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Placemaking ♦ Sense Of Place ♦ Creative Placemaking ♦ Mardi Gras Parade ♦ Community Celebration ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Outdoor Film ♦ Community Meal ♦ Art Festival ♦ Chalk Festival ♦ Street Festival ♦ Local Heritage ♦ History Museum ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Blacksmith ♦ Guided Tours ♦ Agricultural Fair ♦ County Fair ♦ Kids Concert ♦ Puppetry ♦ Puppet Show ♦ Yo-Yo ♦ Computer Science ♦ Robots ♦ STEM ♦ Architecture ♦ Perennial Gardening ♦ Canals ♦ Civics ♦ Geology ♦ Astronomy ♦ Butterflies ♦ Beekeeping ♦ Woolley Bears ♦ Lobster ♦ Chickens ♦ Apple Picking ♦ Culture Studies ♦ Paganism ♦ Greek Culture ♦ Music Studies ♦ Symphony ♦ Van Gogh ♦ Picture Book Arts ♦ Chalk Art ♦ Art Installation ♦ Botanical Illustrating ♦ Figure Drawing ♦ Hat Design
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, September 7-13, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Labor Day ♦ Natural History ♦ Pioneer Valley History ♦ Holyoke History ♦ Hilltown History ♦ Canals ♦ Yo-Yos ♦ Hiking ♦ Agricultural Fair ♦ Regional Heritage ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ Placemaking ♦ Community Meal ♦ BBQ ♦ Food Festival ♦ Greek Food ♦ Peaches ♦ Zoology ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Bones ♦ Snakes ♦ Beavers ♦ Livestock ♦ Birding ♦ Butterflies ♦ Entomology ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Green Living ♦ Date Night ♦ Salsa Music ♦ Kirtan ♦ Train Rides ♦ Arts Night Out ♦ Installation Art ♦ Fine Art ♦ Figure Drawing ♦ Poetry ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Ballet ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Fundraiser
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, Aug 31-Sept 6, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.hi
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
New England Heritage ♦ Agricultural Fairs ♦ Grange Fair ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ Gaelic Harvest Festival ♦ Shaker Food Traditions ♦ Tomato Festival ♦ Food Truck Festival ♦ Food History ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Graham Crackers ♦ Community Meal ♦ Civics ♦ Cultural Studies ♦ Placemaking ♦ Motorama ♦ Bike Repair ♦ Back To School ♦ History Hike ♦ Hilltown History ♦ Holyoke History ♦ Civilian Conservation Corps ♦ Geology ♦ Zoology ♦ Junior Rangers ♦ Native Species ♦ Beavers ♦ Mammals ♦ Equine Studies ♦ Equine Therapy ♦ Birding ♦ Monarch Butterflies ♦ Mindfulness ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Art Studies ♦ Installation Art ♦ Van Gogh ♦ Leonardo Da Vinci ♦ Figure Drawing ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Contra Dance ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Scrabble ♦ Singing ♦ Youth Symphony ♦ Classical Music ♦ Astronomy ♦ Physics ♦ STEM
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, Aug 24-30, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Folk Traditions ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ New England Heritage ♦ Agricultural History ♦ Textiles ♦ Agricultural Fair ♦ 4-H ♦ Sustainable Living ♦ Art Studies ♦ Teen Art ♦ Installation Art ♦ Van Gogh ♦ Social Movements ♦ Picture Book Art ♦ Glass Art ♦ Music Studies ♦ Shape Note Singing ♦ Symphony ♦ A Cappella ♦ Classical Music ♦ Community Concert ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Folklore ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Outdoor Performance ♦ Fairies ♦ Starfish ♦ Rabbits ♦ Beavers ♦ Amphibians ♦ Geology ♦ Astronomy ♦ STEM ♦ Computer Coding ♦ Architecture ♦ Economics ♦ Culinary Design ♦ Community Meal ♦ Tea Time ♦ Blueberries ♦ Peaches ♦ Harvest Supper ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Paranormal ♦ Roller Derby ♦ Tai Chi & Aikido ♦
