Now's The Time - Do It Now
NOW’s The Time - Do IT NOW
AN EVENING OF JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC and SPOKEN WORD
SAturday, july 29 aT 7PM
TICKETS: $15-$30 SLIDING SCALE
Join us for an evening featuring two unique performances, emceed by Tommy Twilite:
Now’s The Time Jazz Sextet
Bop and Swing Specialists, local jazz favorites. Special show with music masterpieces by Shorter, Mingus, Ellington, Morgan, and spoken word by Michael Favala Goldman. Plus: author signing for Michael’s new books of poems: What Minimal Joy and Someday All of This Will Be Yours.
Michael Favala Goldman - Clarinets and Poetry
Chris Koh - Drums
Jay Markham - Trumpet
Bill Winslow - Piano
John Power - Bass
James Steinberg - Alto Sax
Do It Now combines poetry, story-telling, political commentary and musical improvisation to share the vision and hope to rescue our planet.
Paul Richmond - Beat Poet Laureate
Tony Vacca - innovative American percussionist with Jazz and World Music
John Sheldon - “One of the great guitarists of our time” in his 50th year of writing songs, composing music and performing his unique style of electric and acoustic guitars.
Sunday Social Dance!
Ballroom/Latin Social Dance!
With Host Meli Morash and DJ Joni Fraser
Sunday, July 16 from 3 to 5:45 PM
Ballroom Rumba Instruction 3 to 3:30 PM, by Meli Morash
Cover: $12
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/Latin Dancing. Come and join us at CENTER FOR THE ARTS in NORTHAMPTON…
Keep on Dancing!
The Poetry Ritual 2023
The Poetry Ritual 2023
Thursday, July 13 at 6:30pm on Zoom
Free!
For the past five years, Michael Favala Goldman has been hosting the Poetry Critique Meet-up, sponsored by NCFA and Straw Dog Writers. On Thursday, July 13 at 6:30pm ET, join Michael and his band of poets for The Poetry Ritual, their annual group virtual reading, where fifteen writers will have five minutes each to entertain and touch you with their unique writing style. For the zoom link to this free event, email poetryritual2023@gmail.com.
Lee Zangari
Lee Zangari
Saturday, July 8 at 7:30 PM
For tickets, please go to: Lee Zangari
Queer folk singing songs for you directly from the mouth. Lee Zangari is a songwriter based in Eastern Massachusetts. Come for a night of guitar, banjo, dulcimer, singing, and shouting.
For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lee-zangari-and-justin-arena-at-the-northampton-center-for-the-arts-tickets-641469321007
CHORO NOHO 2023
Choro Noho 2023
New England’s Celebration of Brazilian Choro
Saturday, July 1 at 7:30 PM
Tickets are $30; please go to Choro NoHo 2023
If you are new to the Brazilian musical tradition of “choro,” you are in for a treat. The genre began to take shape in mid-19th century Rio de Janeiro, where the music of the Portuguese court met that of Afro-Brazilians. Here in the US, a similar process gave us first ragtime, then jazz, and just as these genres are seen as prototypically “North American,” so too is choro recognized as uniquely, exquisitely Brazilian. Every year, Choro Camp New England brings chorões (that is, people who play choro) to the campus of Smith College for a week of study and jamming with masters of the genre. This concert, “Choro Noho,” will feature those artists and serve as the grand finale of our week together.
For tickets ($30) please visit https://shop.chorocamp.com/products/tickets-for-choro-noho
The Bald Soprano
Off Book Antics presents
The Bald Soprano
An absurdist one-act comedy by Eugène Ionesco
Friday, June 30 at 7 PM
Sunday, July 2 at 2 PM
House opens a half-hour before showtime!!
Tickets: $15 at the door or online at The Bald Soprano or https://thebaldsoprano.rsvpify.com
Instagram @offbookantics
Support Off Book Antics, an entirely teen founded and led theatre ensemble in their debut show “The Bald Soprano”. Join them for this one-act comedic fiasco of tea and crumpets written by the absurdist theatre icon Eugène Ionesco.
Everything from the set, to the costumes, to the fundraising, was 100% put together by teenagers! Follow @offbookantics to stay updated with “The Bald Soprano” and more teen-driven projects.
Art Gallery Community Conversation
ART GALLERY Community COnversation
SATURDAY, June 24, 10:30am to 12:00PM
REFRESHMENTS AND Activities for kids PROVIDED!
FREE!
We are deep in the planning process for our new art gallery, which will open in January 2024, after the final construction phase of 33 Hawley is complete! We envision this gallery as an accessible and welcoming space partially programmed by a committee that includes community members. As we work towards this vision, we want to hear from you! What do you want to see in an art gallery? What’s missing from the gallery scene in our area? What do you love about specific galleries that you want to see included in our approach? Please join us on Saturday, June 24th from 10:30am to 12:00pm for a community conversation and share your thoughts! Refreshments and activities for kids provided!
Can’t make it or have more to say? Please fill out our survey HERE!
Questions? Email ncfa@nohoarts.org!
