Hot 8 Brass Band

Friday, February 6, 8 PM, Bowker Auditorium

New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band captures the rhythm and the pulse of the city's magnificent celebratory street music. Hot 8 performs music of the honored Second Line tradition, infusing the funk and energy that make New Orleans music loved around the world. Longtime featured artists at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Hot 8 Brass Band was recently featured in the Spike Lee documentary, When the Levees Broke. Don’t miss this exciting musical odyssey into the timeless spirit and soul of "The Big Easy."

Funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the American Masterpieces initiative, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies.

Reserved Seating: $25, $15; Five College/GCC students and Youth 17 and under, $15. Call 800-999-UMAS or 545-2511, or visit our online ticket booth.

The Arts Give Back:
For our furry friends, please bring an item from the Dakin Humane Society’s wish list. Visit their web site for a list of needs.

Recognized worldwide for its exuberant, athletic, and eclectic approach to dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has been an innovative force in contemporary dance for over three decades. This program features the fluid and unpredictable movements of choreographer Doug Varone's latest work, The Constant Shift of Pulse. The intricate and visually powerful piece illuminates purity of movement, as the dancers test the boundaries of an engaging emotional and physical landscape. "Take a deep breath, because Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is going to take your breath away," writes The Washington Post.

Pre-performance talk by HSDC Associate Artistic Director Lucas Crandall from 6:45 – 7:15 PM in Lobby.

Reserved Seating: $40, $30, $15; Five College/GCC students and Youth 17 and under, $15. Call 800-999-UMAS or 545-2511, or visit our online ticket booth.

The film will be shown in 2 parts on on Sunday, February 1. Run time of each part is approximately 2 hours.

Herter 227
Part I at 2pm
Part II at 5pm
Free and open to the public

The title 16/28 refers to the 16 places 28-years-old Umass alumna artist, Kristin Nason has lived. In her artist statement, Nason explains:

"Initially, upon beginning the series, my ideas were focused on change--specifically the changes associated with moving and relocation, and their effects on an individual. However, as I began to work I realized it was more accurately about a lack of change. Place and experience shape me, but I move forward with the majority of my innate tendencies and sensibilities intact. In addition, this series attempts to address the rift between one's experience of place, and the detached objectivity of documents that describe only its physical characteristics."

The use of only black and white film for the self-portraits, as well as the absence of significant variation of facial expression, suggests limited personal change, while the overlaid color satallite maps point to the place where physical location meets personal experience.

In his debut solo exhibition The Resulting Effect at Hampden Gallery, UMass alumni artist Timothy Gough sculpts with large quantities of a single object, Gough arranges and manipulates these items until their most provocative form is revealed.See the show and your perception of quotidian objects such as nails, staples and ping pong balls may never be the same!

This free exhibit will be on view at Hampden Gallery from February 1 through February 26.