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October 8, 2005
- Softball Alumnae Game
- Sat Oct 8, 2005, 11:00 am
- Sports Complex
- Amnesty International: Darfur Letter-Writing Campaign
- Amnesty International would like to call upon the students of UMass, Amherst to help stop the genocide in Darfur, Sudan through joining in a one-day letter-writing campaign.
- Sat Oct 8, 2005, 1:00 pm
- Campus Center 804-808
- Football vs. Northeastern
- Head coach Don Brown leads the University of Massachusetts football team into action against Northeastern.
- Sat Oct 8, 2005, 1:00 pm
- McGuirk Alumni Stadium
- Men''s Soccer vs. Rhode Island
- The UMass men’s soccer team opens its conference slate against the Rhode island Rams.
- Sat Oct 8, 2005, 1:00 pm
- Rudd Field
- jubilat/Jones Poetry Reading Series
- The fourth annual jubilat/Jones Library reading series welcomes poets Tony Hoagland and Dean Young.
- Sat Oct 8, 2005, 3:00 pm
- Jones Library
- Men''s Hockey vs. St. Francis Xavier
- Sat Oct 8, 2005, 6:00 pm
- Mullins Center
- Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band
- UMass Amherst's Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band perform together in concert.
- Sat Oct 8, 2005, 8:00 pm
- Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
- Reflections: Cars and Parts
- The show features 30 of artist Bryant J. Stewart's pieces which have been exhibited in galleries throughout the country.
- Thu Sep 8 to Thu Oct 20, 2005
- Library, Integrated Sciences & Engineering
- Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky
- Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky are known for collaborative video and photographic projects. Since the late 1970s their work has developed as a response to their particular position as dissident artists in the former Soviet Union.
- Tue Sep 13 to Sun Oct 30, 2005
- Fine Arts Center University Gallery
- New York/New England/New Talent 2005
- The 15 artists in New York/New England/New Talent manifest an expansive mix of sensibilities and, to a great extent, mirror the diversity of the current art scene.
- Sun Sep 18 to Thu Oct 27, 2005
- Hampden Gallery
- Hieronymus Bosch, Revisited
- A full sized transcription of Bosch's painting "Garden of Earthly Delights," circa 1500. The piece is a triptyc depicting scenes of heaven, hell, and paradise.
- Sun Sep 18 to Sun Oct 30, 2005
- Hampden Gallery
- Petri Dishes and Arthrax
- Local artist Edgar Sabogal returned to his homeland of Medelline, Colombia in 2004 as part of Augusta Savage Gallery's new Art International Residency Program.
- Tue Sep 20 to Tue Oct 18, 2005
- Augusta Savage Gallery
- Gretchen Beck: Torridity
- An exhibition of drawings based on the degradation of the Nigerian landscape.
- Thu Sep 22 to Thu Nov 3, 2005
- Central Gallery
- Looking Forward, Looking Back: 1975 - 2005 at the University Gallery
- A retrospective lecture series celebrating some of the most notable exhibitions in the Gallery's history.
- Thu Sep 29 to Wed Nov 30, 2005
- Fine Arts Center
- "Oz Books, The Movie, Gay Men, Oh My!"
- Dee Michel's collection of books, cards, musical recordings, ads, and collectibles from The Wizard of Oz highlights the connection between the movie and gay male culture, and a celebration of Oz by fans, critics, and entrepreneurs.
- Sun Oct 2 to Wed Nov 2, 2005
- Library, W.E.B. Du Bois