Holyoke Media

Holyoke Media Board of Directors Meeting
2020-12-16 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Zoom, MA, United States
Meeting to be held via Zoom
Agenda

Acceptance of prior meeting minutes
Director’s Report
Old business:

COVID response
Strategic plan

Standing items for discussion:

Building
How do we combat systemic racism within our organization and in the wider community
Membership check-in
See-Click-Fix audit
Personnel check-in

New business:

Budget
Sick time bank
Schedule next meeting – Wed., Jan 20, 2021 at 6:30 p.m.

Review in February:

Translation

Adjourn

A More Perfect Union: How the Insular Cases Prolonged Colonialism in Puerto Rico
2023-08-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
The Insular Cases have condemned to oblivion a definitive solution to the political status of Puerto Rico, maintaining it as a colony of the United States for 125 years. As a prelude to the 250th anniversary of this American nation’s Declaration of Independence in 2026, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports multiple initiatives for dialogue and reflection about this event.
Puerto Rico Humanities Foundation and Ágora Cultural Architects invite you to the conference A more perfect union: how the Insular Cases prolonged colonialism in Puerto Rico. Award-winning historian and journalist Pedro Reina-Pérez will discuss the political, socioeconomic and cultural repercussions Puerto Ricans suffer today due to decisions on the Insular Cases.
About the speaker:
Pedro Reina Pérez is an award-winning historian and journalist specializing in contemporary Spanish Caribbean history, and the director of the Harvard Puerto Rico Winter Institute. He is a Full Professor of Humanities, and Arts and Cultural Agency and Administration at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. Known for his publications on culture and current affairs as well as his work on cultural entrepreneurship, he is a contributing writer for El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico), El País (Spain) and ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (US). Among his eleven books and edited volumes are Poeta del Paisaje (2013), El Arco Prodigioso (2009) and La Semilla Que Sembramos (2003). He has also worked on documentaries for TV and public radio such as Si Me Da El Tiempo (WIPR-TV 2003), Palés y la Rumba de Esquina (BPPR 2009) and Pau Casals: La Música Por La Paz (Televisión Española 2013). He has been awarded the Ricardo Alegría Medal (2010), the Bolívar Pagán Journalism Prize (2006) and the 1995 Public Humanities Fellowship (NEH), among others. He holds a BA in Latin American Studies from New York University (Cum Laude), and a PhD in History from the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe.
Learn more HERE

Open Mic'd
2023-08-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Join Attack Bear Press and Holyoke Media for a new live recorded monthly poetry night! Featuring Julio Cesar Diaz!
Julio Cesar Diaz, a Texas-born Centroamericano, lives in Western Massachusetts. As a gay bilingual poet, their work questions their own frameworks of (queer) family, memory, and hyper realistic dreams. Diaz was the recipient of the 2023 Mass MoCA Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, 2022 Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship in Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize. Diaz has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Conferences as Translator and Writer, Palm Beach Festival, and the Juniper Institute. They serve as a reader for Frontier Poetry and editor for Poetry Currency. Their work can be found in The Cortland Review, Pleiades Magazine, North American Review, Southword Journal, and elsewhere.”
Show starts at 7 PM, Open Mic sign ups start at 6:45 PM. Poetry and spoken word welcome. Entry is free. Donations welcome!!
The show is recorded for broadcast on Holyoke Media.

