A note from ECA's Arts & Culture Program Director
Dear ECA Community,
Easthampton City Arts is thrilled to announce our 20th Anniversary Year of community arts and cultural programming in the City of Easthampton! We extend our immense gratitude to each and every one of you who has played a part in establishing our organization, volunteered as an ECA Committee & Subcommittee Member, participated as a Visual Artist, Musician, Poet, or Performer, contributed to our programming as an event attendee or volunteer, and has shared your voice and vision with us as dedicated community members!
As a municipal organization, we orient ourselves and operate in direct response and relationship to this vital and evolving community we are a part of — and we are simultaneously honored, proud, and humbled to reach this meaningful milestone, as the direct result of working and growing together. Thank you all so much!
To celebrate, we’ve got a robust lineup of public programming throughout 2025 that’s free and engaging for people of all ages — and we encourage you all to mark your calendars for all that’s to come! And, if you aren’t familiar with ECA’s unique history and role in the City, you can learn more about it here.
COMMUNITY EVENTS & FESTIVALS
Art Walk: First Saturdays of the Month
February-December // Various Locations
*Congratulations to our incoming roster of ECA Gallery Artists!
Art in the Garden
Saturday June 7, 2-5pm // Various Locations
Host Garden Interest Form // Attendee Registration
Cultural Chaos
Saturday June 14, 12-5pm // Cottage Street Cultural District
Light Up the Arts
Date & Location Will Be Announced…
WEEKLY SPOTLIGHTS on OUR SOCIALS
- #ECAMondayMemories
- #ECA20th
*We encourage you all to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to receive regular updates and announcements about these programs and more! AND, we encourage you to sign up for our monthly newsletter, too! Many thanks to each and every one of you for supporting and celebrating our beloved community of local working artists in all the ways you do!
With art + heart,
Pasqualina Azzarello
Arts & Culture Program Director
Easthampton City Arts
Eca News
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Reposting about an exciting capacity-building grant opportunity for artists in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin Counties. See more details below or visit @communityfoundationwmass Instagram⭐️
“GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS! We’re excited to share the application for Capacity-Building Grants is NOW OPEN! If you’re an individual artist new to #ValleyCreates and live or have studio space in Hampden, Hampshire, or Franklin County, MA, this opportunity could be for you.
Funded by the Community Foundation’s ValleyCreates program and administered by @assets4artists (A4A), Capacity-Building Grants provide selected artists with a $2,500 grant in addition to coaching, workshops, business/career building and personal financial literacy resources, and artist community-building.
Join us for an information session TOMORROW, June 18 at 1pm to learn more.
Register for an info session and learn more at the link in our bio! ⬆️
➡️ Todas las solicitudes deben presentarse en inglés. Si necesita asistencia, por favor comuníquese con la oficial del programa de artes, Steph Reyes.”
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We had such a great day at Cultural Chaos this past weekend! We hope you had as much fun as our furry friend here🐶
If you have any photos from this past Saturday, DM them to us and we’ll repost them on our story!
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Reposting about the Easthampton Book Hunt!⭐️📚 See more details below, in the photo above, and at @easthamptonbookhunt
“This year we have two books! Writer Brian Westerlind and visual artist Arielle Jessop put the content into our Book Hunt books. Get up early on Saturday and fingers crossed you find one or both!!”
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‘His Room as He Left It’ by Artist Ariel Kotker @arielko13 will be on display in ECA Gallery through the month of June!🌟
Our gallery is open Tuesdays and Thursdays 12-2pm, and is located in Easthampton Old Town Hall. We hope you’ll get the chance to see this remarkable show!
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On behalf of all of us at Easthampton City Arts and the Cultural Chaos planning team, we extend our immense appreciation to each and every one of you who helped make this year’s Cultural Chaos street festival such a wonderful and memorable day! It was rich with creativity and community spirit — and it was also a great success for our beloved local businesses in the Cottage Street Cultural District, thanks to the thousands + thousands of you who came out to participate!
Yesterday’s festival was the culmination of countless coordinated efforts and preparations — by our talented and hardworking artists, vendors, musicians, and performers who so generously shared their voices and vision with us, our incredible shops and restaurants who made their spaces so warm + welcoming, our committee volunteers who’ve been planning and preparing for months, our municipal colleagues from the EPD, EFD, DPW, Planning, Parks & Rec, and the Mayor’s Office who went above + beyond to facilitate a safe space and supported environment for all attendees, all the support teams like Mass Bike, Speed + Sprocket Cycle Works, USA Trash, Pedal People, and our sound/staging partners who added important infrastructure and offerings, and to our incredible local community members who come out each year to celebrate, appreciate, and *create together* the vibrant, integrated, and creative culture of Easthampton!!
Special thanks to Noel St. Jean of Art In Motion for curating another spectacular day of dance, Matt Still for orchestrating another impressive lineup of BMX tricks, SHOW Circus Studio & Caravan Puppets for once again bringing your all, Sage Meadow Farm for gifting us with the sweetness of baby goats, Easthampton Clay for the demos, and to CLI for their first-time participation at Cultural Chaos!
THANK YOU! 💜
And, we were all so thankful for rain-free skies!!
Lastly, many thanks to Pat Brough for the first photo (plus a few others) — and the last slide is also sweet: as the event organizers were walking to their cars at the end of the long, beautiful day, we noticed *several* families of geese (these were just a few) walking home after the long, beautiful day, too 💜
Good morning, everyone! The table is being set for today’s great big community feast!! And there’s not one car on the street — which is a great way for the organizers of Cultural Chaos to begin our day 🙂 thank you, neighbors!! See you all this afternoon!!
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Today’s the day!! We look forward to seeing you all at Cultural Chaos TODAY Saturday June 14th from 12-5pm!!
See you in the Cottage Street Cultural District in Easthampton, MA!!
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We’re sending out an extra special thank you to Beth McElhiney for ALL of her generous contributions to the planning and implementation of Cultural Chaos, as well as her ongoing efforts for arts and culture in our community! Beth is a longstanding member of the Cottage Street Cultural District Committee and does so much to support the merchants in the district!
We encourage you all to stop by Wonderland (@wonderboutique413) during Cultural Chaos tomorrow: Saturday June 14th from 12-5pm!
Thank you, Beth! We appreciate you and ALL you do so much!
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It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood! And we’re hoping that the rain holds off for Cultural Chaos tomorrow! Based on the current forecast, we are absolutely, and with all-hands-on-deck, moving forward with all the last minute preparations for our beloved annual as planned — and if anything needs to change we will update our socials by Saturday at 8am (and as/if needed).
We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!! 💜
Mural credit: @tompappalardo
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