Valley-wide FREE VIRTUAL Visit with Ross Gay & Watch Party

Monday, April 14, 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm
A Conversation with Ross Gay on Zoom (with Watch Party and After Party in Turners Falls – see below)

Hosted by the Springfield Public Forum and co-sponsored by PVMA and Montague Public Libraries’ NEA Big Read, The Care Center, and All Hamptons Read. Join us for this keynote event, moderated by Matt Donovan, Director of The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center, Smith College, in conversation with Ross Gay, author of our NEA Big Read of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.

WHERE: VIRTUAL (registration link below). See below also for a community Watch Party at the Great Falls Discovery Center and After Party at the Rendezvous with The Frostheaves and Daniel Hales in Turners Falls, MA. Let us know if you’d like to plan your own party in other parts of the valley and we’ll help spread the word.
Register for the zoom event here.

WATCH PARTY 7:00pm at the Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MA
Community Watch Party—A Conversation with Ross Gay
Join together with friends and neighbors during what promises to be an engaging zoom conversation with Ross Gay–on the big screen at the Great Hall. See below for After Party event at the nearby Rendezvous!

AFTER PARTY 8:30 pm at The Rendezvous, 78 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MA
After Party with The Frostheaves and HaLeS, in celebration of poetry and our NEA Big Read.
After watching our zoom event (see above) at the Discovery Center or at home, join us for a casual party at the Rendezvous. Poet, teacher, songwriter, and musician Daniel Hales and his band The Frostheaves will lead the festivities. Music begins at 9 pm. The Rendezvous kitchen will be open for ordering food until 9 pm.