A Northampton Pride 2025 Party / Club Experience! Be transported to another world after Pride festivities: Full bar, 2 DJs, huge dance floor, chill lounge. Come show your colors May 3rd 8pm>1am. $10 pre-10pm / $15 after. 18+
SAVE-THE-DATE!
Linda Shear Singer Songwriter
Straw Dog Writers Guild invites you to this benefit concert by singer-songwriter Linda Shear at 4 pm on Saturday, May 31, 2025, at the Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley St.
Linda is a singer-songwriter and pianist, with music at the center of her heart and life. In the early 70s, she performed in Chicago at the first out-lesbian concert in the U.S. Linda toured with her band, Family of Woman, and played solo in bars, clubs, coffee houses, and festivals, including the main stage at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Linda’s songs come from deep in her heart, and she invites you into that heart when she performs in celebration of love, social justice, and the power of authenticity.
“They stay with you, these beautiful songs of Linda Shear; the tunes linger, and the lyrics take you places to remember and to emotions, you'll know. And her performances are so compelling. I have often said that if I played the piano, I would want to play it like Linda."
~Dan Crary, Bluegrass guitarist and 2022 awardee of the Lifetime Achievement award from the International Bluegrass Music Association
Watch a video of Linda's song: Morning Prayer
For more information and to buy your ticket (seating is limited): https://givebutter.com/lindashearSDWG
We hope to see you there!
Winner of eight Tony Awards in 2007, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening is a groundbreaking show by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater that explores the tumultuous journey from adolescence to adulthood. With what Entertainment Weekly called “the most gorgeous Broadway score this decade,” this electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality, and rock and roll is unforgettable.
Set in 19th-century Germany, Spring Awakening follows a group of teenagers discovering their inner and outer worlds amidst the strict confines of their repressive society. Their poignant and passionate stories unfold in a stunning mix of raw emotion, heartbreak, and hope that continues to resonate with audiences today.
Spring Awakening contains mentions of abortion, verbal and sexual abuse, adult language, as well as depictions of suicide, partial nudity, and sexual content. This production is not recommended for audience members under the age of 13.
For tickets ($29.49 General Admission), please visit https://www.ketg.org/spring-awakening.html
A one-act LGBTQ+ & woman-powered farce set in the 1950s brought to you by a teen-led theatre company!
This production is 100% teen, woman/non-binary, & queer-led!
Stars & Skulls Crafty Craft Fair is an annual alternative Craft Fair held in the Pioneer Valley since 2005. The return of the Valley's long-running craft fair for freaks & geeks! 30ish quirky crafters, artists & vendors on hand for all your holiday shopping needs. Conveniently located to downtown Northampton, plus free parking & admission!
Foes of a Minimum Wage Guard is the world's first solo play that brings attention to the issues of retail crime, shrink, and shoplifting. It explores the challenges faced by low-paid security guards and retail workers in managing theft and loss prevention. In this story of self-discovery, Steve Smelly, a complacent elderly retail guard, reluctantly accepts a new assignment as a loss prevention detective due to a department shortage. If he fails to curb shoplifting, he faces termination by the fearful district manager Mr. Coldstone. Steve stumbles upon a shocking discovery that could impact his employment. His difficult decision to handle this ultimate turn of events during a day of utter chaos will affect his relationship with coworkers and friends. The show is comedic and insightful, using humor to highlight the frustrations, absurdities, and ethical dilemmas surrounding the retail environment. Award winning filmmaker and actor Ken Harris performs 12 different characters in this story of retail chaos on a stage.
For tickets, please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foes-of-a-minimum-wage-guard-a-solo-play-tickets-1032571839167?aff=oddtdtcreator
Fair attendees will find a variety of books and ephemera ranging from rare travel books to literary first editions, paper Americana to historic account books & manuscripts, fine letter press printing and fine bindings, small press poetry books, mystery & science fiction, books on the counter culture & queer studies, signed books & first editions. Also featured will be handmade journals, handmade paper, fine bindings, artist books, limited edition wood engravings, and early printed books. A wide variety of collectible books, printed paper, and book arts, priced under $100, will be available for sale.