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, Aug 17-23, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
New England Heritage ♦ Agriculture History ♦ Agricultural Fairs ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ Farmers’Market ♦ Country Fair ♦ Apple Orchard ♦ Book Sale ♦ Downtown Celebration ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Zoology ♦ Mammals ♦ Bats ♦ Beavers ♦ Religious Studies ♦ Kirtan ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Bike Repair ♦ Theater ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Hansel & Gretel ♦ Mother Goose ♦ Art Studies ♦ Chinese Painting ♦ Van Gogh ♦ Picture Book Art ♦ Social Movements ♦ Reading To Dogs ♦ Literacy ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Music Studies ♦ Music Festival ♦ Symphony ♦ Classical ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Placemaking ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Sustainability ♦ Skillshare ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Commerce ♦ Architecture ♦ Aviation ♦ STEM ♦ Physics ♦ Yo-Yo ♦ Natural History ♦ Astronomy ♦ Planetarium ♦ Meteor Shower ♦ Constellations ♦ Sturgeon Moon
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, Aug 10-16, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Revolutionary War ♦ Agricultural History ♦ Native American Heritage ♦ Shaker Foodways ♦ British Culture ♦ Blacksmithing ♦ Qi Gong ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Music Studies ♦ Musical Instruments ♦ Music Performance ♦ Classical Music ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Outdoor Film ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Immersive Theater ♦ Fairy Tale ♦ Folk Stories ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Cider Pairing ♦ Tea Time ♦ Lobster ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Beavers ♦ Owls ♦ Native Species ♦ Astronomy ♦ Economics ♦ Urban Ecology ♦ Rowing ♦ Helicopter ♦ Bike Repair ♦ Magic ♦ Paranormal ♦ Renaissance Fair ♦ Native American Festival ♦ Skillsharing ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Community Meal ♦ Intergenerational ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Placemaking ♦ Commercial Free
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, Aug 3-9, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Outdoor Adventures ♦ Waterways ♦ Canoeing ♦ Stargazing ♦ Mountain Hike ♦ Boat Cruise ♦ Baseball ♦ Cultural Studies ♦ Scottish ♦ Shaker ♦ Rural Living ♦ Indigenous Heritage ♦ 60s Pop Culture ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Canning ♦ Emily Dickinson ♦ Edith Wharton ♦ Mary Poppins ♦ Storytelling ♦ Ice Cream Social ♦ Tea Party ♦ Blueberry Pie ♦ Local History ♦ Colonial History ♦ Living History ♦ Agriculture ♦ Canals ♦ Astronomy ♦ Aviation ♦ Jets ♦ Pollinators ♦ Moths ♦ Native Species ♦ Wildlife ♦ Beavers ♦ Stars ♦ Ornithology ♦ Ecology ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Zoology ♦ Entomology ♦ Rivers ♦ Family Performance ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Experiential Theater ♦ Family Theater ♦ Youth Theater ♦ Musical ♦ Improv ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Music Studies ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Klezmer
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, July 20-26, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Outdoor Adventures ♦ Waterways ♦ Canoeing ♦ Stargazing ♦ Mountain Hike ♦ Boat Cruise ♦ Baseball ♦ Cultural Studies ♦ Scottish ♦ Shaker ♦ Rural Living ♦ Indigenous Heritage ♦ 60s Pop Culture ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Canning ♦ Emily Dickinson ♦ Edith Wharton ♦ Mary Poppins ♦ Storytelling ♦ Ice Cream Social ♦ Tea Party ♦ Blueberry Pie ♦ Local History ♦ Colonial History ♦ Living History ♦ Agriculture ♦ Canals ♦ Astronomy ♦ Aviation ♦ Jets ♦ Pollinators ♦ Moths ♦ Native Species ♦ Wildlife ♦ Beavers ♦ Stars ♦ Ornithology ♦ Ecology ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Zoology ♦ Entomology ♦ Rivers ♦ Family Performance ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Experiential Theater ♦ Family Theater ♦ Youth Theater ♦ Musical ♦ Improv ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Music Studies ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Klezmer
