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Out of the Mouths of Babes Festival Kick-off a Great Success!
cover art by Suzi Banks Baum. graphic design by Rose Tannenbaum. Out of the Mouths of Babes: An Evening of Mothers Reading to Others opened the Festival with over 115 people crowded into Dewey Hall in...
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Day Two of Festival–More than 100 turn out for Mason Library Events
This just in from Festival Rep Lorrin Krouss: Mary Kate Jordan “Today was amazing! There were over 30 women at Mary Kate Jordan’s “Sedna” event – she is an incredible story teller.” Mary Kate sent...
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Festival Day Three: Women Writers & Editors on their Craft & their Business;...
Festival Rep Judy Nardacci describes the Berkshire Magazine panel: “Berkshire Magazine’s event was praised in the evaluations for the diverse points of view, the realistic insights into the world of...
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Festival Day Four: Fleeting Reality
Lynnette Lucy Najimy and Marie-Elizabeth Mali explored the ways in which photography and writing could intertwine. Marie-Elizabeth shared her gorgeous underwater photographs and film clips from recent...
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Festival Day Five: Cuatro Mujeres, Cuatro Generos & Writing Your Power,...
Professor Holly Brown of Simon’s Rock, along with student presenters Paola Garcia, Melissa Sherman-Bennett and Abby Smith, led a spirited workshop highlighting lesser known 20th century Latin American...
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Festival Day Six: Coming to America and WRites of Passage
Angela Vuagniaux, Anni Crofut and Suzi Fowle were the perfect guides for an intense, inspiring writing journey into the memories of first menstruation. How can we shed memories of not being...
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Festival Day 7: Julia Cameron LIVE at Kripalu
Julia Cameron One thing I learned from Julia Cameron’s Festival presentation at Kripalu on March 7 is that she was once married to the director Martin Scorsese, and helped him write the screenplay for...
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Festival Day 8: Do You Want to Get Published and Before I Forget…Workshop
Despite a snowstorm just winding down, Carole Owens hosted a lively, informative and delightfully intimate discussion with Roberta Sillman and Edith Velmans, both writers, and Julia Lord, who runs a...
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Festival Day 9: Alison Larkin, Iris Bass, Sondra Zeidenstein & Millie Calesky
British-American comedienne Alison Larkin brought down the house in a special performance of her brilliant new one-woman show, Alison Larkin LIVE. Alison asked that we not take any photos of the...
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Festival Day 10: Sweet Dreams of Women’s Human Rights
We had a fantastic turn-out of over 100 people for an outstanding International Women’s Day Program, hosted by Ricky Bernstein and the Berkshire Human Rights Speaker series as part of theBerkshire...
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Festival Day 11: Young Women Writers of Monument Mountain Regional High School
There was a full, appreciative crowd on hand at the Guthrie Center to hear some of the talented young women writers of Monument Mountain Regional High School share their work. Here is the program of...
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Festival Day 12: Stories from the Inside Out with Annabelle Coote
Festival Rep Lorrin Krouss reports that “Stories from the Inside Out” was wonderful! Annabelle Coote “It was a great space and Annabelle set the room up with some chairs and mats and pillows on the...
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Festival Day 13: WRites of Passage 2: Sex, Giving Birth and Motherhood
Workshop co-leader Elizabeth Young shared the following brief essay she wrote during the session, about writing with the women in the group: “Why is it so comfortable with women? Why can we talk...
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Festival Day 14: Writing the Wild Heart
Workshop leader Jennifer Young For hundreds of generations, our ancestors’ primary relationship was with the earth. They felt themselves part of an intricate community of life. Today, most of us live...
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Festival Day 15: Half the Sky with WAM Theatre and Sisters for Peace
Kristen and Caroline introduce the evening An engaged crowd of nearly 200 streamed into the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center tonight to see Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, presented...
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Festival Day 16: Writing for Tweens, Moving Out of the Garrett and...
