Click here for more details. Click here for tickets. For the past few months, LAVA has hosted a theater incubation series, during which six local playwrights have workshopped and developed new plays. Now they’re ready for an audience! Join The LAVA Center and the playwrights (Christine Benvenuto, P. H. Crosby, Nina Gross, Jan Maher, Silvia Martinez-Howard, and John McDonnell Tierney) for a festival of staged readings in June. 'An Interview with Archie' by John McDonnell Tierney Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3, 7pm 'Time in Tatters' by Silvia Martinez-Howard 'Inheritance' by Nina Gross Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10, 7pm '750%' by Christine Benvenuto Melville’s 'Bartleby the Scrivener' adapted by P. H. Crosby Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, 7pm 'As We Were: Nine Days in October' by Jan Maher Friday and Saturday, June 23 and 24, 7pm All plays are also viewable online for two weeks. *** On the Boards is made possible by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the local cultural councils of Greenfield, Bernardston, Gill, Leyden, and Northfield.

The LAVA Center hosts a monthly series, Writers Read, on the second Wednesday every month. Coordinated by Lindy Whiton, the series brings in local writers and a couple of outside surprises. $5 suggested donation. Connolly Ryan is currently a professor of literature at University of Massachusetts. His poetry has been published in various journals including Bateau, Weber, Silkworm, The Contemporary West, Ditch, Umbrella, Harvard Review, Satire, Gravel, Scythe, Slope, Meat For Tea, Pannax Index and Old Crow. He is also a multiple Pushcart nominee. He lives in Florence, MA. Dinah Kudatsky is a western MA transplant from NYC. As a girl, she had rural dreams, being Dorothy of Oz. City life didn’t comply, so she lived inside books, imagined new worlds, and wrote. Her adventures: singing, astrology, psychotherapy, writing workshops, activism. She falls through the holes in her resumé. Richie Davis is a retired 40-plus-year veteran Greenfield Recorder reporter who will read from his forthcoming third collection of True Tales from Extraordinary Lives, capturing the essence of our incredible region. Richie has had a secondary career as a percussionist specializing in ethnic music, and he also enjoys choral singing.

Live music at LAVA! Our house band, led by local musician Steve Koziol, with special guests, plays every 3rd Thursday. This is a coffeehouse-style concert during our gallery/cafe hours, for you to drop in, hang out, draw, write, make art, make friends, and come and go as you please! Beetle 7 is an ambient space music experience with Leo Hwang (theremin, guitar), Steve Koziol (alto sax, Baglama saz), Joel Paxton (guitar), and Kevin Smith (tuba). $3-5 suggested donation

Click here for more details. Click here for tickets. For the past few months, LAVA has hosted a theater incubation series, during which six local playwrights have workshopped and developed new plays. Now they’re ready for an audience! Join The LAVA Center and the playwrights (Christine Benvenuto, P. H. Crosby, Nina Gross, Jan Maher, Silvia Martinez-Howard, and John McDonnell Tierney) for a festival of staged readings in June. 'An Interview with Archie' by John McDonnell Tierney Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3, 7pm 'Time in Tatters' by Silvia Martinez-Howard 'Inheritance' by Nina Gross Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10, 7pm '750%' by Christine Benvenuto Melville’s 'Bartleby the Scrivener' adapted by P. H. Crosby Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, 7pm 'As We Were: Nine Days in October' by Jan Maher Friday and Saturday, June 23 and 24, 7pm All plays are also viewable online for two weeks. *** On the Boards is made possible by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the local cultural councils of Greenfield, Bernardston, Gill, Leyden, and Northfield.

