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On the first day of 2020, Hilltown Families and Flywheel are partnering again in the beloved annual New Year’s Day Morning Dance Party, a breakfast bash featuring food, dancing, and diversions for kids held at Flywheel Arts Collective located in the old Town Hall (43 Main Street) in Easthampton, MA. New this year, local storyteller, Tom McCabe, will spin a yarn while folks enjoy a community pancake breakfast. After breakfast, families can join DJ Youthelectronix for the “best ever dance party before noon.”
This annual event is a fundraiser to benefit the work of Flywheel Arts Collective. Minimum suggested donation: $6/person. Start the new year with a New Year’s Day Music Dance Party. Save on the babysitter and dance away on the first morning of the new year! So much cheaper than a night out on the town and just as much fun!
“Hilltown Families and Flywheel Arts Collective strive to build community through collaboration and community engagement,” says Hilltown Families Founder, Sienna Wildfield. “Getting families with children of all ages out and engaged in their community has its challenges in the winter. Through collaboration, we can bring our community of families a Morning Music Party Series with pancakes and dancing for the ‘best ever dance party before noon.”
This event is the first in a series of three for Winter 2020:
- Wednesday, January 1, 10am-12pm
- Saturday, February 1, 10am-12pm
- Saturday, March 14, 10am-12pm
On the first day of 2020, Hilltown Families and Flywheel are partnering again in the beloved annual New Year’s Day Morning Dance Party, a breakfast bash featuring food, dancing, and diversions for kids held at Flywheel Arts Collective located in the old Town Hall (43 Main Street) in Easthampton, MA. New this year, local storyteller, Tom McCabe, will spin a yarn while folks enjoy a community pancake breakfast. After breakfast, families can join DJ Youthelectronix for the “best ever dance party before noon.”
This annual event is a fundraiser to benefit the work of Flywheel Arts Collective. Minimum suggested donation: $6/person. Start the new year with a New Year’s Day Music Dance Party. Save on the babysitter and dance away on the first morning of the new year! So much cheaper than a night out on the town and just as much fun!
“Hilltown Families and Flywheel Arts Collective strive to build community through collaboration and community engagement,” says Hilltown Families Founder, Sienna Wildfield. “Getting families with children of all ages out and engaged in their community has its challenges in the winter. Through collaboration, we can bring our community of families a Morning Music Party Series with pancakes and dancing for the ‘best ever dance party before noon.”
This event is the first in a series of three for Winter 2020:
- Wednesday, January 1, 10am-12pm
- Saturday, February 1, 10am-12pm
- Saturday, March 14, 10am-12pm
There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable… Rashani Réa One crisp autumn evening in 1977, leaves swirling around our feet, a college friend and I entered the unfinished basement of a department store in downtown Northampton to attend a women’s karate demonstration. Sitting in a gray metal folding chair, I watched the teacher and several students perform bold moves, shouting and… Read More
On the first day of 2018, Hilltown Families and the Flywheel Arts Collective are continuing the beloved ‘Morning Music Party’ series for another year with a breakfast bash featuring food, dancing, and diversions for kids! This year we are starting off this family series on New Year’s Day, January 1, with a morning music party on from 10am-12noon in Easthampton, MA.
The morning begins with a complementary breakfast of homemade pancakes, juice, and fresh fruit. There will be plenty to go around – and you’ll need it to fuel your moves for what some have called the “best ever dance party before noon!” DJ Youthelectronix will be on the ones and twos, spinning your favorite hits! Save on the babysitter and dance away the first morning of the new year!
These Morning Music Parties are a fundraiser for both Flywheel & Hilltown Families, with a “pay what you can” admission to attend with your family. So much cheaper than a night out on the town and just as much fun!
