May 22 Thursday
Consistently rated the best local scavenger hunt since 2016!
Puzzling Adventures are a cross between a scavenger hunt, an adventure race, and an informative self-guided walking tour. Each adventure consists of a series of locations that you are guided to where you are required to answer a question or solve a puzzle to receive your next instruction. Compete as a group, individually or create multiple teams and race each other. Almost all of our adventures are designed to be wheelchair and stroller friendly and all are carefully crafted to be entertaining and informative with something to appeal to all ages. Complete the adventure as quickly as possible to win first place or take your time and enjoy the journey. Price is per team, not per person. Groups can be any size, but small groups are recommended for the best experience.
Enter the code EVENT on the payment page for a $10 discount!
Most locations are available daylight hours every day.
Repeating bands of vibrant color weave through Paula Hite’s recent abstract acrylic paintings on paper. The view from her large studio windows led Hite to explore Nature as a metaphor for connection and community. A vital energy emerges in the intertwining organic forms inspired by interconnecting trees and shadows. These animated ribbons of color jostle, nudge, appear, merge, and disappear—inviting the viewer to enter into the painting’s flow in an act of confluence.
Each of us has a story, our own personal history and collection of experiences that make us who we are. Storytelling is a natural part of collective learning. Around kitchen tables, at cookouts and family gatherings, after church, people gather and tell stories of wisdom of generations. Retelling of personal history— the mundane and the profound— is our path to liberation.
Tell Her This Community Storytelling Events bring an audience's stories and experiences to life. Musician and Podcaster, Rochelle Rice, will help participants present their personal stories, in the honest and heartfelt conversational style of Tell Her This Podcast. Stories will be presented live and accompanied by live music.
To submit your story for consideration please fill out the form here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvnqPP_G2qBVeNJykHDhANQF0fwvRpbHQyPeFGbBPiG36vNw/viewform). Acceptance includes working in person with Rochelle Rice on May 20, 21, and 22, 2025 at Bombyx, and presenting on stage at Bombyx on May 22, 2025.
May 23 Friday
Come and enjoy this exhibit of the uplifting art of Maria Termini which includes serigraphs, collages and acrylics. Her new work includes creation art inspired by ancient rock art and also painted music inspired by her experience of diverse musical forms. Maria Termini is an artist, musician, and author. Adventure, beauty, rich images, music, and a search for justice are the threads woven into the rich tapestry that is her life. Visit www.mariatermini.com to learn more.
SCMA presents the exhibition Younes Rahmoun: Here, Now through July 13, 2025. us into the rich and varied world of Younes Rahmoun as it takes root across four locations in western Massachusetts.
The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting ments by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published ments through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.
Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor highlights selections from Rockwell’s most amusing artworks drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection.
Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor runs concurrently with What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine, this summer’s landmark exhibition of original art from one of America’s oldest humor publications. These thematically linked exhibitions juxtapose and illuminate two strikingly different veins of American humor, from the gently comical to the outrageously satirical. The underlying unity, however, is apparent in the brilliance of the illustrations and the successful intent to prompt viewers’ laughter and, perhaps, invite rueful self-recognition.
https://www.nrm.org/2023/11/norman-rockwell-illustrating-humor/
William Baczek Fine Arts in Northampton, Massachusetts is proud to announce a three-person exhibition of oil paintings by three masters of realist art. Julie Beck, Larry Preston, and Scott Prior all explore various subjects and themes in their oil paintings that are at once astonishing for their technical excellence, as well as their diverse methods for the examination of the physical world in paint. The exhibition will be on display from Wednesday, April 23 to Saturday, June 14, 2025. The public is invited to an opening reception on Saturday, April 26 from 4 – 6 p.m.
A touch of Whimsey: art that makes you smile at Fiddleheads Gallery in Northfield. Open Thursday 2-5pm, Friday &Saturday 12-5pm and Sunday 12-4pm. All are welcome for an artists reception on Sunday, June 1, 2-4pm.