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, July 20-26, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Folk Traditions ♦ Fruit Preserves ♦ Shaker Gardening ♦ Masonry ♦ Music Festival ♦ Town Fair ♦ Beach Party ♦ Community Picnic ♦ Outdoor Film ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Zoology ♦ Entomology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Ecology ♦ Geology ♦ Cosmology ♦ Daytime Canoeing ♦ Evening Paddle ♦ Moonlight Canoeing ♦ Guided Hiking ♦ Beavers ♦ Dragonflies ♦ Native Species ♦ Wetlands ♦ Waterways ♦ Aviation ♦ Lunar Landing ♦ Solar System ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Musical ♦ Biographical Theater ♦ Immersive Theater ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Music Studies ♦ Swing Music ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Drumming ♦ Kirtan ♦ Religious Studies ♦ Shaker ♦ Local History ♦ Agriculture ♦ 4-H ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Storytelling ♦ Reading to Dogs ♦ Summer Playgroup ♦ Baseball ♦ Postcards ♦ Magic
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, July 13-19, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Literature In Translation ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Storytime ♦ Butterflies ♦ Beekeeping ♦ Bird Watching ♦ Geology ♦ Natural History ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Biodiversity ♦ Pond Ecology ♦ Zoology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Mycology ♦ Ecology ♦ InvasiveSpecies ♦ Apiculturists ♦ Service-Based Learning ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ Gardening ♦ Canoeing ♦ Evening Paddle ♦ Guided Hike ♦ Aerodynamics ♦ Aviation History ♦ Local History ♦ Frederick Douglass ♦ Shakers ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Religion Studies ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Ice Cream ♦ Tea Time ♦ Picnic ♦ Social Issues ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Outdoor Film ♦
Music Festival ♦ Folk Songs ♦ Musical ♦ Fairy Tale ♦ Black Comedy ♦ Family Comedy ♦ Circus Arts ♦ Contemporary Dance ♦ Aquarium ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Library ♦ Watershed
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, July 6-12, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Summer Reading ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Literature In Translation ♦ Reading To Dogs ♦ Farm Animals ♦ Native Species ♦ Watershed ♦ Ornithology ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Lavender Festival ♦ Garden Tour ♦ Manufacturing History ♦ Textile History ♦ Living History ♦ New England History ♦ Aviation History ♦ Solar System ♦ Star Gazing ♦ Dinner Theater ♦ Musical ♦ Play ♦ Fairy Tale ♦ Mary Poppins ♦ Into The Woods ♦ Guided Hike ♦ Zoology ♦ Family Concert ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Playgroup ♦ Baseball ♦ Fireworks ♦ 4th of July ♦ Parades ♦ Food Justice
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, June 29-July 5, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Wild Foods ♦ Astronomy ♦ Aviation ♦ Transportation ♦ STEM ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Open Studio Tour ♦ State Parks ♦ Community Picnic ♦ Lavender Festival ♦ Labyrinth ♦ Naturalist Program ♦ Civic Organizations ♦ Local History ♦ Colonial History ♦ Nautical History ♦ Summits ♦ Zines ♦ Picture Book Arts ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Art Supplies ♦ Fireworks ♦ Baseball ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Podcasting ♦ Musical ♦ Literature In Translation ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Geology ♦ Interpretive Walk ♦ Ornithology ♦ Entomology ♦ Spiders ♦ Fireflies ♦ Goats ♦ Pigs ♦ Cows ♦ Beavers ♦ Magic