NMA Singer-Songwriter Showcase-"Men With a Jam": Four of the Best New Voices in W. New England Music
2023-08-25 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
*The New Music Alliance and Holyoke Media have partnered to present this special show at Holyoke Media’s brand new $2.5 million state-of-the-art facility.
*Performers were selected as 4 of the Best New Voices in Western New England Music
Enjoy a great show in a superb acoustically-optimized listening room environment- Unique to this area.
Who’s Appearing?
1) Charlie Diamond, Enfield, CT
2) Jared Fiske, Ware, MA
3) Sean Lemkey, Hartford, CT
4) Dylan Patrick Ward, Bellows Falls, VT
(See More Information on the artists below)
– Performers will each do a 30 minute set that will showcase their original compositions
– The event will conclude with all the performers joining together on stage for an ensemble performance.
Admission: $10 (Seating is limited)
1) Charlie Diamond
Singer-Songwriter/Firefighter/Adventurer– “I was born at night. When the stars were out and the wind danced through the trees like a whirlwind serenade.
And so, music was in my bones. Life’s mysterious undercurrents made sure of that.
Wrestled an alligator, fought a tornado, and been everywhere twice. Ran away with the circus when I was 16 and spent a few years as a tent rigger. Started writing songs when I was hiking the Appalachia trail. Thoroughly convinced I’ve been reincarnated and landed in the wrong decade. I write a lot about the mountain I grew up on. Spend a lot of time in corners talking to myself.”
Song Links: https://open.spotify.com/track/3EJnVeutnaoGlikPCqAnlb…
https://open.spotify.com/track/0o1GVJXhM66Mls5a0ZdVcY…
2) Jared Fiske
Jared is best known for his work as a solo performer and songwriter, and as a member of the popular Americana/rock outfit “The Casters”. He also performs in an acoustic duo with his wife, Jessica, under the pseudonym “Never Say Never”. Hailing from an artistic family, Fiske began performing in musical groups with his father, Rob Adams, and brother Seth at a young age.
Fiske’s original song “Choice” was selected for use in a short film by the non-profit organization Planetaid.org. Worcester Magazine said of his most recent album “We’re Already Gone” that “there’s really no way to prepare oneself for how achingly beautiful and melancholy Jared Fiske’s new album is.” (Victor Infante).
You can catch Jared performing at bars, coffeehouses and festivals throughout Massachusetts.
Song Links: https://open.spotify.com/track/3RDGKiEwa8OEEp97FXHeHT…
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Kkvc4MMve9h244WgtIAX1…
3) Sean Lemkey
Sean Lemkey is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Sean is best known for his involvement as vocalist and cofounder of the folk-rock band “Among The Acres”. Lemkey fuses an ethereal and yearning energy with an evocative modern indie-folk-pop sensibility. Taking up the drums at age 5, he would go on to study the instrument for 13 years before later teaching himself guitar in college.
As a drummer, guitarist, songwriter and collaborator, Lemkey has been involved in dozens of projects over the past decade, spanning a breadth of genres and styles. During the isolating pandemic winter of 2022, Lemkey decided to finally embark on the journey of writing and recording his first ever full length solo LP, which was released in April 2023.
Song Links: https://open.spotify.com/track/3BjdBVNOQuPkQpmijQcbfF…
https://open.spotify.com/track/0yuIVXce2OqVpCg4hsAHrI…
4) Dylan Patrick Ward
“He’s funny. He’s also as serious as an ax-handle.”-Peter Mulvey
Known for songs that are by turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, Dylan Patrick Ward is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter whose sharp lyrics and sweet melodies present the world in all it’s absurd and tragic glory.
His empathy and candor have drawn comparisons to the Mountain Goats, John Prine and Randy Newman, and since arriving on the scene in 2021, he’s become increasingly respected and recognized in the worlds of both folk and underground music, and has played respected venues such as Club Passim in Cambridge, MA.
Song Links: https://open.spotify.com/track/10HZsfEwXhuz0OtXgub6dk…
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AYP0BsocIYKc13mvJDMxW…

Inside Local Cultural Councils: a Webinar about Community Arts Funding in the Valley
2023-09-07 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | Zoom, MA, United States
You know that Local Cultural Councils exist and you have been to LCC funded events but . . . who are these volunteers and how does the whole process really work? This webinar is for artists and art-appreciators who want to learn more from experienced LCC members before this year’s application deadline on October 17.
Register Today at https://artsmentors.org/

Cable License Renewal Hearing
2023-09-14 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Mayor Joshua A. Garcia, as cable television licensing authority, will hold a public cable license renewal hearing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 14, 2023, at Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, as part of the City’s license renewal proceedings pertaining to Comcast.
Holyoke’s Comcast cable license expires on March 11, 2024.
Federal law requires a public hearing to ascertain the community’s cable-related needs and interests as part of the license renewal process. Public comment is invited regarding Comcast’s past performance.
Interested persons may attend and directly participate in person or they may access the hearing remotely via www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 881 3755 3176 Passcode: [REDACTED] or by call in at 1-929-205-6099 with same Meeting ID and Passcode. The hearing can be observed without remote participation for viewing only on Comcast Channel 15 in Holyoke.
For further information and copies of renewal records, or to offer testimony regarding Comcast’s past performance, please contact Stephen Fay at the Holyoke Mayor’s Office, City Hall, 536 Dwight Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040. Email: fays@holyoke.org, telephone: 413-561-1600.

