Feels like ship has righted itself : Arts festival brings out participants, audience amherstbulletin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from amherstbulletin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published: 6/27/2021 8:12:37 PM
AMHERST A festival of the arts and music was held on the Town Common Sunday, in what was one of the first in-person shows since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic for many of the artists and performers there.
“After the pandemic it’s nice to see,” said Ann Tweedy, chairwoman of the Amherst Center Cultural District Steering Committee, a chief organizer of the event.
The celebration took place from noon to 6 p.m. and featured paintings, metalworking, live music and photography. Entrance to the festival was free, as was the water that was handed out in the hot weather.
Around Amherst: Boltwood garage getting gallery; poets getting spruced up
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST Bringing new public art to the area of the Boltwood parking garage and restoring a downtown sculpture are projects being undertaken by the Amherst Public Art Commission this spring.
Commission Chairman Bill Kaizen said the Boltwood Gallery is a project slated to open in late June on the upper level of the garage that will be situated at the defunct “Poem Windows” exhibit.
More details about the project, supported by $2,000 from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Recovery and Rebuilding Grant through the downtown cultural district, will be announced in the coming weeks.
Six teens bringing youth perspective to Amherst government amherstbulletin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from amherstbulletin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Six teens bringing youth perspective to Amherst government
Amherst High School students involved with town government through service in various committees stand on the steps of Town Hall, Saturday. From left, Darius Cage, 14, with the Community Safety Working Group; Petua Mukimba, 17, vice chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission; Leah Neuburger, 15, with the Amherst Cultural Council; Julian Hynes, 15, with the Public Shade Tree Committee; and Sydney Mager, 15, with the Amherst Cultural Council. A sixth student, Nandi Chivende, also serves on the Amherst Cultural Council. FOR THE GAZETTE/SABATO VISCONTI
Amherst High student Petua Mukimba, 17, vice-chair of the Human Rights Commission with the Amherst town government, stands outside Town Hall Saturday morning. FOR THE GAZETTE/SABATO VISCONTI