Five College Calendar of Events: April 25th, 2012

25th April 2012

Exhibitions



	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. view event details >




	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 view event details >




	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 view event details >




	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 view event details >




	Send Silence Packing Send Silence Packing is an exhibition of 1,100 backpacsk representing the number of college student lives lost to suicide each year. Active Minds Inc. has collected and continues to collect backpacks and personal stories in memory or in honor of loved ones impacted by suicide. By displaying backpacks with personal stories of loved ones that put a "face" to lives lost to suicide, Send Silence Packing carries the message that preventing suicide is not just about lowering statistics, but also about saving the lives of students, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters and friends across the nation. Contributions serve as a meaningful outlet for survivors' grief as well as a powerful way to raise awareness and work towards suicide prevention. view event details >

Film/Video



	*Habibi* Habibi, a story of forbidden love, is a fiction feature set in Gaza. Two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition. To reach his lover, Qays grafittis poetry across town. Habibi is a modern re-telling of the famous ancient Sufi parable Majnun Layla. The full Arabic title is Habibi Rasak Kharban, which translates as “darling, something’s wrong with your head.” Susan Youssef, the writer and director, has been named one of “25 New Faces” to watch for by Filmmaker magazine. Habibi is her first feature film. Her five shorts have screened at venues such as Sundance Film Festival and Museum of Modern Art (NY), and have been acquired for distribution by Video Data Bank, Third World Newsreel, and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. view event details >

Lecture/Reading



	Asian American Women Writers and Literary Traditions Lecture/discussion by Prof. Floyd Cheung, English Department, Smith College. Sponsored by AASIA (Asian American Sisters in Action). Light dinner from Ichiban will be served. Writing in diverse genres and about a wide range of topics, Asian American women have been publishing in the United States and Canada since at least 1899. While many individual works have been forgotten or excluded, overall this body of literature has been recognized as forming a coherent tradition. To a significant extent, book advertisers have constructed this tradition. Scholars have generally agreed, however, that most of these writers are connected by similar concerns and problems stemming from their shared experience as Asian-identified women in America, albeit from perspectives often differentiated by generation, class, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, citizenship, region, historical moment, and other factors. In this lecture/conversation, we will consider selected major writers and texts that make up this tradition--as well as a few that do not; outline the development of the tradition; and interrogate the consequences of the tradition not only for writers but also for readers. Questions to be considered include the following: What are the qualities of this tradition? What conditions enabled its emergence? What texts are central to this tradition? What texts are considered marginal and why? How have critics contributed to and challenged the tradition’s formation? What are the effects of belonging to a tradition? view event details >




	The Teita Reveley 1962 and Tom Reveley Lecture for Special Education. ”Make it Work: Accommodating High Functioning Students with Autism in Mainstream Classrooms.” The Teita Reveley 1962 and Tom Reveley Lecture for Special Education to be given by Rhea Paul, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. view event details >




	The Race for What's Left A presentation and book singing to celebrate the release of Professor of Peace and World Security Studies Michael Klare's latest, book, "The Race for What's Left," about the global assault on the world's last resource reserves. There will be a reception in the Faculty Lounge from 8-9, following the presentation from 7-8. view event details >

Music



	Spring Student Recitals Informal recitals featuring music students in performance! April 25: solo instrumentalists with Jerry Noble, piano view event details >




	Gamelan Concert. Smith College Gamelan Ensemble Spring Recital, directed by Professor Sumarsam. view event details >




	Five College Early Music Collegium 401 (King James) FIVE COLLEGE EARLY MUSIC COLLEGIUM Robert Eisenstein, director Celebrating the 401st anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible with 17th century English Music 8:15pm Bezanson Recital Hall No charge view event details >




	The Five College Collegium--401 K(ing James Version) In a program celebrating the 401st anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible, the Collegium will be joined by viol consort and the strings of the baroque orchestra in performances of anthems by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, and Purcell, all with English texts from the King James Version and its predecessors. view event details >

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