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Events
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Writers Read featuring Poet Seat Contest 2025 Youth Winners Rex Kim, Calliope Pietrewicz, and Rebecca Zhang
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesWriters 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 a discussion facilitated by Lindy Whiton. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write. (2/11) Poet Seat Contest 2025 Youth Winners: Rex Kim, Calliope Pietrewicz, Rebecca Zhang Rex Kim: “Hi, my name is Rex! I am a 17 year old senior from Four Rivers. I have been experimenting with poetry for a while, and I really enjoy writing.” Calliope Pietrewicz is a preteen poet and writer who focuses on feminism and political action in poems and in her mini novels she focuses on portraying both fantasy and mortality. She’s a student in Four Rivers, and lives in Ashfield Massachusetts. In addition to being a writer she enjoys dipping into fashion. Rebecca Zhang: “I am Rebecca Zhang, currently a 9th grade boarder at The Bement School. I reside in Shanghai. I write for my past self and past events as well as for under addressed issues that need a voice. My writing had been on pause for a…
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Drop in and Draw with Kemah Wilson
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesDrop in and Draw with Kemah Wilson returns in 2026! Cultivating Connections and Community through Creative Expression Join host Kemah Wilson in this relaxed and fun family friendly activity. There is no cost. Donations Welcome. Contact Kemah at noiles21@yahoo for further information.
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ASAP! A Weekly After School Art Program for Teens
Artspace Community Arts Center 15 Mill St, Greenfield, MA, United StatesASAP is an all-access art studio for teens 13-18yo. Teens can hang out & create in a safe, laid back, and welcoming space. Enjoy a mess-friendly art studio stocked with pro supplies, work on your own projects or our rotating weekly projects, & share a love for the weird & bizarre world of art! A new block of classes starts about every 4 weeks: Oct. 30th, Dec. 4th, Jan. 8th, Feb. 5th, March 12th, April 9th, May 14th, and June 11th. Learn more and register online at: https://www.artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/asap-teens This program is held at Artspace Community Arts Center, 15 Mill Street, Greenfield, MA. Doors are open 3:00-6:00pm each Thursday, come by after school. Financial aid is quick, easy, and always available on our website. Please email the teacher or our office if you have questions: Chloe Torri: [email protected] Artspace Office: [email protected]
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LAVA Film Night: Greening Greenfield film series: “Majority Rules”
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin LAVA for film screenings every 2nd Thursday! We’ll share films made by local filmmakers, films with a social or environmental focus brought to you by local organizations, films we just think you should see! There will be time after each screening for a talkback session. Greening Greenfield film series: “Majority Rules” What if changing the way we vote could change everything? With America’s democratic experiment mired in division and dysfunction, the state of Alaska voted to revolutionize their election system. The surprising results sparked new alliances, a growing call for election reform, and fierce pushback from political parties. Could changing how Americans vote also change politics for the better? Refreshments will be served. Discussion will follow. Admission is free. See greeninggreenfieldma.org for more information.
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Theatre of the Oppressed workshop
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesTheatre of the Oppressed, a workshop with Ash Goverman, every 2nd Friday 7-8:30 pm. Using Augusto Boal’s structures and games, explore how theatre can be “a rehearsal for the revolution.” The workshop is based in the work of Augusto Boal, who developed Theatre of the Oppressed in Brazil inspired by Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Boal describes theatre as “rehearsal for the revolution”. His method transforms the audience from passive spectators into “spect-actors,” empowered to explore solutions to oppressive personal, social, and political problems through theatre and improvisation. Participants will use Boal’s games as a tool for power analysis. The workshop will offer image theatre and forum theatre as methods for societal examination through our bodies, rather than cerebrally; in community, rather than in isolation. Theatre of the Oppressed is a connective tool for community engagement and for embodied anti-perfectionism. Boal’s methods guide us to explore, analyze, and ultimately transform our lived reality. Ash Goverman is a theatre director, teaching artist, and arts coordinator. She has studied Theatre of the Oppressed with Christina Marin. This event is free of cost. Donations are appreciated. Questions? Email [email protected].
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Stone Soup Community Meal
Stone Soup Cafe 399 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesOur Community Meal provides access through curbside and delivery service to delicious, nutritious, scratch-cooked, balanced meals every Saturday to all of our community members on a pay-what-you-can basis. Our menus cater to various dietary needs and cultural cuisines with vegetarian, vegan, or meat selections. Everything we make is GLUTEN-FREE! We offer a "prix fixe" menu that typically includes an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert. While guests can modify these based on dietary restrictions, there is only one option to choose from per course. Since COVID, Stone Soup Café has had to shift from a buffet-style lunch to a fixed, set menu for curbside pickup or delivery. The Café prides itself on providing a delicious, nutritious, edible, incredible, meal every Saturday – come rain, snow, or sunshine! Delivery We deliver meals to Greenfield - Bernardston - Gill - Deerfield - Shelburne Falls - Colrain - Turner's Falls - Montague - Whately - Sunderland - Northfield. To sign up for FREE DELIVERY please fill out this online form (bit.ly/stone-soup-delivery) or text/call (413) 422-0020 Deliveries occur on Saturdays between 1pm and 2:30pm. You must request delivery by Friday at 4pm.
