BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1754@thelavacenter.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20250131 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20250203 DTSTAMP:20250113T150833Z URL:https://thelavacenter.org/events/lavas-5th-birthday-party/ SUMMARY:LAVA's 5th Birthday Party! DESCRIPTION:LAVA turns 5!\n\nJoin us for a weekend of celebrating 5 years o f community arts\, theater\, literature\, storytelling\, comedy\, music\, film\, photography\, history\, humanities and more in downtown Greenfield. Our celebration coincides with Greenfield’s Winter Carnival\, just as o ur grand opening did in 2020.\n\nAll events are FREE to attend — donatio ns are gladly welcome to help support future LAVA programming!\nFriday\, J an. 31\n5–8pm:\nExhibit launch and reception:\n"History of LAVA: Memorab ilia and Photography"\nOn Friday night\, we will launch our exhibit for th e month of February\, a display of memorabilia and photos depicting the gr owth of the arts at The LAVA Center over the past five years. Staff has co mpiled an exhibit of programming and growing at the center. Come hear the band\, see the exhibit\, have a bite to eat\, make some art and share stor ies of your experiences with the staff and volunteers. We’re excited to see you.\n5–7pm:\nArt making table for kids and grownups with Jovonna Va n Pelt\n6–8pm:\nLive music with Vimana\nVimana is an experimental rock t rio with Brian Rodriguez on bass\, Bruce Todd on drums and Leo Hwang on gu itar. Vimana creates a fusion of blues and funk in all original compositio ns that have a sound that is contemporary but reflects in our influences f rom the 1960s and 1970s and weaves together cultural roots from Korea\, to Portugal\, to America. http://www.leohwang.com/vimana.html\nSaturday\, Fe b. 1\n12pm:\nLive music with the Farley String Band\nThe Farley String Ban d is nine local musicians playing traditional folk tunes\, many originally coming from Ireland and Scotland. They will entertain with rousing old-ti me fiddle tunes\, jigs\, reels\, airs and beautiful slow waltzes. All toge ther they play an impressive assortment of instruments including hammer du lcimer\, accordion\, bodhran\, bones and more! The members are: Harry Shar baugh\, Sue Sharbaugh\, Wes Green\, Steve Winters\, Shirley Tripp\, Lisa C ornish\, Alfred Barten\, Doug Selwyn and Robert Lord.\n2pm:\nBook launch a nd reception:\nValley and Beyond: A Writers Read Anthology\nValley and Bey ond: A Writers Read Anthology is ready to be sold. Compiled of local autho rs\, the anthology represents many who have read at our monthly reading\, Writers Read. Come hear pieces read from the anthology by their authors. W e will celebrate the completion of the journal and the Writers Read commun ity. This program honors audiences and recognizes them as an important pie ce of the process. Come check us out and experience the writers\, the read ers and the listeners.\n\nThe authors featured in the anthology are Janet Aalfs\, Alice Barrett\, Emily Brewster\, Trish Crapo\, Edite Cunha\, Canda ce Curran\, Gray Davidson Carroll\, Daniel Hales\, Joanne Hayes\, Amie Hys on\, Carrie Kline\, Dinah Kudatsky\, Amy Leprode\, Janet MacFadyen\, Jan M aher\, Christian McEwen\, Rich Michelson\, Susie Patlove\, David Ram\, Tho mas Ratte\, Paul Richmond\, Wil Roberts\, Erika Higgins Ross\, Margo Shea\ , Jessamyn Smyth\, Jovonna Van Pelt\, Lindy Whiton\, Sherril Willis and Ei rnin Worth.\n4:30–6:30pm:\nImprov Comedy Workshop with Henry Balzarini\n Join local improv enthusiast Henry Balzarini for a special free improv wor kshop for our birthday party! Using improv games\, we will become a fast t hinking\, in the moment\, loose goose brigade. The focus of this workshop will be to prepare a skit or improv game to perform for the public during LAVA's Open Stage\, happening at 7 p.m. that evening. All are welcome\, fr om brand-newbies to seasoned veterans. Space is limited so signup is requi red\; to sign up\, email Henry at hbquit@hotmail.com.\n7pm (signups at 6:3 0):\nOpen Stage @ LAVA\, hosted by Kemah Wilson\nJoin us for a special bir thday edition of the Open Stage\, hosted by local artist Kemah Wilson! Our Open Stage is like an open mic\, but MORE. Theater\, dance\, music\, lite rature\, spoken word\, storytelling\, magic\, puppetry\, circus and sidesh ow\, comedy\, improv — any form of art or entertainment that can be stag ed\, in any stage of development.\n\nKemah Wilson (they/she) has been an a ctive member of the LAVA gallery community since May 2022\, when they part icipated in their first artist exhibit\, “Words on Words.” Since then\ , Kemah has participated in three art shows at LAVA\, two of which they cu rated. Kemah’s work has also been exhibited in Northampton and Ware\, an d is currently being shown in a community exhibit at Artspace through Febr uary. She recently completed her role as Artist Guild Coordinator for the Recover Project in Greenfield. Kemah is a prolific photographer\, writer a nd multimedia visual artist.\nSunday\, Feb. 2\n1pm:\nFirst Sunday Greenfie ld Word\n\nFormerly Third Tuesday Word\, Paul Richmond and Human Error Pub lishing’s long-running literary event. Doors open at 1\, open mic starts at 1:30\, features start at 2:30. $1-5 sliding scale. Books will be for s ale. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thelavacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/202 5/01/birthday-1.png CATEGORIES:Special Events LOCATION:324 Main Street\, Greenfield\, MA\, 324 Main Street\, Greenfield\, MA\, 01301\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=324 Main Street\, Greenfiel d\, MA\, 01301\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=324 Main Street\ , Greenfield\, MA:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR