Bone Marrow Drive Information Session
On Friday, November 20th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. C.A.U.S.E., Mt. Holyoke's umbrella organization for community service programs, will host a Bone Marrow Drive in Blanchard Student Campus Center Room 226.

In preparation for this event C.A.U.S.E. will be having info sessions regarding the Marrow Donor Program. These brief info sessions will be held Nov.16-Nov 19 (Mon-Thurs) at 12:20 p.m. also in Blanchard Rotunda Room 226.

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William Kentridge: What Will Come
This installation features the debut of an important new addition to the SCMA collection, “What Will Come” (2006), a major film by the South African artist William Kentridge. One of the most innovative aspects of Kentridge’s work is his hand-drawn films. “What Will Come” takes its title from a Ghanaian proverb: “What will come has already come," a sentiment reflected in the imagery of the film, which speaks to the range of conflicts that have marked modern human history. This work also displays Kentridge’s keen interest in optics. The film is projected from the ceiling onto a round metal table which bears a polished circular column in its center. The images are reflected on the surface of the column, which corrects the perspective of the drawing for the viewer. The images circumnavigate this column, changing form as they move to a haunting musical track. Through Dec. 31. For more information abou this exhibition, museum hours and other museum information, see www.smith.edu/artmuseum/.

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Exhibit: The Making of a Picture Book: The Marriage of Text and Art
Exhibit runs 9/14-1/29. Showcasing the works of local authors/illustrators: Leonard Baskin, Kathryn Brown, Corinne Demas, Patricia MacLachlan, Richard Michelson, Dennis Nolan, Jane Yolen.

Info: 545-3971 or http://tiny.cc/picturebook. Gallery hours follow library hours: open Saturdays 9 am-9 pm, then Sunday from 11 am onward, open 24 hours a day through Friday (www.library.umass.edu/hours.html). Handicap accessible.

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Exhibit: All Roads Lead Back to Amherst
Exhibit runs 9/15-12/11. Nature photographs by Annie (Fournier) Tiberio Cameron ’73, UMass Amherst.

Opening reception 9/15, 4:00-6:00 pm, refreshments.

Handicap accessible. More info: www.library.umass.edu/news

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Sergie Rachmaninoff and Sophie Satin at Smith College
Exhibition of photographs and memorabilia of Sergei Rachmaninoff and his cousin Sophie Satin during their time at Smith College. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/rachmaninoff/. For library hours, see http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/hours/

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Hampshire College Lemelson Center Fall Gallery Show
Hampshire College Lemelson Center Fall Gallery Show

November 16-20, 2009

Student, alumni and staff work will be on display in the Main Gallery at Hampshire college. Examples of work include sculpture, art and technology pieces, blacksmithing, glasswork, and alternative energy projects.

There will be an opening reception on Monday, November 16th from 5-7pm.
Please email rlfLM@hampshire.edu or call 413-559-5613 for more information.

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Rethinking Marxism presents Martha Rosler Library
Rethinking Marxism and New Marxian Times are proud to announce the opening reception for the Martha Rosler Library at Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on Friday, November 6th from 4-6pm.

Comprised of approximately 7,700 titles from the artist's personal collection, the Library was opened to the public by Anton Vidokle in November 2005 as a storefront reading room at e-flux, on Ludlow Street in New York City. It has since traveled to Frankfurter Kunstverein; MuHKA, Antwerp; unitednationsplaza, Berlin; Institut National d'histoire de l'Art, Paris; the John Moores University, Liverpool; and the Stills Centre, Edinburgh. The Library will remain on view in Amherst through December 10th, 2009, after which the books will be finally return to Martha Rosler's home.

"In an act of incredible generosity, one of America's most important living artists temporarily dispossessed herself of the vast majority of her personal library so that it could be made available for consultation. No borrowing was possible, but the eclectic ensemble of books on economics, political theory, war, colonialism, poetry, feminism, science fiction, art history, mystery novels, children's books, dictionaries, maps and travel books, as well as photo albums, posters, postcards, and newspaper clippings could be studied at will. Smart, decidedly political in orientation, often funny, and all over the place (in that way a perfect mirror of its owner), the library is packed with essential reading and titles that even your better bookstores would love to get their hands on. As the product of decades of avid reading, the contents of the library are both the source of Rosler's work and an installation/artwork that continues many of the concerns with public space, access to information, and engaged citizenship that traverse her entire oeuvre."
--Elena Filipovic, Afterall, issue 15, Spring/Summer 2007

