PITTSFIELD, Mass. — To Akinyemi Blackshear, the dream of opening a nightclub for dancing in the Berkshires seemed like an impossibly heavy lift.
Now, not so much.
After participating in an intensive leadership program steered by the Blackshires Community Empowerment Foundation, the plan seems less daunting. Blackshear now has “achievable goals.”
He’ll start in September with pop-up dance parties across the county. That way he’ll be able to gauge interest and get feedback, before he begins to set his sights on a physical space.
“In my mind it was this big project,” said Blackshear, a marketing project manager at Theory Wellness in Great Barrington, “and they made it much more reasonable.”