Greenfield Community College
Book of Days
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC's spring theater performance of Book of Days by Lanford Wilson, directed by Tom Geha. Part comedy, drama and mystery! When murder roars through a small Missouri town in 1998, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery and proves that there are no small roles in life. "An intriguing, prismatic and thoroughly engrossing depiction of contemporary small-town life with a murder mystery at its core... a splendid evening of theater" — Variety "Fascinating… a densely populated, unpredictable little world intriguing characters who touch each other’s lives through an elaborate series of connections… Above all, there’s the language… You could go to the theater night after night and never hear language so supple." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. $15 general admission, $5 students/seniors. Buy tickets online or cash at the door.
Book of Days
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC's spring theater performance of Book of Days by Lanford Wilson, directed by Tom Geha. Part comedy, drama and mystery! When murder roars through a small Missouri town in 1998, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery and proves that there are no small roles in life. "An intriguing, prismatic and thoroughly engrossing depiction of contemporary small-town life with a murder mystery at its core... a splendid evening of theater" — Variety "Fascinating… a densely populated, unpredictable little world intriguing characters who touch each other’s lives through an elaborate series of connections… Above all, there’s the language… You could go to the theater night after night and never hear language so supple." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. $15 general admission, $5 students/seniors. Buy tickets online or cash at the door.
Book of Days
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC's spring theater performance of Book of Days by Lanford Wilson, directed by Tom Geha. Part comedy, drama and mystery! When murder roars through a small Missouri town in 1998, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery and proves that there are no small roles in life. "An intriguing, prismatic and thoroughly engrossing depiction of contemporary small-town life with a murder mystery at its core... a splendid evening of theater" — Variety "Fascinating… a densely populated, unpredictable little world intriguing characters who touch each other’s lives through an elaborate series of connections… Above all, there’s the language… You could go to the theater night after night and never hear language so supple." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. $15 general admission, $5 students/seniors. Buy tickets online or cash at the door.
Book of Days
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC's spring theater performance of Book of Days by Lanford Wilson, directed by Tom Geha. Part comedy, drama and mystery! When murder roars through a small Missouri town in 1998, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery and proves that there are no small roles in life. "An intriguing, prismatic and thoroughly engrossing depiction of contemporary small-town life with a murder mystery at its core... a splendid evening of theater" — Variety "Fascinating… a densely populated, unpredictable little world intriguing characters who touch each other’s lives through an elaborate series of connections… Above all, there’s the language… You could go to the theater night after night and never hear language so supple." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. $15 general admission, $5 students/seniors. Buy tickets online or cash at the door.
Book of Days
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC's spring theater performance of Book of Days by Lanford Wilson, directed by Tom Geha. Part comedy, drama and mystery! When murder roars through a small Missouri town in 1998, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery and proves that there are no small roles in life. "An intriguing, prismatic and thoroughly engrossing depiction of contemporary small-town life with a murder mystery at its core... a splendid evening of theater" — Variety "Fascinating… a densely populated, unpredictable little world intriguing characters who touch each other’s lives through an elaborate series of connections… Above all, there’s the language… You could go to the theater night after night and never hear language so supple." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. $15 general admission, $5 students/seniors. Buy tickets online or cash at the door.
Book of Days
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC's spring theater performance of Book of Days by Lanford Wilson, directed by Tom Geha. Part comedy, drama and mystery! When murder roars through a small Missouri town in 1998, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery and proves that there are no small roles in life. "An intriguing, prismatic and thoroughly engrossing depiction of contemporary small-town life with a murder mystery at its core... a splendid evening of theater" — Variety "Fascinating… a densely populated, unpredictable little world intriguing characters who touch each other’s lives through an elaborate series of connections… Above all, there’s the language… You could go to the theater night after night and never hear language so supple." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. $15 general admission, $5 students/seniors. Buy tickets online or cash at the door.
