deep dive into the history and structure of the supernatural craft of spiritual prognostication. (June 22, 11am-2:30pm) |Lenox, MA
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum new exhibit "Votes for Women: How Tea Sparked a Suffrage Revolution" opens June 20. The exhibit centered around an early 20th century “Votes for Women” tea set, donated by Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansions & Museum. |Adams, MA
Bidwell House Museum Historic songs of the American Revolution. A program in collaboration with the Berkshire County Historical Society at Herman Melville's Arrowhead. As part of the Revolution 250 series of events happening throughout 2025 and 2026, the Bidwell House Museum is excited to partner with The Berkshire County Historical Society at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead to present a concert of music from the Revolution (June 26, 4-5:30pm) |Tyringham, MA
The Mount Edith Wharton's Home Forest bathing & Tai Chi with Mary Hannah Parkman (June 20, 2-3:30pm), Build a Band with Berkshire Music School In this Sunday afternoon workshop led by Ms. Julia of Berkshire Music School, we will listen, analyze and learn to play songs of your choice. Participants are welcome to bring their own instruments, or can choose from a selection of instruments provided by the instructor. Guitar, bass, drums, percussion, keyboard/piano, and voices are all welcome! (June 22, 2:30-4pm), Qigong with Jamie Greene (June 23, 10:30-11:30am), Le Cafe Francais (June 24, 9:30-10:30am), Sounds of Summer Free Jazz Series, STANDARD, an exciting lineup of live performances curated by jazz musician Michael Junkins! Bring a picnic to enjoy in the garden or visit the food trucks parked outside the Forecourt. The Terrace Café Bar will be open, serving signature cocktails and other refreshments. (June 24, 5:30-7:30pm), Lightning Bug Light Show with Mass Audubon (June 25, 8:30-10pm) |Lenox, MA
Clark Art Summer Solstice with a variety of free activities: Foraging Walk, Flower Crowns workshop, Tarot Readings, Spirit Drawings and more. (June 21, 5:30pm), Gallery Talk "Food and Flowers" (June 22, 11:15am); RAP 2025: A Conversation with RAP and Its Legacy in Art History (June 25, 5:30pm), Conference Panels (June 26, 9am), Curating & Writing American Art in the Museum (June 26, 5:30pm), New Exhibition: A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 |Williamstown, MA
The Lion's Den Bossa Nova Blue (June 20, 7pm), Blue Cactus (June 21, 7pm), Michael Junkins an Friends (June 22, 6:30pm), George Schuller Trio (June 25, 6:30pm), The Rejuvinators (June 26, 7pm)|Stockbridge, MA
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Kripalu Outdoors: Summer Solstice Retreat with Katie Hagel and Ami Jean Aubin (June 20-22), Love Camp with Shaun Galanos and Christen Poole (June 20-22), Emotional Detox 2.0 with Sherianna Boyle and DJ Mantra Maro Marz (June 20-22) and more. |Stockbridge, MA
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