Kimball Farms Embraces Festival

Written Jun 21, 2011 by Meta Ukena in The Berkshire Eagle

Thank you for your coverage thus far of the Lift Ev’ry Voice Festival, especially the splendid editorial in Sunday’s paper.

We at Kimball Farms are endeavoring to embrace the spirit of the festival with a number of events. These include a gallery exhibition of contemporary African art (June 20 through July 23) as well as a James Weldon Johnson Night featuring the singing of “Lift Ev’ry Voice” (of course!) by the Kimball Singers and a reading from God’s Trombones.

Also during the five weeks of the festival, we will be presenting the celebrated Harlem GospeLive Revue as well Randy Weinstein, director of the W. E. B. DuBois Center, talking about the important Berkshire native before we visit the center. We will be watching appropriate films as well: among them “W. E. B. Du Bois of Great Barrington” and “The Color Purple.”

We regret that, due to space limitation, the gallery exhibition is the only event at Kimball Farms which can be open to the public. Our joining in the celebration of the African-American heritage in the Berkshires, however, is very much in the spirit of how we view our mission of being actively participating residents of Lenox and Berkshire County.

Meta Ukena
President, Kimball Farms Residents Association
Lenox, MA