Sorry, I forgot a contact for the benefit items still to be auctioned off.
Call me, Walt, at 413-548-9070 at the Craft Center or at home, 413-367-9491.
Please remember, bids end Feb. 5th
All proceeds go to Kiran's family.
There are some auction items still to be bid on from the Leverett Crafts & Arts benefit for Kiran.
Here they are:
Raw & Living Food Workshop, series 1 with Amar Fuller. $90.00 value.
Kundalini Yoga Class Series with Amar Fuller. $54.00 value
Creativity Coaching with Dale Schwartz
Yoga Class with Vanessa Serotta. $54.00 value
1- $25.00 gift certificate to The Hempest (clothing, gifts)
1- lamp worked (glass) Ring Holder. $35.00 value
1- beautiful beaded purse
1- Burley (solo) children's bike trailer. ($125.00 value)
3 hours credit on any gardening/landscaping project by Native Landscaping.
All bids will end on Feb. 5.
A $50.00 bid has been received on the gardening offer
The Barnes Gallery @ Leverett Crafts and Arts Center
A benefit for Kiran.
Friday, January 20, 6 pm to midnight.
Music by Rebelle, Gaia Roots, Iriko Nuevo, and Omulu Guanabara.
Silent auction, the proceeds to benefit Kiran.
To donate an auction item, call Shanti Stark at 413-367-9491.
Come and show your support.
Any donation is welcome; $10 and up encouraged.
All proceeds go to the family.
I would like to get a few regular customers for the eggs from my free-range chickens. All colors - blue, green , brown. The deepest orange yolks you will ever see! Diane 413-548-9394
I have ink jet cartridges for sale, that I can no longer use. They are new and unopened. $5.00 each.
For Epson C68, C88, CX2800, CX3810, CX4200, CX 4800, CX7800 - 1 black, 1 cyan, 2 magenta and 1 yellow
For HP photo-smart printer C5280 - Recycled ink cartridges - 3 tricolor and 1 black
If anyone can fix the rollers on the HP photo-smart printer, you are welcome to it. It won't pull in the paper, although once you shove it in with great effort, it prints fine.
Free weekly programs for families with young children (birth to age 5)!
MONDAYS: Shutesbury Story Hour at MN Spear Library from 10-11am
WEDNESDAYS:
Erving Playgroup at the Erving Elementary School, 10-11:30am
Leverett Story Hour at the Leverett Public Library, 10:30-11:30am
Wendell Playgroup at the Wendell Free Library, 10-11:30am
THURSDAYS: Tales and Tunes with Happy Dan at the New Salem Library, 10:30-11:30
FRIDAY: Shutesbury Playgroup at the Shutesbury Elementary School, 9-10:30am
YMCA Open Gym Time at the YMCA in Greenfield (for families with children birth
to third grade):
Certain Sundays from 2:15-3:15
Jan. 22, Feb. 26, March 11 and April 1
Coming soon: "Toileting Tips" parent workshop, "Happiest Baby on the Block"
parent workshop
If you would like more info or would like to be on our mailing list, please
contact Gillian Budine, program coordinator, at 978-544-5157.
I am available for tutoring in all areas of academic support. With humor, gentleness, high expectations and positive feedback I approach learning with a variety of methods and materials. Please call for more information, references and questions.
Elizabeth Scheffey M.Ed. 413-695-0211
Vigilant for sale, really good condition, just needs some stove paint. We just bought the house and stove too big for our needs. $400 or BO. You pick up. 625-6760
Make and Take Craft Fair at Montague Grange, Sunday
Grange Hall, Main Street at the Common, Montague Center
Make gifts, come for lunch, peruse the indoor mini-flea market -- and help raise funds to save the Grange building
Sunday, December 4 from 10 AM - 4 PM
For adults, teens and children
Admission $1
Gifts cost $3 - $10 each to make
Gift making stations will include most or all of the following: rolled beeswax candles and holders -- wreaths -- beaded snowflakes and earrings -- stamped greeting cards -- decoupaged objects -- colored blown glass ornaments -- fleece scarves -- gnomes and fairies -- glass magnets -- shrinky dink ornaments -- gilded acorns -- twig animals -- and more crafts!
