Celebrating Collaborations Symposium
"Celebrating Collaborations: Students and Faculty Working Together" is Smith Colleges annual celebration of student research and performance. On this day, we highlight student intellectual achievements and the collaborative efforts of our students and faculty in a variety of departmental, program, and interdisciplinary projects.

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Riverscaping Symposium
Panels covering a multi-disciplinary range of approaches to the river will take place at Amherst College. We have called for papers concerned with everything from: the river as a literary metaphor, as a form of choreography, as iconography, or as inspiration for a symphony; the role of the river in national or political confrontations or resolutions, or patterns of slavery and repression; or, as the catalyst for the design of greenways, parks, watersheds, or urban farming; or the river as a site for creative economies, educational innovations, and historical heritage institutions; etc. Invited speakers are coming from around the globe, including Jonathan Lash, President of Hampshire College; Jinnai Hidenobu, Faculty of Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo; Joop Varekamp, Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University; and T. Scott McMillin, English Department, Oberlin College. Chairs and respondents include Karen Koehler, Art and Achitectural History, Hampshire College; Sam Morse, Art History, Amherst College; Anna Martini, Geology, Amherst College; Bob Schwartz, History, Mount Holyoke College; and Heidi Gilpin, German Studies, Amherst College. Activities also include tours of the art and science of the river at the Mead Art Museum and Natural History Museum at Amherst.
“Performing the River” takes place on Saturday evening at Hampshire College. Artists and musicians include Polina Barskova, Deb Gorlin, Daniel Warner and Faith Conant with the Five College African drumming group.
For more information visit www.riverscaping.org.

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Celebrating Collaborations Symposium
"Celebrating Collaborations: Students and Faculty Working Together" is Smith Colleges annual celebration of student research and performance. On this day, we highlight student intellectual achievements and the collaborative efforts of our students and faculty in a variety of departmental, program, and interdisciplinary projects.

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Alive with Dance… Senior choreography projects
Thursday through Saturday, April 19th- 21st at 8:00 p.m. Bowker Auditorium

Come see seven senior dancer's choreographic explorations expressing their knowledge of dance through new ideas of how and what dance can communicate. The program includes powerful works by Christen Vanyur, Laura Natario, Rebecca Green, Karin Linden, Christina Reppert, Justine Picarello and Ashley Bousquet that dissect psychological challenges, explore events in history, and investigate the physical struggles that dancers endure. The concert showcases the culmination of each choreographer's college experience at UMass Amherst and the Five College Dance Department. Featuring an intermission show by the Doo Wop Shop, Thursday only! This program is made possible in part by RSO, and the UMass Arts Council.

Reservations may be made by calling (413) 545-2511. Ticket prices are $3.00 for UMass students, $5.00 for other students, children, and seniors, and $10.00 for general admission. Reservations are recommended.

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Picturing Enlightenment: Thangka in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
This special exhibition marks the completion of an extensive project to conserve the Mead Art Museum’s collection of thangka (pronounced “tan-kah”)—scroll paintings of Buddhist figures. So fragile that they have remained largely inaccessible to scholars and museum visitors for nearly six decades, Amherst College’s eighteen thangka, primarily from Tibet, have been gently cleaned, stabilized, and repaired by conservators at Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts, under the leadership of Camille Myers Breeze. A generous grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and additional support from the Amherst College Department of Religion underwrote the conservation treatment. The Louis and Nettie Horch Foundation provided further support for the conservation of one thangka.
For more information, visit www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/programs/2011exhib/picturingenlightenment.

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Photo Exhibition: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated
Exhibit: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated by Theresa Antonellis runs from Monday Jan. 9 through Sunday May 11.
A reception will be held Thursday, February 2, from 4-6pm.

The exhibit consists of a related series of framed prints featuring photo-enhanced light photography by Theresa Antonellis.

Info: 577-0785, mcharney@library.umass.edu  

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Exhibition: Eija-Liisa Ahtila: The Annunciation
February 22-May 6, 2012

The University Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The Annunciation, a new work by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, the internationally acclaimed artist from Finland who is a pioneer in the development of multi-media art. Her work explores the potential of the film medium, weaving an intricate web of references between film and theater, painting and poetry, fiction and documentary.

Museum Hours: Beginning February 1, 2012
Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 AM-4:30 PM, Saturday/Sunday 2-5 PM
Closed Mondays and Spring Break, March 17-26

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Exhibition: The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop
The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop, a new exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, investigates what happens to unremarkable objects when they are elevated to the status of art. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, April 4 and be on view through May 6. The opening reception will be held on Wednesday, April 4 from 5-7 p.m. and will include a gallery talk by Rebecca Bernard and Kristen Rudy, co-curators and candidates for Master's of Art in Art History, UMass Amherst.

The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop examines works on paper from the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses particularly on the ways artists manipulate color, form, scale, context, and technique to defamiliarize the everyday. Artists in this exhibition include: Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Eduardo Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol. The works of art in this exhibition have been drawn from the strong permanent collection of the University Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop is co-curated by Rebecca Bernard and Kristen Rudy, Masters in Art History candidates, 2012. This exhibition is presented as the culmination of their Curatorial Fellowship. The Curatorial Fellowship is a year-long Independent Study that is conducted in collaboration with the Art History Program. The Fellowship entails all aspects of producing an exhibition, including grant writing, researching the UMCA's permanent collection, and developing concepts and theoretical underpinnings. The success of this program is made possible through the support and guidance of Loretta Yarlow (Gallery Director), Eva Fierst (Curator of Education), and
Mario Ontiveros (Assistant Professor of Art History).

Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Saturday/Sunday 2 to 5 PM
Closed Mondays

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Water Awareness Week Exhibition
A photo and fact exhibition displaying information related to Water and the global crisis. Sponsored by the student org Global Action Against Poverty Everywhere (GAAPE).

