Sub Rosa, 33b West Street (2024)

11/12/2024

Is there a better way to alleviate q***r holiday stress than watching Christmas at P*e Wee's?* Join us next Wednesday, 12/18, from 5-10pm for some much-needed q***r cheer ❄️🥂 P*e Wee's q***r heros will take to the screen at 7pm -- and Kel will VJ in between. A Gen Xers delight!

*If you've got 70s/80s/90s q***r anthems/videos that you want to see ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʙɪɢ ꜱᴄʀᴇᴇɴ at 𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒃 𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒂 (duh - David Bowie & Bing Crosby and Wham!), comment / DM us!

See you soon 🌹

10/12/2024

Join us this Thursday at 4pm* for the first ever West Street Open House! Did you know that all of the businesses on West Street are design-centered endeavors??? Come experience the most beautiful block in all of Northampton!

Sip on a cocktail while considering which .argue painting you might like to add to your collection and grab a copy of his book 𝑳𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆; mingle with Sally and Hannah of .design.studio at their pop-up shop featuring their brilliant interior designs and custom-made home décor; get your winter evergreen fix and/or pick-up an everlasting arrangement for your holiday table from the farmer/designers!

Come be inspired🌹

*Sub Rosa will be open an hour early on Thursday (4pm - 10pm.)

05/12/2024

We're already feeling nostalgic about last Wednesday's VJ night (how much time has to pass before you can feel nostalgia?) 😭 Thanks to all our q***r peers for showing up so hard - singing and dancing along to all the deep cuts - we needed that!

We've officially entered winter pagan ritual season ... we'll be cozy-ing up tonight after this first snow in the Valley and hard-launching all the evergreen, skulls and wild branchy things - vibes. See you tonight 🌹

📸 Charles Fréger

21/11/2024

Thank you all for your support this week -- it means more than we could ever express.

We are open regularly scheduled hours tonight through Saturday. We would love to see you -- we need your revolutionary love ❤️‍🔥 Wear your kuffiyehs, be your q***rest selves, and help us cleanse this energy! Another world is possible. We'll see you this weekend 🌹

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18/11/2024

We're beginning the week looking for a little palette cleansing / an assertion of our ethics / who we are after an incredibly disturbing incident took place at the lounge on Saturday.

First and foremost, 𝑺𝑼𝑩 𝑹𝑶𝑺𝑨 𝑰𝑺 𝑨 𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑬𝑹 𝑩𝑨𝑹. It was physically built and carefully curated by and for people who believe in collective liberation. It is born out of the minds and hearts of two q***r creatives who know, unequivocally, that their own liberation is bound up in the liberation of all people. Anyone who shares in this knowing is welcome to join us in the safe space we have created.

ATTEMPTS TO DEMONIZE OTHER HUMAN BEINGS WILL NEVER BE TOLERATED IN OUR ESTABLISHMENT. Furthermore, the concept of demonizing entire groups of people will never serve the urgent need to eradicate colonialism and its tools of oppression, erasure, and annihilation. As q***r people, our very existence is in direct conflict and contradiction to these systems of oppression.

Part of the magic of q***rness lies in the concept of world-making – which can look like creating safe, joy-filled, affirming spaces that are not necessarily accessible to us in our daily lives. For this reason, we dreamt up Sub Rosa to help offer a respite, to take care of one another, and to center the lives and stories of our community members who are most oppressed. We know that we have built an incredibly beautiful space which may trick some into thinking that it couldn't possibly be a q***r bar, but we assure you that it is.

Unfortunately, we have received some hate mail since the disturbing incident on Saturday, asserting that if we are advertising our views (FREE PALESTINE) we should “expect to engage with our customers." To be clear and specific: Sub Rosa is not a space where Palestinian liberation will EVER be up for debate. If you seek to engage in conversations like this, and/or do not believe in a Free Palestine, we kindly ask that you please find somewhere else to go. To be clear, we will not participate in “conversations” that justify apartheid and genocide, as these views are in direct contradiction to the safety of the space we have worked so hard to create. (Continued in comments.)

14/11/2024

We are back with you this evening after unexpectedly being closed all of last week. Thank you to our community for your patience and for checking in on us. As a family-run business with just the two of us at the helm, big life events have the capacity to derail us a bit.

We are deeply overwhelmed by the love and nourishment we have received (we're looking at you, and fam 😭), and we feel even more determined than ever to continue this community-building/world-making project with you all -- we're all we've got and we feel grateful to be with you.

We look forward to seeing y'all tonight and this weekend 🌹

07/11/2024

Let's go.🌹

"Artists need to create on the same scale that society has the capacity to destroy." Sherrie Rabinowitz, 1984.

