July 15, 2026: Full immersion

Today we’ve got three ways that you can immerse yourself across western Massachusetts and in a wide array of mediums as well. In Great Barrington, they are once again encouraging the kids with cameras to share their films with all of us. TriFest International Film Festival returns highlighting the movies made by folx under 25 and giving them big screens for us all to watch. Year two is bringing exponential growth to the festival and we speak with founder Nicki Wilson about the event’s expansion.On Saturday, folx’ll have the opportunity to really engage with the history of the town through a new work of theater. Common is a tale told through immersive audio giving folx better insight to the area, and we speak with theater-makerJohn Bechtold and Liz Larsen of the Amherst Historical Society about collaborating to celebrate the nation and the town in this unique way. And our interim word nerd author, Merriam-Webster editor at large, and NEPM Jazz A-la-Mode host, Peter Sokolowski, joins our excitement for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie and voyages far and wide to explore words in English that have origins in the Odyssey