Community Calendar

GARDENING FOR TODAY & TOMORROW

Saturday, April 11, 2026
9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Lenox Memorial Middle & High School
Lenox, MA

Doors open at 8:00 AM for Registration, Vendor Sales, Environmental Organization Tables, Puzzle Sale, Used Gardening Book Sale,. Houseplant Sale & FREE Refreshments.

9:00AM : Keynote Address: Sustainable Landscaping to Support Berkshires Wildlife by Nicaela Haig : Mass Audubon Naturalist

11:00AM :
A. Kitchen Medicine: Cooking with Herbs with Hannah Morano : Founder of Sweet Birch Herbals
B. Invasive Species of Western Mass with Diane Van Kempen : WMMGA MG
C. Growing Better Blueberries with John Galvan, M.S., Small Fruit Extension Educator III, Mass Extension
D. Deer Defense: How to Outwit the Wiliest of Wildlife with Chris Ferrero, Cornell MG
E. Localizing Your Landscapes with Native Trees and Shrubs with Jay Vinskey

Log onto: wmmga.org for registration information.

Join us every Saturday 9:30AM to 1:30PM from now through April 25th in the Wilton Mall food court!

Shop from 50+ local vendors while you listen to live music.

Make the Saratoga Farmers’ Market part of your weekly shopping plan. Come visit the market — We are the Saturday Place to Be!

6 Saturdays, Grades 3-5

March 7, 14, 21, 28, April 11, 18, 2026

No Class April 4

(Make-up Day April 25)

Limit 10 students

In this fun and creative class, students will dive into painting, drawing, and printmaking. They'll learn how to build exciting compositions, experiment with layers and textures, and express their ideas through art. Whether they're capturing the world around them or inventing new ones, students will grow their skills and confidence as young artists—all while having a great time making art with their peers!

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot. Scholarship availability closes 2 weeks prior to the start of class.

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We believe in access to art education for all. It takes the whole community to generate the equity our pay-what-you-can tuition generates. Behind the scenes, we work to bridge the financial gap between what our students can pay and what we need to sustain our programs. Please consider carefully before you use our discount codes.

Scholarship Codes:
For 25% discount use code "25OFF

For 50% discount use code "50OFF"

For75% discount use code "75OFF"

This economic justice map from The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice by Alexis J. Cunningfolk is useful to assess where you may fall on the financial spectrum of pay what you can.

To request 100% off tuition, please contact chris@mkad.art

Sustainable Saratoga and Skidmore College invite you to join us for the Saratoga Sustainability Fair on Saturday, April 11, from 10am - 2pm at Skidmore's Center Intramural Gym. The Sustainability Fair is a free community event celebrating sustainability awareness and opportunities.
https://sustainablesaratoga.org/saratoga-sustainability-fair/

Author and Mafia Historian Justin Cascio’s latest book is about a hidden piece of Springfield’s history.
Has a woman ever been a Mafia boss?

How did the Mafia come to Springfield, Massachusetts?

What was life like for a bootlegger during Prohibition?

Pasqualina: The Bootleg Queen of Springfield, Massachusetts is the true story of the Mafia in Springfield, Massachusetts, during Prohibition, how the Springfield crew became part of the Genovese Family’s empire, and the woman who made it all happen.

Join us for Justin’s presentation, after which there will be a Q&A with the author and a book signing. Books are available to borrow from the Springfield City Library and will be available to purchase at the event.

50th Annual Spring Antiques Show and Sale

Free with museum admission, Kids, teens, and Members free. Reservations required for family tours.  

Inspired by the Illustrators of Light exhibition, kids and families can explore how Norman Rockwell and other artists captured attention and sold ideas through illustration. These artists didn’t just tell stories; they designed advertisements to make products irresistible and showcase everyday life in captivating ways. Take a tour with one of our educators, to learn more, then see if you have what it takes to create an eye-catching advertisement just like the masters!

Family Tours at 10:15 pm, 11:30 am, 1 pm, 2:30 pm
Tours Recommended for ages 5-12; reservations required

Drop-In Artmaking activities – 10 am to 4 pm
All ages welcome; no reservations required

April is Earth Month, and the Columbia NE Repair Café can think of no better way to show gratitude to our planet than by keeping perfectly good things out of the trash. On Saturday, April 11, the Repair Café will hold its next free event at Austerlitz Town Hall, 816 NY-203, Spencertown, from 10 am to 2 pm. Residents are invited to bring broken, worn, or beloved-but-damaged items to be repaired at no charge by a talented team of volunteer fixers — because one of the most sustainable thing you can do is keep using what you already own.
This month’s event puts a special spotlight on textile repair — a fitting tribute to Earth Month — textiles are among the most commonly discarded items in American households. The Repair Café will be joined by skilled machine and hand sewers, darners, knitters, and experienced textile workers ready to breathe new life into garments and fabric items that might otherwise end up in a landfill. Whether it’s a torn seam, a favorite sweater with a hole, a skirt with a lost button, or a worn hem, April 11 is the day to bring it in.
“Every item we fix is a small act of gratitude to the Earth,” said Cara Humphrey, one of the event’s organizers. “And our textile volunteers are genuinely talented — if you’ve been holding onto something you love because you know it’s fixable, this is your moment.”
And if you’re looking to keep the Earth Month spirit going, stay tuned — Austerlitz will be hosting an Earth Day Festival the following weekend.
What Else Will Be Fixed
In addition to the textile repair focus, volunteer fixers will work on bicycles, clocks, lamps, small wood furniture, electrical and mechanical repairs, small jewelry repair, lawn mowers, and more — including 3D printing for select repairs. The two-item-per-person limit helps ensure everyone gets attention from a fixer.
A note for those bringing textiles: clothing and fabric items must be clean before arrival.

An exploration of the relations between performance and architecture—performing architecture, performance as architecture, and architecture as performance—to see how they affect our understanding, imagination, and habitation of physical and discursive space. Presentations by Jane Sawyer, Founder/Director, Cook County Arts Collective; Ross Elfline, Art and Art History, Carleton College; Claire Grace, Art History, Wesleyan University; Andrea Moore, Music, Smith College; and Mechtild Widrich, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The first day of the symposium begins Friday, April 10th at 5:00 pm.

1 Weekend
April 11th & 12th (Make up Day: April 18th)
11 - 1:30 pm

Ages 16+

Are you curious to take your screen printing designs to the next level? Would you like to design more elaborate illustrations that fully utilise the potential of screen print? In this two day workshop, Rakel Stammer shares her process of designing a two color screen print, exploring overlapping color and negative space. This class will be taking place in the form of a live demonstration on a projector.

This is a class for those who already know how to print and would like to go more in depth. Basic knowledge of photoshop is recommended.

Parking: Please park on either Iwo Jima Lane or Cedar Street. Parking that is located in front of the Neighborhood Print Studio are for residents living in the Pajama Factory.

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Please register at least a week in advance to guarantee your spot. Scholarship availability closes 2 weeks prior to the start of class.

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We believe in access to art education for all. It takes the whole community to generate the equity our pay-what-you-can tuition generates. Behind the scenes, we work to bridge the financial gap between what our students can pay and what we need to sustain our programs. Please consider carefully before you use our discount codes.

Scholarship Codes:
For 25% discount use code "25OFF"
For 50% discount use code "50OFF"
For 75% discount use code "75OFF"

This economic justice map from The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice by Alexis J. Cunningfolk is useful to assess where you may fall on the financial spectrum of pay what you can.

To request 100% off tuition, please contact chris@mkad.art