Indie folk-rock singer-songwriter  Eliza Edens visits her hometown this Friday Oct. 21, plays at kick-off live music event at Store at Five Corners.  The cafe can hold about 50 people so advanced ticket purchase ($15) will ensure  a seat.

The four-person Eliza Edens Band will follow opening act Collect Calls, a singer-songwriter collective that includes Lily Goldberg, Jason Bascasa and Karl Mullen.  Doors open at 6:00 p.m., 4 New Ashford Road, in South Williamstown, at the intersection of state Route 43 and U.S. Route 7. Edens is backed by Nate Sabat on bass, Addie Vogt on drums and Dex Wolfe on guitar and lap steel.

Community Television for Southern Berkshires (CTSB) needs volunteers to crew five (5) positions for each of eleven (11) performances:  camera (x3), audio (x1), and script reader (x1). Feel free to sign up for as many performances as you’d like.

If you would like to volunteer, please reply email: info@ctsbtv.org or call us at 413-243-8211

Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a residency program at 11 high schools in Massachusetts and neighboring New York. Shakespeare & Company directing teams lead students at each school through a language-based exploration of different Shakespeare plays, culminating in full-scale productions at their own schools and then on the main stage at the Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox.

W’town Chamber of Commerce in partnership with BRIDGE, B’shire Resources for Integration of Diverse Groups through Education presents free “Cultural Competency Workshop” REGISTER HERE

This conversation will be facilitated by the Northern Berkshire SPIRIT Council. Learn about the culmination of 3 years of work & conversations within northern Berkshire to create a welcoming & inclusive community.

Be heard and listen to the concerns and voices of your friends and neighbors.

Masks optional. Light refreshments provided. Introductions and announcements are made prior to the discussion.

Questions? Call us! 413-663-7588

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Heather Bruegl, Independent Indigenous Consultant & Historian, tells the history the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) & how/why it came into existence. ICWA is currently jeopardized by a Supreme Court Case that threatens tribal sovereignty. There was a time when tribal leaders reported that their children were missing. They had been taken from the homes that they knew and placed in non-Indigenous homes. Children were taken in droves.