Open MIC'd Featuring Rachel Tanaka
2023-09-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Join Attack Bear Press and Holyoke Media for a new live recorded monthly poetry night! Featuring Rachel Tanaka!
Rachel Tanaka (she/they) was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She currently writes in Western Massachusetts and is a student at UMass Amherst’s MFA for Poets and Writers. They’ve been published in Vagabond City Lit, Poetry Northwest, and Overheard lit. Her work engages with the body, family, and water.
Show starts at 7 PM, Open Mic sign ups start at 6:45 PM. Poetry and spoken word welcome. Entry is free. Donations welcome!!
The show is recorded for broadcast on Holyoke Media.

mssv/Sky Furrows/Vex Party
2023-10-12 20:00 - 23:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
mssv aki tour 2023 https://mikebaggetta.bandcamp.com/music
The Punky power trio / dreamy experimental rockers (mike baggetta + stephen hodges + mike watt) return to Flywheel!
Sky Furrows https://skyfurrows.bandcamp.com/album/sky-furrows
Fronted by poet Karen Schoemer, Albany NY’s Sky Furrows combine influences from krautrock, NZ bands the Clean and the Verlaines, the Minutemen, Sylvia Plath and early Sonic Youth. Schoemer collaborates with bassist Mike Watt in Jaded Azurites, and with Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby. Eric Hardiman, Mike Griffin and Phil Donnelly are members of psych rock unit Burnt Hills.
Vex Party https://vexparty.bandcamp.com/ Western MA loose-weave nonchalantcore

PVTA Public Hearing
2023-12-11 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
PVTA seeks public comments on Title VI Analysis & route enhancements on the P21E and G73E. To review the changes being proposed, please visit: https://www.pvta.com/meetingsManage/attachments/102/WebsiteP21E_G73E.pdf

New Music Alliance - Open Stage Showcase
2024-01-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Starting January 4, 2023 the New Music Alliance is premiering the monthly “Open Stage Showcase”. The Open Stage Showcase will showcase 6-8 performers at each event, as well as including a featured performer. We hope to present a lot of incredibly talented Western New England musicians.
The New Music Alliance is a non-profit 501c(3) organization whose mission is to assist the careers of musicians who write original music from the Western New England area & to promote the area as a destination for writing, recording, and live performances of original music. We do this in a variety of ways, including: producing a weekly syndicated radio show broadcast on 9 regional stations in W. MA and Northern CT; live events (like the Valley Music Showcase); compiling the Essential Western New England Songbook (a listenable Hall of Fame of many of the best songs ever written by W. New England artists; and workshops.
(Please note: We define Western New England as the area that includes Worcester and west in MA, all of CT ex. Fairfield County, and Southern Vermont.)

New Music Alliance - Open Stage Showcase
2024-02-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
The New Music Alliance is premiering a monthly “Open Stage Showcase”. The Open Stage Showcase will showcase 6-8 performers at each event, as well as including a featured performer. We hope to present a lot of incredibly talented Western New England musicians.
The New Music Alliance is a non-profit 501c(3) organization whose mission is to assist the careers of musicians who write original music from the Western New England area & to promote the area as a destination for writing, recording, and live performances of original music. We do this in a variety of ways, including: producing a weekly syndicated radio show broadcast on 9 regional stations in W. MA and Northern CT; live events (like the Valley Music Showcase); compiling the Essential Western New England Songbook (a listenable Hall of Fame of many of the best songs ever written by W. New England artists; and workshops.
(Please note: We define Western New England as the area that includes Worcester and west in MA, all of CT ex. Fairfield County, and Southern Vermont.)

Masters of Sonic Liberation
2024-02-28 19:00 - 23:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Performance at Holyoke Media Theater TONIGHT at 7 pm, music at 730 pm.
Masters of Sonic Liberation

Masters of Sonic Liberation
2024-03-28 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
TONIGHT!
In order of appearance:
Connect Four
Io M Theft Able
Transcendent Winds

Open Stage Showcase
2024-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Open Stage Showcase New Music Alliance presents exciting new & established Western New England artists
April 9th 7:00 pm @Holyoke Media 1 Court Plaza Holyoke, MA
Free Admission
Solo artists, duos, and trios performing their own original music.
The New Music Alliance (501c(3) and Holyoke Media have partnered to present this monthly Showcase in the Brand New State-of-the-Art Holyoke Media Facility!
Enjoy a great show in a superb acoustically-optimized listening room environment- Unique to this area
Who’s Appearing? (in order of appearance)
* Cyd Reiman Pelham, MA
* Xavier Serrano, New Haven. CT
* Charlie Diamond, Enfield, CT
* Firetown Road, Simsbury, CT
* Seth Newton, Hardwick, MA
* Tom Maynard, Thompson, CT
* Roath, Fiskdale, MA
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Your Host: Mark Sherry
Sponsored by Downtown Sounds

