Exhibit: Holding Hands with Jupiter

Holding Hands with Jupiter

An exhibit by Lex Parent-Gonzalez

September 5-28, 2022

Opening reception: Friday, September 9, 5-8pm, as part of Arts Night Out Northampton

Live Music by Murry Eyeball

Sponsored in part by Downtown Sounds Workers Co-op and River Valley Co-op

The Northampton Center for the Arts is thrilled to host Holding Hands with Jupiter, an immersive, sensory, interactive, multimedia exhibit envisioned and crafted by Lex Parent-Gonzalez. Holding Hands with Jupiter engages with themes such as Dissociative Identity Disorder, self-discovery, rethinking trauma and the neurodivergent brain, healing, and community. The exhibit includes multimedia works, photography, videography, fine art with various mediums, music, dance, theatre and interactive theatre arts. Join us for an opening reception on Friday 9/9 from 5-8pm to experience this incredible exhibit, plus three live performances by Lex with various other artists, and an interactive theater experience with MURRY EYEBALL! The reception is free and open to the public, with refreshments and live music!

Lex Parent-Gonzalez is an artist and educator who resides in Holyoke, Massachusetts with their partner, father, four kids, and an emotional support dog named Lyric. They are the founder and collaborator of De La Luz Collective, a BIPOC arts collective in Holyoke, MA.

Lex Identifies as....

A System

Nonbinary

Black

Queer

Visual Artist

Dancer

Jewelry Artist

Activist

Anarchist

Mother

Find Lex on Instagram @lexparentartmerch

Music < five minutes old

Music < five minutes old

Sunday, September 25 at 11:30 AM

Free admission

The Scoreless Trio presents an adventurous hour of live music improvisation! Mary Ann Lanier (voice), Beverly Shin (violin), and Olen Hsu (cello, piano) collaborate to create freely inspired new music in this informal gathering where all are welcome to attend. Originally classically trained, the members of The Scoreless Trio jump into the musical unknown, joining together in a spirit of "there are no wrong notes". Sunday, September 25th at the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA. This performance runs from 11:30AM to 12:30PM; all are welcome to walk in anytime. Free admission.

SUNDAY SOCIAL DANCE!

SUNDAY SOCIAL DANCE!

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

LINE DANCING 3:15 TO 3:30 PM

DANCE 3:30 TO 5.45 PM

HOSTED BY MELI MORASH, WITH DJ JONI FRASER

COVER IS $10 PER PERSON

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 September 25 Sunday afternoon, we will be teaching HUSTLE LINE DANCING, by Mike & Linda. 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!

DoozyDo Parade

DoozyDo Parade

Saturday, September 17, 2022, at 11 AM, rain or shine!

The parade will begin outdoors at 33 Hawley Street and end at Pulaski Park for a brief post-parade gathering

There are parades…and then there’s Northampton Neighbors’ DoozyDo Parade. Inspired by Pasadena’s Doo-Dah Parade, a zany alternative to the traditional Rose Bowl Parade, this Fall’s DoozyDo Parade will put the fun in fundraiser with a joyful, inclusive, unconventional celebration in–and of–the City of Northampton. Like the Hot Chocolate Run and Monte’s March, the DoozyDo Parade is an opportunity to come together for a compelling cause. It will raise awareness and financial support for Northampton Neighbors, a volunteer-based organization providing free programs and services to help seniors live independent, engaged lives in their homes and communities.

For more information, please visit: https://doozydo.org

33 OUTSIDE

33 Outside

Free Community Dance Parties

Friday, July 1 - 7-9:30pm

Friday, JulY 22 - 7-9:30pm

Friday, August 12 - 7-9:30pm

Friday, September 2 - 7-9:30pm

The Northampton Center for the Arts is excited to announce the return of our 33 Outside summer dance parties!

33 Outside is the vision of our board member Carlos Rec McBride, a multimedia artist, educator, and DJ. He imagined an outdoor, family-friendly, community dance party at 33 Hawley, free and open to the public, where DJs from the Peace & Rhythm collective would spin, “head-nodding, feel-good, body-moving music.” These artists blend styles and genres and are responsive to the crowd, creating a joyful collaborative energy. 

This summer, we’re planning four events, all on Friday evenings: July 1, July 22, August 12, and September 2. Food, beer, and wine will be available for purchase from local vendors, including Brewja Brewing Co., Crooked Stick Pops, Caravan Kitchen and Holyoke Hummus.

See you there! We can’t wait to dance with you!

