OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, will present an online program titled Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 12, with artist Phyllis Kornfeld, author of a book by the same name.
Kornfeld has worked closely with incarcerated men and women around the country for 35 years â in all levels of security from county jail to maximum security to death row â providing the transformative experience of creating art.
Her presentation is a look at the drawings, paintings and objects created by the people she met.
Tickets are available online at berkshireolli.org or by phone at 413-236-2190. Cost is $15, $10 for OLLI and Berkshire Museum members, and free for youth 17 & under, BCC students, and those holding SNAP EBT, WIC or ConnectorCare cards.
Martin Bookspan, broadcaster who brought classical music from concert halls into the home, dies at 94
By Globe staff and News ServicesUpdated May 4, 2021, 10:26 p.m.
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Martin Bookspan, radio announcer for WQXR, posed in the radio booth backstage in the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood, ca. July 1960.William Tague/Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives
He grew up near Symphony Hall, but Martin Bookspanâs love for classical music was not initially ignited by a concert at the venerable venue. The spark came from his familyâs most treasured possession in the depths of the Depression: an Atwater Kent radio.