Greenfield Community College
Life Long Learning and Personal Enrichment at GCC
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesGreenfield Community College offers micro-courses and workshops for purposes of personal enrichment and life-long learning. These learning opportunities are offered at very reasonable prices, and facilitated by members of the regional community. For more information, and to register visit https://www.gcc.mass.edu/community/workshops/ For questions email Judy Raper, Associate Dean for Community Engagement at raperj@gcc.mass.edu. We are always open to new ideas!
Tour The Goods
The Goods Pop-Up at 357 Main St 357 Main St, GreenfieldGet an in-person tour of The Goods (https://go.gcc.mass.edu/thegoods) and meet the local entrepreneurs and artists who run it! The Goods is a pop-up shop created in collaboration with the City of Greenfield that showcases crafts and products from Franklin County vendors—open weekends through the end of the December.
Halloween at LAVA: History of Halloween + The Excorcist
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin Lillian Ruiz—professor at GCC and enthusiast of Halloween and all things scary—and learn a bit about the history of Halloween. We’ll also screen an extended version of the ultimate scary movie The Exorcist along with a short documentary about the film and its cultural impact. Ruiz teaches classes in media and popular culture, Gothic literature, Shakespeare and women in literature, among others. Please note the movie is rated R and is intended for mature audiences only.
Preparing Children for an Uncertain Future
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesDoug Selwyn, editor of At the Center of All Possibilities: Transforming Education for Our Children’s Future, explores the question “What education do our children need to be best prepared for their unpredictable future?” Educating our young is one of the primary responsibilities of any society so that they are ready and able to meet the (by definition) unpredictable future they are growing into, ready to step up as the actors and decision-makers in their communities as the current elder generation ages out of those roles. As we look at public education across the nation it is clear that it is failing—by almost any measure—as we refuse to face and act on crisis after crisis, be it climate or pandemic, and exhibit a willingness to leave critical thinking at the door. This workshop begins with a summary of Selwyn’s research with educators and activists around the country regarding the question; how can we help our young people learn what they need to know and be able to do if they are to survive and thrive, as individuals, in communities, and on a healthy planet? Following presentation of the research, participants will together explore the central and strategize around local, state and…
Antigone
Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main St, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJean Anouilh’s Antigone is directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students and community members. Play runs two weeks at Hawks & Reed: November 11 & 12 at 7:30pm, November 13 at 2pm, and November 17-19 at 7:30pm. Reserve tickets at hawksandreed.com.
Antigone
Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main St, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJean Anouilh’s Antigone is directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students and community members. Play runs two weeks at Hawks & Reed: November 11 & 12 at 7:30pm, November 13 at 2pm, and November 17-19 at 7:30pm. Reserve tickets at hawksandreed.com.
Antigone
Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main St, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJean Anouilh’s Antigone is directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students and community members. Play runs two weeks at Hawks & Reed: November 11 & 12 at 7:30pm, November 13 at 2pm, and November 17-19 at 7:30pm. Reserve tickets at hawksandreed.com.
Antigone
Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main St, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJean Anouilh’s Antigone is directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students and community members. Play runs two weeks at Hawks & Reed: November 11 & 12 at 7:30pm, November 13 at 2pm, and November 17-19 at 7:30pm. Reserve tickets at hawksandreed.com.
Antigone
Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main St, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJean Anouilh’s Antigone is directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students and community members. Play runs two weeks at Hawks & Reed: November 11 & 12 at 7:30pm, November 13 at 2pm, and November 17-19 at 7:30pm. Reserve tickets at hawksandreed.com.
Antigone
Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main St, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJean Anouilh’s Antigone is directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students and community members. Play runs two weeks at Hawks & Reed: November 11 & 12 at 7:30pm, November 13 at 2pm, and November 17-19 at 7:30pm. Reserve tickets at hawksandreed.com.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesFor over a decade Greenfield Community College has been celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. As has been the tradition over the past several years, family oriented activities and food are available for young children and their caretakers. This year’s event features keynote speaker Kwamane Harris, author of Pushing the Generations: Finding Your Purpose Through the Next Generation, and performances exploring immigration, migration and homelessness from Gloria Matlock’s youth group Twice as Smart. RSVP online.
Dr. Barbara Krauthamer: Envisioning Emancipation
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesBarbara Krauthamer is Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is also professor of history. She is the author of multiple books, including Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation and Citizenship in the Native American South and Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, co-authored with Dr. Deborah Willis. This pathbreaking book traces the history of emancipation and freedom through a study of over 150 historic photographs and has received numerous accolades, most notably the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in non-fiction. In 2017, Barbara Krauthamer received the Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award from the Association of Black Women Historians in recognition of both her scholarship and her work to create opportunities for Black women in higher education.