What’s Happening in Amherst?

by Art and Maura Keene

The students are back and there is a lot happening around town. You can help us make our events calendar more comprehensive by sending us your listings and including contact information and/or a link for more information. Send events listings to amherstindy@gmail.com.

SINGLE DAY EVENTS
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13: FREE CONCERT LOUISVILLE BRASS QUINTET: Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass. 7:30 p.m. Free. Performing works by Higdon, DiLorenzo, Bernstein, Nathan, Wilborn, Jan Bach and others. Founded in 1993, Louisville Brass is the resident brass chamber ensemble at the University of Louisville School of Music. Comprised exclusively of School of Music faculty, Louisville Brass is committed to artistic performance and to the sharing of knowledge of literature and styles through clinics and master classes. The ensemble is well-versed in a wide range of styles, and the repertoire list ranges from the Renaissance to jazz.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14: INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY DAY FAIR. Bromery Arts Plaza, UMass. Noon- 3 p.m. Rain Site: Room 227 Herter Hall. Visit activity tables to learn about the past: write your name in ancient scripts, make a curse tablet, hold replicas of ancient vases and coins, and more! Browse the book sale of donated Classics and archaeology books, take a Minecraft tour of an ancient site, and hear about local archaeological remains at the Quabbin Reservoir. More information

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14: SIRINTIP. 3 p.m. Goodell Lawn, UMass. Thai-Swedish multimodal artist, singer, and producer Sirintip creates works that center climate through empathy and meaningful connections. She has released three critically-acclaimed albums, Carbon, The Lost World, and Tribus and has collaborated on albums from Bill Laurance of Snarky Puppy, Sasha Berliner,Kengchakaj Kengkarnka, and The Fur. This solar-powered, carbon-neutral performance is presented as part of Family Weekend at UMass. Free.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14: 51st ANNUAL FALL FOLIAGE ABC WALK AND CIDER RUN. Amherst Town Common, 10 a.m. The Fall Foliage & Cider Run is a community celebration of Amherst A Better Chance, a residential high school program that prepares academically talented young men of color from educationally underserved school districts for college and future leadership roles.  Run or walk to support Amherst A Better Chance and enjoy a cup of cider at the finish line! The walk/run starts at Amherst Town Common, partly circles Amherst College campus and enters the woodlands of the Amherst College bird sanctuary, highlighted by a beautiful view over the Pelham Hills. Finally, it follows the Norwottuck Rail Trail back to the campus.  Learn more at www.AmherstABetterChance.org/FallFoliageAndCiderRun
PRE-REGISTER BY WEDNESDAY — INDIVIDUALLY OR AS A TEAM
Questions:please contact us at FallFoliageAndCiderRun@gmail.com.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14: AMHERST FIRE DEPARTMENT OPEN HOUSE. Central (downtown) fire station at 68 North Pleasant Street, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. In conjunction with National Fire Prevention Week, the Amherst Fire Department will again host an open house.   This event will feature something for all ages, and will include Fire and EMS vehicles and equipment on display, demonstrations such as the “Jaws of Life,” safety information and other giveaways from both the fire department and other agencies, and refreshments.  We hope to have a visit from Smokey Bear as well!  This event will be held rain or shine.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14: TOWN SHADE TREE NURSERY WORK DAY. The Shade Tree Committee is creating its own tree nursery and invites you to help get that started on Saturday October 14, from 9 a.m. – Noon. If you’ve purchased a tree in the last few years, you already know that the price of trees has skyrocketed. This is a widely documented phenomenon with no sign of abating soon. And it means that our small budget doesn’t go very far when it’s time to buy trees for planting around town. So we’ve decided to take matters into our own hands by creating our own nursery. The town will allow us to use the abandoned horse farm on Station Road to grow our own trees from seedlings, significantly reducing the cost of trees over the long term. We’ll be working on Station Road. Just drive between the South Amherst Common and the Rail Trail, and you’ll see us.

