In accordance with Massachusetts regulations, strict restrictions are in effect for in-person campus events. Most of the the events listed here are taking place remotely on Zoom and other online platforms. See each listing for details. All times are United States Eastern Time Zone.
Month of December 2019
Matthew Mattingly ’02 is an artist living and working in Western Massachusetts. The exhibit includes new and recent oils, watercolors, and ink drawings, including landscapes, figures, sketches, and works from imagination.
September 3—December 13, 2019, weekdays 9:00 am-5:00 pm
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November 28
Science and Engineering Library

When something is bothering you, talking about it is often the first step toward a solution!
September 10, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
October 16, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
November 4, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
November 26, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
December 11, 2019 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
70 Butterfield Terrace, International Programs Office

The 15th annual installment of the semester-long film series, New Asia Cinema, explores diverse, transcendent, and transformative stories, identities, representations, and experiences of migrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, returnees, and outsiders.
September 11—December 4, 2019, Wednesdays 7:30 pm
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November 13, November 27
Isenberg School of Management, 137

Drawing from the burgeoning collections of visual materials in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), the exhibit follows the history of documentary photography from its century origins to its flowering in the post-World War II era.
September 20—January 30, 2020
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November 28, December 21—December 22, weekends, December 25, December 28—January 1
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, Lower Level and Floor 25

During the past 30 years, Leonardo Drew has become best known for his installations, both sweeping in scale and intimate in detail, which transform materials such as cotton, metal, animal hides, and wood — often oxidizing, burning, and decaying them — into something completely different from their original state.
September 20—December 6, 2019, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
September 21—December 8, 2019, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
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November 23—November 30
University Museum of Contemporary Art

This program validates cultural knowledge and identity by providing a space for faculty and staff who identify as Native/Indigenous to share their stories with undergraduate students of similar background.
November 4, 2019 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
December 6, 2019 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center

Avital Sagalyn: A Life of Exploration, researched and curated by a team of UMass Art History students, explores the range of Sagalyn’s work and rich cultural history.
October 4—December 6, 2019, Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri 11:00 am-4:30 pm
October 5—December 8, 2019, weekends 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
October 3, 2019, Thursdays 11:00 am-8:00 pm
November 7, 2019, Thursdays 11:00 am-8:00 pm
December 5, 2019, Thursdays 11:00 am-8:00 pm
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November 23—December 1
University Museum of Contemporary Art

This cultural engagement program seeks to cultivate, sustain and increase knowledge of own and/or other cultures through arts and crafts.
October 30, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
November 13, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
November 20, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
December 11, 2019 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Yuri Kochiyama Cultural Center

Interested in the intersections of art and activism? Want to learn new skills and discuss identity in an accepting, community atmosphere? Just want to destress from school in a low-stakes way? Nostras Voces (Our Voices) is hosting open, drop-in sessions, All identities, levels of experiences, and interest in creation welcome!
November 24—December 15, 2019, Sundays 6:30 pm-7:30 pm
November 25—January 13, 2020, Mondays 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Stonewall Center

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) is raising money for two local organizations: DIAL/SELF Youth and Community Services, and Heroes, Horses and Hounds, by holding a raffle for several holiday gift baskets and gift certificates.
December 2—December 9, 2019 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Tobin Hall

In the last two decades Israeli cinema and television turned to the world of the ultra-Orthodox Jews. This talk will examine this trend, analyzing how and why it developed in Israel, and what it means in Israeli media and politics.
December 3, 2019
4:00 pm
Commonwealth Honors College, Events Hall East

Have some personal photos you'd like doctored? Need to create a good clean image for a presentation? Want to revive old family images or perhaps delete your ex from the last family photos? Photoshop is a powerful image manipulation tool that can do these tasks and many others.
December 4, 2019
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, Calipari

Join us in the All Campus Makerspace to learn how to sew with conductive thread and make a light-up felt pin! Impress your friends (and enemies) with your new knowledge of soft circuits and wearable electronics, or make a custom holiday gift for the person who has everything.
December 5, 2019
6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Agricultural Engineering Building, 120

Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including Dunce (Wave Books, forthcoming 2019), My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
December 5, 2019
8:00 pm
Old Chapel

These are hectic days but let us help you reduce the impact of stress in your lives. Step out of your dorm, leave your stress at your door and join us in some de-stressing activities such as painting and coloring pages. We have facemasks, too!
December 12, 2019
4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Yuri Kochiyama Cultural Center, Worcester DC, Lower Level (below Oak Room)