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, June 22-28, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Town Celebration ♦ Community Day ♦ River Celebration ♦ Faerie Festival ♦ Pride Festival ♦ Father’s Day ♦ Baseball ♦ Summer Solstice ♦ Community Meal ♦ Skillsharing ♦ Sustainability ♦ Medieval Studies ♦ World Studies ♦ Music Studies ♦ Folk Music ♦ Fiddle Music ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Outdoor Film ♦ Living History ♦ Experiential Learning ♦ Walking Tour ♦ Architecture ♦ Culinary Arts ♦ Wild Food ♦ Strawberries ♦ Farmers’ Market ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Improv ♦ Musical ♦ Geology ♦ Egypt ♦ Transportation ♦ Aviation ♦ Helicopters ♦ Trolleys ♦ Beavers ♦ Pigs ♦ Dogs ♦ Naturalist ♦ Poetry ♦ Film Studies ♦ Strawberries ♦ Museums ♦ Plastic ♦ Leonardo da Vinci ♦ Paleontology ♦ Solar Energy ♦ Service-Based Learning ♦ Experiential Learning ♦ Sewing ♦ Summer Camp
These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, June 15-21, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local.: Music Studies to Geology. Creative Free Play to Early Childhood Education.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Placemaking ♦ Creative Free Play ♦ Community Meals ♦ Community Day ♦ Canals ♦ Dams ♦ Murals ♦ Cemetery ♦ Hydroelectricity ♦ Transportation ♦ Fish Migration ♦ Language Development ♦ Early Childhood Education ♦ Contemporary Art ♦ Chinese Brush Painting ♦ Herbalism ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ Garden Tour ♦ Farmers’ Market ♦ Rhubarb ♦ Beekeeping ♦ Veterinary Science ♦ Dogs ♦ Pigs ♦ Goat Care ♦ Reading to Goats ♦ Zines ♦ Storywalk ♦ Interpretive Walk ♦ Historic Walking Tours ♦ Guided Tours ♦ Social Theater ♦ Music Studies ♦ Jewish/Jazz Music ♦ Jewish/African Music ♦ Barbershop Quartet ♦ Jazz ♦ Fiddle Music ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Outdoor Film ♦ Physics ♦ Geology ♦ Architecture ♦ Naturalist ♦ Baseball
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, June 8-15, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Occupations ♦ Ranger ♦ Naturalist ♦ Asparagus ♦ Community Meal ♦ Food Festival ♦ Agriculture ♦ Oenology ♦ Farmers’ Market ♦ Pancake Breakfast ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Placemaking ♦ Block Party ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Beginning Naturalist ♦ Vernal Pools ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ Herbal Gardens ♦ Herbal Medicine ♦ Farm Animals ♦ Bird Watching ♦ Goats ♦ Pigs ♦ Butterflies ♦ Pollinators ♦ Scenic Byways ♦ Hike ♦ Bike Safety ♦ Summer Playgroup ♦ Storytime ♦ Lifelong Learning ♦ Toddlers ♦ Architecture ♦ Living History ♦ Local History ♦ Militia History ♦ Medieval Studies ♦ 19th-Century Dance ♦ Haitian Dance ♦ Circus Music ♦ Ukulele ♦ Yo Yos ♦ Angling ♦ Entomology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Geology ♦ PictureBooks ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Writing Contest ♦ Poetry ♦ Open Mic ♦ Art Studies ♦ Contemporary Art ♦ Figure Drawing
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, June 1-7, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Falcons ♦ Bird Houses ♦ Art Festival ♦ Sheep & Woolcraft ♦ WoolHistory ♦ Herbalism ♦ FiberArt ♦ Textile History ♦ Local History ♦ Medieval Studies ♦ Food Trucks ♦ Nutritional Anthropology ♦ Farmers’ Markets ♦ Farm Adventures ♦ Farm Tour ♦ Comic Books ♦ Picture Book Arts ♦ Botanical Illustration ♦ Book Design ♦ STEM ♦ Physics ♦ YoYo School ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Geology ♦ Dendrology ♦ Labyrinth ♦ Placemaking ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Scavenger Hunt ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Waterfalls ♦ Walt Whitman ♦ Sojourner Truth ♦ Cemetery Tour ♦ Night Hike ♦ Ecology