Saturday started off with a talk at the Stockbridge Library by author Lisa Greenwald on writing for the tween audience. Lisa Greenwald Teens Michelena Mastrianni and Emilee Logan enjoyed the...
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Festival Day 17: “Water Children,” From the Top, Writing with Prompts and...
It was a busy Sunday at the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers! Festival rep Judy Nardacci had this to say about the morning screening of the film “Water Children,” hosted by the Berkshire...
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Festival Day 18: Young Women Writers on the Development of the Self
A group of young women writers took the stage at Bard College at Simon’s Rock with stories and poems dealing in different ways with the development of identity alone and in relationship. Panel...
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Festival Day 19: IWOW-WOW and Writing for the Web
Despite a late-season snow storm, a lively crowd gathered at Deb Koffman’s gallery in Housatonic for our annual Festival open-mic event, In Words Out Words in Women’s Own Words. Festival rep Claudette...
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Festival Day 20: WRites of Passage III and Illumination: Memoir Writing as a...
The three-part series WRites of Passage concluded with a writing workshop focused on “the final journey: the end of fertility, aging and death,” while down the road in Stockbridge the Women’s...
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Festival Day 21: Nancy Slonim Aronie and Laura Didyk
Nancy Slonim Aronie Nancy Slonim Aronie gave an inspired presentation to about 80 people at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as the third of their series of Festival offerings. She talked about the...
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Festival Day 22: Trust, Virtual Artists’ Collective and The Trojan Women
What a day it was at the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers! JoAnne Spies started it off with her collective performance “Trust,” at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge. JoAnne reports: “Each...
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Festival Day 23: Poetry Compote, Gala Essay Contest Reading, Talk to Her
We don’t have photos yet from the Poetry Compote (if you were there and took some, please send them our way!), but host Lisken Van Pelt Dus reported that the event was well-attended and very...
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Festival Day 24: Finding Your Voice, The Prose Poem and Small Stories in...
All three Sunday Festival events went off beautifully. A small group of teens gathered at the Otis Public Library under the guidance of Berkshire Magazine editor Anastasia Stanmeyer, who led them...
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Festival Day 25: K.A. Laity on How to Keep Writing with a Fulltime Job
Professional multi-tasking professor/writer/media sorcerer Kate Laity made it seem quite simple in her Festival presentation this evening: just make writing part of your routine, put the time in your...
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Festival Day 26: Passover break
Leigh Strimbeck leads a talk-back with her actors and choreographer On this day we rested and reflected over some of the many thought-provoking moments in the Festival!
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Festival Day 27: Wind & Rain, The Female Rebel and Speak Out and Speak Up!
Three outstanding programs took place this evening! Here are some photos; more description coming soon. At the Lichtenstein Center in Pittsfield, Rosemary Starace and JoAnne Spies led an Elemental...
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Festival Day 28: What’s Your Story?
Lara Tupper The final session in the four-part Festival series at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health featured author and writing teacher Lara Tupper. Festival rep Lorrin Krouss spoke glowingly of...
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Festival Day 29: Good Friday
On this day we rested and prepared for the final day of the Festival! Cheryl Luft at "Trust"
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Festival Day 30: Writing for Personal Evolution and Solo: Women’s Travel...
The final day of the 2013 Festival featured two events, held back to back at the South Berkshire Friends Meeting House in Great Barrington. Author and writing instructor Dara Lurie presented an...
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2013 Essay Contest Winners and their Prize-winning Essays!
A large crowd gathered in Edith Wharton’s elegant living room at The Mount on March 23 to hear the four winners of the 2013 BFWW Essay Contest read their essays on “Masculinity.” Second prize winner...
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Successful Festival
The Berkshire Record published this column by Festival Director Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez in the April 6 issue: Festival organizers Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez and Judith Nardacci It takes many...
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Festival party a big hit!
Hosts, presenters, organizers and Festival friends met at the Y-Bar in Pittsfield to mingle and raise a toast to the close of an extraordinarily successful 2013 Festival season. Approximately 2,000...
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