Trans Day of Visibility Resource & Art Fair
Join Translate Gender on March 29th from 11 am - 3 pm for their 3rd annual Trans Day of Visibility Resource & Art Fair! They had an incredible outpouring of community last year for their event (over 650+ people in attendance throughout the day) - and they're excited to be together in community again this year.
With 20+ organization and local business resource tables sharing about the important work they do, an additional 20+ local trans and queer makers and artists showcasing and selling their work, live music, drag performances, food trucks, free notary services, HIV/STI testing, and space to come together in community.
This event is family / youth friendly, with resources for community members of all ages.
Proceeds benefit Translate Gender, a trans-led non-profit organization supporting youth, families, and community members across Western Massachusetts. Consider making a donation today!
Parking:
There is a large free parking lot right on site that has capacity for over 100 cars. There are many accessible parking spaces right outside the building. If the lot is full, free street parking is available around the building and nearby streets. Do not park in private lots or block driveways.
Public Transportation:
There is a PVTA bus stop (off R24) at the Senior Center (depending on your starting location). The Holyoke Transit Station is also a few short blocks away. Learn more about transit directions here.
A note on accessibility:
MASKS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE EVENT. High quality, KN95 and N95 masks must be worn inside the space. They'll have them available or you can bring your own from home. Food and drinks will be available and must be consumed outside in the picnic / outdoor seating area.
As the Holyoke Council on Aging is a city building, it is ADA compliant, has multiple accessible parking spots, automatic door openers, accessible and all-gender restrooms, and elevators to support all of our community.
Community Safety / Support:
They’ll have Western MA Dyke Patrol on hand to provide safety, de-escalation tactics, and support throughout the event. The Senior Center will also have their staff team on hand along with building security.
Translate Gender works to create a safe, accessible space for our communities. They reserve the right to exit anyone from the event if needed to ensure a welcoming and inclusive environment that centers BIPOC, queer and trans folks, and youth alongside their families.
This is a FREE offering!
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering.
Affirmations Book Club (Ages 8-12) - High Five Books & Translate Gender
A casual monthly book club for trans, nonbinary, & gender-creative youth, ages 8 - 12! Next month they're reading spooky graphic novel, THE WITCH BOY by Molly Knox Ostertag!
Affirmations book club is held in person at High Five Books (at 141 N. Main Street in Florence, MA) monthly on 3rd Wednesdays.
To join the in-person group (or if you have questions for the High Five team) email kinsey@highfivebooks.org.
These groups will be co-facilitated by the awesome folks at High Five and Translate Gender.
Registration
Click/tap button below for more infomation.
Transfemmes / Gender-Expansive Femmes Support Group, In Person
Join Translate Gender for an in-person support group for transfemmes / gender-expansive femmes (ages 30+), led and facilitated by transfemmes.
Berkshire Families Gathering (In-Person)
Join Translate Gender for this offering that is designed to aid caregivers and youth in creating larger networks of support and sharing resources. This event is held on the 4th Sunday of each month.
These open-ended family groups include all members of trans families [caregivers/parents, trans/nonbinary youth between 3-18 & their siblings, family friends, and extended community].
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Location provided after RSVP (location to alternate to make these gatherings accessible to families in North and South Counties, as well as in Central Berkshire County).
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org and include names and pronouns of everyone attending AND ages of youth if they are attending in your RSVP.
Virtual Caregiver Support Space
Join Translate Gender for their one hour Caregiver Support Space. Centering the experiences of adult family members and caregivers who have trans and nonbinary youth (ages 3-18) in their lives. This group is facilitated by a member of the Translate Gender team.
This group meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 7-8pm (EST).
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org, if you plan to attend the upcoming group.
Summer Pride Pop-Up: Nimona Movie Night @ High Five Books
Summer Pride Pop-Ups: Nimona Movie Screening!
Wed Aug 21st 6:00pm - 7:30pm
High Five Books Patio, 141 N Main St, Florence, MA 01062, USA
Open Studio Drop-In for Tweens & Teens
Translate Gender is excited to launch a hang out / drop-in space for tweens and teens (ages 10-18) after much demand from the community.
