University of Massachusetts Amherst

December 3, 2005

1st Annual String Day
String Day, with the Lark Quartet, for junior and senior high school students, their parents and teachers.
Health Seminar
Saturday Night Life at Newman: Dinner and a Movie
Chicken soup or beef stew, nice white rolls, sodas and a movie. This week: "A Christmas Story."
Wind Ensemble
A concert by UMass Amherst's Wind Ensemble, Laura Rexroth, conductor.
The Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
This exhibition is comprised of sixteen models created by the engineers at IBM Corporation, with a view to reconstructing some of the visionary ideas for machines and mechanical devices originally contained in the sketchbooks of Leonardo.
Exhibit: UMass Photography Society
Exhibit: "The time has come to weigh those things..."
The Newman Center Hat and Mitten Drive
The Newman Center is collecting hats and mittens for children. Cash donations also accepted.
University Dancers
University Dancers, Kenneth Lipitz, director, presents works choreographed by guest artist Randy James and the dance faculty.
The Miraculous in the Everyday
This exhibition explores the work of three renowned conceptual and installation artists, Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Gabriel Orozco, whose use of modest, humble materials celebrate the mundane in contemporary life.
House of Desires
This high comedy turns on one playwright's insights on love, honor, and passion not bad for a 17th-century nun celebrated as one of Mexico's great writers.
"You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover"
Sayings from the Life and Writings of Junebug Jabbo Jones.