Looky Here

*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-12:00)
2025-08-09 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-16 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-23 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-30 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-06 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-13 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-20 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-12:00)
Want to write but having trouble getting started? Or tired of writing alone into the void? Join us for a drop-in writing space, open to all and free (donations to Looky Here for letting us use the space are encouraged). We will say hello to each other, share a prompt or brief piece to get us going, but mostly we will just write together. This is not a workshopping group or an open mic, come with your notebook or laptop and get ready to get some words on the page in good company.
FREE!
* Participates in Card to Culture

The Emissary (8/9 Afternoon)
2025-08-09 15:00 - 16:30
The Emissary
by Julia Zanes
The story is a montage of grave ideas, told in the unwieldy medium of marionettes. Original music by Omeed Goodarzi with Sam DuPont and Shea Hagen. Puppets by Julia Zanes. Puppeteering by Hannah Brookman and Emily Tatro.
“The Emissary” will be performed in Marlboro, VT. Address will be provided upon ticket sale.

Fairy House Building (8/10 free!)
2025-08-10 12:00 - 15:00
Come join in the preparation for this year’s Fairy House Day on Avenue A in Turners Falls taking place Saturday August 16th at Peskeompskut Park!
On the weekends leading up to the big event, we will have drop-in fairy house building at Looky Here. Feel free to bring your own moss, leaves, sticks, rocks, seashells, pinecones, ect.!!

The Emissary (8/10 Afternoon)
2025-08-10 15:00 - 16:30

Carousel (4 weeks 8/10-8/31 writing workshop with L. Scully)
2025-08-10 17:00 - 19:00
Four weeks, four themes. Over the course of two months, gather to discuss and generate new work with writer L Scully. This workshop will occur Sunday evenings in August in two hour, limited group sessions at Looky Here. Each week we will explore a different theme through literary and artistic references, group discussion, and generative writing prompts provided live and in session. The ultimate goal of this workshop is to jumpstart your writing practice in a supportive and productive environment guided by a tapestry of subject matter. Let’s get weird!
4 Sundays 8/10-8/32
5:00-7:00pm
This class will end with an Open Mic Reading TBD.

The Emissary (8/10 Evening)
2025-08-10 19:00 - 20:30
The Emissary
by Julia Zanes
The story is a montage of grave ideas, told in the unwieldy medium of marionettes. Original music by Omeed Goodarzi with Sam DuPont and Shea Hagen. Puppets by Julia Zanes. Puppeteering by Hannah Brookman and Emily Tatro.
“The Emissary” will be performed in Marlboro, VT. Address will be provided upon ticket sale.
Evening showing includes cake!

*Figure Drawing (8/14 Thursday $15)
2025-08-14 18:00 - 20:00
BYO materials! Easel and drawing horses provided. Figure Drawing at Looky Here is an uninstructed drawing session with a nude model. $15 per session, running 6-8pm on over other Thursday evening.
*Participates in Card to Culture

The Storyland Ball at Fairy House Day on Avenue A
2025-08-16 14:00 - 18:00

Intro to Bookmaking: Make a blank Journal ($60 with Sarah Wisby 5:30-8:00)
2025-08-18 17:30 - 20:00
This is the first in a series of monthly book arts classes at Looky Here! In this class you will learn bookbinding basics: planning, measuring, cutting, folding, and sewing a handmade softcover book. Materials are included, but feel free to bring your own decorative paper or tools if you have them. This class will introduce the pamphlet stitch, but future classes will explore more intricate bindings.

Botanical Risograph Poster Workshop (Wednesday 8/20 5:00-8:00)
2025-08-20 17:00 - 20:00
Riso Workshop: Botanical Posters 5:00-8:00
$60.00
Learn to print and layer colors on Looky Here’s Risograph printer in this 2 hour workshop! Students will collaboratively make a series of 20 11×17 posters by scanning leaves and flowers. All materials provided, though feel free to bring your own plant matter.

*Figure Drawing (8/28 $15 6:00-8:00)
2025-08-28 18:00 - 20:00

Gallery Opening: "Belt Course" Paintings and Prints by John Armstrong and Amy Borezo
2025-08-29 17:00 - 20:00
Join us for Final Friday Arts Walk in Greenfield!

