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Nov. 20, 2024: Bread and Roses

Today is about copious amounts of art we can engage in.

We head to the Hilltowns to an art enclave that’s been teaching craft for 3 decades. We’re smack dab in the middle of Snow Farm’s Seconds Sale and to get a tour of their amazing grounds and anachronistically impeccable wares with Neal Bastek, Laura Stadtlander, and Keely Quirk.

In Easthampton, CitySpace’s Pay-It-Forward grant cohort closes with a rap and hip-hop lineup curated by Swazy, an up and coming producer, hip hop artist, and founding member of the collective Keep Us Alive. We talk to Swazy to learn more about The Maverick Sessions this Saturday and her journey to hip-hop. We also speak with CitySpace’s art programming and venue manager, Zoë Fieldman about plans for next year’s program.

Plus, Word Nerd Emily Brewster, senior editor at Merriam-Webster, is breaking open some bread with us, bread words that is, just as the March for the Food Bank rapidly approaches, reminding us to share with others.

Snow Farm's Second Sale
The Maverick Sessions with Swazy
Bread with the Word Nerd

Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.