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A Musical Tribute to Smith's Trees
May 2, 2018
Mary Hubbell, soprano; Monica Jakuc Leverett, piano. Songs and piano pieces by Schumann, Liszt, Brown, Joplin and more. Featuring the premiere performance of a new song by Gregory W. Brown, dedicated to the College Hall American elm, with text by Naila Moreira.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall
12:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Leadership and Climate Change: A Panel Discussion
May 6, 2018
with Kevin Healy (Lawyers Fight Climate Change), Susan Theberge (Building Solidarity to Respond to Climate Change), and Ed Stockman (The Secret of Industrial Food & Climate Change). Healy has practiced environmental and land use law for 43 years and has lectured and written extensively on the subject of climate change. Theberge is co-founder of Climate Action Now and active participant in the Sugar Shack Alliance. Stockman is co-founder and education director of Regeneration MAss, He is a biologist and 4th generation farmer.
Chesterfield Community Center, 400 Main Road, Chesterfield, MA 01012
2:00 pm

Carbon Pricing in MA: A Key to Solving a Warming Climate
May 8, 2018
Learn how Massachusetts state-wide carbon fee and rebate legislation will create jobs, provide better health for residents, and reduce carbon emissions! Panelists will include State Representative Jen Benson; Dr. Carsten Braun, climate scientist and WSU professor; Dr. Marc Breslow, Director of Policy and Research at ClimateXChange; and Reverand Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, author, minister, and climate activist. For more info, please contact Frank Giuliano (fgiuliano@westfield.ma.edu) or John Meiklejohn (jmiserve183@gmail.com).
Dever Auditorium, Parenzo Hall, Westfield State University; 577 Western Ave, Westfield MA
6:00 pm

Featured Event

Senior Week at MacLeish!
May 14, 2018
Be be part of one of the largest conservation projects in the country--the restoration of the American Chestnut! The MacLeish Field Station is the site of a blight resistant hybrid American Chestnut seed orchard. Your help is needed to plant trees and maintain the orchard. Spend the afternoon in the fresh air and enjoying BIG views. Expect to have fun and get dirty. Long pants and shoes recommended. Tools, gloves, and snacks provided. We will return at 4:30 p.m. Any questions- stop by CEEDS and talk to Paul Wetzel. Sign up with Serena Libardi (slibardi @smith.edu) so that we know who needs a ride.
meet at Chapin loading dock
12:30 pm

Events at Smith

Dusk at MacLeish- Arts Night Out
May 11, 2018
On four Northampton Arts Nights Out this spring, photographer Pamela Petro and poet Naila Moreira will present an art exhibit, Dusk at Macleish, of seven ecological graphic poems. Their work, in word and image digital presentation, will be projected on a triptych of screens. The photos and poems of Dusk at MacLeish reflect on the fragile moment in ecological history in which we live, suggesting liminal moments between light/dark, seen/intuited, day/night, present/future. The project juxtaposes moved-image photographs taken at dusk by Petro with poems written simultaneously by Moreira, created in a series of visits to the Smith College MacLeish Field Station in Whately, Massachusetts. The simultaneity of artistic production allows for a deep focus on place, setting, and ecological framing, making the landscape itself a powerful collaborator in the work. The series forms part of Arts Afield, a program at the MacLeish Field Station supported by the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS).
Pop-up parklet On the Green by the Smith College Museum of Art
8:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Nature: Word and Image
May 9, 2018
In this visual age, combined words and images have become ever more relevant and vibrant in reaching audiences. Four practitioners of word/image pairings will explore the intersection between the human and the natural world: -Bob Marstall has illustrated nine nonfiction books for children, including books written by Jean Craighead George and Jane Yolen, as well as An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly, selected as one of the 1001 best books of the 20th century by the NY Times Parents' Guide for the Best Books for Children. His first fiction picture book, On Bird Hill, was published in May 2016. -Valerie Carrigan produces prints and artist books out of her studio in a historic mill in western Massachusetts. Through monotype, relief and letterpress printing, she explores the intersection of the natural world and the human spirit. She teaches studio art at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont. -Pamela Petro, an author, artist, and educator, has written three books of place-based creative nonfiction, including Travels in an Old Tongue, about Wales; Sitting up with the Dead, on the American South; and The Slow Breath of Stone, about Southwest France. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta, The Paris Review, and she has widely exhibited her photographs and images in environmental installations. -Naila Moreira, writer in residence at Forbes Library, has authored two poetry chapbooks, including the art book Gorgeous Infidelities (2014) in collaboration with photographer Paul Ickovic, and Water Street (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her journalism, essays, and poetry have appeared in the Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Naugatuck River Review, Cape Rock, and other journals and anthologies, and she has paired her poetry with both photography and music.
The Calvin Coolidge Museum, second floor of the Forbes Library
7:00 pm

Understanding the Water Cycle for Soil, Climate and Life
May 12, 2018
Designed for farmers, land managers, and students of natural resource conservation, this program will provide a deep look at the intersection of soil regeneration practices and the restoration of hydrological processes. Participants will gain insight and inspiration toward practices they can apply to their own farms and gardens, as well as a larger context of theory that integrates our knowledge of the water cycle and its role in regulating global temperature with current efforts toward conservation and regeneration of living soils. In this day-long intensive workshop, Jehne will take participants back to the beginning of life on earth and explain how soil evolved from inert minerals. He will describe the ways in which soil and plant ecosystems coevolved to regulate and control the water cycle, creating the weather upon which life on earth depends-- and in turn, impacting temperature and energy systems. *Walter Jehne *is an internationally-recognized Australian climate scientist and soil microbiologist and founder of Healthy Soils Australia. Jehne was one of the early researchers on glomalin, myccorrhizal fungi, and root ecology, and has been a leader in the grassroots movement to educate farmers, policymakers, and industry alike on the crucial role of soil ecosystems in global climate change. He has since been working at the national (CSIRO - Australia’s scientific research organization) and international level (UN) to create global change in food systems and climate response. Cost: NOFA/BFA Member: $60 | Student $45 | General $72. More information and registration at the link below:
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Immanuel Lutheran Church, Amherst, MA
10:30 am to 4:30 pm

Featured Event

Commencement reception for ES&P, Landscape Studies and the Environmental Concentrations
May 19, 2018
Environmental science and policy, landscape studies and environmental concentrations invite seniors, alumnae and their guests for our joint reception with faculty and staff.
Center for the Environment (CEEDS), Wright Hall 005
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm