Shantigar Foundation

08/07/2026

Voice & Music with Jonathan Hart Makwaia at Shantigar. There are still a few spots available. Sign up now:
https://www.shantigar.org/voice-music

07/30/2026

https://mailchi.mp/shantigar/voice-and-music-2026

Voice and Music, a weekend workshop at Shantigar with Jonathan Hart Makwaia, Friday, August 21 through Monday, August 24.

07/24/2026

Saturday, July 25 at 5:00 PM at the Charlemont Federated Church, a book talk with Owen Wormser.

Most yards are an ecological burden. Too much lawn and too few native species. More and more people see the benefits of meadows populated by native wildflowers and grasses. These beautiful, low-maintenance landscapes support pollinators, store carbon, and increase biological diversity over the long term.

Landscape designer Owen Wormser will share different approaches for designing and growing your own meadow. Whether you have a small lawn or large field, you’ll learn practical, chemical-free strategies that fit your resources and conditions.

https://www.shantigar.org/lawns-into-meadows

07/17/2026

https://mailchi.mp/shantigar/a-book-talk-with-owen-wormser

Next week, join Shantigar for a Book talk with Owen Wormser, author of Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape

07/10/2026

https://mailchi.mp/shantigar/welcome-to-shantigar

Join us at Shantigar for creative revival, contemplative practice, and immersion in glorious nature.

06/29/2026

https://mailchi.mp/shantigar/grow-a-meadow-protect-the-planet

Join Shantigar for a Book talk with Owen Wormser, author of Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape

06/06/2026

https://mailchi.mp/shantigar/short-films-big-ideas-is-tonight

Shantigar Hosts Global Festival in Shelburne Falls

06/06/2026

The Shantigar Foundation and The Thomas Edison Film Festival
present

Short and Great!

A Night of Short Films

Saturday, June 6 at 7:30 PM

The Shelburne Falls Theater at Memorial Hall, 51 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA

More information: shantigar.org/film-festival

The Anarchist and the Fridge – Documentary
14 min. by Yunchang Zhang, Jersey City, NJ, USA
More than 20 years ago, Thaddeus moved from Boston to New York to pursue his ideals. Inspired by the organization, “Food Not Bombs,” he gained community support and established the first free fridge in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Now Thaddeus sees replenishing the fridge as his daily duty and uses free food to unite the neighborhood.

06/05/2026

The Shantigar Foundation and The Thomas Edison Film Festival
present

Short and Great!

A Night of Short Films

Saturday, June 6 at 7:30 PM

The Shelburne Falls Theater at Memorial Hall, 51 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA

More information: shantigar.org/film-festival

Beyond Noh – Animation
3 min. by Patrick Smith, NY, NY, US and Kaori Ishida, Osaka, Japan
A vivid animation of 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theater and taking the viewer on a cultural journey through ritual, performance, utility, and politics.

06/05/2026

The Shantigar Foundation and The Thomas Edison Film Festival
present

Short and Great!

A Night of Short Films

Saturday, June 6 at 7:30 PM

The Shelburne Falls Theater at Memorial Hall, 51 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA

More information: shantigar.org/film-festival

Freedom for Freedom - Experimental
4 min. by Yuri Alves, Newark, NJ, USA
Poet Bimpé Fageyinbo delivers a powerful ode to the memory and spirit of Harriet Tubman, the American abolitionist and social activist, while evoking the urgency of real freedom for Black people, then and now.