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Join us in welcoming Carolyn Mazel back to the Library! This family-friendly event will introduce the joy of music in a structured environment. We’ll sing songs, learn basic music concepts, and play simple instruments. You’re sure to be dancing by the end! Registration is required. Recommended for ages 1-6.

Please note: This performance will be INDOORS. downstairs in our programming space at the back of the Youth Department.

FREE and open to all ages. Join us as we welcome the Gaea Star Band for the third performance of our Local Music Rocks! Concert Series. World, new age and spiritual including instrumental & vocals.

Happening RAIN or SHINE!! That means that weather permitting, they will take place on the Library Green. Some chairs will be provided but please feel free to bring a blanket or lawn chair.

However, in the case of inclement weather — the show must go on! The performance will happen downstairs in our programming space at the back of the Youth Department. If so, we will advertise as such the day of the concert.

Please note: This performance will be INDOORS. downstairs in our programming space at the back of the Youth Department.

FREE and open to all ages. Join us as we welcome Skylarkz for the fourth performance of our Local Music Rocks! Concert Series. Classic Americana including swing, blues and ballads.

Happening RAIN or SHINE!! That means that weather permitting, they will take place on the Library Green. Some chairs will be provided but please feel free to bring a blanket or lawn chair.

However, in the case of inclement weather — the show must go on! The performance will happen downstairs in our programming space at the back of the Youth Department. If so, we will advertise as such the day of the concert.

Rock out with Carle educators in this program celebrating music and dance! Families will enjoy an interactive storytime followed by opportunities to move, play, and explore art materials. Registration required. Recommended for ages 2 and up.

Join us to celebrate the end of another rockin’ reading program! Participants who read 12 hours or more during the summer are eligible to come to this event at Nonotuck Park. The first hour will feature games, activities, and food, followed by a rock ‘n’ roll story time with local musician Liam Hurley. Registration is required — when you sign up, please let us know if you are able to bring any sides, snacks, drinks, or dessert to share (we’ll provide the main course). All ages are welcome!

It’s Book Fest at the Library!
Enjoy breakfast treats with local author Daisy Rolland as she reads her picture book How to Enjoy Sweetland: Your Essential Guide to Sweets. Dropin. All ages welcome. Easthampton Book Fest is presented by Easthampton City Arts.

FREE and open to all ages. Join us as we welcome back local music group Crimson Canary for the first performance of our Out of this World Concert Series! They are thrilled to have accordionist Chris Haynes join them for a special evening of French, Italian and Spanish music. 

Happening RAIN or SHINE!! That means that weather permitting, they will take place on the Library Green. Some chairs will be provided but please feel free to bring a blanket or lawn chair.

However, in the case of inclement weather — the show must go on! The performance will happen downstairs in our programming space at the back of the Youth Department. If so, we will advertise as such the day of the concert.

FREE and open to all ages. Join us as we welcome Fraser Andras for the second performance of our Out of this World Concert Series! Fraser performs electric and classical guitar.

Happening RAIN or SHINE!! That means that weather permitting, they will take place on the Library Green. Some chairs will be provided but please feel free to bring a blanket or lawn chair.

However, in the case of inclement weather — the show must go on! The performance will happen downstairs in our programming space at the back of the Youth Department. If so, we will advertise as such the day of the concert.

Join us for this special event — A Meat for Tea author reading with Andrew Varnon! Andrew will read his essay “The Other Side of the Net”. This event is drop-in. 

In “The Other Side of the Net,” writer Andrew Varnon imagines playing tennis with the ghost of David Foster Wallace, the author of the monumental novel Infinite Jest. Wallace committed suicide in 2008, but has a devoted following of readers and fans. In his essay, Varnon describes how he came to read Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest through his interest in tennis. The novel is partially set at the fictional Enfield Tennis Academy in Massachusetts. In the tennis community, Wallace is also known for his essay on tennis icon Roger Federer, “Both Flesh and Not,” and is widely credited with the appellation for tennis as “chess on the run.” In his essay, Varnon engages Wallace’s writing style – complete with end notes – and explores the idea of how the activity of reading and writing is, in fact, like playing tennis.

Writer and teacher Andrew Varnon lives in Greenfield with his wife and family. He is the boys tennis coach at Greenfield High School and an active recreational tennis player. He is also a journalist and an award-winning poet. “The Other Side of the Net” was originally published online at The Smart Set (www.thesmartset.com/the-other-side-of-the-net/) and was republished locally in Meat for Tea. Varnon presented a portion of his essay to the David Foster Wallace Conference in Normal, Illinois, this June.

Author and artist Grace Desmarais is back! Grace will give background on her medical experience and then discuss her comic Spoons: a dairy on chronic illness, Tubes: diaries from the hospital and her up-coming book Healing Year. She will then hold a Q&A. At the end, attendees will have an opportunity to buy her mini comics and have them signed.

Artist Bio: 
Grace Desmarais is a French-Canadian illustrator and cartoonist. She currently lives in Eastern Massachusetts and spends most of her time drawing.

Grace Desmarais primarily self-publishes auto-bio comic while also being involved in a variety of anthologies. Most of Grace’s work is rooted in subjects like art history, dis/ability and personal experience. Her long-term goal is to be a published author/illustrator with a committed comics publisher.