Community-Based Education Highlights
for Western Massachusetts

Entomology ♦ Zoology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Botany ♦ Economics ♦ Physics ♦ Dendrology ♦ Critical Thinking ♦ Investing ♦ Beekeeping ♦ Native Species ♦ Birds of Prey ♦ Nature Scavenger Hunt ♦ Media Literacy ♦ Computer Coding ♦ Video Games ♦ Chess ♦ YoYo ♦ LEGOs ♦ Salt Science ♦ Music Studies ♦ Classical Music ♦ Singing ♦ Art Studies ♦ Figure Drawing ♦ Landscape Painting ♦ Pottery ♦ Ice Sculpting ♦ Chinese Calligraphy ♦ Mandarin ♦ Sewing ♦ Basket Coiling ♦ White Pine ♦ Bookselling History ♦ Mark Twain ♦ Photography ♦ Ice Skating ♦ Hiking ♦ New England History ♦ Illumination History ♦ Women’s History ♦ Equal Rights ♦ Four Freedoms ♦ Drag Storytime ♦ Folklore ♦ Herbal Medicine ♦ Medical History ♦ Polio ♦ Aromatherapy ♦ Baking Arts ♦ Rye Bread ♦ Food Tour ♦ Mindful Eating ♦ Forest Bathing

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, January 11-17, 2020. 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

Chanukah Celebration ♦ Kwanzaa ♦ Solstice ♦ Santa ♦ New England Christmas ♦ Christmas History ♦ Local History ♦ Urban Life ♦ Holiday Train Ride ♦ Aviation ♦ Puppet Show ♦ Merry Go Round ♦ Board Games ♦ Ice Skating ♦ Gymnastics ♦ Physics ♦ Makerspace ♦ Trees ♦ Candlelit Hike ♦ Spiral Walk ♦ Solstice Celebration ♦ Winter Solstice ♦ Astronomy ♦ Film Studies ♦ Holiday Film ♦ MYO Soap ♦ MYO Ornament ♦ MYO Menorah ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Irish Dance ♦ Klezmer Music ♦ Sing Along ♦ Community Meal ♦ Pastry Arts ♦ Gingerbread ♦ Sufganiyot ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Light Festival ♦ Light Displays ♦ Menorah Lighting ♦ Luminaries ♦

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, December 21-27, 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

Kindness ♦ Intergenerational ♦ Community Meal ♦ Locally Made ♦ Open Studios ♦ MYO Ornaments ♦ Yule Celebration ♦ Christmas ♦ Holiday Light Displays ♦ Holiday Stroll ♦ Train Rides ♦ Ice Skating ♦ Zoology ♦ Ornithology ♦ Nocturnal Animals ♦ Dendrology ♦ White Birch ♦ Aromatherapy ♦ Pastry Arts ♦ Gingerbread Houses ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Art Studies ♦ Picture Book Arts ♦ Dr. Seuss ♦ Elf ♦ Emily Dickinson ♦ Literature In Translation ♦ Storytelling ♦ Story Hour ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Ballet ♦ Nutcracker ♦ A Christmas Carol ♦ It’s A Wonderful Life ♦ Music Studies ♦ World Music ♦ American Roots Music ♦ Symphony ♦ Singing ♦ New England History ♦ Broadcast History ♦ Winter Farmers’ Market ♦

