Downtown
Events for August 14, 2025
Pioneer Valley Picture Show Scavenger Hunt
Memorial Hall Museum is opening a new temporary exhibit showcasing the rich cinematic history of the Pioneer Valley. The exhibit spotlights over a century of movies filmed on location in our region and highlights the cast and crew members that have called the Pioneer Valley home. The exhibit will feature images and artifacts from over 100 years of local movie making and movie makers. These will include: Costumes designed by Ruth E. Carter, Academy Award winner for both Black Panther movies; Filming equipment from the early career of Ken Burns; Original costumes from The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot used by Sam Elliott while filming on location in Western Mass; Highlight reel of Pioneer Valley movie history. Leading up to the exhibit opening, Memorial Hall Museum will be hosting the Pioneer Valley Picture Show Scavenger Hunt from August 9th-Sept 1st This mobile scavenger hunt will bring players to movie-making sites throughout Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin Counties and ask them to solve challenges about movie stars from our region. Winners will receive free prizes. The exhibit and the scavenger hunt are both FREE. The exhibit and the scavenger hunt are funding in part by Partridge-Zschau Insurance, BankESB, Three…
Local Film Night: Abhi Indrekar + TBA
Join LAVA for film screenings every 2nd Thursday! This summer’s focus is on local filmmakers. Abhi Indrekar* is an award winning independent documentary filmmaker and editor raised in the traditions of street theatre activism and community-based art in India. He is a recipient of the prestigious Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship 2024-2025. Abhi has over a decade’s experience in documentary editing with some of India’s most respected and daring socio-political filmmakers, including Anand Patwardhan, Dakxin Chhara and Nakul Singh Sawhney. He has worked on documentary and fiction films. Since coming to the US, Abhi’s credits have included Trevor Noah’s Turning Point series for MSNBC and TIME Studios, the World Channel at GBH Boston and PBS, Untold: Netflix, Black Voters Matter documentary among other independent documentary projects. *(pronunciation: uh-bee)|(pronouns: he/him) Abhi will screen his new experimental documentary film, “I am grass.” A meditation on migration, “I am grass” links street theatre to street protest, witnesses police violence against one people duplicating itself across cultures and geography. It sees resistance persisting in traditional artistic livelihoods at the same time that adaptations of traditions create something new. View the “I am grass” trailer: https://vimeo.com/1042559729 $1–5 suggested donation