March 3 — April 3, 2010

Eric Gansworth
Artist Reception: March 10, 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Eric Gansworth Reading: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Westfield State Downtown Art Gallery

Poet, novelist, playwright, and artist Eric Gansworth is an enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation and was born and raised at the Tuscarora Indian Nation in Western New York.

He is a Professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He is the author of six books: Indian Summers; Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon; Smoke Dancing; Mending Skins; Breathing the Monster Alive; and A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function.

His first play, Re-Creation Story, received a staged reading at The Public Theater in 2008. He also edited the anthology, Sovereign Bones, New Native American Writing, and was fiction editor for the third issue of the journal, Stone Canoe.  His books all feature paintings as integral parts of their narratives.

The Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce will hold it’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast in Scanlon Hall at Westfield State College from 7:15 a.m. to 9 a.m.

The Westfield Woman’s Club is happy to announce a fashion show called “The Little Black Dress” scheduled for Saturday, March 20th at 2:00PM. The fashion show will feature clothing of all types and sizes and the clothes will be available for immediate purchase right there. Tickets are $15.00 and can be purchased from Sue at (413) 562-6817.

The Cancer House of Hope will be holding a fundraiser at the Castle of Knights at 1599 Memorial Dr in Chicopee on Mar 20, 2010.

Music will be provided by local favorites, Changes in Latitude.

Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at the Cancer House of Hope on Court St in Westfield or by calling (413) 562-0110.

Show runs from 7:00Pm until 11:00PM.

HELEN SPIELMAN

Performance Anxiety from Inside Out
Helen Spielman, Performance Anxiety Specialist Wednesday & Thursday, March 24 & 25, 2010

March 24:
•  Talking to Yourself Means You’re Sane and Confident
12:30 pm, Dever Stage, Parenzo Hall

•  Drop-in Session with Helen: 3:30-4:30 pm
Bates Hall Room 117
•  Peak Performance through Mental Visualization
7:00 pm, Dever Stage, Parenzo Hall
Reception to follow

March 25:
•  Persistance and Resilience are a Musicians
Best Friends
10:00-11:00 am, Bates Hall, Room 117
•  Drop-in Session with Helen: 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Bates Hall, Room 117

School Street Bistro Music Hall, 3rd Floor
29 School St

Westfield on Weekends and the School Street Bistro are proud to welcome the acclaimed Celtic Rock band, PRYDEIN, to the School St Bistro Music Hall as part of WoW’s Spring Music Hall Concert Series.

Following up last year’s inaugural smash Wintergreen Days success with Seven Nations, we are proud to present another blood boiling bagpiping Celtic music legend. Burlington Vermont based Prydein has been pleasing fans all over New England and other parts of this wide world since 1995 and are still going strong. We are proud to welcome them back to western Mass and the Westfield area.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the School St Bistro or online at www.tix.com.  Special discounted price of $20 for two shows, Prydein on March 27th and Kelli Trottier on April 24th.

About Prydein

Originally started in 1995 as the band Whisky Before Breakfast by 6 college friends, Prydein has been playing the Highland Game and Celtic Festival circuit for the better part of a decade in one form or another. The two original members, Aron Garceau (guitar, vocals) and Iain Mac Harg (bagpipes, flute) have been friends the entire time and usually break the band up for months or years at a time when the band gets in the way of that friendship.

Now Prydein is back and it’s fully loaded. Aron and Iain have been joined by bassist Andy Smith (Mighty Sam McLain Band, Jazzmosis) and drummer Caleb Bronz (Gordon Stone Trio, Mighty Sam McLain Band). They went into the studio this past spring to put down on plastic 6 years worth of music that’d been festering inside of their heads. The result was their new album, Loud Pipes (save lives) and It’ll knock your socks off. If you’re in a hurry and don’t want to wait to get it in the mail, you can order it through

The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield will hold the 2010 Oleksak Lumber Spring Half-Marathon & 5K
on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.

The club is located at 28 W. Silver Street behind the Amelia Park Ice Arena.
click here to register on the Boys and Girls Club website

Keeping Up in a Down Economy,  In the  Art Museum
Wednesday, April 7 at 7:00 p.m.  Presenter: Motivational Speaker Rob Peck.

Popular motivational speaker Rob Peck will present Keeping Up in a Down Economy, co-sponsored by the Athenaeum, the Westfield Business Improvement District (WBID)  and Westfield on Weekends, Inc. (WOW).

Mr. Peck is the Founder of Zestworks, a speaking, training and consulting firm which believes that “the best test is zest!”  He is also an award-winning juggler and entertainer. From Harvard to Hewlett Packard, his customized speeches and seminars have raised morale, re-invigorated commitment, and rein forced the power of collaborative problem solving. Come and partake of some comedic relief in celebration of the end of tax season and learn how to live “zestfully!”

The Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the “Changes in Latitude” Concert at Tekoa Country Club on April 10, 2010 from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. This event is open to the public.

Please call the Chamber of Commerce at 568-1618 for ticket information.  Visit their new website,www.westfieldbiz.org, for other exciting news and events.