The View UpStairs
K AND E THEATER GROUP PRESENTS
THE VIEW UPSTAIRS
Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Friday, June 23, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 2:00 PM*
Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 2:00 PM
*Face coverings required at this performance. Otherwise, face coverings are recommended, but optional for all other performances.
For Tickets ($27 general Admission), please go to: The View UpStairs
When Wes, a young fashion designer from 2023, buys an abandoned building in the French Quarter of New Orleans, he finds himself transported to the UpStairs Lounge, a vibrant seventies gay bar. As this forgotten community comes to life, Wes embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-exploration that spans two generations of queer history. This smash Off- Broadway hit by Town Award-nominated Max Vernon features a gritty, glam rock score and a tight-knit ensemble of unforgettable characters. The View UpStairs asks what has been gained and lost in the fight for equality, and how the past can help guide all of us through an uncertain future.
For tickets, please go to: https://www.ketg.org/the-view-upstairs.html
MAX ROACH: THE DRUM ALSO WALTZES
Photo courtesy of The Film Collective
Northampton Jazz Festival presents:
MAX ROACH: THE DRUM ALSO WALTZES
Directed by Sam Pollard and Ben Shapiro
Thursday, June 15, 2023 from 7 to 9 PM
Tickets: $15 in advance on Eventbrite; $20 at the door
Wine & cheese reception before the film screening, starting at 6 PM
Q&A session after the film with Director Sam Pollard and NEPM’s Jazz a la Mode Host, Tom Reney
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes explores the life and music of the legendary drummer, composer, bandleader, and social activist through a remarkable series of creative peaks, struggles, and personal reinventions—from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights years, surveying the heady days of post-war modern jazz to hip hop and beyond.
Unusual Suspects: A Circus of Criminal Intent
SHOW Circus Studio presents:
Unusual Suspects: A Circus of Criminal Intent
Sunday, June 11 at 1 PM and 3 PM
Masks required
Tickets: $12/$10 in advance; $7/$5 in advance for ages 6-11
Please go to Unusual Suspects
Join us for a fun, family-friendly circus performance by the SHOW-Offs Youth Troupe! Devious villains, bumbling investigators, and innocent bystanders will entertain you with incredible skills on the ground and in the air. Being “bad” can be lots of fun when it’s at the circus!
Masks required for audience members and performers.
To purchase tickets in advance, please go to https://show-circus.ticketleap.com/unusual-suspects/
Exhibit Reception: Art with Heart
Exhibit Reception: Art with Heart
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Garden: A center for Grieving Children and Teens
Friday, June 9, 5:00-7:00pm
Free as part of Arts Night Out Northampton
Please join the Northampton Center for the Arts, A.P.E. Ltd., and Northampton Open Media at 33 Hawley for a reception with refreshments and live music for Art with Heart, an exhibit of artwork celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Garden: A Center for Grieving Teens and Families. Since 1998, The Garden has provided free bereavement support to hundreds of local children and families after the loss of a loved one. This exhibit, hosted by Northampton Open Media, features artwork created by participants in The Garden’s arts program this year. Children and families welcome!
Prescience: An Exhibition Showcase
Prescience: An Exhibition Showcase
Saturday, June 3, 2023 FROM 5:00-8:30PM
DONATION-BASED ADMISSION AT THE DOOR
Masks encouraged and appreciated
SUNDAY SOCIAL DANCE!
SUNDAY SOCIAL DANCE!
SUNDAY, JUNE 4 FROM 3 TO 5:45 PM
WITH HOST MELI MORASH AND DJ JONI FRASER
CHA CHA CHA INSTRUCTION 3 TO 3:30 WITH EMILY FOX
COVER: $12
Hello Everyone,
Hope all is well. As some of you know our June dance will take a place on JUNE 4th... Not quite a month, but that is the only opening the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley had, and we did not want to miss the Fun...Please let others know if they are not in my email!
Emily Fox who has a dance Studio in Florence will go over Cha Cha Cha moves. Hope to see you all then.
Have a great time, any question we are just an Email, Eext or Phone Call away.
Love to all.❤
KIDZ ROCK BAND ACADEMY CONCERT
Downtown Sounds Presents:
KIDZ ROCK BAND ACADEMY CONCERT
Featuring: Agents of Insanity
Sunday, May 28 at 4 PM — Doors open at 3:30 PM
FREE ADMISSION
The students of the Downtown Sounds Kidz Rock Band Academy have been hard at work learning a wide array of songs both old and new and are ready to rock the stage at 33 Hawley Street! Please join us for an afternoon of fun and see what the next generation of rockers have in store for us. Hang around until the end to enjoy pizza and beverages!
ADMISSION IS FREE!!!
Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra presents: Eight Hundred Years
Eight Hundred Years
Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra’s Spring Concert
Saturday, May 27 at 7:00 pm
Tickets $15-$30, Available here!
