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Documentary screening- Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock
May 2, 2017
An important new film from Josh Fox, Myron Dewey, and James Spione. The screening will be followed by a community conversation. All are welcome to this free event. *The film is captioned and the room is wheelchair accessible.* Sponsored by Climate Action Now; The Sugar Shack Alliance Five College Affinity Group; The Northampton Committee to Stop War; the Smith College Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS), Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, Indigenous Smith Students and Allies (ISSA); Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Program; and New Leaf at Hampshire College.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
6:30 pm

Events at Smith

April Showers
April 28, 2017
April 29, 2017
April 30, 2017
Take part in the annual competition to see which house can save the most water and energy! The winning house will win a gift certificate to Herrells! For two weeks, starting on April 17th, mark on the scoresheet in your house's bathroom for every day you skip a shower or take a shower that lasts less than five minutes. Eco Reps will place timers in showers throughout the houses.
All Smith Houses!

Thoreau and the Language of Trees
April 28, 2017
An Arbor Day lecture with Richard Higgins, writer and editor from Concord, MA. Higgins's most recent book, of the same title, will be published in April by the University of California Press. A former longtime staff writer for the Boston Globe, Higgins's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Christian Century, and Smithsonian. Lunch provided.
Campus Center Room 103/104
12:00 pm

Fly kites and build fairy houses at MacLeish!
April 28, 2017
Come fly kites and build fairy houses at MacLeish! We will be enjoying the outdoors and indulging in some simple fun times outside at the field station. A van will leave from the Chapin loading dock at 1:00 pm and return at 4:00 pm, Friday the 28th. Email Lucy Debolt at ldebolt@smith.edu to reserve a seat.
MacLeish Field Station
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 1, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Interest meeting: Smith College Cycling Club
May 2, 2017
Do you like riding bikes? Are you interested in riding bikes with other folks? Come to the Smith College Cycling Club interest meeting to connect with others who enjoy being outdoors with two wheels. We are planning on organizing group rides at many levels – for folks who just want to go a few miles down the bike path or all the way to Greenfield as a group. Come talk about riding bikes even if you don't own one – we have bikes you can use. Bring your lunch and say hello!
CC 103/4
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Environmental Science and Policy Lunchbag Talk:
May 2, 2017
Presentation of the ENV 312 student projects: 1) Greening Transit in the Pioneer Valley: Are Electric Buses Right for Franklin County with Elizabeth Carper, Michelle Mei and Colgan Powell; 2) Eradicating Japanese Knotweed with Andrea Schmid, Blythe Coleman-Mumford and Sable Liggera; 3) Northampton Food Rescue: Connecting Communities, Gathering Resources, and Building Resilience with Lily Carlisle-Reske, Alyssa Johnson-Kurtsand Misha Ritoch
Neilson Library Browsing Room
12:15 pm

Bird Watching Walk!
May 4, 2017
*Po-ta-to-chip* (American Goldfinch) *Teakettle* (male Carolina Wren) Calling all lover of birds and feathered creature enthusiasts!! Join Mark Brandriss (GEO) for a bird watching walk up the Mill River. We will meet by the boathouse and proceed from there, walking for 1-2 hours, hoping to see a few early spring migrants. Bring your best pair of binoculars (a few will be provided), listening ears, walking shoes, and bird calls/knowledge. Hope to see you all there bright and early!!
Smith Boathouse, Paradise Pond
10:00 am

Events at Smith

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 8, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Holyoke Food Justice Conference
May 6, 2017
This conference will host a diverse group of nationally-recognized food movement leaders who will share from their experiences working towards food justice and their visions for the work ahead. The conference will explore the historical roots of food inequity and evaluate our current food system. We will look at policy strategy across movements working nationwide to make our food system more equitable for all. Finally, we will share reflections on our 25 years of work at Nuestras Raíces at the intersection of food, culture, and urban agriculture in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The conference is sponsored by Holyoke Community College (Leslie Phillips Theater) and Nuestras Raíces. For more information and to register, visit the link below:
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Holyoke Community College
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Author reading: Writers as Climate Activists
May 10, 2017
featuring three writers who employ fiction, young adult fiction, and memoir to explore how climate change threatens the very fabric of our society. *Ellen Meeropol is the author of three political and environmental-themed novels; House Arrest, On Hurricane Island and Kinship of Clover. A former nurse practitioner and a part-time bookseller, Ellen has had short fiction and essays appear in Bridges, The Cleaver, Rumpus, Necessary Fiction and The Writers Chronicle. *Brian Adams, a recently retired Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science at Greenfield Community College, now devotes his time to writing romantic comedies centered on environmental activism. He is the author of Love in the Time of Climate Change, Foreword Reviews 2014 IndieFAB Gold Medal Winner for humor, and KABOOM!, Literary Classics 2016 Gold Medal winner for environmental issues. *Jennifer Browdy is an associate professor of comparative literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, with a special interest in what she calls “purposeful memoir”: personal narratives of social and environmental justice, and the author of What I Forgot…and Why I Remembered: A Journey to Environmental Awareness and Activism Through Purposeful Memoir and The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir: A Writer’s Companion.
Forbes Library, Calvin Coolidge Museum on the second floor
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
May 15, 2017
Ancient Pompeii was famous for its gardens and flower culture. This exhibit features plant portraits created by Victoria I and Lilian Nicholson Meyer for the book A Pompeian Herbal. The illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii and those that still grow in the area today. A living exhibit of some of these plants will be on display in the Physiology House in the Lyman Conservatory.
Botanical Garden, Church Exhibition Gallery
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Workshop: Weaving Social and Political Issues Into Your Writing
May 13, 2017
Join authors Naila Moreira and Ellen Meeropol for a two hour writing workshop. We’ll focus on ways to weave thorny issues - climate change, racism, war - into our fiction and nonfiction. Come prepared to imagine, to hope, and to write. Ellen Meeropol's bio is listed with the 5/10 event; Naila Moreira, author of poetry chapbooks Gorgeous Infidelities and Water Street, has written nonfiction for The Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Daily Hampshire Gazette and other publications as well as for literary magazines. Sign up here: http://forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/3286597
Forbes Library
2:00 pm to 3:45 pm

UMASS Press Reads: Science, Scientists, and Resistance
May 16, 2017
Sam Redman, UMass Press Committee member and author of Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard University Press), will facilitate a conversation examining how scientists have used their discoveries to counteract political intimidation and raise public awareness about the important consequences of their discoveries— especially concerning the environment, nuclear arms, and climate change. Panelists include: Paul Rubinson: Redefining Science: Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America (UMass Press); Banu Subramanian: UMass Press Committee member and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (University of Illinois Press); Sigrid Schmalzer, forthcoming: Science for the People: Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists (Forthcoming, UMass Press). Refreshments served. sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press and the Jones Library. All welcome.
Jones Library, Amherst, MA
7:00 pm