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Saturday, April 25, 2026 7-9:30pm Free! Square Dance all ages Ashfield Town Hall, 412 Main Street Live music by: The Fall Town String Band Calling the dances: Lila West no experience necessary beginners should come promptly at 7 to learn the dances Questions or Want to help? Call (413) 485-7285 This program is funded by grants from the Ashfield, Buckland, Goshen, and Williamsburg Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Saturday, April 25, 2026
be there & be square 🪩

I renewed - of course! Get yours … aswirlzine.com

calligraphic drift

Marker drawing of a frog sailing on a duck made of wood, holding a lantern of branches and fireflies. Hues are purple, green, yellow. drawing by Dave Russo https://www.daverussoart.com

Lighted Boat Parade artwork by Dave Russo

daverussoart.com
ashfield.org/publicart

Poster with a marker drawing of frog sailing on a duck made of wood, holding a lantern of fireflies. Hues are purple, green, yellow. Poster text: Ashfield is holding a Lighted Boat Parade on Ashfield Lake September 12, 2026! And you are invited to enter even if you don't own your own boat! Winning designs will receive $1,000 grants to build your floating creations, with more prizes for the best boats at the parade! Proposals due by March 31. More info: https://www.ashfield.org/publicart Sponsors: Town of Ashfield, New England Foundation for the Arts, Mass Cultural Council, Greenfield Savings Bank, Ashfield Trails, The Mill at Shelburne Falls, and Ashfield Lake House.

CALL FOR ART
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Apply for a $1,000 grant to create a floating art piece for the Ashfield lighted boat parade! 12 grants will be awarded. Open to all US residents / individuals or teams. Applications must be received by 5pm March 31, 2026. ashfield.org/publicart

rising tide sinks most boats pencil latex on papers 2004 Eric Lunde

if this a repeat, it bears repeating.

#drawing of #art

something magic still exists

ice bright as lightening

heart photo by karen hanrahan

heart photo by karen hanrahan

sending ❤️

Some of my prints hanging on a wall

Some of my prints hanging on a wall

Woo! I just hung up my very first art exhibit 😊

At some point I’ll have some sort of opening, but for now it’s a low key soft launch. Come and check out my prints, grab a coffee and try some amazing baked treats @ Batch Baking Company located in Seattle near Capitol Hill.

www.batchbakingco.com

This October treat the tricksters in your life (or yourself!) to a spooky scratchcard. Scratch the surface to unveil a haunting poem! Jack O’Lanterns, witches, possessed pumpkins, our scratchcards will give you the thrill that you need to embrace the spooky season! 👻🎃🦇✨

morning, Lake St. George State Park, Maine

☺️ it’s 8 years married / 18 years together, if I count better :) No one would have noticed the mistake, I really wanted to correct it anyway ♥️♥️

Page from a 1960s children’s book depicting a little British town with buildings from ancient to modern arranged around a little park with trees, in the foreground a busy road with traffic, the illustration is in black, grey, white and yolk yellow. Underneath are the words the big shops in town are further away

Page from a 1960s children’s book with a small black square containing an illustration of the sun moon and stars surrounded by the words Words to talk about near further away many miles hundreds of miles thousands of miles Which is further away?

Something so beautifully plaintive about the contents.
Evokes the near-far, bittersweet distance of childhood photos: rooms we’ll never enter again, relatives caught unguarded in domestic activity, long gone shops that once were sites of wonder to our small selves, autumnal Lucozade cellophane light

YouTube video by AI Lit Review Boid Poems - Richard A Carter

"Boid Poems" has now been published via the @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social - Combining swarming a-life algorithms with language attractors, the words of this interactive piece formate into different visual and semantic structures. Preview below, live link here: ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06

a girl and her dog - one smiling, one with her tongue out

we’re home! the time away felt like a complete reset & it was beautiful. scenic shots to follow 💙

closeup of a cut-paper poem lantern by Alexis Fedorjaczenko, on display in the UMASS Hampden Gallery Triennial juried by Fitchburg Art Museum Director Nick Capasso

Come enjoy a night of Square Dancing in Ashfield. A free square dance will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2025, from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, at Ashfield Town Hall, 412 Main Street, Ashfield. Live music will be provided by the Fall Town String Band, with Doug Wilkins and Lila West calling the dances. All ages. All experience levels welcome. Dances will be taught, and beginners should come promptly at 7:00 pm to learn the basics. Seating will be available - come to dance and/or to watch the dancing. And come to listen to the band! Admission is free. This program is funded by grants from the Ashfield, Buckland, Shelburne, and Williamsburg Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. Contact (413) 485-7285 with questions.

