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Events at Smith

Sustainable Development: Four Years Linking the Smith Campus and the Global Challenge
September 23, 2019
with Dano Weisbord, Director of Sustainability and Campus Planning; Administrative Director, CEEDS. Part of the ENX 100: Environment and Sustainability Lecture Series
McConnell 103
2:40 pm

Workshop: UN Sustainability Development Goals: Problems and Solutions
September 24, 2019
The UN SDGs are a blueprint to realize a more sustainable future, addressing global problems associated with environmental degradation, prosperity, peace and justice. The goals that will be the focus of this workshop include quality education, gender equality, affordable and clean energy, reducing inequality, and climate action. During this workshop, students will begin to think about these problems and act on creating potential solutions. Dinner provided. Part of the Conway Center's Innovative Strategies Workshop Series: Social Impact- for Smith community members.
Campus Center Room 003
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Cultivating Wisdom, Intimacy, and Response in a Warming World:
September 25, 2019
A Meditation Series in Eco-Buddhism Wednesday evenings throughout the semester with Karin Meyers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies. Meyers was associate professor at Kathmandu University’s Centre for Buddhist Studies from 2011–18, where she also served as director of the master’s program in Buddhist studies. Her work focuses on Buddhist psychology, ethics and contemplative systems; Buddhism and free will; and topics in Buddhist studies that occupy the borderlands of religion and philosophy.
Helen Hills Hills Chapel
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Exhibition: Journeys & Visual Poems
September 26, 2019
Journeys, an exhibit of paintings by Kate Whittaker (AC 1990), reflect impressions formed during her climate research travels to remote areas of the world. Patterns form landscapes, marks conjure ancestral presence, and ancient calligraphy evokes a shared heritage. The process can involve forty or more layers of paint, while accents of micaceous paint illuminate and grow quiet with the changing light. Visual Poems, in traditional scroll format, are a natural offshoot of these layered paintings and combine details of her paintings and photographs to form narratives of their own. On view Sept. 6-Dec. 17. Open Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.
Alumnae House Gallery, 33 Elm St.
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Global FLEX: Summer in Morocco Info Session
September 26, 2019
Learn more about the Global FLEX program, directed by Camille Washington-Ottombre (ENV) and Greg White (GOV/ENV). It examines the multifaceted dimension of climate change in a middle-income country with a particular focus on issues of environmental justice. Themes include economic development, agriculture and hydrology, efforts to adapt, gender politics, and migration. The course/program has six pre-departure meetings during the spring semester, and then travels to Morocco from June 1 - June 18. Pizza will be provided for first 25 attendees
Lewis Global Studies Center Lounge
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Technology, Representation and Social Justice
September 26, 2019
As diversity and inclusion has become ever-more relevant in more contexts, the interpretation of art through a social historical lens is becoming more prevalent. Simultaneously, technological innovations are making it easier for cultural institutions to reach larger, more diverse audiences. In this talk, Smith Alumna Cat Dawson will explore how tech is making it easier to surface the richness of socio-historical analysis, which is especially relevant to those engaged in labors of scholarship and social justice due to the critical role that visuality and material culture play in the process of rupturing normative structures of meaning-making and power. Co-sponsored by SWG, Engineering, Art and the Lecture Committee.
Seelye 201
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Natural Dye Workshop (for students only)
September 28, 2019
The Botanic Garden + Design Thinking Initiative invite you to a Natural Dyeing Workshop with fiber artist Michelle Parrish. Participants will learn about dyeing with indigo and marigold, while having the opportunity to create their own uniquely designed textile. Please note that this event requires pre-registration and space is limited. Register using the link below. You are not registered until receiving email confirmation.
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Lyman Plant House
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Stargazing at the MacLeish Field Station
September 28, 2019
A Smith student event. We will have s’mores to enjoy at the fire pit. Meet at the Chapin Loading dock at 7pm. Bring your friends! And sign up to reserve a spot in one of our vehicles at the link below:
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Chapin loading dock; MacLeish Field Station
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Critical Mass Bicycle Ride- to support the planet
September 27, 2019
MassBike PV and Friends of the Northampton Trails are coordinating a Critical Mass-like rally of bicyclists to roll from N'ton High School to downtown and back. This group ride will help highlight the crisis our planet is in and how bikes not cars can mitigate some of the impacts. Dress yourself up, your bike and your helmet. FB page linked below:
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Northampton High School
5:30 pm

River clean-up with the Fort River Watershed Association
September 28, 2019
We're organizing a cleanup at 12 sites along the Fort River in Amherst, Pelham, and Belchertown - and we need your help! We’ll meet at Groff Park in Amherst at 9:30 am where we’ll distribute supplies, talk safety, and then spread out to clean up our local river. All ages and abilities are welcome! Join us after the cleanup for RiverFest, a FREE community celebration at Groff Park from 12-2 pm offering food, family activities, games (with prizes!) and information on how to keep our rivers healthy. To register for the cleanup, please visit the link below.
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Amherst
9:30 am

RiverFest
September 28, 2019
RiverFest, a FREE community celebration sponsored by the Fort River Watershed Association offering food, family activities, games (with prizes!) and information on how to keep our rivers healthy. All welcome!
Groff Park, Amherst, MA
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Performance: I Sing Earth!
September 29, 2019
The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum concludes its 38th season of Folk Traditions concerts with a performance by Pan Morigan: “I Sing Earth: A musical meditation on the times we're livin' in”. Morigan, vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist uses innovative, original songs and passionate, unbridled vocals in multiple tongues, to reflect on migration, home, creativity, and love. Stirring sounds of the imagination with influences that range from traditional Irish/Scots, American, and Greek music, to Jazz, she offers something ineffable and timeless. Her band for this event includes some of the most interesting players in the valley, each one busy with their own wonderfulness: Rudi Weeks, bass, Joe Belmont, guitars, Tony Silva, guitar. Admission is $12, $2 children 16 and under. Picnickers are welcome on the museum’s grounds starting at 1:30 pm. The museum and its grounds are a smoke-free site. For further information please call (413) 584-4699 or visit the link below:
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Sunken Garden at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, 130 River Drive, Route 47, Hadley MA 01035
3:00 pm

