Forbes Chair Wins Trustee of the Year Russell Carrier has received the 2022 Library Trustee of the Year award from the Massachusetts Library Trustee Association (MLTA). The award was presented to Mr. Carrier at the MLTA annual meeting held at the Shrewsbury Public Library on Oct 22, 2022. Mr. Carrier is in his 41st year as Trustee at the Forbes Library in Northampton where he has served as chair and board president for all of that time. Read more about Mr. Carrier's tenure and achievements.
New Museum Pass: Trustees of Reservations Now you can check out a Trustees GO Pass, valid for admission to any Trustees property.
GO Pass admission is equivalent to the admission benefit of a Trustees Family level Membership: two adults and children under 18. Visit the Main Desk to get a GO Pass, valid for one use over the next year.
Library Programs
Visit our online calendar to see a complete list of library events. Filter using the category "VIRTUAL" to find events that can be attended remotely.
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!
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!
Building TRUST in the Workplace Wednesday, November 2, 4 pm During this one hour interactive workshop, we will consider different scenarios of trust in the workplace, identifying key conditions that foster it and the leadership competencies needed to create a culture of trust and accountability. We will begin at the self level and expand to leadership in the workplace. Participants will leave with a complimentary Everything DiSC® Workplace Assessment code (valued at $85!), which is a science-backed tool for developing social and emotional competencies for all levels of an organization.
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!
Join us for our new Kids' Chess Club! We'll be meeting Fridays from 4-5pm in the Community Room on Oct. 21 & 28 and Nov. 4 & 18. All levels are welcome, from beginners to experts! Learn the rules and how to use all of your pieces. For ages 9+. Children under age 10 must be accompanied by an adult. First come, first served, and attendance will be limited to 14 people.
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 Women and Girls/People
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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