Mark Sherry
Executive Director, New Music Alliance
Producer, Valley Music Showcase
(413) 374-7671
www.newmusicalliance.org
www.facebook.com/newmusicalliance

www.facebook.com/NMARadioHour

www.facebook.com/ValleyMusicShowcase
www.newmusicalliance.org/Songbook

Masters of Sonic Liberation
2024-04-17 19:30 - 23:30 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States

Open Stage Showcase
2024-05-02 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Discover Exciting New & Established Western New England Artists
April 9th 7:00 pm @Holyoke Media 1 Court Plaza Holyoke, MA Free Admission
Solo artists, duos, and trios performing their own original music.The New Music Alliance (501c(3) and Holyoke Media have partnered to present this monthly Showcase in the Brand New State-of-the-Art Holyoke Media Facility!Enjoy a great show in a superb acoustically-optimized listening room environment- Unique to this area!
Who’s Appearing? (in order of appearance)* Norma Dream (Norma Jean Haynes), Northampton, MA* Mantis Clay, Easthampton, MA* Austin James, Hartford, CT* The Bargain, New Haven, CT* 77 Apes, New Haven, CT* Jesse Brody (aka Jesse Lepkoff), Marlboro, VT* Glenn Petit, Easthampton, MA–Your Host: Mark SherrySponsored by Downtown Sounds

Mayoral Press Conference
2024-05-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Mayor Joshua García presents his plan for public safety with the Holyoke Police Department.
Watch live

Voices of Working People
2024-05-03 19:00 - 22:30 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
A free program of dramatic readings and lots of songs, with emphasis on Western Mass. voices, telling the origin story of May Day as International Workers’ Day in Chicago with an inspiring introduction to US labor history up to present-day voices of workers rising up ~ inspired by Howard Zinn

Holyoke Historical Commission
2024-05-13 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | MA

Masters of Sonic Liberation
2024-05-14 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
A curated experimental music open mic produced by Bonnie Kane and John Loggia.

Broadway Brings Joy! Sing, Dance, Act with Debra Vega
2024-05-15 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Spring Musical Theater Showing in Holyoke!
It’s FREE!

Save the date!
Wednesday May 15th at 5:30pm @broadway_brings_joy presents our Spring Trimester Musical Theater Showing of our Youth/Teen and Adult Programs.

Prepare to be entertained with excerpts from the musicals SOMETHING ROTTEN and YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN, as well as a tribute to the iconic pop song, “These Boots are Made for Walkin’.”

Where: @holyoke_media 1 Court Plaza (bottom of Suffolk St), Holyoke
When: Wed, May 15th
Doors open: 5pm
Showing starts: 5:30pm (30-40 mins)
*This event is FREE and open to the public!

A huge thank you to our sponsors:
Holyoke Local Cultural Council
@masscultural
@holyoke_media

Come see what our BBJ Programs are all about. We hope to see you there!

Certificate of inspection Meeting
2024-05-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
HOLYOKE — The City’s Building Department on Thursday, May 23, at 6 p.m. will give a presentation on the steps required to obtain a Certificate of Inspection. The presentation — a short tutorial followed by Q&A — will be held at Holyoke Media on Suffolk Street.
Though open to the public, the one-hour session is designed for owners, property managers, and landlords of all multi-unit buildings with 3 or more units.
Over the past several months, the Holyoke Building Department has sent out over 500 letters to property owners who do not possess a current Certificate of Inspection, as required in the state building code. Most recently, letters have gone out to hundreds of owners of 3-family buildings. For most of these owners, that notification was the first they had heard of such a requirement.
The code stipulates that it is up to the property owner to apply for and obtain this certificate. The letter advises that there is a fine for non-compliance. The letters were sent as a courtesy to the property owners to remind them oft he requirement. The May 23 presentation is intended to guide as many property owners as possible of the necessary steps to come into compliance and avoid penalties.
Information: Holyoke Building Department,413-322-5600.

