{"id":51246,"date":"2015-06-12T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=51246"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:49:44","slug":"festival-berkshires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/51246\/festival-berkshires\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Bliss at a New Festival in the Berkshires (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 12, 2015 –<\/p>\n

The stretch of bucolic mountainside straddling Western Massachusetts and Connecticut has long been known as a summer stop for highly cultured New Yorkers. The Berkshire Theatre Group and Tanglewood (summer home of the Boston Pops orchestra) have both been summering here for going on a century, along with art-world mainstays like the Clark Art Institute and the Norman Rockwell Museum. That is to say, the Berkshires has a long and storied history, although most young New Yorkers probably know it more as the place your great aunt goes to see opera in August.<\/p>\n

\"Yoga

New Yorkers can sample this new Brooklyn-meets-the-Berkshires aesthetic at MassBliss\u00a02015\u00a0<\/strong>(July 10-12), an \u201carts and awareness festival\u201d coming up this July 10-12. Part live music festival, part yoga retreat and part camping getaway, MassBliss is a weekend full of live performances and workshops in everything from music to meditation. Held at Ski Butternut in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, there\u2019s on-site camping and also direct, car-free transportation from New York.<\/p>\n

\"Berkshires\"

The basic gist is that from 4pm on Friday, July 10th to 4pm on Sunday the 12th, the ski site will be host to live music, theater and performance art sets from the likes of indie rockers\u00a0Javelin and Ethiopian pop group\u00a0Debo Band. In between, there will be jazz meditations with the Shinnyo Center, yoga in the woods, running, biking, breath awareness exercises, and much more.<\/p>\n

Probably the most interesting aspect of MassBliss is that all of the headliners, theater companies, and talent will also be offering immersive workshops throughout the weekend. So, you can dance to the Debo Band at night and take an introduction to Ethiopian pop music workshop during the day. Javelin is teaching \u201cspacious listening,\u201d\u00a0and Peace Poets will host writing workshops, among many other sessions. \u201cWe want our festival-goers to become active participants at our events, not just passive listeners, says Andrew Belcher. \u201cCome and enjoy the creativity of our artists and be inspired to explore your own.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can buy tickets for individual day or evening sessions, starting at $45, or all-access passes to the full weekend, including camping, are $200. MassBliss has partnered with Skedaddle to offer direct Friday evening transportation to the festival site, leaving from Union Square in Manhattan and Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Visit MassBliss.com for tickets.<\/em> offMetro readers can snag 10% off a full weekend pass. Use the code: carfree<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Top photo: \u00a9 2015 Stephen Ironside\/\u00a0Ironside Photography<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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