Five College News
Festival features wide variety of classical new music performers and compositions
Five College New Music Festival, September 8—10, Bezanson Recital Hall, UMassFrom September 8 to 10, the UMass Amherst Department of Music and Dance will host the 2017 Five College New Music Festival
PVTA announces changes to area bus routes
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
Community Foundation grant to fund effort to increase diversity among K–12 teachers
Increasing the number of Black and Latino K-12 teachers in Western Massachusetts is the focus of a $50,000 planning grant awarded to the Five College Schools Partnership by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.
PVTA considering eliminating some Five College bus runs
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