WESTERN MASS!

Save the date for the next free square dance: October 4 @ Ashfield Town Hall, 7-10pm.

After the last dance, one newbie wrote to me: 🌞"I don't think I stopped smiling the entire time."🌞 If you need a fun escape, creative release, and joyful contact with community - come on down!!

Granite Rapids Moon
this looks lovely 🌕💙

around sunset, the sky is reflected in the lake glowing in silver-blue

the lake last night

Text for all 4 images: Saturday, Sep. 6 at UMass Amherst: New England Synth Meetup Hi friend. I’d like to invite you to our first public event of the new academic year: the New England Synth Meetup. It’s happening Saturday, 6 September 2025, aka tomorrow. 2-4 PM At M5, the Electrical and Computer Engineering makerspace at UMass Amherst. Marcus Hall is a three-story building. M5 is at the north end of the lower level of the building. Google Maps knows where we are. Just ask for UMass M5. (Free parking in any numbered lot on the weekends.) Who will be performing? We are expecting these fine artists and more: Eric Crowley Daniel Warner Alan Walker Compression Artifact hissquiet New England Synth Meetups are for lovers of synthesizers, modular gear, grooveboxes, drum machines, effects, samplers, etc. Open and welcome to all skill and interest levels. Bring some gear and play or demonstrate for 5 minutes! Set up at 1:30 PM if you are planning to perform. There is no charge for this event and it is open to the public. Synths and palm trees, Baird https://www.youtube.com/user/UMassAmherstM5 https://www.instagram.com/umassamherstm5/

New England Synth Meetup
TODAY Saturday, Sep. 6 at UMass Amherst

A picture of a bookwork by Stephen Emmerson, a circular hole in the front reveals the altered contests of the pre-existing book.

A picture of a book of poems, flight by Stephen Emmerson. flight is a book of poems concerned with time, loss, grief and hope. It was written in the belief that a poem should be a window through language. Published by Guillemot Press.

A picture of a bookwork by Stephen Emmerson, pencil shaped pieces of wood piercing an existing book.

A picture of a bookwork by Stephen Emmerson, a glass jar of ash with a text that reads: It is the only tree that retains its name. Once it has been consumed.

Our new exhibition is ‘How to read a book’ by @tothemadpoets.bsky.social, on show until Tues 4 Nov.
Concerned with language, writing, memory and offering alternative ways of approaching books and text. Alongside it are other works exploring what it is to be a book.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/

Resigning from being a person to turn into a numb mysterious ether.
Will simply become an achingly wistful quality of light, emit some gentle barely audible susurration & a scent so luscious, evocative & ambiguous that perfumers fire themselves in despair.
Gonna do so much intriguing shimmering bbz

An unexpected “like” surfaced this old reply … I recommend #hospicingmodernity as one of the most important books of our time. and I recommend #storygraph to track reading in a way that’s social but not too social 😊

twelve poem-lanterns made of cut-paper and light

I'm thrilled to share that my poem lanterns will be part of the University of Massachusetts Hampden Gallery Triennial exhibition, "Reflecting on the Past/Dreaming the Future"

On view: September 12 – December 3; Amherst, MA

From yesterday’s walk, a photo for a lovely site that creates space for crowd-sourced time-lapses of natural areas. The results are fun to watch and to be part of - check out one near to (or far from) you …

www.chronolog.io/map

AI is one thing but imagine if people in other countries could suffer? That would really change things, I think.

blick auf den asphalt auf den ein kleiner tabzender elvis gesprüht ist. alt text is a bitch

*walking in kleinstadt*

Stuff I notice