Looky Here

*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-12:00)
2025-05-10 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-17 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-24 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-31 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-07 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-14 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-21 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-28 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
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.
* Participates in Card to Culture

World Collage Day with Bella LaMontagne (Collaborative Collage Workshop 5/10 1:00-3:00 $20)
2025-05-10 13:00 - 15:00
World Collage Day Workshop
with Bella LaMontagne
Date: Saturday May 10th, 2025
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Cost for event: $20
Event Description: In celebration of World Collage Day, come make a collaborative collage! This collage workshop involves participants working in groups of two so this is a perfect opportunity to bring a friend or meet someone new. Each partner will work on one half of a collage and then when both partners are ready, you will each switch and finish the other partner’s collage with the final artwork being a surprise for everybody! All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any special materials or imagery that you have at home. During or after the event you can share your World Collage Day experience using the hashtag #WorldCollageDay. All ages welcome!

*Exquisite Corpse Party (5/15 $10) You can still still-life if ya like!
2025-05-15 18:00 - 20:00
This week, we will exquisite corpse and Riso print the besties!
Exquisite corpse is a collaborative art game where you draw the head, torso, and legs of a creature without seeing other drawings.
Die hard still-life fans are still welcome to come and sketch anything in the space.
* Participates in Card to Culture

Occult Poetics with CAConrad (5/17 3:00pm)
2025-05-17 15:00 - 17:00
Occult Poetics with CAConrad
In this talk, CAConrad will discuss how poets’ occult and paranormal experiences and practices
in the past show us how to trust that these same forces are alive and at work today. Rumi,
Hannah Weiner, Will Alexander, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, and Ariana Reines are some poets
whose work and practices we will investigate.
CA will also discuss (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals as a practice for all writers and artists. These rituals
provide a window into the creative viability of everything around us, initiating an “extreme
present,” where we learn how, even in crisis, we can thrive through the poems and learn to
collaborate in unexpected ways with other artistic disciplines.
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.”
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest
book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received
the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew
Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages,
and they coedited SUPPLICATION: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books). They exhibit
poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Tucson, Arizona, as well as in Spain and
Portugal. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please visit them at
https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88

*Figure Drawing (5/22 $15)
2025-05-22 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

"No Such Thing as Fiction" Book Release at Four Phantoms
2025-05-23 18:00 - 20:30
The U.S. book release for Vanessa Brewster’s Risograph printed collection of art and short stories, “No such thing as fiction” will take place at Four Phantoms Brewing Company on Friday, 5/23! Come at 6:00 for drinks, food and fun!
There will be food from the Cocina Lupita food truck, and performances from Shea Mowat and AT, plus a reading from Vanessa Brewster.
See you there!

Make a Monster: Needle Felting with Molly Morin (Saturday May 24th 1:00-3:00)
2025-05-24 13:00 - 15:00
Make a monster (or two or three) in a quick introduction to needle felting. Invent characters, play with colors and shapes and learn about needle felting tools, techniques and materials.
2 hours, tools and materials provided.
$25/person – all ages

Sweatshirt or Jean Weaving Workshop with Rae Heller (5/25 materials included 12:00-5:00 $115)
2025-05-25 12:00 - 17:00
Bring in some shabby sweats or old jeans and make them shine with fabric weaving!
We ran a three hour version of this class, but it just wasn’t long enough. Come to this all day intensive to master the art of sweatshirt weaving.
Sewing machine experience not mandatory but extremely helpful!
Bring a sweatshirt or something thick to upcycle, all other materials included!
This class is 5 hours and will include a break. Pack a snack!

Music Show! 7:00 $10-20 sliding scale
2025-05-25 19:00 - 22:00

*The Drawing Room(5/29 $10)
2025-05-29 18:00 - 20:00
Exquisite Corpse and other drawing games every other Thursday from 6:00-8:00.
Materials provided BYO snacks and drinks.
$10
*Participates in Card to Culture

"A World Below" by Scout Cuomo Closes
2025-05-30 17:00 - 18:00
Last chance to see “A World Below” by Scout Cuomo.

*Collage Club 5/31 from 1:00-3:00 $10
2025-05-31 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

Carousel Open Mic for Writers
2025-05-31 19:00 - 21:00
Come and share your latest words at Looky!
$10 suggested donation

*Figure Drawing (6/5 6:00-8:00 $15)
2025-06-05 18:00 - 20:00

Straight Shooters: Reading featuring Carolyn Zaikowski, Jenny Abeles, Sarah Wisby and L Scully
2025-06-06 19:00 - 22:00
Straight Shooters: Featuring Easthampton’s newest Poet Laureate, Carolyn Zaikowski!
with additional readings from Jenny Abeles, Sarah Wisby, and L Scully!
7:00
$10-$20 sliding scale
See you there!

Prose Poem Variations (8 week workshop with Sarah Wisby)
2025-06-10 18:00 - 20:00
Are you genre-queer? Hard to categorize? Curious about hybrid forms? In this eight week generative class, we will read and write variations on the prose poem. From Japanese forms like the haibun and zuihitsu to the modern poem/essay, the prose poem offers a panoply of delights for the experimental writer.
8 Tuesdays
June 10 – July 29
$200

Conversation Party (Speed Dating for Friendship!)
2025-06-20 18:00 - 20:00
Be scared, be shy, come anyway!
6:00-8:00
$10
Limited space!

*Collage Games with Levi Diamond (June 25th 6:00-8:00 $10)
2025-06-25 18:00 - 20:00
Collage Games!
Collage/mixed media can be an overwhelming medium because anything goes. In my work, I like to play games with the medium, ie set boundaries I must adhere by.
For this workshop I’ll set some rules & provide some must use materials or themes. Just birds! Must incorporate glitter! All blue! (Examples) Trade scraps with your neighbor & only work with those. (We will definitely do this).
Everyone must bring at least one thing to give to someone else to use.
$10
June 25th 6:00-8:00
This class participates in Card to Culture

Resident Artists Gallery Opening: Levi Diamond
2025-06-27 17:00 - 20:00
Levi Diamond is here all June long making art from our thrift store of art supplies!
Come in on Final Friday, June 27th for his gallery reception!

*Collage Club 6/28 1:00-3:00 (Every final Saturday of the Month)
2025-06-28 18:00 - 20:00

Blessed be the Fruit (Queer Erotica Open Mic)
2025-06-28 19:00 - 21:00
Queer Erotica Open Mic
Saturday June 28th
7:00-9:00
$10 Suggested Donation

Figure Drawing (7/3 $15)
2025-07-03 18:00 - 20:00

*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-12:00)
2025-07-05 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
