Community Calendar

We are proud to display a poster exhibit depicting events and causes championed by indigenous peoples from around the world. The display is throughout the Exhibition Hall in Holyoke Heritage State Park Visitor Center. These posters are a part of a vast collection by Stephen Lewis. Stephen is a retired union leader. He has been collecting and exhibiting posters for the past four years, mostly at public libraries and includes the Holyoke and Lawrence Heritage State Parks. The exhibit can be enjoyed during visitor center hours of operation:  12:00 - 4:00 daily.

Local artist Lora Barrett will have a solo showing of new paintings of old Holyoke mills in the gallery at Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke. Barrett is a long time city resident and well-know educator.

Holyoke has always been a hardware innovation city. The hardtech companies growing here today are building physical solutions to the world’s toughest problems. Cofab Design, Clean Crop Technologies, the City of Holyoke, and FORGE are hosting this gathering to celebrate the startups, technologists, engineers, researchers, manufacturers, and ecosystem service providers building new physical products in and around the city Join us for drinks, appetizers, and a showcase of local projects and resources. You don’t want to miss this one – Holyoke’s hardtech ecosystem is thriving and this is the place to get involved!