*Collage Club - 8/30 1:00-3:00 (Every final Saturday of the Month)
2025-08-30 13:00 - 15:00
1:00-3:00
$10.00
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!
For Card to Culture Tickets, please email LookyHereGreenfield@gmail.com

Open Mic for Writers
2025-08-31 19:00 - 21:00
Open Mic for writers, plus a class reading for Carousel!
Come at 7 sharp and bring your diary!
$10 suggested donation – NOTAFLOF

Deranged Sonnets with L Scully (9/3 6:00-8:00 $40)
2025-09-03 18:00 - 20:00
Shall I compare thee to a fall workshop?
Join writer L Scully for a single session workshop focused on creating your own DIY sonnets. You will accompany L for one evening of their daily sonnet quest. This class is a two hour generative session. Arrive with a silly, open heart, and leave with the beginnings of three new pieces. While sonnets are a famous poetic staple, writers from all genres are encouraged to participate. Let’s get weird, queer, and let fourteen lines steward our journey together.
Wednesday, September 3rd 6-8PM
L Scully (they/them) is a living writer. Their second book, SELF-ROMANCING, is out from Dopamine Books LA in September. They are a double Capricorn and like to boss people around. That includes you, so come make new work!

Riso Color Exploration (9/4 6:00-8:00 $60)
2025-09-04 18:00 - 20:00
We’ll use different color paper to experiment with how our Risograph colors blend and interact. We will print collage, drawings, designs and more to make a collection of 20 multicolored prints.

The Art of Restraint: Exploring Poetic Forms (8 Tuesdays with Sarah Wisby 9/9-10/28)
2025-09-09 18:00 - 20:00
The Art of Restraint: Exploring Poetic Forms
with Sarah Wisby
Looking for structure? Curious about constraints? In this 8 week generative poetry class, we will read and write in a variety of short forms, from the abcedarian to the ghazal. Emphasis will be on playfulness and freedom. Some poets we will likely read include Victoria Chang, Marilyn Hacker, Agha Shahid Ali, Adrienne Rich, Terrance Hayes, Issa, and Elizabeth Bishop.
8 Tuesdays
September 9 – October 28
6-8 pm
Looky Here
$200

Joseph Albers' "Interaction of Color" with Hannah Brookman (9/10-10/29)
2025-09-10 18:00 - 20:00
Josef Albers’ “Interaction of Color” Reading and Color Theory Class
In this 8 week class, we will work through the color experiments presented by Josef Albers in his 1963 publication “Interaction of Color”. Albers taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, headed Yale University’s department of design, and is considered one of the most influential teachers of the visual arts in the twentieth century. Students will need to have a copy of the text as well as color swatches to work with (color swatches from paint stores work best!). Experiments will be done at home and in class.
Class will meet 6-8pm on Wednesdays 9/10-10/29 at Looky Here

Figure Drawing (9/11)
2025-09-11 18:00 - 20:00

Design and Print Your own Stationary! (9/12)
2025-09-12 13:00 - 16:00
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!

*Submit your work to journals (9/13 1:00-3:00 by donation)
2025-09-13 13:00 - 15:00
Come in and get moral support/suggestions while we submit our work (writing, art, and beyond) to journals!
By donation

Art Build: Franklin County Rent Control Campaign Kickoff
2025-09-14 12:00 - 15:00
Free event, donations appreciated.
Join us for an art build to kick off the rent control campaign in Franklin County!

Making an Altered Book with Sarah Wisby (9/18 5:30-8:00 $60)
2025-09-18 17:30 - 20:00
Making an artist book out of an existing book is a great way to be in conversation with the history of bookmaking and of mischief-making! Come play with different techniques such as erasure, cutting, folding, collaging, and painting on pages. Bring materials you’ve been wanting to create with or choose from a variety of texts and supplies collected by the teacher.

Risograph Botanical Posters! (9/19)
2025-09-19 18:00 - 20:00
Learn to print and layer colors on Looky Here’s Risograph printer in this 2 hour workshop! Students will collaboratively make a series of 20 11×17 posters by scanning leaves and flowers. All materials provided, though feel free to bring your own plant matter.
