Applications Open for 2023-2024 School Year!

Hello women!

Are you looking to restart your education in a supportive community this fall? As you can see in the picture above, we’re a pretty friendly bunch (this is some of the members of the Clemente class of 2023).

In the year-long Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, we study history, writing, literature, art history, and philosophy together in a small, supportive class. Successful completion of this free (!) course offers 6 credits from Bard College. Many of our graduates go on to study at the Bard Microcollege and other area colleges such as Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, and Smith.

Applications are now open for the new school year, which starts on Thursday, October 5.

Apply here!

Questions? Call The Care Center at 413-532-2900 and ask for Pam (ext. 121).

Summer 2023 Classes!

Hello everyone! We at The Care Center and Bard College Clemente Course in Holyoke are excited to offer a combo of Cabot Street College summer classes designed to deepen our capacities to name and narrate the facts, joys, and problems of our own lives and the world we share. Each class carries 1 credit from Bard College, and runs from July 11 to August 3.

Apply HERE

The morning class, A Nest for Your Mind: Making and Keeping a Journal will concentrate on the private, quiet work of writing for yourself. We’ll look at historical and contemporary examples of journals for inspiration as well as respond to writing prompts. We’ll also learn basic bookmaking techniques so that you can make your own journal by the end of class. (Materials provided.) Tues & Thurs 9:30–10:30am class; 10:30–11:15 optional open work time @ The Care Center, 247 Cabot Street, Holyoke, with Professor Pam Thompson.

In collaboration with Holyoke Media, the afternoon class, Say It Like It Is: Her Mic, Her Voice, Herstory will give you the tools to create podcasts of your own. Learn about the medium and work collaboratively with other women to develop real and personal stories that will become the content for a podcast to be aired for the community. Tues & Thurs 12–2pm @ Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, with Professor Gloria Caballero-Roca and Natalia Muñoz. 

Apply HERE soon to reserve a place.

Note: Lunch will be provided for students taking both courses.

The school year’s around the corner…

Have you always thought about going to (or going back to) college?

You can apply here for the 2022-23 Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities in Holyoke!

We offer women in Holyoke, Springfield and surrounding towns the chance to jumpstart their educational life and join a friendly community of women who study and talk and write together — about American history, literature, art history, and philosophy, with an emphasis on communication, via the spoken and written word.

To successful applicants, we offer free books and laptops, as well as childcare for babies and toddlers and transportation (from Holyoke, Springfield and Chicopee).

We are planning to be in person this year, but will consider moving to a hybrid format if public health and our student body seem to need a different response. Orientation begins the week of October 4, and classes run until May 16, 2023, with a winter break from December 23, 2022 through January 16, 2023.

Are you interested, but looking for something shorter than a full year? If so, consider applying here for Activism and Black Women Singers: From Spirituals, Soul, Jazz, and Ballads to Hip-Hop and Rap. This class starts September 6, 2022 and runs through October 25 and offers 3 credits through Greenfield Community College.

Questions? Want to know more about college classes at The Care Center? Email Pam, the program director, at holyokeclemente@gmail.com, and let me know the best way to get in touch with you.

Applications open for 2022-23 classes!

The Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities in Holyoke is gearing up to begin our 2022-23 school year soon. Orientation begins the week of October 4, and classes run until May 16, 2023, with a winter break from December 23, 2022 through January 16, 2023.

You can apply here!

We offer women in Holyoke, Springfield and surrounding towns the chance to jumpstart their educational life and join a friendly community of women who study and talk and write together — about American history, literature, art history, and philosophy, with an emphasis on communication, via the spoken and written word.

To successful applicants, we offer free books and laptops, as well as childcare for babies and toddlers and transportation (from Holyoke, Springfield and Chicopee).

We are planning to be in person this year, but will consider moving to a hybrid format if public health and our student body seem to need a different response.

Are you interested in going back to school, but looking for something shorter than a full year? If so, consider applying here for Writing the Body, a 3-credit class that runs from July 12-August 25.

Questions? Want to know more? Email Pam, the program director, at holyokeclemente@gmail.com, and let me know the best way to get in touch with you.