Looky Here

Tea & Cookies! Black tea and soy milk dying workshop
2024-09-07 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Bring your own cotton or natural fibered fabrics to the tea and cookies dying workshop, or play with some of ours! Soy milk is a mordant, and enhances the black tea’s ability to dye natural fabrics, we will drink tea, dye with tea, and eat cookies! This workshop is open to all ages!

Still Life Social Club
2024-09-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-10-24 18:00 - 20:00
Still Life Social Club – biweekly on Thursdays 6-8pm. Bring drawing or painting supplies, a drink or a snack, a playlist or a good story and an item to add to the still life ! $10 tickets online 🎨✏️💐🏺🧃🍿🎶🧸📚

Open Mic for Writers SUPERSTITIONS! featuring Zoe Tuck
2024-09-13 19:00 - 22:00
Bring your most superstitious pieces!
We’ll start the night off with sign ups and end off hearing pieces from ZOE TUCK!!!
Seltzers available!
$10 suggested donation! NOTAFLOF

Riso Print Workshop! Make your Own Stationary
2024-09-14 12:00 - 15:00
Learn how to design and print on the Risograph in this stationary workshop! Each student will use 2 colors and will make an edition of 20 custom note cards and envelopes!

Hooks and Needles! Every Second Saturday with Caroline James from 1:00-3:00
2024-09-14 13:00 - 15:00
Hooks and Needles: a social space for stitchers to share tips, work on projects, or start something new!
Discount for GCC students. No experience necessary, and materials will be provided.

Figure Drawing 9/19
2024-09-19 18:00 - 20:00
Figure drawing at Looky Here is an uninstructed drawing session with a nude model.
Easels and drawing horses are provided but please bring your own materials.

Magick Lantern, Bonnie, and BEN HERSEY
2024-09-20 19:00 - 23:00
Bonnie – Maine grunge rock
Magick Lantern – Mass ROCK!
Ben Hersey – performance art that surprises and delights
$15

From Comb to Candle- How to Make Hand Dipped Beeswax Candles
2024-09-21 12:30 - 15:00
In this class you will learn how bees make beeswax and how humans have worked with beeswax over millennia. Then you will learn how to render beeswax for candle making and hand dip candles from beeswax. You’ll take home a set of two hand dipped candles for your own ritual needs.

All skill levels welcome, no candle making experience is necessary. Must be able to sit for prolonged periods (45 min) and stand periodically for candle dipping. All materials provided.

Saturday 9/21 12:30-3:00
$38 per person

Collage Club - 9/28
2024-09-28 13:00 - 15:00
The Collage Club is where you can play, experiment, and learn the fundamentals of creating a collage! No experience is necessary to participate and open to all ages! All collage materials will be provided or you can bring your own. We will meet from 1-3 pm. Tickets for this event are $10 each class. Let’s cut things up, glue them down, and create something beautiful!

Gallery Closing for Buoyant Heart "Back and Forthness"
2024-10-02 19:00
Last chance to see the show and a PLAY organized by Buoyant Heart!

Figure Drawing 10/3
2024-10-03 18:00 - 20:00

POSTPONED! Falling in Love with Community: A Conversation Party
2024-10-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
EVENT POSTPONED! We will try again in the winter!
Speed dating for friendship!
Be scared, be shy, come anyway!
6:00-8:00

Strange Page Reading
2024-10-15 19:00
Join us for a reading from Strange Page Participants!
7:00!
$10 suggested donation
NOTAFLOF

Looky Here 3rd Annual Gala Auction Opening, Looky Beer Release, and TRIVIA
2024-10-16 20:00 | The People’s Pint, 24 Federal St, Greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
ART OPENING/BEER RELEASE/TRIVIA! – On October 16th at 8:00 we will hang a portion of our available artworks at the People’s Pint and host a celebration of our new “Looky Beer” collaboration with the restaurant. Join us for TRVIA with prizes!! Plus, every pour of “Looky Beer,” earns Looky Here $1!!!

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The auction will close at 10:30pm on the night of our Victorian Saloon Gala at the People’s Pint, December 14th, 2024. The event will have Live Piano Karaoke, raffles, and special in-person live auctions starting at 9:00pm. You won’t want to miss it, but need not be present to win!
This year, our fundraising goal is $50,000. Since opening in 2017, we have hosted over 1,250 workshops, curated over 40 gallery shows, trained over 100 people in Riso printing, organized nearly a dozen community festivals, and rehomed countless boxes of art supplies. Looky Here has been largely volunteer-run since its inception. Although we started our Looky Here journey nearly 8 years ago, we are raising $50,000 as part of a start-up fund so that we can support and sustain our nonprofit and become eligible for larger capacity grants.
With more funding, we would be able to pay our managing directors a minimum wage, hire a larger team, provide more robust scholarships for workshops, offer more free events, upgrade our facilities, host visiting artists and sustain our mission of affordable arts for all!
goals:
$10,000 by September
$15,000 by October
$25,000 by November
$35,000 by December
$50,000 by 2025!

