Thursday, October 25, 2018
BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS FOR GIRLDOM by Megan Peak
N E W R E L E A S E : GIRLDOM by Megan Peak
Winner of the 2018 Perugia Press Prize for a first or second book of poetry by a woman
MASSACHUSETTS BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS FOR GIRLDOM:
Thursday & Friday, November 1-2
The 2018 Perugia Press Prize winner, Texas poet Megan Peak, will visit the Pioneer Valley to launch her first book, Girldom, in November. Hope you can join us!
Thursday 11/1: Megan Peak will give a poetry reading and Q & A at Westfield State University in the Arno Maris Art Gallery from 3:00-4:30pm.
Thursday 11/1: The Collected Poets Series at Mocha Maya’s Cafe in Shelburne Falls will feature Megan Peak and Jennifer Wallace for a reading at 7:00pm.
Friday 11/2: Iconica Social Club in Northampton will host Perugia Press for a poetry party from 5:30-7:00pm featuring poet Megan Peak and a screening of a documentary short (8 min) by local filmmaker Kate Way about Perugia Press, its poets, and the power of women’s voices and poetry.
* See website for details on these and other events *
"Megan Peak’s Girldom is a breathtaking and necessary book that confronts childhood mythology, sexual consciousness and violence, and the nature of love. In one poem, Peak writes, 'your mouth was full of fields / with horses, all unbound—all crying / their long red sounds,' and in another, '... but the light bulb, / which is my tongue, glows—.' How perfectly these lines capture the experience of reading Peak’s extraordinary poems. Girldom is a powerful debut by a poet who has the sensual, grieving world in her mouth."
—Allison Benis White, author of Please Bury Me in This
Megan Peak received her MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University, where she was poetry editor at The Journal. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Ploughshares, and Verse Daily, among others. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Read more about Megan and her poetry at www.meganpeak.com.
Read a sample poem and order the book now!
2019 Perugia Press Prize: for a First or Second Book by a Woman
SUBMISSIONS OPEN THROUGH NOVEMBER 15!
2019 Perugia Press Prize: for a First or Second Book by a Woman
Prize: $1000 and publication
Click here for complete submission guidelines
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Art Exhibition at Arcadia's Art House
WHAT: Art Exhibition at Arcadia's Art House
WHEN: October 28 from 11-5 PM
WHERE: Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, 127 Combs Rd, Easthampton, MA
The Volunteer Artists at Arcadia's Art House are hosting our first ever Art Exhibition and sale on October 28 from 11-5 PM. 25% of the proceeds of this sale will help pay for the many sticks of wood needed to add a screened-in porch to our little Art House. Many of you and your families have enjoyed time at the Art House, sitting amongst the trees, creating art work. It is a beautiful spot but the mosquito population has made it quite uncomfortable at times. The screened-in porch will largely eradicate our discomfort and provide us all with an outstanding place to create.
The Art House is a small studio along Tulip Tree Trail at Arcadia's Wildlife Sanctuary. The idea for it came to me during a meditation when I envisioned a little house in the woods where anyone could come to make art. Arcadia's Director Jonah Keane and his staff plus many of my friends and the generosity of ChartPak brought my idea to life. Through the confluence of nature, science and art making, we have found the Art House to provide opportunities for creative expression, exploration and achieving a sense of well-being.
Our volunteers, who staff the Art House through each season from May to October, are often artists who spend their hours at the Art House deeply engrossed in sharing their art making with visitors. At our sale on October 28 they will exhibit and sell their work. Please come and support our efforts and help us raise money to build our screened porch!
On October 28, we will be in the Auditorium inside the Visitor's Center from 11-5 PM. There will be art making opportunities, refreshments and lots of artwork to enjoy!
WHEN: October 28 from 11-5 PM
WHERE: Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, 127 Combs Rd, Easthampton, MA
The Volunteer Artists at Arcadia's Art House are hosting our first ever Art Exhibition and sale on October 28 from 11-5 PM. 25% of the proceeds of this sale will help pay for the many sticks of wood needed to add a screened-in porch to our little Art House. Many of you and your families have enjoyed time at the Art House, sitting amongst the trees, creating art work. It is a beautiful spot but the mosquito population has made it quite uncomfortable at times. The screened-in porch will largely eradicate our discomfort and provide us all with an outstanding place to create.
The Art House is a small studio along Tulip Tree Trail at Arcadia's Wildlife Sanctuary. The idea for it came to me during a meditation when I envisioned a little house in the woods where anyone could come to make art. Arcadia's Director Jonah Keane and his staff plus many of my friends and the generosity of ChartPak brought my idea to life. Through the confluence of nature, science and art making, we have found the Art House to provide opportunities for creative expression, exploration and achieving a sense of well-being.
Our volunteers, who staff the Art House through each season from May to October, are often artists who spend their hours at the Art House deeply engrossed in sharing their art making with visitors. At our sale on October 28 they will exhibit and sell their work. Please come and support our efforts and help us raise money to build our screened porch!
On October 28, we will be in the Auditorium inside the Visitor's Center from 11-5 PM. There will be art making opportunities, refreshments and lots of artwork to enjoy!
Fall Chrysanthemum Show
WHAT: Fall Chrysanthemum Show
WHEN: Saturday November 3, 2018 to Sunday, November 18, 2018, Time: 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM daily, Fridays 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, Members only hours: 9:00 AM- 10:00 AM daily
WHERE: Lyman Conservatory, Smith College, 16 College Lane, Northampton, MA 01063
Cost: Suggested Donation of $5.00
Each fall as colors fade outdoors, a riot of color erupts indoors in the Lyman Conservatory at the Botanic Garden of Smith College. The annual Fall Chrysanthemum Show features an extraordinary display of blooms in a variety of shapes and colors. The Fall Mum Show has been a popular college and community tradition since the early 1900s and showcases the hybridizing experiments of the horticulture class. The public gets a chance to vote on their favorites.The Fall Chrysanthemum Show always begins the first Saturday in November and runs for two weeks including the third weekend.This year’s show will open on Saturday, November 3, 2018 and will run from 10am to 4pm daily until Sunday, November 18, 2018. $5.00 suggested donation. Special members-only hours are from 9-10am with your membership card.
Opening Lecture
WHEN: Friday, November 2, 2018, 7:30pm
WHERE: Campus Center Carroll Room, Smith College, 100 Elm St, Northampton, MA 01063
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Join us for the Chrysanthemum Show opening lecture in the Carroll Room of the Smith College Campus Center at 7:30pm on Friday, November 2, 2018. “AMERICAN EDEN: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic,” by Victoria Johnson, Phd, will be followed by a reception, book signing and view of the Chrysanthemum Show at Lyman Plant House.
WHEN: Saturday November 3, 2018 to Sunday, November 18, 2018, Time: 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM daily, Fridays 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, Members only hours: 9:00 AM- 10:00 AM daily
WHERE: Lyman Conservatory, Smith College, 16 College Lane, Northampton, MA 01063
Cost: Suggested Donation of $5.00
Each fall as colors fade outdoors, a riot of color erupts indoors in the Lyman Conservatory at the Botanic Garden of Smith College. The annual Fall Chrysanthemum Show features an extraordinary display of blooms in a variety of shapes and colors. The Fall Mum Show has been a popular college and community tradition since the early 1900s and showcases the hybridizing experiments of the horticulture class. The public gets a chance to vote on their favorites.The Fall Chrysanthemum Show always begins the first Saturday in November and runs for two weeks including the third weekend.This year’s show will open on Saturday, November 3, 2018 and will run from 10am to 4pm daily until Sunday, November 18, 2018. $5.00 suggested donation. Special members-only hours are from 9-10am with your membership card.
Opening Lecture
WHEN: Friday, November 2, 2018, 7:30pm
WHERE: Campus Center Carroll Room, Smith College, 100 Elm St, Northampton, MA 01063
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Join us for the Chrysanthemum Show opening lecture in the Carroll Room of the Smith College Campus Center at 7:30pm on Friday, November 2, 2018. “AMERICAN EDEN: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic,” by Victoria Johnson, Phd, will be followed by a reception, book signing and view of the Chrysanthemum Show at Lyman Plant House.
Lewis Hayden and the Underground Railroad
WHAT: Lewis Hayden and the Underground Railroad
WHEN: Show Runs: November 2-29, Reception and Talk by Curator Stephen Kenney, Pd.D.: November 5, 6:30-8:00 PM
WHERE: Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library, 20 West St., Northampton
For the month of November, Forbes Library will present Lewis Hayden and the Underground Railroad, a traveling exhibition curated by Commonwealth Museum Director Stephen Kenney, Ph.D.
After escaping slavery in Kentucky Lewis Hayden became a leader in Boston’s African-American community. His Beacon Hill home was a stop on the Underground Railroad and a base for dramatic attempts to rescue fugitive slaves. The exhibit tells the improbable story of his rise from early deprivation to prominence in Civil War Massachusetts. It includes his role in recruiting soldiers for the famous 54th regiment. The exhibit includes original primary source materials from the collection of the Massachusetts Archives.
The public is invited to a reception and a talk by Dr. Kenney on Monday, November 5, from 6:30-8 PM.
Northampton Jazz Workshop features baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan
WHAT: Northampton Jazz Workshop features baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan
WHEN: Tuesday, October 30th, 7:30 to 8:30PM followed by an open jazz jam session until 10:30 PM
WHERE: The City Sports Grille at Spare Time Northampton, 525 Pleasant St., Northampton.
We are very excited to welcome back award winning baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan to the Workshop this week. It's always a total gas playing with Gary but this week is extra special. This visit will mark the first installment of the Davis Financial Jazz in the Schools Program, named for a very generous financial . As a community outreach arm of the Northampton Jazz Festival, Gary, along with the Green Street Trio, will coach the JFK Middle School jam bands on Monday evening, do a school assembly with the students on Tuesday morning and then invite the students to come to the Workshop, possibly play in the jam session and see the professionals in their element. The plan is to do a similar routine 3 or 4 times a year with a few of the featured guests at the Workshop. Also, the program hopes to raise enough money to send a deserving young high school age student to Jazz In July, the UMASS summer jazz program every year. I hope you can join us Tuesday night to hear a great musician and perhaps see a few budding young players taking their first steps.
