CLOSED: Friday, November 11, 2022 The library will be closed on Friday, November 11 for Veterans Day. We will reopen with usual hours on Saturday, November 13 at 10 am.
Museum Pass Spotlight: Museum of Fine Art Get discounted admission to the MFA in Boston -- whether you're purchasing advance tickets or making a spontaneous trip to the museum!
Children 6 and under are free. Each pass allows 2 adults for $10 each (special exhibition + general admission) and up to 4 children ages 7 – 17 for $10 each (special exhibition + general admission).
Drop in to decorate stationery and write a letter to someone you love! All supplies provided.
PVTA Service Feedback and Suggestions for Future Planning Monday, November 7, 10 am This session is hosted by theValley On Board project, in which we are partnered with PVTA to collect community feedback regarding developing a desired alternative for the 20 year vision of the PVTA. Join us to learn more about teh PVTA 20-year plan and how you can make your voice heard. You could win at $25 Visa gift card!
Are you a teen writer? Join us for an hour of writing and socializing every Tuesday in November! Novels, short stories, fanfiction, poetry--it's all welcome at the Weekly Write-In, and you never have to share your work with the group if you don't want to! We'll have books and tools to help you come up with ideas and make your writing shine!
Are you curious about how to get started on a family tree or use census records to explore the history of your neighborhood or house? Book an appointment with Brian Tabor, recently retired Forbes Library circulation manager and genealogist, and learn how to research using resources such as Ancestry, Heritage Quest and American Ancestors databases.
Hello! I'm Sunny and I'm Forbes Library's reading buddy dog! You can book a 15-minute appointment to read to me on Wednesdays between 3:30-4:30. I'm a good listener and like to look at the pictures, too.
To register, please call 413-587-1010 or sign up at the Forbes Library Children's Desk. This program is great for children ages 4-10. Happy reading!
Enjoy picture books, sing songs, and play with puppets and props and participate in an open-ended art activity designed to encourage creativity! Great for ages 3-5. We can't wait to see you!
How we sit and stand affects how we move and breath. Over the course of many years our physical habits become patterns of tension that can limit our freedom of movement and expression. In this 1-hour presentation we'll consider how this happens, and explore ways of freeing up the body for vitality and longevity.
Just Fine Thank You play electric-ukulele driven, nerdily mischievous arrangements of favorite songs ranging from country to jazz standards to punk rock. They are: Becky Lang on ukuleles and vocals, Robin Hoffman on ukuleles and vocals, and David Pratt on percussion; and are based in Western Massachusetts.
Robin Hoffman and Becky Lang's friendship began over an unexpected gift. Becky's daughter sent her an ukulele from Washington state and shortly after, Becky met Robin and discovered she taught ukulele. It was a sign from the universe to get serious about music again. From that chance beginning, a friendship evolved over similar passions in visual art and music.
The two women formed a band with another friend, Dave Pratt, and find joy in the collaborative effort of making music. The band is called "Just Fine Thank You". They play an ukulele-driven exploration of different genres with a mischeivous touch of, "What if we do it like this!"
Community Legal Aid’s Elder Law Services
Northampton Neighbors Monthly Insights: CLA's Elder Law Services Tuesday, November 8, 4:15–4:45 pm Join via Zoom!
Community Legal Aid, Inc. (CLA) is the free civil legal aid provider for residents of Central and Western Massachusetts, with one office here in Northampton. CLA has many services and assists people across the lifespan.
This session will highlight CLA's Elder Law Unit, which provides legal services in cases handled for persons 60 years old and older involving:
Housing
SSI, Social Security disability, and other Social Security issues
Access to healthcare benefits, including Medicare
Nursing home rights
SNAP (food stamps) and other benefits
Family law, including physical abuse
Financial exploitation
Thomas Hulley, staff attorney in the Elder Law Unit, will be our guide in learning about this valuable resource.
There will be live transcription of the event, so you can read along with the spoken word during the presentation. Call 929-436-2866 to listen by phone without video.
NN Monthly Insights is an education series with practical information about valuable resources and relevant topics for older adults in our community on the second Monday of the month.
If you are a Florence Savings Bank customer, please consider voting for the Friends of Forbes Library to receive a community grant. Voting is open now until Saturday, December 31, 2022.
My exhibit includes images from wild places around the world. Many of these places are vanishing forever, just in the time that I have been on the planet. With these photographs, I hope to convey the sense and experience of place in each landscape, along with the extraordinary beauty and fragility of our planet. My photographs are large format color landscape images, some panoramas, beautifully printed on cotton rag paper. I have travelled the world in search of landscapes that are wild, spiritual and ancient, and that speak to me in an ineffable and timeless voice. With their compelling beauty, deep silence, sweet scents, light and shadow, these places connect me to a sense that god and nature are one, and that nature is a powerful and enduring force. My photographs include images of rare ecosystems on top of Mount Kenya, dreamtime rock art in remote Cape York, Australia, sunrise on the islands of the Sea of Cortez, shamanic petroglyphs in Wyoming, mists in the Hoh Rainforest of Washington, rainstorms over Canyonlands, Masai villages in Tanzania, and ancient granaries and waterfalls in the Grand Canyon.
NAYANA LAFOND Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Painting Project
Nayana LaFond is a painter and multi disciplinary artist based in Western Massachusetts. Her work tackles deeply personal subjects related to trauma and life experience. Her recent series, “Portraits in RED, Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Painting project”, has garnered national acclaim. Nayana has multiple solo and touring exhibitions of the ongoing series scheduled for the next several years. In addition to being a professional full time artist and mother, Nayana also serves on the Board of Directors for Artist Organized Art out of Brooklyn NY, and several other organizations and boards in Massachusetts. She has written articles on art and culture and regularly lectures on topics related to Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, processing trauma through art and Artivist. Nayana has also been a curator for 20 years and was the chief curator for the Whitney center for the arts and a serial entrepreneur having owned and operated both a cafe, independent record label and several art galleries, and is a founding member of the Liberal Arts Pop Up Gallery in Northampton MA.
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