Featured Event

Conference: Climate Equity and Justice: Solutions and Action
October 4, 2019
October 5, 2019
October 6, 2019
All Smith community members (students, faculty, staff, and alumnae) are invited to help launch Smith's Year on Climate Change! We hope you will join us no matter your passion or background because climate change affects all of us and everyone has a place in the important work we need to do to address it. Programming will begin Friday afternoon and run through Sunday morning. Learn about the incredible speakers with extremely diverse backgrounds and register using the link below:
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Events at Smith

Coral EdVentures 20th Anniversary Exhibition
September 30, 2019

CC 2nd floor Art Wall
12:00 am to 12:00 pm

Presentation of the Environmental Concentrations in Climate Change and Sustainable Food
October 2, 2019
The environmental concentrations let students engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of the many issues involved in the topics of sustainable food and climate change. Come for a tasty lunch and find out more!
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CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Cultivating Wisdom, Intimacy, and Response in a Warming World:
October 2, 2019
A Meditation Series in Eco-Buddhism Wednesday evenings throughout the semester with Karin Meyers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies. Meyers was associate professor at Kathmandu University’s Centre for Buddhist Studies from 2011–18, where she also served as director of the master’s program in Buddhist studies. Her work focuses on Buddhist psychology, ethics and contemplative systems; Buddhism and free will; and topics in Buddhist studies that occupy the borderlands of religion and philosophy.
Helen Hills Hills Chapel
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Fall Career Fair
October 3, 2019
Students from all majors are invited to meet with recruiters from corporate and nonprofit organizations to discuss a broad range of internship and full-time career opportunities. The fair is free for students; no registration is required. For Lazarus Center tips for a successful career fair and a list and description of participating organizations visit the link below;
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Indoor Track and Tennis Facility, Smith College Indoor Track and Tennis Facility
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Climate 101: Campus Sustainability: A Campus as Classroom Approach
October 4, 2019
A Teaching Arts Lunch sponsored by the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning and CEEDS.
Campus Center Carroll Room
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Exhibition: Journeys & Visual Poems
October 6, 2019
Journeys, an exhibit of paintings by Kate Whittaker (AC 1990), reflect impressions formed during her climate research travels to remote areas of the world. Patterns form landscapes, marks conjure ancestral presence, and ancient calligraphy evokes a shared heritage. The process can involve forty or more layers of paint, while accents of micaceous paint illuminate and grow quiet with the changing light. Visual Poems, in traditional scroll format, are a natural offshoot of these layered paintings and combine details of her paintings and photographs to form narratives of their own. On view Sept. 6-Dec. 17. Open Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.
Alumnae House Gallery, 33 Elm St.
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Art Meets Climate Equity - A multi-sensory tour experience
October 6, 2019
exploring connections between art and climate justice. Meet at the Smith College Museum of Art for a multi-sensory experience exploring connections between art and climate justice. SCMA Student Museum Educators will guide participants to explore the ways in which artists through time have inspired broader awareness and action in response to climate change. Engage in dialogue, writing reflection, sketching and more during this interactive tour in the galleries of the museum!
Smith College Museum of Art
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Events at Smith

A model for global engagement: 20 years of environmental education and research in Belize
October 8, 2019
Join us for a Sigma Xi sponsored lunch and lecture to learn more about research Smith faculty and students are engaged in! Lunch provided.
McConnell 103
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Fragile Earth
October 9, 2019
The impact of human action on the earth has increased dramatically in the past 50 years. This installation, organized to coincide with Smith College’s Year on Climate Change, features a selection of works from the SCMA collection created between the early 1970s and mid-2000s that focus on the intersection of human life and our environment. On display July 19-November 10, 2019. Visit the website for hours:
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Nixon Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art

Cultivating Wisdom, Intimacy, and Response in a Warming World:
October 9, 2019
A Meditation Series in Eco-Buddhism Wednesday evenings throughout the semester with Karin Meyers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies. Meyers was associate professor at Kathmandu University’s Centre for Buddhist Studies from 2011–18, where she also served as director of the master’s program in Buddhist studies. Her work focuses on Buddhist psychology, ethics and contemplative systems; Buddhism and free will; and topics in Buddhist studies that occupy the borderlands of religion and philosophy.
Helen Hills Hills Chapel
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

ES&P Lunchbag: Who gets involved in community based conservation? An Ecuadorian case study
October 10, 2019
Kelsey Hartman '12 is currently a Master of Environmental Management candidate with a concentration in Ecosystem and Land Conservation and Management at Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Native American Life during the Early Archaic Period: A View from Northampton
October 13, 2019
A Public Talk by David Leslie, Senior Archaeologist. Last fall, Dave Leslie, a lead archaeologist with Archeological and Historical Services, Inc., was hired to conduct a preliminary assessment of an area in Northampton where a new roadway construction project is planned. Some of the test pits established during this process uncovered Native American artifacts dating to the Early Archaic Period. Leslie will present his findings and explain what this site reveals about Native Americans during this time period. This event is hosted by Historic Northampton in partnership with the Forbes Library. It is sponsored by Mass Humanities. Registration is required. Follow the link below:
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Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA
4:30 pm