Valley Jazz Shares
2024-05-29 18:30 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
from Valley Jazz Share’s Website:
Taylor Ho Bynum (b.1975) is a musician, teacher, and writer, with a background including work in composition, performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, production, organizing, and advocacy.
His expressionistic playing on cornet and other brass instruments, his expansive vision as composer, and his idiosyncratic improvisational approach have been documented on over twenty recordings as a bandleader and over a hundred as a sideperson. While currently taking a break from leading an active band, Bynum still plays with friends in collective ensembles like his duo with Tomas Fujiwara, Illegal Crowns (with Fujiwara, Benoit Delbecq, and Mary Halvorson), and Geometry (with Kyoko Kitamura, Tomeka Reid, and Joe Morris), and as a sideperson in Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double and Shizuko, Jim Hobbs & the Fully Celebrated Orchestra, and Bill Lowe’s Signifyin’ Natives.
From 2004-2019, Bynum maintained an ever-evolving ensemble that morphed between his Sextet, 7-tette, 9-tette, and 15-piece Plustet. Always anchored by a core trio with Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara, the Sextet’s final version included Bill Lowe, Jim Hobbs, and Ken Filiano, after an earlier iteration with Matt Bauder, Jessica Pavone, and Evan Patrick O’Reilly. The musicians who helped expand the group into larger ensembles include Vincent Chancey, Jay Hoggard, Jason Kao Hwang, Ingrid Laubrock, Tomeka Reid, Stephanie Richards, Steve Swell, Stomu Takeishi, Chad Taylor and Nate Wooley. Most of these recordings are on Firehouse 12 Records, the label he co-founded with Nick Lloyd in 2006, including the “accidental trilogy” that concluded the journey: Navigation (2013), Enter the PlusTet (2016), and The Ambiguity Manifesto (2019).
Bynum is also recognized for his “Acoustic Bicycle Tours” (East Coast 2010, West Coast 2014), where he traveled to concerts solely by bike across thousands of miles. Other long-running projects included Bynum’s SpiderMonkey Strings (an improvising chamber ensemble), Masters of Ceremony (an interdisciplinary dance/music quartet with Rachel Bernsen, Melanie Maar, and Abraham Gomez-Delgado), Positive Catastrophe (a 10-piece Latin free-jazz band co-led with Gomez-Delgado), and the collective ensembles the Thirteenth Assembly (Fujiwara, Halvorson, and Pavone), the Convergence Quartet (Alexander Hawkins, Dominic Lash, and Harris Eisenstadt), and Book of Three (John Hebert and Gerald Cleaver). The Temp, a secular oratorio for orchestra, big band, vocal soloists and choir, with a libretto by Matthea Harvey, premiered in February 2020. Previous works for orchestra have been performed by the Scottish BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Tri-Centric Orchestra.
Bynum’s two decades of work with Anthony Braxton is recognized as one of the most generative partnerships of that legendary composer’s career, with projects ranging from duos to orchestras and everything in between. During Bynum’s stewardship of the Tri-Centric Foundation (which he served as executive director from 2010-2018), he produced many major Braxton projects, including two massive Trillium operas, two immersive Sonic Genome performances, and multiple festivals, box sets and albums. Bynum also worked closely with such departed masters as Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, with other collaborative credits including The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Nels Cline, Emily Coates, Bill Cole, Kris Davis, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Stephen Haynes, John Hebert, Fred Ho, Jason Kao Hwang, Titus Kaphar, Ingrid Laubrock, Living by Lanterns, Nicole Mitchell, Joe Morris, Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Mali Obomsawin, William Parker, Matana Roberts, Eliott Sharp, Wadada Leo Smith, Tyshawn Sorey, Yo La Tengo, and Zemog El Gallo Bueno.
Bynum’s essays, fiction, appreciations and remembrances have been published in The New Yorker, Point of Departure, Sound American, The Baffler, JazzTimes, and in many liner notes. As an educator, he has taught at universities and workshops worldwide, and became the director of the Coast Jazz Orchestra at Dartmouth College in 2017, where he also teaches composition, improvisation, and music history.

