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By NAILA MOREIRA

Two new exhibitions inspired by the life and skeleton of the whale Staccato — a grandmother North Atlantic right whale whose remains came to UMass’ natural history collection after her death in 1999 — are now open to the public.Indigenous artist...

By LIESEL NYGARD

Not only has Greenfield’s Artspace Community Arts Center begun its 50th annual Teen Art Show, but it has also received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that will help support its overall mission. Artspace was one of a...

MONTAGUE — The Cultural Council has awarded 28 grants totaling $16,146 to support local cultural programs as part of its annual funding distribution.According to a notice from Cultural Council Chair Kathleen Lynch, grants are awarded to projects that...

By DOMENIC POLI

TURNERS FALLS — The United Arc’s got talent, and the first Arc-a-Palooza concert aims to prove it.Five local musical acts are set to take the stage at the Shea Theater Arts Center for a Feb. 17 fundraising event for the nonprofit that provides...

By ANITA FRITZ

TURNERS FALLS — In 1987, 31-year-old Vivian A. Morrissey was fatally strangled by her ex-boyfriend in her Turners Falls home, leaving her two daughters, who have no memory of her because they were a 3-year-old and a 1½-year-old at the time,...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Dave Stier started the new year with notice from Japan that he had been promoted to a seventh-degree black belt in aikido, a traditional Japanese martial art stressing balance, positioning and leverage instead of strength and...

By BELLA LEVAVI

The Sawmill River Arts Collective gallery, located at 440 Greenfield Rd. in the Bookmill Complex, will show local artists at its 10th annual Small Works Exhibit and Sale, taking place from Feb. 4 through 26.“It is a community art show. Part of our...

By VIRGINIA RAY

MONTAGUE — The town is one step closer to seeing a 3,200-square-foot mural painted on the east exterior wall of the Shea Theater Arts Center now that the Selectboard unanimously approved a contract with Common Wealth Murals LLC, a Springfield-based...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — After a delay caused in part by the pandemic, the city has a new poet laureate.Franny Choi, who was nominated last year for a Massachusetts Book Award, has written for the New York Times and the Atlantic, and been interviewed on NPR, has...

By BELLA LEVAVI

The Young Shakespeare Players East theater program promises to transport audiences to “a world of enchantment and sorcery” during four performances of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” next weekend.The play, which lasts two hours and 45 minutes,...

By BELLA LEVAVI

ASHFIELD — For 39 years, a band of local storytellers has been presenting a Solstice Storytelling and Songfest Celebration to spread joy as the weather gets cold.This year, the celebration will be held on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 6:30 p.m., with doors...

By DOMENIC POLI

The nonprofit 10,000-square-foot workshop on the Orange Innovation Center’s third floor has taken steps to help enable more people the financial ability to participate in the programs offered at 131 West Main St.LaunchSpace initiated the “Access to...

By BELLA LEVAVI

Eight weavers in Shelburne Falls, Conway and Florence will open their studios to the public this weekend for demonstrations and sales as part of the Working Weavers’ fifth Studio Trail tour. Studios will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday,...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD – Vintage Days is returning for its second year with as many as 18 businesses expected to participate in the annual event aimed at celebrating the city’s “vintage vibe.”“We have an amazing vintage vibe in Greenfield all the time,” said...

By KAREN LIST

“What if it’s a Musical,” last year’s co-Act performance at the Northampton Center for the Arts, explored the actors’ experiences as gender-queer young people through words and music, including the songs of Sam Smith and ZZ Top.Shai Kuper, co-director...

By STEVE PFARRER

ASHFIELD — Double Edge Theatre, which has passed some significant milestones in the last few years — 40 years of total operation, 25 years of staging performances in Ashfield — is marking another important moment.Founder Stacy Klein, who started the...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — Having been diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer about seven years ago, South Deerfield resident Frank Marchand, 67, doesn’t expect his life to last much longer. And yet, the 47-year plumber isn’t worried about what’s down the pipeline...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — With the return of Charley’s Tropical Bar and Chess Club at the Shea Theater Arts Center on Saturday, locals once again have a chance to detach from the baggage of everyday life.“Welcome to Charley’s — a cozy, one-night-only escape...

By STEVE PFARRER

Mass Humanities has awarded more than $160,000 to five cultural organizations in the Pioneer Valley to help them sustain or increase their staffing, with the larger goal being to help those groups “create, restore and grow humanities programs.” The...

By STEVE PFARRER

June Millington is a familiar name in the Valley music scene, a veteran guitarist and educator who since the early 2000s has overseen numerous programs at The Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA), the Goshen center dedicated to supporting women and...