Baked potatoes, chili, soup, baked goods and hot drinks for sale
Mini Flea Market - table space for $20
Contact Cindy Tarail cindy@thealchemystudio.com or call 367-0042 to volunteer, secure a flea market table space, or for more info.
Pajama Story Time at the Wendell Free Library, "Just One of Those Days!" for children 3rd grade and younger and their adult caregiver/s
Wednesday, November 30, 6:30-7:30 pm
Wear your PJ's, bring a pillow or cozy teddy bear. Hear some stories and enjoy a cozy night out with family and friends. Small snack and take home activity provided too!
Sponsored by Union #28 Community Network for Children. Questions? Contact Gillian Budine, CNC Coordinator, at 978-544-5157 or budine@erving.com.
Wendell Free Library
7 Wendell Depot Road, Wendell
FREE! http://sites.google....ynetworkforchildren/
wanted: Person to share studio at Leverett Crafts and Arts
Wanted: Person To Share Studio
Starting December 1, 2011
Spacious and bright Studio at Leverett Crafts and Arts to share with a pottery teacher. The studio is aprox. 400 sq. ft. so the space for rent is 200 sq. ft. There could also be a common area if that would be beneficial for both of us. I teach a few nights a week so the space is available a lot. The rent is $200 a month inclusive. This space would be ideal for any artist or teacher compatible with a pottery studio.
Call Joy at 413-548-9673 Email-joypots@gmail.com
When: December 1, 2011, 9:00 pm Where: Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Smith College, Northampton, MA. Tickets: Free and open to the public.
The Smith College Festival of Sound and Space focuses on improvisation through the fusion of live electronics and violin to create a new and unique “sonic stew” in the work of Sam Pluta and Jim Altieri’s “sum and difference”.
Northampton, MA. The Smith College Festival of Sound and Space presents an evening of improvised music with Sam Pluta and Jim Altieri. "Sum and Difference" fuses live electronics and violin into an hour-long performance featuring microtonal drones, noise, custom electronic interfaces, and more.
Sam Pluta and Jim Altieri have been improvising together in various formations for the past six years. As founding members of the improv quintet GBL, Pluta and Altieri merged microtonal violin drones with electronic noise to create a new and unique sonic stew. In 2011 they combined with trumpeter Peter Evans to create the album sum and difference, released on Carrier Records.
Sam Pluta is a New York City-based composer and improviser working in the fields of acoustic and electronic music. He is Technical Director for the Wet Ink Ensemble, a new music group dedicated to the performance of new works by young composers as well as the best works of the American and European avant-garde. He has been commissioned and premiered by Wet Ink Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, ICE, Timetable Percussion, RIOT Trio, So Percussion, Dave Eggar, and Prism Saxophone Quartet and has performed internationally as a laptop soloist and chamber musician. As a founding member of the improvising quartet GBL and performing with groups like the Peter Evans Quintet, he has focused in recent years on fusing the worlds of acoustic and electronic instruments through improvisation. A devoted pedagogue, aside from his teaching duties as faculty fellow at Columbia University, he holds the John Plude Faculty Chair in Computer Musicianship at the Walden School. His music is released on quiet design and Carrier Records, a label he runs with Jeff Snyder and David Franzson.
Jim Altieri loves listening. Through his music and software, he tries to share this love with other listeners. Based in New York City, Jim is an active composer, violinist, and accordionist. His own music often uses the harmonies and rhythms of the harmonic series and explores the relationship between attention and awareness. He is a founding member of GBL and plays violin and accordion in the folk-rock band Tatters and Rags.
The Smith College Festival of Sound & Space: four shows featuring artists who explore space and sound through their innovative performances. The concerts will all take place in Helen Hills Hills Chapel on the campus of Smith College.
