Manchester Events

Director of the Kripalu Schools for yoga-based education, Micah Mortali will present Rewilding his unique guide that offers nature-based meditations, mindfulness practices, yoga flows, and outdoor skills such as tracking and fire-building to help you develop a sense of calm, clarity, connection, and confidence in both your daily life and the great outdoors.

Reconnect with your wild essence as you awaken your innate bond with the natural world

Join us for a special ticketed luncheon at Bonnet & Main with cookbook author, actor, and host Jordan Zucker. Zucker takes a base recipe, and by varying seasonally available ingredients, creatively builds 4 versions of each dish: a winter, spring, summer and fall. 20 dishes x 4 seasons = 80 mouthwatering recipes plus a round of cocktails, of course!  Each dish is then paired with a wine and a music album, further exploring the seasonality of the three elements of entertaining. 

Bennington novelist Meg Little Reilly returns to Northshire Bookstore for a conversation about her new novel The Misfortunes of Family with Garrett Graff author of the NY Times-bestselling The Only Plane in the Sky. In Reilly’s novel of family dysfunction, the adult children of Senator Bight arrive in the Berkshires for a family vacation.  As the secrets tumble out, an invited film crew starts documenting.

WHAT BRINGS A FAMILY TOGETHER CAN ALSO TEAR IT APART

Join us for a special story time with this Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author as she presents this charming LGBT-positive tale of barn-yard friends with twice the dad and twice the dad jokes!

The acclaimed historian presents the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators in Paris and across France--a riveting investigation about what it means for a young person to come of age under unpredictable and violent circumstances.