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Exhibitions and other
On-Going Events
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Cue the James Bond theme music (the old James Bond as in Sean Connery); now imagine four international hot spots that are full of intrigue, romance and yes, perhaps a little danger. Now imagine visiting them all in the course of one evening. Disco in Casablanca, tango in Buenos Aires, karaoke in Tokyo and Celtic music in a London pub—it’s the Friends of the Fine Arts Center’s Annual Benefit Gala and Auction at the Hotel Northampton, Saturday, January 31st, 6:30 PM to 11:30 PM. It’s a gala evening that is full of great entertainment, food, and auction items donated by local businesses.
This series attempts to address the rift between one's
experience of place, and the detached objectivity of documents that describe
only its physical characteristics.
This installation deals with memories, and their gradual transition from "cold storage" into our
present experience.
Umass Art Council - 10 Curry Hicks - 545-0202 - 12 PM Deadline.
Recognized worldwide for its exuberant, athletic, and eclectic approach to dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has been an innovative force in contemporary dance for over three decades.
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Hubbard Street Dance Company Pre-performance talk by: Prof. Constance Valis Hill Wednesday, February 4 6:45 pm to 7:15 pm Free for those attending Hubbard Street Dance Company Fine Arts Center Lobby
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This exhibition presents a selection of recent video works by the internationally acclaimed Polish sculptor Miroslaw Balka.
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Opening Reception: Miroslaw Balka Thursday, February 5 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm Free and open to the public
In Conversation Wednesday, March 11 5:00 pm
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This exhibition is the second in a series of exhibitions in which artists are invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the University Gallery’s works-on-paper collection.
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Opening Reception: Sheron Rupp: Dialogue With a Collection Thursday, February 5 - Wednesday, February 5 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Free and open to the public. Free parking after 5pm.
In Conversations: 3 Salons with Art Critic Gloria Russell Wednesday, February 25 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band captures the rhythm and the pulse of the city's magnificent celebratory street music. Hot 8 performs music of the honored Second Line tradition, infusing the funk and energy that make New Orleans music loved around the world.
New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band has epitomized New Orleans street music for over a decade. Music reflecting songs familiar to the southern experience are performed interspersed with stories on the history of New Orleans and Katrina's impact on the lives of city residents.
The exhibit will showcase works by renowned painter and long-standing member of the Pioneer Valley, Nelson Stevens. Featuring a range of styles and mediums dating back to the 1970s, his works on paper, canvas, doors, board, album covers, prints in magazines and calendars attest to Stevens’ prolific career as a visual artist, teacher, arts activist, and cultural ambassador. Some works in this show are on loan by collectors, while others have been part of the Augusta Savage and Afro American Studies permanent collections.
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Opening Reception Gems in the Valley Monday, February 9 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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I Land
by Keo Woolford, directed by Roberta Uno
Wednesday, February 11 - Thursday, February 12, 8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium, Umass
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This is an Angel Ticket event
The New York Times proclaims that Kubínek is a "magician, clown, and comic whose jokes and ad-libs bring giggles from youngsters and guffaws from adults."
This is an Angel Ticket event
Described as part vaudeville, part improv and completely magical, this artist of international renown leaves his audiences with a comically altered view of life’s creative possibilities.
Of the crop of singers who have breathed new life into fado, the traditional Portuguese song form, none has risen so fast as Mariza. Considered throughout the world to be the reigning ambassador of Portuguese fado, Mariza has been seducing audiences globally with her awesome singing, charismatic stage presence, and powerful blend of traditional and contemporary songs.
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Mariza Portuguese festival Tuesday, February 19 6:30 pm Fine Arts Center Lobby
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Umass Art Council - 10 Curry Hicks - 545-0202 - 12 PM Deadline.
The legendary New Orleans saxophonist and educator Edward ‘Kidd’ Jordan brings his Trio, featuring William Parker and Alvin Fielder, for an incendiary evening of improvised music
Elaborately costumed puppets requiring three people to manipulate take the stage to perform programs of traditional dance, music and drama.
Widely applauded for its elegant artistry and sizzling sensuality, Luis Bravo's Forever Tango is a Broadway favorite that continues to wow audiences worldwide.Steamy and seductive, tango has captivated dance enthusiasts around the world with its mesmerizing rhythms, gestures, and movements.
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Global Gourmet Join us for Argentina's national dish Friday, February 27 5:00 pm Prix Fixe of $25 University Club and Restaurant
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The five hundred year old cradle of all other Japanese puppet theater forms...