The 2011–12 series has a special focus on improvisation, the practice of which — particularly when presented within a space designed for liturgy and ritual — speaks directly to our notions of space in a figurative sense through our perception of emotional space, metaphorical space, and musical/dramatic structure. The process of creating music in real time creates an experience of exploration that is shared by the performers and the audience, with the physical space acting as an additional collaborator.
The artists on this series approach concepts of space and collaboration in a variety of ways, with two shows dedicated entirely to improvisatory practices (sum and difference & Curiosity is Gravity), and with aspects of the other two shows ( (( ( PHONATION ) )) and Greg Brown) incorporating improvistory practices as well.
Greg Brown of the Smith College Music Dept. serves as founding artistic director and organizer. This festival is produced in collaboration with the Smith College Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, Jennifer Walters, Dean.
For more information on the Smith College Festival of Sound and Space got to:
The Echo Lake Coffeehouse presents: WOOL&GRANT with special guest, Arjuna Greist
Friday, October 28, 7:30 pm
at the Town Hall, 9 Montague Rd., Leverett, MA
Impossible to predict. Impossible to resist. Very possibly the most exciting musical fusion you will hear this season.
Wool&Grant is the brand new combustible combination of Ina May Wool and Bev Grant, two veteran singer/songwriters with a passion for songs, stories, harmonies and guitars. As solo artists, they have won the hearts of audiences all over the country and abroad. Together, Wool&Grant create a musical alchemy of fire and feistiness, smarts and smiles, rocking clear-eyed political songs and a sampling of their road-tested wisdom of the heart.
Share the joy of discovery with these two standout artist at the Echo Lake Coffeehouse in the Town Hall, 9 Montague Rd., Leverett, MA, on Friday, October 28, 7:30 pm. Opening the show will be local poet and singer/songwriter, Arjuna Greist. Tickets are $12/$10. For more info, call 413-548-9394 and go to: www.echolakecoffeehouse.org
Bev Grant is a veteran social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, "cultural worker" from Park Slope Brooklyn, where she has lived for over 30 years. She is the co-creator of a women's labor history multi-media presentation entitled "We Were There!" and has recorded five albums, including a companion cd and songbook for the show, called "We Were There!", a solo cd entitled "IN TUNE", a 7-song ep with her current group, Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters, called “CHEEKY WOMAN”, and two albums with her former band, "Human Condition". She has appeared on numerous compilation recordings, including the recently released Grammy-nominated Smithsonian/Folkways "Best of Broadside" album. www.bevgrant.com
With intimate lyrics and captivating melodies crafted with delicacy and care, Ina May Wool sings songs of survival, rebirth and renewal featuring vocals that are both elegant and edgy. But the New England native has also spent years on the road with bands at smoky bar gigs and jazz clubs, and in studios doing session work, steadily honing her musical chops and proving she is in the music scene for the long haul. Now she serves up an eclectic mix of the jazz, blues and country influences with a wry, unmistakably urban sensibility, combined with a comfortable, down-home connection to her audience. www.inamaywool.com
Arjuna Greist is an artist for the people. Her music has a folky tone but a punk sensibility, blending progressive politics with witty observations on life. Combining performance poetry with songs both poignant and droll, Arjuna leaves her audiences uplifted. She is a poet and has a show on Valley Free Radio in Northampton, MA. www.facebook.com/arjunamusic
MA State has one of the most lucrative solar programs in the country! Representatives from a local solar energy company (based in Ludlow) will show you how to get started with solar electric (PV). They will explain how the technology works, how much it costs, what incentives and rebates are available to you from State and Federal governments, and all about Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs). Come to this free presentation to learn how you can start turning the sun into money today!
