Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce

09/04/2026

Hang on to that sweet summer feeling with a bouquet from Stop & Shop! This month, the Center will receive a $1 donation from each purchase of the specially marked Bloomin' 4 Good bouquet. 💐

09/04/2026

Happy ribbon-cutting, Blackbird Northampton! Happy to have this performance space open on Pleasant Street again!

09/04/2026

Always great to see members of the Board at our events! Thank you for making time in your busy lives for all you do for the Chamber and our Chamber community!

09/04/2026

Join Duston Spear at Forbes Library on Thursday September 24 at 6 pm for the launch of Bird Girl and a conversation with singer-songwriter Nerissa Nields about what happens when one creative life grows into another. They both came to writing after first careers in other art forms, yet those earlier practices never disappeared. Duston’s years as a visual artist—and Nerissa’s in music—continue to shape the work they make today. Rather than beginning again, they’ve discovered that every new form carries the one that came before it.

09/04/2026

It was another amazing September ARRIVE@5 with UMassFive College Credit Union last night at The Delaney House — year over year, their team puts on an amazing event, but this time they made it even more special by announcing their official sponsorship of the Greater Northampton Gift Card program! We are so thrilled to have their support of this important GNCC program, which has poured millions of dollars into our local economy since its inception. We couldn’t imagine a better partner to help us do this work— thank you, UMassFive!

09/03/2026

Now open!! Check out Middle of Somewhere in Thornes!

09/03/2026

Amazing work coming to Look Memorial Park this October from Allura Pumpkin Art Spectacular!

Well, steadfast determination counts a lot towards success when one thinks it’s unattainable.

I was having trouble getting enough light to make it look right, so I went over it all three more times and I feel really happy how it turned out.

Come see “him” in person this October @ . Allura Pumpkin Art Spectacular

09/03/2026

Our team had a great time at the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce Arrive @ 5 at the The Delaney House! The evening was filled with highlights of area nonprofits and art organizations, great food, and time connecting with other community professionals.

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09/03/2026

08/31/2026

Join our friends at LAVA’s for the next Writers Read featuring Ellen Meeropol, Carolyn A. Cushing and Elizabeth MacDuffie

Wednesday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m.
The LAVA Center, 324 Main St., Greenfield

https://thelavacenter.org/events/writers-read-ellen-meeropol-carolyn-a-cushing-elizabeth-macduffie/

Writers Read is a monthly opportunity for an audience to come and listen to local writers in an intimate environment. Each second Wednesday of the month, three writers read from their work, followed by a discussion facilitated by Lindy Whiton, designer of Writers Read. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write.

Ellen Meeropol is the author of six novels, most recently Sometimes an Island and The Lost Women of Azalea Court, and the guest editor of the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Ellen is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and member of the WriteAngles Conference planning committee.

Carolyn A. Cushing (she/her) is a Tarot practitioner, seeker of justice, and poet inspired by nature and focused on the places where life and death meet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts 2023 – 2025. Find her on-line at soulpathsanctuary.com/poetry

Elizabeth MacDuffie is founding editor Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, producer of the Meat for Teacast, and co-runner, with her husband, Mark Alan Miller, of Meat for Tea Press. She’s had work published in Silkworm, Thimble, The Hooghly Review, and in the 2025 and 2026 New Generation Beats Anthologies, among other places. She lives and works in Holyoke, MA.

$1–5 suggested donation