At this time, 36 rare booksellers, paper Americana specialists, and book artists, including hand bookbinders, papermakers, & fine letterpress printers from New England and the mid-Atlantic states will convene to exhibit, sell, and schmooze at the popular two-day fair. The 2024 Northampton Book Fair will draw buyers, collectors, librarians, ephemera specialists, booksellers, and tourists from throughout the region to browse and purchase from a diverse set of exhibitors.
The Northampton Book Fair is sponsored by the Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers and the Northampton Center for the Arts. Media sponsor is New England Public Media and the NEPM Book Club. Made possible, in part, with support from the International Online Booksellers Association. Produced and directed by Book Fair Promotion.
Get your tickets now!
Counting Down: A Song Cycle About Dementia & Life is a musical theater piece about a mother and daughter navigating the mom’s Dementia. It is a series of songs connected with dialogue. It is touching, funny and honest. This is the first public performance of the piece and will be a “staged reading” meaning that the actors will be using scripts during the show. One of the actors is from NY and two are local to Northampton.
For tickets ($10-$15), please go to https://www.ticketsource.us/jody-cutler
We heard you and are bringing Latin Fridays back! Our first monthly dance will be in the Flex space at 33 Hawley. You are going to love it!
Have dinner out in Northampton and then join us for “Memory Lane Dance!”
After three years of disruption (and creative adaptation), the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival is officially back in person in 2023! A world-class showcase of the best in foreign and independent cinema, PVJFF welcomes everyone to engage with Jewish culture and conversation. Please join us for our screening of the documentary feature Vishniac at the Northampton Center for the Arts.
Roman Vishniac is best known for photographing Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the 1930s. Few could have predicted that these photographs would provide the last visual records of an entire world. But while Vishniac owes his fame to this specific collection, his prodigious body of also includes considerable contributions in the field of microscopic photography. This exploration of Vishniac’s career and photographs brings to life the world in which he worked and details his dramatic life story and flamboyant personality. Introduction by Dr. Simon Sibelman, Professor Emeritus of Judiac, Holocaust, and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University, and former Executive Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum.
For the full film line-up, please visit PVJFF.org.
After three years of disruption (and creative adaptation), the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival is officially back in person in 2023! A world-class showcase of the best in foreign and independent cinema, PVJFF welcomes everyone to engage with Jewish culture and conversation. Please join us for our screening of the film March 1968 at the Northampton Center for the Arts.
Hania and Janek, a pair of rebellious college students blinded by love, find themselves swept up in the raging socio-political crisis of 1960s communist Poland. Although initially apathetic, the young couple find that the growing government censorship and antisemitic purges cannot be ignored. This handsomely crafted historical drama depicts the inexorable convergence of a whirlwind romance, a battle for national identity, and political awakening. Introduction by Justin Cammy, Professor of Jewish Studies and of World Literatures, Smith College.
For the full film line-up, please visit PVJFF.org.
This screening is co-sponsored by Lathrop Community Inc.
A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, Andrew Lippa's Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards in 2000. Based on Joseph Moncure March's evocative 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?
More Information at www.ketg.org
After a two year hiatus, Northampton Print & Book Fair is excited to announce that it is making its return to downtown Northampton this Fall! Come by from noon-5pm for a one-day celebration of contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples. The NPBF will feature work of artists, publishers, and collectives from across western Massachusetts and throughout New England, on display and for sale.
List of participating artists and exhibitors to come!
Established in 2015, the Northampton Print & Book Fair was created to promote contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. Artists, independent publishers, and art collectives are invited to display and sell their work—including artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, mini-comics, screenprints, risographs, letterpress prints, etchings, photographs, photobooks, digital prints, and more.
For more information, contact northamptonprintandbookfair@gmail.com.
Dancing is good for BODY and SOUL! If you are looking for a FUN way to listen to music, energize your body, and stimulate your brain then consider getting into Ballroom Dancing — come and join us at NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS!
On August 28, Sunday afternoon, we will be teaching SAMBA LINE DANCING... If any of you have done it before, you know it's a lot of fun. If it is your first time and you want to learn, please arrive at 3:15 so that we can practice before the Dance starts.