Where: Leverett Library, 75 Montague Road, Leverett, MA
JOHN FLYNN and ANNIE PATTERSON
Saturday - September 17 - 7:30 pm
Echo Lake Coffeehouse, Leverett, MA
The Echo Lake Coffeehouse, located in the Town Hall, 9 Montague Rd., Leverett, MA, will begin its Fall series of concerts on Saturday, September 17, at 7:30 pm. Opening will be Annie Patterson, local songstress and co-editor of "Rise Up Singing". From Delaware, singer/songwriter, John Flynn, will perform his original work and preview songs from his upcoming album, ""The End of the Beginning" to be released this Fall. Admission: $10-$!2. Info at: 413-548-9394 or go to: www.johnflynn.net and www.echolakecoffeehouse.org
John Flynn:
Singer-songwriter John Flynn draws from a significant body of work, ranging from his early country offerings to story songs, love songs, songs for kids, funny songs, songs of social justice and meditations on loss, tolerance, faith and hope.
The 54 year-old former Nashville staff songwriter and father of four spurned touring when his children were young, but as the kids grew older superlatives began to welcome their dad's arrival to the national folk stage. In 2005, Arlo Guthrie invited John on the historic "Train to New Orleans" tour following Hurricane Katrina. And Kris Kristofferson recited the lyrics to John’s song “Without You with Me” at Stephen Bruton's funeral. Ramblin' Jack Elliott himself has called Flynn the undiscovered “John Lennon of the plasma generation"!
John resides in the Brandywine area of Northern Delaware with his wife Beth, his kids, and his running partner, Chief, the world's most exuberant Frisbee-catching German shepherd. He has a new CD coming out this fall called "The End of the Beginning". The title cut is a duet with Kris Kristofferson.
A philosopher with a guitar. - acousticmusic.com
To find anyone with word skills comparable to Flynn, you would do better looking in the literary community than in songwriting circles. Simply put, John Flynn is a master of imagery, rhyme and emotion. -Songwriters Monthly
Annie Patterson:
Annie is a music educator and professional singer. She has performed as a singer-songwriter at coffeehouses, clubs and folk festivals. She has been a jazz vocalist and performed for twenty years with the swing bands "Big Nite Out" and Girls from Mars, performing widely at folk festivals, swing dances, swing camps, weddings and clubs through out the Northeast and is on three swing recordings by these bands. She currently substitutes as a vocalist with the Northampton based swing band, The O-Tones.
Together with her husband, Peter Blood, she has create a completely unique song collection entitled Rise Up Singing. Their book contains a wonderful mix of 1200 songs from Beatles to Broadway, from spirituals to carols, and from kids songs to songs of peace and justice. Annie is producer and chief vocalist for the series of teaching recordings that accompany the songbook. She plays the acoustic guitar, old-timey banjo, the djimbe and mandolin. www.quakersong.org/annie_and_peter
hi
lived in leverett some years ago
and frequented the coop
trying to remember the name of a particular kind of candy that was sold there
i think it's greek, but not sure
i think the name started with an H, name was perhaps 7-9 letters long
sold in pieces around an inch and a half by two and a half
was very sweet, melted in your mouth
no chocolate
kind of like cotton candy but dense
I’m a production potter in Leverett seeking a part-time apprentice.
Flexible hours. Approximately 10-15 hours/week.
Preferably to work 2 days/week but hours are flexible.
You’ll receive free studio space, equipment to use, glazes and firings, as well as 25% discount for pottery classes.
You will have the opportunity to learn about wheel-throwing, hand-building, glazes, kilns, firing, and running and marketing your own business.
Some of the work that you would be doing include:
• Making Glazes
• Kiln preparation
• Kiln loading and unloading
• Cleaning the studio
• Packing and shipping the pottery
• Preparing for shows
• Putting handles on pots
• And depending on your experience with clay: hands on work with the pots and the glazing
For more information call Joy Friedman at 548-9673
e-mail - joypots@gmail.com
The 2011 Montague Soapbox Derby will be held on Saturday afternoon, September 17th, in Unity Park, Turners Falls. Race Applications are available on the website, as are the Race Rules. Deadline for entry is Wednesday, August 31st.