A personal library represents the private sphere of an individual, her way of acquiring and combining knowledge. Accumulation is the result of an intellectual inquiry that takes place in parallel with a more random search, which can lead us to unexpected textual, and therefore mental, spaces. Martha Rosler Library offers the visitor an opportunity to approach this open source of information with her or his own interests, and to create new affinities and connections between the elements of the library that add to more than the sum of knowledge contained in it. The bibliography, currently in process, can be accessed online at http://www.e-flux.com/projects/library

Whenever the Martha Rosler Library docks into a venue–be it a shop front, a gallery, or an office above a supermarket–it evolves in response to its new geographical and social location. A repository of knowledge and ideas, it settles, breathes, and lives again as new readers arrive and new discussions begin. In November 2009, the next chapter will commence at Amherst, another unique context.

Special thanks to Julieta Aranda, Media Farzin, and Tim Ridlen.

Talks:
Friday November 6, 5:00pm
Conversation with Martha Rosler, Anton Vidokle, and Bosko Blagojevic

Keynote speech by Martha Rosler
Dialogue with artists Ernie Larsen and Sherrie Milner
Friday November 6, 8:00-9:30pm
In association with Rethinking Marxism and New Marxian Times
http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org/conf/

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 11am-4pm and Sunday 1-4pm

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Exhibition: Beyond the Instance of an Ending
Exhibition runs: November 10th - December 10th, 2009. As art editors of the journal Rethinking Marxism, Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia have put together Beyond the Instance of an Ending –a group exhibition that envisions education as a social movement, as theorized by Antonio Gramsci, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The artists in the exhibition offer alternative approaches to discourse and the re-structuring of affect. Their works engage a politics of becoming; a process of rereading, recombining and revisioning–what are the potentialities of these engagements?

Participating Artists:
Eric Anglès & John Martin Widger, Sarah Beddington, Alexis Bhagat, Robert Blake, Pradeep Dalal, Yevgeniy Fiks, Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida, Susan Jahoda, Jesal Kapadia, Young Min Moon, Shreshta Premnath, Harout Simonian, and Claudia Sohrens.

Gallery hours: Monday & Tuesday 1-7 pm; Wednesday-Friday 1-5 pm.

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Neilson Library Centennial Exhibition
Learn about the 100-year history of Smith College's William Allan Neilson Library through letters, photographs, architectural drawings, ephemera and much more. For library hours, see: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/hours/

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Exhibition: Icon of the Civil Rights Movement
Exhibition by Pamela Chatterton-Purdy UMass MFA '66.

Exhibit runs from Monday 11/16/09 - Tuesday 11/24/09.

The public is cordially invited to an artist talk followed by a reception on Tuesday 11/24 at 12 noon. Extended hours until 8pm on Thursday 11/19.

The Student Union Art Gallery proudly presents Icons of the Civil Rights Movement by Pamela Chatterton-Purdy, UMass MFA ’66. Each of the twenty icons in this exhibit commemorates an important moment in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. The artist uses carved wood, paint, and gold leaf to create these extensively researched icons. The result is a collection of striking works that inspire reflection on a series of moments in our history that must not be forgotten.

Gallery Hours M-Th 10-5, F 10-3

www.umass.edu/rso/suag
Sponsored by the UMass Arts Council, the Student Government Association, the Graduate Student Senate, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. All events are free and open to the public.

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A Plantsman in Asia
Compelling color photographs by Paul W. Meyer tell vivid stories about the importance of plants in the lives of Asian peoples. The photos were taken over a period of 20 years of plant exploration in the Far East. Meyer, a
leader in the field of plant exploration and evaluation, will be speaking at Smith Nov. 13 in conjunction with Bamboo and Blossoms: The Fall Chrysanthemum Show at Smith Nov. 7-22. The photographs will be on exhibition October 17 through December 15.

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Bamboo and Blossoms: Fall Chrysanthemum Show
Bamboo and Blossoms: The Fall Chrysanthemum Show, featuring bamboo sculptures by Nancy Moore Bess and Harry Bower. Members only hours 9:00 - 10:00 am (please bring your membership card). For more information please visit us online at: http://www.smith.edu/gardens/Home/events.html \7-22\\

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Mental Health Awareness Week Exhibit
Students' experiences with mental health and illness, in photograph-, art- and writing-form, with be shown in this student exhibit that will take place on Chapin Lawn for Mental Health Awareness Week, from Nov. 16-20.

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Climate Change Denial and Conservatism: Exploring the Connections
Speaker: Riley Dunlap, Regents Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University.

