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Straw Dog Writers Guild is accepting workshop proposals for the 2026 WriteAngles Writing Conference, to be held on Saturday, October 24, at Bay Path University
UMass Dining will host the 15th Annual 5K Dash & Dine on Saturday, April 25, 2026, starting at 9:00 AM at the Southwest Horseshoe on
The Hitchcock Center for the Environment’s seventh annual Battle of the Botanicals will be held on Thursday, June 18, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 9:00
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is accepting applications for the summer seminar “Paper Relations: Histories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures,” to be held Sunday,
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) will host its second Historic Children’s Voices K-12 Teacher Institute this August. The five-day program is designed for social studies
The Black Studies and English departments will host a screening of the film Xalé: The Wounds of Childhood on Friday, March 27, 2026, at 4:30 PM in
A hands-on quilt-making workshop led by Dr. Pamela Mischen, founder of the Climate Change Quilt project, will be held on Friday, March 27, 2026, from
A letter-writing event, “Because of Them: Letters to the Women Who Shaped Us,” will be held on Friday, March 27, 2026, from 3:00 PM to
A free public talk, “Beyond Human Sources: How Children Learn from Technology,” will be held on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 6:00
A free virtual workshop, “From Justice to Belonging: Restorative Approaches for Campus Life,” will be held on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, from 10:00 AM to
An ongoing collaboration between composer Paula Matthusen and visual artist Olivia Valentine, “between systems and grounds,” will be presented on Monday, March 23, 2026, from
A free lecture celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted’s 204th birthday weekend will be held on Friday, April 24, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM. Author
A free lecture on 19th-century folk artist Erastus Salisbury Field will be held on Friday, April 10, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM. Presented
The Haiku Shack Magazine is seeking micropoetry and microfiction for its seventh issue. The theme is “desert.” Submissions must respond to the theme and be a
A roundtable discussion for poets, “Cracking Open Your Poetic Process,” will be held on Saturday, April 4, 2026, from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM at
The Writing Sisters, a collective of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC women-identified writers, will host “Hear Us Roar: A Celebration of Women’s Poetry” on Friday, March 27,
The 25th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, sponsored by Winning Writers, is accepting submissions through April 1, 2026. There is no entry fee. Poets
Belchertown Animal Control and BARC, Inc. are sponsoring an Equine Safety and Rescue Training workshop on Saturday, April 4, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 4:00
The 4th annual Big Love Little Performances (BLLP 4.0), a 21+ lip-sync and karaoke fundraiser benefiting CHD’s Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County, will
Friends of Lake Wallace and BNFCA invite the community to a spring trail tidy on Saturday, March 21, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
The Fine Arts Center at UMass Amherst will host “Art for the Common Good: A Statewide Convening on Arts, Health, and Wellbeing” on Friday, April
