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CEEDS Seventh Annual Apple Cider Pressing
October 14, 2017
Join students and staff from the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS) to experience a family friendly and tasty New England tradition. We're all about sustainable food! Help us press fresh, Ashfield-grown apples into cider and then have a cup together with a Hadley-made cider donut. Chapin Annex Road 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Chapin Loading Dock
10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Events at Smith

Fall Fest Skill Share
October 13, 2017
Come to Fall Fest Skill Share to learn a new skill from another Smithie! Help us promote sustainability by learning how many resources and ways of collective sharing we have in our own community - particularly, how to fix things, make things, learn things, and take care of each other. Free and open to the community!
Chapin Lawn (Rain Location: Campus Center lower level)
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Field Station Friday!
October 13, 2017
Get off campus and reconnect with nature at MacLeish! Our field station has it all- scenic views, miles of hiking trails, sites for research and a state-of-the-art living building with tea and wifi. Vans leave from Chapin loading dock at 1, and will be back in time for tea. Sign up with the link below.
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Meet the van at Chapin Loading Dock and head to MacLeish
1:00 pm

Stargazing
October 13, 2017
Come see stars, planets, and galaxies through the astronomy department's telescopes. All are welcome - please dress warmly. For further information or to check on weather conditions, contact Meg Thacher (mthacher@ smith.edu).
McConnell Hall Roof
8:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Presentation of the Landscape Studies Program
October 16, 2017
Join us over the lunch hour to discuss the unlimited possibilities within our program! Pizza lunch served.
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Burton Hall, room 406
12:00 pm

Humanitarian Mapping for Recent Hurricanes
October 16, 2017
Contribute to disaster response by identifying infrastructure in satellite imagery to inform humanitarians for effective deployment. Open to all Smithies. Visit the SAL site to register.
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SAL
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Careers in Sustainability: Virtual Panel
October 16, 2017
Participate in a panel discussion with alumni working in sustainability careers who will offer advice on their career paths, lessons learned, graduate school, and more. Guests include Karen Onthank '80, Executive Director, Integrative Strategies Forum (Washington DC); Caitlin Harren '06, Senior Manager, Sustainabilty Product Management, Packaging (Seattle, WA); Siobhan Doherty '02, Director, Power Resources at Peninsula Clean Energy (San Francisco, CA).
Lazarus Center Workshop Room
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Sigma Xi lunch and talk: Planning for the Young Library Space
October 17, 2017
with Kevin Shea (chemistry). Lunch is served in the Foyer at 11:45 a.m., talks begin at 12:10 p.m. and are open to all faculty, emeriti, staff, and students.
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McConnell 103
12:00 pm

The Fifth Industrial Revolution: An Index of Current Landscape and Engineering Teaching and Research
October 17, 2017
with Niall Kirkwood, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology, Harvard University. Second in the Fall 2017 Neilson Professor Lecture Series: Design Matters: Landscape Practices, Pedagogy, Projects for the New Environmental Reality. Hosted by the Landscape Studies Program and the Picker Engineering Program, with support from the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
5:00 pm

Community Garden meeting
October 17, 2017
Join us for our 1st meeting! There will be some mingling, some laughs, and talk about how people want the community garden to grow (get it)! Can't wait to see everyone's shining faces!
CC 103/104
8:00 pm

Study Abroad Programs and Experiences lunch
October 18, 2017
Listen to the experiences and adventures of returning ES&P majors and discover which of the several environmental study abroad programs might be a good fit for you. Lunch provided.
McConnell 103
12:15 pm

Presentation of the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration
October 18, 2017
The Jandon Center for Community Engagement (JCCE) invites all students to come and learn about the concentration! Find out how to link what you are learning in the classroom to the needs and interests of communities locally and around the globe. Dinner provided.
JCCE, Wright Hall 013
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Info Session: SEA
October 19, 2017
SEA Semester is a field-based study abroad program focused on the ocean environment. They offer 6 different semester programs that focus on environmental topics ranging from global climate change to cultural and environmental sustainability to conservation and marine biodiversity. SEA semester programs include an on-shore component in Woods Hole, Massachusetts followed by a sailing research voyage in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Caribbean. Motivated students of all majors who are passionate about learning, inspired to take on real-world issues, and eager to become part of an unparalleled living and learning community are welcome to apply. Pizza lunch provided.
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CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:00 pm

