• Register for an Upcoming Lecture with Dr. Michael McManmon in Amherst, NY

    Register for an Upcoming Lecture with Dr. Michael McManmon in Amherst, NY

    What Every Clinician, Teacher, or Parent Needs to Know to Help Their Adolescent with Asperger’s Syndrome and Learning Differences Become an Independent Adult. with Dr. Michael McManmon, Ed.D. Founder of the College Internship Program (CIP), author of “Made for Good Purpose” Dr. Michael McManmon 3/30 – Amherst, NY – Made for Good Purpose, an informative lecture

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  • Coping with Aspergers by Building a Better Brain with Dr. George McCloskey

    Coping with Aspergers by Building a Better Brain with Dr. George McCloskey

      Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties Presented by George McCloskey, Ph.D. Director of School of Psychology Research, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Coping with Asperger’s by Building a Better Brain, an informative lecture for parents, educators, clinicians, and others working with young adults with Executive Function difficulties and who have Asperger’s Syndrome, High

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  • First Saturday at the Spectrum Series Offers Family Friendly Activities

    First Saturday at the Spectrum Series Offers Family Friendly Activities

    The Student Educational Fund (SEDF), in collaboration with NBT Bank, is delighted to announce the ‘First Saturday at the Spectrum’ Series-a series of 10 family-friendly events occurring on the first Saturday of each month throughout the school year. The day starts at 11am with a music or theatre for young audiences event in the Spectrum

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  • SEDF Featured in Berkshires Week

    SEDF Featured in Berkshires Week

    By Amanda Giracca Special to Berkshires Week LEE – The first thing you notice is the light. Through a front glass window of the Good Purpose Gallery, light illuminates larger-than-life paintings of hollyhocks in bloom, exquisitely rendered in deep reds.

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Friends and Music Lovers: Please come and enjoy a concert in Lee at the Spectrum Playhouse, (20 Franklin St. – opposite the Lee Library) on Sunday afternoon, January 22nd at 3PM. A concert exploring the Italian origins of virtuoso music for the cello, as well as solo harpsichord music of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Lee, MA (12/12/2011)— Every Third Friday from January to June, 2012, the Royal Berkshire Improv Troupe (RBIT) will perform an “Improv Comedy Night” at the Spectrum Playhouse in Lee, MA. If you liked the TV show ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’, you’ll love this event. “RBIT has been entertaining crowds in the Berkshires for the

The Good Purpose Gallery Presents a Holiday Open House!

The Good Purpose Gallery Presents a Holiday Open House! Join our featured artists this Sunday, December 18 from 4PM to 6PM! for “Reflection on Color/Color upon Reflection: The Paintings of Terry Wise with Hand Blown Glass Sculpture by Hoogs and Crawford.” This show has been the talk of Lee, Lenox, Stockbridge, Great Barrington and beyond

Shining at the Good Purpose Gallery!

by Francine Britton, SEDF Coordinator Opening night on Friday, November 18 brought a full house and about 150 people from the ‘Berkshires’ and beyond out to meet and greet the artists of a brand new show  entitled – “Reflections on Color/Color upon Reflection – at SEDF’s Good Purpose Gallery in Lee, MA. While the night

November 11, 2011 – By Francine Britton, SEDF Event Coordinator The presentation – Coping with Asperger’s by Building a Better Brain – Executive Function and Assessment Strategies and Interventions for Those Working with Students on the Autism Spectrum – attracted 44 participants on a fine, sunny, beautiful Florida day in November. Dr. McCloskey gave an

Exhibit: Reflections on Color/ Color upon Reflection at the Good Purpose Gallery

We are delighted to have Terry Wise’s works grace all of the walls in the Good Purpose Gallery, and are excited to be concurrently showing the impressive glass sculpture of Nathan Hoogs and Elizabeth Crawford as it shines through our front window and lights up our space! Terry Wise: “My paintings hover somewhere between reality and

Reading and Book Signing with Priscilla Gilman

The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy Priscilla Gilman had the greatest expectations for the birth of her first child. Growing up in New York among writers and artists, Gilman experienced childhood as a whirlwind of imagination and creative play. Later, as a student and scholar of Wordsworth, she embraced the poet’s romantic view

Halloween Community-Wide Costume Competition

 Spectrum Playhouse Halloween Community-Wide Costume Competition (And… what a good time was had by all!) by Francine Britton, SEDF National Coordinator Take one tiny lady bug, an even smaller zebra, a princess, a troll, a witch, a hippie, and many others (all under the age of 10) and mix with Count Dracula, a tartan kilted