The Northampton Center for the Arts is thrilled to welcome the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra back to the Flex at 33 Hawley for their annual Spring Concert. This is a group like no other which combines the timbres and techniques of electric, acoustic, classical and bass guitars played by musicians hailing from an array of musical backgrounds. Each year Artistic Director Joseph Ricker curates and arranges a selection of music that is as unique as the ensemble itself.
This year the orchestra presents a program entitled "Eight Hundred Years." It begins with a 21st century update on music written for the Christmas Eve service in 1198 AD at the Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris and spans to music composed for the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra just a few years ago. Along the way the program also includes HVGO's own spin on two 18th century sonatas by Scarlatti and Albéniz, a piano work of the 19th Century Romantic composer Edvard Grieg, 20th Century modernist works by Igor Stravinsky and Aram Khatchaturian and avant-garde pop music by the Beatles and Stereolab.
Playing the Game - CANCELLED!
Playing the Game
Friday, May 26 from 7 to 8:30 PM - CANCELLED!
A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
Please visit: Playing the Game
In Playing the Game, Denise Casey explores the many games she’s played in order to belong — from taking cover in a monastery to skip out of rehab, to going halfway across the world to hear the Himalayas, or time traveling through a seventh grade science class. In this 60-minute, one-woman play, Denise follows the games she’s played through the seen and unseen world into a larger collective moment, the summer of 2020. Part memoir, part meditation, part make believe, Playing the Game is unshaking in its exploration of possibility and courage.
On Saturday, May 27, Denise Carey offers a Playing the Game Workshop (see Programs — Body and Mind page for more info).
Tickets are $15 in advance ($20 at the door) at https://sevendaystickets.com/events/northampton-playing-the-game-and-workshop-5-26-2023
SUNDAY SOCIAL DANCE!
Ballroom Sunday Afternoon Social Dance!
With Host Meli Morash and DJ Joni Fraser
Sunday, May 21 from 3 to 5:45 PM
Instructional Salsa Class 3 to 3:30 PM
Cover: $12
Our monthly Ballroom Sunday Afternoon Social is on MAY 21.
Come on down and have FUN.
I will teach Instructional Salsa Class. It will be FUN!
Please tell a friend and bring them with you.
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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 / Latin Dancing — come and join us at NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS!
The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights
The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights
a Production of WNED PBS and Florentine Films/Hott Productions, Inc.
A FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH THE FILMMAKERS AND FILM PARTICIPANTS AT BOTH SCREENINGS
TWO SCREENINGS: SATURDAY, MAY 20 AT 4:00PM AND 7:00PM
Free to attend; donations are welcome in support of the Northampton Center for the Arts
Reserve your seats here!*
Special thanks to producer/director Larry Hott for his ongoing support of the Center!
The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights is a one-hour documentary focusing on the formation and impact of the first civil rights movement of the twentieth century. The program traces the social and economic conditions of Black Americans at the turn of the century, examines the different strategies for racial advancement led by Black leaders of the time, explores the creation of the Niagara Movement, and places the legacy of the movement into a contemporary context.
Central to the story of the Niagara Movement are the roles played by three of the most dynamic Black leaders of the time – Booker T. Washington, Monroe Trotter and W.E.B Du Bois. Their lives intersected at a critical junction when leading Black activists debated how best to push to obtain civil rights. The principles that drove the creation of the Niagara Movement crystallized DuBois’ radical stance to take up the fight for equal rights and were largely seen as a direct affront to the philosophy espoused by Washington.
Lawrence R. Hott has been producing documentary films since 1978, when he left the practice of law to join Florentine Films. His awards include an Emmy, two Academy Award nominations, a George Foster Peabody Award, the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the Erik Barnouw Award, five American Film Festival Blue Ribbons, fourteen CINE Golden Eagles, screenings at Telluride, and first-place awards from the San Francisco, Chicago, National Educational, and New England Film Festivals. Hott was the Fulbright Fellow in Film and Television in the United Kingdom in 1994 and Fulbright Specialist in Vietnam in 2015. He received the Humanities Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities in 1995; a Massachusetts Cultural Council/Boston Film and Video Foundation Fellowship in 2001; and the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2001.
Rikk Desgres is a veteran editor, color grader and sound mixer. His credits include broadcast television, museum immersive theater, radio, and corporate video. Rikk has handled post-production duties for over 25 Florentine Films documentaries and productions including Ken Burns’ Emmy winning film, BASEBALL and the Academy Award nominated WILD BY LAW. Most recently, Rikk edited THE WARRIOR TRADITION, a one-hour film about Native Americans in the U.S. military, produced by WNET and Florentine Films/Hott Productions, which aired nationally on PBS. Rikk founded Pinehurst Pictures & Sound, a full-service post-production house, located in Northampton, Massachusetts.
*Advance reservations will be capped at 175, remaining seats will be available at the door. Please arrive 1/2 hour before the screening time if you haven’t made reservations in advance.
Latin Fridays
lATIN FRIDAYS: MEMORY LANE DANCE
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2023
FREE SALSA CLASS FROM 9:00-9:30 PM
DANCE FROM 9:30 PM-12:00AM
ADMISSION: $10
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!”