On Monday, the JV team lost a very close game against the Hartsbrook Girls team. The game was competitive and could have gone either way the whole time. Sam R played amazingly as handler, both throwing and getting open very consistently. Nick F flew on defense, making some amazing plays. Kathleen S did a great job both helping the offense while on the field, and the sideline spirit while off it.

Despite showing significant growth, MS Ultimate lost a hard-fought game to Hartsbrook on Tuesday.

The Varsity Aardvarks came up short in a tough 15-9 loss to White Oak on Thursday. Avery M's efforts on offense and defense were outstanding, and Calla J was a high scorer on offense. Quick handler cuts from Nat B-O, Solly C, and Chessie R-C and powerful throws from Tucker Z-A were a staple of our offense in the game. White Oak's height and athleticism brought them the win, despite our well-rounded team effort.

Hope & Feathers Framing and Gallery will host "Backscatter", a show of large-scale oil paintings by our own Mr. Green. An opening reception will be held Thursday, May 2 (5-8 PM). "Backscatter" refers to a diffuse reflection due to scattering, as opposed to specular reflection as from a mirror.

From the Gallery's news release: "Andrae's work uses painting as an exploration to delve into the unquantifiable internalized senses with which we use to perceive the world: intuition, clairvoyance, and other feelings that lie outside the physical realm. Fragility and impermanence are a constant in three-dimensional reality, and these works show those very slippages that occur due to interruptions by the metaphysical world. This speaks to our current age, where representation and reality can be interchangeable and physicality can be fleeting. History and fantasy can also be interchangeable and used to reinvent our identities. Andrae is particularly interested in how legacies of the Middle Passage and slavery can be re-imagined to fantasize alternate dimensions and multiple storylines that may not be in history books."  

The Common School will host a forum for the Pioneer Valley community on Thursday, May 16 from 5:30-7:00. Please join us as we welcome Author/Educator, Feminist and woman of Color, Zetta Elliott. Zetta is an advocate for greater diversity and equality in publishing. She has self-published numerous illustrated books for younger readers under her own imprint, Rosetta Press. Please check out Zetta’s explanation of why she writes here.