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A world of dance: Teen dancers of Hatchery showcase their work, including with the Young@Heart Chorus
01-18-2024 11:11 AM

By STEVE PFARRER

This past November, members of Hatchery, the teen dance troupe that’s part of Northampton’s School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, joined the Young@Heart Chorus at the elderly singers’ concert as part of a new dynamic: dancing to a number of songs...


Arts Briefs: Forbes library staff exhibit their artwork, Heather Maloney performs three shows in Northampton, and more
01-18-2024 11:08 AM

Making Ground, Live!NORTHAMPTON — Late last winter, the Workroom Theater, the largest space in the city’s Community Arts Trust building (33 Hawley), was set to close down for months as new construction began to complete the 3,800-square-foot...


Northampton appoints a new poet laureate: Franny Choi is 10th person to hold title
01-16-2024 4:52 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — After a delay caused in part by the pandemic, the city has a new poet laureate.Franny Choi, who was nominated last year for a Massachusetts Book Award, has written for the New York Times and the Atlantic, and been interviewed on NPR, has...


Returning home: Pioneer Valley Performing Arts School hires former students to lead workshops
01-14-2024 5:00 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School scans old rosters for this year’s January’s Guest Artist Series, hiring seven alumni to bring their skills and knowledge of dance back home in a series of 11 workshop classes.Rather than...


A roller coaster of family history: Lisa Kron’s ‘2.5 Minute Ride’ comes to Academy of Music
01-11-2024 10:56 AM

By STEVE PFARRER

When Lisa Kron was growing up in southern Michigan, her family would make an annual trek to a noted amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio — Cedar Point — one of the oldest operating amusement parks in the country, known in particular for its 16 different...


Burning Man at crossroads: New crowd, changing vibe for iconic counterculture festival
01-05-2024 3:38 PM

By SCOTT SONNER

The blank canvas of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. It was goodbye to San Francisco’s Baker Beach, hello to the Nevada...


The Beat Goes On: A Jeff Buckley tribute show, a slate of New Year’s weekend concerts, and more 
12-28-2023 7:50 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

Like father, like son: Tim Buckley and his son, Jeff, both became musicians at a young age, and both died well before their time — Tim of a heroin overdose at age 28 in 1975, and Jeff from drowning at age 30 in 1997.Tim Buckley became a pretty...


STEAM program provides hands-on, creative learning at Easthampton’s Mountain View School 
12-26-2023 9:25 AM

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON – Inside one classroom at Mountain View School, students learn about adaptations by creating their own animal out of art supplies, understand bridges by building their own bridge, and discover angles by building their own catapults.That...


A real old-school First Night: Northampton New Year’s Eve festival returns with its old energy
12-21-2023 9:43 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

As Steve Sanderson sees it, First Night Northampton is getting its mojo back.The annual New Year’s Eve celebration got shot down two years in a row by COVID-19, first in December 2020 and then again in December 2021 when, just days before the event...


PVPA students lobbying for bill that would require at least one mental health expert per 250 pupils
12-19-2023 5:07 PM

By MADDIE FABIAN

SOUTH HADLEY — As youth across western Massachusetts struggle with increasing mental health issues, three teenagers at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School (PVPA) are working to increase the number of mental health personnel in...


Finding ‘unity through art’: Bombyx Center users deck hall with ribbons in wake of synagogue threat
12-12-2023 6:20 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

FLORENCE — Last month, the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity suddenly had to cancel a concert when Beit Ahavah, the Reform Jewish congregation that shares space in the building, received a bomb threat — one of a number of threats that were sent that day...


Music as a cultural bridge: Libertad! Artist-in-Residency features Argentinean musical duo
12-03-2023 12:00 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — For Argentinean Jews, the word “Libertad” isn’t just the Spanish word for freedom — it’s also the name of one of the streets within the old Jewish quarter in Buenos Aires, as well as the name of the largest synagogue in that city.It’s...


It’s almost showtime: 33 Hawley, Northampton’s community arts center, is putting on its finishing touches
11-18-2023 9:47 AM

By STEVE PFARRER

It’s been a long run — but the finish line is now in view.The Northampton Community Arts Trust building, largely or partly shuttered for most of this year, is poised to reopen, as work to make the final improvements in the 25,000-square-foot building...


Old playbill keys concert revival: Nov. 18 show at Bombyx Center reimagines an 1873 show once staged at church
11-16-2023 2:40 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

When staff at the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, in the midst of doing renovations in the basement, came across a tattered but still readable playbill from a concert apparently staged at the property in 1873 — then known simply as the Florence...


Smith College Museum of Art receives $280,000 award to increase access
11-15-2023 3:12 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — Fresh from having received gifts from two alumnae that have enabled the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) to drop its admission fees, the museum has won additional funding to expand its programming for visitors.The Art Bridges...


Giving new life to old windows: Easthampton restoration specialist’s most recent project involves venerable Manhattan church
11-15-2023 2:29 PM

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — A portion of New York City’s historic Riverside Church currently resides in Easthampton, where window panels fill crates and tables at Shalan Stained Glass as they undergo restoration.Over the past year, craftsman Glenn Shalan has been...


Rooms of their own: New exhibit at Springfield Museums celebrates 200-plus years of work by a broad range of women artists
11-06-2023 1:52 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

Paintings that date to the early 1800s. Native American crafts and textiles from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Depression-era photographs and ones taken just a few years ago. A quilt that offers interesting commentary on a pop culture topic...


Come on in: Artists in Easthampton and Florence will host open studio events in early November
10-27-2023 7:50 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

Fall brings lots of familiar sights and traditions to the Valley: football games, colorful foliage, crisp nights, pumpkin and squash harvests.There’s another tradition in early November: artists opening their studios to the public.On Nov. 4 and 5,...


It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood: Easthampton joins national movement with inaugural Porchfest throughout New City neighborhood, Sept. 30
09-22-2023 11:44 AM

By MADDIE FABIAN

As many Easthampton residents do, Marjory Zaik has deep ties to the historic New City Neighborhood. A 1930s family photograph pictures her aunts Stella and Helen laughing while cheerfully leaning against the rail of their Federal Street home porch in...


A sampling of pop surrealism: Two Northampton exhibits, including one by tattoo artists, offer a wide range of art
09-14-2023 12:31 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

Ever wonder what tattoo artists get up to when they’re at home?Well, a good number of them from this region are involved in different kinds of art — painting, drawing, photography, sculpture — that’s now on display at Northampton’s A.P.E. Gallery on...

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