May
8
Tue
Tai Chi for Healing & Fun with Janet Aalfs
May 8 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Join Janet Aalfs for a series of Tai Chi classes! Twice on Tuesday evenings and twice on Friday mornings. Registration is strongly encouraged. Call or come in to sign up.

Janet, poet laureate emeritus of Northampton, MA and a master instructor of integrative arts including Poetry, TaiChi & Qigong, Karate, Filipino Stick Arts, and Empowerment Self-protection Strategies, has been teaching and performing locally, nationally, and internationally for 40 years. Founder/Director of Lotus Peace Arts at Valley Women’s Martial Arts, a non-profit school started in 1977, and located in Easthampton since 1984, Aalfs enjoys helping to create community sites for revelation and enjoyment. Her writing has been widely published, and she has received awards for her leadership in the arts as well as prizes for her poetry. Her most recent book of poems is Bird of a Thousand Eyes (Levellers Press).

May
11
Fri
Tai Chi for Healing & Fun with Janet Aalfs
May 11 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join Janet Aalfs for a series of Tai Chi classes! Twice on Tuesday evenings and twice on Friday mornings. Registration is strongly encouraged. Call or come in to sign up.

Janet, poet laureate emeritus of Northampton, MA and a master instructor of integrative arts including Poetry, TaiChi & Qigong, Karate, Filipino Stick Arts, and Empowerment Self-protection Strategies, has been teaching and performing locally, nationally, and internationally for 40 years. Founder/Director of Lotus Peace Arts at Valley Women’s Martial Arts, a non-profit school started in 1977, and located in Easthampton since 1984, Aalfs enjoys helping to create community sites for revelation and enjoyment. Her writing has been widely published, and she has received awards for her leadership in the arts as well as prizes for her poetry. Her most recent book of poems is Bird of a Thousand Eyes (Levellers Press).

May
21
Mon
CANCELED – Computer Collaborative Program
May 21 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
CANCELED - Computer Collaborative Program @ Easthampton Council on Aging & Enrichment | Easthampton | Massachusetts | United States

PLEASE NOTE: This session of the Computer Collaborative is canceled. 

Computer classes offered in collaboration with the Easthampton Council on Aging and Enrichment Center. Topic changes monthly. Held at the Eastampton Council on Aging. Seats are limited! Call 527-1031 or email slevine@ewmlibrary.org to register!

Jun
11
Mon
Computer Collaborative Program
Jun 11 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Computer Collaborative Program @ Easthampton Council on Aging & Enrichment | Easthampton | Massachusetts | United States

Computer classes offered in collaboration with the Easthampton Council on Aging and Enrichment Center. Topic changes monthly. Held at the Eastampton Council on Aging. Seats are limited! Call 527-1031 or email slevine@ewmlibrary.org to register!

Jun
25
Mon
First Day of Summer Reading!
Jun 25 all-day
First Day of Summer Reading!

Libraries Rock! … is the theme of this year’s Summer Reading. Our programs will run from Monday, June 25th through Saturday, August 4th. Registration begins the morning of the first day, but will stay open for the full six weeks. So join us as we get musical and get dancin’ in the stacks (literally)!!

Computer Collaborative Program
Jun 25 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Computer Collaborative Program @ Easthampton Council on Aging & Enrichment | Easthampton | Massachusetts | United States

Computer classes offered in collaboration with the Easthampton Council on Aging and Enrichment Center. Topic changes monthly. Held at the Eastampton Council on Aging. Seats are limited! Call 527-1031 or email slevine@ewmlibrary.org to register!

Jun
26
Tue
Rock the Library with Jungle Jim!
Jun 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Jun
27
Wed
Summer Weaving Wednesdays
Jun 27 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Stop by to try out Angela’s Structo Loom that’s over 100 years old. A great project for developing hand-eye coordination, and easy enough for toddlers to try!

Jun
29
Fri
Learn to Dance: Jazz with Stepping Up!
Jun 29 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Lianne from the Stepping Up Dance Center joins us to share the art of Jazz dancing. This is the first of three different dance classes at the Library this summer! Registration required. Recommended for ages 5 and up.

Jul
3
Tue
Art Composers with Lois!
Jul 3 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Lois returns for another artful summer workshop series! She has once again devised a broad spectrum of open-ended art projects, this time around the summer’s theme, Libraries Rock! We may even listen to some music to inspire us while working on our projects. Come to one or come to all of these fun programs. Registration is required. Recommended for ages 5 and up.