Upcoming events
Happenings in Western MA by and for LGBTQIA+ folks and our allies
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!
Yoga and Sound
Immerse yourself in this blissful workshop of movement and sound meditation. This 90-minute Yoga & Sound workshop combines a revitalizing yoga practice with the deeply relaxing and restorative benefits of sound meditation.
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 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: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time exploring sculptures and comics IN SPAAAAACE: alien beings, paper mache rocket ships, comic books detailing trips around the milky way!
Early Bird Infant Group
Join NPC director Lindsey King for a free weekly drop-in group for infants and their caregivers. Coffee and tea included and siblings welcome.
Full House Fridays: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
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!
Wistariahurst Holiday Open House and Festive Market
There’s snow place like Wistariahurst during the holiday season!Wistatiahurst’s upcoming Holiday Open House and Festive market is perfect for those pine-ing for some holiday cheer, gifts from local businesses and artists, and family fun. The museum will be open December 6th and 7th from 11:00am-2:30pm for this joyous event.
Wistariahurst Holiday Open House and Festive Market
There’s snow place like Wistariahurst during the holiday season! Wistariahurst’s upcoming Holiday Open House and Festive market is perfect for those pine-ing for some holiday cheer, gifts from local businesses and artists, and family fun. The museum will be open December 6th and 7th from 11:00am-2:30pm for this joyous event.
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 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!
NCMC Winter Concert
NCMC Annual Winter Concert is back! Featuring New Horizons Band of Western Mass, High Definition, and Ujima Singers. The concert will last about 90 minutes and is free admission.
Queer & Trans Art Group (QTAG)
Open to anyone who identifies as queer, trans, or gender-expansive, come hang out, make art in community, or just connect with other queer and trans folks in a safer space!
Early Bird Infant Group
Join NPC director Lindsey King for a free weekly drop-in group for infants and their caregivers. Coffee and tea included and siblings welcome.
Full House Fridays: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
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!
Winter Market at Eastworks
Yet Another Queer Pop-Up Market is hosting the third annual Winter Market from 12P-6P on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.
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!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 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: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time exploring sculptures and comics IN SPAAAAACE: alien beings, paper mache rocket ships, comic books detailing trips around the milky way!
Early Bird Infant Group
Join NPC director Lindsey King for a free weekly drop-in group for infants and their caregivers. Coffee and tea included and siblings welcome.
Full House Fridays: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
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!
Benefit Class: Thanksgiving Day Yoga
with Sebastian Merrill: All are welcome to join us for this special Thanksgiving Day yoga class to benefit Transhealth. Transhealth serves trans and gender-diverse communities through primary care, mental health care, community support, education, and advocacy. They are the only independent, non-profit healthcare organization in the U.S. solely devoted to serving trans and gender-diverse communities. All experience levels welcome. Pay-what-you-can, by donation: $5-$150.* All proceeds will go to Transhealth. Thank you for helping us support our local community.
Queer & Trans Art Group (QTAG)
Open to anyone who identifies as queer, trans, or gender-expansive, come hang out, make art in community, or just connect with other queer and trans folks in a safer space!
Northampton Parents Center Free Weekly Playgroups
Northampton Parents Center’s Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Trans and Gender-Diverse Book Club: Compound Fracture
Join Transhealth for another Trans and Gender-Diverse Book Club! This month’s group will be reading and discussing “Compound Fracture” by Andrew Joseph White.
HYPHAE Fundraiser Pop Up Market
Join us in the 50 Arrow Gallery and across the Eastworks foyer, to dream with us in the future HYPHAE space with a makers market. Browse 20+ vendors with a variety of high-quality, handmade wares across mediums of print, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and more. Learn more about HYPHAE and shop to help open the doors to this amazing dream while also supporting local makers! Then buy some local veggies and fruits at the Easthampton Farmers Market! Masks required per radical community care.
Carts and Crafts
Come get some shopping done at River Valley Co-op in Easthampton while RCA minds your kids FOR FREE!!
Full House Fridays: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
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!
Early Bird Infant Group
Join NPC director Lindsey King for a free weekly drop-in group for infants and their caregivers. Coffee and tea included and siblings welcome.
