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SHEFFIELD â Isabella Cardinali Kemp is passionate about local food, composting and recycling. Anything that makes the Earth cleaner.
Now, the Mount Everett Regional High School senior is âsuper excitedâ to spread her passion in the larger community with a virtual series of six speakers to expand on problems and household solutions for water-quality declines, the importance of local food and âthe interconnectivity of soil.â
Kemp, 18, had this idea, and she and Cecelia Caldwell, 17, got cracking during the coronavirus pandemic to line up six influential speakers for the free âSustainable Speaker Series â Our Relationship to Land and Water: Conversations with Local and National Sustainability Leaders,â which begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday with a talk about sustainable systems on college campuses by Ezra Small, the campus sustainability manager at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a Mount Everett alumnus.
You Can Take Part In A Series On Sustainability
The Sustainability Coalition of The Southern Berkshire Regional School District is presenting a FREE virtual speaker series featuring six influential leaders in various sustainability fields that aim to inspire action and raise awareness in building a better future for generations.
The sessions are presented by students at Mount Everett Regional High School in Sheffield, Massachusetts. They will be accessible to the public
via Zoom as grant support is made possible by
The Berkshire Environmental Endowment Fund in conjunction with the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
Sustainability Coalition co-founder and senior Isabella Kemp
Julianne Boyd is founding artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, which was established in 1995 at Consolati Performing Arts Center at Mount Everett Regional High School in Sheffield. The company presented its first season in Pittsfield in 2006. BSC now performs at Boyd-Quinson Mainstage on Union Street and the smaller St. Germain Stage in the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center on Linden Street.
Boyd recently took the time out of her busy schedule to answer our questions about the impact of 2020 and about her hopes for 2021.
Q:
How would you characterize 2020?
A: Difficult and unpredictable but ultimately exciting and tremendously rewarding. We were able to show, through all of the struggles of getting a season on, that art has healing power â it brings people together to transcend their individual problems and share some humanity for a few hours. It was difficult because our superb staff never worked harder or more hours to bring safe and exciting theater