Community Calendar

Join us to learn all about orchids! We'll be covering types of orchids, their significance, common myths, and best care practices!

Ticketing options include:

Free - An informational session to expand your orchid knowledge.
Orchid Package - Informational session + new orchid. Plus optional repot for an orchid from home you think needs a little love.
Repot - Informational sessions plus repot for an orchid from home, limit 1. Decorative orchid pot sold separately.

Pottery Tour, Open Studios and Ceramics/Pottery sales at studios around the Hilltowns of Western Mass on Saturday and Sunday, July 25 & 26, 10 a.m. to 5 pm. For a list of open studios and tour routes, visit hilltown6.com

What becomes possible when we listen to the songs of our scars? Through original songs and stories,Wholly Unwinding creator Hailey McAvoy lets the scars of growing up with Cerebral Palsy sing, and takes us all with her on a journey of healing and acceptance. Inspired by artists that range from Joni Mitchell to the Jackson Five to Hildegard von Bingen to The Chicks, it’s a multi-genre work that defies categorization much like the healing process - part musical, part folk song concert, part night of spirituals and stories around the campfire that invites us all to come home to our bodies by singing the songs of our scars.

A landmark for Hogfish - it is our first main stage production that started as a regenerative arts seed project by a Hogfish artist-in-residence.

Galvanizing audiences nationally and internationally, UNRECONCILED is a solo tour de force of daring to stand up to an institution that wants nothing more than silence.
Thirteen-year-old Jay Sefton dreamed of being an actor and was cast as Jesus in a school play directed by the parish priest — later defrocked and named in a grand jury report for sexual abuse of minors.
Told with unflinching honesty and surprising humor, Sefton exposes the wider system that denies justice to survivors, taking audiences on a magic carpet ride through love and bewilderment in a whiskey-drenched, sports-crazed suburb of 1980s Philadelphia, where daily life is punctuated by church bells.
Hailed by critics and audiences, UNRECONCILED is the winner of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award for Best New Play and Best Solo Performance, and Sefton has received numerous honors, including the Sean P. McIlmail Hero Award from CHILD USA. Mass Live called UNRECONCILED’s debut “The play to gain Chester Theatre and Sefton well-deserved national attention, whether it goes to Broadway, other regional theaters or to film. It’s just that good.”
The show will be followed by a discussion on healing trauma through theatre with Bessel van der Kolk (bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score and foremost expert on trauma) and Licia Sky, (co-founder of the Trauma Research Foundation).
UNRECONCILED sparks powerful conversations among audiences, survivors, and advocates. In conjunction with the July 25 performance at the Academy of Music and post-show discussion with Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky, the Unreconciled Project will offer a creative writing workshop and peer support group for survivors and their loved ones on July 26.
A feature-length documentary film of the UNRECONCILED journey is in production. The July 25 event will be part of the documentary.

Discover the Pioneer Valley, one bookshop at a time! Visit 10+ bookstores to be entered into the Grand Prize drawing to win $800 in bookstore gift cards. Each additional bookstore you visit is another entry into the drawing! And the more bookstores you visit, the greater your chances of winning. More info: http://tinyurl.com/pvbc26

Urban Wildlife Rehabilitation invites you to celebrate our 25th anniversary with us. wildlife rehabilitators and animal control offices. Meet Live animals. Forest Park Zoo Wildlife on Wheels will have all our native wildlife. Family Jungle with rescued Exotics. Berkshire County Turtle Rescue with her ambassador animals. Childrens Lawn Games. Gift Bags. Give aways. Raffles. Refreshments. Saucy Mama food truck will be in attendance. Rain or Shine entire event is under cover. Ticketed Event.

Discover the Pioneer Valley, one bookshop at a time! Visit 10+ bookstores to be entered into the Grand Prize drawing to win $800 in bookstore gift cards. Each additional bookstore you visit is another entry into the drawing! And the more bookstores you visit, the greater your chances of winning. More info: http://tinyurl.com/pvbc26

The Northampton Scrabble Club prides itself on being a welcoming group where the priority is on FUN, not strict competition. Come in at any point in the evening and we'll get you in a game! Some players stay for one game, others for multiple games. We have a wide variety of skill levels represented, so come join the fun!

Monday Night Tango's 8 week Argentine tango series for absolute beginners runs Mondays, July 13 through August 31, at East Street Dance Center in Hadley.

Each night starts with a beginner class from 7 to 8 PM covering the walk, the embrace, musicality, floorcraft, and figures you'll actually use at a social dance.

Class is followed by a practica from 8 to 10 PM. That means guided practice and social dancing, where the night's material turns into real dancing.

No partner or experience needed. Coming solo is normal, and partners rotate.

East Street Dance Center, Studio 4
47 East St, Hadley, MA 01035

Look for the water tower, then the red door on the street side of the building. Plenty of parking in back.

Full series: $200
Drop in class and practica: $20 to $40 sliding scale, suggested $30
Practica only: $10 to $20

Details and signup:
https://abtango.com/beginnerseries

Questions:
andibriantango@gmail.com

Discover the Pioneer Valley, one bookshop at a time! Visit 10+ bookstores to be entered into the Grand Prize drawing to win $800 in bookstore gift cards. Each additional bookstore you visit is another entry into the drawing! And the more bookstores you visit, the greater your chances of winning. More info: http://tinyurl.com/pvbc26