Upcoming Guest Artists:
10/30 - Gary Smulyan on bariton sax
11/6 - Jason Robinson on sax with a special all Monk set
11/13 - Marty Ehrlich on saxes and flute
11/20 - Roseanna Vitro on vocals
11/27 - Giacomo Gates on vocals
The concert set starts at 7:30, followed immediately by the jam session until 10:30. $5 per person room charge for the concert set. City Sports Grille at Spare Time Northampton, 525 Pleasant St., Northampton, MA. 413-584-4830
For photos and videos of past NJW shows and related news, events and buzz, please see (and Like us) on FB at: www.facebook.com/NorthamptonJazzWorkshop
Gene Flores is giving a guided tour of his own exhibition at TurnPark
WHAT: Gene Flores guided tour of his own exhibition
WHEN: Saturday, October 27th and Sunday, October 28th, 11 am - 3 pm
WHERE: TurnPark, 2 Moscow Rd, West Stockbridge, MA 01266
We’d like to invite you to an informal Q&A and tour of Gene Flores’ exhibition, lead by the artist himself.
Gene Montez Flores is a distinguished contemporary artist whose unique style bends boundaries between nature and art, and we are thrilled to have his exhibition “Landscapes. 1980–2018” on view at TurnPark. He doesn’t talk about his art often, and the upcoming weekends are the last two “Landscapes” will spend in TurnPark, so this is a one of a kind opportunity to get to know Gene Flores and his art, and ask questions.
“One of the best shows I’ve ever seen”. Howard Yezerski (the Yezerski Gallery).
MASSCreative is Hiring!
To help us support and steward our growing individual, organizational, and philanthropic fundraising, MASSCreative is hiring a Development Manager to coordinate the organization’s fundraising needs.
We are looking for an ambitious staffer to manage the organization’s fundraising operation to build a diverse and sustainable revenue stream with individual giving, organizational memberships, and foundation giving at its core.
Please take a look at the Development Manager job description.
As we move into our sixth year, MASSCreative continues to work with cultural institutions, working artists, Massachusetts residents, arts leaders, creative thinkers and doers to build a Commonwealth where arts and creativity are an expected, recognized, and valued part of everyday life. When this happens, our communities are more vibrant, healthy, and connected.
Political and policy support for art, culture, and creativity aren't automatic. It’s the result of strategic organizing and advocacy by the creative community and cultivation of municipal and state leaders.
Please pass this job description along to other colleagues, friends, and family who may be interested.
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Survivor Theatre Project's 10th Year Bash
WHAT: Survivor Theatre Project Celebrates 10 Years
WHEN: Saturday, October 27, 5-8pm
WHERE: Womanshelter/Compañeras, 208 Race St, Holyoke, MA 01040
Dear Friend,
Next weekend, Survivor Theatre Project will be celebrating Ten Years of Healing, Art, Resilience, and Justice! We invite you to join us for an evening of celebration and community!
Come Revel in a Powerful Community of STP Alumnae, Survivors, Allies, Friends, Freedom Fighters and Art Activists! Enjoy Local, Delicious Food and Drink, Live Art with Dana Wilde, Performances by Noemi Paz and Rythea Lee, Raffle of Healing & Art, and Music by the electrifying Puertominicana!
We are so grateful to be in community with you after all these years. We can't wait to see you there!
We need a headcount to provide enough food, so PLEASE RSVP HERE!
We're raising money and raising the roof! Plan to make a meaningful donation of any multiple of 10, in honor of STP thriving for another decade! 10, 10x2, 10x5, 10x10, 10x20, 10x50.
Can't be there in person but LOVE Survivor Theatre Project and still want to help launch us into the next ten years? Contribute HERE.
Wheelchair Accessible Space
Fragrance Free Space
All Genders Welcome and Celebrated
Parking Lot in rear of building
Contact STP Director Noemi Paz for more information about the Tenth Anniversary at survivortheatreproject@gmail.com. Stay tuned for the announcement of our Boston Anniversary Celebration in Early December.
www.survivortheatreproject.com
10th Anniversary Bash on Facebook
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
ACADEMY OF MUSIC THEATRE PRESENTS THE OTHER MOZART
WHAT: The Other Mozart
WHEN: Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 8:00 pm Doors at 7:30 pm
WHERE: Academy of Music Theater, 274 Main St, Northampton, MA 01060
Tickets are available now. Tickets can be purchased by calling or visiting the Academy of Music Box Office. We are open Tuesday- Friday 3:00PM-6:00PM and can be reached at 413-584-9032 ext.105. Tickets can also be purchased online by visiting www.aomtheatre.com.
Ticket Prices:
$20 (plus applicable fees)
Ticket Information: Academy of Music Box Office Open Tuesday- Friday 3:00PM-6:00PM Call: 413-584-9032 ext.105 (Service fees will apply with purchase) Online Tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1719873
PRESS INQUIRIES
Emily Curro, Development and Marketing Manager
ecurro@aomtheatre.com
413-584-9032 ext.101
WHEN: Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 8:00 pm Doors at 7:30 pm
WHERE: Academy of Music Theater, 274 Main St, Northampton, MA 01060
The Academy of Music Theatre presents Little Matchstick Factory’s The Other Mozart, written, created and performed by Sivia Milo on November 17, 2018 at 8:00pm. The true, forgotten story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus – a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother, to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history. Directed by Isaac Byrne, The Other Mozart is based on facts, stories and lines pulled directly from the Mozart family’s humorous and heartbreaking letters. The play has toured extensively in the US, in theatres and at classical music festivals: in San Diego at the Mainly Mozart Festival (selling out the 1000-seat Balboa Theatre), in Houston, TX at MATCH, at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, at the NC State University in Raleigh, NC, at the University of Pittsburgh Bradford in PA, the Tobin Center in San Antonio, TX, Kravis Center in Palm Beach, FL, in Charleston, New Orleans, in Alabama, New Mexico, Connecticut and more. Actress Sylvia Milo won the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for this piece. For more information visit http://theothermozart.com.
Tickets are available now. Tickets can be purchased by calling or visiting the Academy of Music Box Office. We are open Tuesday- Friday 3:00PM-6:00PM and can be reached at 413-584-9032 ext.105. Tickets can also be purchased online by visiting www.aomtheatre.com.
Ticket Prices:
$20 (plus applicable fees)
Ticket Information: Academy of Music Box Office Open Tuesday- Friday 3:00PM-6:00PM Call: 413-584-9032 ext.105 (Service fees will apply with purchase) Online Tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1719873
PRESS INQUIRIES
Emily Curro, Development and Marketing Manager
ecurro@aomtheatre.com
413-584-9032 ext.101
Northampton Jazz Workshop features saxophone and flutist Greg Abate
WHAT: Northampton Jazz Workshop features saxophone and flutist Greg Abate
WHEN: Tuesday, October 23rd, 7:30 to 8:30PM followed by an open jazz jam session until 10:30 PM
WHERE: The City Sports Grille at Spare Time Northampton, 525 Pleasant St., Northampton.
We are really looking forward to playing once again with Rhode Island saxophonist and flutist Greg Abate. He always lights up the stage with hard driving bop, gorgeous ballads and some pretty special flute playing. Here's a quote that says it best: “Multi-saxophonist Greg Abate is a prime example of the ‘rear back and blow’ school of contemporary bop-based players. The tunes he writes or chooses are based on the kinds of changes that harmony-oriented jazzmen have favored since the beginning and he swings through them with an eager and easy virtuosity.” –David Franklin, Jazz Times
http://www.gregabate.com
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Upcoming Guest Artists:
10/23 - Greg Abate on sax and flute
10/30 - Gary Smulyan on bariton sax
11/6 - Jason Robinson on sax with a special all Monk set
11/13 - Marty Ehrlich on saxes and flute
11/20 - Roseanna Vitro on vocals
11/27 - Giacomo Gates on vocals
The concert set starts at 7:30, followed immediately by the jam session until 10:30. $5 per person room charge for the concert set. City Sports Grille at Spare Time Northampton, 525 Pleasant St., Northampton, MA. 413-584-4830
For photos and videos of past NJW shows and related news, events and buzz, please see (and Like us) on FB at: www.facebook.com/NorthamptonJazzWorkshop
It’s About Time for the 24 Hour Theater Project!
WHAT: The 24 Hour Theater Project
WHEN: Saturday, November 3, 2018 // Two performances: 7 & 9 PM
WHERE: Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA
TICKETS: Advance at Brown Paper Tickets with link at www.nohoarts.org
Northampton, MA—Let the countdown begin to the 24 Hour Theater Project, a dramatic race against time to bring five short plays to life. The Center for the Arts is proud to revive its role as host for this beloved and highly anticipated event founded in 2002 by playwright Tanyss Rhea Martula. Two performances take place on Saturday, November 3 in the Flex space at 33 Hawley Street. Tickets are $18 general admission/$12 students. (Student price valid for 9 pm show only.) They are available in advance at Brown Paper Tickets. Any remaining seats will be sold at the door for $20 general and $15 students with payment by cash or check.
While the premise is simple, the execution is anything but: within 24 hours, five ten-minute plays will be written, rehearsed, directed, produced, and staged. The culmination of this day-long burst of creativity are two public performances, often standing-room-only, showcasing local writers, actors, and directors. Previous 24 Theater organizer Liz Foley once described the event as “theatrical mayhem,” and it makes for an entertaining evening full of surprises.
The time-limited and adrenaline-filled process begins on Friday evening, when five playwrights meet to draw cards with unnamed actors’ descriptions out of a hat. Once they have their cast information, the playwrights have 12 hours to create a ten-minute play. In the morning, they hand off their scripts to five directors who then read the script for the first time, gather their actors, and spend the next 10 hours rehearsing, while others father props, costumes, and set pieces.
