Part concert, part puppet show, part ghost story. This 50-minute multimedia performance reimagines classic literary monsters through queer, musical shadow theater and video. 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. All are welcome, but recommended for adults and teens. Q&A to follow. This program is funded in part by a grant from the Springfield Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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!

Get ready for some twang with a twist! Honkytonk Queer Tones (Emmett Troxel, Kim Hoff, and Jess Martin) reimagine classic country hits through a queer and political lens—songs you’ll know, delivered with defiance, joy, and plenty of glitter at this year's Easthampton's Porchfest. Country music may have a history of shutting folks out, but we’re cracking the door wide open and dancing right through it. Proudly waving the queer flag in a space that isn’t always welcoming, Honkytonk Queer Tones turn familiar tunes into bold anthems of love, resistance, and fun. Come stomp, sing, and holler along—yee-haw and queer joy guaranteed!

Part concert, part puppet show, part ghost story. This 50-minute multimedia performance reimagines classic literary monsters through queer, musical shadow theater and features a world premiere video. 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. All are welcome, but recommended for adults and teens. Q&A to follow. This program is funded in part by a grant from the Holyoke Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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!

Join Northampton artists Jess Martin (singer-songwriter) and Kim Hoff (poet-naturalist) for a special Easthampton Art Walk performance blending music, poetry, and community voices.

The evening opens with Echoes of Nature: Hampshire County, an original multimedia performance inspired by reflective hikes through six local wild spaces. Through song and spoken word, Martin and Hoff explore the ways landscapes hold grief, resilience, memory, and hope.

Following a brief intermission, the program continues with Echoes in Community, a poetry reading featuring Easthampton’s current Poet Laureate Carolyn Zaikowski, former Poet Laureate Carolyn Cushing, and poets JuPong Lin, Isabella Gitana, and Kat Good-Schiff. Their work echoes shared themes of loss, solace, caregiving, and restoration.

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!

Experience a unique performance that blends poetry, song, and story inspired by the natural beauty of Hampshire County. Join artists Kim Hoff and Jess Martin for Echoes of Nature, a creative journey that celebrates our local landscapes and shared sense of place through moving words and melodies. All are welcome for this uplifting morning of nature-inspired reflection. This work is supported by the Amherst Local Cultural Council.

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 artists Kim and Jess for a relaxed, inspiring walk to Lake Wallace designed for access and inspiration. Enjoy a morning of storytelling, reflection, and connection with nature. This is not the full Echoes of Nature performance—that takes place June 7 at the Clapp Library—but a peaceful, creative outing to spark your senses and imagination. Rain? No worries—we’ll bring the magic indoors!

Cultural Chaos is a much larger event, but happy to share that Jess will be playing a one hour set from 3 - 4 pm in Luthier's Coop at the heart of the action. Stop inside and listen to a song or four.

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!

Experience a unique performance that blends poetry, song, and story inspired by the natural beauty of Hampshire County. Join artists Kim Hoff and Jess Martin for Echoes of Nature, a creative journey that celebrates our local landscapes and shared sense of place through moving words and melodies. All are welcome for this uplifting morning of nature-inspired reflection. This work is supported by the Amherst Local Cultural Council.

A one-of-a-kind performance of original music, poetry, and movement rooted in the ecology of Hampshire County presented by Kim Hoff & Jess Martin. Hosted in the main reading room. Free and open to all. A nature-themed display of books and music curated by the library will accompany the event throughout the month.