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Monthly Queer & Trans New Parents Virtual Support Group
Queer & Trans New Parents Support Group is FREE and open to all members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community who are expecting, adopting, fostering, and/or parenting from pregnancy through postpartum.
Shea Presents: Hani Thompson Rituals Album Release in the Shea's Lounge
The Shea Theater is pleased to present an evening night with local hero Hani Thompson as part of the Foyeur Enjoyment in the Shea’s Lounge series.
Hani Rosenbaum Thompson is a visual artist and musician based in Massachusetts, originally from New York. Hani’s first solo album, “Rituals” was released on November 8, 2025 with Echo Base Production (in part funded by the Massachusetts cultural council).
River Valley Radical Futures: Exhibition Opening at the Taber Art Gallery
Curated by Alix Gerber, Designing Radical Futures has spent the last few years working with area artists, worker co-operatives, and mutual aid groups to imagine a future with completely different social systems and economies. Community workshops with partnering groups focused on how their missions and values might change the world around them. Drawings and stories from these workshops were the source material for the artwork on view, creating physical manifestations for a possible future
Strategies in Fundraising, Audience Development, and Programming: Call for Interview Participants
Artists, culture-bearers, arts workers, and other cultural sector workers: would you like to contribute your knowledge to a Master’s research project?
Collaborate with University of Minnesota Arts and Cultural Leadership graduate student April Crowley on a capstone project resulting in a practical risk-management framework for arts and cultural workers that makes it easier and more sustainable to produce new, innovative, and/or politicized performing arts work.
Yet Another Queer Winter Market
Yet Another Queer Pop-Up Market is the premiere queer pop-up market in western Massachusetts! Co-hosted by 50 Arrow Gallery and Eastworks, this winter market will feature 60+ creatives with unique offerings on December 13th, 2025.
Agballa Creatives Presents: Creating in Kapwa A Monthly Co-Creative Gathering
Agballa Creatives presents Creating in Kapwa: a monthly co-creation gathering for women/femme/non-binary artists, writers, visionaries, makers, entrepreneurs of culture/color.