Evidence: Ground for Creativity in the Landscape of Detroit
October 19, 2017
a lecture by Joan Iverson Nassauer, FASLA, Professor University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. This lecture is part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 Lecture Series.
Weinstein Auditorium
3:00 pm to 4:50 pm

Info Table: SEA Semester
October 19, 2017
Can't make it to lunch? We hope you will stop by to talk with us some other time to find out more about SEA Semester, a field-based study abroad program focused on the ocean environment. Our program offers 6 different semester programs that focus on environmental topics ranging from global climate change to cultural and environmental sustainability to conservation and marine biodiversity. SEA semester programs include an on-shore component in Woods Hole, Massachusetts followed by a sailing research voyage in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Caribbean. Motivated students of all majors who are passionate about learning, inspired to take on real-world issues, and eager to become part of an unparalleled living and learning community are welcome to apply.
Campus Center lower level
10:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Events Off Campus

The Surrealist Cabaret
October 13, 2017
October 14, 2017
October 15, 2017
The Royal Frog Ballet celebrates a DECADE of The Surrealist Cabaret with shows in VT and MA this fall. Giving a nod to their anniversary with this year's theme 'At The Root' the performance explores origins, legacy, and all metaphors rooted in greater meaning! The Cabaret is a walking performance and installation event that travels audiences through farm landscapes at autumnal sunset. Along the way they encounter a surreal collection of short stories, dance, sculpture, poems, music, and roving characters that explore and celebrate themes of season, place, and what it means to be human in these times. Performances at Park Hill run Friday-Sunday, October 13, 14, 15 and 20, 21, 22. A folky, comedic and ritualistic evening for all ages. Check the link below for more information on dates, locations, and tickets!
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Park Hill Orchard, 82 Park Hill Road, Easthampton, MA
5:00 pm

Featured Event

Robert Hass- Poetry Reading and Reception
October 20, 2017
Robert Hass has earned top accolades such as the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the MacArthur Genius Grant, and two National Book Critics Circle Awards—one each for Poetry and Criticism. Judge Stanley Kunitz selected Field Guide for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1972, praising the debut collection as “a big, strong-hearted, earthy book,in the American epic tradition of Whitman and Neruda.” Subsequent works such as Praise, Human Wishes, and Sun Under Wood experiment with memoir, dialogue, Buddhist thought, and unconventional form but stay true to Hass’ profound interest in the earth. In 1995 he was selected as the United States Poet Laureate, serving two terms that were seminal in locating that role at the nexus of art and activism. Together with writer and activist Pamela Michael he founded River of Words, a nonprofit organization for eco-literacy education that provides poetry and art competitions for youth. Hass’ most recent books are The Apple Trees at Olema (New & Selected Poems) and A Little Book on Form. In addition to his teaching at the University of California at Berkeley and elsewhere, Hass has served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Today he lives in California with his wife, the poet and antiwar activist Brenda Hillman. Sponsored by the Poetry Center as part of its 20th Anniversary celebration with support from CEEDS.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
7:30 pm

Years of Living Dangerously
October 26, 2017
A public screening of an episode from the acclaimed National Geographic series Years of Living Dangerously featuring the Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL), a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots advocacy organization that works on national policies, such as carbon pricing, to address climate change. A discussion about carbon pricing, bi-partisan lobbying strategies, and a brief presentation from members of the local chapter of the CCL will follow the film. All welcome.
Campus Center room 103/104
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

Plants of Pompeii: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
October 20, 2017
Botanical illustrations created by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations of Pompeii. Come explore the varied ways both ancient Romans and modern Pompeians have used these plants. Exhibit on view through December 15, 2017.
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Church Exhibition Gallery, Lyman Plant House

Field Station Friday!
October 20, 2017
Get off campus and reconnect with nature at MacLeish! Our field station has it all- scenic views, miles of hiking trails, sites for research and a state-of-the-art living building with tea and wifi. Vans leave from Chapin loading dock at 1, and will be back in time for tea. Sign up with the link below.
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Meet the van at Chapin Loading Dock and head to MacLeish
1:00 pm

