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22nd February 2009
Community
   
 

Association of Smith Pagans Meeting
Association of Smith Pagans general meeting. Please come to socialize with other Pagans, learn about Pagan faiths, and plan events!

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Roman Catholic Mass.
The Catholic Community at Smith welcomes you to celebrate Mass every Sunday when classes are in session. A home-coked Sunday Supper immediately follows in Bodman Lounge. All are welcome. Please call 585-2750 Monday through Friday with questions.

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Exhibitions
   
 

"the periodic table after primo levi"
An exhibit entitled "the periodic table after primo levi" will be on display from November 1st 2008 through February 28, 2009 at the National Yiddish Book Center, 1021 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002. This exhibit is a series of narrative works on paper created by Claudine Mussuto in response to Primo Levi's memoir "The Periodic Table." The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Contact: 413-256-4900, or go to www.yiddishbookcenter.org for more information.

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Exhibition: Sheron Rupp: Dialogue with a Collection
Exhibition runs February 5-March 29, 2009.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 5, 5-7:30 pm.

In Conversation: Artist Sheron Rupp discusses her exhibition with art critic Gloria Russell. Wednesday, February 25, 5 pm.

The University Gallery is pleased to present Sheron Rupp: Dialogue with a Collection, the second exhibition in an annual series in which we invite an artist to study the permanent collection first-hand, curate an exhibition from our holdings, and integrate their own works in direct dialogue within the exhibition. Sheron Rupp's idiosyncratic selection, ranging from photographs by Jan Groover and Ralph Eugene Meatyard to prints and drawings by Judy Pfaff and Theodore Stamos, provides unexpected juxtapositions and conversations between her own works with those in the permanent collection. The exhibition also affords the opportunity to premiere Sheron Rupp's recent color photographs of formal and social landscapes. 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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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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"Sharing Our Journey" Gallery Exhibit
The public is invited to the exhibit “Sharing Our Journey:Women of Color Engaging Our Worlds, An Exhibit of Visual Media, Stories & Other Work from Students, Staff, Faculty, and Alumni” which opens on Friday, February 6, at 6:30 p.m. with a reception in the Hampshire College Art Gallery. The exhibit will remain in the gallery until Tuesday, February 24.

Work presented will reflect individuals’ personal journeys with identity, and the show itself seeks to examine the ways individuals with specific cultural backgrounds and life experiences are seeing and understanding the world around them.

This exhibit is part of a larger program, “Academics, Activism, Art, and Ascendancy: Women of Color who Change the World,” organized by the Hampshire College Board of Trustees to celebrate Florence Ladd for her service to Hampshire and to higher education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond. More http://www.hampshire.edu/news/10768.htm

The exhibit is organized by Hampshire’s Lebron-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center and the president’s office. Students Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and Joyce Li and Director of Multicultural & International Student Services Melissa Scheid Frantz are curators.
Regular gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. (closed on Saturday). The gallery is located in the lower level of the Harold F. Johnson Library building. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, please call Hampshire’s multicultural and international student services office at (413) 559-5415.

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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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Field Report: A Members’ Exhibition of the Boston Printmakers
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of its first members’ show, The Boston Printmakers present this traveling show of representative original prints from across North America. Opening reception Saturday, Feb. 7, 2 to 4 p.m.
Exhibit hours: M-F 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sa 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

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Midway MFA Exhibition
Exhibition runs 2/17/09-2/27/09. Midway, an interdisciplinary exhibition of the work of MFA students Ryan Feeney, Chun-Tso Lin, Camila Molestina, Kerry O'Grady, and Sarah Purnell at the mid-point in their program.

Reception 2/23/09, 5-7 pm.

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City of Champions: A Portrait of Brockton, Massachusetts
An exhibition of photographs by artist Mary Beth Meehan, entitled “City of Champions,” will be on display at the Oresman Gallery, Smith College Department of Art, from February 5-28, 2009. The work looks at the artist’s hometown of Brockton Massachusetts, one of the state’s older industrial “gateway” cities (such as Holyoke and Springfield) and explores the personal effects of the global economic and cultural changes underway there. Mary Beth Meehan is an award-winning photojournalist who has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Time, and DoubleTake. Her work has been honored by Pictures of the Year International and the National Conference for Community and Justice, and was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. A Providence resident, she was a staff photographer at The Providence Journal, and is currently a 2009 Photography Fellow with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She is a native of Brockton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Amherst College in 1989. Gallery hours: M-F 10am -4:30pm; Sat and Sun 12pm - 4pm.

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Film/Video
   
 

Smith College/Mount Holyoke French Film Festival.
Sunday, February 22: L'Origine de la tendresse et autres contes. A selection of short films on a range of topics, from haphazard meetings on the Parisian metro to Algerian immigration in Paris. Includes the 2005 Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear award-winner, the short film award-winner from the 1999 Montreal Festival of New Cinema and the 2005 TV5 Best Short Film in the French Language, Geneva international Film and Television Festival. Running time: 95 minutes/ Not rated IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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Lecture/Reading
   
 

Author's Talk: Michael Hoberman - "How Strange It Seems"
Michael Hoberman, author of "How Strange it Seems" will give a talk on Sunday, February 22 at 2 p.m. at the National Yiddish Book Center, located on the campus of Hampshire College. Admission is $5.00.
Hoberman's book tells the personal stories of Jews living in rural New England from the late 1800s through contemporary times.

For further information call 413-256-4900, or email programs@bikher.org

yiddishbookcenter.org/calendar

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Special Event
   
 

Black History Month Worship Service.
In celebration of Black History Month, the Goodwin African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Amherst will join the Smith College community in worship. The Rev. Alfred Johnson, pastor, the choir and congregation of Goodwin are excited about this fellowship. The Rev. Dr. Leon Tilson Burrows will provide the sermon. The entire Northampton community is welcome. A coffee hour will be held after the service.

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