October 2008 Events

Sept. 28th-Oct. 27th, LOOK! New Visions for Architecture in Holyoke: An Exhibition of Design Projects in Support of Culture, Community and Sustainable Revitalization

An exhibit at Holyoke's Wisteriahurst Museum featuring designs by Professor Joseph Krupczynski and his Architecture + Planning students.

Exhibit Opening:  September 28 at 2:00 p.m.

Box City, a project by Holyoke school students: October 19 from noon – 4:00 p.m.

October 28th, College of Humanities and Fine Arts Alumni Feedback Forum & Concert at UMass Amherst.  University Club, Stockbridge, Road, UMass Amherst from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

[After the forum those who are interested are invited to attend a faculty recital, Sweets for Viola and Piano, at the Fine Art Center's Bezanson Recital Hall at 8:00 p.m.] Please reply to treed@art.umass.edu.

Oct. 23rd Karl Friday of the Department of History at the University of Georgia presents The Honor Role: Loyalty, Ignominy and Chushingura in the Samurai Tradition. 301 Herter Hall, 2:30-3:45

October 22nd, College of Humanities and Fine Arts Alumni Feedback Forum and Networking Event at the Rendezvous in Turners Falls from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (78 3rd St., Turner Falls, MA). Please reply to treed@art.umass.edu.

Oct. 21st, W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series Race and the New Europe: Black Europeans.

Old Dynamics, New Spaces?  The Europeanization of Blackness

Peggy Piesche, Vassar College

October 21 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Campus Center 911-15

Oct. 19th, Poetry Reading by Liz Hughey & Michael Teig

followed by a Q & A session with both poets. Sponsored by the poetry journal jubilat.October 19 at 3:00 p.m.Trustees Room, Jones Library. 43 Amity Street, Amherst

Oct. 17-18th, UMass Amherst Homecoming Weekend

Oct. 10th-12th and 17th-19th, Macbeth, Renaissance Center Theater Company.

Renaissance Center graduate student Nate Leonard directs this dark tale of ambition. Black Box Theater, Renaissance Center 650 East Pleasant Street. Admission: $10 students & seniors, $15 general admission. Performance times:  Fri. & Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2:00 p.m.

Oct. 17th, Multiband Pops

A fast-paced showcase of 12 instrumental, vocal and dance ensembles, and the Minuteman Marching Band.8:00 p.m., Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. For tickets: 413-545-1511

Oct. 17th, Music Program Alumni Event in Conjunction with Homecoming Weekend

Oct. 11th-12th, The 2008 Crossroads Conference

A student dialogue on the extraordinary outcomes of cultural encounters, national and ideological borders, disciplines in interaction, the overlapping of distinct historical periods, the interweaving of literary genres, the symbiosis between academics and social change, and the foreplays between rhetorics of war, freedom, memory, and silence.

Oct. 2nd, MFA Program for Poets & Writers Visiting Writer's Series. Heidi Julavits 8:00 p.m. – Memorial Hall

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