Each month on the 1st and 3rd Fridays from 4-6pm, youth can come hang out in Translate Gender’s comfortable studio space in Northampton to watch movies, create zines and art, play video games, do homework, and make friends. Youth MUST register to participate.
This space will be staffed by adult supports to ensure a safe, brave space for youth who are trans, nonbinary, gender expansive or youth allies.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Email eva@translategender.org with any questions.
Location is provided upon Registration.
Transfemmes / Gender-Expansive Femmes Support Group, In Person
Join Translate Gender for an in-person support group for transfemmes / gender-expansive femmes (ages 30+), led and facilitated by transfemmes.
The group meets every other Wednesday in downtown Northampton. New members will need to be verified for safety reasons.
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
The group is offered at no cost.
Location is provided after RSVP
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org, if you plan to attend the upcoming group.
Hampshire Families Gathering (In-Person)
Join Translate Gender for this offering that is designed to aid caregivers and youth in creating larger networks of support and sharing resources. This event is held on the 2nd Sunday of each month.
These open-ended family groups include all members of trans families [caregivers/parents, trans/nonbinary youth between 3-18, their siblings, grandparents, and extended community].
4 separate spaces for participants to connect:
Adult Caregivers/Family Members
Teens (13+)
Tweens (9-12)
Youth (3-9)
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Suggested donation is sliding scale: $25-$150/family. No one turned away.
Location provided after RSVP (in Northampton).
To RSVP for the Youth & Family Gathering, please email groups@translategender.org
Open Studio Drop-In for Tweens & Teens
Translate Gender is excited to launch a hang out / drop-in space for tweens and teens (ages 10-18) after much demand from the community.
Each month on the 1st and 3rd Fridays from 4-6pm, youth can come hang out in Translate Gender’s comfortable studio space in Northampton to watch movies, create zines and art, play video games, do homework, and make friends. Youth MUST register to participate.
This space will be staffed by adult supports to ensure a safe, brave space for youth who are trans, nonbinary, gender expansive or youth allies.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Email eva@translategender.org with any questions.
Location is provided upon Registration.
Transfemmes / Gender-Expansive Femmes Support Group, In Person
Join Translate Gender for an in-person support group for transfemmes / gender-expansive femmes (ages 30+), led and facilitated by transfemmes.
The group meets every other Wednesday in downtown Northampton. New members will need to be verified for safety reasons.
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
The group is offered at no cost.
Location is provided after RSVP
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org, if you plan to attend the upcoming group.
Berkshire Families Gathering (In-Person)
Join Translate Gender for this offering that is designed to aid caregivers and youth in creating larger networks of support and sharing resources. This event is held on the 4th Sunday of each month.
These open-ended family groups include all members of trans families [caregivers/parents, trans/nonbinary youth between 3-18 & their siblings, family friends, and extended community].
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Location provided after RSVP (location to alternate to make these gatherings accessible to families in North and South Counties, as well as in Central Berkshire County).
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org and include names and pronouns of everyone attending AND ages of youth if they are attending in your RSVP.
Open Studio Drop-In for Tweens & Teens
Translate Gender is excited to launch a hang out / drop-in space for tweens and teens (ages 10-18) after much demand from the community.
Each month on the 1st and 3rd Fridays from 4-6pm, youth can come hang out in Translate Gender’s comfortable studio space in Northampton to watch movies, create zines and art, play video games, do homework, and make friends. Youth MUST register to participate.
This space will be staffed by adult supports to ensure a safe, brave space for youth who are trans, nonbinary, gender expansive or youth allies.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Email eva@translategender.org with any questions.
Location is provided upon Registration.
Virtual Caregiver Support Space
Join Translate Gender for their one hour Caregiver Support Space. Centering the experiences of adult family members and caregivers who have trans and nonbinary youth (ages 3-18) in their lives. This group is facilitated by a member of the Translate Gender team.
This group meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 7-8pm (EST).
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org, if you plan to attend the upcoming group.
Transfemmes / Gender-Expansive Femmes Support Group, In Person
Join Translate Gender for an in-person support group for transfemmes / gender-expansive femmes (ages 30+), led and facilitated by transfemmes.