This year’s organizational duties were handled by Susanna Apgar, Kyle Boatwright, Michael Charland-Tait, Mark Gaudet, Troy David Mercier, Myka Plunkett, Linda Putnam, Tomàs Roche, and Jaz Tupelo. While there are many returning favorites among the writers, directors, and actors, the committee made it a priority to seek out some fresh new voices for this year’s event. “The 24 Hour Theater Project is not just about the plays that come and go.” notes Apgar, “It’s about building the Valley’s theater community by growing our relationships with one another, and with our audience.” Veteran 24 Hour Theater Project playwrights Phil O’Donoghue and Tomàs Roche will be joined by Melissa Dimetres, Betel Arnold, whose play TIGHT PANTS delighted audiences at West Springfield’s Majestic Theater this summer, and Siobhan McManamon, who recently kicked off this season of the Smith College New Playreading series with her play BEAR HUG.
Another new face for this year is the venue. The organizers of the 24 Hour Theater Project are excited to bring this celebration of our community’s theatrical talent to the Arts Trust Building at 33 Hawley Street, home of the Northampton Center for the Arts.
The 24 Hour Theater Project directors feature Susanna Apgar, John Bechtold, Toby Bercovici, Jeannine Haas, and Ellen Morbyrne. This year’s actors include Lisa Abend, Nick Baker, Jane Barish, Kyle Boatwright, Scott Braidman, Nichole Calero, Joe Cardozo, Michael Charland-Tait, Gabe Cifuentes, Bill Dwight, Emmet Flaim, Melle Lowenthal, Moe McElligot, Linda Putnam, Myka Plunkett, Sam Samuels, Linda Tardiff, and Rich Vaden.
WHEN: Saturday, November 3, 2018 // Two performances: 7 & 9 PM
WHERE: Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA
TICKETS: Advance at Brown Paper Tickets with link at www.nohoarts.org
Northampton, MA—Let the countdown begin to the 24 Hour Theater Project, a dramatic race against time to bring five short plays to life. The Center for the Arts is proud to revive its role as host for this beloved and highly anticipated event founded in 2002 by playwright Tanyss Rhea Martula. Two performances take place on Saturday, November 3 in the Flex space at 33 Hawley Street. Tickets are $18 general admission/$12 students. (Student price valid for 9 pm show only.) They are available in advance at Brown Paper Tickets. Any remaining seats will be sold at the door for $20 general and $15 students with payment by cash or check.
While the premise is simple, the execution is anything but: within 24 hours, five ten-minute plays will be written, rehearsed, directed, produced, and staged. The culmination of this day-long burst of creativity are two public performances, often standing-room-only, showcasing local writers, actors, and directors. Previous 24 Theater organizer Liz Foley once described the event as “theatrical mayhem,” and it makes for an entertaining evening full of surprises.
The time-limited and adrenaline-filled process begins on Friday evening, when five playwrights meet to draw cards with unnamed actors’ descriptions out of a hat. Once they have their cast information, the playwrights have 12 hours to create a ten-minute play. In the morning, they hand off their scripts to five directors who then read the script for the first time, gather their actors, and spend the next 10 hours rehearsing, while others father props, costumes, and set pieces.
This year’s organizational duties were handled by Susanna Apgar, Kyle Boatwright, Michael Charland-Tait, Mark Gaudet, Troy David Mercier, Myka Plunkett, Linda Putnam, Tomàs Roche, and Jaz Tupelo. While there are many returning favorites among the writers, directors, and actors, the committee made it a priority to seek out some fresh new voices for this year’s event. “The 24 Hour Theater Project is not just about the plays that come and go.” notes Apgar, “It’s about building the Valley’s theater community by growing our relationships with one another, and with our audience.” Veteran 24 Hour Theater Project playwrights Phil O’Donoghue and Tomàs Roche will be joined by Melissa Dimetres, Betel Arnold, whose play TIGHT PANTS delighted audiences at West Springfield’s Majestic Theater this summer, and Siobhan McManamon, who recently kicked off this season of the Smith College New Playreading series with her play BEAR HUG.
Another new face for this year is the venue. The organizers of the 24 Hour Theater Project are excited to bring this celebration of our community’s theatrical talent to the Arts Trust Building at 33 Hawley Street, home of the Northampton Center for the Arts.
The 24 Hour Theater Project directors feature Susanna Apgar, John Bechtold, Toby Bercovici, Jeannine Haas, and Ellen Morbyrne. This year’s actors include Lisa Abend, Nick Baker, Jane Barish, Kyle Boatwright, Scott Braidman, Nichole Calero, Joe Cardozo, Michael Charland-Tait, Gabe Cifuentes, Bill Dwight, Emmet Flaim, Melle Lowenthal, Moe McElligot, Linda Putnam, Myka Plunkett, Sam Samuels, Linda Tardiff, and Rich Vaden.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Self-Service at Forbes Library is Underway
Forbes Library began offering a self-service check out option at the main desk in August. To date one-third of all adult circulation transactions are being handled through the new self-service kiosks. Patrons are responding positively to the new option which has proven to be quick and easy to use. The library is anticipating a further increase in usage now that non-book formats like DVD and books-on-CD on hold for our patrons are also available on the public holds shelf which was launched at the same time. The public holds shelf utilizes a coded identity system to protect the anonymity of patrons, and items are shelved spine down when feasible to further protect privacy. Patrons have the option to request that their code be changed as well as request that items are held behind the circulation desk. You can learn more about the new service through the FAQ page available on the library’s website, https://forbeslibrary.org/selfservice.
The library introduced self-service check out to provide better customer service. The library had 60,000 more visitors last year than 10 years ago and inter-library loan (ILL) is popular among the library’s patrons. Last year the library received 40,000 items from other libraries for patron holds. Circulation overall has remained strong including a 5% jump in the number of books being borrowed last year over the previous year.
The library has also expanded its services to include a larger calendar of programs for patrons of all ages, a satellite office of the Franklin Hampshire Career Center, and vastly increased the amount of community outreach it is conducting all while maintaining level staffing. This summer the library reopened on Saturdays for the first time in 10 years which is something the community asked for. “We are very proud of our ambitious service model. We have made it our mission to remain relevant by continually reevaluating our services and increasing our reach to underserved and vulnerable populations,” said director Lisa Downing.
Self-service options raise questions about work force reduction efforts. The administration assures the public that this is not the case at Forbes. “Staff time freed up through self-service will be reinvested in meeting the goals of the library’s strategic plan,” said Downing. The plan was written last year based on extensive community feedback and can be viewed on the library’s website, https://forbeslibrary.org/strategic-plan/.
The library introduced self-service check out to provide better customer service. The library had 60,000 more visitors last year than 10 years ago and inter-library loan (ILL) is popular among the library’s patrons. Last year the library received 40,000 items from other libraries for patron holds. Circulation overall has remained strong including a 5% jump in the number of books being borrowed last year over the previous year.
The library has also expanded its services to include a larger calendar of programs for patrons of all ages, a satellite office of the Franklin Hampshire Career Center, and vastly increased the amount of community outreach it is conducting all while maintaining level staffing. This summer the library reopened on Saturdays for the first time in 10 years which is something the community asked for. “We are very proud of our ambitious service model. We have made it our mission to remain relevant by continually reevaluating our services and increasing our reach to underserved and vulnerable populations,” said director Lisa Downing.
Self-service options raise questions about work force reduction efforts. The administration assures the public that this is not the case at Forbes. “Staff time freed up through self-service will be reinvested in meeting the goals of the library’s strategic plan,” said Downing. The plan was written last year based on extensive community feedback and can be viewed on the library’s website, https://forbeslibrary.org/strategic-plan/.
Writer in Residence Reading Series #2
WHAT: Our Work and Why We Do It
WHEN: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 7:00 PM
WHERE: Coolidge Museum, Forbes Library, 20 West St, Northampton MA
Our Work and Why We Do It is the Forbes Library’s new Writer in Residence reading series, which debuts on Wednesday October 17. This series is interested in exploring the ways in which the written word may create and sustain social worlds through inquiry, practice, experimentation, story and lyric. The dynamic of the public library, open and variegated in its uses, is the ideal space for these questions, as it can so directly reflect the desires of a community that contributes to it’s thriving, operating as an archive of those needs. Regardless of genre, this series believes in the potential for deliberation that writing may produce, a space within the information saturated world we share where we might consider possibilities and deeper questions just beyond what we know.
The series features writers of prose, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir, and beneath these broad categories, constellations of subgenres and forms. The series is motivated by an interest in understanding how writing relates to work, to a sense of a collective project that seeks to respond to the political and social forms that produce it. Against dithering, the series hopes to affirm the role of creative written work as a measure of response to the exigencies that shape our world.
Art Middleton is a writer, educator, and parent interested in exploring the experience of work, time, care, and community, themes that have shown up in his zines, fiction, prose, performance, and curation. His work has been published and performed in many independent presses and spaces, most recently a collaboration with poet Nicole Trigg in the zine Macaroni Necklace out of Oakland, CA. In 2011, he organized the Magic Child Repository, a gallery exhibit celebrating small press and handmade book culture in Providence, RI. Informed by his experience as a nursing/personal assistant, adjunct professor, and food service employee (a wide but not entirely tangential resume), his fiction draws from the mundane and the everyday to ask questions about how individuals orient themselves in history and place. He currently works as a writing instructor and English lecturer with a focus on utopian longing in politics and literature.
You can read a June 2018 Daily Hampshire Gazette article, “Forbes Library’s new Writer in Residence took a winding path back home,” about Art here.
Writer in Residence Reading Series #1
WHAT: Our Work and Why We Do It: Arch Optimism
WHEN: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 7:00 PM
WHERE: Coolidge Museum, Forbes Library, 20 West St, Northampton MA
In “Please Stand Still the Doors Are Closing” the poet Anne Boyer writes of and as a radical writer who, “will fail to produce what we should, or to write or speak articulately enough, to reason clearly enough, to be always right, to be thoughtful or expansive enough, to be responsible at our work’s distribution…[but] we brave our errors in thought for the possibility that to see them demonstrated will allow others to get toward a rightness we missed.” This sense of getting toward something at work is the theme for this evening’s reading, featuring three writers whose work—restless, sagacious, funny, skeptical, hopeful—captures this essence uniquely.