Sponsored by Florence Bank, Bueno Y Sano, Construct Associates, Maple and Main Realty and Woodstar Cafe.

Sunday Social Dance!

SUNDAY SOCIAL DANCE!

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28

LINE DANCING 3:15 TO 3:30 PM

DANCE 3:30 TO 6 PM

HOSTED BY MELI MORASH, WITH DJ JONI FRASER

COVER IS $10 PER PERSON

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!

Stroke Across America Northampton Community Event

Stroke Across America

Northampton Community Event

Wednesday, August 24th, 4:30-6PM

RSVP here

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!

Moving Through

Moving Through

A Community Dance Performance

Saturday, August 6 at 4:00pm

Tickets $10-$25 sliding scale

Advance Tickets available here!

On August 6th, join Lisa Leizman Dance Company and NCFA Adult Modern Dancers for a dance performance inside and outside of 33 Hawley. Moving Through will begin outdoors, then move into the Flex space, and is an offering of rest, resilience, and shared creativity.

The Lisa Leizman Dance Company:

Brittany Ankiewicz, Iris Berkman, Elisabeth DePergola, Chandra Hancock, Elizabeth Haymaker, Kirsten Kapteyn, Andrea Kwapien, Lisa Leizman, Alexis Major Jameson, Teri Malinofsky, Maggie Newey, Lauren Preston-Wells, Mary Seterdahl

NCFA Modern Dancers:

Alena Brocker, Alexis Major Jameson, Cara Takakjian, Ella Carlson, Gwen Martin, Jonathan DeVilbiss, Laila Copperansky, Michelle Marroquin, Natalie Graves, Sarah Fairbanks

Embodying the Home Song

Embodying the Home Song

Saturday, August 6, 10am-1pm

Cost: $50-$100 sliding scale

Join award-winning musician/teacher Jesse Olsen Bay for a deep dive into breath, body, sound, and song.

When we sing, our bodies are our instruments. Our breath and bones resonate with the expression of our inner worlds, connecting us to the rich stories embedded in song. In this workshop, you will deeply investigate these connections. Through improvisations, physical explorations, listening meditations, and songs, you’ll discover new forms of experience and expression. You will:

  • Find ease, freedom, and expression in your voice through awareness and somatic practices

  • Learn to listen and sing together in a group, blending voices in harmony and balance

  • Sing beautiful, simple songs from various traditions, as a vehicle for self-expression and deeper connection with community, history, and a sense of the sacred

  • Improvise with voices and bodies, journeying together through the ocean of sound

  • Express and transform your deepest emotions -- joy, longing, sadness, love, peace, anger -- in a safe and supportive environment

No experience necessary - singing is for everyone!

To register, please email programs@nohoarts.org with your name, address, and phone number! Walk-ins also welcome.

Facilitator Jesse Olsen Bay has been performing, composing, and teaching music for over 25 years. His interdisciplinary, genre-spanning work explores music’s potential to facilitate human connection across histories and cultures. Bay grew up in a singing family, steeped in folk traditions, before studying at Bennington College with legendary percussionist/healer Milford Graves. He now leads and performs with several groups in New England, and collaborates frequently with dancers and choreographers. In this workshop, he will draw specifically on his experience with traditional folk song from the United States, North Indian classical singing, Somatic forms, and his own family's musical culture, to create a unique and transformative environment for exploration and connection. More at www.jesseolsenbay.com.

The Poetry Ritual 2022

The Poetry Ritual

Thursday, July 28 at 6:00pm on Zoom

FREE, with an invitation to donate to the Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd Memorial Fund*

Poetry Critique Meet-up is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance. Moderated by translator and poet Michael Favala Goldman twice monthly, the meet-up has served hundreds of poets since its inception. Join Michael and other local poets on Thursday, July 28th for the third annual celebratory reading of poems workshopped in the meet-ups! RSVP for the Zoom link to poetryritual2022@gmail.com.

*The Poetry Critique Meet-ups are held in memory of Eli Daniel Nemetz Todd, and made possible by donations to NCFA in Eli’s honor. Eli’s fund supports numerous writing programs at NCFA . Tax-deductible donations in support of the fund may be made via Paypal here, via Venmo @Northampton-CenterForTheArts, or by check made out to NCFA and mailed to PO Box 366, Northampton, MA 01061. Please be sure to note that your payment is for Eli’s Fund!

SUNDAY SOCIAL DANCE!

Sunday Social Dance!

