Community Calendar

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College proudly presents the 40-year career retrospective of Western Massachusetts artist Dara Herman Zierlein.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan, Herman Zierlein remembers walking through the Metropolitan Museum of Art after school, getting lost in the painting galleries and sculpture gardens, and daydreaming of being an artist.

A longtime resident of the Pioneer Valley, Herman Zierlein has created numerous political paintings, posters, sculptures, and illustrations since the late 80s. She has written books, been on panel discussions, presented lectures and has exhibited her artwork internationally. Her published illustrations can be found in The Rumpus, Demeter Press, and The Nation magazine, among many. Her first children's book, 'Don't Eat the Plastic,’ published with Olympia Publishers/BumbleBee, focuses on the consequences of plastic pollution on our environment.

The Carberry Gallery is open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11am-3pm; Wednesday 11am-6pm, and Saturday 11-2pm

Hilltown Land Trust is hosting a public forum on local land conservation from 6 to 8:30 pm at Stanton Hall in Huntington (26 Russell Street). This event is part of an effort by the land trust to ensure the needs and priorities of community members informs their conservation and land stewardship work in the 13 towns they serve: Ashfield, Chester, Chesterfield, Conway, Cummington, Goshen, Huntington, Middlefield, Plainfield, Westhampton, Williamsburg, Windsor, and Worthington. The program will include group discussions and a brief presentation from Hilltown Land Trust staff.

The forum is free and open to all. Light refreshments and childcare will be provided. Accessible parking is available behind the building. The building is accessed using a 35-foot ramp or a set of outdoor stairs. The building has single-gender bathrooms, with ADA-compliant wide stalls, accessible sinks, and low sink and hand soap dispensers. A PA system will be used for the presentation portion of the forum.

Pre-registration for the event is encouraged on the land trust’s website: www.hilltownlandtrust.org. The snow date is Tuesday, April 4, at the same time and location.

The Forest Park Civic Association (Springfield MA) wants to hear from Forest Park residents about what you like about your neighborhood and what you believe your neighborhood needs. Please join us to share your input as we plan for how to use the federal funds that the City of Springfield is making available to each of our neighborhood councils and civic associations. Participate online on Sunday, March 26, 4:00-5:30 pm or Tuesday, March 28, 6:30-8:00 pm, or in person at Forest Park Middle School on Tuesday, April 4, 6:30-8:00 pm or at Calvary's Love Church on Tuesday, April 18, 6:30-8:00 pm.

Carol Browner served as the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1993 to 2001. Her legacy includes some of the most powerful environmental regulations that protect the quality of our air, drinking water, and food. She will discuss why, decades later, these regulations are still crucial to our health and safety.
Ms. Browner will be interviewed by Vivian Garfein, former director of the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, Central District, now a resident of Northwest CT, and a member of the Salisbury Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission. Go to www.Salisburyforum.org after March 12 to register for this free Zoom event.

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College proudly presents the 40-year career retrospective of Western Massachusetts artist Dara Herman Zierlein.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan, Herman Zierlein remembers walking through the Metropolitan Museum of Art after school, getting lost in the painting galleries and sculpture gardens, and daydreaming of being an artist.

A longtime resident of the Pioneer Valley, Herman Zierlein has created numerous political paintings, posters, sculptures, and illustrations since the late 80s. She has written books, been on panel discussions, presented lectures and has exhibited her artwork internationally. Her published illustrations can be found in The Rumpus, Demeter Press, and The Nation magazine, among many. Her first children's book, 'Don't Eat the Plastic,’ published with Olympia Publishers/BumbleBee, focuses on the consequences of plastic pollution on our environment.

The Carberry Gallery is open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11am-3pm; Wednesday 11am-6pm, and Saturday 11-2pm

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College proudly presents the 40-year career retrospective of Western Massachusetts artist Dara Herman Zierlein.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan, Herman Zierlein remembers walking through the Metropolitan Museum of Art after school, getting lost in the painting galleries and sculpture gardens, and daydreaming of being an artist.