Featuring:
Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight, which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. She is Special Issues Editor for jubilat and teaches at Smith College.
Rachel B. Glaser is the author of the novel Paulina & Fran, the story collection Pee On Water, and the poetry books MOODS and HAIRDO. She was recently named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. She lives and writes in Northampton, MA.
Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts, where she is an MA-PhD student at Umass Amherst. She co-curates the But Also house reading series, and co-edits HOLD: a journal. Zoe is the author of Terror Matrix, and is working on a new poetry manuscript and a critical book of trans poetics.
Steve Herrell “Ice Cream and Me”
WHAT: Northampton Neighbors' Speaker Series: Steve Herrel
WHEN: Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 5:30 -7:30 PM
WHERE: Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz St., Northampton
What’s better than hearing Steve Herrell talk about his forthcoming book ICE CREAM AND ME?
How about enjoying a delicious cup of Herrell’s ice cream - complements of Steve -
following his presentation at Northampton Neighbors’ Inaugural Speakers Series.
Free. Open to the public.
Please let us know if you’re coming so we have enough ice cream!
RSVP Today to the Senior Center
(413) 587-1228
seniorservices@northamptonma.gov
The Northampton Neighbors Speaker Series, with the support of the Northampton Senior Center, will feature prominent local and regional personalities whose presentations will entertain and challenge us. Events will take place regularly throughout the year. Hope you can join us.
Saturday Night's Main Event
WHAT: Saturday Night's Main Event
WHEN: Saturday, November 3rd, Doors @ 7pm, Jokes @ 8pm
WHERE: 13th Floor Music Lounge, 99 Main St, Florence MA
WHEN: Saturday, November 3rd, Doors @ 7pm, Jokes @ 8pm
WHERE: 13th Floor Music Lounge, 99 Main St, Florence MA
Downtown Trick-or-Treat
WHAT: Downtown Trick-or-Treat
WHEN: Wednesday, October 31, 3-5pm
WHERE: Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street, Northampton MA
Our annual downtown trick-or-treat celebration is happening on Wednesday, 10/31 from 3-5pm. We are hoping for beautiful weather and lots of trick-or-treaters! If you are interested in ordering bulk candy, Captain Candy is again offering bulk purchases - please click here for additional information.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 31, 3-5pm
WHERE: Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street, Northampton MA
Our annual downtown trick-or-treat celebration is happening on Wednesday, 10/31 from 3-5pm. We are hoping for beautiful weather and lots of trick-or-treaters! If you are interested in ordering bulk candy, Captain Candy is again offering bulk purchases - please click here for additional information.
Request for Proposals to Performing Artists!
O come all ye faithful be part of Eggtooth Productions’ 3rd Holiday Spectacular!
Submissions due by November 15, 2018 to lmciner@gmail.com
Eggtooth Productions & Mr Drag and Karl are now taking submissions for participation in the Third Holiday Spectacular on Dec. 14 and 15, 2018. Performances must be holiday themed. This can be from any holiday which happens at the end of December including Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, etc. In fact, we encourage diversity! Performances will be limited to 5 minutes (1 song) for a musical/dance number and 3-4 minutes for a spoken word/other performance. Try to keep submissions upbeat (remember we are trying to keep it light and entertaining and holiday feeling for the audience), but we will accept some sentimental holiday numbers.
The concept is simple. Mr Drag and Karl will be hosting. The set will look like Mr Drag’s living room. Everyone will be coming on as guests of Mr Drag and Karl and will be performing at their home just like an old TV holiday special. He may invite the guests to sit on his couch and chat before or after their number. There is an opening number being performed by Mr Drag, Karl and the Karl-a-like dancers. Lori Holmes-Clark will be choreographing. There will be a finale. Anyone interested in the finale, will have to agree to two rehearsals prior to tech.
If interested, please include your name, contact info a brief description of your performance, limited to 3-5 sentences. Also, if you are interested in being a part of the finale, being interviewed by Mr Drag or being one of the Karl-a-like dancers please mention that in your submission.
Submissions due by November 15, 2018 to lmciner@gmail.com
Eggtooth Productions & Mr Drag and Karl are now taking submissions for participation in the Third Holiday Spectacular on Dec. 14 and 15, 2018. Performances must be holiday themed. This can be from any holiday which happens at the end of December including Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, etc. In fact, we encourage diversity! Performances will be limited to 5 minutes (1 song) for a musical/dance number and 3-4 minutes for a spoken word/other performance. Try to keep submissions upbeat (remember we are trying to keep it light and entertaining and holiday feeling for the audience), but we will accept some sentimental holiday numbers.
The concept is simple. Mr Drag and Karl will be hosting. The set will look like Mr Drag’s living room. Everyone will be coming on as guests of Mr Drag and Karl and will be performing at their home just like an old TV holiday special. He may invite the guests to sit on his couch and chat before or after their number. There is an opening number being performed by Mr Drag, Karl and the Karl-a-like dancers. Lori Holmes-Clark will be choreographing. There will be a finale. Anyone interested in the finale, will have to agree to two rehearsals prior to tech.
If interested, please include your name, contact info a brief description of your performance, limited to 3-5 sentences. Also, if you are interested in being a part of the finale, being interviewed by Mr Drag or being one of the Karl-a-like dancers please mention that in your submission.
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Sunday, October 14, 2018
New Round of Cultural Facilities Fund: Grants Now Available
The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund is a grant program that supports the planning and implementation of capital projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. These projects expand access and education, create jobs in construction, benefit cultural tourism, and improve the quality of life in cities and towns across the Commonwealth.
Administered jointly by Mass Cultural Council and MassDevelopment, the Cultural Facilities Fund is open to nonprofit cultural organizations, municipalities, and higher education institutions whose cultural facilities serve the general public. Key dates of the program:
Intent-to-Apply Deadline: November 16, 2018
Final Application Deadline: January 11, 2019 5pm (ET)
Grant Decisions Announced: June, 2019
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News from the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Reflecting back: Joan Jonas returns to her alma mater
Revered for her innovations in performance, video and installation, Jonas will give a lecture and direct a performance at Mount Holyoke College, while MHCAM presents an exhibition of her mirror-themed works.
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. - The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (MHCAM) is pleased to announce the return of internationally acclaimed artist and alumna Joan Jonas to Mount Holyoke. Jonas, who graduated in the class of 1958, is currently the subject of a focused exhibition at MHCAM, "Promise of the Infinite: Joan Jonas and the Mirror," on view through June 16, 2019.
Jonas will serve as the College's Leading Woman in the Arts for 2018-2019, presenting a public lecture on October 18, 2018 and directing a live performance on campus on January 31, 2019.
Over the last half-century, Jonas has experimented with new forms of artistic expression, blending video, sound, sculpture, drawing, and performance to create immersive viewer experiences that explore ways of seeing. Born in New York in 1936, she received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke before attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Columbia University, where she earned an M.F.A. in Sculpture in 1965. Jonas has performed and exhibited her work internationally since the late 1960s. Tireless in her creativity into her eighties, Jonas has received significant recognition in recent years with major traveling exhibitions in 2014 and 2018, organized by HangarBicocca, Milan and Tate Modern, London respectively. In 2015, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, and this year she was selected as a Kyoto Prize laureate, Japan's highest private award for global achievement. A hero and mentor to a younger generation of artists, she is professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jonas, who splits her time between New York and Nova Scotia, last visited her alma mater in May 2016, when she received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Mount Holyoke. "Promise of the Infinite" is her first exhibition at the College.
"We are truly thrilled and honored to host Jonas's solo exhibition here at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum," says Tricia Y. Paik, Florence Finch Abbott Director. "The opportunity to share her groundbreaking work with our students and community will no doubt foster inspiring dialogue about her lasting contribution to the arts."
Focusing on the recurring theme of the mirror in her oeuvre, the exhibition brings together four works that span Jonas's prolific career. "From her use of looking glasses and mirrored costumes in her earliest performances," notes Associate Curator Hannah W. Blunt, "Jonas has used the concept of the mirror to show that images are not facts, but reflections of our individual imaginations and assumptions."
The four works in the exhibition include one of Jonas's earliest films, "Wind" (1968), recently restored and digitized by the Anthology Film Archive, as well as a sculptural video theater from the late 1990s, "My New Theater II: Big Mirror," and a video projection, "Mirror Improvisation," excerpted from her multimedia performance "The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things," which debuted to critical acclaim at Dia:Beacon in 2004. "Mirror Pieces Installation II" (1969/2014), a recent acquisition by MHCAM in honor of longtime curator Wendy Watson, completes the exhibition and distills concepts and physical components from several of Jonas's early Mirror Pieces into a video installation.
With their various mirrored elements-both tangible and metaphorical-the works in the exhibition distort visitors' notions of space, and also complicate their roles as viewers and spectators. Jonas prompts viewers to consider the difference between looking and seeing, and between reality and its representation.
Jonas to serve as Mount Holyoke's 2018-2019 Leading Woman in the Arts, the first alumna in the program's 12-year history
As Mount Holyoke's 2018-2019 Leading Woman in the Arts, Jonas will discuss her work in a free public lecture titled "60 Years Later" on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. in Gamble Auditorium at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. While on campus, she will also facilitate a leadership and careers luncheon with students, attend an advanced studio art class, and meet with the student participants in her January 2019 performance at the College.
The Leading Women in the Arts series was launched in 2006, and is organized collaboratively by Mount Holyoke's Weissman Center for Leadership and the InterArts Council, comprised of creative and performing arts faculty. The program reflects the Center's support of short-term residencies by internationally acclaimed artists, writers, and practitioners whose influential careers provide inspiration for a new generation of students. Invited guest artists are featured in public discussions about the interconnections between creative expression of all forms and cultural transformations.
"It is an absolute privilege to have Joan Jonas '58 return to Mount Holyoke to be our 'Leading Woman in the Arts' this year," says Amy Martin, Director of the Weissman Center. "She is a model for our students and for our entire community, demonstrating to us how being visionary and innovative makes one a transformative leader in one's field.
