University of Massachusetts Amherst

November 5, 2006

No Butts About It Day
Cigarette butts are everywhere - but soon there’ll be a lot fewer of them on the UMass Amherst campus.
First Sunday Dinner
Free Dinner for Students sponsored by the Newman Student Association
Sex Pictionary
Sexuality Pictionary – a Peer Health Education workshop. By students, for students.
Sunday Night Movie: Lady in the Water
Modest building manager Cleveland Heep rescues a mysterious young woman from drowning only to discover that she is actually a narf, a character from a bedtime story.
Performance: Infinity Brass
New and pre-owned Music For Brass, includes a premiere by faculty composer Salvatore Macchia and a transcribed string quartet by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Exhibition of Video Work: Beat Streuli / Cities 2005
Swiss-born artist Beat Streuli has developed a substantial and impressive body of work in photography and video that documents the transient pedestrian activity of urban life.
Exhibition: God and Country
Large-scale socially motivated paintings by Canadians Matt Bahen and Scott Sawtell.
Los Amigos: A Social Club
UMass Amherst's Boltwood Project offers young adults with developmental disabilities one-to-one companionship with a UMass student.
"Sea Cruise" An Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Jerry Kearns
"Sea Cruise" is an exhibition of seven recent paintings Jerry Kearns, a professor in the Art Department at UMass Amherst.
"Landscape Tropologies," An Exhibition of Photographs
The exhibition features the work of six photographers for whom the depiction of landscape represents an extremely important component of their physical experience in the world.
Exhibit: Bookplates from Central and Eastern Europe
The UMass Amherst Library hosts an exhibit including bookplates from Central and Eastern Europe from the collection of Halina and Robert Rothstein.
Exhibit: Charlotte Hill O'Neal
This former Black Panther left the U.S. over thirty years ago to live and work in Tanzania.
Exhibition: Direct Sculpture- A Dialogue in Polymers
New work by visiting artists Susan Roth and Darryl Hughto.
New England Dressage Assoc. Fall Symposium
U.S. Olympic Dressage Team Coach Klaus Balkenhol will be teaching horses & riders through Grand Prix.