Greenfield Community College
GCC Youth Fest!
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesGCC holds its first annual youth festival for pre-teens, teens and families. Fun activities for youth, free food, music, bounce house and resource fair connecting youth and families to opportunities and services at GCC and beyond. Please register in advance!
The Minutes
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesGCC’s Theater’s spring performance of The Minutes, a comedy by Tracy Letts about small town politics and real world power that exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely held American narratives. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students, faculty and staff and local community members. Recommended for mature audiences and children 10+ years with parental guidance. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 students/seniors at the door. Seating in our newly renovated Sloan Theater is limited—advance reservations strongly encouraged at https://www.gcc.mass.edu/theater
The Minutes
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesGCC’s Theater’s spring performance of The Minutes, a comedy by Tracy Letts about small town politics and real world power that exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely held American narratives. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students, faculty and staff and local community members. Recommended for mature audiences and children 10+ years with parental guidance. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 students/seniors at the door. Seating in our newly renovated Sloan Theater is limited—advance reservations strongly encouraged at https://www.gcc.mass.edu/theater
The Minutes
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesGCC’s Theater’s spring performance of The Minutes, a comedy by Tracy Letts about small town politics and real world power that exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely held American narratives. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast and crew of GCC students, faculty and staff and local community members. Recommended for mature audiences and children 10+ years with parental guidance. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 students/seniors at the door. Seating in our newly renovated Sloan Theater is limited—advance reservations strongly encouraged at https://www.gcc.mass.edu/theater
Poetry Reading: Martín Espada
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesPoet and National Book Award-winner Martín Espada joins the GCC community for an evening of poetry. Free and open to the public. “As a poet, essayist, translator, editor and attorney, Martín Espada has dedicated much of his career to the pursuit of social justice, including fighting for human rights and reclaiming the historical record. His critically acclaimed collections of poetry celebrate—and lament—the working class experience. Whether narrating the struggles of immigrants as they adjust to life in the United States, or chronicling the battles that Latin Americans have waged against their own repressive governments, Espada has given voice to otherness, powerlessness, and poverty into poetry that is at once moving and vivid. He is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and several books of essays, the translator of Puerto Rican poet Clemente Soto Vélez, and the editor of influential anthologies such as El Coro (1997) and Poetry Like Bread (1994).” Sponsored by the Friends of the Archibald Macleish Collection.
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.
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.
FREE Movie: It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesSponsored by Liberty Tax Service in Greenfield, kick off the season right with a FREE showing of the 1947 classic It Happened on Fifth Avenue starring Don DeFore (Ozzie & Harriet), Ann Harding (Holiday) and Charles Ruggles (Parent Trap). Every winter, Michael J. O'Connor (Ruggles), the second richest man in the world, vacates his 5th Avenue mansion for his winter home in warmer climes. Every winter, Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore), a homeless man, and his dog moves into vacated mansions. This particular winter, McKeever meets Jim Bullock (DeFore), an army veteran who has recently been evicted from his apartment and offers to share the mansion with him. It's not long before the mansion has a few more guests, including two of Jim's army buddies and their wives and children; runaway heiress Trudy Connor (Fale Storm); her mother and even Michael J. O'Connor, himself.
Un-Civil Liberties: The Undermining of American Jurisprudence
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesFormer GCC professor and local attorney Buz Eisenberg reviews the impact of recent Supreme Court rulings on American civil liberties. Over the course of his career, Buz has handled many complex civil and criminal cases, and since 2004 has represented eight men detained in Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. military. He has received numerous regional, state and national recognitions for his defense of human rights and civil liberties. Free and open to the public.
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!
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!