Playing with Stars While Swimming with Sharks: An Evening with Mike Haley
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin filmmaker—and local celebrity—Mike Haley as he discusses examples of the Murphy’s Law adage, “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong” as it applies to films he has helped make. With over 60 feature films and 18 television movies under his belt, Haley has extensive experience as an actor, assitant director and producer. He has worked with some of American’s greatest directors including Sidney Lumet, Sidney Pollock, Barry Levinson, Penny Marshall, Harold Ramis and Mike Nichols. His relationship with Nichols spans 30 years and 13 films including Biloxi Blues, Working Girl, Primary Colors, Angels in America and Charlie Wilson’s War. He’s also worked with actors and actresses including Katherine Hepburn, Harrison Ford, Meryl Streep, Madonna and Morris the Cat. He’s had a prolific career as an actor in roles opposite Sophia Loren, Christian Slater and John Travolta and played the umpire who throws Tom Hanks out of the game after the classic scene “There’s no crying in baseball!” in A League of Their Own. Mike has received two Humanitas Prizes, The Christopher Award, a Directors Guild of America citation and an Emmy. Locally, Mike is a member of Greenfield’s troupe Rosie Caine and her Wilde Irish Women and continues to…
Get Involved! Expo
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin our event which serves as a follow up to the film screening Join or Die, the story of America’s “civic unraveling” over the past 50 years as perceived by legendary social scientist Robert Putnam, who contends that joining a club, volunteering and participating in civic life has a powerful positive effect on individual personal wellbeing and on community health. Learn about different opportunities in Franklin County—and meet vendors and organizations that help us to… Get Outside! — Outdoor recreating, gardening, nature Help! — Charity, volunteering, mutual aid, service Make!— Building, crafting, journalism Play! — Sports, games Lead! — Local government, non-profit boards, foundations Learn! — Adult education, arts centers Hang Out! — Social clubs, Stone Soup café, RLCs Mentor! — Scouts, BBBS, 4H, etc. Perform! — Theater, singing Free food and activities for all participants! RSVP requested.
Climate Crisis Teach-In & Networking
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesHow will the climate crisis affect us in Franklin County? Is it already happening? What are our towns doing about it and what could we be doing as citizens? Local officials are already adapting infrastructure and procedures for predicted climate impacts. If you are new to the implications of climate change, come for a primer. If you know what’s up, connect with others who want to help educate each other about ways to prepare for what’s coming. After networking, presentations and an intergenerational panel, join topic-based circles to share what you know and wonder about—and inform our next teach-in for the fall. Childcare provided. Please RSVP at https://www.gcc.mass.edu/events/climate-crisis-teach-in/
College Behind Bars: Film & Discussion
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for a screening of Ken Burns’ College Behind Bars, a documentary that follows incarcerated students in the Bard Prison Initiative as they pursue rigorous college degrees while serving time. Through their personal journeys, the film highlights the transformative power of education, the challenges of prison life and the broader implications of criminal justice reform. Followed by a community panel discussion with refreshments. Free and open to the public! Co-sponsored by the Griswold Public Library, Greenfield Public Library, Belding Memorial Library, Returning Citizens Association and the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, with funding from the ALA Building Capacity Grant.
Resilient Greenfield Launch Party
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesDo you like to volunteer, or need volunteers for your group's service work? Are you an employer with an active or lapsed employee volunteer program? Come on over for food, music (open jam!) and presentations encouraging you to sign up with Resilient Greenfield on GivePulse, a mobile volunteer clearinghouse like a dating app where organizations post needs and citizens sign up to meet them. This is a great opportunity to build community connections and social resilience in Greenfield and surrounding towns! Childcare provided. Please RSVP: https://www.gcc.mass.edu/events/resilient-greenfield-launch-party/
Before Illegality: Queer Families & the Law in the United States, 1830–1918
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesLegal historian Brianne Felscher delivers the 2025 Dovi Afesi Lecture focusing on how queer individuals and families navigated legal institutions in the United States before World War I. Felscher's research challenges assumptions that queer families were inconceivable or illegal in the 19th and early 20th centuries and reveals the creative legal strategies queer people used to form, maintain and dissolve relationships. Drawing from extensive legal and archival research, Felscher reveals how queer families were often acknowledged by spouses, children, communities and even legal institutions—complicating dominant narratives of exclusion and erasure. Brianne Felscher is a Ph.D. candidate in jurisprudence and social policy at University of California–Berkeley and a recent graduate of Berkeley School of Law (J.D. 2023). They live outside of Indianapolis with their partner. This summer, Brianne will join the GCC to teach queer history. In collaboration with GCC adjunct instructor member Shay Olmstead, Felscher recently co-authored an article for the L.A. Times titled "To Protect Transgender Rights, We Must Look to the Past." The Dovi Afesi Lecture Series was created in memory of a beloved GCC history faculty member who passed away in 2016. Afesi was born in Ghana in western Africa and studied at Clark University and Michigan…