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Now in its 5th magical year, Dickens Days in the District is an exciting community-wide event inspired by Charles Dickens, his spirits & the Victorian Age. It’s a December of holiday house tours, teas, one-day festivals, theatrical performances, visits with Santa, lectures, readings, concerts & sparkling lights throughout The District, Westfield’s new downtown.
Westfield Dickens Days has become a tradition that continues to bring visitors to the Whip City from all over the region. From the new Lanternlight Parade that lights the Westfield Green to a wonderful community theatre version of A Christmas Carol to a SNOWFIRE celebration with cocoa cookies and the retelling of a new children’s book around a roaring Dickens Days fire will delight.
The concept of Westfield on Weekends is to present a series of signature events that reflect a theme that is augmented with a calendar with events that are produced by city non-for-profit organizations, institutions, businesses and churches. The scope and size of Westfield Dickens Days 2008 demonstrates a community working together.
Some of organizations who have helped to create Dickens Days events: The Westfield Business Improvement District (WBID), Westfield Athenaeum, Amelia Park Children’s Museum, Amelia Park, the Westfield Athenaeum Boys’ and Girls’ Library, Western Hampden Historical Society, the Westfield Theatre Group, the City of Westfield, and the Westfield State College Foundation and Westfield On Weekends.
For a full calendar of events click on “District Events” located on the side bar of our home page. For additional event infomation go to http://www.westfiledonweekends.org/ .
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5th Annual Colonial Harvest Day
“Halloween Jazz” performance at the Westfield Athenaeum
Grand Opening of the…Westfield State College Downtown Art Gallery!
An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber
Delicious Colonial Harvest Dinner
Rag Shag Parade & Downtown Trick or Treating Enjoyed By Many
15th Annual Community Fall Festival
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| February 7, 2009 |
The Amelia Park Children’s Museum is proud to present the 5th Annual Penguin Plunge on the Westfield town Green. This years’s event is scheduled to kick off at 1:00 PM on Saturday, February 7th.
Pre-registration begins at 11:00 AM or the day before from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the APCM. For more information, call the APCM at 413-572-4014 or go to http://www.ameliaparkmuseum.org/.
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| February 4, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Woodward Center, WSC 6:00pm Reception 7:00pm Program
All are welcome to attend!
Honored by Time magazine as “One of the 100 Most Influential Americans of the Twentieth Century,” and recently as “One of the 100 Most Influential Figures in American History,” by The Atlantic, consumer advocate and presidential candidate for the Green Party, Ralph Nader, has devoted his life to giving ordinary people the tools they need to defend themselves against corporate negligence and government indifference.
With a tireless, selfless dedication, he continues to expose and remedy the dangers that threaten a free and safe society. Nader was featured recently as the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary, “An Unreasonable Man.” He has also written his introspective book, The Seventeen Traditions about the earliest days of his own life, where he revisits seventeen key traditions he absorbed from his parents, his siblings, and the people in his community, and draws from them inspiring lessons for today’s society.
Nader’s foray into public life began in 1965 when he took on the Goliath of the auto industry with his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, a shocking exposé of the disregard carmakers held for the safety of their customers. The Senate hearing into Nader’s accusations and the resulting life-saving motor vehicle safety laws catapulted Nader into the public sphere.
Believing that Republicans and Democrats are so ideologically close he calls them “tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum.” Nader organized the Green Party’s first presidential campaign in 1996 to challenge the “duopoly” of the two-party system. He received 700,000 votes on a limited campaign budget of $5000 and he ran again in 2000, receiving 2.8 million votes. His goal is to build the foundation of a third political party and a robust progressive political movement that rally around issues rather than empty slogans and figureheads.
Both citizens and corporate audiences listen intently to what Nader has to say. Years after they graduate, college students tell him how his lectures changed their lives. His message is simple and compelling: “To go through life as a non-citizen would be to feel that there’s nothing you can do, that nobody’s listening, that you don’t matter. But to be a citizen is to enjoy the deep satisfaction of seeing the prevention of pain, misery and injustice.”
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| January 28, 2009 | ||
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Westfield on Weekends Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 11th at 7:00 p.m. in the Lang Auditorium at the Athenaeum.
All are cordially invited to attend. Come and hear what 2009 has in store for our Community!
The Westfield State College Jazz Trio will provide entertainment and food and refreshments will be provided by Lydia’s Gathering Room.