Sunday, July 24 from 3:30 to 6 PM

Hosted by Meli Morash, with DJ Joni Fraser

Cover is $10 per person

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 CENTER FOR THE ARTS in NORTHAMPTON!

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!

Maud Casey and Sean Norton read from "City of Incurable Women" and "A Slow Express to Istanbul"

Maud Casey and Sean Norton read from "City of Incurable Women" and "A Slow Express to Istanbul"

Saturday, July 23 at 7 PM

Free and open to the public

Maud Casey and Sean Norton will read from their work followed by a discussion about historical fiction. Casey's latest novel, “City of Incurable Women” (Bellevue Literary Press), explores the lives of 19th Century women institutionalized as heretics. Norton will read from a novel in progress, “A Slow Express to Istanbul,” about the life of the Austrian Jewish novelist and journalist, Joseph Roth. Casey's latest work will be available for purchase, courtesy of Amherst Books.

This event is free and open to the public.

NEPM Listening Tour

NEPM Listening Tour

Wednesday, July 20, 6–7:30 PM

Free and open to the public

RSVP: NEPM Listening Tour

NEPM wants to hear from you!

NEPM is holding a series of live events this summer to hear from local people about the issues that matter to them and how their local public media station can best serve our community. The first Listening Tour stop is in Northampton at the Northampton Center for the Arts!

NEPM is making stops in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, and in Hartford, Connecticut. They'll serve up food and drink, give away some great door prizes, and send everyone home with fun NEPM swag. Plus, you’ll be able to talk with NEPM reporters, hosts and many different members of the team!

You don’t need to be a regular watcher or listener of NEPM to attend – NEPM wants to hear from everyone, so bring your friends and neighbors too.

Check out where we’ll be, and be sure to RSVP: https://www.nepm.org/nepm-events/2022-07-12/the-nepm-listening-tour

Off the Porch: A Bluegrass Concert

Wylie Jessop Robbins Thorne-Thomsen

Off the Porch

Sunday, July 17 at 4:00pm

Tickets: $10-$25 sliding scale

Advance tickets available here!

Off the Porch is your chance to hear young bluegrass multi-instrumentalists Wylie Robbins Thorne-Thomsen, Micah John, and Quinn Eastburn, along with special guest Garrett Sawyer on bass. Organized as a farewell concert before beginning his college career, come help Wylie and his friends celebrate with an assortment of familiar favorites and exciting contemporary bluegrass tunes!

Masks are required for audience members.

Wylie Robbins Thorne-Thomsen began playing mandolin at age 9 and has been studying with Michael Nix for the past seven years. He also plays guitar and banjo, and attended Ossipee Valley Music Festival and String Camp for many years, where he met fellow young multi-instrumentalists Micah John and Quinn Eastburn. Wylie has performed with local favorites Carrie Ferguson and Tom Neilson, and can be heard on three of Tom’s recent albums. He has performed several times at Club Passim, with both Micah and Quinn, and the three have also played as a trio, most recently at the 2021 Northampton Artisan Fair. Wylie is left handed and listens to “way too much” Adam Steffey (if that’s even possible). After being homeschooled his whole life, Wylie will be attending St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD this fall, and is looking forward to exploring the DC bluegrass scene.

Inclusion Infusion

Phaze Presents: Inclusion Infusion — A Gathering of the Arts

Saturday, July 16 — 7 to 11 PM

Art for Sale + Stand Up Comedy + DJ + Live Music by SoulKeys

An 18+ Event — Tickets: $20 at Inclusion Infusion

Inclusion Infusion is an event promoting local arts and artists, both amateurs and more experienced, creating a fun night of art, music, and comedy rolled up into one event. We are striving for artists and audiences to have closer interactions in a more intimate setting. This will also be a great event to show diversity in art forms.

Spend a night of entertainment with local artists of all types in this intimate setting.

Music + Art + Comedy = Love

A night to showcase local artists of all types. Painters will have their art for display and for sale, while Comedians do short sets throughout the night, all while a DJ is spinning some tunes. And to top it off a live music performance by SoulKeys whose music is a blend of Hip-Hop, Reggae and Neo Soul. Artists include Lisa Betournay, Nayana LaFond, and others. Comedians Joey Buddha, CW Davis, Lila Sparks and others will be doing stand up, and hosting, and DJ Kause + Effekt will be tying it all in on the ones and twos.

Tickets ($20) may be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phaze-presents-inclusion-infusion-a-night-of-musicartcomedy-tickets-330255993567

Online sale ends 7/16 at 1pm. You can buy tickets at the door for $25. Cash Only.

