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In the audience was Naima Kradjian, CEO of Goodwill Theater Inc. and longtime supporter of the arts in the Southern Tier. I wanted to experience what it felt like to be socially distanced from the art and from each other, recalled Kradjian. Will I still feel like I m in an audience? What will it be like?
Kradjian recalls feeling shocked at the back and forth energy between the performers and patrons, even with a socially distant audience, in the 100-seat tent in a parking lot next door to the Berkshire Theatre Group’s 780-seat Colonial Theatre. The first time the actors came on and started to sing, I was not alone in crying, said Kradjian. Almost everybody in the audience had that reaction of oh my gosh, we can feel this again.
The collaborative has announced plans to scale down its three largest COVID-19 vaccine clinic sites in Great Barrington, North Adams and Pittsfield gradually over the next month and offer pop-up clinics and vaccination at testing sites. This is really the next phase vaccination, these large clinics were stood up so that we could quickly and efficiently vaccinate as many people as possible and they ve been incredibly successful, Executive Director of Communications, Planning and Development Jennifer Vrabel said. And we re finding that we ve now reached a critical mass where most of the people who are eligible and who wanted to get really actively engaged in the process, have come out and gotten it at the large clinics, and at the height, we could vaccinate with all of our volunteers, around 1,000 people a day, and now, we ve got six-hour clinic blocks, and 100 people coming in. So we re shifting to this model have more availability more days and more consistent
The Great Barrington Clinic is Providing a Fun Atmosphere wsbs.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsbs.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
24th Annual Spring Downtown Pittsfield Cleanup is this Friday, May 21, 2021 from 1 to 4 pm.
Downtown Cleanups are good-natured competitions between local companies supporting an important part of DPI’s Quality of Life Committee’s mission to keep downtown clean, safe, and friendly.
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The downtown cleanup area includes North and South Streets between East/West Housatonic and Berkshire Medical Center and all side streets.
This year’s teams are made up of individuals from the following Pittsfield businesses:
Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Bank, Berkshire County Arc, Berkshire Medical Center, Berkshire Theatre Group, Berkshire United Way, BVS of ServiceNet, Carr Hardware, Crane Currency, Cross Insurance, Dulye Leadership Experience, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Housatonic Valley Association, Lee Bank, Pittsfield High School, Pittsfield Police Department, and RE-FORMation Academy.
Large-scale public vaccine clinics to close for first doses by end of May berkshireeagle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from berkshireeagle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.