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, May 25-31, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
STE(A)M ♦ Robotics ♦ Picture Book Arts ♦ Graphic Novels ♦ Zines ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Library Adventures ♦ Poetry Walk ♦ Bird Walk ♦ Guided Hike ♦ Scavenger Hunt ♦ Natural History ♦ Rivers ♦ Volcanos ♦ Wild Flowers ♦ Plant Sale ♦ Horticulture ♦ Ecology ♦ Botany ♦ Mycology ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ CulinaryArts ♦ Cheese Making ♦ Mushrooms ♦ Native American History ♦ LocalHistory ♦ Russian History ♦ Living History ♦ Walking Tour ♦ Guided Tour ♦ Historic Homes ♦ Architecture ♦ Industrial History ♦ Horology ♦ Civics ♦ Entrepreneurship ♦ Transportation ♦ Trains ♦ Placemaking ♦ Experiential Learning ♦ Podcasting ♦ Musical ♦ Improv ♦ Play Reading ♦ Comedy ♦ Youth Circus ♦ Family Music ♦ Lawn Concert ♦ Baby Sign Language ♦ Parent Cafe ♦ Buddhism ♦ Mindfulness
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, May 18-24, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Learn Local. Play Local. is supported in part by a grant from the Agawam, Buckland, Deerfield, Gill, Hadley, New Salem, Plainfield, Shelburne Southampton, Tolland, and Westhampton Cultural Councils, local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Community-Based Education Highlights for Western Massachusetts
Mother’s Day ♦ Pancake Breakfast ♦ Tea Time ♦ Food History ♦ Community Meal ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Sustainability ♦ Solar Energy ♦ Living Building ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Experiential Learning ♦ Craft Fair ♦ Knitting ♦ Plant Sale ♦ Teen Gardening ♦ Wildflowers ♦ Dendrology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Bird Houses ♦ Ichthyology ♦ Paleontology ♦ Entomology ♦ Lady Bugs ♦ Beekeeping ♦ Fish Migration ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Astronomy ♦ Cosmology ♦ Blacksmithing ♦ Cemetery ♦ Russian History ♦ Iranian Cinema ♦ Film Studies ♦ Art Skills ♦ Printmaking ♦ Art Studies ♦ Van Gogh ♦ Chorus ♦ Community Sing ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ Mental Health ♦ Nutrition
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, May 11-17, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥ Want to have our highlights and spotlights delivered to your inbox every Thursday? Click here to subscribe!
Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts
Bird Walk ♦ Bird Banding ♦ Bird Festival ♦ Family Festival ♦ Parents’ Night Out ♦ Divinity ♦ Architecture ♦ Local History ♦ Labor History ♦ Silk History ♦ Women’s Suffrage ♦ Rosie Revere ♦ Girls Gardening ♦ Plant Sale ♦ Soil Science ♦ Electric Cars ♦ Natural History ♦ Phenology ♦ Mycology ♦ Botany ♦ Forest Bathing ♦ Wild Flowers ♦ Volunteering ♦ Town Clean-Up ♦ LGBTQ ♦ NAACP ♦ ADHD ♦ STEM ♦ Food Security ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Picture Book Art ♦ Comics ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ The Clark ♦ Woodstock ♦ Double Edge Theatre ♦ Basket Weaving ♦ Tie-Dye ♦ Textiles ♦ Star Wars ♦ Harry Potter
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, May 4-10, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! ♥
Community-Based Education Highlights for Western Massachusetts
