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WESTFIELD ON WEEKENDS' FEATURED EVENTS
Brass Attack at School St Bistro Feb 13
Westfield on Weekends is proud to announce the End of Winter with the first of the 2010 Spring Music Hall Series concerts. This year's inaugural event will be held at the School St Bistro on Feb 13 and will feature the renowned local favorites, Brass Attack of Springfield. There will be a special dinner menu and a cash bar for all patrons. This year's theme will be a celebration of Mardi Gras and the end of winter. Doors will open at 6:00PM with cocktails served at 6:30PM. The concert and dancing will commence at 7:00PM and Brass Attack will play into the night. Tickets for Brass Attack are $15 before the show. They can be purchased at the School St Bistro or online at Tix.com. Dinner is not included in the price of admission. Please click here to purchase tickets online at for this great event. Take your sweetie out for Valentine's Day and enjoy some great food, music, and dancing with some of the best dance band music in western New England.
And don't forget the other two shows in our Spring Music Hall Series of Concerts at the School St Bistro. On March 27, we welcome Prydein, the Bagpipes Blasting Celtic Rock legends from Burlington VT. Prydein has been thrilling audiences all over America since 1995 and are touring with a renewed lineup behind their new album, Loud Pipes Save Lives. Tickets will cost $15 beforehand and $20 at the door. For more info on Prydein and tickets for Mar 27, please clickhere.
The final Spring Music Hall show on April 24 will feature the acclaimed singer, Kelli Trottier. Kelli is a fiddler, singer and step dancer who hails from Canada, but carries her talent to stages across North America, Europe and the Middle East. She will blend her native French Canadian style with Scottish and Irish traditional music. “Kelli is a superb fiddler and will also be offering workshops during her visit,” said Chris Keenan of the Pioneer Valley Fiddlers, which is co-sponsoring this event. Tickets for Kelli Trottier are $10 beforehand and $15 at the door and can be purchased by visiting the School St Bistro or online by clicking here.
This year, Westfield on Weekends will sell Spring Music Hall Subscriptions. For the reduced price of $35, patrons will receive 3 tickets for the Music Hall Concerts. They can be used for admissions to All Three of the shows. Subscription tickets must be purchased by Feb 13 and can be bought at the School St Bistro or online at Tix.com by clicking here.
WSC Spring 2010 Speaker Series
The Westfield State College Foundation Speaker Series continues this spring with a lineup of major personalities on the international scene. All events in the series are open to the public and most are free. The schedule includes author and radio host Michael Eric Dyson on Feb. 4, staff members from the satirical news organization The Onion on Feb. 24, political scientist and former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski on March 3, feminist leader Gloria Steinem on March 31, actor Danny Glover on April 2, and author Greg Mortenson on Apr. 29. All speakers, except Glover, are scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Woodward Center, with receptions at 6 p.m. The series, initiated by President Evan S. Dobelle, is in its second full year of bringing internationally known speakers to Western Massachusetts.
“Michael Eric Dyson, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gloria Steinem, Greg Mortenson and Danny Glover are all iconic figures whose contributions have had an enormous impact,” Dobelle said. “We are happy to give our students and neighbors the rare opportunity to engage these extraordinary individuals in person.” Dyson is an academic, author, and radio host. Ebony magazine named him one of the most influential black Americans. He received a Ph.D in religion from Princeton University and is an ordained Baptist minister. TheOnion is a Peabody award-winning, “fake-news” organization. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news. TheOnion’s articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorial man-on-the-street interviews, stock quotes, traditional newspaper layout, and AP-style editorial voice. Brzezinski is a Polish-born American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman. He served as national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.Steinem rose to national prominence as a feminist leader in 1969. She was a founder of NewYorkMagazine in the 1960s and broke ground in 1963 with an investigative report on how the women of Playboy were treated. Glover, a film director and activist — as well as a widely known actor, will appear at a Westfield State Foundation Signature Fundraising Event at 7 p.m. April 2 with a reception in Scanlon Banquet Hall and performance in Dever Auditorium. Glover is best known for his major role in The Color Purple and his appearance as detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise. For ticket information, call 413-572-5244.
