Join Food For Thought as we launch our May PopUp Shop! LOCAL VENDORS SELLING HOMEMADE JEWELERY, CLOTHING, BODY-CARE PRODUCTS GIFTS & MORE! FACE PAINTING! LIVE MUSIC! FUN!Food For Thought Books, a radical bookstore which is run as a worker collective in downtown Amherst,  is opening it’s space to local community vendors.  Using an innovative PopUpShop model, Food For Thought will act as a venue to showcase and sell the products of local craftspeople and artisans during the month of May.  See More

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE.....a design certificate course in eleven weekend day sessions with Lisa DePiano, Jonathan Bates, & Friends Northampton, MACourse Dates: Nov: 6-7, 13; Dec: 4; Jan: 8; Feb: 5; March: 12-13; April: 2-3, 9As we face the devastating impact of increased militarism, peak oil, climate change, and growing social and economic inequality, permaculture offers us skills, tools, solutions and strategies for healing social and ecological systems. Permaculture is a vision, design…See More

Join local farmer, activist and educator Lisa DePiano for a presentation & discussion about the transformative power of permaculture.As we face the devastating impact of increased militarism, peak oil, climate change, and growing social and economic inequality, permaculture offers us skills, tools, solutions and strategies for healing social and ecological systems. Permaculture is vision, design system, and global movement that draws on patterns and principles found in nature to meet human…See More

How does an artist take an 11-page work of fiction, re-imagine it visually, and turn it into a 60-page graphic novel? Artist Christopher Cardinale presents a two-part program that brings to life the process of creating Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush (Cinco Puntos Press), a new graphic novel for young readers based on a short story by award-winning author Luis Alberto Urrea. Using slides of sketches and photographs made during a research trip to the Mexican town where the story was set, Christopher…See More

Join us for an informal talk with New Orleans based artist Nick Slie about the BP Drilling Disaster and how it is impacting his community and others throughout the Gulf Coast. Nick will also discuss the role of artists in times of peril and what he and other artists are doing, in collaboration with advocacy groups, to spread the word about their home.Nick Slie is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the New Orleans based performance collective Mondo Bizarro. He is in residence at the Ko…See More

art and activism collide at benefit to supportROOTS TO RESISTANCEan art and activism projectby Denise BeaudetFood For Thought Books Collective joins forces with local artist Denise Beaudet to celebrate the life and work of twelve women activists from around the world and raise funds for her most recently art and activism project—Roots To Resistance. Join us for an evening of art, storytelling, music, food, and activism and contribute to this critical and inspiring project. There will be a $25-5…See More

art and activism collide at benefit to supportROOTS TO RESISTANCEan art and activism projectby Denise BeaudetFood For Thought Books Collective joins forces with local artist Denise Beaudet to celebrate the life and work of twelve women activists from around the world and raise funds for her most recently art and activism project—Roots To Resistance. Join us for an evening of art, storytelling, music, food, and activism and contribute to this critical and inspiring project. There will be a $25-5…See More

art and activism collide at benefit to supportROOTS TO RESISTANCEan art and activism projectby Denise BeaudetFood For Thought Books Collective joins forces with local artist Denise Beaudet to celebrate the life and work of twelve women activists from around the world and raise funds for her most recently art and activism project—Roots To Resistance. Join us for an evening of art, storytelling, music, food, and activism and contribute to this critical and inspiring project. There will be a $25-5…See More

Join us for an evening of spoken word and live music with radical comic book artists Seth Tobocman & Friends including Eric Laursen (co-author of Understanding the Crash), Eric Blitz, Andy Laties, and Rebecca Migdal.Understanding the Crash starts with a simple question that still haunts us all: What has happened to the world economy?This topic obviously remains an important focus today in Washington. President Obama’s petition calling forth supporters of Wall Street reform states, “It’s…See More

Join us for an evening of spoken word and live music with radical comic book artists Seth Tobocman & Friends including Eric Laursen (co-author of Understanding the Crash), Eric Blitz, Andy Laties, and Rebecca Migdal.Understanding the Crash starts with a simple question that still haunts us all: What has happened to the world economy?This topic obviously remains an important focus today in Washington. President Obama’s petition calling forth supporters of Wall Street reform states, “It’s…See More

On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that day. The bombing of the Presidential Palace, in which Allende died, would now become the ending for Guzmán's seminal documentary The Battle of Chile (1975-76), an epic chronicle of that country's open and…See More

On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that day. The bombing of the Presidential Palace, in which Allende died, would now become the ending for Guzmán's seminal documentary The Battle of Chile (1975-76), an epic chronicle of that country's open and…See More

THE YEAR OF WANTING is an exquisite hand-cranked, candle-illuminated shadow show, based primarily on the Greek myth of Persephone, and including a patchwork of other winter myths and folktales. Poetic, delicate, dark, and moving, the show riffs on all things cold and snowy, using live original music, elements from butoh, fan dancing, and traditional storytelling. Full of goblins, bears, lovers, root cellars, snow, hell, and magic, THE YEAR OF WANTING, is unlike anything you've ever seen…See More

THE FOREST FOR THE TREES is an intimate look at an unlikely team of young activists and old lefties who come together to battle the U.S. government.Filmmaker Bernadine Mellis is the daughter of 68-year-old civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham. Dennis started out his career representing the Black Panthers and the Weathermen.Judi Bari was an Earth First! leader who was one of the first to place as much importance on the legacy and future of the trees as she did on timber workers' lives and…See More