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, December 14-20, 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 Food History ♦ Recipes ♦ Local Food History ♦ Thanksgiving Day ♦ Black Friday ♦ Self-Guided Hikes ♦ Guided Hike ♦ Holiday Food Traditions ♦ Local Food Tour ♦ Community Meal ♦ Community Potluck ♦ Food Security ♦ Indigenous Culture ♦ Buddhism ♦ Kindness ♦ Volunteering ♦ Historic Canals ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Contra Dance ♦ Belly Dancing ♦ Folk Dance ♦ Musical ♦ Folk Music ♦ Broadway Theater ♦ MYO Gifts ♦ Upcycling ♦ Handmade Crafts ♦ Artisan Traditions ♦ Wreath ♦ Glassblowing ♦ Sewing ♦ Sawing ♦ STEM ♦ Physics ♦ Aviation ♦ Palaeography ♦ Christmas Trees ♦ Plant Biology ♦ Ecology ♦ Ferns ♦ Seed Swap ♦ Local Agriculture ♦ Winter Farmers’ Market ♦ Sports ♦ Football ♦ Ice Skating ♦ Sense of Place ♦ Short Stories ♦ Storytelling ♦ Literature in Translation ♦ Placemaking ♦ Festival of Lights ♦ Holiday Lighting Ceremony ♦ Holiday Stroll ♦ Balloon Parade

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, November 23-29, 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

Spooky Safari ♦ Spooktacular ♦ Monsters Ball ♦ Haunted Hangar ♦ Haunted Train Ride ♦ Rag Shag Parade ♦ Trick-or-Treat ♦ Gravestone Carving ♦ Haunted Farm ♦ Horror Film ♦ Paranormal ♦ Night Tour ♦ Day of the Dead ♦ Halloween Fest ♦ Dia de los Meurtos ♦ Spiders ♦ Bats ♦ Owls ♦ Dance Studies ♦ Music Studies ♦ Film Studies ♦ Orchestra ♦ Contra Dance ♦ Biology ♦ Animal Studies ♦ Ornithology ♦ Zoo Adventures ♦ Local Food ♦ Vegetarian ♦ Butchery ♦ Apples & Cider ♦ Apple Picking ♦ Aviation ♦ Museum Adventures ♦ Archaeology ♦ Pottery ♦ Woodworking ♦ STEM ♦ Women Engineering ♦ Date Night ♦ Parents’ Night Out ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ Placemaking

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, October 26-November 1, 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

Relationships ♦ Sense Of Place ♦ Experiential Theater ♦ Family Dance ♦ Performance Art ♦ Qi Gong ♦ Drumming ♦ History ♦ Clock Tower ♦ Stone Walls ♦ Train Ride ♦ Cemetery ♦ Fall Harvest ♦ Fall Festival ♦ Harvest Festival ♦ Town Festival ♦ Pumpkin Festival ♦ Scarecrows ♦ Apples ♦ Trees ♦ Sukkot ♦ Yiddish ♦ Polish Parade ♦ Immigration ♦ Carnival ♦ Halloween Show ♦ Halloween Parade ♦ Night Tour ♦ Occult ♦ Mini Golf ♦ Trivia ♦ Origami ♦ Nature Studies ♦ Biodiversity ♦ Literary Studies ♦ Fashion History ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Dressmaking ♦ Shoemaking ♦ Blacksmith ♦ Letterpress Printing ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Health Care ♦ Date Night

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, October 19-25, 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

Fashion History ♦ Music History ♦ Rock & Roll ♦ Afro Cuban ♦ Jazz ♦ Piano ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Art Studies ♦ Post-Impressionism ♦ Figure Drawing ♦ Surrealism ♦ Drama ♦ Art Installation ♦ Picture Book Art ♦ Art Museum ♦ Nature-Based Learning ♦ Zoology ♦ Entomology ♦ Bats ♦ Squirrels ♦ Pollinators ♦ Beekeeping ♦ Homeschool ♦ Science Museum ♦ Fiber Optics ♦ Geology ♦ Paranormal ♦ Anthropology ♦ Language Arts ♦ Sign Language ♦ Poetry ♦ Writing Club ♦ Open Mic ♦ Upcycling ♦ Skillsharing ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Tinsmithing ♦ Letterpress Printing ♦ Broom Making ♦ Scarecrows ♦ Rural Culture ♦ Urban Culture ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ Fall Harvest ♦ Fall Festival ♦ Autumn Parade ♦ Food Culture ♦ Food Tradition ♦ Potatoes ♦ Pudding ♦ Pumpkin Pie ♦ Vegetarian Cooking ♦ Wine & Cheese