Past Leading Women in the Arts have included choreographer Trisha Brown, composers Meredith Monk and Kaija Saariaho, visual artists Ann Hamilton and Carrie Mae Weems, architect Billie Tsien, and writer and poet Claudia Rankine, among others.
Jonas is the first alumna in the program's 12-year history.
Early mirror performance by Jonas to be restaged at Mount Holyoke
In an historic, one-night only event on January 31, 2019, Jonas will direct a reconfigured version of her groundbreaking 1969 and 1970 performances, "Mirror Piece I" and "Mirror Piece II." Fifteen Mount Holyoke students will perform the piece at 7:30 p.m. in the Dance Studio Theater in Kendall Hall.
"Mirror Piece I" and "II" were the first in a series of time-based works that established Jonas as a leading figure in the field of performance art. Motivated by feminist ideas, these pieces explored gender hierarchies, the power of the gaze, and notions of perception and representation.
In the original staging of "Mirror Piece I" at New York University's Loeb Student Center, a group of mostly women performers moved in slow, choreographed patterns while holding oblong mirrors in front of their bodies. Two men walked among the women, periodically interrupting their movements to lift, carry, and deposit them in different positions. Facing out, the moving mirrors continuously revealed the reflections of the audience, complicating the relationship between spectator and spectacle. In "Mirror Piece II," which was staged at New York's Emanuel-El YMHA, the performers carried heavier mirrors and pieces of glass, slowing the pace of their movements and creating a sense of risk and vulnerability to their bodies. For later stagings of these performances at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010), the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm (2013), and the Tate Modern, London (2018), Jonas incorporated reworked choreography and musical components.
Nefeli Skarmea, a London-based dancer and curator, will collaborate with Jonas on the performance at Mount Holyoke. The title of the new performance will be "Mirror Piece I & II: Reconfigured (1969/2018-2019)."
About the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (MHCAM) aims to spark intellectual curiosity and creativity through direct engagement with works of art and material culture. Founded in 1876, the Museum's collection comprises more than 24,000 objects, including exemplary Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities; art and artifacts from the indigenous Americas; paintings, sculpture and decorative art from Europe and the United States; photography, prints, ceramics and numismatics; and works by women artists. In recent years, the Museum has made significant acquisitions of global contemporary art, including works by Afruz Amighi, Ambreen Butt, Zanele Muholi, Kiki Smith, Alec Soth, Lin Tianmiao, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and others. Through thought-provoking exhibitions and educational programs, MHCAM serves as a nexus for experiential learning across academic disciplines and as a resource for the broader community.
MHCAM is free, open to the public and fully accessible. Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. For additional information, please visit artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu.
About the Weissman Center for Leadership
The Weissman Center for Leadership, established in 1999, supports students, faculty, and staff in the development of leadership skills inside and outside the classroom. The Center's work is guided by four over-arching themes: inspiration sparked by public events with renowned guest speakers; capacity-building to develop skills and confidence through leadership courses, experiential learning, conferences, and trainings; mentoring and networking on campus and across nonprofit, public service, and business realms to promote opportunities for professional success; and reflection and discovery, the foundation for perpetual leadership growth.
Revered for her innovations in performance, video and installation, Jonas will give a lecture and direct a performance at Mount Holyoke College, while MHCAM presents an exhibition of her mirror-themed works.
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. - The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (MHCAM) is pleased to announce the return of internationally acclaimed artist and alumna Joan Jonas to Mount Holyoke. Jonas, who graduated in the class of 1958, is currently the subject of a focused exhibition at MHCAM, "Promise of the Infinite: Joan Jonas and the Mirror," on view through June 16, 2019.
Jonas will serve as the College's Leading Woman in the Arts for 2018-2019, presenting a public lecture on October 18, 2018 and directing a live performance on campus on January 31, 2019.
Over the last half-century, Jonas has experimented with new forms of artistic expression, blending video, sound, sculpture, drawing, and performance to create immersive viewer experiences that explore ways of seeing. Born in New York in 1936, she received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke before attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Columbia University, where she earned an M.F.A. in Sculpture in 1965. Jonas has performed and exhibited her work internationally since the late 1960s. Tireless in her creativity into her eighties, Jonas has received significant recognition in recent years with major traveling exhibitions in 2014 and 2018, organized by HangarBicocca, Milan and Tate Modern, London respectively. In 2015, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, and this year she was selected as a Kyoto Prize laureate, Japan's highest private award for global achievement. A hero and mentor to a younger generation of artists, she is professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jonas, who splits her time between New York and Nova Scotia, last visited her alma mater in May 2016, when she received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Mount Holyoke. "Promise of the Infinite" is her first exhibition at the College.
"We are truly thrilled and honored to host Jonas's solo exhibition here at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum," says Tricia Y. Paik, Florence Finch Abbott Director. "The opportunity to share her groundbreaking work with our students and community will no doubt foster inspiring dialogue about her lasting contribution to the arts."
Focusing on the recurring theme of the mirror in her oeuvre, the exhibition brings together four works that span Jonas's prolific career. "From her use of looking glasses and mirrored costumes in her earliest performances," notes Associate Curator Hannah W. Blunt, "Jonas has used the concept of the mirror to show that images are not facts, but reflections of our individual imaginations and assumptions."
The four works in the exhibition include one of Jonas's earliest films, "Wind" (1968), recently restored and digitized by the Anthology Film Archive, as well as a sculptural video theater from the late 1990s, "My New Theater II: Big Mirror," and a video projection, "Mirror Improvisation," excerpted from her multimedia performance "The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things," which debuted to critical acclaim at Dia:Beacon in 2004. "Mirror Pieces Installation II" (1969/2014), a recent acquisition by MHCAM in honor of longtime curator Wendy Watson, completes the exhibition and distills concepts and physical components from several of Jonas's early Mirror Pieces into a video installation.
With their various mirrored elements-both tangible and metaphorical-the works in the exhibition distort visitors' notions of space, and also complicate their roles as viewers and spectators. Jonas prompts viewers to consider the difference between looking and seeing, and between reality and its representation.
Jonas to serve as Mount Holyoke's 2018-2019 Leading Woman in the Arts, the first alumna in the program's 12-year history
As Mount Holyoke's 2018-2019 Leading Woman in the Arts, Jonas will discuss her work in a free public lecture titled "60 Years Later" on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. in Gamble Auditorium at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. While on campus, she will also facilitate a leadership and careers luncheon with students, attend an advanced studio art class, and meet with the student participants in her January 2019 performance at the College.
The Leading Women in the Arts series was launched in 2006, and is organized collaboratively by Mount Holyoke's Weissman Center for Leadership and the InterArts Council, comprised of creative and performing arts faculty. The program reflects the Center's support of short-term residencies by internationally acclaimed artists, writers, and practitioners whose influential careers provide inspiration for a new generation of students. Invited guest artists are featured in public discussions about the interconnections between creative expression of all forms and cultural transformations.
"It is an absolute privilege to have Joan Jonas '58 return to Mount Holyoke to be our 'Leading Woman in the Arts' this year," says Amy Martin, Director of the Weissman Center. "She is a model for our students and for our entire community, demonstrating to us how being visionary and innovative makes one a transformative leader in one's field.
Past Leading Women in the Arts have included choreographer Trisha Brown, composers Meredith Monk and Kaija Saariaho, visual artists Ann Hamilton and Carrie Mae Weems, architect Billie Tsien, and writer and poet Claudia Rankine, among others.
Jonas is the first alumna in the program's 12-year history.
Early mirror performance by Jonas to be restaged at Mount Holyoke
In an historic, one-night only event on January 31, 2019, Jonas will direct a reconfigured version of her groundbreaking 1969 and 1970 performances, "Mirror Piece I" and "Mirror Piece II." Fifteen Mount Holyoke students will perform the piece at 7:30 p.m. in the Dance Studio Theater in Kendall Hall.
"Mirror Piece I" and "II" were the first in a series of time-based works that established Jonas as a leading figure in the field of performance art. Motivated by feminist ideas, these pieces explored gender hierarchies, the power of the gaze, and notions of perception and representation.
In the original staging of "Mirror Piece I" at New York University's Loeb Student Center, a group of mostly women performers moved in slow, choreographed patterns while holding oblong mirrors in front of their bodies. Two men walked among the women, periodically interrupting their movements to lift, carry, and deposit them in different positions. Facing out, the moving mirrors continuously revealed the reflections of the audience, complicating the relationship between spectator and spectacle. In "Mirror Piece II," which was staged at New York's Emanuel-El YMHA, the performers carried heavier mirrors and pieces of glass, slowing the pace of their movements and creating a sense of risk and vulnerability to their bodies. For later stagings of these performances at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010), the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm (2013), and the Tate Modern, London (2018), Jonas incorporated reworked choreography and musical components.
Nefeli Skarmea, a London-based dancer and curator, will collaborate with Jonas on the performance at Mount Holyoke. The title of the new performance will be "Mirror Piece I & II: Reconfigured (1969/2018-2019)."
About the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (MHCAM) aims to spark intellectual curiosity and creativity through direct engagement with works of art and material culture. Founded in 1876, the Museum's collection comprises more than 24,000 objects, including exemplary Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities; art and artifacts from the indigenous Americas; paintings, sculpture and decorative art from Europe and the United States; photography, prints, ceramics and numismatics; and works by women artists. In recent years, the Museum has made significant acquisitions of global contemporary art, including works by Afruz Amighi, Ambreen Butt, Zanele Muholi, Kiki Smith, Alec Soth, Lin Tianmiao, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and others. Through thought-provoking exhibitions and educational programs, MHCAM serves as a nexus for experiential learning across academic disciplines and as a resource for the broader community.
MHCAM is free, open to the public and fully accessible. Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. For additional information, please visit artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu.
About the Weissman Center for Leadership
The Weissman Center for Leadership, established in 1999, supports students, faculty, and staff in the development of leadership skills inside and outside the classroom. The Center's work is guided by four over-arching themes: inspiration sparked by public events with renowned guest speakers; capacity-building to develop skills and confidence through leadership courses, experiential learning, conferences, and trainings; mentoring and networking on campus and across nonprofit, public service, and business realms to promote opportunities for professional success; and reflection and discovery, the foundation for perpetual leadership growth.