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Spring Concert and Black Light After Party
Come out for an amazing night of music. Jay Perry opens at 9:15 for the up and coming act Timeflies at 9:45pm! Then stick around for a black light after-party with tunes being spun by DJ Willy Joy, DJ Blanche Deverauxx, and DJ Lali. Doors open at 9:00pm, be one of the first 100 people in the door to get a special giveaway! There will be glowsticks, facepainting, and so much more! Never Grow Up! MHC Pre-sale: $3, Door: $5, 5 College: $10, General Public: $25

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30th Annual New England Saxophone Symposium
Lynn Klock, host & recitalist
With Jeffrey W. Holmes, jazz piano, Nadine Shank, piano & University Saxophone Quartets
Guests: Professors Joseph Lulloff (Michigan State Univ.) & Lawrence Panella (Jazz Studies, Univ. So. Mississippi)
9am-6:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall $30 Advance, $35 on the day
Information: 413 545 2810 or lklock@music.umass.edu or www.umass.edu/saxophone

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Celebrating Collaborations Performance
A lively hour of vocal and instrumental chamber music by performed by student/faculty duos and trios. Cage, Debussy, Dvorak, Franck and more. Free! Details about this and all of the Celebrating Collaborations events may be found online: http://smith.edu/events/collaborations_schedule.php.

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The Noteables Spring Jam!
Every semester, The Smith College Noteables host a big performance of nearly our entire repertoire, and featuring a guest performance by at least one visiting male a cappella group. This spring's jam is going to be particularly exciting because we will have returning alumnae/i in celebration of our 30th year! The Noteables are an integral part of Smith's a cappella tradition. We help keep this tradition alive at Smith (through Jams, performances at winter and spring weekend house parties, and video performances for Mountain Day and Smith's admissions department), but also bring it to the wider community through performing at, among others this year: - The Silver Chord Bowl - The Boston Smith College Club's annual holiday party - WGBY's "Together In Song" competition - visits to perform at other colleges including Haverford and Connecticut College - community service / performing at the Linda Manor Extended Care Facility We hope to be able to continue bringing a cappella music to Smith and beyond.

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Spring Orchestra Concert.
Spring Orchestra Concert.

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Chamber Choir
CHAMBER CHOIR
Tony Thornton, conductor
8pm Grace Episcopal Church, 14 Boltwood, Amherst
Benefit for the Doris D. Steward Oratorio Performance Fund: Donations Accepted

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Field Trip to the Museum of Printing in Andover, MA
The bus leaves the Center parking lot promptly at 8am. Reservations and payment of $45 are required by Thursday April 19. The fee includes transportation, museum admission, lecture, guided tour, and lunch

Contact Jeff 413-577-3600

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UMass AIAS Presents: Local Focus, Global Reach
April 20-April 23

The UMass AIAS is excited to be hosting this Springs Quad Conference. The theme of our conference, LOCAL FOCUS, GLOBAL REACH showcases local solutions to sustainability issues. Over 60 architecture students will be visiting from schools in the Northeast. 

Join us for exciting activities and lectures on Saturday April 21st and Sunday April 22nd. We will also be joining in on some Earth Day Festivals on Monday April 23. 

Look forward to a Permaculture Garden Design Charrette, a field trip to Sirius Community to learn about sustainable eco-villages, and don't forget THE BEAUX ARTS BALL!

$30 for 5 College Students(more ticket info available at umassaias.org

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Weaving Voices.
Since the fall of 2010, the Weaving Voices (WV) Open Mic has acted as a critical space to bring together different narratives in hopes to build an understanding and critically conscious community. This community event also hopes to carve out a safe space for the everyday unspoken lived experiences and stories. We believe that through self-expression and creative art forms, we can understand that all of our lives are interconnected. We invite YOU to come, share, listen, learn and discover how our voices are interwoven as one. Poets, singers, instrument players, everyone and anyone is welcome! This semester’s Open Mic will include a Community Art Mural, the hope for which is that all can come to create an art piece to re-imagine Smith, our community and ourselves. With all that has happened on our campus, all of us are grieving and hurting, we hope that this arts space will help begin the healing process. Please come and take part in this hands-on community art event!

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Private Lives by Noel Coward.
Directed by Emma Weinstein. British divorcees Elyot and Amanda unwittingly book adjoining rooms while honeymooning with their new spouses. Realizing a pair of mismatched marriages, Elyot and Amanda flee their unsuspecting spouses and resume their romance in Amanda’s secluded Paris flat, only to be discovered several days later by their jilted lovers. The comedy of manners lampoons the hypocrisies and pretensions of modern marriage as Elyot and Amanda seek true love regardless of the cost. The 1930 production of Private Lives is considered one of the enduring successes of modern comedic theatre. Thursday, April 26 is dollar night for Smith students.

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IdeaLab: The Sustainable University
IdeaLab: The Sustainable University
Event Dates: Fri, March 30, 2012 - Sun, April 1, 2012 and Fri, April 20 - Sun, April 22.

Berkshire Dining Commons o Private Meeting Room
Southwest Residential Area
UMass Amherst Campus
Handicap access available
Event web site: http://www.invention2venture.org/idealabumass/
Application Deadlines: March 1 (priority) and March 16 (regular)
Contact: Heather Demers, demers@ecs.umass.edu, (413) 577-0231

An intensive workshop for undergraduate or graduate students passionate about protecting and preserving the planet and interested in learning how to create an innovation or viable business that addresses critical sustainability issues on university & college campuses. The workshop is free for UMass students, and Five-College or Springfield-area students can attend for $100 (scholarships are available). IdeaLab is presented by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and is part of UMass Amherst Earth Day Festival 2012.

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