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President’s Day Special: D.W. Griffith’s Abraham Lincoln
Greenfield Garden Cinema 361 Main St., Greenfield, MA, United StatesCelebrate President's Day with a movie about a President we all love Abraham Lincoln In a movie that bridge the silent film era into the talkie, see D.W. Griffith's film Abraham Lincon which was the first talking picture about the Civil War that Civil War veterans could watch. A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865. CAST: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman, Otto Hoffman DIRECTOR: D.W. Griffith RUN TIME: 96 min
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Drop in and Draw with Kemah Wilson
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesDrop in and Draw with Kemah Wilson returns in 2026! Cultivating Connections and Community through Creative Expression Join host Kemah Wilson in this relaxed and fun family friendly activity. There is no cost. Donations Welcome. Contact Kemah at noiles21@yahoo for further information.
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ASAP! A Weekly After School Art Program for Teens
Artspace Community Arts Center 15 Mill St, Greenfield, MA, United StatesASAP is an all-access art studio for teens 13-18yo. Teens can hang out & create in a safe, laid back, and welcoming space. Enjoy a mess-friendly art studio stocked with pro supplies, work on your own projects or our rotating weekly projects, & share a love for the weird & bizarre world of art! A new block of classes starts about every 4 weeks: Oct. 30th, Dec. 4th, Jan. 8th, Feb. 5th, March 12th, April 9th, May 14th, and June 11th. Learn more and register online at: https://www.artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/asap-teens This program is held at Artspace Community Arts Center, 15 Mill Street, Greenfield, MA. Doors are open 3:00-6:00pm each Thursday, come by after school. Financial aid is quick, easy, and always available on our website. Please email the teacher or our office if you have questions: Chloe Torri: [email protected] Artspace Office: [email protected]
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Open Stage @ LAVA
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesLike an open mic but MORE. Theater! Dance! Music! Literature! Spoken Word! Storytelling! Magic! Puppetry! Circus and Sideshow! Comedy! Improv! Any form of art or entertainment that can be staged, in any stage of development. Signup starts at 6:30, show starts at 7. 5 minute limit for each act. You can use our sound system if you’d like audio to backup your act- connect using Bluetooth, plugin using 1/8″ mic jack input, or bring adapter if needed.
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Theater of Ideas: Historical Society of Greenfield film screenings
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesEvery 3rd Friday, guest speakers present a topic for consideration and exploration. All subjects and approaches to conversation are invited, from traditional lectures, talks, slide shows to experiential learning involving the audience in active participation. February’s session will be Historical Society of Greenfield film screenings: “Greenfield’s Winter Carnival, 1923” and “Love’s Young Dream” with a talkback session to follow with HSG’s Chris Clawson and Carol Aleman. In March of 2024, local history fans and researchers Chris Clawson and Carol Aleman discovered a Pathé News newsreel from just over a hundred years ago. As Clawson recounts it, the forgotten reel from 1923, along with another from a year later, sat on a Historical Society of Greenfield shelf when they suddenly caught his attention. He and Aleman set about researching and restoring the films. “Greenfield’s Winter Carnival, 1923” is a 9-minute film documenting the first Winter Carnival. “Love’s Young Dream” is a one-act comedy-drama which was produced at the old Victoria (later Showplace) Theater on Chapman Street in June 1924, and features local Greenfield actors. Bridging the two films is a short documentary detailing the Historical Society’s discovery, what Chris Clawson and Carol Aleman learned about the films’ creation, and how they…
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Stone Soup Community Meal
Stone Soup Cafe 399 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesOur Community Meal provides access through curbside and delivery service to delicious, nutritious, scratch-cooked, balanced meals every Saturday to all of our community members on a pay-what-you-can basis. Our menus cater to various dietary needs and cultural cuisines with vegetarian, vegan, or meat selections. Everything we make is GLUTEN-FREE! We offer a "prix fixe" menu that typically includes an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert. While guests can modify these based on dietary restrictions, there is only one option to choose from per course. Since COVID, Stone Soup Café has had to shift from a buffet-style lunch to a fixed, set menu for curbside pickup or delivery. The Café prides itself on providing a delicious, nutritious, edible, incredible, meal every Saturday – come rain, snow, or sunshine! Delivery We deliver meals to Greenfield - Bernardston - Gill - Deerfield - Shelburne Falls - Colrain - Turner's Falls - Montague - Whately - Sunderland - Northfield. To sign up for FREE DELIVERY please fill out this online form (bit.ly/stone-soup-delivery) or text/call (413) 422-0020 Deliveries occur on Saturdays between 1pm and 2:30pm. You must request delivery by Friday at 4pm.
Free – $15