We'd like to thanks our sponsors. Prodigy Minigolf & Gameroom https://www.prodigyminigolf.com/, Bishop's Lounge and Lucky's Tattoo and Piercing, https://luckystattoo.org/ for making this possible.

Invitation to the Dance

Invitation to the Dance by Nina Dabek

Play Reading and Community Dialogue

Friday, July 15, 7 to 9 PM

Tickets: Free — Please Go to Play Incubation Collective to Reserve

Join Play Incubation Collective for this premier reading of local playwright Nina Dabek's

Invitation to the Dance

Featuring

Marty Bongfeldt, Jane Barish, Judith Fine, Rachel F. Hirsch, and Sarah Marcus. Stage Directions read by Nikki Beck. Direction by Brianna Sloane.

About the Play ​

Place- Northampton. Time- 1980. Naomi's older sister is about to get married. Naomi and her partner will attend the wedding, but Naomi's mother, fearing her own mother's judgment, requests that Naomi not come out as a lesbian to her grandmother until after the wedding is over. Naomi resists. Meanwhile, her grandmother has her own plan for the wedding. With humor and tenderness, "Invitation to the Dance" explores family secrets and the possibility of change between three generations of women as each struggles to be true to herself.

To reserve your free ticket[s], please go to https://www.playincubation.org/invitation

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Innovative, heartbreaking, and savagely funny, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the landmark rock’n’roll musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask that broke the mold and captured Broadway. This genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing musical sensation, with a pulsing score and electrifying performances, tells the story of Hedwig Schmidt, an East German punk rock goddess whose botched sex change operation left her with just “an angry inch.” Now, she and her band are out to right many wrongs. This landmark 1998 musical won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 2016.

For tickets, please go to https://www.ketg.org/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch.html

MUSIC INN — A Documentary Feature produced by George Schuller

MUSIC INN

Film Screening and Discussion with Producer

Thursday, June 16, 2022

6 PM Wine and Cheese Reception
6:45 PM Remarks by Producer George Schuller, followed by the Film Screening

The film screening is FREE with a suggested donation of $10 at the door.

There was a time in the 1950s when musical giants strutted the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts. Be-boppers, folk singers, African drummers, blues singers, jazz legends, poets, and musicologists gathered at a place called Music Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts – just a stone's throw away from classical music's most famous summer festival at Tanglewood – to share their converging traditions and go looking for roots most people didn't think even existed. In their search, they created not only the first summer-long Jazz Festival, and the First School of Jazz, but a new movement in American music. It was that kind of unique, magical configuration of people and ideas that rarely occurs in the arts, but permanently alters the cultural landscape. In this case, it changed the world of American music, how we understand the meaning of America, and how the world came to appreciate the art of jazz.

​This elegiac documentary charts the legacy of the Music Inn, a 1950s haven for jazz and folk artists who gathered each summer to hone their skills and explore their musical roots via jam sessions and discussions. Through interviews and archival footage, Music Inn traces the inn's founders and tracks the enduring influence of the famed Berkshire Mountains site that eventually became America's first concentrated jazz school.

The film is made possible by a generous donation by Whalen Insurance

For more information, please go to https://www.northamptonjazzfest.org/music-inn-film.html

Trillyyon presents: Before Spring is Over...

Trillyyon presents: Before Spring is Over…

Friday, June 17, 2022 5:30-9:30PM

Tickets: $15

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.

CO-ACT PRESENTS: WHAT IF IT'S A MUSICAL?

"What If It's A Musical?": An original musical play by co-ACT, Trans Youth Community Theatre Collective

Wednesday, June 15th, at 7 PM

TICKETS: PLEASE VISIT CO-ACT

An Original Musical Play by co-ACT, the first community theatre collective for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive youth in Western Massachusetts, based on their personal and collective experiences. The play features their journey as a small trans youth theatre group in a world that wishes they wouldn’t exist. The play follows the group’s journey in creating a musical play as they imagine a brave space where they can be their authentic selves and tell their stories. In this original musical play, they don’t just exist, but dream! The youth challenge normative knowledge and identities, process collective trauma, and explore new ways of relating to the world and to themselves.

Written & Featured By: The youth members and co-facilitators themselves

Music: Red Jasper & youth members

For any questions, interviews, and further inquiries – please reach out to Shai Kuper (they/he) at Shai@translategender.org or to James Shultis (he/they) at info@translategender.org.

Translate Gender Social Media – Instagram and Facebook

For Tickets, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/coactplay2022

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