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This exhibition presents a selection of recent video works by the internationally acclaimed Polish sculptor Miroslaw Balka.
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Opening Reception: Miroslaw Balka Thursday, February 5 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm Free and open to the public
In Conversation Wednesday, March 11 5:00 pm
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This exhibition is the second in a series of exhibitions in which artists are invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the University Gallery’s works-on-paper collection.
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Opening Reception: Sheron Rupp: Dialogue With a Collection Thursday, February 5 - Wednesday, February 5 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Free and open to the public. Free parking after 5pm.
In Conversations: 3 Salons with Art Critic Gloria Russell Wednesday, February 25 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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Monica Rabinowitz re-creates the memories of her Bulgarian grandmother’s life and projects them onto the interior windshield of a deconstructed tram car.
The exhibit will showcase works by renowned painter and long-standing member of the Pioneer Valley, Nelson Stevens. Featuring a range of styles and mediums dating back to the 1970s, his works on paper, canvas, doors, board, album covers, prints in magazines and calendars attest to Stevens’ prolific career as a visual artist, teacher, arts activist, and cultural ambassador. Some works in this show are on loan by collectors, while others have been part of the Augusta Savage and Afro American Studies permanent collections.
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Opening Reception Gems in the Valley Monday, February 9 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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Umass Art Council - 10 Curry Hicks - 545-0202 - 12 PM Deadline.
Founded over fifty years ago, this troupe has been one of the most influential acrobatic ensembles in the world, having won every important award in international competitions. From plate-spinning to cycling stunts to bench-juggling with their feet, The National Acrobats of China never cease to amaze audiences around the globe.
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These astounding athletes undertake feats ranging from gravity-defying balancing acts and spine-bending contortions to stunts such as foot juggling, chair stacking and plate spinning. Join us to be thrilled by one of the best acrobatic troupes in the world. SOLD OUT Call to be placed on the waiting list
A reading featuring several graduates of the MFA program for poets and
writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
From art songs to folk songs, from Smokey Robinson to Richard Strauss, Cantus' brilliant sound, innovative programming and heart-felt singing have garnered the highest praise from critics and audiences alike. The singers—solo quality all—produce a wonderfully warm, gutsy and masculine sounds as well as a kind of smooth delivery, overtly emotionality, and uncanny sense of ensemble.
Three master improvising violinists pay homage to the most important violinist to emerge in the post-Coltrane era: the late Leroy Jenkins.
Athletic and hard-driving yet graceful, this sensational Irish-American dance company crosses cultural boundaries to create a new cutting-edge vocabulary for Irish step dancing. For a dazzling evening of dance, complete with beautiful costumes, lighting, and live music, don't miss Trinity Irish Dance.
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Global Gourmet You will be Irish before you get to the performance if you dine with us. Friday, March 27 5:00 pm Prix Fixe $25 University Club & Restaurant
The Arts Give Back: Jessie's House Friday, March 27 8:00 pm
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Monica Rabinowitz re-creates the memories of her Bulgarian grandmother’s life and projects them onto the interior windshield of a deconstructed tram car.
Artists from USA, Egypt, Ukraine, Morocco, England, Syria, Thailand, Dubai, Brazil, Germany, Romani, Vietnam, and Poland collaborate as participants in TransCultural Exchange’s
Here, There, and Everywhere: Anticipating The Future of Art (in partnership with Hampden Gallery)
Through video, photos, audio materials, and objects, these artists will research in the cities where they live among the many women who are affected by migration. They leave their land, their families, their cultural roots and face an usually hard welcome in those rich promiseland nations.
Umass Art Council - 10 Curry Hicks - 545-0202 - 12 PM Deadline.
Created in collaboration with professional artists, Project 2050 youth use hip-hop, spoken word, breaking, stepping, music, video storytelling and more, to share their realities and examine local and global issues in this high-energy, original performance. They burst onto the stage, asking the tough questions and showing their creative imagining of a near-future when it will become imperative to address issues of race construction, social equity and power. Join Project 2050 as they truly imagine and create a new future on stage!
Under the direction of cellist Yuri Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal has been celebrated throughout the world for its laser-like precision, cohesion, expressiveness, assurance, and compelling flair. Fanfare magazine recently recognized I Musici de Montréal as "one of the best chamber orchestras in North America."
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I Musici de Montreal Pre-performance talk by artist/violinist Natasha Turovsky Friday, April 3 2:15 pm to 2:45 pm Fine Arts Center Lobby
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A Native American adaptation of the highly successful British play Tir na N’og by Greg Banks (who directs this version), this heart-warming adventure story explores the value of tradition, culture and family in a contemporary framework.
The general public is invited to join our school audience for an exciting concert featuring jazz trumpeter, Tiger Okoshi with special guests Odaiko New England Taiko drumming troupe.
Reprising a joint performance that welcomed Dice-K to the Boston Red Sox- this performance fuses traditonal instruments in an exciting new sound!
A solo exhibition of recent works by Yusef Lateef. Lateef's trees, created in the last two years since his retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are far from conventional, as one might expect, giving us yet another glimpse into his fully engaged life.
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Opening Reception Art from the Heart Thursday, April 16 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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This 50th anniversary exhibition will display covers and original artwork from all five decades, as a sort of timeline, as well as ephemera, letters, and broadsides.
Composed of the country's leading symphonic virtuosos and led by the electrifying conductor and violinist Vladimir Spivakov, the National Philharmonic of Russia has quickly established itself as the finest and most exciting orchestra to emerge from Russia in many years.
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National Philharmonic of Russia Pre-performance talk by Lonfranco Marcelletti Sunday, April 19 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm Free for those attending Fine Arts Center Lobby
Global Gourmet The University Club & Restaurant will enchant you with its pre-show Russian cuisine. Sunday, April 19 5:00 pm
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Reading from his most recent book of poetry, this Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts brings us reflections and a celebration for those meaningful moments in life. Dr. Tillis, a native of Galveston, Texas is an accomplished poet, composer, saxophonist, professor, and administrator. He has published numerous books of poetry; and his music catalog is extensive, including more than 125 compositions and commissions, spanning both jazz and classical European traditions in various media - orchestral, jazz, instrumental, choral, chamber music, and vocal works.
The Symmetric Orchestra, Diabaté's terrific pan-African band, includes musicians from Senegal, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Mali. All contribute to a buoyantly jubilant sound that will rock the Fine Arts Center. Join in the party spirit!
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Toumani Diabate : Earth Day Celebration Wednesday, April 22
Toumani Diabate Pre-performance talk by: Prof. Olabode Omojola Thursday, April 23 6:45 pm to 7:15 pm Free for those attending Toumani Diabate Fine Arts Center Lobby
The Arts Give Back: New England Learning Center for Women in Transition Thursday, April 23 7:30 pm
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Ganelin is a master architect who can combine eclectic and poly-stylistic themes, abstract ideas, stories and mini-dramas into a unified statement, and let it sound symphonic, orchestral, and cinematic.
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Ameriville is a cross-disciplinary, bi-lingual, multimedia exploration of what it means to be an American in the post-9/11 world of terror-level codes, the 'misinformation superhighway,' and media-fed xenophobia. Universes' unique brand of fushion theater gives new insight and urgency to the national re-examination of values, purpose, and ideals in the wake of 9/11 and in the midst of the so-called "war on terror." Inspired by the panic induced by the 1939 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Ameriville maneuvers through contemporary issues including censorship, patriotism, the Katrina disaster, and the narrowing divide between church and state to expose "a disrobed Lady Liberty as she lies in the arms of mass media and technology, no longer sure of her own beliefs."
This 50th anniversary exhibition will display covers and original artwork from all five decades, as a sort of timeline, as well as ephemera, letters, and broadsides.
Ameriville is a cross-disciplinary, bi-lingual, multimedia exploration of what it means to be an American in the post-9/11 world of terror-level codes, the 'misinformation superhighway,' and media-fed xenophobia. Universes' unique brand of fushion theater gives new insight and urgency to the national re-examination of values, purpose, and ideals in the wake of 9/11 and in the midst of the so-called "war on terror." Inspired by the panic induced by the 1939 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Ameriville maneuvers through contemporary issues including censorship, patriotism, the Katrina disaster, and the narrowing divide between church and state to expose "a disrobed Lady Liberty as she lies in the arms of mass media and technology, no longer sure of her own beliefs."
Exhilarating and endlessly inspirational, the extraordinary dancers of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater have dazzled audiences from New York City to China with their thrilling fusion of power, grace, and unparalleled artistry.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Screening of Alvin Ailey: Beyond the Steps Sunday, May 3 5:00 pm Herter
Global Gourmet Let your passions fly: join us for a pre-performance dinner at the University Club & Restaurant. Wednesday, May 13 5:00 pm
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