Featured Events

The Annual West Springfield Garden Club Plant Sale brings together gardeners and plant enthusiasts to celebrate the season. Visitors can browse plants from neighborhood gardens, learn about sustainability, and connect with their community.

Explore Chesterwood in Stockbridge through self-guided tours that support art studies. Learn how Daniel Chester French blended sculpture and landscape, and consider how public art reflects history, process, and place.

Stone Soup Café in Greenfield welcomes volunteers ages 15+ to join a Friday or Saturday shift. From chopping veggies to serving meals, volunteers learn through service-based learning while helping strengthen food security and community connections.

The World's Largest Pancake Breakfast returns to downtown Springfield with long tables, stacks of pancakes, and neighbors catching up over coffee. This free decades-old tradition brings the community together to share a meal and celebrate Springfield.

Greenfield Bee Fest returns to downtown Greenfield with free activities, crafts, live music, a pollinator parade, food trucks, and more at several locations. The festival celebrates bees and pollinators while sharing the city’s beekeeping history and encouraging care for the environment.

The Easthampton Library Book Sale offers more than great deals! It invites readers to explore unique finds, build a personal library, and support sustainability. Proceeds fund library programs and foster community connections through literacy and lifelong learning.

The Annual West Springfield Garden Club Plant Sale brings together gardeners and plant enthusiasts to celebrate the season. Visitors can browse plants from neighborhood gardens, learn about sustainability, and connect with their community.

The annual Shad Derby at the Robert E. Barrett Fishway in Holyoke lets participants enjoy fishing while learning about shad, their habitats, and the importance of clean water. Prizes are awarded for the largest and most fish caught, making it a fun and educational event for all ages.

Chester On Track celebrates railroad heritage with a parade, train show, historic railroad cars, craft fair, music, and community activities throughout downtown Chester and the Chester Railway Museum. The event highlights local history and the Hilltowns’ role in regional transportation, rain or shine.

The annual Poetry Walk at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst celebrates Dickinson’s legacy as participants explore the town and visit sites that inspired her. Along the way, guests hear readings of her poems, bringing her work to life in the places she knew best.

Barnyard to Backyard invites youth to the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield for hands-on animal learning, workshops, and live demonstrations about animal husbandry and farm care. These workshops also introduce 4-H to youth, helping them build practical skills and connect with others interested in agriculture.

Just Roots’ Spring Festival & Seedling Sale in Greenfield transforms garden planning into hands-on learning, with each plant offering insight into botany, local ecology, and soil health. Visitors can explore native plants, chat with local growers, and discover culinary and medicinal herbs while bringing home seasonal knowledge.

At the New Salem Public Library, meet live insects and spiders from the UMass Live Insect Zoo. Learn about anatomy, adaptations, and conservation with guidance from student entomologists sharing expertise and hands-on observation.

Typing Club at a Springfield library offers a free way for teens to build digital literacy through guided practice. Using keyboard and mouse together highlights coordination, accuracy, and feedback, showing how basic tools support communication, problem solving, and lifelong learning.

Stone Soup Café in Greenfield welcomes volunteers ages 15+ to join a Friday or Saturday shift. From chopping veggies to serving meals, volunteers learn through service-based learning while helping strengthen food security and community connections.

Join Hadley’s Maple Valley “Go Fly A Kite” for a family-friendly event where geometry meets flight. Learn how symmetry, angles, and wind power connect kites to STEM, turning play into hands-on exploration of math and science in motion.

Four Sundays 2026 celebrates 33 years of community arts in Northampton with film, music, youth expression, and cultural events. This spring series, presented by the Northampton Arts Council, brings people together at venues across the city to connect through storytelling and performance.

RiverFest is held along the Hoosic River at the Historic Beaver Mill in North Adams and features workshops, poetry, and singalongs focused on watershed ecology. Participants can explore hands-on activities, learn from conservation groups, and try fishing without a license.

Singing bowls, gongs, chimes, and drums fill the space with calming frequency at a sound bath at Yoga Sanctuary in Northampton. Through this immersive experience, teens and adults can explore relaxation and the potential healing effects of sound.

The AirPower History Tour at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport features historic WWII-era and flight-ready aircraft on display. Visitors can explore aviation history, engineering, and the human stories behind these remarkable planes.

The AirPower History Tour at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport features historic WWII-era and flight-ready aircraft on display. Visitors can explore aviation history, engineering, and the human stories behind these remarkable planes.

The AirPower History Tour at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport features historic WWII-era and flight-ready aircraft on display. Visitors can explore aviation history, engineering, and the human stories behind these remarkable planes.

Stone Soup Café in Greenfield welcomes volunteers ages 15+ to join a Friday or Saturday shift. From chopping veggies to serving meals, volunteers learn through service-based learning while helping strengthen food security and community connections.

Families are invited to the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton for a free evening of creativity. Learn through hands-on artmaking and explore galleries featuring works from across the globe, connecting artistic practice with history, culture, and technique.