The group meets every other Wednesday in downtown Northampton. New members will need to be verified for safety reasons.
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
The group is offered at no cost.
Location is provided after RSVP
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org, if you plan to attend the upcoming group.
Hampshire Families Gathering (In-Person)
Join Translate Gender for this offering that is designed to aid caregivers and youth in creating larger networks of support and sharing resources. This event is held on the 2nd Sunday of each month.
These open-ended family groups include all members of trans families [caregivers/parents, trans/nonbinary youth between 3-18, their siblings, grandparents, and extended community].
4 separate spaces for participants to connect:
Adult Caregivers/Family Members
Teens (13+)
Tweens (9-12)
Youth (3-9)
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Suggested donation is sliding scale: $25-$150/family. No one turned away.
Location provided after RSVP (in Northampton).
To RSVP for the Youth & Family Gathering, please email groups@translategender.org
Open Studio Drop-In for Tweens & Teens
Translate Gender is excited to launch a hang out / drop-in space for tweens and teens (ages 10-18) after much demand from the community.
Each month on the 1st and 3rd Fridays from 4-6pm, youth can come hang out in Translate Gender’s comfortable studio space in Northampton to watch movies, create zines and art, play video games, do homework, and make friends. Youth MUST register to participate.
This space will be staffed by adult supports to ensure a safe, brave space for youth who are trans, nonbinary, gender expansive or youth allies.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Email eva@translategender.org with any questions.
Location is provided upon Registration.
Transfemmes / Gender-Expansive Femmes Support Group, In Person
Join Translate Gender for an in-person support group for transfemmes / gender-expansive femmes (ages 30+), led and facilitated by transfemmes.
The group meets every other Wednesday in downtown Northampton. New members will need to be verified for safety reasons.
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
The group is offered at no cost.
Location is provided after RSVP
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org, if you plan to attend the upcoming group.
Affirmations Book Club
Trans, non-binary, and gender-creative youth (ages 8-12) are invited to join High Five Books and Translate Gender in-person at High Five Books each month for a casual, super-fun book club.
These groups will be co-facilitated by the awesome folks at High Five and Translate Gender.
Book choices to be announced soon!
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Admission is free. Donations are welcome.
Berkshire Families Gathering (In-Person)
Join Translate Gender for this offering that is designed to aid caregivers and youth in creating larger networks of support and sharing resources. This event is held on the 4th Sunday of each month.
These open-ended family groups include all members of trans families [caregivers/parents, trans/nonbinary youth between 3-18 & their siblings, family friends, and extended community].
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Location provided after RSVP (location to alternate to make these gatherings accessible to families in North and South Counties, as well as in Central Berkshire County).
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org and include names and pronouns of everyone attending AND ages of youth if they are attending in your RSVP.
Open Studio Drop-In for Tweens & Teens
Translate Gender is excited to launch a hang out / drop-in space for tweens and teens (ages 10-18) after much demand from the community.
Each month on the 1st and 3rd Fridays from 4-6pm, youth can come hang out in Translate Gender’s comfortable studio space in Northampton to watch movies, create zines and art, play video games, do homework, and make friends. Youth MUST register to participate.
This space will be staffed by adult supports to ensure a safe, brave space for youth who are trans, nonbinary, gender expansive or youth allies.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Email eva@translategender.org with any questions.
Location is provided upon Registration.
Virtual Caregiver Support Space
Join Translate Gender for their one hour Caregiver Support Space. Centering the experiences of adult family members and caregivers who have trans and nonbinary youth (ages 3-18) in their lives. This group is facilitated by a member of the Translate Gender team.
This group meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 7-8pm (EST).
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org, if you plan to attend the upcoming group.
Transfemmes / Gender-Expansive Femmes Support Group, In Person
Join Translate Gender for an in-person support group for transfemmes / gender-expansive femmes (ages 30+), led and facilitated by transfemmes.
The group meets every other Wednesday in downtown Northampton. New members will need to be verified for safety reasons.
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
The group is offered at no cost.
Location is provided after RSVP
To RSVP, please email groups@translategender.org, if you plan to attend the upcoming group.
