Today we will push the geographical limits of our area code as we hear how a Franklin County-based community farm is collaborating with a community farm across the Vermont border in the 802.
The Kibilio Community and Farm in Leyden, Mass. is rooted in Black and queer land sovereignty, and the Afro-Indigenous healing sanctuary and farm, SUSU CommUNITY, in Newfame, Vermont draws its inspiration from Black womanism.
This Saturday, these communities will team up to celebrate Audre Lorde’s teachings on self-care as political warfare and the transformative wisdom of our bodies through the healing power of vibration and sound. We hear more from Kibilio’s David Ragland and SUSU’s Amber Arnorld.
Starting tomorrow, the Great Barrington Public Theater will reinterpret a late 19th century work of horror through the lens of the pandemic with the premiere of the play “Yellow Wallpaper 2.0-2020.” We meet the director of the show, Judy Braha, and playwright, Jennifer Maisel.
And, our interim summertime Word Nerd, Merriam-Webster Editor-at-large and NEPM Jazz à la Mode host Peter Sokolowski, examines when all the poetry got scrapped from the dictionary and how dictionary-ese was born right here in Springfield.
