Tune in to HAL On Connecting Point (NEPM) this Thursday, March 16th, 2023 at 7:30 pm — a television segment about the Holyoke Arts League will run on Connecting Point, a program of New England Public Media which airs weekly on PBS’s WGBY.

In the episode, HAL President Liz Popolo discusses the noteworthy 100th year anniversary of the Art League, the weekly open drawing events of the GoFigure Drawing Studio, and the value of being a women-led arts organization within Hampden county and the broader Western Massachusetts community.

If you have a television, you can watch on NEPM – HD on the following channel numbers: DT Tuner: 57.1  Comcast: 857  Spectrum: 782  Time Warner: 1221

Or, watch online here: https://connectingpoint.nepm.org/livestream/

HAL President Liz Popolo delivering an interview about HAL on Connecting Point (NEPM) this Thursday, March 16th 2023.

Other segments on the show will include:

Sláinte! Celebrate the music, food, and traditions of the Emerald Isle at the Irish Cultural Center of Western New England in West Springfield.Then, learn about the Women Ordnance Workers (WOWs) who manned the machines at the Springfield Armory during both World Wars. And, it might sound like something out of a Dr. Suess book, but did you know there’s a Zoo in Forest Park? We’ll spend the day at the zoo’s youth camp and learn what it takes to be a zoo keeper. Finally, through the “Somebody Photographed This” project, photo restorer Terri Capucci reveals what life was like in western Mass over a century ago.