South Hadley Arts/South Hadley Cultural Council

Musings Along the Way - With Local Author Martha Johnson
2025-04-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | South Hadley Public Library, 2 Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
Musings Along the Way
In this set of books I reflect in poetry on my 11-year journey (1997- 2008) to hope and healing. Interestingly enough, folks grappling with the changes, challenges and temporary despair of the world situation AND their own aging transitions, may find them an encouraging resource. We are not alone!
For me, I was “writing for my life” pouring out feelings which would ultimately help me heal. I encourage anyone to respond to their tough life issues in writing, painting, crying and laughing. Originally published in 2002 & 2011. New Covers and New Forward in 2023.
Vol 1 – Tears, Lies and Fresh Fruit Pies (1997-2001)
Vol 2 – Pain, Persistence and Purifying Waters (2002-2008)

Springfield Symphony Orchestra (SSO) Musical Petting Zoo
2025-04-12 10:30 - 11:30 | South Hadley Public Library, 2 Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
The Springfield Symphony Orchestra are bringing their instrument "petting zoo". Attendees will be able to see, touch and hear many instruments.
This event is geared towards young children, but all welcome.

Free for All: The Public Library (film screening)
2025-04-09 18:30 - 19:30 | South Hadley Public Library, 2 Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
Free for All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

Path of Miracles w/ Illumine Vocal Arts Ensemble
2025-04-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Abbey Chapel @ Mt. Holyoke College, 50 College St, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
April 5, 2025, 7:30 PM
Abbey Chapel, Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley
Path of Miracles, Joby Talbot
with Amherst Concert Choir
and Audivi

West African Dance and Drumming with Rooted Essence Dance
2025-04-05 11:00 - 12:00 | South Hadley Public Library, 2 Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
2025 South Hadley Cultural Council Grant Recipient. West African Dance and Drumming from 11:00 am-noon presented by Tara Murphy of the Rooted Essence Dance Studio. Tara Murphy of the Rooted Essence Dance Studio will present a beginning West African Dance and Drumming program that will help people to learn about the basic style of West African dances from Mali, Guinea and Senegal, West Africa. The class emphasizes community, self-expression and the joy of movement. Drumming is an activity that stimulates the magic and fun within people. Not only is it a proven team builder, but many studies show how it reduces stress, anxiety and depression. In addition, drumming together sparks creativity and vision -- the rhythms are a powerful way for people to tap into their receptivity to new ideas. Drumming naturally uplifts people's hearts and brings people together in beautiful ways, in a feeling of unity.

Showcase South Hadley Pre-Event
2025-03-21 17:30 - 21:00 | South Hadley Senior Center, 45 Dayton Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075
Showcase South Hadley Pre-Event and Welcome! Performances to include Bad News Jazz & Blues Orchestra as well as student ensembles from South Hadley High School and Pioneer Valley Performing Arts.
Free event!

South Hadley Chorale Annual Concert
2025-03-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Abbey Chapel @ Mt. Holyoke College, 50 College St, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
Our concert will be held Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 3 p.m. at Abbey Memorial Chapel on the Mount Holyoke College campus.
The major works to be sung will be Frostiana by Randall Thompson and Magnificat by Pergolesi. A choral work by Bach will also be on the program.
Ticket Information
Starting in mid-January, 2025, tickets may be purchased from members of the Chorale, at the Odyssey Book Shop in South Hadley, at the door on the day of the concert or at www.eventbrite.com.
Ticket Prices - preconcert and online

General Admission: $20.00
Senior Citizens: $15.00
Students/Children 12 and under: $5.00

Preconcert tickets may be purchased at Odyssey Book Shop in South Hadley or through Eventbrite.
Ticket Prices - purchased at the door

General Admission: $25.00
Senior Citizens: $20.00
Students/Children 12 and under: $5.00

Roger Tincknell "From Ireland to America"
2025-03-13 17:00 - 18:30 | South Hadley Senior Center, 45 Dayton Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075
"From Ireland to America", a music concert supported by the South Hadley Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Taking place Thursday, March 13, 5:30 PM at the South Hadley Senior Center. Sing-alongs, ballads, instrumentals, step dancing and spoon playing.

