Pioneer Valley Roller Derby

Happening in one week! 🥳🥳

Now's your chance to try the fabulous sport of roller derby, either as a skater or off-skates as an official. Join us! See FB events (linked in comments) for full details and to sign up.

What better way to celebrate the new year than trying out a new hobby? Come give roller derby a try on Thursday February 22 and/or February 29 from 7:15-9:15pm in Greenfield! All are welcome; no experience necessary. Check out the FB events on our page for more details and the sign-up link!

Five days until our second recruitment practice, in Greenfield! Now's your chance to try the fabulous sport of roller derby, either as a skater or off-skates as an official. Join us! See FB event (linked in comments) for full details and to sign up.

🤩 We're back! 🤩 Announcing our first recruitment events since 2020—come give roller derby a try on Thursday June 29 from 7-9pm in Holyoke or Thursday July 13 from 7-9 in Greenfield! All are welcome; no experience necessary. Check out the FB events on our page for more details and registration link.

✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍🌈✨Today is the Holyoke Pride Festival from 12-6 PM! There will be local artists, vendors, performers, food trucks, a vaccine clinic and more. Unfortunately, PVRD will *not* be tabling at this event after all. Please visit our friends Rows where we will be sharing flyers about what's going on with PVRD! All are welcome! ✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍🌈✨

In an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19, this event will be following COVID-19 guidelines. Although masks are not required, they are recommended 😷, particularly for anyone who is immunocompromised or unvaccinated. Social distancing and hand washing 👏 are strongly encouraged. There will be hand washing stations and a vaccine clinic on site. If you are sick, please stay home. We're all in this together!

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Derby community! Please consider contributing to this GoFundMe for our beloved, former-Dirty Dozen skater, Irwin Achmad (Achmadgeddon #202) so he recover comfortably after a recent accident. Thanks in advance for your support!

Tons of derby love, Irwin!

Support for Irwin, organized by Naomi Shulman 6/4/21 UPDATE: The first goal was met, and then the *second* goal was met. I am confident that I can… Naomi Shulman needs your support for Support for Irwin

Our friends CIB Western Mass are having another skate meet up Sunday morning (10-noon) at the Pulaski Skate Park in Holyoke for masked, outdoor skating! All skill levels welcome (No rain date).

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"CIB WESTERNMASS!
Sunday skate date!
Holyoke skate park
10am to 12pm
All levels/wheels welcome
No rain date

Join PVRD and our pals CIB Western Mass tomorrow morning (10-noon) at the Pulaski Skate Park in Holyoke for some masked, outdoor skating. (Weather permitting! Otherwise, save the date for April 25th!)

Image description: handwritten flyer that reads
CIB Western MA
Sunday Meets
March 28th, 2021
(Holyoke, MA)
April 25th, 2021
(Holyoke, MA)
All levels welcome!
10am to 12pm

Pioneer Valley Roller Derby stands in solidarity with Asian American and AAPI communities in the wake of the tragic violence and loss of life in Atlanta. We condemn white supremacy, xenophobia, orientalism, and all anti-Asian racism.

If you're looking to provide financial support you can donate to Stop AAPI Hate https://stopaapihate.org/ For resources on how to address anti-Asian violence, visit the Asian American Federation website at https://www.aafederation.org/aaf-safety-resources/ and https://racismiscontagious.com/

Anti-Hate Safety Resources - Asian American Federation These safety resources, created in collaboration with experts from the Center for Anti-Violence Education, teach targeted individuals how to de-escalate threatening situations and defend themselves in the event of anti-Asian violence. The flyers in 5 Asian languages offer strategies to help individu...

Pioneer Valley Roller Derby updated their business hours.