Historically conservatives have been less supportive than liberals of environmental protection, both among political elites such as members of Congress and the general public. However, by the early 1990s, following the downfall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of global environmentalism as exemplified by the 1992 “Earth Summit” in Rio, the American Conservative Movement mobilized overtly against environmentalism and environmental policy-making—substituting a “Green Scare” for the vanishing “Red Scare.” Fearing the growth of national and especially international environmental regulatory policies, the movement mounted a concerted campaign against environmentalists, environmental scientists, environmental policy-makers and environmental regulations. Rather than attacking environmental protection efforts head-on, a strategy that produced a pro-environmental backlash in the Reagan years, conservatives attacked environmental science in order to undermine the evidence used by those pushing for new and stronger regulations. Conservatives applied the term “junk science,” for example, to discredit scientific evidence documenting problematic environmental conditions.

The conservative assault on mainstream science and scientists has reached new heights with anthropogenic climate change (ACC). Conservative think tanks (with support from the fossil fuels industry and conservative philanthropists) have spear-headed efforts to deny the reality and significance of ACC. Their activities range from supporting most of the small number of “contrarian” climate scientists to disseminating a vast range of material attacking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate scientists and those who support efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The dissemination employs various fora (e.g., policy briefings for politicians and anti-IPCC conferences) and all forms of media from websites to videos to newspapers to television. This presentation will locate the current situation in historical context, and then focus on the link between conservative think tanks and the rapidly growing number of books espousing climate-change denialism (including those authored by contrarian scientists). It will also examine the degree to which these efforts have contributed to growing partisan and ideological polarization among the general public. National survey data will be used to demonstrate that over the past decade self-identified Republicans and conservatives have become less likely to view ACC as real and problematic, even as the scientific evidence for ACC has become stronger.

Compete Lecture Details and Schedule http://www.umass.edu/tei/TEI/LectureFall2009.html

Riley E. Dunlap is Regents Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Environment and Society and as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Environmental Sociology. His current research focuses on cross-national comparisons of public concern for the environment, public perceptions of climate change, and the nature and sources of climate-change denial. He is senior editor of American Environmentalism (1992), Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste (1993), Sociological Theory and the Environment (2002) and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology (2002).

The Environmental Institute (TEI) http://www.umass.edu/tei/ at the University of Massachusetts Amherst facilitates, coordinates, and supports interdisciplinary environmental research and education across Colleges and Departments on the Amherst campus. Located within the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement, the Institute serves as an environmental information portal and as a gateway for public, non-profit, and private groups to tap into the University's environmental expertise. TEI interdisciplinary activities include support of faculty working groups; organization of conferences, workshops, and lecture series; and management of environmental projects and programs.

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Deep-Sea Gold Rush: Understanding the Environmental Impact of Mining Seafloor Hot Springs.
Life Sciences Colloquium with Cindy Van Dover, Director of the Duke Marine Lab. Join us to hear a fascinating lecture from the first woman to pilot the submersible "Alvin”.

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String Quartets
Graduate & Undergraduate ensembles.

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Auditions for "Cloud Tectonics": REVISED DATES AND TIMES
"Cloud Tectonics" by Jose Rivera, directed by Patricia McGregor, is Emmanuel Genard and Tanya Jackson’s senior project in acting.

The play is Rivera's meditation on life's inexplicable mysteries, including chance and love. A bizarre Los Angeles downpour brings together two strangers, both searching for dreams they lost in the shuffle of life's miles and years. Just as Anibal and Celestina seem to reach an equilibrium, in bursts Nelson, Anibal's reckless missing brother, on leave from his army base. Quickly the sand beneath all their feet begins to shift. In a world where the rules of time and logic fail, where do we find truth? Perhaps, as Rivera puts it, "What better way to respond to a miracle than falling in love with it."

Auditions will be held on Monday, Nov. 16, from 5 to 10 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Studio 3 of Webster Hall. Callbacks will be on Nov. 18 from 8 to 10 p.m.

Perusal scripts and sign-up sheets are located outside of the Theater and Dance Office, Webster G27.

Performances will be Feb. 18-20 at 8 p.m. in Holden Theater.

Available role: Nelson De La Luna, a man in his 20s, with a ferocious desire to penetrate or be penetrated by life. His structured army regime feeds a reactionary wild and destructive side. He lives by the idea of survival of the fittest and masks his pain with a parade of fast living, cheap booze and beautiful women. Mixed with his macho aggression is a deep desire for partnership and fatherhood.

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"Understanding Trans: Exploring Identities and Creating Supportive Communities"
In this workshop we will explore gender identities and work toward building more supportive and inclusive communities on our campuses.

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