Mortensen is co-founder of the non-profit Central Asia Institute, founder of Pennies for Peace, and co-author of NewYorkTimes bestseller ThreeCupsofTea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time. In March 2009, Mortsenon received Pakistan’s highest civil award, Sitara-e-Pakistan (Star of Pakistan) for his dedication and humanitarian effort to promote education and literacy in rural areas for 15 years. As of 2009, Mortenson has established more than 90 schools in rural and often volatile regions, which provide education to more than 34,000 children. TV newscaster Tom Brokaw calls Mortenson, “one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, who is really changing the world.”
The college’s Guest Lecture Series also continues this spring, with presentations free and open to the public. Poet, novelist, playwright and artist Eric Gansworth will give a reading on March 10 during a reception for his painting exhibition in the Westfield State Downtown Art Gallery scheduled March 3 to April 13.Dr. Dan Drury, an expert on the new Wii fitness technology, will lead a Wii Fit Fest, at 6:30 p.m. March 8 in Scanlon Living Room. Helen Spielman will give presentations at 12:30 and 7 p.m. on achieving peak performance through mental visualization.
For more information on the speaker series, visit our Calendar of Events or visit the WSC website, www.wsc.ma.edu/speakerseries.
Rethinking Downtown Westfield Update
The Downtown Planning Committee met and reviewed the many action steps outlined in the recently completed Re-Thinking Downtown Westfield Final Report. The Committee found that all of the action steps could be collected into three basic groups (including a few that appear in more then one group).
1. Downtown Relations and Citizen Engagement 2. Downtown Marketing, Business Development and Planning 3. Downtown Policy and Investment
The Committee concluded that the best way to implement the recommendations of the Final Report was to establish these as three working committees and to solicit the participation of the many people who are interested and have been involved in the downtown revitalization process. Now that the holiday season is behind us, it’s time to regain the momentum of the Re-thinking Downtown Westfield process. In that light, the Downtown Planning Committee has decided to re-focus itself as the Downtown Action Committee. Attached you will find a sign-up sheet if you would like to participate on any of these Working Committees or any particular Action Steps. We categorized the Action Steps for each committee based on both the on-going Live, Work, Play & Connect themes as well as whether the tasks are Short-Term, Medium-Term or Long-Term. You can sign up for a Committee by simply placing a check mark on the line preceding it, or you can also sign up for specific Action Steps by checking them off. Feel free to sign up for more then one Committee and as many action steps as you would like.
Once you’ve completed your form please return it to Larry Smith, Community Planning Director, either by email, regular mail (59 Court St., Westfield, MA 01085), or drop it off in City Hall, Room 301. The City of Westfield thanks you for your interest and participation.
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The Westfield State College Foundation Speaker Series continues this spring with a lineup of major personalities on the international scene. All events in the series are open to the public and most are free. The schedule includes author and radio host Michael Eric Dyson on Feb. 4, staff members from the satirical news organization The Onion on Feb. 24, political scientist and former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski on March 3, feminist leader Gloria Steinem on March 31, actor Danny Glover on April 2, and author Greg Mortenson on Apr. 29. All speakers, except Glover, are scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Woodward Center, with receptions at 6 p.m. The series, initiated by President Evan S. Dobelle, is in its second full year of bringing internationally known speakers to Western Massachusetts. 
“Michael Eric Dyson, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gloria Steinem, Greg Mortenson and Danny Glover are all iconic figures whose contributions have had an enormous impact,” Dobelle said. “We are happy to give our students and neighbors the rare opportunity to engage these extraordinary individuals in person.” Dyson is an academic, author, and radio host. Ebony magazine named him one of the most influential black Americans. He received a Ph.D in religion from Princeton University and is an ordained Baptist minister. The Onion is a Peabody award-winning, “fake-news” organization. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news. The Onion’s articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorial man-on-the-street interviews, stock quotes, traditional newspaper layout, and AP-style editorial voice. Brzezinski is a Polish-born American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman. He served as national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Steinem rose to national prominence as a feminist leader in 1969. She was a founder of New York Magazine in the 1960s and broke ground in 1963 with an investigative report on how the women of Playboy were treated. Glover, a film director and activist — as well as a widely known actor, will appear at 
a Westfield State Foundation Signature Fundraising Event at 7 p.m. April 2 with a reception in Scanlon Banquet Hall and performance in Dever Auditorium. Glover is best known for his major role in The Color Purple and his appearance as detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise. For ticket information, call 413-572-5244. 
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