General House and Buildings- live music

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Live music at LAVA, every 3rd Thursday! 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! We open 2024’s house band offerings with General House and Buildings, guitar and effects by Steve Koziol. $2-5 suggested donation ($1 Card-to-Culture)

$1 – $5

A Saturday Dose of Fun (improv games for grownups with Henry Balzarini)

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Warning: This workshop may cause multiple moments of mirth, foster greater comfort in new situations, inspire creativity, lift your mood, release stress, make you more spontaneous, ease you into connecting enjoyably with other people and even make you laugh out loud. Using improv games, we will become a fast thinking, in the moment, loose goose brigade. You’ve been warned. Oh and it’s free! No improv experience necessary. Intended for adults. Limit of 15 please, so sign up now: email hbquit@hotmail.com. about your host: I’m Henry Balzarini and a native of Boston. In the 1980’s I lived in New York City where I studied acting and tapped into Big Apple essence. Then back to Boston, where I acted in various scripted roles and then found improv, and haven’t been the same since. I performed in improv groups and productions in Boston and Brattleboro, and taught teen groups in Keene, NH and most recently, Zoomed improv during the pandemic. Many of the surefire routes to joy, in my life, have been the times I’ve spent doing improv-based activities, whether it’s creating, playing, performing or just transforming a moment. To me it’s more a state of mind/being. When I watch the joy and…

Free

Writers Read featuring Richard Michelson, Cherryl Jensen, and Alice Barrett

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Writers 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 time for the audience to join with the writers for a talkback. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write. This series is facilitated by Lindy Whiton, a member of LAVA, and pulls from several different communities of writers throughout the local area. We are extremely lucky to draw from an abundance of talent. The year’s calendar does bring in a few outside writers who agreed to travel. Watch this event future readers. $5 suggested donation ($1 Card-to-Culture) Richard Michelson has received a National Jewish Book Award, and his work was chosen to represent the Commonwealth at the National Book Festival in DC. He served two terms as Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, where he hosts Northampton Poetry Radio and owns R. Michelson Galleries. Cherryl Jensen is a writer who grew up among the cornfields of Eastern Iowa, and has lived across the country from Washington on the West Coast to New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Northeastern…

$1 – $5

Beautiful Disasters: A Storytelling Open Mic

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Join us the first Thursday of every month to share true, personal stories! Trouble Mandeson and Nisse Greenberg host a storytelling open mic about finding the beauty in our disastrous lives. No story is too big or too small! Share stories! Tell stories! Show is pay what you want. The theme changes each month, so check out the LAVA center's eventpage to see the theme of the storytelling open mic this month: https://thelavacenter.org/events/

Free

Beautiful Disasters: Storytelling Open Mic + Potluck

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Beautiful Disasters is a storytelling open mic and potluck where Trouble Mandeson and Nisse Greenberg host a night of shared stories and shared food. Every 1st Thursday at The LAVA Center. Bring a dish and a personal story or just some listening ears and hungry mouths. This month we share stories of disasters of experimentation – stories where experiments went wrong, or maybe went right but with unforeseen consequences. Maybe you tried to make your own Frankenstein’s monster, or you tried a new recipe for your new in laws, or you built a treehouse despite never building anything before. Whatever your experiments have been, bring the stories of their successes and failures to The LAVA Center on March 7th. Food and doors at 6pm, stories start at 7pm. Pay what you want.

Pay what you want

Nese Uysal “My Inner Joy” exhibit reception

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Join Nese Uysal and The LAVA Center for a reception for Nese’s exhibit, “My Inner Joy”! Nese’s exhibit will be on display in March. Nese Uysal was born in Turkiye and now lives in Amherst, MA. She is an educator and works in an elementary school. She enjoys doing arts and crafts. When she creates arts and crafts, she uses different materials such as fabric, paper, small objects, and the like, embroidery is one of the main techniques she uses in her creations. For Nese, creating art with different materials and techniques is a great source of joy. She finds happiness, healing, and defining in the process.

Free

live music with EZZY P + HARDCAR / local short film STOVE BIRD screening

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Join The LAVA Center for an evening of local music and film! a screening of “Stove Bird,” a short film by Ryan Arnold live musical performances by: – Ezzy P– indie comedy hip hop – HardCar– punk rock from the heart

$2 – $10

Staff Picks Art Exhibit + Retrospective closing reception

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Join us for a closing reception of our Staff Picks Art Exhibit + Retrospective! We’ll be taking the show down early for maintenance, so that weekend is your last chance to see the exhibit. Click here for details on the exhibit: https://thelavacenter.org/exhibits/staff-picks-art-exhibit-retrospective/

Free

Beautiful Disasters: A Storytelling Open Mic

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Join us the first Thursday of every month to share true, personal stories! Trouble Mandeson and Nisse Greenberg host a storytelling open mic about finding the beauty in our disastrous lives. No story is too big or too small! Share stories! Tell stories! Show is pay what you want. The theme changes each month, so check out the LAVA center's eventpage to see the theme of the storytelling open mic this month: https://thelavacenter.org/events/

Free

Beautiful Disasters: A Storytelling Open Mic

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Join us the first Thursday of every month to share true, personal stories! Trouble Mandeson and Nisse Greenberg host a storytelling open mic about finding the beauty in our disastrous lives. No story is too big or too small! Share stories! Tell stories! Show is pay what you want. The theme changes each month, so check out the LAVA center's eventpage to see the theme of the storytelling open mic this month: https://thelavacenter.org/events/

Free

Beautiful Disasters: A Storytelling Open Mic

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Join us the first Thursday of every month to share true, personal stories! Trouble Mandeson and Nisse Greenberg host a storytelling open mic about finding the beauty in our disastrous lives. No story is too big or too small! Share stories! Tell stories! Show is pay what you want. The theme changes each month, so check out the LAVA center's eventpage to see the theme of the storytelling open mic this month: https://thelavacenter.org/events/

Free

Beautiful Disasters: A Storytelling Open Mic

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Join us the first Thursday of every month to share true, personal stories! Trouble Mandeson and Nisse Greenberg host a storytelling open mic about finding the beauty in our disastrous lives. No story is too big or too small! Share stories! Tell stories! Show is pay what you want. The theme changes each month, so check out the LAVA center's eventpage to see the theme of the storytelling open mic this month: https://thelavacenter.org/events/

Free