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.

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

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!