Educators rising to remote learning challenges
In the meantime, local educators in the Pioneer Valley are interacting remotely with students on a daily basis and are concerned about issues such as equitable access to technology for students and how the pandemic will impact their schools in the future.
Staff Picks: Ray Mason and Ants on a Log
Shows in libraries!
Basemental: Ugly Realities of Sustaining Life in the Cul-de-Sac
Liebman takes art extremely seriously, with an eye for the unsavory facets of frontiers and empire, life and death, in a perpetual state of silent, digitized warfare — the type of stuff most people seldom think about or even acknowledge.
Eliminating the Plastic Straw: Woman gathers support for Northampton ban
“It’s hard to quantify the number of plastic straws thrown away every day,” said Shields, “but the estimates are somewhere between 500 million and a billion.”
Editorial: Performing at a 24-hour ‘413 Says #ClosetheCamps’ event
Putting your art where you’re mouth is.
Bizarro Briefs: Hair farms for the super rich
It’s all about stem cells and 3-D printing.
Stagestruck: Getting Sticky
In the final week of this year’s Ko Festival of Performance, Sabrina Hamilton is looking forward to this weekend’s performance by the Ugandan musician-humanitarian Samite (see below) while musing on the season-so-far. Attendance is high and season subscriptions are...
‘Resisting a Culture that Says I Don’t Belong’: Local joins group of large-bodied women to hike Kilimanjaro
A Franklin County native along with 19 other plus-size women known as the “Curvy Kili Crew” recently hiked one of the largest mountains in the world: Mount Kilimanjaro.
Monte Belmonte Wines: The Wines Traveling Musicians Want For Free
I wondered, what do the rock stars at the festival want to drink? I went to the source and asked Lynne Bertrand, artist relations for Signature Sounds and the Green River Festival.
Stagestruck: Ripped from the Headlines
Three plays now on area stages were inspired by real-life events: a superpower scrimmage, a mass shooting, and a nuclear disaster. These timely dramas humanize the headlines and highlight the power of theater to hold a mirror up to our best and worst natures.
Podcast: Easthampton artisan Michael Poole on gun violence and potholes
Poole has works on display at Mt Toms Ice Cream and will be featured at Art in the Orchard.
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Basemental: What happens ‘After the Gig’
This is the prompt being posed by a new collective that is organizing a festival next week by the name, well, After the Gig Fest.
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Stagestruck: Crossing the Color Line — Area theaters give (some) stage space to artists of color
Chris Rohmann’s last column tallied the representation of women performers, playwrights, and directors in the area’s professional theaters in 2016. He found some improvement in gender balance. Wish we could say the same for people of color.
