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The Explore Holyoke community events calendar highlights the arts and cultural events throughout the city of Holyoke to help plan your visit. You are invited to submit your event. Events encouraged to be submitted are art openings, dance concerts, open mic events, cultural lectures. Events not allowed on the calendar are, political fundraisers, city meetings, daily specials from restaurants and events outside the city of Holyoke.

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“Because I Could Not Stop, An Encounter with Emily Dickinson”

January 12, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

MIFA Victory Theatre Presents
“Because I Could Not Stop, An Encounter with Emily Dickinson”

By James Melo with the music of Amy Beach

With Angelica Page as Emily Dickinson and soprano, Kristina Bachrach

Music Performed by the Victory Players, Ng Tian Hui, Conductor, music director

Directed by Donald T. Sanders

Tickets: $24.00 (Limited Seating)
Friday, January 12, 2024
7:00 PM
Holyoke Media Studio, 1 Court Plaza (23 Suffolk St.), Holyoke, MA

“Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson” takes audiences on a journey through Dickinson’s elusive artistic world pairing the chamber music of renowned 19th-century composer Amy Beach with Dickinson’s words, images, emotions, and imagination.

Join us and be the studio audience during a live recording session of the play!

A co-production of
MIFA Victory Theatre
Ensemble for the Romantic Century
The Emily Dickinson Museum

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