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New Orleans @ UMass
NEW ORLEANS @ UMASS
Something new for Lovers of Jazz, Food& New Orleans
The Food: New Orleans Chef Susan Spicer will cook a four-course meal; her famous dishes have hints of the Mediterranean, Far East, North Africa, France, Italy & the U.S. Spicer was inducted into the James Beard Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America and is the chef at the award-winning Bayona Restaurant. She will present a cooking demo & sign her new cookbook.
The Music: The Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, a New Orleans favorite, will play
acoustic blues, covering the Delta, Piedmont and Chicago Style Blues.
Washboard Chaz Leary: washboard/vocals, Andy J. Forest: harmonica/vocals &
St. Louis Slim: guitar/vocals
Plus UMass Jazz Ensemble I, Jeffrey W. Holmes, director
6pm: Doors Open, 6:30pm: Music begins
Campus Center Auditorium
Tickets: $65, includes dinner
413 545 2511 or www.umasstix.com/musicanddance
Presented with UMass Amherst Auxiliary Enterprises, Kenneth Toong, Executive Director
Contact Marilyn Kushick, 413-545-0018, mkushick@music.umass.edu for preferred seating & other benefits
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Exhibitions
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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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Charles Dickens at 200
An exhibition of books by Charles Dickens from the Mortimer Rare Book Room, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Dickens birth in February 2012. The exhibition is in the Book Arts Gallery (Neilson, 3rd floor). See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/ for library open hours, direction and other general information.
The exhibition runs from January 15 through April 15, 2012
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Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley
Exhibition is on view from January 15 through April 15, 2012.
"Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" features decorated paste papers by 19 bookbinders, most of whom live and work in the vicinity of Northampton. The exhibition marks the publication of "Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" in late fall 2011, and also showcases bookbindings which incorporate paste papers. All items on display are from the Mortimer Rare Book Room.
The exhibition is in the Neilson Library, 3rd floor. See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/ for library open hours, direction and other general information.
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Exhibition- David Teeple: Dialogue with a Collection Thinking Water: Poetry, Systems and Politics
Exhibition runs February 1st--March 16, 2012.
February 1st, 5-7 PM Opening Reception and In Conversation, with David Teeple
This exhibition features work by David Teeple alongside works he has chosen from the museum's works-on-paper collection, which features over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs. Teeple's work will reference rivers, aquifers, and the hydrologic cycle, in context to systems of economy, society, nature and science.
This event is sponsored by the Farrell Family Foundation, Artist Organized Art, Pygmalion Elements & Sculpture, and Pivot Media. It is free and open to the public.
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Sculpture Exhibition by Christopher M. Lavery: One Truth & One Story
Exhibition runs February 6th through February 23rd.
One Truth & One Story is an installation of site sensitive sculpture. Ordinary materials are transformed into the extraordinary through unexpected applications and juxtaposition. Professor Lavery's method of responding to the site and to the culture, in which the work is constructed and installed, brings a uniquely philosophical, imaginative and whimsical vision to the Student Union Art Gallery and to the greater UMass campus.
Professor Lavery's artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and resides in prestigious permanent private and public collections. The Denver International Airport hosts Cloudscape which was recognized by the Public Art Network as one of the top sculptures installed in 2010. His work has won awards and has been reviewed by numerous art critics, and may be previewed here: http://www.christopherlavery.com.
Gallery open Mondays through Thursdays, 10 am. to 5 pm & Fridays, 10 am. to 3 pm.
Made possible by the UMass Arts Council, the GSS, the SGA, and an ECSA (Engage, Connect, Serve, Achieve) Grant, which is funded by the CSD and the Division of Student Affairs & Campus Life.
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Shaping Plants: Fruits, Shoots, and Roots Collaborations With Nature by Dan Ladd
Artist Dan Ladd has long been fascinated with the adaptability of plants. His work grafting trees into whimsical structures and molding gourds and roots into sculptures reflects both a fascination with and respect for the plants. In his words, "The reciprocity in working with nature, influencing the direction and future of growth, is unique. There is definite give and take and reaction and response." He hopes that, through his work, others will be able to share his wonder and excitement at this way in which we can interact with our natural surroundings. Information is online at: http://www.smith.edu/garden/Home/events.html
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Film/Video
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Trace of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
"Traces of the Trade" is the story of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history - from the North. The film follows ten family members on a remarkable journey which brings them face-to-face with the history and legacy of New England’s hidden enterprise. The film follows ten DeWolf descendants (ages 32-71, ranging from sisters to seventh cousins) as they retrace the steps of the Triangle Trade, visiting the DeWolf hometown of Bristol, Rhode Island, slave forts on the coast of Ghana, and the ruins of a family plantation in Cuba.
