She's a local artist, managing director of Berkshire Creative at 1Berkshire. And yes, she's single, but she knows she's not the only one. Dixon, 31, of North Adams, arrived in the Berkshires about 5 years ago as a single lady from the Westchester, N. People are just going out more in many places, where opportunities to meet someone more naturally arise," she said. Here in the Berkshires, the population's smaller and people and places are more geographically spread out.
Dixon and some of her other friends have tried making connections through online dating websites, but say they prefer meeting and building a rapport with someone in person. In the early s, there were singles mingles hosted by local groups like Singles' Connection and Singles of the Berkshires.
But both groups seemed to have fallen by the wayside. So we started talking about how to cultivate an event where people could just get together and maybe make a connection," Dixon said. Her friend, Stephanie Mendoza, 23, a relatively new Pittsfield transplant via the Houston, Texas area, has also been eager to meet new people and explore new places to better learn about the Berkshires.
So the two of them have begun building BerkshireFlirt as a way to get the word out that you can meet people, and possibly start a spark in your own backyard. They've recently started a Facebook page, and on Saturday, Feb. During this portion of the evening, Dixon and Mendoza will mingle as hosts and offer some fun ice breakers to help get conversations started and people moving in the room.
The event is free, but ticketed to try to keep an even balance of men and women, though Dixon says adults of all ages and orientations are welcome to attend. After 7 p. There will be sign-ups, a contest and a surprise grand prize for best interpretive reading, be it in the fashion of comedian Gilbert Gottfried's audio book reading or British "Game of Thrones" actor Charles Dance, or a narrative style all your own.
