What’s on your mind? Stop by for a free lunch and conversation with GCC President Yves Salomon-Fernandez.

GCC’s got talent! Stop by the Dining Commons to watch or sign up for the GCC Open Mic event.  If you’re interested in participating, please email Mary McEntee at mcenteem@gcc.mass.edu.

Opening performance by Elnu Abenaki Chief Roger Longtoe Sheehan, with dances taught by Annowan Weeden and James Morris, Aquinnah Wampanoag. All are welcome!

Are you looking for a career path in manufacturing? Training to be a machinist? Want upskilling courses in engineering technology? Attend an information session for students interested in exploring the world of manufacturing and learning the fundamentals that will prepare them for an entry level position in manufacturing, or as a precursor to the CNC Operator program. Veterans, women, unemployed, underemployed and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Learn about career opportunities, pathways and programs offered. Start the application process! RSVP online.

Come check out the Community Resource Studio and join us for a hot lunch!

A fundraiser to benefit Greenfield Community College! With GCC music professor Matthew Shippee and his gypsy jazz band Swing Caravan. Doors open at 6:30pm. Suggested donation $15. Get tickets in advance at hawksandreed.com.

A community conversation about what GCC is doing—and can do better—to support students in recovery as well as the larger recovery community in the Greenfield area.

Learn more about our new RN to BSN partnership with Westfield State University. You can earn your BSN at GCC’s Northampton location! $50 application fee waived for attendees. RSVP online.

As seen on America’s Got Talent! Zuzu African Acrobats perform traditional Kenyan acrobatic skills set to high energy beats. Originating in Mombassa, Kenya, they have performed in over 25 countries in the last ten years, including Australia, China, Korea, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. They have only been performing in America since February of 1999 and have received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike.

Their show can be up to one hour in length and blends what we have come to call “circus” acrobatics with popular dance moves set to live and taped African music. The result is an electrifying experience which is sure to move even the most jaded audience member. What we have here essentially is a re-evaluation of the variety arts which is as radical as that which happened to popular music in the late 1950s: the culture of youth, with all its energy, vitality and rhythm, has now taken over the circus.

Artist Juana Valdes speaks about her work on display in the South Gallery January 23-February 7.

Are you looking for a career path in manufacturing? Training to be a machinist? Want upskilling courses in engineering technology? Attend an information session for students interested in exploring the world of manufacturing and learning the fundamentals that will prepare them for an entry level position in manufacturing, or as a precursor to the CNC Operator program. Veterans, women, unemployed, underemployed and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Learn about career opportunities, pathways and programs offered. Start the application process! RSVP online.

Meet with transfer reps from Western New England University,Bay Path University, Springfield College, Westfield State University, American International College, and Elms College.

Presented by GCC alum Jamie Cocco. Two of the trickiest social media topics for online marketers are algorithm and strategy. We will be covering how the Facebook and Instagram algorithms work and how to create the right social media strategy for personal and professional brands. This is considered a beginner to intermediate workshop. This workshop is meant for the person who wants to understand more about social media strategy, who has some current experience on Facebook and Instagram either with personal or professional use. It is also designed for a person who already has Facebook and Instagram business pages, who wants to maximize their time and grow their business on social. This is not meant for the highly-advanced Facebook and Instagram business as we will not cover advertising in this workshop.

This workshop will answer these fundamental questions:

• How does social media fit into my overall marketing strategy?
• How are Facebook and Instagram different?
• What is the Facebook Algorithm looking for?
• What is the Instagram Algorithm looking for?
• When do I post content?
• What types of content do I post?
• How often do I post?

Followed by a 10-minute Q&A.

In Our Own Voices is a regular panel series that provides an opportunity to hear from individuals in our community about their journeys to and at GCC. This month, meet seniors in our local community and learn from their rich experiences, careers and relationships. Space for questions and dialogue, and refreshments provided.

Sex educator Yana Hicks presents a workshop acknowledging that the consent education available to young people (if available at all) fails to illustrate what good communication looks like in real life: What words do I use? What does that do for my partner? What does that do for me? How do I say no? How do I accept a no gracefully? How can consent fit into my real life, in and outside of sexual or romantic situations?

This fun & interactive workshop includes Yana’s popular snack-building activity that help brings to life consensual communication, tools and techniques in a way accessible to young people. Including a pre-snack talk about the central components of consent and a post-snack discussion about how to give, ask for, receive, and negotiate consent, this workshop seeks to help youth build confidence in their ability to apply consent to their everyday relational interactions.

The goal of this workshop is to meet youth where they’re at in their lives and relationships in an approachable & appropriate & fun setting to help them break down the linguistic, mental & emotional barriers standing in the way of creating a culture of consensual communication at their schools, in their peer groups and for their future sexual explorations.

Are you looking for a career path in manufacturing? Training to be a machinist? Want upskilling courses in engineering technology? Attend an information session for students interested in exploring the world of manufacturing and learning the fundamentals that will prepare them for an entry level position in manufacturing, or as a precursor to the CNC Operator program. Veterans, women, unemployed, underemployed and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Learn about career opportunities, pathways and programs offered. Start the application process! RSVP online.

In Our Own Voices is a regular panel series that provides an opportunity to hear from individuals in our community about their journeys to and at GCC. This month, a panel of GCC students, faculty and staff share their stories of life after a substance abuse disorder. Space for questions and dialogue, and refreshments provided.

A performance by the team at Phallacies. From their statement of purpose:

Phallacies started as a group of men who wanted to engage in deep conversations about masculinity and change the way that we—and our wider communities—understood and experienced it. We began sharing our stories with each other, and those stories turned into performance pieces that we took to the stage in order to share them with others. Our experiences were transformative.

Dialogue and theater arts are powerful tools to unlock awareness and empower change. We create space to compare stories and foster understanding across lines of race, class, culture, ability, sexuality, and other identities, and build a community of men who can actively support each other in challenging unhealthy behavior in ourselves and other men in our lives.

Now Phallacies is working to bring this model to other schools, groups, and communities. We provide trainings, workshops, and presentations that are transformative in their own right, and we are also hoping to kickstart Phallacies chapters in other schools and community organizations via consultation and program development.

The GCC Business club hosts a Craft Fair featuring local vendors selling handcrafted goods. 25% of proceeds will be donated to the GCC Food Pantry. Vendors interested in participating should contact Michelle Barthelemy at barthelemym@gcc.mass.edu.

Are you looking for a career path in manufacturing? Training to be a machinist? Want upskilling courses in engineering technology? Attend an information session for students interested in exploring the world of manufacturing and learning the fundamentals that will prepare them for an entry level position in manufacturing, or as a precursor to the CNC Operator program. Veterans, women, unemployed, underemployed and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Learn about career opportunities, pathways and programs offered. Start the application process! RSVP online.