Other than that, everything is the same... Meaning lots of FUN and Socializing.
I as a mature person have been dancing the Ballroom since 1998 and love to bring you into our dance Community and understand the physical and positive emotional gain you will have. I am hoping some of you will become active and have FUN while you are dancing, with a lively mix of ballroom, swing, Latin, hustle, two step, and more!
Cover is $10 per person. We appreciate your loyalty and support!
The UMass Amherst Stroke Support Group is hosting and co-sponsoring, along with the Springfield College School of Health Sciences, a stroke and aphasia awareness event at NCFA on Wednesday, August 24th from 4:30-6pm. This event is scheduled to coincide with the near-completion of the Stroke Across America, a 3,000 mile ride to raise stroke/aphasia/TBI awareness. We’ll welcome the cyclists and provide light fare, entertainment, and opportunities for learning about stroke prevention and living with aphasia after stroke. This event is open to the public, but we’re asking folks to RSVP so we have a sense of how many attendees to expect. We hope to see you there!
Come celebrate the final days of spring at Trillyyon’s second annual art show! There will be many painters, illustrators, photographers, and all types of visual artists along with a DJ and live music. Food and drinks will be for sale, and there will be vendors of all kinds including clothing, jewelry, ceramics, and home goods.
Trillyyon is an emerging art brand that focuses on individuality as well as unification.
We are pleased to announce the 2021 Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair, our sixth edition, will be Friday, December 3rd from 5 – 8pm and Saturday, December 4th from 9am to 4pm at the Northampton Community Arts Trust at 33 Hawley Street in downtown Northampton.
For the second year, the Northampton Center for the Arts is the fair’s community sponsor. For more than 30 years, they’ve been producing community arts events in Northampton that have drawn large and diverse audiences. At 33 Hawley Street, the Center for the Arts hosts performances, workshops, family programs, and community events; offers dance, theater, writing, and visual arts classes; and provides rehearsal space for actors, dancers, and musicians. We look forward to working with the Center for the Arts to make this year’s Northampton Book and Book Arts Fair a success for all involved.
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920's draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee's bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin's natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally's boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish. Musical numbers include "Willkommen," "Cabaret," "Don't Tell Mama" and "Two Ladies."
Visit https://www.ketg.org for more information or to purchase tickets.
Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares presents Jason Robinson Harmonic Constituent, with Joshua White, Drew Gress, and Ches Smith. This event is a belated CD release concert for Jason Robinson’s 2020 recording, Harmonic Constituent, postponed because of the pandemic.
Adapted from Jason Robinson’s liner notes: “In April 2018 I spent a solitary week along the rugged coastline of Mendocino County in northern California. A self-designed artist retreat of sorts, my aim was simple: to compose an album’s worth of new material. This project assumed a focus specific to this stretch of the “north coast,” as some refer to it. Walking the rugged beaches and cliffs of that magnificent coastline, smelling the salty and kelp-imbued air, looking out at the magnificent, omnipresent Pacific, and turning around to see the tree-covered ridges of the Mendocino National Forest was not a new experience to me. I’ve been visiting that magical meeting place of sea and mountains since I was a young child.
Each piece on this album is inspired by a technical, and sometimes impressionistic, aspect of the oceanography, tidal dynamics, and geography specific to the coastline between Mendocino, CA and Westport, CA. “Harmonic constituent” is an oceanographic term that refers to the complex influences of the cyclical motion of the Earth, Sun, and Moon on tides at specific locations.”
For questions, contact glenn<at>jazzshares<dot>org.
Join us for the return of Bon Appetit Burlesque! Our annual GHOULESQUE show features body-positive neo-burlesque with performers from around New England bringing routines based on all things Halloween. Featuring: Chocolat Swirl, Jane Doe, Captain Elastico, Mistress Leona Star, Baroness Blitzen VonShtupp, Vivienne LaFlamme, Andi O'Rion, Bonanza Jellybean, Crayola Deville, Bettysioux Tailor, and hosted by Hors D'oeuvres. Grab tickets or join our waitlist for any sold-out show at houseofhors.com. Ages 18+.