MONDAY OCTOBER 16: BILL MCKiBBEN ON ECOLOGY, CULTURE, & DEMOCRACY. 6 p.m. Frederick Tillis Performance Hall, Bromery Center for the Arts, UMass.  McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, & journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming.   He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College & leader of the climate campaign group 350.org.   He is author of numerous books, including Fight Global Warming Now, The End of Nature, & We are Better Together.   For more information & other events see: Art Sustainability Activism.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 17: SENIOR CENTER COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR. The public is invited to the Second Annual Amherst Senior Center Health Fair on Tuesday, October 17 from 2-4 p.m. at the Bangs Community Center (70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst). Local providers will be onsite to answer questions and help the community take steps towards a better lifestyle! Medicare Open Enrollment is underway and it’s the perfect time to think about your health and meet local providers. This year we’re partnering with a number of organizations who provide mental health services, hearing services, medication management, and more. Providers include: MA Behavioral Health Help Line, UMass Kinesiology, Christopher Heights, Hospice of the Fisher Home, MedMinder, Mass General Brigham/Cooley Dickinson, Highland Valley Elder Services, Health New England, and more! 

TUESDAY OCTOBER 17: NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE. 7 p.m. Integrative Learning Center (ILC) at UMass, 3d Floor Communications Department hub. Norman Finkelstein is one of the most original and controversial scholars of our time. Sponsored by the Department of Communication, Department of History, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of Philosophy, The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Resistance Studies, the Media Education Foundation, and Interlink Books. For more information, contact Sut Jhally (sutj@umass.edu). Free and open to the public.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 17: JONNY STEINBERG, WINNIE AND NELSON: PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE. 4:30 p.m. Old Chapel, UMass. Jonny Steinberg, two-time winner of South Africa’s premier nonfiction prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, will discuss his double biography about Winnie and Nelson Mandela. The struggle of Winnie and Nelson was not only against apartheid, but also with and against each other. Theirs is a story not to be forgotten. Steinberg will be joined in conversation with Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor of English. Free and open to the public.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 17: TRANSFORMED – AMHERST CINEMA.Transformed, a four-part series amplifying trans stories, representation and filmmakers, will be shown on Amherst Cinema screens in September and October. During these four weeks, audiences are invited to explore and experience trans storytelling, fostering an appreciation for trans filmmaking as an enduring and essential part of American cinema. KOKOMO CITY. 7:00 p.m. Directed by D. Smith. 2023. 73 mins. R. More information

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18: LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS CANDIDATE FORUM (rescheduled from October 12). The League of Women Voters forum for candidates for Library Trustee and School Committee, originally scheduled for Thursday, October 12 will now be held on Wednesday October 18 in the Amherst Regional High School Auditorium. The panel of Library Trustee candidates will appear at 7:00 p.m. and School Committee Candidates will appear at 8:00 p.m.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18: POETRY READING BY DEBORAH GORLIN AND BRAD CRENSHAW. 6 p.m. Amherst Books, 8 Main Street. Crenshaw has published a chapbook as well as four books volumes of poetry, most recently, Memphis Shoals as well as the forthcoming, Chased by Lunacies & Wonders, which won the Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets 2023.   Before winning the 2014 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, Deborah Gorlin won the 1996 White Pine Press Poetry Prize for her first book of poems, Bodily Course.   Her latest book is Open Fire.  Both Crenshaw & Gorlin live in Amherst.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18: NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, WHY HOLOCAUST DENIERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK. 12 noon. Integrative Learning Center (ILC) at UMass, 3d Floor, Communications Department hub. Sponsored by the Department of Communication, Department of History, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of Philosophy, The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Resistance Studies, the Media Education Foundation, and Interlink Books. For more information, contact Sut Jhally (sutj@umass.edu). Free and open to the public.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18: NORMAN FINKELSTEIN. W.E.B. DU BOIS VS. WOKE CULTURE. 6:30 p.m. 106 Thompson, UMass. Sponsored by the Department of Communication, Department of History, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of Philosophy, The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Resistance Studies, the Media Education Foundation, and Interlink Books. For more information, contact Sut Jhally (sutj@umass.edu ) Free and open to the public.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18: UMASS JAZZ ENSEMBLE I &. CHAPEL JAZZ. 7:30 p.m. Bowker Auditorium, UMass Jeffrey Holmes and Felipe Salles, Directors. Chapel Jazz: Music by Bob Mintzer, Mary Lou Williams, Benny Carter, Sherisse Rogers, Paquito D’Rivera & Michael Abene’s arrangement of “On Green Dolphin Street.” Jazz Ensemble I: Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dog Olsen ’91, graduate jazz composer Hugo Sanbone, Fletcher Henderson, Bob Mintzer, and Jeff Holmes. $15/$5 students.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 19: EMMET COHEN TRIO. 7:30 p.m. Bowker Auditorium, UMass. Emmet Cohen, piano, Philip Norris, bass, Joe Farnsworth, drums. Our spectacular 2023-2024 jazz series continues with a performance by the versatile, inventive, and virtuosic pianist, bandleader, and composer Emmet Cohen.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 19: 24^th ANNUAL EQBAL AHMAD SYMPOSIUM.  4 p.m. Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College. “They say Get Back, We say Fight Back!   [Trans] Gender Politics in the U.S. Streets & State Houses”  Representative Zooey Zephyr, who has deeply moved us by her courage & her clear-sighted articulation of the issues at stake in states’ attacks on transgender lives & transgender visibility; & in the attempt to ban her from public office, will talk at the Main Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College, Amherst.   For more information: Eqbal Ahmad Annual Lecture Series page.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 19. DOROTHEA LASKY, VISITING WRITERS’ SERIES. 6 p.m. Old Chapel, UMass. The inimitable Dorothea Lasky will read from her recent volume of poetry, The Shining, in the Old Chapel, UMass, Amherst.   Lasky is author of seven books of poetry & prose, including Animal; & Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry.   For more information go here.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 20: SYMPOSIUM HONORING THE LIFE AND WORK OF JOHN H. BRACEY, JR. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Integrative Learning Center, Room S140, UMass, North Pleasant Street. Bracey was a Black Studies pioneer & longtime faculty member in the UMass Amherst W.E.B Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies since 1972, who died in February 2023 at age 81.     For more information on the symposium go here.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 20: GALLERY RECEPTION FOR BELLA HALLSTED. Amherst Town Hall, 6 Boltwood Avenue, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Please use the Main Street entrance. Hallsted’s paintings will be on display at Town Hall throughout the month of October. More information