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Happier Valley Comedy: Happier FAMILY Comedy Show
WHAT: Happier Valley Comedy: Happier FAMILY Comedy Show
WHEN: October 20 at 3:00 PM
WHERE: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (125 W Bay Rd., Amherst)
Monthly family-friendly improv comedy show, great for 5-12 year olds and their adults. It's funny for the whole family! Saturday, October 20th at 3pm at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (125 W Bay Rd., Amherst). Tickets at the door: $10/Adults, $5/Kids, Free/4 yrs and under (Reduced admission for museum members). For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Exit 7 Players presents Sweeney Todd
WHAT: Exit 7 Players presents Sweeney Todd
WHEN: Oct 19-Nov 2 (Fridays/Saturday’s at 8pm, Sunday’s at 2pm)
WHERE: Exit 7 Theater, 37 Chestnut Street, Ludlow, MA
An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun!
Pilgrim Theatre presents Moon Over Dark Street
WHAT: Pilgrim Theatre presents Moon Over Dark Street
WHEN: October 19 & 20 at 7:30 PM, October 21 at 2:00 PM
WHERE: Shea Theater Arts Center, Turners Falls, MA
Moon Over Dark Street, a cabaret of Theatre and Song by Bertolt Brecht gears up with the jazz-hot tunes of Kurt Weill from such theatre classics as “Threepenny Opera” and “Happy End” and the wrenching ballads of Hanns Eisler. The production tracks the devastation of the Second World War and the McCarthy Era. Moon Over Dark Street travels from Berlin to Hollywood, offering songs of love, sex and agitation-with great resonance to today’s political scene!
https://sheatheater.org/calendar
Tickets: $25 /$18 for students and seniors.
To Purchase Tickets today - call 413-648-7432
“’Moon Over Dark Street’ aims for the moon and hits its mark. The show is a kick-ass mix of songs that pair Brecht’s dark lyrics with the twisted tunes of Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler. Like a top-shelf sipping whiskey, ‘Moon Over Dark Street’ starts off with a teasing bite and kicks in smooth and strong…Belle Linda Halpern and Kermit Dunkelberg, in their solo turns, both perform with subtlety and panache. And together they’re downright intoxicating.”
- Anne Marie Donahue, Boston Phoenix
Double Edge Theatre presents Leonora's World: An Autumn Spectacle
WHAT: Double Edge Theatre presents Leonora's World: An Autumn Spectacle
WHEN: October 19, 20, and 21 at 6:00 PM
WHERE: Double Edge Theatre, 948 Conway Rd, Ashfield MA
Performed rain or shine
We are excited to announce that this October Double Edge will present our first Fall Outdoor Spectacle, inspired by the world of Leonora Carrington. This Spectacle will take place in the autumnal landscape of the Farm, traveling across multiple sites.
For tickets: doubleedgetheatre.org/tickets
Smith College Department of Theatre presents WORLD PREMIERE performance of MOONLIGHT ON THE MISKATONIC
WHAT: WORLD PREMIERE performance of MOONLIGHT ON THE MISKATONIC
Music & Lyrics by Clifton J. Noble, Book by Samantha Noble, and Directed by Ellen W. Kaplan
WHEN: October 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 at 7:30 PM
WHERE: Theatre 14, 122 Green St, Northampton MA
The campus of Miskatonic U is decked out for Illumination Night. Four alums have arrived for their five-year reunion, only to find creepy goings-on hidden behind the ivy-covered walls, and the terrifying disappearances of students keep happening. There’s a snake in Paradise….or something much, much worse. Based on the super-scary stories of HP Lovecraft, this new musical is about love, friendship, and growing up – and about horrors that lurk very near.
Tickets $10 General, $5 Students and Seniors, Free for Smith Students.
Tickets online or call 413-585-3220.
K and E Theater Group presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
WHAT: K and E Theater Group presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
WHEN: October 18, 19 & 20 at 7:30 PM, October 21 at 2:00 PM
WHERE: Gateway City Arts, 92 Race Street, Holyoke, MA
Western Massachusetts’ bold, new theater company, the K and E Theater Group presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – A Musical Thriller, one weekend only, Oct. 18-21 at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke.
Book by Hugh Wheeler and Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. This production of Sweeney features Emily Bloch, Paula Cortis, Paul DiProto, Melissa Dupont, Mimi Goodman, Zach Gray, Tomm Knightlee, Joshua Aaron Mason, Shaun O'Keefe, Christine Voytko, David Webber, and Mallory Wray. Musical Direction by Bill Martin and Direction by KETG President and Artistic Director, Eddie Zitka.
Visit www.KETG.org to learn more about our company and the production. We invite you to attend the tale!
Tickets $25
Greenfield Community College presents: FRANKENSTEIN
WHAT: Greenfield Community College presents: FRANKENSTEIN
WHEN: Oct 18, 19, 20, 26, 27 at 7:30pm, Sunday Matinee Oct 28 at 2pm, Halloween Night Oct 31 at 7:30pm
WHERE: GCC's Sloan Theater, Main Campus, One College Drive, Greenfield, MA
A new adaptation by Roddy Barnes, based on the novel by Mary Shelley. This version of FRANKENSTEIN has comedic and poignant dialogue, along with the ever-present eeriness that defines the best of FRANKENSTEIN. Directed by Tom Geha, this production has a cast of eleven characters and a combined cast and crew of over twenty students, alumni, and faculty. Please join us for the excitement.
Tickets
Friday, October 12, 2018
This weekend @33 Hawley
Northampton Center for the Arts: David Andrew art opening
Friday, October 12 from 6:00-8:00pm
David is a Chicago born artist currently living and working locally. He calls his work a fluid elegance turning 2D drawings into 3D pieces of sculpture on paper. Here’s his Facebook page, and here’s a great 2016 interview with him by the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Northampton Center for the Arts: Shakespeare Stage presents The Complete History of America (abridged)
Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at 7:30pm; Sunday, October 14 at 6:30pm
Featuring Emily Eaton, Julian Findlay and Kate Glowatsky. Come dive into America's past and share some laughs.
Contact: Julian.shakespearestage@gmail.com
Tickets: $15
Northampton Center for the Arts Open house
WHEN: Saturday October 13 from 11am to 3pm
The day will feature classes, workshops, and performances for artists and arts lovers of all ages. There will be free theatrical previews, behind-the-scenes dance rehearsals, free introductory classes, and more!
The day also provides a fantastic opportunity for all to look over the new spaces that have opened up on Hawley Street, particularly The Flex, a space designed to hold extraordinary events of all kinds! Community members are invited to discover the Center’s offerings and consider opportunities to teach a class or stage a show.
The lineup of events includes dance: an open rehearsal by Lisa Leizman dance and an open class by Program Director’s Kelly Silliman. You can also take a tango lesson with Western Mass Tango or an advanced dance class with Fritha Pengelly. Two theater companies offer previews of their shows: Shakespeare Stage’s Twelfth Night, and Real Live Theater’s next show. There will be workshops in Alexander Technique by Abbie Steiner, theatrical training by RLT, and a sample of “sacred rage” by Rhythea Lee. Kelly Silliman will present a workshop and videos showing off ArtPlay, her great vacation program. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view David Andrew’s art in the Downstairs Gallery.
Admission is free.
PeaceMeal
WHAT: PeaceMeal
WHEN: Wednesday, November 7, 6:30pm
WHERE: Belly of the Beast, 159 Main St, Northampton MA
How Much? $55/person
Guest chef Teresa Brockriede will present a family-style feast of Middle Eastern cuisine. All ticket proceeds will benefit Safe Passage.
Safe Passage advocates for safety, healing, and justice for our entire community. They are here for everyone who has experienced domestic violence or relationship abuse.
Tickets are $55 each. All ticket proceeds go directly to Safe Passage. Drinks and gratuity are not included in the ticket price.
This will be a single-seating dinner. Space is extremely limited. Reserve your tickets by clicking through the RSVP button below.
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SATURDOOZY! IS BACK! Saturday Oct 20 at STUDIO4- HALLOWEEN THEMES!
WHAT: SATURDOOZY!
WHEN: Saturdays: October 20 & November 18
¡SATURDOOZY! is back!
CHEAPER THAN A BABYSITTER AND WAY MORE FUN!
¡SATURDOOZY! An arts focused kids-night-out
6-10pm, ages 7+
Ask about our "VALET SERVICE" !
PRE REGISTER ONLINE NOW!
6-10pm $30 / 6-8pm $20 [additional siblings half price]
https://www.studio4noho.com/ saturdoozy
check out our trailer and spread the word
https://vimeo.com/242992461
WHEN: Saturdays: October 20 & November 18
WHERE: Studio4, 25 Main St, 4th floor, Northampton MA
¡SATURDOOZY! is back!
CHEAPER THAN A BABYSITTER AND WAY MORE FUN!
¡SATURDOOZY! An arts focused kids-night-out
6-10pm, ages 7+
Ask about our "VALET SERVICE" !
PRE REGISTER ONLINE NOW!
6-10pm $30 / 6-8pm $20 [additional siblings half price]
https://www.studio4noho.com/
check out our trailer and spread the word
https://vimeo.com/242992461
CALL FOR ARTISTS: Mass Audubon’s Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary
Mass Audubon’s Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, in Easthampton, MA, is scheduling Art
Exhibitions for the 2019 season. We offer a small exhibition space in our Visitor Center.
The deadline for submission is December 15, 2018.
If you are an artist working individually or in a group we invite you to apply for an
exhibition. Paintings, photographs, prints, and mixed-media are acceptable. In general
the artwork of artists who display their work at Arcadia demonstrate their interest in
the intersections of nature, art and science.
Most exhibitions last for one calendar month. Openings, posters and announcements as
well as all framing and hanging of the work are the responsibility of the artist(s). Should
you have pieces for sale, Arcadia will reserve 30% of the proceeds to support the work
of the Sanctuary. Arcadia provides advertising through online and published press
releases.
Please send the following application materials to our Exhibit Coordinator, Devorah
Levy, at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary. dlevy@massaudubon.org.
