The Paradise Paradox
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, GreenfieldJoin us for a free screening of the The Paradise Paradox. Executive produced by Olympic ski racer Bode Miller and Emmy Award-winning impact sports filmmaker Brett Rapkin, the documentary explores the mental health crisis affecting America’s mountain towns and the innovative solutions being developed in response. By opening up the conversation, the stigmas can start to melt away and real progress can be made for the citizens of these towns and beyond. Free refreshments! Free and open to the public; RSVP requested.
Writers Read ft Adam Grabowski, Amy Laprade, and Carrie Nobel Kline
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, GreenfieldWriters Read is a monthly opportunity for an audience to come and listen to local writers in an intimate environment. Each second Wednesday of the month, three writers read from their work followed by time for the audience to join with the writers for a talkback. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write. This series is facilitated by Lindy Whiton, a member of LAVA, and pulls from several different communities of writers throughout the local area. We are extremely lucky to draw from an abundance of talent. The year’s calendar does bring in a few outside writers who agreed to travel. Watch this event for future readers. $5 suggested donation ($1 Card to Culture) Adam Grabowski’s poems have appeared in such journals as Ninth Letter, New Ohio Review, OVERSOUND, and elsewhere. He’s Associate Poet Editor for The Maine Review, as well as the host and creative director of The Word at Workshop13, a monthly reading series & open mic in Ware, Massachusetts. Amy Laprade is the author of three books: “So Nice To Finally Meet You,” “Behind The Magic 8 Ball,” and “Silence Is Premeditated: a Collection.” In 2020, her…