FRIDAY OCTOBER 20:UMASS WIND ENSEMBLE & SYMPHONY BAND. 7:30 p.m. Frederick Tillis Hall, Bromery Center for the Arts, UMass. Matthew Westgate and Lindsay Bronnenkant, conductors. Music by Grainger, Persichetti, Wagner, Genastera, J.S. Bach, and our own Lindsay Bronnenkant’s Tarot.  $15/ $5 students.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 21: MEMORIAL HONORING THE LIFE AND WORK OF JOHN H. BRACEY, JR. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Campus Center Amherst Room (10th Floor), UMass.   Bracey was a Black Studies pioneer & longtime faculty member in the UMass Amherst W.E.B Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies since 1972, who died in February 2023 at age 81.   Those of us who knew him at Amherst Books miss him badly. For more information on the memorial go here

SATURDAY OCTOBER 21: UMASS WOODWIND CHAMBER ENSEMBLES. 3 p.m. Bezanson Hall, UMass. Remi Taghavi and Josh Michal, coordinators. Music by Wind Quintets and other small ensembles. Free. Youtube live link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MaYf2yR3mA .

SATURDAY OCTOBER 21: GRACE CHURCH FALL HARVEST MUSIC FESTIVAL. The weekend will start off with a Gospel Sing on Saturday, October 21 at 10:00 a.m. Richard “Dick” Damon who is the church organist and who has extensive experience in playing gospel music with Horace Clarence Boyer, the foremost scholar in African-American gospel music, will lead participants in what promises to be a joyful and spiritual musical celebration. A jazz concert will take place later on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. This concert will feature John Clark on the horn, Jerry Noble on the piano, Kara Noble as bassist, and Richard Mayer on the drums.  “This will be a rare treat for jazz lovers and others to hear a quartet of outstanding musicians who have performed extensively on a national and international basis.,” said Hocken. More information

SUNDAY OCTOBER 22: GRACE CHURCH FALL HARVEST MUSIC FESTIVAL. The festival finale will be on Sunday, October 22 at 4:00 p.m. with a classical music concert. Artists include Lynn Klock on the saxophone, Kell Julliard on the flute and organ, Miriam Jenkins playing the recorder, and Dick Damon on the organ and piano.  Jim Mead and Libby Maxey will be the soloists.  The concert will also feature, Cantabile, a regionally celebrated a cappella vocal ensemble specializing in vocal chamber music of the European Renaissance. More information

SUNDAY OCTOBER 22: TOWN SHADE TREE COMMITTEE DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR. Join the Amherst Public Shade Tree Committee for a free tour of Downtown Trees on Sunday, October 22, at 1 p.m.. This is a repeat of the successful tour from Mother’s Day 2022 but will showcase the autumn season plus changes in the trees over this time. Meet at the side of the Jones Library, in front of the Strong House and the big sycamore.”

