Community Calendar

Come and enjoy this exhibit of the uplifting art of Maria Termini which includes serigraphs, collages and acrylics. Her new work includes creation art inspired by ancient rock art and also painted music inspired by her experience of diverse musical forms. Maria Termini is an artist, musician, and author. Adventure, beauty, rich images, music, and a search for justice are the threads woven into the rich tapestry that is her life. Visit www.mariatermini.com to learn more.

SCMA presents the exhibition Younes Rahmoun: Here, Now through July 13, 2025. Join us into the rich and varied world of Younes Rahmoun as it takes root across four locations in western Massachusetts.

Consistently rated the best local scavenger hunt since 2016!

Puzzling Adventures are a cross between a scavenger hunt, an adventure race, and an informative self-guided walking tour. Each adventure consists of a series of locations that you are guided to where you are required to answer a question or solve a puzzle to receive your next instruction. Compete as a group, individually or create multiple teams and race each other. Almost all of our adventures are designed to be wheelchair and stroller friendly and all are carefully crafted to be entertaining and informative with something to appeal to all ages. Complete the adventure as quickly as possible to win first place or take your time and enjoy the journey. Price is per team, not per person. Groups can be any size, but small groups are recommended for the best experience.

Enter the code EVENTPASS on the payment page for a $10 discount!

Most locations are available daylight hours every day.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.

Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor highlights selections from Rockwell’s most amusing artworks drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection.

Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor runs concurrently with What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine, this summer’s landmark exhibition of original art from one of America’s oldest humor publications. These thematically linked exhibitions juxtapose and illuminate two strikingly different veins of American humor, from the gently comical to the outrageously satirical. The underlying unity, however, is apparent in the brilliance of the illustrations and the successful intent to prompt viewers’ laughter and, perhaps, invite rueful self-recognition.

https://www.nrm.org/2023/11/norman-rockwell-illustrating-humor/

Kaleidoscope Pottery will be holding a Spring Open Studios sale on May 3 and 4th from 10-5 each day at 1 Cottage Street, studio 404 on the fourth floor. The studio runs an online sale and Open Studio every year in the spring and this year, Open Studio is a chance for local shoppers to come pick up online purchases, and browse everything available in person. Kaleidoscope Pottery is inviting neighbors in the historic building to open their doors to the public in a rare opportunity to visit the artists who populate the building’s upper floors. Sculptor Kelly E. Potter and painters Kate Childs, Laura Radwell, and Lynne Adams are among other artists who will be opening their doors.

Celebrate Mayfair from 10 AM to 2 PM Saturday, May 3, on the UUSE grounds, 153 Vernon St. West, Manchester CT. There'll be a Beltane ritual, plus fun, food, community and many other activities!

•• Bottle and Can Drive, 9 AM to 1 PM, organized by the UUSE youth group. Bring your returnable bottles and cans. Proceeds will be split between the youth group and the congregation.
•• Summer tag sale. Donate your good-condition used games, gardening tools, patio furniture, and more, and check out what's available.
•• Committee Activities
•• Musical performances
•• Soulfully Vegan food truck
•• Meet an alpaca
•• Bike rodeo
•• Bake sale
•• Hang out with old friends, and make some new friends!

Schedule of Events so far….
11:00 Beltane Ritual (Memorial Garden)
12:30 Musical performances begin

For the Beltane Ritual Please Bring:

Two “clooties” (prayer ribbons) to tie on the May Trees in the Memorial Garden. What are clooties? Cut two strips of cloth from a piece of old, beloved clothing (which carries your energy in it). One clootie will be used for a personal intention, the other as a prayer for peace and justice in the world.

Join us for a full day of all things brass!

The Brass in Bloom Festival kicks off at 10am with a keynote presentation by acclaimed trumpet player and composer, Phil Snedecor from the Hartt School of Music, and continues with presentations by the UMass Graduate Brass Quintet, Bombyx Brass Collective featuring Eric Berlin, Hartt Trumpet Ensemble, Amherst College french horn instructor Jean Jeffries, Jeff Connor of the Boston Brass Quintet, trombonist Dr. Taylor Hughey, UMass Faculty Trio featuring trombonist Greg Spirodopolous, and more. The day concludes with a headline performance from 4:30 - 6:00 PM by The Jazz Bones and Friends.

Featured sponsor, Gerry’s Music Shop, will host Brass-a-Palooza, their largest single-day sales event of the year, where brass musicians and students will have the opportunity to demo more than 100 brass instruments, from intermediate to professional grade.

Chef O’Brian Tomalin, formerly of Sierra Grille and Building 8 Brewing, will join the event, offering a grilled sandwich pop-up for Brass in Bloom attendees as well as the community at large. Join us for lunch or dinner. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free options will be available.

Sponsored By:

Downtown Sounds
Yamaha Musical Instruments
Buffet Crampon USA
Eastern States Exposition
Gerry's Music Shop
Mellowship
Amherst Cultural Council
Hadley Cultural Council
South Hadley Cultural Council
Whately Cultural Council

William Baczek Fine Arts in Northampton, Massachusetts is proud to announce a three-person exhibition of oil paintings by three masters of realist art. Julie Beck, Larry Preston, and Scott Prior all explore various subjects and themes in their oil paintings that are at once astonishing for their technical excellence, as well as their diverse methods for the examination of the physical world in paint. The exhibition will be on display from Wednesday, April 23 to Saturday, June 14, 2025. The public is invited to an opening reception on Saturday, April 26 from 4 – 6 p.m.

QUILT SHOW: The Hands Across the Valley Quilt Guild presents its biennial quilt show Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4 (10 am–4pm both days) at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. More than 200 quilts will be on display, from traditional to modern, realistic to abstract. Plus: raffles, vendors, mini-quilt sales, appraisals, and free quilting demonstrations. Admission: $10 adults, $5 students/active military (with ID), free for 12 and under. More info: handsacrossthevalley.org