26/10/2024

It's finally here: .argue's show 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆 - an unabashed commentary on climate change and the epidemic of book banning - opens to the public tonight at 7pm.*

We couldn't be more thrilled to present this work to our community and to welcome our brilliant friend, Doug, to Northampton. Bringing 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆 to Sub Rosa has been in the works for over a year - ever since we were invited by our friends and to share a meal with Doug. At the time, we were still in the midst of building-out Sub Rosa and Doug was painting a new body of work that sounded so poignant, exacting and relevant to our shared realities...but he revealed that his galleries were uninterested in showing these new pieces. As q***r farmers who are deeply affected by climate change / book banning / the latest incarnation of culture wars, the walls at Sub Rosa suddenly seemed like they were being built for this show.

If you don't have a ticket for the artists' talk this evening, we will be opening to the public at 7pm tonight, when you can meet Doug and get a signed copy of his (banned) book 𝑳𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 🌹

17/10/2024

Supermoon feelings.

The frost hit the fields in the Valley this week.... more than once. But we'll keep bringing you flowers from our greenhouses for as long as we can. See you tonight 🌹

Image from the online exhibition: FALASTIN Chapter II
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12/10/2024

Our ode to the dahlia is bountiful tonight…we’re expecting a frost in the valley this week, so we will bid adieu to our field crops within the next few days and rely solely on our greenhouses to keep bringing you flowers for as long as we can 🥀

Come celebrate the ephemeral with us tonight, and head home with some dahlias while you can 🌸

11/10/2024

Gather at Sub Rosa on Saturday, October 26th to celebrate the opening of New York City-based artist .argue's new body of work, Fire for Fire - an unabashed commentary on climate change and the epidemic of book banning.

Doug will be joined by his good friend and co-conspirator, , for an intimate conversation. There are only about 20 tickets available to this artists' talk (link in bio)...

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Artists' talk begins at 6 p.m. Doors open to the public at 7 p.m. Ticket holders will receive a copy of Doug Argue's book 𝑳𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆, which was banned by the Weisman Museum the night Argue's career survey exhibition (also called Letters to the Future) opened at the museum. Sub Rosa is honored to host these two brilliant minds and gather in community with you all. 🌹

10/10/2024

Rebecca is BACK tonight for the first time in weeks after designing her heart out every weekend in recent memory. Come say hi.

We've got some delicious new wines for you that have yet to make their way to the printed pages of the menu....IMO, it's better to hear Rebecca wax poetic about them in a way that only a writer - turned - farmer / florist can do. See you soon. 🌹

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03/10/2024

Don't ever be surprised
to see a rose shoulder up
against the ruins of a house: this is how we survived. -

Artwork by .neto

We're looking forward to seeing your faces again this weekend, however dystopian that may feel right now. Let us take care of you and your heartbreaks🌹

25/09/2024

To our beloved botanical dreamers:

We have made the difficult decision to close Sub Rosa this week. We wish that we could be in all the places at once, but the reality is, life has thrown some curve balls our way - including some illness amongst our farm staff. Since it's just the two of us running the lounge, we are making this decision to keep our community safe and healthy. We know you all understand ♥️

We will be back with our special guest friend/server extraordinaire next week.

And stay tuned for a BIG art show announcement that's premiering at the end of October 🔥

We love y'all and we already miss you. See you Thursday 10/3 🌹 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Free Lebanon 🇱🇧

13/09/2024

News from the past few weeks has had us really clinging to the words of Dinos Christianopoulos: 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘶𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴.

It's . If you haven't already, come see 's 𝑴𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒚 before it heads to the Toledo Museum of Art at the end of this month.

Free Palestine. 🇵🇸🍉

06/09/2024

appreciation post 💙 A true blue friend who came to our aid in a moment's notice last night! To know her is to love her, amirite??? (Our apologies to her loyal followers - we'll let you know ahead of time whenever she's helping out next so y'all can properly fan grrrl over her 😘)

See y'all again tonight at 5 🌹

29/08/2024

We're back at it tonight, fam. We had a fantastical week designing with our team - some of the best florists in the world...for real. Thank you for your patience in our absence. We missed you. See you tonight at 5 🌹

Here's one sneak peek at what we were up to. 📸 by the formidable

21/08/2024

We (and our fall crops) are pretty into these moody, late summer, cool nights... How you feelin?

Heads up y'all: We are TOTALLY CLOSED THIS WEEK for a private event / design extravaganza that has been in the works for a year... we can't believe it's finally time for this dreamy event. All of our energy needs to be with this one, so we unfortunately can't be with you this week.

We'll be back Thursday, August 29th 5pm. And we've got lots of things in the works for this Fall, so get ready. See you soon. Free Palestine 🌹

Sub Rosa