Join Transhealth for this in-person book club for the trans and gender-diverse community!

This month’s pick: Detransition, Baby, “A bold exploration of gender, parenthood, love, and trans life” by Torrey Peters. Participants will read sections of the book independently, before meeting together to discuss the novel as a group.

They encourage group members to share their thoughts, reflections, and critiques of the book as it relates to their lived experience or broader relationship to our community.

Reader Discretion Advised, Ages 18 and over. Max of 12 participants. Paperback copies of the book will be provided to those who need them.

Registration

This is a FREE offering!

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Registration

If you’re interested in joining, please email franastino@gmail.com and she will add you to the Google Meet invite.

Sliding-scale pricing, suggested start at $5. This offering is run solely on donations and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Donations are accepted via Venmo to @franastino

Artists in grades 2nd-5th are invited to explore Sewing & Sculpture during this multi-part afterschool session during this 7 week Monday afterschool session.

Click/tap the button below for more information and to register.

Inspired by the visual art, writings, and life of British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington and her mentorship of a long line of male artists, this surreal performance unfolds an encounter between Leonora and Adán (everyman) and portrays the magic, mystery, and humanity found in Carrington’s work.

Registration

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Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $40

Student / Senior: $37

Alumni: $30

Child: $25

Hilltown Adult: $38

Hilltown Student / Senior: $35

If you wish to bring a child younger than 5 years old, please reach out to see if they can accommodate the request.

Please note: tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.

Cat’s out of the bag: This November, High Five Books is hosting graphic novelist Colleen AF Venable for a KATIE THE CATSITTER party!

In celebration of the release of book no. 4 in the series, THE PURRFECT PLAN (out Oct. 8!), we’ll gather at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity here in Florence on Sunday, November 17, 3-4:30PM.

Colleen will discuss her creative process, demonstrate how to draw characters from her books, and answer questions about everyone’s favorite superhero sidekick series! There will be treats, of course.

Readers are welcome to bring their own book copies for signing, and we’ll have all her titles for purchase.

Registration

Tickets for this purr-fect afternoon are pay-what-you-will

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Inspired by the visual art, writings, and life of British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington and her mentorship of a long line of male artists, this surreal performance unfolds an encounter between Leonora and Adán (everyman) and portrays the magic, mystery, and humanity found in Carrington’s work.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to purchase tickets.

Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $40

Student / Senior: $37

Alumni: $30

Child: $25

Hilltown Adult: $38

Hilltown Student / Senior: $35

If you wish to bring a child younger than 5 years old, please reach out to see if they can accommodate the request.

Please note: tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.

With Award-Winning Poet and Yoga Instructor, Sebastian Merrill, this writing and yoga workshop will include an asana practice designed to spark our creativity, followed by generative writing. We'll cultivate a sense of wonder, intuition, and magic with various tools including meditation, bibliomancy, and tarot.

The act of writing is an act of revelation: this workshop will provide you with techniques and skills to act as a medium for your writing, discovering new ideas, shapes, and forms through your own subconscious. This workshop is for anyone who wants tools and structure for supporting their own creative practice.

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Sliding Scale Pricing: $30-$50

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Inspired by the visual art, writings, and life of British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington and her mentorship of a long line of male artists, this surreal performance unfolds an encounter between Leonora and Adán (everyman) and portrays the magic, mystery, and humanity found in Carrington’s work.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to purchase tickets.

Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $40

Student / Senior: $37

Alumni: $30

Child: $25

Hilltown Adult: $38

Hilltown Student / Senior: $35

If you wish to bring a child younger than 5 years old, please reach out to see if they can accommodate the request.

Please note: tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.

Inspired by the visual art, writings, and life of British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington and her mentorship of a long line of male artists, this surreal performance unfolds an encounter between Leonora and Adán (everyman) and portrays the magic, mystery, and humanity found in Carrington’s work.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to purchase tickets.

Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $40

Student / Senior: $37

Alumni: $30

Child: $25

Hilltown Adult: $38

Hilltown Student / Senior: $35

If you wish to bring a child younger than 5 years old, please reach out to see if they can accommodate the request.

Please note: tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.