SUNDAY OCTOBER 22: DISTRICT ONE CANDIDATE FORUM. District One Neighborhood Association (DONA) will host a Town Council candidate forum for District One and At-Large candidates on Sunday, October 22, from 3 – 5 p.m. in the Common Room at Cherry Hill Co-Housing, 120 Pulpit Hill Road in Amherst.  The Forum will be moderated by former Selectperson Alisa Brewer.  The public is invited both to attend and to submit questions for the candidates by sending them to ContactUs@amherstdona.org by October 20.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 24: DEAN CYCON: FINDING HOME. 7 to 8 p.m., Jones Library, 43 Amity Street. Join us on Tuesday, October 24, from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm to hear Dean Cycon read from his new novel, Finding Home (Hungary, 1945) and talk about his research and motivation for writing the book. He will be accompanied by noted Klezmer musicians Jason Ditzian (clarinet) and Bea Carlson (accordion) – both members of Western Mass-based ensemble, Myrtle Street Klezmer.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 26: COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF DEMETRIA “DEE” SHABAZZ.
5:30 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. 121 North Pleasant Street. More information

SATURDAY OCTOBER 28: JEWISH COMMUNITY OF AMHERST POETRY READING. 7 p.m. 742 Main Street. An Evening of Poetry with JCA Rabbi Benjamin Weiner, JCA Poet-in-Residence Jena Schwartz, and JCA congregant/National Jewish Book Award Winner Richard Michelson. Join us for a short Havdalah Service, followed by poetry, schmoozing and refreshments. Fully accessible, free, everyone is welcome! Zoom access available: https://form.jotform.com/223206560189152 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3: 49^TH ANNUAL MULTIBAND POPS. 7:30 p.m. Frederick Tillis Hall, Bromery Center for the Arts, UMass. Our fast-paced showcase of wind, brass, jazz, vocal, orchestral & percussion ensembles, plus the Minuteman Marching Band for the entire second half. Featuring Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, Jazz Ensemble, Chapel Jazz, Vocal Jazz, UMass Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir with Chorale, Percussion Ensemble, Trombone Choir & more. Tickets at https://www.umass.edu/music/event/49th-annual-multiband-pops-concert  $25/18 students.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7: AMHERST SENIOR CENTER COVID-19 AND FLU VACCINE CLINIC. 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bangs Center, 70 Botwood Walk. Open to the public. Register either online through this link: https://home.color.com/vaccine/register/northampton or over the phone by calling this number: 413-587-1314.

ONGOING AND MULTI-DAY EVENTS
FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH. RAINBOW COFFEE HOUR. 10-11 a.m. Amherst Senior Center, Bangs Center, 70 Boltwood Walk. The Rainbow Coffee Hour is a new LGBTIA+ social coffee group for ages 50 and above. Join us for this welcoming space to socialize. No format, no agenda, just community. The July coffee hour will be held on July 11, due to July 4 being the first Tuesday of the month.

FIRST AND THIRD TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH (EXCLUDING JULY): NORTHAMPTON JAZZ WORKSHOP. The Drake. 44 North Pleasant Street. 7:30 p.m. Free (donations accepted). Featuring the Green Street trio with a special guest. Featured set at 7:30 followed by an open jam session. Bring your axe. Full calendar of events here.

SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH (EXCLUDING JULY): OPEN MIC NIGHT AT THE DRAKE. 44 North Pleasant Street. Free event. Performers arrive by 5:30 p.m. Stage time: 6 p.m – 10 p.m. All ages. Younger performers will be slotted earler. All performers and styles of performances welcome, including but not limited to: music (of all kinds) – acoustic, folk, rock, hip hop, jazz, classical, etc…comedy, spoken word / readings, poetry, dance, performance art. House rules and more information.

FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH: MOBILE FOOD PROGRAM. 1-2 p.m. The Boulders, 156 Brittany Manor Drive. Free produce. No registration necessary. Open to everyone. Brought by the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts and the Amherst Survival Center. The Food Bank truck will be in the parking lot near apartments 115-125.

LAST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH: CRAFT AND CONVERSE. Mill District General Store and Local Art Gallery, 91 Cowls Road. 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Are you tired of creating in solitude? Looking to connect with other artistic individuals? Grab your sketchbook, knitting bag, or water color gear and join our monthly coworking group! Craft and converse, hosted by Easthampton artist Kaia Zimmerman, is held the last Wednesday of every month from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. This welcoming, intentional space is designed for community members to come together for a casual, social evening while pursuing their own creative projects. Drop-ins welcome, but registration encouraged for any weather-related changes in schedule. Bring your own arts or crafts project (BYOA) to work on. Ages 16+.

EVERY WEDNESDAY : CAN’T REMEMBER CAFE. Bangs Community Center, 70 Boltwood Walk. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Are you or a loved one experiencing memory loss? At the Amherst Senior Center, we understand memory changes and have developed a new program based on the popular Memory Café format. The Can’t Remember (CR) Café offers fun, relaxation, and of course, snacks. This program is perfect for caregivers, people with mild memory loss, or anyone in the community who enjoys good conversation and strong coffee. Each Can’t Remember Café opens with a coffee and conversation hour, followed by a group activity. Join us on Wednesday, November 30th for a performance by our special musical guests, “Healing Hearts with Harmony” at 11:00am. Come for the coffee, stay for the connections! Email seniorcenter@amherstma.gov or call 413-259-3060 with questions. 

EVERY THURSDAY: STITCH CIRCLE. 4 to 6 p.m. Mill District Local Art Gallery and General Store, 91 Cowls Road. Grab your needles, venture to the General Store, and join us for our first Stitch Circle. Knitters, quilters, embroidery artists, and crocheters are all invited. Free.

FRIDAYS SEPTEMBER 29 THROUGH NOVEMBER 10: FIVE COLLEGE LEARNING IN RETIREMENT ENCORE PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES. 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Zoom. Encore is a re-presentation of the best presentations from the previous semester. Nominations are made to moderators from each class, or directly to the Encore team. Presenters who are nominated have the option of presenting, and of updating their presentation with additional material before giving it during an Encore session. For a list of topics and to register, contact Kristin Langevin at fclic@fivecolleges.edu.

EVERY SATURDAY THROUGH NOVEMBER 18: AMERST FARMERS” MARKET. Amherst Town Common. 7:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. This year’s market will features 45 vendors (so far) and has room to sign up a few more. More information

SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH (JUNE THROUGH OCTOBER): ART ON THE LAWN. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Amherst History Museum 67 Amity Street. Art on the Lawn at the Amherst History Museum takes place on the second Saturday of June, July, September and October; June 10, July 8, September 9 and October 14. Artists and crafters will be set up on the lawn of the museum from 11:00am to 3:00pm when the museum is open for visitors. Stop by to visit and chat with the artists. Come into the museum to see our newest exhibit, The Magnificent Life & Art of Mabel Loomis Todd, take a tour of the newly reinstalled rooms in the house, peruse books in the reading room, and view our extensive clothing textile collection. Entry to the museum is free, but a $5 donation is suggested.

THIRD SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH APRIL THROUGH OCTOBER: CARS AND COFFEE AT THE MILL DISTRICT. Hosted by the Mill District General Store, 91 Cowls Road, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. It is free for collectors to display their cars and compete for trophies in four categories: best domestic, best foreign, best exotic, and best overall, based on votes of the public. Plus, there will be coffee from Futura Coffee Roasters which will soon be joining the Mill District. Cars and Coffee will be held rain or shine

NOW through FRIDAY OCTOBER 13: SEER: THE ART OF SARAH BELCHETZ-SWENSON.
Amherst College, Fayerweather Hall, Eli Marsh Gallery,17 Fayerweather Drive. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. This exhibition explores the evolution of Sarah Belchetz-Swenson’s art throughout her long career. Belchetz-Swenson’s distinct and complex style combines a fluent use of traditional techniques with a modernist and feminist sensibility. There is always a tension between her precisely drawn subjects and the challenging, complex, emotion-infused worlds they inhabit.

