Aaron Simon Gross

Violinist Gil Shaham offers a solo concert to benefit The Stockbridge Library Museum and Archives, 2 p.m. Nov. 10, in Studio E at Tanglewood’s Linde Center for Music and Learning.

Berkshire Botanical Garden is focusing on the impacts of pollution for “Rooted in Place,” the 10th Annual Ecological Gardening Symposium, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 10, at the Garden.

Lulada Club, an all-female salsa band, comes to the Berkshires, 8 p.m. Nov. 9, with a performance in Club B10 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Harrison Levenstein's “flores cinis terra,” a gallery exhibition of stoneware and porcelain pots, is on view through Jan. 15 at The Hillman-Jackson Gallery in The Daniel Arts Center at Bard

The Association of the United States Army has published a graphic novel, “Medal of Honor: Charles Whittlesey,” about a World War I hero who grew up in Pittsfield.

Folk trio The Wailin’ Jennys is Berkshires-bound for a concert, 8 p.m. Nov. 23, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.

In her new memoir “Not Yet! Tales From a 90-Year-Old Broadway Diva You Should Have Known,” Sally Jane Heit recounts a life torn between her family and the wicked stage.

On July 9, four years after the original was destroyed by fire, Jacob's Pillow will open the doors of the new Doris Duke Theater, a flexible venue that can accommodate

Berkshires cultural institutions stage unique light shows this winter: “NightWood” at The Mount, Nov. 22 through Jan. 4; “Winterlights” at Naumkeag, Nov. 25 through Jan. 7; and “Radiant Nights” at

Benoit started writing her novel a few years ago, as part of National Novel Writing Month; each November, participating authors are challenged to write an entire 50,000-word book, from start