ARTFUL CONNECTIONS is a social justice-lensed event where artists offer music, poetry, readings, and spoken word. Join this month’s co-hosts, Ben Keyes and Amy Asherah (Nonfiction, January 2023), for an evening presentation, performance, and discussion. Guests are welcome to add their words, music, and art to the conversation. Refreshments are available. 

This series is a collaboration between the Hopkinton Freedom Team and the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, with support from Riverside Properties, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Hopkinton Cultural Council, and Hopkinton Youth and Family Services.

Ben Keyes grew up in Southborough, Massachusetts. He attended Brown University, where he studied ethnomusicology and later received his Master’s degree in Theology and the Arts from Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.). Ben and his wife Nickaela are now co-directors of the Southborough L’Abri Fellowship, where he cooks for the guests, tutors students, gives lectures, splits wood, and thinks about God and art. They have two daughters and a son.

Amy Asherah is a poet, writer, and writing instructor. Her work has been published in Modern Love (NY Times), Boulevard, CALYX Journal, and other places. Amy completed two apprenticeships in herbal medicine and co-founded the Common Street Spiritual Center in Natick, MA. She is a mother of four daughters.