The Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce is sending weekly event updates to our friends and members. These updates will include Chamber, civic, and organizational news, events and entertainment.
Our goal is to keep our Chamber and Community members informed and engaged in local events. We invite you to discover the creative pulse that makes Holyoke such a great place to live and to visit. We will also, on occasion, include information on regional events that might be of interest to our Chamber and Communtity members.
If you would like to include a company or civic event please do so by submitting it on the Chamber's website at holyokechamber.com and clicking on "Submit a Community Event".
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In the spirit of the festivities surrounding the Holyoke St Patrick's Parade 2014
The James A. Curran Division One of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians of Hampden/Hampshire Counties
Invites the public to attend
The Annual Communion Breakfast
Sunday March 16, 2014-Mass at 8A at St Patrick's Chapel of St Jerome Church, Hampden St, Holyoke
Breakfast at The Wherehouse?, Lyman St. Holyoke at 9A
Speaker, William F. Dowling, Holyoke Native and President and CEO of the New Britain Rock Cats Baseball Club
The William Dowling Community Service Award was recently announced and will be given yearly by the new Rock Cats team President , Josh Solomon: "While Bill's teams continued to break attendance figures each season, he is best known for his work in the community, with schools, businesses, and little league teams."(Garry Brown, "The Republican", January 17, 2014).
Topic: Bill will talk about his years with George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees and will weave in the major role his Holyoke roots played in his successes in life.
Tickets are $20.00 per person by contacting Attorney John J. Driscoll @ 413-534-0445
by March 10, 2014
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X-FEST 2014
A festival of improvised music, visuals and movement.
119 Gallery and Open Field Initiative present XFest 2014, a festival of improvised music,visuals and movement.The format of the festival is simple and challenging: on Friday and Saturday nights 20+ visiting artists and 60 local artists perform in 20 half hour sets, 10 sets per night. On Saturday afternoon visiting groups perform and on Sunday afternoon local groups perform.Throughout the festival there will be an exhibit of collages and videos by Stephanie Lak.
This year the festival will be held at Gateway City Arts, 92 Race Street, Holyoke MA.
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If you missed it in the Berkshires, you have another chance to experience the excitement in NYC at BAM!
MIFA Executive Artistic Director Don Sanders will be directing ERC's production of Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart
ERC OPENS ITS 13th SEASON AT BAM!
Tchaikovsky: Non But the Lonely Heart
"An exquisite blend of music, theater...
an extraordinary and moving way to experience Tchaikovsky's music."
- Steve Barnes, Albany Times Union
Click on MIFA banner for more information.
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Holyoke Ward 3 to get access to Councilor Dave Bartley, School Committee member Dennis Birks during monthly meetings starting March 5
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Neighborhood Crime Watch Meetings will follow directly after each meeting.
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Holyoke Barks & Recreation
2nd Annual Dog Show
The Holyoke Parks & Recreation Department and Mayor Alex Morse are pleased to announce the City's 2nd Annual Dog Show to be held from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013, as part of the Winter Carnival. All area dog owners are welcome to participate. Categories of the competition are: Fastest Tail Wagger, Best Dog Trick, Most Obedient , Walks with an Attitude, Best Smile, Best Dressed, Best Fur/Hair, Best Mystery Mutt, Ear resistible Ears, Dog & Owner Look Alike, Best in Show- Voted by the Audience. Click on image for more information.
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Springfield
Science Museum 
Reach for the Stars: Exploring Jupiter's moon, Europa, presents many mysteries
Join the Springfield Stars Club on Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Springfield Science Museum for a talk by Kevin Collins on designing and building the Arunah Hill Solar Observatory. ... Read more
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The Irish Comedy Tour
The Irish Comedy Tour takes the party atmosphere of a Dublin pub and combines it with a boisterous, belly-laugh band of hooligans.
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Living with Chronic Heart Disease
This is an educational program for outpatients living with Chronic Heart Disease. The four week series will consist of understanding heart diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and others; nutrition for your heart; medications for your heart; and physical activity and your heart. A question and answer period will occur the first Thursday of every month with HMC Cardiovascular Specialists Dr. Sheth or Dr. Sharma. The series will be repeated monthly.
Start Dates: March 6th, April 3rd, May 1st
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Place: HMC Cardiovascular Specialists (HMC 1st Floor)
Registration is required: please call 413-534-2789
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Women of Ireland
March 8
Springfield Symphony Hall
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March 9 Sunday 2pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
UMass
33rd ANNUAL JAZZ SHOWCASE
Click on Image for more Info
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The Springfield Sportsmen's Show
Undisputedly the largest "pure" sportsmen's show in the Northeast! This mega sporting event takes place on February 20-23, 2014 at the Eastern States Exposition
Click on image for more info.
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Gaelic Storm
Calvin Theater
Saturday, March 01, 2014 ~ 8:00 PM
$26.00
Gaelic Storm's #1 Billboard World Album The Boathouse, is a seafaring collection of traditional songs; twelve tales of plight and plunder, whiskey-drenched pirates, flying cannon balls and the ladies of ill repute recorded in one whiskey-fueled week in a converted boathouse on The Chesapeake Bay. The group's ability to deftly include rock and folk in the framework of the Celtic tradition has enabled them to perform on the same bill with the Zac Brown Band and the Goo Goo Dolls as well as Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett at events as varied as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Milwaukee's Summerfest. Ready your sea legs; you'll need them for this show at the Calvin Theatre; an annual celebration that marks the beginning of St. Patrick's month and a wide array of Celtic bands in town. In addition to reserved seats, there will be an open dance floor at the front of the Calvin for this show.
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Irish Rovers
Calvin Theater
Saturday, March 22, 2014 ~ 8:00 PM
$35.00, $25.00
For more than four decades, THE IRISH ROVERS have charmed and entertained audiences around the world with their exciting stage shows. "Throughout the years, these international ambassadors of Irish music have maintained their timeless ability to deliver a rollicking, rousing performance of good cheer- one that will soon have you singing and clapping along. Their songs have become anthems of revelry and joy among generation after generation of fans."-Belfast Telegraph
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Wistariahurst Museum
Upcoming Events
This series of lectures focuses on industrial and handcrafted material culture that historically took place in the Pioneer Valley, or that is currently taking place in the Pioneer Valley.
All lectures are held Monday nights in the Carriage House at 6:00pm.
Full schedule and descriptions below.
February 24 - Life of a Mill Hand: Using genealogical records and primary resources genealogist Sara Campbell will prepare a sketch of an Irish immigrant family in Civil War-era Holyoke.
March 3 - Jewelry Design with Precious Metal Clay: Presenter Bevlynn Gallant is a fabrication jeweler who teaches this cutting edge jewelry making process using precious metal clay. The formed clay is dried and fired leaving a hardened metal. Gallant will demonstrate the process and compare it to traditional silversmithing techniques.
March 10 - Hitchcock Press and Letterpress Printing: Guy Gaulin, owner of Holyoke's Hitchcock Press, will give a brief history of Letterpress from Gutenberg's invention, through its decline in the 1950s, and its present day renaissance as a craft that offers printed items of exceptional beauty. Examples of Hitchcock Press' work will be shown.
March 17 - Early American Master Potters : Redware potter Steven Earp, enthralled with the works of early redware potters, will present a look at the formative beginnings of America's craft heritage.
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