Placemaking ♦ Sustainability Festival ♦ Creative Free Play ♦ Park Clean Up ♦ Volunteering ♦ Walking Meditation ♦ Mindful Meditation ♦ Activism ♦ Skillsharing ♦ Food Studies ♦ Community Seder ♦ Chocolate ♦ Botany ♦ Wildflowers ♦ Arbor Day ♦ Evolution ♦ Knitting ♦ Textiles ♦ Sheep Shearing ♦ Ornithology ♦ Bird Walk ♦ Entomology ♦ Herpetology ♦ Frogs ♦ Salamanders ♦ Mason Bees ♦ American Woodcock ♦ Collaborative Consumption ♦ Crafting ♦ Art Supplies ♦ Second Hand Sale ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Library Adventures ♦ Art Studies ♦ Musical ♦ Youth Theater ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Mister Rogers ♦ Industry ♦ Law ♦ Government ♦ Local History ♦ Industrial History ♦ Architecture ♦ Music Studies ♦ Folk Music ♦ Drumming ♦ West African Music ♦ Irish Music ♦ Storysongs ♦ Poetry Cafe ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ Early Childhood ♦ Social Media ♦ First Aid
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week, April 27-May 3, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
Community-Based Education Highlights for Western Massachusetts
Egg Hunts • Passover • Farm Animals • Native Species • Ornithology • Herpetology • Bats • Rural New England History • Living History • Local History • Cemetery Tour • Masonry • Engineering • STEM • Computer Coding • Podcasting • Healthy Living • Family Hike • Mud Season • Old Growth Trees • Earth Day • Climate Change • Green New Deal • Geoscience • Museum Adventures • Paper Crafts • Stenciling Art • Harry Potter • Rembrandt • Shakespeare • Improv • Musical Theater • Puppetry • Fiber Arts • Craft Swap • Film Studies • Community Sing • Piano • Klezmer Music • Music Studies • Creative Writing • Spelling Bee • Language Arts • Publishing • Manga • Collaborative Consumption • Experiential Learning • Toddlers • Teens • Lifelong Learners
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week, April 20-26, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
Community-Based Education Highlights for Western Massachusetts
Harmony ♦ Kids Theater ♦ Film Studies ♦ Broadway Musical ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Drama ♦ Holocaust ♦ Mindfulness Improve ♦ Meditative Hike ♦ Experiential Learning ♦ Volunteering ♦ Park Clean-Up ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Community Meal ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Non-Commerical ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Earth Day Festival ♦ Seed Bombs ♦ Wildflowers ♦ Vernal Pools ♦ Native Species ♦ Animal Studies ♦ Bats ♦ Herpetology ♦ Bears ♦ Migratory Birds ♦ Birds of Prey ♦ Raptors ♦ Ornithology ♦ Sleddogs ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Folk Art ♦ Printmaking ♦ Chalk Art ♦ Poetry ♦ Bookfest ♦ Graphic Novel ♦ Picture Books ♦ Kids Book Club ♦ Evening Storytime ♦ Teen Escape Room ♦ Revolutionary History ♦ Native American Studies ♦ Postcards ♦ Soapmaking ♦ Arctic ♦ Pirates ♦ Easter Bunny ♦ Revolutionary Muster ♦ Police ♦ Touch A Truck ♦ Fire Department ♦ Maker Faire ♦ Computer Coding ♦ Rockets ♦ Kinetics ♦ Physics ♦ Aeronautics
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week, April 13-19, 2019. Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
Community-Based Education Highlights for Western Massachusetts
Ballet ♦ Broadway ♦ Drama ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Snow White ♦ Beauty and the Beast ♦ Women’s History ♦ Local History ♦ Sleddogs ♦ American Woodcock ♦ Vernal Pools ♦ Amphibians ♦ April Vacation Week ♦ Summer Camps ♦ Movie Theater Birthday Party ♦ Family Camp ♦ Parents’ Night Out ♦ Date Night ♦ Baby Shower ♦ Education ♦ Early Childhood Education ♦ Week of the Young Child ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Creative-Free Play ♦ Sound Art ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Slow Art Day ♦ Easter Bunny ♦ Passover ♦ Ramadan ♦ Immigration ♦ Race ♦ Islamic Studies ♦ TEDx Talk ♦ Hero’s Journey ♦ Anatomy & Physiology ♦ Ornithology ♦ STEM ♦ Astronomy ♦ Aeronautics ♦ Kinetics ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ Teen Health ♦ Homeopathy ♦ 5K ♦ Recycling ♦ Upcycling ♦ Sustainability ♦ Seed Exchange ♦ Landscape Design ♦ Gardening ♦ Farm to School ♦ Pancakes ♦ Matza ♦ String Quartet ♦ Orchestra ♦ Contradance ♦ Flamenco ♦ Fiber Arts ♦ Airplanes ♦ Trolley Cars ♦ Mini Golf ♦ Basketball ♦ Kites
