Visiting De la Luz

De la Luz has two performance venues—the De la Luz Soundstage and the Divine Theater—on LightWorks Collective’s three-building campus at 92-114 Race Street, Holyoke, MA 01040, in the heart of Holyoke’s historic Canal District.

De la Luz is a project of LightWorks Collective and shares the campus with LightHouse Holyoke, Creators Campus, Comfort Bagel, Arts Integration Studio, and others.

You’ll find us on Race Street, alongside the canals that once powered Holyoke’s mills. Footbridges cross the water throughout the neighborhood, and the canal walk runs right past our campus.

Enter through the courtyard between our three historic mill buildings.

From the central courtyard, head up the ramp on the left and through the black double doors for the Divine Theater, Dining Room, Listening Room, and workshop spaces.

Once inside the lobby, the Divine Theater is to your right and the Dining Room is to your left. Straight ahead, the elevator takes you to the Listening Room and workshop spaces upstairs.

For De la Luz Soundstage, enter through the double glass doors in the courtyard and turn right. One of our staff will be there to greet you.

There’s plenty of free parking around De la Luz. Look for street parking along Race Street and the Canal Walk, as well as on nearby Dwight Street, Middle Street, and Main Street behind the campus.

There’s also a free parking lot at the Holyoke train station on Main Street, directly behind us. The Ernest Proulx Municipal Parking Garage, at Dwight and Front Streets, is about a block away; parking there is free on weekends and holidays, with paid parking at other times.

Both De la Luz venues—and all public spaces throughout the LightWorks Collective campus—are fully accessible, including accessible entrances, elevators where needed, and accessible restrooms.

If you have a specific accessibility question or need assistance during your visit, please let us know. We’re happy to help.

De la Luz is easy to reach by bus, train, bike, or on foot.

The Holyoke Transportation Center on Maple Street is about a quarter-mile from the campus, with PVTA connections throughout Holyoke and to communities across the region. Several PVTA routes also stop closer to us in downtown Holyoke.

The Holyoke Amtrak station is directly behind the campus at Main and Dwight Streets, with service south toward Springfield, Hartford, New Haven, and New York City, and north through Northampton and into Vermont.

Coming by bike? ValleyBike stations are nearby, and the Canal Walk runs right past our campus.

Door and performance times vary by event. You’ll find both on the show page when you purchase your ticket and on your ticket itself.

Most tickets are delivered digitally and can be shown on your phone when you arrive. If you have a question about an event or your ticket, use the Ask button on your ticket to reach our team.

Holyoke’s Canal District is a planned industrial city that came to life in the mid-1800s, built around a remarkable system of canals that powered the city’s mills. Today, the canals, footbridges, and enormous brick buildings create an urban landscape that surprises a lot of first-time visitors.

The De la Luz campus also sits at the entrance to Holyoke’s Puerto Rican Cultural District, a vibrant neighborhood filled with murals, public art, cultural organizations, restaurants, and small businesses.

Come a little early and wander. Within a block of De la Luz are galleries, a culinary school, gathering and coworking spaces, artist studios, artisans, and makers of all kinds.

Right next door

• Pulp — contemporary art gallery
• Debra Dunphy — artist studio & gallery
• cdeVision — creative agency

Down the block

• Beyond Armour Yard — outdoor art-walk & event series
• HCC Culinary Arts — Holyoke Community College's culinary school, in the Cubit building
• Cubit CoWorks — coworking in the historic Cubit building

Across the canal

• Blue Door Gatherings — events & gatherings
• FAME Lounge & Eatery — lounge & eatery
• Brick CoWorkshop — collaborative workshop & makerspace

The Soundstage and Divine Theater are part of a much larger creative campus. Across three historic buildings, you’ll find a commercial kitchen and dining room, an 8,000-square-foot maker space, photography and creative studios, workshop spaces, and a third-floor common room overlooking the canal.

The campus is also home to LightHouse Holyoke, Creators Campus, and the De la Luz Technical Arts Institute. Students, artists, makers, working professionals, and community members use many of the same spaces—sometimes at different times, and sometimes side by side.

There’s a lot more happening here than what you see on stage.

Write to us at hola@delaluz.org. If you have a ticket, the Ask button on it reaches a person, and the answer lands on your ticket.