At the start of this new year, 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 and shaping our organization - whether you've served 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/or 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! We're also working toward new public artworks and initiatives, so stay tuned for more information as developments on these new projects unfold.

Be sure to keep scrolling through to the end of this newsletter for details about upcoming events and program announcements -- and, if you'd like to become more familiar with ECA’s unique history and role in the City of Easthampton, you can learn more about it here.

COMMUNITY EVENTS & FESTIVALS

Art Walk: First Saturdays of the Month
February-December // Various Locations
*Keep scrolling to see our lineup of incoming ECA Gallery Artists!

Easthampton Futures Project Public Sharing
Wednesday January 22 @ 6pm // Old Town Hall 

Have a Heart for Public Art
Sunday March 2, 10am-1pm // Galaxy

Art Floats Easthampton
Saturday May 17, 2-4pm // Nashawannuck Pond

Cultural Chaos
Saturday June 14, 12-5pm // Cottage Street Cultural District

Light Up the Arts
Date & Location Will Be Announced…

ECA POETRY EVENTS

Easthampton Poet Laureate Exhibition
April 5-30 // ECA Gallery @ Old Town Hall

What Is the Flavor of Poetry?
April 5-30 // Mt. Tom’s Homemade Ice Cream

Poetry Poster Project
April 5-30 // Cottage Street Storefronts

Voices of Easthampton &
Easthampton Poet Laureate Inauguration
Saturday April 26, 2pm // CitySpace

WEEKLY SPOTLIGHTS on OUR SOCIALS

#ECAMondayMemories

#ECALocalSpotlight

#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

www.easthamptoncityarts.com @easthamptoncityarts
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Easthampton Futures Project

In 2019, Easthampton City Arts (ECA) partnered with Dpict for the Easthampton Futures Project, which was a six-month long series of community visioning sessions about the future of Arts & Culture in the City of Easthampton. The project consisted of 4 community convenings and several other opportunities that generated input from close to 500 community members, all of which was thoughtfully documented and processed to create a comprehensive, community-generated Vision Plan for the role of Arts & Culture in Easthampton for the next 10 years. As we find ourselves at the halfway mark of the Easthampton Futures Project timeline, we look forward to sharing our successes thus far and to work together to identify new priorities for the years to come!

We look forward to seeing you at CitySpace on Wednesday January 22nd @ 6pm!

Art Walk Easthampton

Save the date for the first Art Walk Easthampton event of the year, on Saturday February 1st from 4-7pm. Please note: there is no Art Walk event during the month of January.