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week, April 6-12, 2019… Click through, peruse our list, and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
Community-Based Education Highlights for Western Massachusetts
Family Festival ♦ Edible Books ♦ Swing Music ♦ Yo-Yos ♦ Hiking ♦ Forest Bathing ♦ Vernal Pools ♦ Ecology ♦ Botany ♦ Geography ♦ Migration ♦ Reconciliation Ecology ♦ Gardening ♦ Barn Swallows ♦ Beavers ♦ Ornithology ♦ Baby Farm Animals ♦ Farm-Based Learning ♦ Creative-Free Play ♦ Parents’ Night Out ♦ Teen Crafts ♦ Mindful Parenting ♦ 3D Printing ♦ Astronomy ♦ Physics ♦ Financial Literacy ♦ Investing ♦ Budgeting ♦ Aromatherapy ♦ Music Studies ♦ Orchestra ♦ Art on Screen ♦ Michelangelo ♦ Leonardo da Vinci ♦ Theater ♦ Broadway ♦ Film Studies ♦ Animation ♦ Printmaking ♦ Firefighting ♦ Current Affairs ♦ Social IssuesThese are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week, March 30-April 5, 2019…
Community-Based Education Highlights for Western Massachusetts
Ducks • Woodcocks • Insects • Trees • Wildflowers • Herbalism • Jazz Studies • Farsi Funk • Maple History • Manufacturing History • 3D Printing • Computer Coding • Drones • Whips • Board Games • Women’s History • Native American History • Leonardo da Vinci • Hedy Lamarr • Humanities • Mythology • Skillsharing • Creativity • Drumming • Literature in Translation • Current Affairs • Purim • Folkdancing • Textile Arts • Printmaking • Dimensionism • Theater • Film • Opera • Hiking • Workforce • Picturebook Arts • Puppetry • Cartography • Opthalmology • Social Justice • Creative Free-Play • Experiential Learning • Community Breakfast • Babies • Toddlers • Preschoolers • Teens • Intergenerational • Lifelong Learning • Fatherhood • Parents’ Night Out • Summer Camps
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week, March 23-29, 2019.
Maple Days ♦ Hamantaschen ♦ Butter ♦ Community Meal ♦ Sheep Shearing ♦ Botany Lessons ♦ Native Species ♦ Beavers ♦ Fish ♦ Owls ♦ Tulips ♦ Forest ♦ Story Hour ♦ Folktales ♦ Folk Dance ♦ Celtic Dance ♦ St. Patrick’s Day ♦ Purim ♦ Astronomy ♦ Spring Equinox ♦ Intergenerational ♦ Teen ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ Fatherhood ♦ Rescue Dogs ♦ Bird Houses ♦ Fairy Houses ♦ Pottery ♦ Printmaking ♦ History of Books ♦ Sewing ♦ Neon ♦ Wildlife Photography ♦ Theater Studies ♦ High School Musicals ♦ Peace Activism ♦ Democracy
These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week, March 16-22, 2019. Peruse our list and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
Orchestra to Braille. Photography to Pop Icons. Creative-Free Play to Collaborative Consumption. These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week. Peruse our list below and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
Creative-free play to living history. Pilobolus to Shakespeare. Comics to pastels. These are just a few of the community-based learning highlights we’re featuring this week. Peruse our list and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play!
It’s back to school season for many. Some families are buying school supplies and adjusting to new schedules. Autumn is a time for learning, no matter your age. Western Massachusetts is home to many resource centers for adult education, often providing classes on topics related to workplace readiness and self-directed interests. Courses tend to be highly individualized, and focused on helping students reach their professional and personal goals. There are also subject-specific opportunities for learning about everything from mathematics to photography to bicycle repair!
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