Figure Drawing
2024-10-17 18:00 - 20:00

Palmistry by Diana Waldon and Tarot Readings by Amber Wolfe Rounds (Sign up for your 15 minute slot!)
2024-10-18 17:00 - 19:00
Tarot Readings by Amber Wolfe Rounds

Amber Wolfe Rounds is an astrologer and tarot reader with 15 years of experience. She provides astrology services including predictive forecasting, natal charts for individuals, and composite readings for couples or groups. Amber offers tarot card readings for public events and private parties.

Amber earned an M.Ed. from Antioch University New England after submitting her thesis: Tone Art: Anthroposophy, Astrology, Music. She is a Class Teacher at The Hartsbrook School in Hadley, MA. Amber composes and performs musical scores from astrology for Zizia.

Palmistry Readings by Diana Waldon

Diana’s palmistry readings are informed by the study of books dedicated to the art of hand analysis.
She has read the palms of friends and strangers alike for over a decade. The lines on your palm change with time, reflecting the dynamism of life and most importantly, your ability to self-determine; palmistry readings at Looky Here will feature analysis of major and minor lines, mounts, and phalanges.

Readings are $20. Sign up in advance for a time slot through Looky Here.

Greenfield Arts Walk: "when you are here" paintings by Clare Churchill Seder.
2024-10-25 17:00 - 20:00
Join us on FINAL FRIDAY to celebrate “when you are here” paintings by Clare Churchill Seder.
October 25th, 5:00-8:00pm at 28 Chapman St in Greenfield!

Collage Club 10/26
2024-10-26 13:00 - 15:00

Comedy Workshop with Mo Schweiger (Mondays 11/4-12/9)
2024-11-04 18:00 - 20:00
This six session comedy workshop is designed to make performing stand-up comedy less daunting!
Over six weeks, we will alternate between “content” workshop sessions and open mic workshop sessions. In “content” sessions, we will watch comedy sets by pros and discuss what makes them great. We will break down their jokes, their stage personas, and the structures of their sets and learn from them what works and doesn’t.
Then, on open mic weeks, we’ll take our skills to the mic!
This workshop is specifically meant for people underrepresented in traditional comedy spaces, though all are welcome. No experience necessary/all levels of experience welcome!
$150

Botanical Posters Risograph Workshop! 6:00-8:00 $60
2024-11-06 18:00 - 20:00
Scan leaves and flowers to make a run of 20 11″x17″ multicolored posters on the risograph!

Figure Drawing 11/7
2024-11-07 18:00 - 20:00

Queer Erotica Open Mic for Writers
2024-11-09 19:00
Woah! 7:00pm

Entropy Workshop with L. Scully (Tuesday 11/12 6:00-8:00)
2024-11-12 18:00 - 20:00
ENTROPY is an in person, generative writing workshop hosted by L Scully. The two hour class aims to produce the beginnings of 2+ new pieces of writing based on original prompts provided live and in session. We will discuss our artistic interpretations of ENTROPY as a theme in reference to our personal and collective creative practices, as well as sharing work by writers who add to our understanding of Disorder as a concept. This class is designed to be cross-genre and is open to new and seasoned writers alike.
We will brainstorm, create, discuss, and share work in a supportive and conversational setting.

We are living in a conundrum of degradation. our bodies age, the State is falling, disorder(s) run rampant in our minds. God feels random and chaos feels inevitable. There is no choice but to write toward uncertainty. What does the end of the world look like to you as an artist? What does the future look like for writers whose worlds have already ended? Cope, world-build, freak out, investigate together.

(Tues, Nov. 12th, 6-8pm)

LADYSPLAIN RETURNS! Friday 11/15 7pm!
2024-11-15 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for a night of words from the ladies who splain.
Sarah Wisby
Kel Warren
Vanessa Brewster
Friday 11/15/2024 at 7pm!
$10 suggested donation N.O.T.A.F.L.O.F.

Figure Drawing 11/21
2024-11-21 18:00 - 20:00

Collage Club 11/30
2024-11-30 13:00 - 15:00

Figure Drawing 12/5/24
2024-12-05 18:00 - 20:00

Greenfield Holiday Market Pop-Up at The Pushkin
2024-12-06 11:00 - 2024-12-08 20:00 | Pushkin Building
Come celebrate the holiday season with a collection of some of the best makers, craftspeople, and artists in The Valley! Greenfield’s yearly Holiday Pop Up Market returns for a weekend of local shopping, small business support, and holiday fun!
Looky Here will be tabling all 3 days and will be joined by Mrs Claus!
Friday December 6th, 4:00 – 8:00 PM
Saturday December 7th, 11:00 – 6:00 PM
Sunday December 8th, 11:00 – 3:00 PM
In The Pushkin Gallery

Closing reception for “when you are here” paintings by Clare Churchill Seder
2024-12-06 17:00 - 20:00
