Easthampton celebrates its own Poetry Day on Saturday
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Published: 4/20/2021 11:25:31 AM
EASTHAMPTON – Twenty-five years ago, the Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in April to recognize the important role poetry plays in the country’s cultural life.
Easthampton will extend that idea to celebrate poets and poetry in the city with its own Poetry Day on Saturday, April 24, with a number of events taking place at the “Spot Lot” performance area in the parking lot of the Municipal Building on Payson Avenue, and in other places around town.
From noon to 4 p.m. at Spot Lot there are large circles painted in the parking lot to allow groups of people to be socially distanced there will be poetry readings, music, a “poetry oracle” event at which small poems printed on large cards are used to answer questions and the official welcoming (at 1:30 p.m.) of the city’s new poets laureate Jason Montgomery and
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Massachusetts Department of Transportation Boston The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing the award of $3,236,762.78 in the third round of funding from the Baker-Polito Administration’s Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program. The program, which was launched on November 10, provides technical and funding assistance to help Massachusetts cities and towns conceive, design, and implement tactical changes to curbs, streets, and parking areas in support of public health, safe mobility, and renewed commerce, with a special focus on the particular challenges of winter. The awards made today will support 21 projects in 21 municipalities, of which 43% are designated Environmental Justice communities and 76% are considered high-risk for COVID-19 infections. Additionally, 62% of today’s winners have never received a Shared Streets and Spaces award before.
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CitySpace launches virtual tour of Old Town Hall in Easthampton
An image from a virtual tour of Easthampton’s Old Town Hall. This second-floor space is envisioned as a performing arts and community center that can seat up to 350 people. IMAGE COURTESY OF CITYSPACE
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Published: 1/1/2021 3:21:22 PM
Modified: 1/1/2021 3:21:09 PM
By STEVE PFARRER
Staff Writer
EASTHAMPTON The pandemic may have shut down live performing arts and dissuaded some people from visiting arts venues that are open.
But CitySpace, the nonprofit group that manages the city’s Old Town Hall as an arts and community space, is inviting people to visit the Civil War-era building virtually as a reminder of what’s there and what’s hopefully still to come.
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