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, October 5-11, 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 Music ♦ Contra Dancing ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Historical Comedy ♦ Experiential Theater ♦ Japanese Theater ♦ Japanese Storytelling ♦ Bullet Journaling ♦ Textile History ♦ Women’s History ♦ Fashion History ♦ Local Heritage ♦ Trolley Festival ♦ Country Fair ♦ Local Agriculture ♦ Food Traditions ♦ Shaker Heritage ♦ Puerto Rican Food Traditions ♦ Folk Traditions ♦ Culinary Traditions ♦ Pies ♦ Silversmithing ♦ Stoneware Pottery ♦ Basket Making ♦ Scarecrows ♦ Local Harvest ♦ Seed Saving ♦ Apple Picking ♦ Garlic ♦ Corn Maze ♦ Botany ♦ Herbalism ♦ Natural History ♦ Geography ♦ River Clean Up ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Biology ♦ Zoology ♦ Animal Studies ♦ Hawk Migration ♦ Bears ♦ Reptiles ♦ Food Security ♦ Community Meal ♦ Charity Bike Ride ♦ Parent’s Night Out ♦ Arts Night Out ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ STEM ♦ 5K ♦ Art Studies ♦ Drawing ♦ Installation Art ♦ Rural Placemaking ♦ Urban Placemaking ♦ Outdoor Film ♦ Civics

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, September 28 – October 4, 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

Hispanic Heritage Month ♦ Puerto Rican Parade ♦ Mardi Gras Parade ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ Harvest Festival ♦ Agricultural Fair ♦ Local Heritage ♦ Guided Tours ♦ Historical Museum ♦ Textile History ♦ Industrial History ♦ Fashion History ♦ Cooking for Teens ♦ Colonial Cooking ♦ Farm Festival ♦ Rosh Hashanah ♦ Apple Picking ♦ Corn Maze ♦ Chili Peppers ♦ Hawk Migration ♦ Monarch Butterflies ♦ Tagging Butterflies ♦ Bioblitz ♦ Silk Worms ♦ Pollinators ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Biology ♦ Astronomy ♦ Textiles ♦ Community Gathering ♦ Block Party ♦ Community Meal ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Safety ♦ Language Arts ♦ Rural Public Art ♦ Experiential Art ♦ Pop Culture ♦ Poetry ♦ Date Night ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ Film Studies ♦ Music Studies ♦ Family Podcast ♦ Cajun Music ♦ Grassroots Music ♦ Kirtan ♦ Canoeing

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, September 14-20, 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

Hispanic Heritage Month ♦ Puerto Rican Parade ♦ Mardi Gras Parade ♦ Rural Heritage ♦ Harvest Festival ♦ Agricultural Fair ♦ Local Heritage ♦ Guided Tours ♦ Historical Museum ♦ Textile History ♦ Industrial History ♦ Fashion History ♦ Cooking for Teens ♦ Colonial Cooking ♦ Farm Festival ♦ Rosh Hashanah ♦ Apple Picking ♦ Corn Maze ♦ Chili Peppers ♦ Hawk Migration ♦ Monarch Butterflies ♦ Tagging Butterflies ♦ Bioblitz ♦ Silk Worms ♦ Pollinators ♦ Dinosaurs ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Biology ♦ Astronomy ♦ Textiles ♦ Community Gathering ♦ Block Party ♦ Community Meal ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Safety ♦ Language Arts ♦ Rural Public Art ♦ Experiential Art ♦ Pop Culture ♦ Poetry ♦ Date Night ♦ Parenting Workshop ♦ Film Studies ♦ Music Studies ♦ Family Podcast ♦ Cajun Music ♦ Grassroots Music ♦ Kirtan ♦ Canoeing

These are just a few of the community-based education (CBEdu) highlights we featured this week in our eNewsletter for the week, September 14-20, 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

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.