Vermeer's "The Concert"
2025-03-08 15:00 - 16:30, 2025-03-07 07:30 - 21:00 | Warbeke Room @ Mount Holyoke College, 50 College St, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
Vermeer's "The Concert"
March 7-8, 2025 in the Warbeke Room, Pratt Hall, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
Two performances: Friday March 7 @ 7:30pm;
Saturday March 8 at 3 pm
In cooperation with the Mount Holyoke College Music Department
Sophie Michaux – voice
Douglas Kelley – viola da gamba
Nathaniel Cox – lute and cittern
Andrus Madsen – harpsichord
In 1664 Johannes Vermeer painted a domestic music scene in which a singer is joined by a harpsichordist and a lutenist, with a viola da gamba on the floor and a bandora or a cittern on the table. (The painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and has never been recovered.) This concert will be a reproduction of the music these musicians might have played, sampling from works widely available in Rotterdam in the 1650s, including then-popular Roman cantatas written for the instruments and voice depicted in the painting.
This program will be performed twice in the Warbeke Room at Mount Holyoke College, an ideal space for this intimate repertoire.
Ticket link: Vermeer's "The Concert"

Precious Blood Church Fire of 1875 Presentation
2025-03-05 18:00 - 19:30 | South Hadley Public Library, 2 Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
Precious Blood Church Fire of 1875 presentation by Robert Comeau, in the Community Room at the South Hadley Public Library. It will be about the May 27 1875 fire at the Precious Blood Church in Holyoke Massachusetts. 55 of the 70 people that died due to the fire are buried at the Precious Blood Cemetery of South Hadley. I will discuss the fire, the victims, and the burials. I have been able to find the vast majority of the birth and marriage documents of the victims. I have also been able to find the burial records of the 15 people that were not buried in South Hadley.

Shell Shaker *East Coast Premiere
2025-02-28 19:30 - 21:45 | Abbey Chapel @ Mt. Holyoke College, 50 College St, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
The Mount Holyoke College Music Department presents the world premiere of Chickasaw composer Jerod Tate’s Loksi’ Shaali’ (Shell Shaker), a groundbreaking opera about the journey of the Chickasaw-Choctaw migration. The story follows the journey of a Chickasaw girl named Loksi’ (Turtle), transforming from a troubled girl into a confident young woman and the significance of embracing identity, honoring sacred traditions, and how simple acts of kindness can transform the world.
Workshopped right here on the Mount Holyoke College campus with a major grant from the Mellon Foundation and the Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s groundbreaking opera will be the first opera ever to be sung completely in a Native American language.
Join Mount Holyoke College’s Symphony Orchestra and Glee Club in this semi-staged production of Tate’s new work that will captivate the audience, immersing you in the rich cultural heritage of the Chickasaw Tribe.

Cristina María Castro Loksi’
Charles Calotta Hiloha and Loksi’ Sipokni’
Kirsten C. Kunkle, Ippo’si’ Sipokni’
Nicole Van Avery, Ishki’
Mark Billy, Inki’
Grant Youngblood, Okhina’
Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra
Tianhui Ng, conductor
Mount Holyoke College Glee Club
Colin Britt, director

Tickets are available via Ludus.

Deluxe Sock Puppets with Homeslice Puppetry
2025-02-27 17:30 - 19:30 | Gaylord Memorial Library, 47 College St, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
Free Deluxe Sock Puppet workshop with Homeslice Puppetry (Eric Weiss) for adults. The workshop will be at the Gaylord Memorial Library on Thursday February 27th from 5:30pm -7:30pm. Please pre-register for the free workshop by phone @: 413.538.5047 or on their website @:https://shadleylib.libcal.com/event/13409021
This class begins with an introduction to puppetry and creating a puppet character. Students will learn to build a mouth plate and use this plate as well as some foam for a "skull,” they will give their sock puppets a wonderful shape and much greater range of motion and movement than an average sock puppet.

Hip Hop Chair and Line Dance for Seniors!
2025-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 | South Hadley Senior Center, 45 Dayton Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075
2025 South Hadley Cultural Council Grant Recipient. Elders do a complete chair, dance, warm-up and hip hop class that begins and ends in the chairs. We travel through time on the “Soul Train” and chair dance to clean cut hip hop and R & B songs. We use creative props such as smiley faces and the African maracas to help make our soul train journey come to life. Senior participants will leave feeling more limber.

