Community Calendar

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.

Step back into the vibrant world of the 1920s and 1930s with Jazz Age Illustration, a major exhibition exploring the art of popular illustration during this transformative era. Featuring over 100 works by renowned artists such as Aaron Douglas, John Held Jr., and Frank E. Schoonover, the exhibition delves into the cultural impact of illustration during a time of dramatic social change.

Organized by the Delaware Art Museum, Jazz Age Illustration is the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942—a vibrant and transformative era of innovation, evolving styles, social change, and expanding popular media.

William Baczek Fine Arts is pleased to announce The Road Not Taken, a solo exhibition of new works by Japanese American painter Chie Yoshii, on view October 22 through November 22, 2025, at 36 Main St., Northampton, MA. The Road Not Taken presents Yoshii’s latest explorations in allegory, psychological portraiture, and the interplay of mythic symbolism and interior narrative.

Eight local wineries and vineyards have partnered up to showcase the incredible wine Western Massachusetts has to offer. Guests can start at any of the 8 locations:

- Agronomy Farm Vineyard
- Black Birch Vineyard
- Cameron’s Winery
- Glendale Ridge Vineyard
- Hardwick Winery
- Home Fruit Wine
- Mineral Hills Winery
- Wine Haus & Vineyard

Simply make a purchase to get your passport stamped and then check out the next location. The passport will be open from now until December 20th. A stamped passport gets you entered to win one of eight prizes, with a prize coming from each location ranging from wine to merch to tickets and more!

The Kendall Square Farmers Market – led by BioMed Realty and Mass Farmers Markets – returns to Canal District in Kendall Square this summer and fall to bring a rich array of locally grown foods and handcrafted goods to the Cambridge community including fresh produce flowers quality meats and seafood specialty foods and beverages honey and more.

The Farmers Market series is sponsored by BioMed Realty and is managed by Mass Farmers Markets a non-profit organization that has been working to enhance farmers markets and support locally grown food for over forty years. This year’s vendors include Spring Brook Farm Captain Marden's Seafoods Stillman Quality Meats Far From the Tree Cider Far Out Ice Cream and others.

The market accepts cash credit/debit cards WIC/Senior coupons EBT cards and offers a weekly $15 SNAP Match. SNAP users can earn additional benefits through the healthy incentives program (HIP) at the market. Stop by and support your local farmers!

WHEN: Every Thursday starting May 29 through November 20 2025 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

You're invited to join the Franklin County CDC at our 46th Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 13, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield. We will be looking forward to how the FCCDC can impact community economic development over the next 46 years, and celebrating Executive Director John Waite's 25 years at the FCCDC!

You'll hear from engaging and innovative partners and small business owners who work with the Franklin County CDC and who help power the local economy.

Join us and connect (or reconnect) with the Franklin County CDC community as you enjoy delicious food made by our clients.

RSVP and invite a friend!

https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/FranklinCountyCommunityDevelo/AnnualMeeting46th.html

We gather once more at Drawing Board Brewing (36 Main St, Florence, MA) for a Song Share Session—a space where nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters create, explore, and connect hosted by Jess Martin.

We begin at 7 PM with a community check-in, sharing our creative goals for the evening. Each participant will have 10 minutes to explore their work—whether that means playing a new song, refining lyrics, or seeking feedback. This is a space for generating and creating, nurturing and supporting—a moment to hold space for each other’s artistry and let our songs take flight.

Come as you are—whether to share, to listen, or to simply be in a room where music and community thrive. In a time when the world feels heavy, we carve out a space to lift each other up. Let’s sing in the spring together.

The Immigrant Writing Workshop: Translation is a two-session virtual workshop that will be held via Zoom on Thursdays, November 13 and December 4, 2025 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. This workshop is designed for emerging and established writers of all backgrounds who are immigrants or are focusing on translating immigration-related literary works. Registration is required and closes at noon on Wednesday, November 12. To learn more and register, please visit www.joneslibrary.org/translationworkshop

All workshop participants receive a free digital copy of a Restless Books title written by an immigrant writer. Exceptional pieces produced in the workshop are considered for publication by Restless Books. These workshops are for participants ages 17 and older.

Established in 2013, the nonprofit international publisher Restless Books, based in Amherst, MA, is devoted to publishing in English translation the best international literature for children and adults and to giving immigrant writers a voice.

For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413-259-3223.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Department of Theatre’s New Play Reading Series presents Messiness of Mysteries by Madison de Santos. Fall of her sophomore year, Sofia Alverez is tasked with navigating her identity, her friendships, and the pressure of writing for the school newspaper, all while something is amiss on campus. Messiness ensues as Sofia becomes determined to uncover the secrets hidden behind the gates of Harmonia College.

In Pegasus Gallery and The Niche:

November 14, 2025 – January 23, 2026
Opening Reception on Tuesday November 18, 4:30-6:30pm at Pegasus Gallery.

Chip Rutan photographs the lower Connecticut River Valley and shoreline. His images depict locations he has known since childhood, and captures the momentary and transient nature of place, memory, and of home.

Photographs in Rutan’s “Space and Time” series were initially created with a Polaroid film camera between 2022 and 2023. The resulting images were digitally scanned, edited, and reprinted, while retaining the distinctly imperfect visual qualities of the Polaroid media. His human subjects were photographed from afar, so their likeness is impossible to discern, yet each composition contains a nostalgic and psychologically charged atmosphere of familiarity. Subjects walk along the beach, lounge, swim, and in many works, they appear to blur into the haze of dominant horizon lines. Rutan describes his photographs best as “ephemeral and dreamlike… portal(s) to a simpler time and place.”

Rutan lives in Old Saybrook, and has exhibited his photographs regionally and nationally. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (at Hartford), and a BA in Mathematics from the University of New Haven.

Pegasus Gallery is located within the library on the first floor of Chapman Hall
Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. when classes are in session. Winter break hours are Mondays-Fridays 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

The Niche is in Founders Hall across from the Registrar’s Office
Hours: Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fridays 8 a.m.-4 p.m.