Click here for more details. Click here for tickets. For the past few months, LAVA has hosted a theater incubation series, during which six local playwrights have workshopped and developed new plays. Now they’re ready for an audience! Join The LAVA Center and the playwrights (Christine Benvenuto, P. H. Crosby, Nina Gross, Jan Maher, Silvia Martinez-Howard, and John McDonnell Tierney) for a festival of staged readings in June. 'An Interview with Archie' by John McDonnell Tierney Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3, 7pm 'Time in Tatters' by Silvia Martinez-Howard 'Inheritance' by Nina Gross Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10, 7pm '750%' by Christine Benvenuto Melville’s 'Bartleby the Scrivener' adapted by P. H. Crosby Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, 7pm 'As We Were: Nine Days in October' by Jan Maher Friday and Saturday, June 23 and 24, 7pm All plays are also viewable online for two weeks. *** On the Boards is made possible by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the local cultural councils of Greenfield, Bernardston, Gill, Leyden, and Northfield.

LAVA's Puppetry Percolator, on the 4th Thursday of each month, is an informal exploration of the worldwide art of puppetry. Drop in to examine puppetry's history and evolution as an art, play with different forms, and workshop simple puppets and performance. Appropriate for teens and adults. Let's have some fun! Facilitated by Jovonna Van Pelt, former director of Puppet Showplace Theatre. Donations welcome.

Click here for more details. Click here for tickets. For the past few months, LAVA has hosted a theater incubation series, during which six local playwrights have workshopped and developed new plays. Now they’re ready for an audience! Join The LAVA Center and the playwrights (Christine Benvenuto, P. H. Crosby, Nina Gross, Jan Maher, Silvia Martinez-Howard, and John McDonnell Tierney) for a festival of staged readings in June. 'An Interview with Archie' by John McDonnell Tierney Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3, 7pm 'Time in Tatters' by Silvia Martinez-Howard 'Inheritance' by Nina Gross Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10, 7pm '750%' by Christine Benvenuto Melville’s 'Bartleby the Scrivener' adapted by P. H. Crosby Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, 7pm 'As We Were: Nine Days in October' by Jan Maher Friday and Saturday, June 23 and 24, 7pm All plays are also viewable online for two weeks. *** On the Boards is made possible by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the local cultural councils of Greenfield, Bernardston, Gill, Leyden, and Northfield.

This 2-hour, hands-on workshop will give participants a solid musical and practical grounding for the penny whistle. Of ancient origins, the penny or tin whistle as we know it today was mass produced in England as far back as 1840, and was a cheap, easily obtained musical instrument popular not only in Ireland, England and Continental Europe, but in the early United States, where it remains today a viable and easily played folk instrument Dane Donato is a musician with years of experience on the penny whistle and other folk musical instruments. He has played the whistle since the 1980s. A trained oboist, he is an alumni of Berklee College of Music in Boston, and is currently penny whistler and instrumental accompanist for the Old Sturbridge Village Singers, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. This workshop is open to the public and is free of charge; donations will be accepted. Please register in advance by contacting Dane: danemitchell@comcast.net, 413-773-9032 (home), or 413-522-5969 (cell). It is NOT a requirement to have a whistle to take the workshop. If you want a whistle, Dane will bring a limited number of Irish-made, Walton brass whistles in the key of D, available first come, first serve, at…

Click here for more details. Click here for tickets. For the past few months, LAVA has hosted a theater incubation series, during which six local playwrights have workshopped and developed new plays. Now they’re ready for an audience! Join The LAVA Center and the playwrights (Christine Benvenuto, P. H. Crosby, Nina Gross, Jan Maher, Silvia Martinez-Howard, and John McDonnell Tierney) for a festival of staged readings in June. 'An Interview with Archie' by John McDonnell Tierney Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3, 7pm 'Time in Tatters' by Silvia Martinez-Howard 'Inheritance' by Nina Gross Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10, 7pm '750%' by Christine Benvenuto Melville’s 'Bartleby the Scrivener' adapted by P. H. Crosby Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, 7pm 'As We Were: Nine Days in October' by Jan Maher Friday and Saturday, June 23 and 24, 7pm All plays are also viewable online for two weeks. *** On the Boards is made possible by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the local cultural councils of Greenfield, Bernardston, Gill, Leyden, and Northfield.