Inspired by the visual art, writings, and life of British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington and her mentorship of a long line of male artists, this surreal performance unfolds an encounter between Leonora and Adán (everyman) and portrays the magic, mystery, and humanity found in Carrington’s work.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to purchase tickets.

Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $40

Student / Senior: $37

Alumni: $30

Child: $25

Hilltown Adult: $38

Hilltown Student / Senior: $35

If you wish to bring a child younger than 5 years old, please reach out to see if they can accommodate the request.

Please note: tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.

Registration

If you’re interested in joining, please email franastino@gmail.com and she will add you to the Google Meet invite.

Sliding-scale pricing, suggested start at $5. This offering is run solely on donations and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Donations are accepted via Venmo to @franastino

Lander-Grinspoon Academy is proud to announce its inaugural festival celebrating children’s books, authors, and their readers!

They are delighted to host a stellar group of award-winning, renowned authors: Adam Gidwitz, Jeanne Birdsall, and Lesléa Newman. The event will take place on Sunday, November 10th at Lander-Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, MA, starting at 10am.

This event is geared towards readers ages 4-14 and open to all. Families are invited to bring their own copies of the authors' titles to be signed, and High Five Books will have them for sale, too.

Registration

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Directed by local filmmaker and educator Kate Way, Banned Together follows the recent wave of book bans in the United States. The feature length documentary film follows the courageous efforts of three students from a small South Carolina community who take a stand when almost 100 books are abruptly removed from their school libraries. As the students rise to become national voices in the fight against censorship, the film captures the broader narrative of book banning and curriculum censorship across the United States.

Featuring interviews with best-selling authors whose works have been banned, including Juno Dawson, Jodi Picoult, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Ellen Hopkins, and Erica L. Sánchez, the film also includes insights from Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, constitutional scholars, educators, librarians, parents, and student activists from across the country.

The 90-min screening will be followed by a brief panel discussion. High Five Books will have banned books for sale.

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With LB Moore

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is an empirically-validated choice-based movement practice for survivors navigating the effects of complex trauma. The purpose of TCTSY is to provide opportunities for participants to explore agency and the possibility of having a body through making choices about movement and/or stillness. As a modality focused on your internal experience and choices, TCTSY isn’t about “correct” or “best” ways to move, and you’re not expected or required to have a particular emotional or physical experience. There’s not a right or wrong way to move or have a body.

While participant experiences are inherently personal and varied, TCTSY is generally associated with increases in interoception (internal awareness) and self-efficacy in making choices within and beyond the movement space. Positive changes in trauma-related experiences (e.g., mood concerns, vigilance, perspective of self, relationships, physiological arousal) are also commonly reported by participants of TCTSY.

If you’d like, you can learn more about the body of formal research about TCTSY at traumasensitiveyoga.com/research.

Any movement practice can bring up unexpected thoughts, feelings, or sensations; some participants find it useful to identify supportive people (such as a trusted friend, bodyworker, therapist, etc.) with whom they can verbally process their experiences outside of class if desired.

For this series, the same overall flow and series of shapes will be provided each session in service of predictability. Options for ways to move or explore stillness are offered as invitations, and you are welcome to make choices about how to practice. If you’d like to see a brief sample video of TCTSY facilitated by LB, you can find one on their website here. You are welcome to practice from a chair or mat as suits you; both will be available for each session.

This special series is intended for adults who are interested in trauma-sensitive movement. You’re welcome to learn more about TCTSY and LB at ampersandhealing.org/tctsy. As part of the registration process for this series, you will be asked to complete a participant enrollment form (Google form, only viewable by LB). You will not be asked to identify as a trauma survivor or describe experiences of trauma.

Registration

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Sliding Scale Series Pricing: $120-$180

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Registration

If you’re interested in joining, please email franastino@gmail.com and she will add you to the Google Meet invite.

Sliding-scale pricing, suggested start at $5. This offering is run solely on donations and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Donations are accepted via Venmo to @franastino

Artists in grades 2nd-5th are invited to explore Sewing & Sculpture during this multi-part afterschool session during this 7 week Monday afterschool session.

Click/tap the button below for more information and to register.