NOW through SUNDAY OCTOBER 28: CAPTURED MOMENTS, ACRYLIC AND PASTEL PAINTINGS BY KIMBERLY A. BEAUREGARD. Burnett Gallery, Jones Library, 43 Amity Street. 9 a.m – 5:15 p.m except Sundays (1 p.m. – 5:15. p.m.) Free and open to the public. Artist Kimberly A. Beauregard’s acrylic and pastel paintings will be on display for the month of October. Explore her crisp contemporary landscapes that seek to “Capture Moments” of what is beautiful right in front of us but often missed as we go on with our busy lives. The Artist reception will be on October 5th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm, with complimentary refreshments, and includes artwork by Robert Markey who shares exhibit space for duration of event.

NOW through SATURDAY OCTOBER 8: EXHIBIT AT GALLERY A3 – REGENGERATION – THINGS THAT FALL AT OUR FEET. 28 Amity Street 1D. Gallery Hours: TH-SUN. 2-7 p.m. Sue Katz and Rebecca Muller work with found objects, renewing, restoring, and rearranging a variety of natural and man-made materials, to infuse them with new meaning across multiple media. More information

NOW through THE END OF OCTOBER: ANNUAL AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER HIKE FOR HUNGER. You can register as an individual or as part of a team and set your personal hiking goal. Once you register, you’ll be able to customize your own PledgeReg fundraising page to start collecting donations from family and friends.Come October, head out on the trails wherever and whenever you’d like – with your family, your friends, or your furry friends – and share your adventures. You can also join one of our group hikes! Hike for Hunger runs from Oct 1 – 31. You have four weeks to reach your fundraising goal! Proceeds from Hike for Hunger go directly to our food and nutrition programs, which last year provided 1.3 million meals (prepared and groceries) to nearly 8,600 neighbors. Register at https://amherstsurvival.org/donate/special-events/hikeforhunger/  $25

NOW THROUGH FRIDAY JANUARY 5: UMASS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LIBRARY GLOBAL HEALTH EXHIBIT. 9 a.m – 5 p.m. Sunday thorugh Friday. 740 N. Pleasant St. Around the world, communities, in collaboration with scientists, activists, governments, and international organizations, are taking up the challenge to prevent disease and improve quality of life. Making a World of Difference: Stories about Global Health examines stories of the people who are working on a wide range of issues—from community health to conflict, disease to discrimination—to improve health in their areas and beyond. Free.

NOW UNTIL JANUARY 7, 2024: BOUNDLESS, WORKS BY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS AND WRITERS. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 41 Quadrangle Drive. Boundless is a nearly museum-wide exhibition that features work by Native American writers and artists, grounded in but not contained to the Northeast. Boundless takes shape like water, moving across generations and geographies, and expanding conversations about kinship, presence, resistance, and history through its flow. The exhibition never chooses one path, but moves in multiple directions and broadens as it goes. A wide range of materials from Amherst College’s Collection of Native American Literature and the Mead form the core of the exhibition, and are joined by key works on loan from artists and other institutional and private collections. Curated by Heid Erdrich, a member of the Ojibwe people of Minnesota. Hours 9 to 5 Tuesday through Sunday, Open until 10 p.m. on Thursdays during the semester.

NOW THROUGH THE END OF OCTOBER: ANNUAL AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER HIKE FOR HUNGER. You can register as an individual or as part of a team and set your personal hiking goal. Once you register, you’ll be able to customize your own PledgeReg fundraising page to start collecting donations from family and friends.Come October, head out on the trails wherever and whenever you’d like – with your family, your friends, or your furry friends – and share your adventures. You can also join one of our group hikes! Hike for Hunger runs from Oct 1 – 31. You have four weeks to reach your fundraising goal! Proceeds from Hike for Hunger go directly to our food and nutrition programs, which last year provided 1.3 million meals (prepared and groceries) to nearly 8,600 neighbors. Register at https://amherstsurvival.org/donate/special-events/hikeforhunger/  $25.