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Dear BRIDGE community: It is a busy August season and we wanted to update you on upcoming events! Solidarity Farm & GardenFirst thank you to our farm and distro partners for a fruitful season. We are reaching 200 homes twice a month with fresh nutrient rich farm to table produce. And twice a month we reach 100 of the larger families with another share. We believe access to healthy food is our human right and it brings joy, connection and health! Special thanks to our Solidarity Farm Growers and Farmers at our Great Barrington Fairgrounds Home, our Three Sisters Farm, Sweet Freedom, World Farmers and Home Farm partners for providing the fresh food. Our Solidarity Farm and Garden hosts several businesses, a meditation garden for our growers and their families. We hope to see you in the Fall at the harvest Festival and Fish Fry. Thank you to Wards for the special farm and garden supplies support! Our sacred corn is growing from our indigenous partners. Legacy meetings hosted at Solidarity HouseThank you to Momma Lo for the special food for our Frederick Douglass Event.. Spotlight on Multicultural BRIDGE—catalyzing change and integration In July we read the Fourth of July together in community. It was powerful and a grounding text and activity. Thank you to Mass Humanities and Mass Cultural Council. We had partners from Simon’s Rock, BRIDGE, Du Bois Freedom Center and Diverse Otis to read Douglass’ speech and contextualize his work with that of our Berkshire legends, Elizabeth Freeman and WEB Du Bois. Also BRIDGE was delighted to host Town of Great Barrington Du Bois Legacy Committee monthly meetings and also the Embrace Boston & Du Bois Sculpture Meeting. Dr. Du Bois’s grandson returned to envision the sculpture and beyond with partners across the State at our Solidarity Meeting House. The BRIDGE Story: Catalyst. Love. Impact in community! SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 St. James Place, 352 Main St, Great Barrington, MA 01230 Hear from our CEO and Chief Architect of the Equity Fund Youth Time- Sign up this week! Join us on Wednesday for youth training! Qi Gong and Capa with Tagan on August 9th Register for August 9th here…
Register your kids for Happiness Toolbox. We still have room -- and transportation is available. Field trips to Lake Mansfield, Flying Cloud Campus with Circus Up and Visionary Acts, Local partnering Farms, Boat Day on Onota Lake, Apple picking, etc. Activities include arts & Crafts; economics, sports, waterslides, wellness, dance, etc. Sneak peek at the schedule:   The BRIDGE Youth Corps gathered at the new Solidarity Meeting House, a multipurpose program and gathering space with a professional kitchen in Great Barrington, Mass., supported by a Community Development Block Grant for Food Security administered by Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. BRIDGE was recently featured in The Berkshire Edge Business Spotlight Multicultural BRIDGE—catalyzing change and integration. Pictured above L-R: Deisy Bautista Santos, Leader-in-Training for Happiness Toolbox and Solidarity Steward Projects; Stella Wright, Program Assistant and Youth Coordinator; Jonathan Bautista Santos, Lead Youth Solidarity Steward Projects; David Bautista Santos, Youth Leader Solidarity Steward Projects; and Florence Afanukoe, Lead Engagement Coordinator of Youth Development and Public Health. Photo by John Dolan. August Events   We are planning our September 16th Know Your Rights event where we host a conversation about Civil Rights with the US Attorneys office. Currently we seek partners to co-present. Email us at [email protected] or call at 413-274-8142 or 413-274-7037. BRIDGE will host in Great Barrington and the Du Bois Legacy Committee will co-host. I am hoping you will co-host with us. During this event while we educate and listen in our community, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Many of you know our first racial justice partner and educator was DOJ CRS — this group was enacted as a part of this Act. Additionally this legislation covers voting rights, equal opportunity, desegregation of schools and public places, etc. As a BRIDGE community of partners, allies and collaborators, we invite you to read the CRA of 1964 — and we hope as organizations and individuals you can connect your work to distinct Title sections as we work collectively on planning our Justice equity and advocacy work & partnerships during the remaining quarter of 2024. EXCITING NEWSBRIDGE was awarded a five year public health grant to reduce health disparities from a culturally specific lens. We cannot wait to build our CHiP Coalition! And now we have our own passenger van for our mutual aid programs! Thanks to our Community Development Block Grant!  Thank you to Great Barrington Agricultural Commission for support with our irrigation system! Enjoy the summer! Stay cool! Thank you for being a part of our community, Gwendolyn & the BRIDGE team Comments are closed.
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