About the Instructor:
Rondae Drafts is the former Director of a hip hop dance company in Massachusetts. Professor Drafts has also instructed hip hop dance at MIT where one of the students was wheelchair bound. This was one of the inspirations for this class. The current Executive Director of MUSIC Dance.edu, Rondae is a Ph.D.abd researching hip hop's impact on contemporary music. She is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native, that graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communication, she later moved o Massachusetts and received a Masters Degree in Education from Cambridge College.

Kids Art Workshop: What Happens When The Animals Move North?
2025-02-20 13:00 - 14:30 | South Hadley Public Library, 2 Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
2025 South Hadley Cultural Council Grant Recipient. Students will hear a brief presentation about art, participate in an instructional drawings exercise, and create art that will be sent to the children in Ukraine. This is a great opportunity for kids from different countries to learn about each other. Fermata Arts Foundation encourages intercultural dialogue between countries. Children will learn that they share common values with kids from all over the world.
This program is targeted at students in the 3rd to 5th grades.

"Let's Build A Roof Over the World": Family as Connector
2025-02-20 11:00 - 12:00 | South Hadley Public Library, 2 Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
At this family event, participants will learn about the Fermata Arts Foundation (FAF) and its projects, learn about the cultural sphere the children's art comes from (including Ukraine), and learn about cultural traditions.
Speakers:
Nikolay Synkov, Founder and Residence Artist
Tatyana Ishutkina, Executive Director

2025 Youth Performance Festival
2025-02-09 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-09 01:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-08 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-08 01:00 - 15:00 | Northampton Center For The Arts, 33 Hawley St, Northampton, MA, 01060, United States
The Youth Performance Festival is a collaborative program of Play Incubation Collective and the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley, in partnership with Make-It Springfield. Now in its 6th year, YPF is a FREE opportunity for youth artists ages 8-18 to create original performance pieces with the guidance of mentor artists in the fields of music, dance, theater, poetry/spoken word, video/animation, and more. YPF centers the creative agency of young artists, and is committed to supporting them as they discover their own creative processes. For YPF 2025, we are partnering with Make-It Springfield for the second year to offer a Springfield-based youth cohort in addition to the Northampton cohort as part of the long term goal to expand YPF in Western Mass. YPF is an outstanding festival experience that warms hearts and inspires creativity in audience members of all ages!
The Youth Performance Festival is a FREE program for youth artists, and mentor artists are compensated fairly for their work. We could not do this without the support of our community, and donations are gratefully accepted throughout the year.
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Saturday, February 8 at 1:00pm (Cast A) and 4:00pm (Cast B)
Sunday, February 9 at 1:00pm (Cast B) and 4:00pm (Cast A)

We Will Rock You!
2025-02-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-31 19:00 - 21:00 | South Hadley High School, 153 Newton St, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
Join South Hadley High School Harlequins as they present We Will Rock You! with music from Queen! 2025 South Hadley Cultural Council Grantee.

Small Planet Dancers
2025-01-23 17:00 - 18:00 | South Hadley Senior Center, 45 Dayton Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075

South Hadley Community Band - Holiday Concert
2024-12-17 | South Hadley Senior Center, 45 Dayton Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075

Amherst Jazz Orchestra
2023-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 | United Methodist Church, 30 Carew Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States

7 Bridges Road
2023-10-08 15:30 - 17:00 | South Hadley Public Library, 2 Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States

Eric Lee Duo
2023-10-08 15:30 - 16:30 | Old Firehouse Museum, 4 N Main Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States

Out of the Ark: Animal Education Presentation
2023-10-08 15:00 - 15:45 | on The Common, 2 College Street, MA, 01075
Location: Library Patio next to Community Room
Started in 2012, Out of the Ark was created to educate people of all ages about wildlife and promote conservation efforts worldwide. Our team of conservationists believe that people want to save the things they love, have interacted with, and truly understand. We are a veteran owned and operated family business. Our programs offer a unique and incredible wildlife experience. Out of the Ark Educational Animal Shows inspires guests to want to protect and conserve wildlife by bringing them up close and personal with our animal ambassadors and teaching about them in a hands-on interactive presentation.
Sunday 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Out of the Ark: Animal Education Exhibit

Bill's Seafood Jazz All-Stars
2023-10-08 14:30 - 15:30 | United Methodist Church, 30 Carew Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States
