Francesca Olsen is a writer/editor/music person/communications professional living in the beautiful Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. She works full-time as social media and marketing manager at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Most of her free time is spent booking and playing shows with her band House Sparrow, as well as running Digital Wheat Paste, a blog covering DIY music from all over the place.

Joe Aidonidis is a documentary filmmaker from North Adams, MA. His films focus on the extraordinary challenges of ordinary people by capturing their unique experiences. Aidonidis hopes to use his film to bring awareness to worthy and intriguing pockets of life. He is the owner of Great Sky Media. The production company’s mission is to collaborate with businesses, nonprofits and institutions in the Berkshires to help tell their own story and to promote their causes.

Olsen and Aidonidis have previously appeared as the band House Sparrow at our Ornithology patio program.