The Application for Exhibition includes the following materials:
• A description of your proposed exhibition.
• A sample of 3 to 5 artworks that are similar to what you plan to exhibit.
Submit your artwork as a .pdf file attachment.
• Your current resume, phone number, email, and home address.
• All correspondence with Devorah Levy should use the subject tag: Artist Application
2019 “YOUR NAME”
Thank you and we look forward to receiving your applications.
Exhibitions for the 2019 season. We offer a small exhibition space in our Visitor Center.
The deadline for submission is December 15, 2018.
If you are an artist working individually or in a group we invite you to apply for an
exhibition. Paintings, photographs, prints, and mixed-media are acceptable. In general
the artwork of artists who display their work at Arcadia demonstrate their interest in
the intersections of nature, art and science.
Most exhibitions last for one calendar month. Openings, posters and announcements as
well as all framing and hanging of the work are the responsibility of the artist(s). Should
you have pieces for sale, Arcadia will reserve 30% of the proceeds to support the work
of the Sanctuary. Arcadia provides advertising through online and published press
releases.
Please send the following application materials to our Exhibit Coordinator, Devorah
Levy, at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary. dlevy@massaudubon.org.
The Application for Exhibition includes the following materials:
• A description of your proposed exhibition.
• A sample of 3 to 5 artworks that are similar to what you plan to exhibit.
Submit your artwork as a .pdf file attachment.
• Your current resume, phone number, email, and home address.
• All correspondence with Devorah Levy should use the subject tag: Artist Application
2019 “YOUR NAME”
Thank you and we look forward to receiving your applications.
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Planning the future of Florence Center
WHAT: Planning the Future of Florence Center: A Community Meeting
WHEN: Tuesday, October 30th, 6:30-8:30pm
WHERE: Florence Civic Center, 90 Park St, Florence MA
WHEN: Tuesday, October 30th, 6:30-8:30pm
WHERE: Florence Civic Center, 90 Park St, Florence MA
Northampton Film Festival
WHAT: Northampton Film Festival
WHEN: November 15-18
WHERE: Venues in Downtown Northampton (Click here to view full venue map)
Tickets available online here
Screenings and Events:
The Gilded Cage: Northampton’s Last Water-Powered Elevator
Repo Man
Black Maria Film Festival
100-Second Film Festival
Five College Films
The Pain of Others
Josiah
About:
The Northampton Film Festival is organized by a team of Pioneer Valley-based filmmakers, curators, and organizers who are passionate about building community through film. Originally a corporately-run festival, NFF was taken over in 2015 by members of Northampton Community Television, a community media arts organization, who had their own ideas for its future relevance.
Described by Boston-based news outlet MassLive as “returning with a full quiver of artistic arrows,” last years festival “offered up a broad palette of moving image offerings, from the local to the international, and guided attendees to experiences in art and technology largely unavailable elsewhere in the Valley.”
Although we are a small festival, the unique interests of each of our team members have allowed us to offer a wide variety of thoughtful programming, including over 48 films across 9 venues in downtown Northampton. “This unique festival crosses lines of genre, geography, and medium. It involves the collaboration of a number of community partners like the City of Northampton, the Arts Council, Good Nights Sleep (an experimental film collective), Forbes Library, Historic Northampton, and many other partners.” – festival Director Al Williams.
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Northampton Jazz Festival
WHAT: Northampton Jazz Festival
WHEN: OCTOBER 19-21 (view full schedule here)
WHERE: Venues around Downtown Northampton (view venue map here)
We're renewing and refreshing the Northampton Jazz Festival in Western Massachusetts with a rich line-up of jazz artists from around the region and across the globe. We’re staging jazz performances by local and visiting artists at a host of venues around downtown Northampton, and are featuring world-renowned Latin Jazz great Paquito D'Rivera and his Quintet at our main stage concert at the Academy of Music. Come join us as Jazz Abounds Downtown!
About:
The Northampton Jazz Festival, founded in 2011, is dedicated to carrying forward our great American music tradition of live jazz for generations to come. In 2018, we will honor this mission in new and meaningful ways.
We are renewing the popular festival for 2018, with a rich line-up of jazz artists from across the globe and around the region. We are strengthening our tradition of supporting individuals who wish to sing, play, or participate in live jazz by initiating the Jazz in the Schools program in partnership with Claire Williams, Band and General Music Instructor at the JFK Middle School in Florence, MA. We will be bringing professional jazz musicians in to work and play with her jazz band students three times a year.
We are also pleased to be partnering with the Downtown Northampton Association (DNA) directed by Amy Cahillane. Amy’s leadership of several successful downtown Northampton events, such as the Holiday and Summer Strolls and First Night, along with her affiliations with city government and the downtown merchants, gives us the foundation to ensure continued success for the Northampton Jazz Festival.
WHEN: OCTOBER 19-21 (view full schedule here)
WHERE: Venues around Downtown Northampton (view venue map here)
We're renewing and refreshing the Northampton Jazz Festival in Western Massachusetts with a rich line-up of jazz artists from around the region and across the globe. We’re staging jazz performances by local and visiting artists at a host of venues around downtown Northampton, and are featuring world-renowned Latin Jazz great Paquito D'Rivera and his Quintet at our main stage concert at the Academy of Music. Come join us as Jazz Abounds Downtown!
About:
The Northampton Jazz Festival, founded in 2011, is dedicated to carrying forward our great American music tradition of live jazz for generations to come. In 2018, we will honor this mission in new and meaningful ways.
We are renewing the popular festival for 2018, with a rich line-up of jazz artists from across the globe and around the region. We are strengthening our tradition of supporting individuals who wish to sing, play, or participate in live jazz by initiating the Jazz in the Schools program in partnership with Claire Williams, Band and General Music Instructor at the JFK Middle School in Florence, MA. We will be bringing professional jazz musicians in to work and play with her jazz band students three times a year.
We are also pleased to be partnering with the Downtown Northampton Association (DNA) directed by Amy Cahillane. Amy’s leadership of several successful downtown Northampton events, such as the Holiday and Summer Strolls and First Night, along with her affiliations with city government and the downtown merchants, gives us the foundation to ensure continued success for the Northampton Jazz Festival.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
DANCING with EROS
WHAT: DANCING with EROS
WHEN: Friday, October 12, 8:30-11:30pm
WHERE: Studio4, 25 Main St, 4th Floor, Northampton MA
October Theme ~ Dancing Our Shadows
It's that time of year when we transition to autumn and the balance of dark and light changes. As we move into the dark time, we illuminate our shadow places, by giving them visibility, compassion, voice, movement and LEVITY!
Inspired by Touch&Play, we present, Dancing with Eros, a monthly dance event with the explicit intention of exploring our erotic energy in the dance. Let’s explore for ourselves and together in community what it means to dance with Eros. As a society, we have been acculturated to have shame about our sexual desires. In many dance communities in the country, we have struggled with issues of consent and sexuality in the dance spaces, so much so that many local dances seek to explicitly keep erotic energy separate from the dance.
This is an invitation to allow and follow our erotic energy, with consciousness and care, consent and healthy boundaries.
Facebook Event Here
WHEN: Friday, October 12, 8:30-11:30pm
WHERE: Studio4, 25 Main St, 4th Floor, Northampton MA
October Theme ~ Dancing Our Shadows
It's that time of year when we transition to autumn and the balance of dark and light changes. As we move into the dark time, we illuminate our shadow places, by giving them visibility, compassion, voice, movement and LEVITY!
Inspired by Touch&Play, we present, Dancing with Eros, a monthly dance event with the explicit intention of exploring our erotic energy in the dance. Let’s explore for ourselves and together in community what it means to dance with Eros. As a society, we have been acculturated to have shame about our sexual desires. In many dance communities in the country, we have struggled with issues of consent and sexuality in the dance spaces, so much so that many local dances seek to explicitly keep erotic energy separate from the dance.
This is an invitation to allow and follow our erotic energy, with consciousness and care, consent and healthy boundaries.
Facebook Event Here
Truth Telling & Physical Intimacy: Contact Improvisation Workshop
WHAT: Truth Telling & Physical Intimacy: Contact Improvisation Workshop
WHEN: Friday October 12, 5:00 - 7:00p (prior to Dancing with Eros)
WHERE: 25 Main St (Fitzwilly’s Bld.) 4th Floor (Studio 4), Northampton MA
With Lani Nahele and Aaron Brando
We will focus on physical skills and communication technologies to help people dive deep into various layers of physical and emotional intimacy.
Dancing in CI with degrees of touch, connection and creativity can sometimes lead to a range of intimate interactions: highly dynamic to slowed down. We will deepen our awareness of our individual experiences and tune in to those of our partner/s. We will look at how to read, respond and dance with consensual invitations. Let's enjoy our time and get inspired for a night of creative dancing with Eros together!
$20 for individual or come with a friend = 2 for $30
Accessibility Technology Classes at Forbes Library
WHAT: Accessibility Technology Classes
WHEN: Second Friday of each month from 1-2:30PM
WHERE: Forbes Library, 20 West St, Northampton
Forbes Library is offering a series of free classes on assistive technology and related topics on the second Friday of each month from 1-2:30PM. Assistive technology helps people with challenges like low vision, hearing loss, or fine motor problems. All classes will take place in the library's Community Room and will be taught by Rick Ely. The classes will provide demonstrations and time for question and answers. Participants will have the opportunity to sign up for one on one or small group tutoring for hands-on instruction related to the topics covered in each class.
Accessibility Focus: Get Reading Again: October 12, 2018
Accessing Portable Apple and Android Devices: November 9, 2018
Discovering Audio Description: December 14, 2018
Enlarged Screen or Speech: Access to your PC, January 11, 2019
Advanced Read Again: February 8, 2019
Class descriptions are below.
WHEN: Second Friday of each month from 1-2:30PM
WHERE: Forbes Library, 20 West St, Northampton
Forbes Library is offering a series of free classes on assistive technology and related topics on the second Friday of each month from 1-2:30PM. Assistive technology helps people with challenges like low vision, hearing loss, or fine motor problems. All classes will take place in the library's Community Room and will be taught by Rick Ely. The classes will provide demonstrations and time for question and answers. Participants will have the opportunity to sign up for one on one or small group tutoring for hands-on instruction related to the topics covered in each class.