Kid Creatives: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time exploring sculptures and comics IN SPAAAAACE: alien beings, paper mache rocket ships, comic books detailing trips around the milky way!
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 Fall & Winter 2025 weekly schedule
Autumn Musical Feast
Nestled in the hills of Amherst, the historic Red Barn offers breathtaking mountain views during this year’s Autumn Musical Feast. Supporters of the Northampton Community Music Center are invited to join us for a Balkan dinner and lively performance by Orkestar Banitsa.
HYPHAE Fundraiser Pop Up Market
Join us in the 50 Arrow Gallery and across the Eastworks foyer, to dream with us in the future HYPHAE space with a makers market. Browse 20+ vendors with a variety of high-quality, handmade wares across mediums of print, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and more. Learn more about HYPHAE and shop to help open the doors to this amazing dream while also supporting local makers! Then buy some local veggies and fruits at the Easthampton Farmers Market! Masks required per radical community care.
Benefit Class: Sound Bath for Sensitive Souls
with Jorie Morgan: Special Sound Bath to raise funds for Trans Relocation Support in Western Mass. Every being has the right to feel safe and comfortable enough to relax, regroup and heal. In this time, when transgender and nonbinary individuals are being threatened and denied care and services, let us open our hearts and our capacity for giving. Let us support those of us who need sanctuary, and work to create communities of belonging. For this special Sound Bath, Certified Sound Healer Jorie Morgan will curate a journey of sound designed to settle our nervous systems, ground and open our energetic systems, and invite in qualities of lightness, curiosity, hope and connectivity. All who attend are invited to show up mindfully with intentions of allowing sound to settle our bodies so that we may engage in the work of healing.
Family Queer & Trans Art Group (QTAG)
Join Translate Gender and Resilient Community Arts for an all-ages version of Queer and Trans Art Group. Open to anyone who identifies as queer, trans, or gender-expansive, come hang out, make art in community, or just connect with other queer and trans folks in a safer space!
Full House Fridays: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
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!
Felted Pillow Friends
Come build your own cozy pal to cuddle all winter long! This 2 hour workshop invites artists of any experience level to make a unique and functional piece of fiber art.
Early Bird Infant Group
Join NPC director Lindsey King for a free weekly drop-in group for infants and their caregivers. Coffee and tea included and siblings welcome.
Queer & Trans Art Group (QTAG)
Open to anyone who identifies as queer, trans, or gender-expansive, come hang out, make art in community, or just connect with other queer and trans folks in a safer space!
Kid Creatives: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time exploring sculptures and comics IN SPAAAAACE: alien beings, paper mache rocket ships, comic books detailing trips around the milky way!
Inked in Symbolism
Learn about symbolism found in tattoos, their cultural significance and more at this talk with Donnabelle Casis.
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 Fall & Winter 2025 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.
Scavenger Hunt Book Launch with Alex Gino!
Please join High Five Books in celebration of the new middle-grade novel by bestselling local author Alex Gino, CHRIS MAKES A FRIEND. You’re invited to scour High Five Books on a scavenger hunt for titles mentioned in the new novel, meet Alex, and have books signed.
Special Elders Storytime with Kaija Langley
High Five Books is thrilled to celebrate the picture book release of A CENTURY FOR CAROLINE on Saturday, November 8! Readers are invited to bring their special elders to this multigenerational storytime, featuring a reading and book signing by the author, Kaija Langley.
La Mimosa Collective
La Mimosa Collective is performing at NCMC November 7th. The mimosa flower is an international symbol of female empowerment. Expect performances of flute, cello, viola, violin, piano, and voice.
Full House Fridays: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
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!
Early Bird Infant Group
Join NPC director Lindsey King for a free weekly drop-in group for infants and their caregivers. Coffee and tea included and siblings welcome.
Kid Creatives: Space Sculptures & Cosmic Comics
Artists in grades 2nd-5th go on an artistic adventure, this time exploring sculptures and comics IN SPAAAAACE: alien beings, paper mache rocket ships, comic books detailing trips around the milky way!