field: A Festival of Ideas, Entertainment, Learning & Discovery
field is an ideas festival that brings together readers, writers, thinkers, visionaries, problem solvers, and experts across every discipline for a weekend of cultivated conversation in Lenox, Massachusetts. Visit the website for Joanne’s Session Info
“The supernatural has a way of sounding sublime in the sparkling words of Laura Buchwald,” wrote Hannah Bos (co-creator of HBO’s Somebody Somewhere). The fact that the protagonist of her novels (The Coat Check Girl and The Book of Reservations) has friends on both sides of the veil reflects Buchwald’s abiding interest in the difficult and surprising process of grieving—how it shapes and refines us. For what promises to be an extraordinary conversation, Buchwald will interview renowned psychic medium Joanne Gerber, who embraces mediumship as a profound mission of healing. “Mediumship is my ministry,” she has said. “This work is sacred to me.” Through the gift of mediumship, which she will demonstrate with readings of volunteer audience members, she seeks to help people through grief and other challenges of the soul.