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SUMMARY:Virtual Town Hall: The 2021 Weddings and Events Experience in the Berkshires
DESCRIPTION:Join 1Berkshire while they discuss rescheduling your events after COVID-19\, new ideas and interesting locations\, and the pivots to events. \nModerator: \n\nJonathan Butler\, President & CEO\, 1Berkshire.\n\nPanelists: \n\nTBA\n\nClick here to register!
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/virtual-town-hall-the-2021-weddings-and-events-experience-in-the-berkshires/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Class/Workshop,Educational,Free
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SUMMARY:Paint and Sip: Virtual Fundraiser for First Fridays Artswalk
DESCRIPTION:Berkshire Paint and Sip will host a Virtual Fundraiser for First Fridays Artswalk on Friday\, June 4 at 6 pm. Attendees will learn how to paint a landscape image of “Mountain Love Tree” in real time with feedback from the instructor. Visit berkshirepaintandsip.squarespace.com for more details and to register. (Note there is an option to purchase a ticket with or without materials.)
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/paint-and-sip-virtual-fundraiser-for-first-fridays-artswalk/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Artswalk,Class/Workshop,Educational
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SUMMARY:The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents Professor David Baum on "What is Living and What is Dead in Fascism?"
DESCRIPTION:The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents\nProfessor David Baum on \nWhat is Living and What is Dead in Fascism?\nThe 20th Century’s Most Troubling and Enduring Idea at 100  \nThursday\, June 10\, 2021 at 7:00 pm Eastern \nOnline via Zoom \nClick here to register safely and securely online\nor call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9am-4pm) to register by phone with a credit card. \nWhen Bard College at Simon’s Rock Professor David Baum first began to be interested in the Fascist period in Italy a little over 20 years ago\, Fascism seemed a dead letter\, the very stuff of disinterested scholarship. Since then\, of course\, it’s experienced quite the revival. The 2016 election triggered the publication of at least four noteworthy books on fascism intended for broad audiences and at the same time conjured a movement – Antifa\, short for anti-fascism – that very much held that its nemesis was back. The term “fascist\,” for the longest time merely a generic term of opprobrium\, elbowed its way back into the political lexicon. \nIn retrospect\, the assumption that Fascism was an extinct political species now appears wildly naïve. Current attempts to understand the populist right and hyper nationalists\, here and around the globe\, tend to focus on two causes: one sees rightwing populism as a kind of false consciousness\, a misguided reaction to the economic upheaval of the 21st century; the other\, the playing out of an imbedded racism in American life responding to the perceived threat of demographic change to white privilege. Both explanations have merit\, but ultimately\, we need to return to the origins of Fascism in the post-Great War period to better understand both the forces that initially called forth the movement and the prejudices of the dominant ideological discourses – liberal and socialist/communist – that weakened the West’s response to Fascism’s rise. \nDavid Baum received his PhD in European History from Yale University and has taught at New York University\, Skidmore College\, Union College\, the American University in Iraq-Sulaimani\, West Texas A&M University and is currently at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington. He is also the head of school at the John Dewey Academy\, also in Great Barrington. His research and teaching have focused on the Italian Renaissance\, Italian Fascism\, and the Modern Middle East. His current research project is on views of the Renaissance during the inter-war period in Italy\, entitled\, Fascism and the Italian Renaissance. \nAdmission is $10 for OLLI at BCC and Berkshire Museum members\, and $15 for the general public. Admission is free for Berkshire Community College students\, youth 17 and under\, and those holding WIC\, EBT/SNAP\, or ConnectorCare cards. \nPre-registration is required. Click here to register safely and securely online or call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9am-4pm) to register by phone with a credit card. \nPresented in partnership with the Berkshire Museum.
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/the-olli-distinguished-speakers-series-presents-professor-david-baum-on-what-is-living-and-what-is-dead-in-fascism/
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SUMMARY:Business Boost Series: Managing Your Business Finances
DESCRIPTION:Join Jeffrey Belair of Smith & Watson and learn some simple and strategic ways to get your finances in order to help you become stronger and more resilient as a business going forward.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register!
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/business-boost-series-managing-your-business-finances/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Class/Workshop,Educational,Free
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SUMMARY:OLLI Presents: Mercury Rising: John Glenn\, John Kennedy\, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:Join OLLI for an online discussion with presidential historian and speechwriter Jeff Shesol on his new book\, one of the Washington Post‘s “20 books to read this summer:” \nMercury Rising:\nJohn Glenn\, John Kennedy\, and the New Battleground of the Cold War \nThursday\, June 17 at 7 pm \nFree & Online via Zoom; Click Here to Register \nThe Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College hosts author Jeff Shesol for an online\, interactive discussion of his book Mercury Rising: John Glenn\, John Kennedy\, and the New Battleground of the Cold War.  If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space\, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War— a moment when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin\, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history\, and beat the US to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival— and America was losing. When John Glenn blasted into orbit on February 20\, 1962\, his mission was greater than circling Earth; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America’s sense of self- belief. Mercury Rising re- creates the sense of tension to a flight that riveted the world. Drawing on new sources\, interviews\, and Glenn’s personal notes\, Mercury Rising shows how the astronaut’s heroics lifted the nation’s hopes in what Kennedy called the “hour of maximum danger.” \nJeff Sheshol is is the author of Supreme Power and Mutual Contempt\, both selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He is a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and is a founding partner of West Wing Writers.  For more information and to register for this free discussion\, click here!
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/olli-presents-mercury-rising-john-glenn-john-kennedy-and-the-new-battleground-of-the-cold-war/
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CATEGORIES:Class/Workshop,Educational,Free
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SUMMARY:Business Boost Series: Family Business Succession Planning
DESCRIPTION:Join the team of the MassCEO as we learn about some of the important steps to take and strategies to have in place when thinking of the next era of your businesses ownership and operations. \nClick here to register!
URL:https://downtownpittsfield.com/event/business-boost-series-family-business-succession-planning/
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CATEGORIES:Class/Workshop,Educational,Free
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