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By DON STEWART

The dynamic images of photographic illustrator Walter Wick can be viewed through Oct. 26 in four galleries at Stockbridge’s Norman Rockwell Museum.

In honor of Disability Pride Month, the Northampton, Easthampton, and Amherst Disability Commissions are hosting free screenings of disability-themed movies in July.

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES

Once upon a time, the Art House at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary was just a fairy tale.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Different people, different perspectives, united in ink.

The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst will once again host Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music from Thursday, July 10, through Sunday, July 13.

By HANNAH BEVIS

On most days, Andrew Curran, better known as his drag persona Magnolia Masquerade, is a whirlwind of activity, brainstorming ideas for future shows, creating the props that will bring them to life, running the rehearsals with other drag queens who fill out the cast — but he looks almost peaceful in the hours leading up to one of his performances. Starting around 2 p.m., Curran plops himself down in front of a tiny, well-lit mirror in his bedroom to prepare for Magnolia’s performance that evening at Last Ditch in Greenfield. Abba and a mix of show tunes plays quietly as a gentle breeze wafts in through his open window, sunlight streaming in the room.

By KAREN LIST

The Trump administration is trying to eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from, well, everything. But those principles have been at the heart of the Emily List Fund since its founding in Emily’s memory 14 years ago.

Visions Video, a nonprofit video store in downtown Northampton, will open to the public on Friday, June 27.

Valley Players’ production of Lee Blessing’s play “A Walk in the Woods” will run at First Congregational Church in Amherst at 7 p.m. June 20-22, June 27-28, and at 2:30 p.m. on June 29.

By Grace Chai

HADLEY — Fourteen high schoolers bid farewell on Saturday to the place they had called home for their academic careers — the Hartsbrook School — in a song-filled ceremony with their teachers, family and friends watching.

The street fair Cultural Chaos, one of Easthampton’s biggest annual events, will return this year on Saturday, June 14, from 12 to 5 p.m. on Cottage Street in Easthampton.

The Northampton Jazz Festival will screen “Brownie Speaks,” a documentary about the life of jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, at 33 Hawley on Thursday, June 12, at 8 p.m.

By CHRIS LARABEE

As the national art and celebrity worlds coalesced at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Met Gala in early May, the exhibition coinciding with the event at the nation’s most-visited museum also featured several local ties.

Whole Children & Milestones, an organization for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, will put on an original production, “All the Feels,” at the Smith College Hallie Flanagan Theater on Friday, May 30, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, May 31, at 2 p.m.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Celebrated lesbian singer-songwriter Linda Shear will play a benefit show for Straw Dog Writers Guild on Saturday, May 31, at 4 p.m. at Northampton Center for the Arts.

The music festival Strangecreek Campout will return to Greenfield from Friday, May 23, to Monday, May 26, at Camp Kee-Wanee.

Eggtooth Productions will present Sarah Ruhl’s “Orlando,” an adaptation of the famous Virginia Woolf novel, at the Academy of Music on Saturday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Moroccan abstract artist Younes Rahmoun has shown work in more than 100 exhibition spaces internationally, but his first ever North American exhibition is on display right here in the Pioneer Valley.

Pioneer Valley Ballet’s adaptation of “Aladdin and His Magic Lamp” will play at the Academy of Music on Saturday, May 10, at 1 and 4:30 p.m.

Valley Players’ third “Bard in the Bar” reading will be on Sunday, May 4, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Progression Brewing in Northampton.

By CAROLYN BROWN

EASTHAMPTON — The city will bid farewell to its outgoing poet laureate, Carolyn Cushing, and welcome its new poet laureate, Carolyn Zaikowski, this weekend.