Springfield, MA
Exhibition & Events
Past Events
How do you go from a community concern to a winning campaign? Come to this workshop about community organizing to find out! We’ll talk about clarifying what residents are worried about and what change they want to achieve, understanding the pathways to that change, and honing in on the most strategic course of action. These skills are applicable to any issue that may be impacting your community.
Facilitated by Community Action Works.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
Register in advance here.
Facilitated by Livewell Springfield, this workshop will examine the impact of climate change on people’s health and discuss issues of health equity in communities which are disproportionately affected by environmental injustice.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
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This workshop will explore the deep impact that capitalism has on the environment. We will examine how decisions made about housing, voting, and economics relate to environmental justice and who is affected by those decisions.
Facilitated by Arise for Social Justice.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
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This workshop will discuss housing and how it impacts our communities. Participants will leave with additional understanding around how housing has been a way to disempower our communities and how our communities can work together to create our own solutions to the housing crisis.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
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“Listening to Puerto Rico, Learning from Puerto Rico: Community Response to Climate Disaster in the Aftermath of Hurricane María,” features a presentation by Dr. Ricia Anne Chansky (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez) with Gabrielle Armstrong Velázquez, Natalia Betancourt Malave, Aleyshka Estevez Quinones, and Yarelis Marcial Acevedo
Approximately six weeks after deadly Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico, a student-faculty team at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez began a mass-listening project that stretched across the archipelago to collect oral histories and other biographical narratives related to the disaster. While the over 100 collected narratives reveal massive government-level failures in distribution of relief supplies and aid, they simultaneously highlight the courage and ingenuity of individuals and communities who developed innovative strategies to survive the aftermath. In this presentation, members of the UPRM team discuss the project with a focus on food insecurity, including a look at some of the mutual aid groups that were formed in disaster and continue to serve the people through the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion to follow.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
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In this workshop, the John Snow Research and Training Institute will present the results of a study conducted around problem gambling and how it has impacted the city of Springfield.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
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This workshop led by Massachusetts Jobs with Justice will consider issues related to the labor market. We will explore job creation and how green jobs fit into Springfield’s future and the future of safe, reliable, and sustainable employment opportunities.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
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Learn about the resistance to placing a biomass plant in a city that was named the asthma capital of the nation for two years in a row. From revoking the permit at the city level, to battles in court, to a battle at the statehouse and additional rulings, this has been a rollercoaster for a community that can not afford any additional pollution for its vulnerable youth and elders.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
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This workshop led by Lower Valley Mutual Aid (serving Springfield and Holyoke, Mass.) is based on a “Solidarity, not Charity” model of mutual aid. Participants will discuss creating new systems when the current one has failed us. The time is now for us to step into our power as a community. We are in a moment in history that will decide who we are, and where we want to go. The hope of the Neighbor to Neighbor Mutual Aid Lower Valley is that the crises we are living through will bring us closer together, and bring safety, peace of mind, and good health to each member of our community. As your neighbors, we are reaching out to ask for your help in fulfilling this hope, in whatever way you can. We are asking you to step up and play an active role in building true relationships within your community, while giving support to your neighbors during this difficult time. Today might be their turn to receive help, but tomorrow might be their turn to provide it.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
Register in advance here.
Led by the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice (Northampton, Mass.), this workshop will explore the impact of the military industrial complex and the effect that increased militarization has on communities and the environment.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
Register in advance here.
How do you go from a community concern to a winning campaign? Come to this workshop about community organizing to find out! We’ll talk about clarifying what residents are worried about and what change they want to achieve, understanding the pathways to that change, and honing in on the most strategic course of action. These skills are applicable to any issue that may be impacting your community.
Facilitated by Community Action Works.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
Register in advance here.
Neighbor to Neighbor-Springfield presents an exploration of the history of Springfield’s German Gerena Community School. This workshop will look at Gerena’s past and the crucial role it has played in the community, how that role has changed, and what those changes will mean for the future of Gerena and the North End of Springfield.
All are welcome to join Springfield community members for this free session!
Register in advance here.