Come get cozy at the bookshop with High Five Books over the long Thanksgiving weekend with all-day AND evening shopping, crafting, and snacking. On Friday, 11/28 and Saturday, 11/29, invite all your visiting relatives to join you for a family holiday hangout at High Five Books!

Come get cozy at the bookshop with High Five Books over the long Thanksgiving weekend with all-day AND evening shopping, crafting, and snacking. On Friday, 11/28 and Saturday, 11/29, invite all your visiting relatives to join you for a family holiday hangout at High Five Books!

Join Insight Western MA's Social Justice Practice Group on Wednesday, October 15 at 5:30 PM for a standout in support of the Queer and Trans Community at the rotary in downtown Easthampton, MA. Please make and bring signs and flags and join us to show your support during National Coming Out Week.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Join the Northampton Parent’s Center for their Welcome Back Picnic on Thursday 10/9 from 4pm - 6pm on the Forbes Library lawn! NPC will provide pizza, but feel free to bring your own picnic supplies.

After a sold-out debut and packed second show, the Queer Story Slam returns with its third event Prepare For The Good. This season’s theme, Prepare for the Good, is the motto of seasoned trans and Indigenous organizers at Imagine Water Works, who protect and resource their community in New Orleans against storms. View their beautiful Queer/Trans Guide to Storms, for art, poetry, and advice from queer people of color who have lived through catastrophe, and found beauty in the midst of it.

Part concert, part puppet show, part ghost story. This 45-minute multimedia performance reimagines classic literary monsters through queer, musical shadow theater. Join ensemble Shadow, Sound, Spectacle for a fresh perspective on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Anne Rice, and others, told through live music, shadow puppetry, video, and narrative.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

During the month of September Wistariahurst Museum’s great hall will be filled with florals as we welcome in “Blooms”, an art exhibit by painter Lora Barrett. This exhibit will feature 99 vibrant paintings of flowers of varying sizes. An avid gardener, Lora Barrett maintains her gardens as a reference and muse for her highly colored paintings, pushing the vibrancy of the flowers to the limit. Wistariahurst Museum will be hosting a solo show of 99 of her floral paintings from September 2-25, 2025.

Register now for HYPHAE’s Community Info Session & Mini Skills Workshop on Tuesday, 8/26! We’ll gather in Cummington, MA from 6P-8P, sharing more about our dream to support 2SLGBTQIA+ & BIPOC artists and makers in Western Mass and creating a bit of artistic magic together.

The Queer Joy Collaborative is opening its doors—and its music—to anyone curious about joining their community choruses. On Monday, August 25, they’ll host free Open Rehearsals at the Hartsbrook School

Join fellow readers for the next book discussion group at Wistariahurst beginning June 10th, 2025. Readers will dive into “We Do This 'Til We Free Us- Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” by Mariame Kaba. This powerful collection of essays and interviews, woven together by Kaba covers topics including abolition, liberation, and political struggle.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Join fellow readers for the next book discussion group at Wistariahurst beginning June 10th, 2025. Readers will dive into “We Do This 'Til We Free Us- Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” by Mariame Kaba. This powerful collection of essays and interviews, woven together by Kaba covers topics including abolition, liberation, and political struggle.

Join Stavros CIL on Saturday, August 2nd starting at NOON for a free, all-ages celebration marking the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Expect live music, local vendors, and community connection—all in an accessible, joyful space where everyone belongs.

Join fellow readers for the next book discussion group at Wistariahurst beginning June 10th, 2025. Readers will dive into “We Do This 'Til We Free Us- Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” by Mariame Kaba. This powerful collection of essays and interviews, woven together by Kaba covers topics including abolition, liberation, and political struggle.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Literary Monsters is a genre-defying mashup of crankies, overhead projectors, eerie live music, and haunting tales — featuring the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Anne Rice, and a delightfully motley crew of vampires, devils, and dinosaurs. Yes, really.

Literary Monsters is a genre-defying mashup of crankies, overhead projectors, eerie live music, and haunting tales — featuring the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Anne Rice, and a delightfully motley crew of vampires, devils, and dinosaurs. Yes, really.

Join fellow readers for the next book discussion group at Wistariahurst beginning June 10th, 2025. Readers will dive into “We Do This 'Til We Free Us- Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” by Mariame Kaba. This powerful collection of essays and interviews, woven together by Kaba covers topics including abolition, liberation, and political struggle.

Join fellow readers for the next book discussion group at Wistariahurst beginning June 10th, 2025. Readers will dive into “We Do This 'Til We Free Us- Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” by Mariame Kaba. This powerful collection of essays and interviews, woven together by Kaba covers topics including abolition, liberation, and political struggle.

On June 19th, join Wistariahurst Museum and Genuine Culture in the gardens as we host our annual Juneteenth event, Celebrate Juneteenth! This event commemorates freedom and the country’s second independence day through community and celebration.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Join fellow readers for the next book discussion group at Wistariahurst beginning June 10th, 2025. Readers will dive into “We Do This 'Til We Free Us- Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” by Mariame Kaba. This powerful collection of essays and interviews, woven together by Kaba covers topics including abolition, liberation, and political struggle.

Readers have excitedly awaited the new novel by local award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator: 'The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon' arrives on May 6! This gorgeously full-color illustrated book tells the story of a lion cub and a girl who must open a portal for the spirits, based on Chinese folklore.

To celebrate, join the High Five Books team, plus Grace Lin herself in conversation with local Newbery Honor Award-winning author Lisa Yee for a special afternoon of storytelling, crafts, Reader's Theater, Chinese food, and more. High Five Books will have the DELUXE LIMITED EDITION of 'The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon' for sale―featuring stenciled designed sprayed edges, as well as a foil case stamp and designed endpapers. Readers are welcome to bring their own well-loved copies of Grace's past work for signing, as well.

Join Forrest Fleur, New England’s favorite farming drag queen, as she welcomes Lividity, Egg thee Scallion, and Banshee to Kitchen Garden Farm for a night of queer joy. Don your brightest colors for an unforgettable night of farms, music, flamboyance, and fabulous entertainment.

Author and poet James Crews will read from his new book LOVE IS FOR ALL OF US: POEMS OF TENDERNESS AND BELONGING FROM THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY. These compassionate poems of connection and affirmation are a celebration of all kinds of love: romantic, family, friendship, self-love, and love for nature. The poems are gathered from a diverse group of contemporary writers, both allied and part of the LGBTQIA+ community, with a special focus on queer, nonbinary, and transgender poets.