Upcoming events
Happenings in Western MA by and for LGBTQIA+ folks and our allies
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
RCA Teen Studio
A supportive, flexible environment for teen artists, letting them shape their own creative journeys through a wide range of mediums— printmaking, sculpture, jewelry making, painting, and more!
Kid Creatives: Mini Mayhem
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time crafting all things tiny, bitsy, pint-sized, minuscule, and squee!
Full House Fridays: Mini Mayhem
Full House Fridays is an opportunity for both K-2nd students and for 3rd-5th graders; a perfect option for families with siblings in different age groups!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
RCA Teen Studio
A supportive, flexible environment for teen artists, letting them shape their own creative journeys through a wide range of mediums— printmaking, sculpture, jewelry making, painting, and more!
Kid Creatives: Mini Mayhem
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time crafting all things tiny, bitsy, pint-sized, minuscule, and squee!
Full House Fridays: Mini Mayhem
Full House Fridays is an opportunity for both K-2nd students and for 3rd-5th graders; a perfect option for families with siblings in different age groups!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
RCA Teen Studio
A supportive, flexible environment for teen artists, letting them shape their own creative journeys through a wide range of mediums— printmaking, sculpture, jewelry making, painting, and more!
Full House Fridays: Mini Mayhem
Full House Fridays is an opportunity for both K-2nd students and for 3rd-5th graders; a perfect option for families with siblings in different age groups!
Family Make & Take Sundays
This one's for the tiny creators with big ideas!! Family Make & Take Sundays are a special studio play time for kiddos ages 3+ and their caregivers.
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
RCA Teen Studio
A supportive, flexible environment for teen artists, letting them shape their own creative journeys through a wide range of mediums— printmaking, sculpture, jewelry making, painting, and more!
Kid Creatives: Mini Mayhem
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time crafting all things tiny, bitsy, pint-sized, minuscule, and squee!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
February Youth Studio
Let your kids spend a creative day or two away from screens over February break and getting their hands messy with art at RCA!
February Youth Studio
Let your kids spend a creative day or two away from screens over February break and getting their hands messy with art at RCA!
February Youth Studio
Let your kids spend a creative day or two away from screens over February break and getting their hands messy with art at RCA!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
Full House Fridays: Mini Mayhem
Full House Fridays is an opportunity for both K-2nd students and for 3rd-5th graders; a perfect option for families with siblings in different age groups!
Kid Creatives: Mini Mayhem
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time crafting all things tiny, bitsy, pint-sized, minuscule, and squee!
RCA Teen Studio
A supportive, flexible environment for teen artists, letting them shape their own creative journeys through a wide range of mediums— printmaking, sculpture, jewelry making, painting, and more!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
Family Make & Take Sundays
This one's for the tiny creators with big ideas!! Family Make & Take Sundays are a special studio play time for kiddos ages 3+ and their caregivers.
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
We Celebrate the Light
You’re invited to a sparkling community interfaith holiday celebration for families with beloved local authors Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple!
Family Make & Take Sundays
This one's for the tiny creators with big ideas!! Family Make & Take Sundays are a special studio play time for kiddos ages 3+ and their caregivers.
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Thanksgiving Weekend Holiday Family Hangouts
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!
Thanksgiving Weekend Holiday Family Hangouts
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!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Open Studios: Kids Comics Jam
Hang out with other comic-crazy kids and draw, talk comics, and hear what it’s like running a comic book store from Xtian of Comics n’More!
Open Studios: Block Printing Mini Tapestries
Learn from featured teaching artist Lo Roux (@lo.and.behold.ceramics) how to create your own lino-block print, and use that to create your own mini-tapestry! Perfect to add a unique touch to your wall, or to gift
Kid Mart!
Kid Mart is back! Families are invited to come shop our patio full of kid makers, tinkerers, crafters, and artists. Come support our youngest entrepreneurs as they make & sell handmade art, wearables, decor, treats, & more! November 1 on the patio at High Five Books!
After-School Draw-Along with Kayla Miller
Come draw along with bestselling graphic novelist Kayla Miller! The author/illustrator of CLICK, CAMP, ACT, CLASH, CRUNCH, BREAK, STUCK, and BESTIES will be in the High Five Books studio after school from 3-5pm on Tuesday, October 28. Please join us for a free meet-and-greet (and draw!) with Kayla, who’ll show us how they draw Olive and their other WORLD OF CLICK characters.
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Queer Kids Fest!
Hooray, it’s Queer Kids Fest 2025! On Saturday, October 25, 10am-2:30pm, join us for a joyful festival of music, art, books, and creativity for 2SLGBTQIA+ kids, families, and allies at the Northampton Center for the Arts!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Sensory Friendly Trick or Treat
Wistariahurst Museum is delighted to bring another fang-tastic and ghoulishly delightful sensory-friendly event into our halls for the Halloween season! Our bewitching trick-or-treat event will let you and your little goblins enjoy an adventure in our haunted halls designed for families with sensory. Monsters of all ages will have a chance to collect six spook-tacular items through gentle exploration throughout the museum and choose from prizes ranging from candy to fidget toys. Guests are welcome and encouraged to wear their fun, festive costumes throughout their journey through the museum.
8th Annual Holyoke Community Ofrenda: Calaveras Event with AttackBear Press
Get ready for another amazing Dia de Los Muertos celebration with Attack Bear Press and Wistariahurst Museum with a special calaveras (skull) painting event. Dia de Los Muertos is a special tradition that allows people to celebrate and remember deceased loved ones by decorating an ofrenda, a communal altar dedicated to those dearly departed. On October 19th, we invite you to paint your clay calaveras to add to the annual ofrenda hosted at the museum again this year
Chrysalis Magazine Launch Gathering
Young readers and their supportive grownups are invited to join us for a launch gathering for the debut issue of Chrysalis, a new literary magazine by trans youth, for trans youth. The evening will be hosted by award-winning author and National Book Award nominee Kyle Lukoff, a contributing editor to Chrysalis, and take place in the High Five Books studio.
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
'Baby Ballena' Book Launch & Musical Storytime with MISTER G
Join High Five Books for a Friday morning musical storytime for the launch of BABY BALLENA, the beautiful, bilingual new picture book from local musician and author MISTER G.
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule