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Saturday, November 14 – Thursday, December 10
Central Gallery

The title of this exhibition is borrowed from the musical terminology relating to a style of singing in which the melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by another. The purpose of this project is to facilitate an exchange between art and writing based on the same fundamental idea of call and response. In this project, artists respond to writing and writers respond to art. Each participant contributes two works for the exhibition–the first being for the Call component and the second being for the Response. Over a dozen talented painters, poets, printmakers, fiction writers, sculptors, installation and video artists are participating including visual artist Angela Zammerelli, video artist Marcus DeMaio, poet Noah Eli Gordon, poet Alex Phillips, painter Rachel Ouilette, fiction writer Jason Daniel Schwartz, painter Harry Swartz-Turfle, fiction writer/sound artist Daniel Presnell, and others.

Free and open to the public

Saturday, November 7
Concert Hall 8:00 pm
$25, $20, $15; Five College/GCC/STCC students/17 & under $10
Experience Washington DC’s hottest Bollywood band whose repertoire ranges from Bollywood oldies to current sizzling hits from popular Hindi movies and more. Kehkashaan is an extraordinary eight member band with male/ female vocalists, guitars, keyboards and drums from around the world that deliver a high energy rocking good time. Performing with legendary bands such as the B-52’s and Styx this band has made huge waves on the music circuit around the country.
the Pioneer Valley Hotel Group–Comfort Inn and Hampton Inn

Tuesday, November 10
Concert Hall
$6 students, $8 adults

SOLD OUT

When world-renowned circus stars dream up a factory, it is no ordinary industrial plant. It’s a wild and wonderful workshop where the machines are circus props and the workers are acrobats, dancers, contortionists, and clowns. It’s Birdhouse Factory by Cirque Mechanics, an extraordinary troupe of Cirque du Soleil, Pickle Family Circus, and Moscow Circus veterans who transform the mundane into the magnificent. Don’t miss a performance that’s perfect for audiences of all ages: mesmerizing, passionate and joyous! Recommended for all ages.
Curriculum Connections: Circus Arts, Physics, Diego Rivera, the Great Depression, American Industry

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Wednesday, November 4
Bowker Auditorium
$6 students, $8 adults

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Dance, athleticism, and swordplay share the stage with sonnets, bawdy wit, and soul-searching speeches in this profoundly human and always surprising masterpiece. The American Shakespeare Center recovers the joys and accessibility of Shakespeare’s theatre and gives its audiences some of the pleasures that an Elizabethan playgoer would have enjoyed: universal lighting, doubling of parts, fun with gender confusion, minimal sets, familiar costumes and the use of music throughout.Co-presented with the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies Recommended for grades. 7 – 12.
This is a 2 hour performance.

Curriculum Connections: Shakespeare, Elizabethan Theatre, Love, Fate, Revenge, Social and Familial Expectations

Monday, November 2 – Friday, November 20

These three outsider artists from New Mexico share some unusual common bonds in their personal lives and histories as well as in their dedicated and disciplined approach to their art. All have lived a life with developmental disabilities, all have experienced a length of time confined to an institution, and all have come into their own individual artistic path later in life. Like many Outsider Artists, Jay Dickens, Arnold Nelson, and Floyd Nelson have developed artistically without any preconceived notions or limitations regarding art. They also have not received formal art instruction. Collectively, their work illustrates the triumph and strength of the human spirit.

Sunday, October 25
First Church, Northampton 3:00 pm
$20; Five College/GCC/STCC students/17 & under $15
In Memory of Sufi Bashir Ahamed

The poetry of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, recognized for its loving spirituality, has spread throughout the world, and has made him one of the greatest literary and spiritual figures of all time. Peter Rogen, an ardent Rumi devotee, received a Rockefeller Grant for study in the American theater and performed in Shakespeare plays with The Helen Hayes Equity Theater at BAM in New York, Most recently, he performed Rumi’s poetry at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and the National Cathedral in Washington DC.

Amir Vahab is a wonderful, internationally recognized musician and singer who will play the ney flute, tanbour and daf frame drum. Amir will also recite verses of Rumi in Farsi, and sing Rumi verses in Farsi and Turkish.

Presented in collaboration with the First Church in Northampton.

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Friday, October 23
Concert Hall 7:00 pm
$35, $25, $15, Five College/GCC/STCC students and Youth 17 and under: $10

Concerts by Dan Zanes & Friends are always cause for celebration, filled with singing and dancing to songs brimming with warmth, wisdom and wonderful music. The Grammy-Award winner is joined by his “beautifully scruffy, harmonically precise, spirited, and better-than-ever band” and they’ll be singing songs in both English and Spanish with their own homespun style giving you the feeling that a bunch of wildly talented friends and neighbors just got together to throw a party . . . and everyone’s invited. This is an ASL-interpreted event.

Arts Give Back
Link to Libraries collects and distributes new and gently used books to elementary school libraries and nonprofit organizations to enhance the language and literacy skills of children of all cultural backgrounds. Please visit their site for a list of preferred books or bring some goodies from your personal collection.

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Thursday, October 22
Bowker Auditorium
$6 students, $8 adults

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Take your students on a multicultural music journey! Cuban percussionist Dafnis Prieto’s revolutionary drumming techniques have had a powerful impact on both the Latin and jazz music scene, locally and internationally. Experience an eclectic mixture of traditional, Latin and world rhythms. He exhibits a forceful yet flexible sense of groove, derived from traditions of Afro-Caribbean hand percussion but also informed by polyrhythmic post-bop. This program demonstrates how jazz has bridged cultural, ethnic and economic differences; exemplifies democratic ideals; and influences other genres of music, both in the U.S. and abroad. Blending sounds from diverse cultures fused over time, the music created is truly unique. Recommended for all ages.

Curriculum Connections: Jazz and Latin jazz music, Cuba and US relations, Improvisation and Composition

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Sunday, October 18
Concert Hall 7:00 pm
$40, $30, $15, Five College/GCC/STCC students and Youth 17 and under: $15

When the internationally renowned Orquestra de São Paulo, one of Brazil’s most celebrated classical musical ensembles, returns to the United States it will tour with one of the most important young rising star conductors in the United States, 29-year-old Kazem Abdullah. The highlight of the tour will be the world premier of a new percussion concerto by Brazilian composer Marlos Nobre, which the Orquestra has commissioned for the extraordinary percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie.

Funding provided by the Vidda Foundation and members of the Fine Arts Center’s Orchestra Circle.

Global Gourmet
Taste of Brazil: The fire of Brazil will warm the evening air as we prepare a Brazilian specialty for your culinary delight with (1) Churrasco with Melho Companha (Brazilian BBQ beef w/warm hearts of palm salsa, tomatoes & spices), (2) Grilled Chicken w/Avocado Cream or (3) the vegetarian option of Black Bean & Roasted Vegetable Ragout. Dinner includes rolls, salad, entrée w/appropriate sides, dessert, coffee/tea. When making your reservation please indicate entrée selection by number. $25.00 p.p. inclusive

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Awakening to Happiness: Cultivating Compassion

Friday, October 16 – Sunday, October 18
Florence Civic Center, Park Street, Florence
$20 per session; students and seniors: $10 per session Day of the event: $25 & $12 WMASS Tibetan Association members: sliding scale of $5 to $10 per session
By audience request.

The Second Healing in Tibetan Buddhism Series
Awakening to Happiness: Cultivating Compassion
With Khen Rinpoche, Geshe Lobzang Tsetan Abbot, Tashi Lhumpo Monastery, Karnataka, India Founder & Director, Siddhartha School, Leh, Ladakh, David Gardiner, Associate Professor of Religion, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado & Dr. Phuntsog Wangmo, Doctor of Tibetan Medicine Shang Shung Tibetan Healing Center, Conway, Massachusetts.
Four sessions offering practical Tibetan Buddhist techniques for experiencing joy in daily life: Analysis, Meditation, Deity Yoga & Mantra.

Open to all, regardless of prior initiation or practice. Presented in partnership with the Friends of Khen Rinpoche and the Manjushri Institute for Buddhist Studies

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