COMMUNITY EVENTS
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COMMUNITY EVENTS ◈
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see what’s next with Fortuna Major & our wider community
SIP 413 Gallery: Artist Applications
Sip 413 is a coffee shop, cafe, and retail goods store owned and operated by queer folk in Florence, Massachusetts. Artists are invited to apply to show their work in Sip 413’s gallery for the January 2027 - June 2027 season. They prioritize applications from those who identify as queer, BIPOC, disabled, and/or have little to no experience with showing their work in a cafe setting. While applications from these folks are prioritized, everyone is welcome and encouraged to apply! All applications will be considered.
Call for Submissions: HOMESICK Table Salt Press
A home you’ve never known. A language you no longer speak. A history you seek to uncover. A childhood you can never return to. Table Salt Press is a brand new lit mag open to prose, poetry, nonfiction, art, photography, community events, and more!
Artist Reception: Kerry St. Laurent’s Stitched Through the Seven Sisters
Stitched Through the Seven Sisters is a location-specific series about honoring an almost-daily practice of communing with nature as visual artist Kerry St. Laurent stitches herself through her local trail system. Matte hot press photographic prints are layered with matte gouache that nods to mapping and ink and colored pencil stitching that references both woven comfort and the idea that wandering counters life’s unraveling and knits us back together.
Pioneer Protests by Jon-Marc Seimon and John Rae
Join us at our Montague Center Branch to celebrate our latest installation from local photographers Jon-Marc Seimon and John Rae.
Public libraries exist to connect people to ideas, stories, and the history of the communities they serve. Throughout our local history collection, you'll find photographs, newspapers, letters, and other records that document moments that shaped Montague and the surrounding area. Together, they tell the story of who we are. In this spirit, The Montague Public Libraries have been a place for local authors and artists of all backgrounds to gather and foster conversations through their creative work. And, much like our local history collection, this exhibit carefully documents the diversity of perspectives that exist within Montague and Franklin County at large.
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.
Book Launch From The Cosmic Crossroads of Impossibilities
Get your first edition copy of this tome for creative Black women that captures 20+ years of sketching, drawing, and illustration combined with disruptive, insightful essays that kindle Self-Liberation from within.
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.
Together, We Conjure Creative Power