Victory Players Theater Performance
2024-05-31 10:00 - 22:00, 2024-06-01 10:30 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States

Youthful Expressions
2024-06-08 10:15 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States

Immersion A Different Sound Bath Experience
2024-06-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Do you feel the shift in the world? In yourself? You are not alone. Let’s explore it together. This night is for you.
WE WELCOME EVERYONE OF ALL AGES TO THIS VERY NEW, FIRST OF IT’S KIND SOUND BATH EXPERIENCE. SEATING IS AVAILABLE BUT YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING YOUR YOGA MAT, BLANKET & PILLOWS.
FEATURING 4 ARTISTS BRINGING THEIR TRANQUIL SOUNDS TO YOU :
Neonach – www.neonach.bandcamp.comMatt Samolis – https://mattsamolis.wordpress.com/Musical Mandalas – https://www.musicalmandalas.com/Errant Space – https://errantspace.bandcamp.com/

Afro-Caribbean Culture and Music Celebration
2024-06-14 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Celebrate Juneteenth and the power of culture in Holyoke June 14 & 15
FREE Workshops both Friday and Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 pm
St. Paul’s Church
485 Appleton St., Holyoke, MA 01040
FREE Performances both Friday and Saturday 6:00 – 8:00
Holyoke Media Center
1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA 01040
Join us on June 14 and 15 to celebrate Juneteenth here in Holyoke as we bring the power of culture as a space for dialogue and unity through music, dance, talks, and conviviality.
Both days there will be dance and percussion workshops led by world-renowned artists

Lazaro Galarraga – Afro-Cuban Percussion
Roman Diaz – Afro-Cuban Percussion
Danys (La Mora) Perez
Oyu Oro – Days (La Mora) Perez Dance Company
Sandy Perez – Afro-Cuban Percussionist
Rumba by the Connecticut River

These activities are free and open to the public.

Valley Jazz Shares - aRT
2024-06-20 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Pheeroan akLaff (drums), Scott Robinson, (reeds), Dr. Julian Thayer (bass).
From the Valley JAzz Shares website:
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The trio known as aRT – akLaff, Robinson, Thayer – is a highly adventurous group of creative minds that has been performing new and startling music since 1988. aRThas appeared at jazz festivals, art galleries, and scientific conferences here and abroad, and has produced collaborative projects with sculptor Rob Fisher and choreographer LaRue Allen. aRT’s 1991 “Flying Carpet” multimedia performance at the Knitting Factory premiered a new, improvisational method of interactively intermixing art/performance video streams. This idea was expanded upon in 1996 for the Studio for Creative Inquiry in Pittsburgh, where their planetarium performance “Night of the Living Cell” combined imagery of cell life with real-time video feed of the performers – in 3D! “The result,” The Wall Street Journal reported at the time, “could become a new form of artistic experience.” In 1997, aRT was selected to be the closing act for the Sun Ra Festival in New York. In 2020, aRT performed in Philadelphia for the Institute of Contemporary Art’s exhibition on Milford Graves, with whom aRT had been working toward a collaborative music/science project. As Mr. Graves was not well enough to perform, he graciously provided a set of his TonoRhythmology/Sonification recordings – which he created by translating his own physiological data into musical sound — along with his blessing to incorporate them into the performance. This provided a means by which he could, in a way, be present and part of the music… an idea that aRT hopes to expand on in future performances. Most recently, aRT mounted a major multimedia concert event at Roulette, “Higher Powers,” in honor of painter Richard M. Powers’ 2021 centennial.
aRT: Pheeroan akLaff is one of the most important drummer/percussionists in creative music. Since a very young age he has been a major contributor to the artform, working alongside giants such as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Andrew Hill, Oliver Lake, Sam Rivers, Henry Threadgill and many more. Pheeroan’s music is steeped in powerful ritual and imagination, and through his organization Seed Artists he is finding new ways to present this music to the public.
Scott Robinson is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist who has presented his music in nearly every corner of the globe, appearing on more than 275 recordings. He has worked with Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, Maria Schneider, Chet Baker, Henry Grimes, Ella Fitzgerald, Anthony Braxton and many more. Scott’s ScienSonic Laboratories imprint has released more than a dozen adventurous and far-reaching albums, including Flow States with Milford Graves, Roscoe Mitchell and Marshall Allen. His quartet album Tenormore was named “Best New Release” in a 2019 JazzTimes poll.
Dr. Julian Thayer is currently Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science at UC Irvine. A Fulbright Fellow and winner of the Distinguished Scientist Award, he has produced more than 650 publications, and is ranked among the top .1% of most-cited researchers worldwide. His research on music and psycho-acoustics has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Psychology Today. An accomplished bassist, Jules has recorded with Geri Allen, Charlie Mariano, George Garzone and others.”
