Events

Celebrate BCHS's partnership with Berkshire Mountain Distillers and their Cultural Cocktail program with a pub crawl through downtown Pittsfield. We'll begin at Patrick's Pub and wind up at Methuselah Bar and Lounge where you can taste BCHS's Cultural Cocktail developed with Berkshire Mountain Distillers. Along the way we'll visit also visit Thistle and Mirth, Hot …

Local author Lorraine German discusses her book Soil and Shul in the Berkshires: The Untold Story of Sandisfield’s Jewish Farm Colony. Learn about the 1902 settlement in south Berkshire county and its final days when the congregation turned the synagogue over to the Sandisfield Arts Center in 1995. FREE Sponsored by MountainOne

Sailing Towards My Father is a one-man play about Herman Melville. The play chronicles Melville’s life from youth to old age, concentrating on his evolution as a writer and his complex relations with God, his parents and siblings, his wife and children, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Performed by Stephen Collins, written and directed by Carl A. …

Thursday, July 13, 7:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE RAIN OR SHINE ReWritten, created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds …

Friday, July 14, 7:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE RAIN OR SHINE ReWritten, created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds …

Thursday, July 15, 7:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE RAIN OR SHINE ReWritten, created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds …

Sunday, July 16, 7:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE RAIN OR SHINE ReWritten, created band performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds …

Join us at Herman Melville's Arrowhead for a spectacular evening of award-winning music, reading, and performance by The Mastheads' Summer Residents: Auyon Mukharji, Daniel Lavery, Elisa Gonzalez, Julia Mounsey, and Kristina Gaddy. FREE- BYOB and picnic  Sponsored by MountainOne, MCC, Housatonic Heritage

Mark Vanhoenacker is a native of Pittsfield, a commercial airline pilot and the author of the international bestseller Skyfaring as well as a columnist for the Financial Times and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. In his latest book, Imagine a City—"a love song to cities the world over," according to the Wall Street …

Please join authors Kevin O’Hara and Debby Applegate for an entertaining and wide-ranging conversation on literary life and the Berkshires.  O’Hara is a memoirist and columnist for the Berkshire Eagle (and former Writer-in-Residence at Arrowhead).  Applegate is a  Pulitzer Prize winning historian for  The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher …