Arts Weekend Spectacular - This Weekend

Once again, downtown Turners Falls blooms with creativity for the festive Arts and Blooms weekend, organized by the Brick House Community Resource Center and Carriage House Designs. Below is a guide to the 17 stops on this year's tour which features galleries, museums, performances, open studios, the Great Falls Art Fest, food and more.

For General Information call Eileen (413) 863-9499 OR Karen (413) 863-9576

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Crabapple Blossom Festival May 3rd -18th!

Spring doesn't officially start until you take in the crabapple blossoms in Turners Falls! To celebrate this seasonal splendor, the fifth annual Turners Falls Crabapple Blossom Festival, running May 3 - 18, has lined up special nature, art, history and architecture events throughout the downtown. Come get the first breath of spring in Turners Falls.

During the two-week long festival, free self-guided historical walking tour booklets will be available at the Carnegie Library, the Great Falls Discovery Center, eateries and stores downtown. The Discovery Center, 2 Ave A, is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., 863-3221. The Carnegie Library is open on Monday- Wednesday, 1 - 8 p.m., Thursday, 1 - 5 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. For information on the festival, call the Carnegie Library, 863-3214.

Check out the fun here and mark your calendars!

Hidden Landscapes documentary May 19th

Marks the 332nd anniversary of the massacre at Great Falls

Narragansett Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Doug Harris and documentary filmmaker Ted Timreck will be bringing Timreck's work-in-progress documentary about Native American sacred stone landscapes in Eastern North America, "Hidden Landscapes" with a section specifically dealing with the stone ceremonial site at the Turners Falls Airport, to the Great Falls Discovery Center Great Hall

Share your sense of place - May 20th

In preparation for an artistic pathway to be created on one of the pedestrian paths from the downtown to the hill section of Turners Falls, a community visioning session will be held to give the community a chance to talk about sense of place and visions for the pathway. Long time and new residents, youth, those who work in town, and all associated with Montague's past present and future are encouraged to come to the Great Hall on Tuesday May 20 to share stories with each other facilitated by Annaliese Bischoff. Find out about Annaliese here.

Three Hallmark Museum Exhibits

Three photographic exhibitions, embracing vastly different lives, are currently showing at Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography. Linda Butler's "Meditations on Simplicity", at Gallery 56, is a photographic meditation on the architecture and objects of the Shakers, a religious sect that flourished in the eastern United States over a century and a half ago. Lili Almog's "Perfect Intimacy", an immersion into the cloistered worlds of three female Carmelite monasteries in Maryland, United States; Haifa, Israel; and Bethlehem, Palestine, opened at Gallery 52. Stella Johnson's "AL SOL", at Gallery 85, features images the artist created during nearly twenty years documenting the lives of families in rural Mexico, Nicaragua and the Cameroons, West Africa. All exhibits continue through June 15, 2008

 RiverCulture Impact Study Completed

UMASS Dartmouth's Center for Policy Analysis completes a report on the economic impact of cultural events by the RiverCulture partnership. The findings show that cultural programming makes a significant contribution to our local economy and is an important part of the vitality of Turners Falls. The report also shows that these events foster a positive image of the downtown. See Arn Albertini's coverage in the Recorder and view the complete report here.

Suzee's Third Street Laundry hosted its third annual Lost and Found Fashion Show Saturday, Dec 1st in Turners Falls. Check out a recap by the Montague Reporter and Monte Belmonte of Wrsi HERE!