Five College News
PVTA considering eliminating some Five College bus runs
Two Five College East Asian events aim to please families and inform educators
Two upcoming events organized by the Five College Schools Partnership Program will celebrate East Asian books for young people.
Children’s/Young Adult book author Holly Thompson at Hampshire College
July 10, 7 p.m. West Lecture Hall in Franklin Patterson Hall
Five College Library Annex ribbon-cutting scheduled for May 26
Five Colleges will open its new Library Annex in Hatfield witha ribbon-cutting ceremony at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 26. Tours of the facility will begin at 2 p.m.
Five College Early Music Program presents a range of performances
The Five College Collegium
Wednesday, April 19, 7:00 PM
Abbey Chapel, Mount Holyoke College
Music of Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1400 – 1474)
and other 15th Century works for voices, winds and strings
Featuring Du Fay’s monumental Missa Ave Regina Caelorum and
Nuper Rosarum Flores for the consecration of Brunelleschi’s Duomo
Directed by Robert Eisenstein, with Dan Meyers and Alice Robbins
Euridice Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Monday, April 24, 7:30 PM
Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachusetts
Elizabeth Mazzocco memorial events explore broad impact of language
Five College Roundtable, April 12, 4 p.m., South College, UMass Amherst
Mazzocco Memorial Lecture, April 13, 4:30 p.m., South College, UMass Amherst
Looking Forward: The Study of Languages and Cultures for All, a Roundtable
April 12, 2017 4 p.m.
Room E470, South College, UMass Amherst
Fighting climate change is focus of NAIS Symposium
Living Waters, Animate Lands: Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Thursday, April 6–Saturday, April 8, 2017
UMass and Amherst College
Free and open to the public; no registration necessary
Five College symposia celebrate undergraduate student work
This spring, there are several opportunities to learn from Five College students about their original work and to celebrate their accomplishments. Information about all upcoming Five College events can be found at fivecolleges.edu/calendar.
Make-up date announced for Amherst College snow day
Because Amherst College was closed due to a snow emergency on Thursday, February 9, classes will be held on the first makeup date, Monday, May 1, 2017, and will follow a Thursday schedule. No other deadlines or event dates will change as a result of this makeup day.
Amherst College Professor Wendy Woodson Presents “Thrown for a Loop: A Life in Performance”
The 2017 Five College Jackie Pritzen Lecture
Thursday, March 9, 4:30 p.m., Holden Theater, Amherst College
As the 2017 Five College Jackie Pritzen lecturer, Wendy Woodson will talk about the different surprises and challenges in her work as an interdisciplinary artist in dance, theater and video and as an artist in academia. Woodson, the Roger C. Holden 1919 Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College, is a choreographer, director, writer and video artist.