Community Calendar

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!

On Wednesday November 5, Mass Center for the Book will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Massachusetts Book Awards with a public reading at the Northampton Center for the Arts. The evening will feature Mass Book Award–winning authors Christian G. Appy, George Howe Colt, Amy Dryansky, Uzma Aslam Khan, Jim Shepard, Karen Skolfield, and Heather Treseler, who will share both new and award-winning work across fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Broadside Bookshop will have books available for purchase, and a reception will follow.

From Valley Community Development

Join us for an interactive workshop where we will cover the basics of operations and financial management for artists. We’ll break down common financial terms, walk through a practical budgeting and planning template, and explore how to track expenses, and plan for profitability.

We’ll follow the journeys of two featured artists to show how these tools come to life.

What you'll leave with:

• A fill-in-the-blank financial template made for artists
• Tools to better manage your creative operations
• Real-world examples for both service and product-based businesses
• Space to ask questions and connect with fellow creatives

This session is ideal for artists at any stage looking to bring clarity and confidence to the business side of their practice.

The 4th Witch is a fantastic new tale, inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which a girl escapes war and seeks protection from three witches. They agree to take her on as an apprentice with only one condition: she must never use her powers for revenge. Consumed by grief and rage, the girl comes to realize that it was Macbeth who killed her parents. Now she must choose between reconciliation or vengeance.

Told through inventive practical effects executed in plain sight, the troupe brilliantly employs shadow puppetry, live music and actors in silhouette, to create an entire new world in The 4th Witch. Manual Cinema has built a devoted fanbase in Boston over the course of their thrilling past productions at ArtsEmerson including Ada/Ava and Frankenstein. Do not miss their triumphant return this fall!

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.

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.

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.

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!

How did artists help shape public opinion and forge a national identity during the American Revolution?

Join us for a compelling lecture by Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank, art historian and independent curator, as she explores the persuasive power of visual art during America's struggle for independence. Her presentation, Art, War and Identity, will include, along with other images:

* Paul Revere’s iconic print that helped justify rebellion

* Engravings that documented the devastation of smallpox

* Portraits by Ralph Earl and John Singleton Copley that captured the evolving American identity

* Paintings by John Vanderlyn that reveal both revolutionary ideals and racial prejudices

* John Trumbull’s scenes of honor on both sides of the conflict, promoting reconciliation

A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Frank holds a PhD in art history from Yale and has held prestigious curatorial roles at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Yale University Art Gallery, and New-York Historical Society. She is widely published and has organized exhibitions across the country.

Registration requested at rsvphistory@gmail.com but drop-ins also welcome.

Zoom info:

Meeting ID: 865 7191 9582 Passcode: History