Crossroads Kickoff Event!

Crossroads Kickoff Event!

Saturday, February 11, 2023, 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm
Jump Start Your Smithsonian Experience with Storytelling, Local Film, and Live Music! FREE and open to the public. No reservation needed. Crossroads: Valley Voices is a co-production of the Academy of Music Theatre and NEPM.

Jump Start Your Smithsonian Experience with Storytelling, Local Film, and Live Music!

Leo Hwang, UMASS Amherst Assistant Academic Dean will start the evening with an introduction to the Crossroads exhibit followed by the documentary short film, “A Sweet Tradition,” by local filmmaker Steve Alves. The show continues with four stories on the theme Crossroads told by local storytellers presented by New England Public Media’s Valley Voices team. Crossroads: Valley Voices is a co-production of the Academy of Music Theatre and New England Public Media. Enjoy musical interludes throughout the evening. Appetizers at 6pm. Programming at 7pm.

Crossroads: Change in Rural America has been made possible in Turners Falls, MA at the Great Falls Discovery Center by Mass Humanities. The exhibition is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.

Crossroads will be on display in the Great Hall in collaboration with the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the town of Montague’s RiverCulture, Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Montague Public Libraries, and New England Public Media.

See the full calendar of events at https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/

MORE INFO

https://museumonmainstreet.org/content/crossroads
https://www.nepm.org/valley-voices

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Special thanks to the Mass Cultural Council for their vital support this year in the form of a Cultural Sector Recovery Grant for Organizations, as well as a Festivals & Projects Grant. We'd also like to thank the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts for their support in the form of a Flexible Funding grant. We couldn't do this work without you!