Exhibition: 'Greenhouse Panoramas: a Process of Reinvention'
October 22, 2017
This show is the result of a series of creative re-inventions. Esther Pullman '64 trained as a graphic designer but made a self-directed mid-career transition to photography which itself morphed from a hands-on, craft-based discipline to a computer-based digital process. This series of large-scale greenhouse images, began as an intuitive and visceral effort to bring light and life into my own home, as I anticipated the darkening seasons, gradually took on a more symbolic and metaphorical meaning in the face of our increasingly imperiled home planet. Exhibition open to public Monday-Friday, Sept. 8 to Jan. 8, 2018
Alumnae House Gallery
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Web Mapping in ArcGIS Online – Part 1
October 23, 2017
Learn how to make interactive online maps with ArcGIS online. Open to all Smithies. Register on the SAL website- link below.
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SAL
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Sigma Xi lunch and talk: Cross situational word learning: how to tell a fep from a blick
October 24, 2017
with Jill de Villiers (psychology). Lunch is served in the Foyer at 11:45 a.m., talks begin at 12:10 p.m. and are open to all faculty, emeriti, staff, and students.
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McConnell 103
12:00 pm

Activism in Contested Societies: Lessons from Northern Ireland
October 24, 2017
Avila Kilmurray, is an activist and peacemaker. She is a co-founder and active member of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, a party to Northern Ireland's 1998 power-sharing agreement. From 1994-2014, she was Director of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, an independent charitable grant-making organization whose mission is “to drive social change.” She is a consultant to the Social Change Initiative (Belfast). She will address how local activists can build positive social change despite divisions. This public lecture is free. Sponsored by Jandon Center for Community Engagement with the Community Foundation of Western MA.
Seelye Hall 201
5:00 pm

Web Mapping in ArcGIS Online – Part 2
October 25, 2017
Learn how to make interactive online maps with ArcGIS online. Open to all Smithies. Register on the SAL website- link below.
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SAL
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Landscape Studies lecture
October 26, 2017
with Charles Marohn, Founder and President of Strong Towns, Brainerd, MN. Lecture Title TBA.Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 lecture series
Weinstein Auditorium
3:00 pm to 4:50 pm

Lecture: Reversing Roles?: China and the U.S. on the Environment
October 26, 2017
with Robert Gottlieb, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Founder and Former Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College, CA. This talk will compare environmental approaches on such issues as food, transportation and air quality in China and the U.S., and the role of governments, social movements, and popular protests to help us understand what has changed and why, particularly since the election of Donald Trump and the consolidation of power of China's President Xi Jingping. Open to the Public
Seelye 201
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

The Surrealist Cabaret
October 20, 2017
October 21, 2017
The Royal Frog Ballet celebrates a DECADE of The Surrealist Cabaret with shows in VT and MA this fall. Giving a nod to their anniversary with this year's theme 'At The Root' the performance explores origins, legacy, and all metaphors rooted in greater meaning! The Cabaret is a walking performance and installation event that travels audiences through farm landscapes at autumnal sunset. Along the way they encounter a surreal collection of short stories, dance, sculpture, poems, music, and roving characters that explore and celebrate themes of season, place, and what it means to be human in these times. Performances at Park Hill run Friday-Sunday, October 13, 14, 15 and 20, 21, 22. A folky, comedic and ritualistic evening for all ages. Check the link below for more information on dates, locations, and tickets!
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Park Hill Orchard, 82 Park Hill Road, Easthampton, MA
5:00 pm

Information Session: Master of Science in Ecological Design
October 21, 2017
Join us at the Conway School for an information session at our Easthampton campus! The session will include a presentation about Conway from faculty, presentations by two current students, and presentations from alums. The three-hour event includes a tasty lunch. The event is free, and it is o.k. if attendees are not considering applying for next year. However, the school is accepting applications for the September 2018-June 2019 year if you are interested. Students graduate from our 10-month program with a Master of Science in Ecological Design. They work on real landscape design and planning projects, such as green infrastructure designs, food security plans, habitat restoration plans, landscape designs for college campuses, and flood resiliency plans. Consider taking a break from your studies to join us for a fun and informative morning! Find more information about the event and the registration form at the link below:
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Mill 180, 180 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA
10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Women Entrepreneurs in Agriculture and the Food System
October 24, 2017
Come hear about how women entrepreneurs are creatively revolutionizing our farms and food system. Each month this fall, women entrepreneurs will share the successes ans challenges of their journey in food system entrepreneurship. 9/28: Amanda Brown, UMass Amherst Student Farm; Maida Ives, Book and Plow farm. 10/24: Annie Myer, Myer Produce; Susan Pincus, Sawmill Herb Farm. 11/28: Tucka Saville, Anarchy Apiaries; Julia Coffey, Mycoterra Farm. Light refreshments will be provided. Free!
Conference Room, Paige Lab, UMASS AMherst
5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Events at Smith