If you look closely at our local landscape here in western MA, there is almost always a hidden story that tells the historical tale of life long ago. One such story is about the Hampshire and Hampden Canal, built in the early 1800’s to connect New Haven with Northampton, defunct by the 1940’s. In an upcoming exhibit at Historic Northampton, the story about the Canal will be told through photographs, images, artifacts and documents and will open your eyes and curiosity about features in the landscape as it relates to local history of transportation and commerce here in the Pioneer Valley. This exhibition is a great way to link an interest in landscape studies with local history, photography, and issues pertaining to American industrialism. Read on…
Note 27, Tasty Top in Easthampton While I have never made an exhaustive search nor done a scientific study, I am pretty confident that the following statement holds true: Tasty Top in Easthampton has the best soft serve ice cream in the Pioneer Valley. Please comment below if you disagree with the better option—and a description of why it’s better. In my humble opinion, Tasty Top doesn’t taste plastic-y or fake or… Read More
REACH One-Minute VidFest Do you have a tween/teen who likes to make short videos? There is a current call to artists of all ages for video submissions for the REACH One-Minute VidFest, and tween/teens are welcomed to participate. All videos must be no more than one minute and received by March 4, 2013. The REACH One-Minute VidFest will be screened on April 13, 2013 at Popcorn Noir Movie Theatre in Easthampton, MA,… Read More
Bear Fest Unveiling Celebration in Easthampton this Saturday, June 9th, 2012 Easthampton’s annual Bear Fest, a celebration of local art and artists, kicks off on Saturday, June 9th! The event features giant bears designed and “dressed” by local artists, and they will be placed throughout downtown Easthampton and will be on display through the summer. The event officially begins with the unveiling of a single bear, which will take place at 2pm… Read More
Saturday Morning Music Party & Pancake Breakfast Continues at Flywheel in Easthampton Saturday, April 7th, 10am-12noon The Flywheel Arts Collective, an Easthampton-based, volunteer-run music and arts venue, along with the Hilltown Families and No-Nap Happy Hour, invites families with kids of all ages to a fun, creative, and educational series of events! This Saturday, April 7th at 10am, the third of four installments of the Saturday Morning Music Party continues! Families are… Read More
Saturday Morning Music Party Series in Easthampton Free Pancakes, Live Music, Dancing & Crafts Known to its neighbors and fans for boisterous concerts and a DIY aesthetic, the Flywheel Arts Collective of Easthampton may not immediately spring to mind when considering a venue for a family-friendly activity for the kids. But with the announcement of the ‘Saturday Morning Music Party,’ a free monthly breakfast bash featuring a variety of activities, performances and… Read More
Searching for Spring Spring has taken its sweet time coming our way. I grew up in a city, and now I live in a smaller one with my family. As a child my mother would take us out of New York around the change of seasons. She said she missed the small seasonal transitions you can only notice in the country and the woods: leaf buds unfurling in springtime, and the first… Read More
Nola-rae Cronan of Easthampton, MA writes: In response to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a group of children ranging from four to ten have joined together to raise money for relief efforts. They have decided to fold 1,000 paper cranes in the tradition of the Japanese legend that guarantees a wish to anyone who folds 1,000 cranes. All proceeds from the sales of each crane will go to the Red Cross…. Read More
THE EXPANDABLE BRASS BAND Saturday, April 2nd @ 1pm At Flywheel Arts Collective in Easthampton, MA Hilltown Families and Spare the Rock presents a FREE show with The Expandable Brass Band on Saturday, April 2nd as part of the No Nap Happy Hour Series at Flywheel Arts Collective in Easthampton, MA at 1pm. Families are encouraged to arrive early (12Noon) for an opportunity to learn songs to perform with the band! The… Read More
THE DEEDLE DEEDLE DEES Saturday, February 26th @ 1:30pm At Flywheel Arts Collective in Easthampton, MA Hilltown Families & Spare the Rock present Valley favorites The Deedle Deedle Dees in their triumphant return to Flywheel Arts Collective in Easthampton, MA at the Old Town Hall on Saturday, February 26th, at 1:30pm (doors open at 1pm). Part of the fantastic No Nap Happy Hour Series, The Dees will be doing a Black History… Read More
BILL HARLEY Sunday, January 23rd @ 1:30pm At Flywheel Arts Collective in Easthampton, MA Hilltown Families and Spare the Rock present… Grammy award winning storyteller Bill Harley will be singing songs and telling stories at Flywheel Arts Collective in the Easthampton Old Town Hall on Sunday, January 23rd at 1:30pm as part of the on-going No Nap Happy Hour Series. Families are invited to come sit and listen to Bill’s funny and… Read More
Reclaiming Childhood For Our Children From Corporate Marketers The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) invites families in Western Massachusetts to join them for a local screening of the critically-acclaimed film Consuming Kids, an eye-opening account of the pervasive and pernicious effects of advertising on the health and well-being of kids, at the Pepin School Auditorium (4 Park St.) in Easthampton, MA on Wednesday, November 17 at 6:30PM, hosted by the Easthampton… Read More
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