Looky Here

Greenfield Gallery Walk: Reception for Olivia Hamilton
2023-08-25 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)

Lil ones at Looky
2023-08-25 10:30 - 23:30, 2023-08-18 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-08-11 10:30 - 23:30, 2023-08-04 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-07-28 10:30 - 23:30, 2023-07-21 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-07-14 10:30 - 11:30
10-15 donation

Figure Drawing 8/24
2023-08-24 18:00 - 20:00
Byo materials
easels provided
masks optional
Session starts 6pm prompt!

Strange Page– Experimental Writing Workshop
2023-08-22 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-08-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-08-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-07-25 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-07-18 18:00 - 20:00
tickets and info in week 1!

Digital Death Dive with Jayson Keery 8/20
2023-08-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
Digital Death Drive is a dip into finding poetic inspiration via digital technology. In class, we’ll briefly discuss the ethics and theories of technology as a means of artistic production, weaving in the history of techno music. Then we’ll launch into different means of unlocking a poetic flow through use of personal technology. Please be prepared to use a smart phone and feel free to bring a laptop. If you have neither of these, no worries! We’ll have some on hand.
Bio: Jayson Keery is based in Western Massachusetts. They are the author of The Choice is Real (Metatron Press, 2023) and the chapbook Astroturf (o•blēk editions, 2022). They have been anthologized in Mundus Press’s Nocturnal Properties, Nightboat Books’ We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Pilot Press London’s A Queer Anthology of Rage. They received the 2022 Metatron Prize for Rising Authors, selected by Fariha Róisín, and the 2021 Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship, selected by Wendy Xu. A complete list of publications, awards, and interviews live online at JaysonKeery.com

(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals with CAConrad 8/13
2023-08-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals with CAConrad
Please join us to explore how (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals can help us see the creative viability in everything around us. CAConrad has created writing rituals using the night sky to design homemade star constellations, another ritual to dream with crows, and many others, from talking with trees and ghosts, translating Shakespeare’s sonnets with crystals, and coping with the destroyed wilderness of our planet.
Former US-Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in The New York Times, “CAConrad’s poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.”
BIO: CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of 9 books, including AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021), which won the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award. They received a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Spain and Portugal, and their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by Augusto Cascales. UK Penguin published two books in 2023, and a new collection of poetry is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2024 titled Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Visit them online at https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88

Figure Drawing 8/10
2023-08-10 18:00 - 20:00

Strange Page– Experimental Writing Workshop
2023-08-08 18:00 - 20:00
tickets and info in week 1

Sound & Background: Using Etymology to Kickstart Your Writing with Michael Mercurio 8/6
2023-08-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
Sound & Background: Using Etymology to Kickstart Your Writing with Michael Mercurio
We all know that poems are “the best words in the best order,” but how do you find the best words? This workshop will provide you with tools for finding them through etymology and sound.
Bio: Michael Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), Lily Poetry Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Bear Review, Sugar House Review, The Inflectionist Review, Rust + Moth, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, and elsewhere.
Michael curates What The Universe Is: A Reading Series, which happens monthly on Zoom. He is the Director of Community Engagement for the Faraday Publishing Company, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering discourse of enduring value rooted in the work and experiences of the global majority, and he also serves as a member of the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival, held each September at Emily Dickinson’s house. You can find out more about Michael at poetmercurio.com.

Mermaid Bachelorette Party at 10Forward! : Fundraiser for Fairy House Day
2023-08-03 20:00
The Mermaids are getting hitched at Peskeomskut Park on Fairy House Day, September 2, 2023 and we need to make sure it is a night to remember ! Fairy House day is a free anual family friendly fairy festival in Tuners Falls, presented by The Lovelights. This Fairy House Day fundraiser is for the adults and will be held at 10Forward on Thursday August 3 at 8pm! We will have raffles, games, dancing, prizes and bubbles! Costumes are strongly encouraged and prizes will be awarded to the best dressed. Dress code: Magical Club Wear

Spectrolite Workshop
2023-08-03 18:00 - 20:00
Learn how to use the free app Spectrolite for riso color separation as well as imposition for zines, cards, and more! In addition to diving deep on Spectrolite, we will compare multiple tools for color separation, including other free web apps and color profiles in Photoshop. The Spectrolite portion of the workshop requires a Mac laptop; you are welcome to attend with any laptop with Photoshop, with the understanding that alternate tools do not support imposition.

Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever
2023-07-30 17:30
Dance to Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights in costume all at the same time!
5:30pm

Closing for Julia Shirar's Portrait Residency
2023-07-28 17:00 - 20:00 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
Join us for Final Friday in Greenfield with the closing of Julia Shirar’s Portrait Residency.

Figure Drawing 7/ 27
2023-07-27 18:00 - 20:00

Julia Shirar Portrait Residency
2023-07-27 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-07-13 12:00 - 17:00
“From June 1st through July 28th 2023, from 12pm to 6pm on Thursdays, I’m inviting the people in Greenfield to sign up or stop by Looky Here to be painted. I’ll paint from life,whoever is there, in the time allotted, what I can get down on the page or canvas. The results will be a portrait painted from life, a notation of an interaction in a given time, hung on the wall as they are completed. The portraits can be of individuals or groups and very much depend on the moment at hand and what is happening in the space. Please spread the word to friends and family to encourage a wide range of participants and not just those privy to the Looky Here calendar. All participants are invited to a closing party on July 28th that will correspond with Greenfield’s first Friday gallery walk, with food and drink and where the subjects of the portraits can meet and talk or just mill about. When the exhibition closes, the portraits will be documented and reproductions given to the participants.” – Julia Shirar
email julia@juliashirar.com for a portrait appointment

Liberated Paper Workshop
2023-07-22 13:00 - 15:00
Come learn how to make paper pulp art that is a combination of collage, assemblage, painting and bas-relief sculpture!
In this workshop, you will make a batch of paper pulp out of stuff from the recycling bin. Local paper artist Amanda Petrovato will show you what she has learned about creating with this versatile and inexpensive medium.
You are invited to bring a few pieces of junk mail or paper packaging or you are welcome to use the materials provided. This workshop is for anyone age 10 and up.
Please inquire at sambadelicmail@yahoo.com about scholarship opportunies if you would like to learn but the participation fee is prohibitive.
Amanda Petrovato is an Easthampton resident and artist who has been working in western
Massachusetts for over 20 years. Amanda believes that nobody should be denied creative expression or inhibited by the expense of traditional art materials. She has recently been experimenting with the possibilities of repurposing used materials which can be acquired at low or no cost and wants to share what she is learning.
$25

Risograph Workshop! 1 page zines!
2023-07-20 17:00 - 20:00
learn to layer colors and riso print mini zines in this scan-in riso workshop!
All materials included for each participant to make an edition of 25.

Tapered Yurt Build!
2023-07-19 08:00 - 2023-07-31 17:00
Interested in learning how to build a 24 ft diameter tapered wall yurt? This summer 2023 Looky Here and Dickenson Reach Yurts are collaborating to offer a free 13 day workshop from July 19th to the 31st! Come camp out on 43 Acres in Marlboro Vt and try your hand at building a tapered wall yurt, originally designed by Bill Coperthwaite, author of “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity” ! This workshop will be led by the talented Mike Iacona, Bill’s successor and apprentice in Yurt Building. ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME! Meals and camping accommodations will be provided.
The workshop is free to attend. Donations for meals are welcome!

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Eco-printing(Botanical Contact Printing)
2023-07-15 11:00 - 13:00
Learn how to capture the beauty of natural plant material on paper.

Eco-printing(Botanical Contact Printing) refers to the act of using plant materials to directly apply color and printed marks to textiles and paper. No additional paint or colourant is used, just an alchemical process using the elements, fire and water which express the natural colour pigments of the plants. It is a simple and surprisingly beautiful art form. Eco printing is a contemporary application of the tradition of natural dyeing.

During this workshop; participants will each create beautiful prints on watercolor paper. We’ll work with collected leaves and flowers and learn the simple tin can bundling process. Each participant will have the opportunity to make a print which transfers the natural colours and shapes of the plant onto paper.
