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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.

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.

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.

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.

The all-ages Western New England Music Festival will be at the De la Luz Soundstage in Holyoke on Sunday, April 27. It will include workshops from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and live music from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.

The Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail will have its annual studio tour on Saturday, April 26, and Sunday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Symphony Orchestra recently announced the winners of its Concerto/Aria Competition. Daniel Ryu, a graduate student; Laura Wang, a freshman; and Robert Grahmann, a graduate student, will perform with the UMass Symphony Orchestra on Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Tillis Hall.

The Power of Truths Arts & Education Festival will return for its fourth year on Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence.

CitySpace in Easthampton is now accepting applications for its 2025 Pay It Forward program.

Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence will host a screening of the silent film “The Ancient Law” (“Das alte Gesetz”) with live musical accompaniment on Saturday, March 22, at 7 p.m.

Children’s author Eric Carle, who lived in Northampton for decades, was known for books including “Brown Bear, Brown Bear,” and “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Now, those books (and a few others) are part of a puppet show, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show,” which will be at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Tillis Performance Hall on Sunday, March 16, at 3 p.m.

John Cameron Mitchell, the writer, director and star of the movie musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” will take part in a screening and discussion of the movie at Mount Holyoke College’s Gamble Auditorium on Monday, March 10, at 5 p.m.

Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares and the Northampton Center for the Arts will present “A World of Piano,” an event series featuring one of three solo pianists per night, at 33 Hawley in Northampton from Thursday, Feb. 27, through Saturday, March 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

One of Shakespeare’s most famous plays is coming to the Pioneer Valley – with a cast of one.

It’s not often that we get to tell readers to skank to their hearts’ content, but that’s entirely the point of an upcoming event at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8: namely, “The 1st Annual NU England Ska Summit,” an all-ages festival celebrating ska and nu metal (which the event description jokingly calls “the two most respected genre’s [sic] of music”) at CitySpace in Easthampton.

Local folk rock band High Tea (Isabella DeHerdt and Isaac Eliot) and Wallace Field will co-headline a show at the Iron Horse on Friday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m.

The local theater company Valley Players will present a production of the play “Love Letters” on Feb. 7, 8, 14 and 15, each at 7:30 p.m., at Black Birch Vineyard in Hatfield.

The Academy of Music will host its first “Stitch ‘n’ Flix” movie screening — that is, a screening in which guests can bring their own craft project, like knitting or crochet, to work on while watching a movie in a theater with dimmed lighting — on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m. (The only caveat is that the project must be “self-contained” and unable to produce mess.)