A longtime resident of the Pioneer Valley, Herman Zierlein has created numerous political paintings, posters, sculptures, and illustrations since the late 80s. She has written books, been on panel discussions, presented lectures and has exhibited her artwork internationally. Her published illustrations can be found in The Rumpus, Demeter Press, and The Nation magazine, among many. Her first children's book, 'Don't Eat the Plastic,’ published with Olympia Publishers/BumbleBee, focuses on the consequences of plastic pollution on our environment.

The Carberry Gallery is open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11am-3pm; Wednesday 11am-6pm, and Saturday 11-2pm

TapRoot Square Dance w/ the Mapletones and SargentSeedoo
Thursday, March 30, Doors: 6:30, Lesson: 7pm, Band: 7:30pm
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA 01257
$10 at the door (bring tips for band, caller, and organizers)
Refreshments available (pizza by the slice), wheelchair accessible.

Contact: taprootsessions@gmail.com, 413 429 1176

THE BAND
The Mapletones are an acoustic duo featuring Max Rainwater on fiddle and Nicole Ball on guitar. The band is based in Kingston, New York (but has a camper van and will travel!)

The Mapletones’ music brings dynamic harmony vocals, driving fiddling, and percussive Appalachian flatfoot dancing. The band is influenced by and performs everything from traditional old time music, Texas style ragtime, early blues and country, and folk songs you might recall from long ago.

THE CALLER
SargentSeedoo is a square dance caller & dance instructor from Kentucky, who currently resides in New York. He came into this work honestly & learned the craft from old-timers in Kentucky/West Virginia/North Carolina & young revivalists from all over the country. He may be naive, but he thinks social dancing will save the world.

He calls dances from the south and the appalachians. That is to say he calls southern sets — 4 couple squares, 2 couple scatter squares, country partner line dances, running sets, & big circle sets. As much as can possibly be done, the calls will be gender neutral.

You can reach out to SargentSeedoo on Instagram @sargentseedoo or by email at sargentseedoo@gmail.com
THANKS TO:
TapRoot concerts, workshops, and dances are sponsored by Big Elm Brewery and supported in part by grants from the Alford-Egremont, Great Barrington, Lee, Monterey, Mt. Washington, New Marlborough, Otis, and Sheffield Local Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College proudly presents the 40-year career retrospective of Western Massachusetts artist Dara Herman Zierlein.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan, Herman Zierlein remembers walking through the Metropolitan Museum of Art after school, getting lost in the painting galleries and sculpture gardens, and daydreaming of being an artist.

A longtime resident of the Pioneer Valley, Herman Zierlein has created numerous political paintings, posters, sculptures, and illustrations since the late 80s. She has written books, been on panel discussions, presented lectures and has exhibited her artwork internationally. Her published illustrations can be found in The Rumpus, Demeter Press, and The Nation magazine, among many. Her first children's book, 'Don't Eat the Plastic,’ published with Olympia Publishers/BumbleBee, focuses on the consequences of plastic pollution on our environment.

The Carberry Gallery is open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11am-3pm; Wednesday 11am-6pm, and Saturday 11-2pm

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College proudly presents the 40-year career retrospective of Western Massachusetts artist Dara Herman Zierlein.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan, Herman Zierlein remembers walking through the Metropolitan Museum of Art after school, getting lost in the painting galleries and sculpture gardens, and daydreaming of being an artist.

A longtime resident of the Pioneer Valley, Herman Zierlein has created numerous political paintings, posters, sculptures, and illustrations since the late 80s. She has written books, been on panel discussions, presented lectures and has exhibited her artwork internationally. Her published illustrations can be found in The Rumpus, Demeter Press, and The Nation magazine, among many. Her first children's book, 'Don't Eat the Plastic,’ published with Olympia Publishers/BumbleBee, focuses on the consequences of plastic pollution on our environment.

The Carberry Gallery is open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11am-3pm; Wednesday 11am-6pm, and Saturday 11-2pm

In-person reception at Carberry Gallery on the campus of STCC celebrating the 40-year career of Western MA political artist Dara Herman Zierlein.