From 1769 to 1820, DeWolf fathers, sons and grandsons trafficked in human beings. They sailed their ships from Bristol, Rhode Island to West Africa with rum to trade for African men, women and children. Captives were taken to plantations that the DeWolfs owned in Cuba or were sold at auction in such ports as Havana and Charleston. Sugar and molasses were then brought from Cuba to the family-owned rum distilleries in Bristol. Over the generations, the family transported more than ten thousand enslaved Africans across the Middle Passage. They amassed an enormous fortune. By the end of his life, James DeWolf had been a U.S. Senator and was reportedly the second richest man in the United States.
The enslavement of Africans was business for more than just the DeWolf family. It was a cornerstone of Northern commercial life. The Triangle Trade drove the economy of many port cities (Rhode Island had the largest share in the trade of any state), and slavery itself existed in the North for over 200 years. Northern textile mills used slave-picked cotton from the South to fuel the Industrial Revolution, while banks and insurance companies played a key role throughout the period. While the DeWolfs were one of only a few “slaving” dynasties, the network of commercial activities that they were tied to involved an enormous portion of the Northern population. Many citizens, for example, would buy shares in slave ships in order to make a profit.
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F to eMbody
Trans* artists Athens Boys Choir and Katastrophe will perform a combination of original spoken word poetry and music that explores gender, raises trans* awareness, and celebrates individuality.
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Lecture/Reading
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Interpreting Financial News.
This series covers timely and relevant global finance topics. Regular contributors, economics department professors Mahnaz Mahdavi and James Miller and other guest speakers discuss issues related to the stock market, employment and the economy, healthcare, technology, philanthropy and more. Lunch provided for the first 50 attendees. Sponsored by the Center for Women and Financial Independence. For more information, visit www.smith.edu/wfi.
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Artists and the Noble Profession Gallery Talk Series: Art, Artists, and Creativity on Campus
Join Joe Smith, Marion Miller, Nathan Margalit for the "Gallery Talk Series: Art, Artists, and Creativity on Campus".
Thursday, 9 February Joe Smith, Marion Miller, Nathan Margalit
Thursday, 16 February Rie Hachiyanagi, Tatiana Ginsberg
Thursday, 23 February Nancy Campbell, Kane Stewart, Nancy Friese, Matt Phillips
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Five College Renaissance Seminar
ulie Hayes, UMass Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
“On Time, Knowledge, and Experience in 17th and 18th c. French Women Moral Philosophers.”
Location: Reading Room, The Renaissance Center 650 E. Pleasant Street, Amherst MA 01002
Campus: UMass Amherst
Ticket Info.: Free. No reservations required.
Handicapped: Yes
Sponsor: The Renaissance Center
Contact: Jeff 413-577-3600 or renaissance@english.umass.edu
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"Gender Contestation as Critique: Cases from Ancient Christian Heretics"
Karen L. King was appointed to Harvard Divinity School in 1998 and, from 2003 to 2009, served as the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History. In October 2009, she became the first woman appointed as the Hollis Professor of Divinity, the oldest endowed chair in the United States (1721). Trained in comparative religions and historical studies, she pursues teaching and research specialties in the history of Christianity. Her books include "The Secret Revelation of John"; "The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle"; "What Is Gnosticism?"; "Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity" (with Elaine Pagels); and "Revelation of the Unknowable God." Her particular theoretical interests are in discourses of normativity (orthodoxy and heresy) and gender studies.
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Physics Seminar
Dr. Qi Wen of the Department of Physics at Worcester Polytech Institute will speak on "Nonlinear elasticity and non-affine deformation in biological polymer networks."
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Feb. 9 Lecture by Noted Researcher on Trauma and Resilience
Hampshire College invites the public to a lecture by George E. Bonanno, a pioneering researcher in the field of bereavement and trauma and the author of The Other Side of Sadness. The lecture, entitled “The Science of Resilience: Understanding the Human Capacity to Thrive in the Face of Extreme Adversity,” is on February 9 at 5:30 p.m. in Franklin Patterson Hall (Main Lecture Hall).
Bonanno is a professor of clinical psychology and of psychology and education at Columbia University. His research examines how adults and children respond to and cope with extremely aversive events. Recent work focuses more specifically on defining psychological resilience in adults exposed to extreme adversity and on the psychological and contextual factors that might inform resilient outcomes.
Professor Bonanno is a Hampshire graduate and is speaking at the College through its Cognitive Science Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. Admission is free.
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Rosal Craft Lecture "The Art of the Mistake".
This craft talk by poet Patrick Rosal is free and open to the public.
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