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Literary Scavenger Hunt
Join in a literary scavenger hunt for families with young children that happens throughout the entire month of April at selected downtown Amherst businesses including Amherst Books, Food for Thought Books, Bart's Homemade, The Toy Box, Hastings and the Jones Library Children's Room. You can start anywhere and there's a small prize awarded at each location if you solve the clue! Clues available online and at each participating location. For a complete schedule and more information, visit fineartscenter.com/amherstlit
Part of the Amherst Lit Series: In Celebration of Amherst's 250th Anniversary. Presented in collaboration with UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers, the Juniper Literary Festival and the Fine Arts Center.
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BG Easter Gathering
Come participate in this exciting event
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MHC Mini Olympics
In honor of the recent Beijing Olympic games, the Chinese Cultural Association (CCA) and CAUSE present MHC Olympic Games! April 18th, 1-4pm, Skinner Green (weather permitting) and Kendall. Come ready to win 8 medals for MHC favorites like ping pong, beach ball and water balloons! Bubble tea, Olympic souvenirs and accessories, and CCA T-shirts for sale!
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M &Cs 20-Year Reunion Jam
Come celebrate 20 years of M&Cs! Join the Mount Holyoke M&Cs, alums, and friends as we look back to 1989.
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Veritas
"Good News About Injustice"
Andi Saccoccio of International Justice Mission (IJM) will speak on restorative justice and the work that IJM does to bring about systematic change and restore the lives of former slaves, bonded laborers, and child sex slaves to wholeness.
Speaker Bio: http://www.ijm.org/resources/andreasaccoccio
"Prior to joining IJM, she spent nine years serving with Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship in Worcester, Amherst and Boston, Massachusetts, working with graduate and undergraduate ministries, specializing in multi-ethnic ministry , racial reconciliation and urban ministry development.
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Barrack to the Future Date Auction and After Party
The Mt. Holyoke College Democrats present Barrack to the Future Date Auction and After Party
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Conference/Symposium
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Conference on “Biopolitics and Its Vicissitudes”
The conference will feature presentations from a number of distinguished scholars in the field of biopolitics, including Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Tom Dumm (Amherst College), Roberto Esposito (Italian Institute for the Human Sciences), Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University), Robyn Marasco (Williams College), Giuseppina Mecchia (University of Pittsburgh), Alberto Moreiras (University of Aberdeen, Scotland), Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University), Arun Saldanha (University of Minnesota), and Eugene Thacker (Georgia Institute of Technology). The aim of the conference is to deepen theoretical inquiry into the concept of biopolitics as it is developed in the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. This event is free and open to the public. Participants have written papers in preparation for the conference, which can be picked up in advance in Clark House (second floor), on the web (https://www.amherst.edu/users/S/asitze), or by email (contact Luke O’Brien at lobrien10@amherst.edu).
This conference has been made possible with generous support from the Office of the Dean of Faculty, the Corliss Lamont Lectureship Fund, and the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University.
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CISA Student Symposium.
Five College program in Crossroads in the Study of the Americas. This annual, cross-disciplinary symposium on the Americas features scholarly presentations and performances by undergraduate students from the Five
Colleges. See the CISA website at http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/cisa/ for more details.
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Exhibitions
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Video Installation Miroslaw Balka: Gravity
Exhibition runs February 5-May 24.
Exhibition Preview: Thursday, February 5, 5 pm.
Reception: Thursday, February 5, 6:30-7:30 pm.
The University Gallery is pleased to premiere recent video works by the internationally acclaimed Polish artist, Miroslaw Balka. This is the artist's first museum exhibition in the U.S. to focus on his new video installations.
In Conversation: Thursday, February 5, 5:30-6:30 pm.
Artist Miroslaw Balka and Barbara London, curator of media, Museum of Modern Art, NY; moderated by Barton Byg (UMass Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies and founding director of DEFA Film Library)
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11 am-4:30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 2-5 pm. Wheelchair accessible. Free parking evenings and weekends.
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Exhibit: Natural History Prints
Exhibition runs through May 3, 2009. Photos by John Green, nature photographer. For hours, call 545-1370.
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“Thin” and “Girl Culture”
“Thin” is a documentary project by noted contemporary photographer Lauren Greenfield on the subject of eating disorders. Greenfield followed and photographed a group of women in treatment at the Renfrew Center in Florida, producing color photographs and a documentary film about the women and their experiences. “Thin” grew out of an earlier body of work, “Girl Culture,” which focused on the image-obsession of women of all ages in the United States. Selections from “Girl Culture” will be displayed in an adjacent gallery to provide a context for “Thin” and expand the themes of the show. “Thin” was curated by the artist Trudy Wilner Stack and was organized by the Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future, Dallas, Texas, and Greenfield/Evers, LLC. Ends April 26.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum.
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Emulation or Imitation: The Case of Dürer vs. Marcantonio Raimondi
This small-focus show presents a singularly important early stage in the emergence of the concept of the individual artist and his work in the Northern Renaissance. Dürer’s unprecedented lawsuit against the Venetian printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi, who, ca. 1511, copied his series “Life of the Virgin,” spotlights an important historical turning point in which the conception of originality was beginning to emerge as the definition of artistic creativity. Through April 19.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum.
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Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art
This exhibition celebrates the recent gift of 34 works by 22 noted Chinese contemporary artists to SCMA by Smith alumna Joan Lebold Cohen and her husband. The works provide a look into the era when Chinese artists began to throw off the restrictions of China’s 30 years of Maoist communism and reclaim their individuality. Through May 31.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 pm.\ Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 pm.\ on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 pm.\ Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum
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Tulip Mania
Anna Pavord, best-selling author of The Tulip, provides the text for this beautifully illustrated exhibit. Richly colored graphic panels tell the story of this beautiful and enigmatic flower, which ultimately becomes the object of obsession in 17th century Europe. For more information, see http://www.smith.edu/gardens/Home/events.html. March 6 through June 2.
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