WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

The evening program features a ‘Vintage Fashion Show ‘ presented by Tiffany Pentz, a professional NYC stylist and the owner of Otis & Co, Vintage Boutique in Shelburne Falls. The show will highlight fashions from different eras. 

Feel free to dress up ……and wear a hat!

To learn more about Tiffany: www.tiffanypentz.com

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Our program theme for 2012-2013 highlights some of the remarkable women
 around us in the fields of art, literature, music, education, science, and health - both in the present and from the past. All of our programs are free and open to the public.

On Wednesday, April 10 at 7:00p.m.

The Shelburne Falls Area Womens’ Club will present a program about health and healing through Tai Chi and the Labyrinth Walk.

“Labyrinths in a community offer a special place for people to come together for significant celebrations, to resolve a problem, to enjoy a meditative walk, or to simply take time out of a busy day”.

Deborah Yaffe, co-founder of Riverside Healing Arts Center and a longtime advocate of practices that promote physical and spiritual well being, will introduce Tai Chi and its health benefits. There will also be a demonstration of and participation in the Labyrinth Walk, Tai Chi style.

You won’t want to miss it!

 This program will take place at the Shelburne–Buckland Community Center after a short business meeting at 7:00p.m. The public is warmly invited to attend. Refreshments will be served afterward.

 For more information about Deborah and Riverside Healing Arts please visit their website: www.riversidehealing.com/

March 13     

What changes we’ve seen! Technologies and societal changes have influenced our children’s education: What have been the effects of technologies; has the role of the teacher changed, have students lives changed?

A panel of retired teachers meets their current counterparts to show us how things have changed.

Current Teachers:

Janet Small

Eileen Devony

Diane Cerone

Retired Teachers:

Susan Schauger

Penny Spearance

Sandy McGill

The discussion is certain to be lively and informative.
Meta Nisbet will be the moderator.

Meeting: 7:00 p.m.
Program:7:30 p.m.

All are welcome!

Shelburne/Buckland Community Center

Our program theme for 2012-2013 highlights some of the remarkable women
 around us in the fields of art, literature, music, education, science, and health - both in the present and from the past. All of our programs are free and open to the public.

December 12

7:00 p.m.

 A festive evening of musical entertainment from classical to jazz

featuring Marion Woodsome with pianist Janet Umphress

and Janice Dompke with pianist Stephen Page, and YOU!

- come for the Holiday sing-a-long! (Men are welcome, too!)

Shelburne–Buckland Community Center, Main Street, Shelburne Falls

 This program is presented in partnership with the Shelburne Falls Historical Society and will begin around 7:30p.m. after a short business meeting at 7:00p.m.

The Shelburne Falls Area Women’s Club is pleased to present “Orra White Hitchcock: An Illustrated Life”, an illustrated talk by archivist Daria D’Arienzo on November 14 at 7:30 p.m.preceded by a business meeting at 7:00 p.m. at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center on Main Street in Shelburne Falls.

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Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863) is one of the hidden gems of the Connecticut River Valley.  Few people know her name.  More should.  She produced dozens of striking watercolors of native plants, picturesque lithographs of the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers, symbolic compositions and drawings of prehistoric fossils as well as large, colorful geological designs for her husband, Edward Hitchcock’s, lectures. Self-taught, she rose to become the principal female illustrator of her generation in the United States. Recently more has come to light about her life and art through several essays and an exhibition of her work.

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Daria D’Arienzo, co-curator of the exhibition Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863): An Amherst Woman of Art and Science at the Mead Art Museum, was head of Amherst’s Archives and Special Collections from 1984 to 2007. She has uncovered previously unknown drawings and many new facts that fill out the work and life of this singular woman, who considered herself not an “artist” but a mother, wife, and teacher who made illustrations. Her illustrated talk will highlight Orra’s life, art, and legacy.

Read more about Orra:

Amherst College Mead Art Museum

Pioneer Valley History Network

The Common Weeder