Hampshire Families Gathering (In-Person)
Join Translate Gender for this offering that is designed to aid caregivers and youth in creating larger networks of support and sharing resources. This event is held on the 2nd Sunday of each month.
These open-ended family groups include all members of trans families [caregivers/parents, trans/nonbinary youth between 3-18, their siblings, grandparents, and extended community].
4 separate spaces for participants to connect:
Adult Caregivers/Family Members
Teens (13+)
Tweens (9-12)
Youth (3-9)
This group relies on the support of donations from families and community support. If you’d like to help sustain this work, you’re encouraged to make a donation.
Registration
Suggested donation is sliding scale: $25-$150/family. No one turned away.
Location provided after RSVP (in Northampton).
To RSVP for the Youth & Family Gathering, please email groups@translategender.org
The Enchanted Crystal: A Queer Tale of Magic, Friendship, & Adventure
Join Translate Gender's trans youth community theatre collective, co-ACT, on their original final show.
When a group of students find an old edition of a Dungeons & Dragons game during science class, nothing prepares them to a journey between worlds in their pursue after a shattered crystal, exposing stories that are not allowed to be told. Join the cast on their quest for transformation and self-acceptance, as they discover their authentic selves facing mysterious quests, magical beings, and one weirdly queer Dragon!
Each year the youth write and create an original show based on their lived experience, stories, and imagination. This year, join the youth through a journey of adventures, an enchanted forest, a creepy tower, a magical being and an all mysterious dragon!
Masks are mandatory to attend the show. The venue is accessible. Lets support our communities together.
The co-ACT Youth Theatre Collective supports trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive youth in creating a playful space to share personal and collective narratives, explore identities, and unite around shared lived experiences by integrating the magical tools of theatre.
co-ACT engages in acting, theatre play, dramatizing subjective narratives, role-play, improv, and much more. co-ACT supports youth to gender self-determination, self-expressions, and non-judgmental exploration of identities, including (but not limited to) gender. Each year, the collective write and create an original play/musical based on their stories and shared lived experiences.
Registration
Click/tap the button below for more information and to purchase tickets.
Tickets are by sliding scale - all proceeding will support co-ACT as they continue to expand and grow!
Open Studio Drop-In for Tweens & Teens
Translate Gender is excited to launch a hang out / drop-in space for tweens and teens (ages 10-18) after much demand from the community.
Each month on the 1st and 3rd Fridays from 4-6pm, youth can come hang out in Translate Gender’s comfortable studio space in Northampton to watch movies, create zines and art, play video games, do homework, and make friends. Youth MUST register to participate.
This space will be staffed by adult supports to ensure a safe, brave space for youth who are trans, nonbinary, gender expansive or youth allies.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Email eva@translategender.org with any questions.
Location is provided upon Registration.
The Enchanted Crystal: A Queer Tale of Magic, Friendship, & Adventure
Join Translate Gender's trans youth community theatre collective, co-ACT, on their original final show.
When a group of students find an old edition of a Dungeons & Dragons game during science class, nothing prepares them to a journey between worlds in their pursue after a shattered crystal, exposing stories that are not allowed to be told. Join the cast on their quest for transformation and self-acceptance, as they discover their authentic selves facing mysterious quests, magical beings, and one weirdly queer Dragon!
Each year the youth write and create an original show based on their lived experience, stories, and imagination. This year, join the youth through a journey of adventures, an enchanted forest, a creepy tower, a magical being and an all mysterious dragon!
Masks are mandatory to attend the show. The venue is accessible. Lets support our communities together.
The co-ACT Youth Theatre Collective supports trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive youth in creating a playful space to share personal and collective narratives, explore identities, and unite around shared lived experiences by integrating the magical tools of theatre.
co-ACT engages in acting, theatre play, dramatizing subjective narratives, role-play, improv, and much more. co-ACT supports youth to gender self-determination, self-expressions, and non-judgmental exploration of identities, including (but not limited to) gender. Each year, the collective write and create an original play/musical based on their stories and shared lived experiences.
Registration
Click/tap the button below for more information and to purchase tickets.
Tickets are by sliding scale - all proceeding will support co-ACT as they continue to expand and grow!