Action Research and Community Engagement: from the classroom to the community and back
October 27, 2017
Lunch and conversation with Robert Gottlieb, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy; Founder and Former Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College, CA
Campus Center 205
12:00 pm

Fictional and Fantasy Maps
October 30, 2017
Get your creative juices flowing before Halloween by exploring imaginary landscapes and making your own maps from your favorite fictional work. Open to all Smithies. Register on the SAL website- link below.
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SAL
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Artist's talk with Visiting Artist Adriane Herman
October 30, 2017
Adriane Herman is an interdisciplinary artist and professor from Maine College of Art. She has been described as "artist, educator, and maverick impresario..a bit of a shape-shifter," and her work as "sometimes serious, sometimes silly, and sometimes with a hint of the trickster, but always focused on two central aims: honing a critique of contemporary culture's fascination with consumption (art, food, experience, human memory, nostalgia, everyday commodities) and navigating new and unplanned routes for the intersection of contemporary art and a very public, sometimes unsuspecting audience." Adriane will discuss her recent work dealing with the material and emotional cycles of accumulation and letting go. She will also introduce opportunities for public involvement with her work on campus taking place on 10/31 and 11/1.
Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center
5:00 pm

Discussion for Students Interested in Sustainability, Art, and Materials Use
October 31, 2017
Led by Adriane Herman with a presentation by Sustainability Coordinator Emma Kerr. This informal discussion is an opportunity to learn about how waste is addressed on the Smith campus and to speak candidly about our relationships with the materials we produce, keep, and discard. Issues surrounding sustainability can be enormous and overwhelming, but how can we make progress proactively rather than reactively?
Hillyer 207D
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Presentation of the majors and minor in Geosciences
October 31, 2017
What on EARTH should you do for a major?! Lunch provided.
Sabin-Reed 103
12:10 pm

Witnessed Release of Objects
October 31, 2017
Experience the power of witnessing to help you in the process of letting go! Join self-described experience broker Adriane Herman (and Visiting Artist) for the opportunity to rid yourself of an object before a group of cheering spectators. Bring an item you wish to discard, and gather with us at the dumpsters and recycling bins behind Hillyer. This is a perfect way to feel unburdened before your Halloween festivities. Open to the public.
At the dumpsters behind Hillyer Hall
4:30 pm

ES&P Lunch Talk: Citizen Science: Seeing the World As It Is, Across Time, Place, and with Purpose
November 1, 2017
Mary Ellen Hannibal '81 author of the "Citizen Scientist: Searching for heros and hope in an age of extinction" will talk about her research and participation in citizen science efforts focusing on biodiversity conservation. Hannibal notes, "For me the most compelling reason to do citizen science is the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals currently underway. In the book I do a lot of reporting and research on this scourge, but contextualize what’s happening within a broad framework."
McConnell 103
12:15 pm

Drop In: Collaborative Monoprinting
November 1, 2017
With visiting artist Adriane Herman. Adriane will share her method od printing monotypes using cut papre and water-soluble crayons. Visitors are welcome to observe, discuss, and participate in the process. Adriane is an interdisciplinary artist and professor from Maine College of Art. She has been described as "artist, educator, and maverick impresario..a bit of a shape-shifter," and her work as "sometimes serious, sometimes silly, and sometimes with a hint of the trickster, but always focused on two central aims: honing a critique of contemporary culture's fascination with consumption (art, food, experience, human memory, nostalgia, everyday commodities) and navigating new and unplanned routes for the intersection of contemporary art and a very public, sometimes unsuspecting audience." Open to the public.
Printmaking studio, Hillyer L08
1:10 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Farm theater presents: True Thomas
October 29, 2017
A Halloween outdoor adventure for all ages! Food trucks, pumpkin picking and more...buy tickets at farmtheater.com
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Valley View Farm, Haydenville, MA
1:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Climate Justice film: Requiem for the American Dream
November 1, 2017
Noam Chomsky, who spent time interviewing many people who bring insight to growing inequality in the United States is featured. The film gives viewers a background on the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. What does this have to do with climate justice? Come and watch the film and join the conversation afterwards, which will be led by Professor Tim Downs of Clark University. Please call the library at 978-249-9515 to reserve a spot. This is the second film in the "Reverence, Resistance, Resilience" series.
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Athol Public Library
7:00 pm