Due to the overwhelming enthusiasm for the race last year, and the potential to have more racers than can be handled, the committee is capping the number of entrants to 100. If you plan to enter you are urged to get your application in early. Racers who raced last year may apply for the same racer number, and may also enter the same cart if they wish. Racer fee: $25.
I got the bill, too, and immediately called while it was still in my hand. The woman that answered was courteous and even pleasant, and laughed when she said "wait, let me guess, you're a Leverett COOP member." All I had to do was give her my coop member number and the matter was settled, as far as I can tell.
The only downsides I can see to using Amerigas are (a) that they don't have a set day of the week for my area. I have to call several days in advance and hope it's a Tuesday or a Wednesday this week, and (b) they don't allow for leaving a check under the hood of the tank. You have to give a credit card number over the phone before they even come.
The upside is that during the initial year the gas was $1 per gallon cheaper than Rice, and is still cheaper.
If you are a Leverett Village Coop Member who participates in the LP Gas purchase agreement be aware that Amerigas has sent out statements to all members stating that there is a $112 dollar charge for renewal of something called "Amerilock Contract Renewal Enrollment Fee" as of July 1, 2011. In other words they are trying to charge you as an individual customer for the coop's negotiated cooperative fuel rate.
THIS IS NOT CORRECT: A Call to Amerigas at 978-249-3633 will confirm that if you send in a photo copy of your coop membership card and request deletion of the bill it they will delete the charges.
This seems a bit lame to me. Amerigas should be provided with a list of coop members and delete the bill themselves to all members of the Leverett Village Coop who use their services not just the ones smart and ornery enough to raise the issue.
Also be aware that the Amerigas is charging an usurious $35 minimum late fee as January 1, 2011. In short Amerigas Corporate is taking the position that poor people use LP Gas and are to be taken advantage of at every at every turn.
My suggestion to the Leverett Village Coop steering committee is that we negotiate a program with a local gas fitter to supply and install user owned LP gas tanks large enough to contain six months or preferably a years worth of LP Gas fuel.
The LVC can then negotiate a competitive spot price for LPGas so users can buy enough fuel for six months or a year at lower rates. Fill your tank once a year when it's cheep and forget about running out until next year.
I'm looking for a person who is interested in working in my naturopathic practice, doing front desk reception. Responsibilities would include: answering the telephone, taking messages, calling back, booking appointments and doing some basic accounting and book keeping. Quickbook experience would be very desirable. An absolute "must" is the ability to be kind and receptive to patients.
Tuesdays only (and possibly Fridays): 9:30-3:30 or 4:00. Beginning August 2nd.
$13.00/hour
Please call Emily Maiella if interested: 413.230.4462
Leverett Library’s Summer Reading Program Kickoff Celebration- with ice cream!
One World, Many Stories - Leverett Library Summer Reading Program Kickoff Celebration-with Ice Cream Sundae Bar!
Thursday, June 30 7-8pm
Who: Kids finishing grades K-6 are invited to take part
How: Sign up at the library and receive a logbook to record the titles of the books you read or listen to this summer
Why: Every book and audiobook that you read will help us raise money for disaster victims in Japan and Western Mass. (Thanks to support from the friends of the Leverett Library, the library will donate the funding up to $180 toward relief efforts in these locations.)
Make your own ice cream sundae, learn to make some origami figures or color a country's flag to decorate the library.
Optional: Come wearing an item of clothing from a part of the world that interests you!
Sponsored by your local library, the Mass. Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Mass Board of Library Commissioners. The Leverett Library's program receives generous support from the Friends of the Leverett Library and Union #28 Community Network for Children.
At the New Salem Library this Thursday, June 30 from 11am-12pm.... Nicol B. Wander of Wanderful Creations will present "The Frog Prince" and "Little Red Riding Hood" puppet performances. All the fairy tale characters are ingeniously created out of everyday household objects. Her performance will capture the imagination of all who see it and will take them back to a world of make believe. A special dancing marionette will be part of the finale. Meet and greet with the puppets and puppeteer. This program is supported by Union #28 Community Network for Children.
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