Accessibility Focus: Get Reading Again: October 12, 2018
Accessing Portable Apple and Android Devices: November 9, 2018
Discovering Audio Description: December 14, 2018
Enlarged Screen or Speech: Access to your PC, January 11, 2019
Advanced Read Again: February 8, 2019
Class descriptions are below.
“LOST AND FOUND” Judith Inglese and Bernice Rosenthal
Bernice Rosenthal: Cuneiform Diary |
WHEN: November 8 – December 2
Artist Reception: Friday, November 9: 5-8 pm
WHERE: A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main St, Northampton MA
A.P.E. Gallery will display ceramic murals by Judith Inglese and assemblages by Bernice Rosenthal for the month of November. The exhibit, entitled “Lost and Found,” speaks to the process of re-incarnation and transformation.
Bernice uses found objects that were discarded or forgotten and gives them new meaning and form. Judith’s ceramic murals explore themes of childhood, the time for play, imagination and lost innocence.
Both art forms engage the viewer, using whimsy, detail and storytelling in the murals, and juxtaposition and abstraction of forms in the assemblages. Both artists work with natural materials such as clay and wood, and use bas-reliefs and three-dimensional forms.
Judith Inglese Bio
Judith has worked in various media: wood and welded sculpture, glass and metal screens. cloth tapestries and as a toy designer; however, her love of clay, which she played with as a young child, led her to ceramic murals. Tile making was a way of working incrementally, yet fabricating larger artworks. She was drawn to ceramic murals because they could be incorporated into public buildings and be accessible to many people. She became committed to the importance of public art in creating community as well as personalizing space.
Judith attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she received a bachelor’s degree, and trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy and the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. Since 1973, she has created commissions for a variety of public use spaces including healthcare facilities, a train station, the National Zoo, Rockville, MD Town Center, schools, libraries, senior centers and other municipal and institutional buildings. She has also created smaller murals for private clients.
Bernice Rosenthal Bio
Bernice Masse Rosenthal graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with a concentration in sculpture, particularly carving stone. She completed a fifth year at the school and was awarded the Rebecca R. Joselin and Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowships which she took in Greece.
She has travelled several roads and developed a range of skills since the days of stone. Following her school years, Bernice was a paper conservator with a private practice. As a volunteer at the Carpenter’s Boatshop in Maine, she developed woodworking skills.
These experiences were all grist for the art mill. Paper conservation techniques were easily incorporated in collage which is where she returned to life as an artist. The natural successor to paper collage was assemblages of wood which has been her principle medium for two decades.
She is an inveterate recycler, collecting discarded wood forms presumed worthless. Most recently her work strives to engage the viewer either by presenting the piece with several orientations, kinetic possibilities or through interactive manipulation by the viewer. Bernice’s work has been shown in numerous galleries and venues in Maine and Massachusetts and is in several private collections.
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Turandot
WHAT: Turandot Opera Live
Performances:
Friday October 12, 7pm Latchis Theater, 50 Main St, Brattleboro, VT
Sunday October 14, 2pm Latchis Theater, 50 Main St, Brattleboro, VT
Thursday October 18, 7pm Academy of Music, 274 Main St, Northampton, MA
Turandot is Puccini's final opera, and on-point for the times we live in.
There are riddles to answer, death and torture to avoid, hearts to thaw, barriers of status, race and gender to transcend, so that Love may triumph against all odds. Exile and deportation are real threats, and happening; profound family betrayal and disappointment are 'in our face'.
You will witness powerful community participation, children and adults, a 'SWAT-team' chorus, a 'Rabble' chorus, gongs, clowning, solemnity, terror...
Our principals include Jenna Rae, Roseanne Ackerley, Alan Schneider, Cailin Marcel Manson, James Anderson, Elizabeth Wohl, Michael Duffin, Gary Clay, Charlie Berrios.
Thrilling community additions: specialist Chinese Gongs, child executioners, customized horror-movie special effects, offstage student brass and wind groups, non-ecumenical choral participation, community-sourced costuming of excellence, casting against gender assumptions, quick-witted English titling.
Tickets at $20, $50 premium, $15 student & senior discount, call Academy of Music or Brattleboro Music Center for group discounts
Performances:
Friday October 12, 7pm Latchis Theater, 50 Main St, Brattleboro, VT
Sunday October 14, 2pm Latchis Theater, 50 Main St, Brattleboro, VT
Thursday October 18, 7pm Academy of Music, 274 Main St, Northampton, MA
Turandot is Puccini's final opera, and on-point for the times we live in.
There are riddles to answer, death and torture to avoid, hearts to thaw, barriers of status, race and gender to transcend, so that Love may triumph against all odds. Exile and deportation are real threats, and happening; profound family betrayal and disappointment are 'in our face'.
You will witness powerful community participation, children and adults, a 'SWAT-team' chorus, a 'Rabble' chorus, gongs, clowning, solemnity, terror...
Our principals include Jenna Rae, Roseanne Ackerley, Alan Schneider, Cailin Marcel Manson, James Anderson, Elizabeth Wohl, Michael Duffin, Gary Clay, Charlie Berrios.
Thrilling community additions: specialist Chinese Gongs, child executioners, customized horror-movie special effects, offstage student brass and wind groups, non-ecumenical choral participation, community-sourced costuming of excellence, casting against gender assumptions, quick-witted English titling.
Tickets at $20, $50 premium, $15 student & senior discount, call Academy of Music or Brattleboro Music Center for group discounts
Pong-a-Thon returns Oct. 12 - raising money to help refugee resettlement in western MA
WHAT: Pong-A-Thon to support refugees in Northampton
WHEN: Friday, October 12, from 7am-6:30pm
WHERE: Zing! Table Tennis Center, 122 Pleasant Street, Easthampton
WHERE: Zing! Table Tennis Center, 122 Pleasant Street, Easthampton
Want to do something to help refugees living in Northampton? People who've escaped from the foulest regimes on earth with just the shirts on their backs?
Come to the Pong-A-Thon! On Friday, October 12, from 7am-6:30pm WHMP morning host Bob Flaherty is taking on all challengers for nearly 12 straight hours of ping pong at Zing! Table Tennis in Easthampton. All proceeds from the event support Catholic Charities' fund for Welcoming Refugees Resettlement Project in Northampton.
For $50 people can challenge Bob Flaherty. Locally notable challengers already include Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse, Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle and Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan. Plus nearly-elected legislators like Jo Comerford and Lindsay Sabadosa. There will be special challenge grants hours funded by Dean’s Beans, Sylvester's Restaurant, and Greenfield Savings Bank. To reserve a challenge time against Bob email him directly, bflaherty@whmp.com.
For $15 people can play with friends on one of Zing!’s state-of-the-art tables. They even have a table for people who use wheelchairs.
“When I think about young men like Guylain and Olivier Ngoy, who spent 14 years in a sweltering refugee camp in Burundi, I can't help feeling a jolt of pride -- that this is the America they will know” upon moving to Northampton, says Flaherty. “The America of Look Park and the Pedal People and the Young at Heart Chorus. And I know that THIS America is the one that'll show up on Oct. 12.”
The Pong-A-Thon takes place in Zing! Table Tennis Center, 122 Pleasant Street, Easthampton. All players are welcome to walk in, donate and play.
For more information visit www.whmp.com. Donate to support refugee resettlement in Northampton any time: https://diospringfield.weshareonline.org/ws/opportunities/WRRProject
Juanito Pascual Trio Brings Flamenco Music and Dance to 33 Hawley Street
WHAT: Juanito Pascual Trio Flamenco Music and Dance
WHEN: Sunday, November 11 at 4:00pm
WHERE: Flex Space at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA
Northampton, MA—The Center for the Arts welcomes the Juanito Pascual Trio for a debut appearance in the newly opened Flex space at 33 Hawley Street on Sunday, November 11 at 4 pm. This special performance features highly acclaimed flamenco dancer Neli Tirado. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 students $10 children under 12. They are available in advance at Brown Paper Tickets and at the door.
A versatile virtuoso guitarist/composer/improviser, Juanito Pascual has been called "one of the hottest flamenco guitarists in recent years" by National Public Radio, a major accolade that is just the jumping off point for the Minneapolis native's masterful musical style. His sound is an organic blend of traditional and contemporary flamenco with influences ranging from Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead to Miles Davis and J.S. Bach.
The Juanito Pascual Trio features two highly versatile and dynamic musicians, New York-based percussionist Guillermo Barrón and stunning bassist Brad Barrett. By combining their distinct musical backgrounds with a powerful personal chemistry, the Trio has created a fresh, exhilarating and constantly evolving sound, performing to enthralled audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad. The 2014 release “Juanito Pascual New Flamenco Trio” was included in NPR critic Milo Miles’ Best World Music Albums for that year.
Pascual's international touring schedule has brought him to venues that include the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, New York's Lincoln Center and Blue Note Jazz Club, and Madrid's renowned Casa Patas. He has performed with a lengthy 'who's who' of top flamenco artists including Jorge Pardo in addition to collaborations with a diverse range of musicians: Grammy-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw; bassist John Patitucci; pianist Danilo Perez; percussionist Jamey Haddad; virtuoso guitarist Grisha Goryachev.
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3629205
Details: www.nohoarts.org
The Oxbow Gallery: Two Artists in the Back Gallery
WHAT: The Oxbow Gallery: Two Artists in the Back Gallery
WHEN: October 4- October 28
Reception at Arts Night Out: Friday, October 12, 5-8pm
WHERE: Oxbow Gallery, 273 Pleasant Street, Northampton
WHEN: October 4- October 28
Reception at Arts Night Out: Friday, October 12, 5-8pm
WHERE: Oxbow Gallery, 273 Pleasant Street, Northampton
Side by Side: Collages and Drawings by Linda Batchelor
Chapters: Work by Catherine Swift
Gallery Hours: Thurs-Sun 12-5pm
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