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Connecting Threads- Working Together Towards Activating April
March 23, 2022
Get ideas, plan or work on your project, practice or learn new techniques, meet other amazing fiber artists/activists, and enjoy some creative time in community. Tasty snacks provided!
CEEDS, Wright Hall lower level
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

SAL Workshop: Mapathon for Accessibility on Smith Campus
March 24, 2022
Crowdsource mapping, or volunteered geographic information (VGI), leverages participatory action and citizen science to gather information that could benefit the collective good. In this mapathon (a coordinated map editing event), we will contribute to three crowdsourced maps that address various aspects of accessibility that are currently deficient for campus: wheelchair accessibility, pedestrian friendly sidewalks, and safe restrooms. Register for the workshop below:
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Knowledge Lab, Alumnae Gym 207
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Film: Adaptation
March 22, 2022
Tim Johnson, Director of the Botanic Garden at Smith College, joins us to introduce the film as part of the 2022 National Evening of Science on Screen. Director Spike Jonze (HER, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Chris Cooper in an Oscar-winning role), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage), and his twin brother, Donald (also Cage). As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book The Orchid Thief, he writes himself into his own movie, as various stories crash into one another, exploding into a wildly imaginative film.
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Amherst Cinema
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

High Deserts and Mud Volcanoes: Seeing the Civil War and Reconstruction from Unexpected Places
March 28, 2022
The Landscapes Studies Program is pleased to welcome 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Kate Nelson. What happens when we look at well-known historical events from unexpected places? Drawing on material from her recent books (The Three-Cornered War and Saving Yellowstone), Megan Kate Nelson will discuss how the federal government attempted to establish control over the West during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She will focus on natural and built environments like stage roads and railroads, desert ecosystems, Indigenous pathways, and geothermal features, all of which shaped the future of the West and its communities in the 1860s and 1870s. Dr. Nelson is a writer and historian. She is the author of four books: Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp; Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War; The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West; and the recently released Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America. A full list in this speaker series is at the link below:
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Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
2:45 pm to 4:25 pm

Events Off Campus

Small Island Big Song
March 27, 2022
Featuring footage made during a three-year film trip across 16 island nations and guided by the artists on their homelands, Small Island Big Song is a stunning live collaboration reuniting the distant yet interconnected musical traditions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The resulting work is a contemporary and relevant musical statement of a region on the frontline of cultural and environmental challenges. "The most important music documentary you'll see this year," Beat Magazine wrote of the film. "One coherent, jaw-dropping piece." - Billboard Magazine. Now in-person, combining music, spoken word, dance and film, eight musicians and vocalists from the nations of Taiwan, Australia, Madagascar, Tahiti, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, and Papua New Guinea will perform live on stage with the Fine Arts Center! More information and tickets at the link below. Student tickets are only $10
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UMass Fine Arts Center (right next to the main UMass PVTA bus stop in Haiggis Mall)
4:00 pm

Roots, Resistance, and Reclamation
March 31, 2022
A very special virtual event presented by Spelman College and Food Tank. Roots: How are Black women embracing the roots of African Diasporic food systems, culture, and practices? Resistance: How are Black women resisting the current food system through AI? Reclamation: How are Black women reclaiming food and land? Speakers include: Mary Schmidt Campbell, President of Spelman College; Julia Collins, Founder + CEO of Moonshot Snacks and Planet FWD; Gabrielle E. W. Carter, multi-disciplinary Artist and Cultural Preservationist who uses Diasporic and local food as a vehicle to reimagine wealth, marginalized food systems, and inheritance; Riana Lynn, CEO of Journey Foods. Speaker, Scientist, Innovation Designer; Kimberly M. Jackson, Ph.D, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, professor of biochemistry, and director of the Food Studies program at Spelman College; Tracy Lloyd McCurty, Esq., Executive Director of the Black Belt Justice Center, who will present on the collective efforts, victories, and setbacks of the Black Farmers’ Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign; Danielle Nierenberg (moderator), Co-Founder and President, Food Tank; Rose Scott, an award-winning journalist and host of the midday news program “Closer Look” heard on Atlanta’s NPR, station 90.1 FM – WABE. This is free virtual event. Registration required (link below).
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Virtual via Zoom
6:00 pm

Addressing Climate Change With Land Conservation and Stewardship
March 31, 2022
Join Scott Jackson, a University of Massachusetts Amherst professor of Environmental Conservation who studies the impact of climate change on wildlife and the land. He has developed landscape-based tools to assess the health of ecosystems and how they are connected to each other to help us make science-based land-use decisions. Find more information and register for the event at the link below:
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Virtual
6:30 pm

Events at Smith

SAL Workshop: Colorblind Friendly Cartography
April 1, 2022
How do you make maps that balance accessibility and functionality? In this workshop we will explore tools that can help improve your maps for a broader audience, with particular focus on colorblind safe color palettes and visual contrast between features. Register for the workshop below:
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Sabin-Reed 104
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

Connecting Threads- Working Together Towards Activating April
April 4, 2022
Get ideas, plan or work on your project, practice or learn new techniques, meet other amazing fiber artists/activists, and enjoy some creative time in community. Tasty snacks provided!
CEEDS, Wright Hall lower level
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Smith Voices for Climate Justice: a multimedia presentation and community dialogue
April 5, 2022
Join us for a screening and a conversation about a series of short videos created by Smith students that reflect on the climate crisis, environmental justice, and strategies for facing an uncertain future. Snacks provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
4:15 pm

A Focus on the Environment as a Source for the Recuperation of Memory
April 5, 2022
William Allan Neilson Professor Miguel Angel Rosales, filmmaker and anthropologist, will deliver the final spring Neilson lecture. A reflection on current projects, in which Rosales’s multifaceted identity as forest engineer, anthropologist and documentary-maker interweave and fuel his continued search for “the traces of the unthinkable" and the recovery of Afrodiasporic historical memory in Andalusia and Spain in general. Open to the public. Hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with support from the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
Neilson 102
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Webinar: Enclosing Agriculture's Messy Natures
April 7, 2022
Disruptive aspirations, exuberant acclaim and impatient capital rush towards vertical farming, a technology promising environmental salvation in sunless and soilless indoor agriculture. Vertical farming is a kind of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), whose technologies and techniques are widespread in the production of high-value specialty crops. CEA's environmental promises are predicated on vastly reducing the natural resources needed for agricultural production, chiefly land and water. Mark Bomford's research examines the promissory narratives and performance of three large US vertical farming companies, considering what these sites enclose (keep in), exclose (keep out), and what futures they may foreclose (prevent from happening). With Mark Bomford, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Program. Register below:
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Virtual
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm