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WHAT IS THE AMHERST FRINGE?

The Arts at Amherst Fringe Festival 2014 is a four-day event performance events. The work in this festival spans many mediums, and represents a small cross-section of the exciting work done by Amherst College faculty, staff, and student artists. The arts community of Amherst College invites you to join them in celebrating the arts at Amherst. All events take place May 1-4, 2014, at various locations around campus. More information for some events will be coming soon to the Festivals website: www.amherstfringe.tumblr.com All events are open to the public and completely free of charge, with the exception of Saturdays Amherst Symphony Orchestra concert, tickets for which can be purchased at the door. If you post about the festival, or any pieces you may have seen over the festivals four days, on social media, we encourage you to use #amherstfringe2014. Enjoy! Sincerely, Arts at Amherst

The Arts at Amherst Fringe Festival 2014 is a project of the Arts at Amherst initiative, whose goal it is to increase the visibility of the exciting artistic work being done at Amherst College. To stay in the loop, please visit Facebook.com/AmherstArts.

THURSDAY MAY 1

4:00pm - 5:30pm Blurred Lines: Creating Performance for Non-Traditional Spaces Various Locations. Gather on the steps of Frost Library. IN CASE OF RAIN: Bring rain gear. 6:30pm - 7:00pm Procession and Performance by the Expandable Brass Band Begins outside Converse, concludes in the Freshman Quad. IN CASE OF RAIN: Performance on the steps of Frost Library 7:00pm - 7:45pm Jake Meginsky/Vic Rawlings Electro-Acoustic Duo Merrill Science Building Courtyard IN CASE OF RAIN: Webster Hall, Studio 1 7:45pm - 8:30pm Illumination Opening Reception Mead Art Museum Courtyard IN CASE OF RAIN: Stirn Auditorium Lobby Refreshments will be served.

SATURDAY MAY 3
12:00pm - 1:30pm Going Digital Mead Art Museum

2:00pm - 3:30pm Scripts and Scores Studio Performances Webster Hall, Studio 1 performances throughout the afternoon. 5:30pm - 6:30pm Solo Performance Series Webster Hall, Studio 3 6:45pm - 7:45pm Screening of Experimental Film, Video, and Else Stirn Auditorium 8:00pm Amherst Symphony Orchestra Concert Buckley Recital Hall

FRIDAY MAY 2
4:30pm - 5:30pm A Closer Look at American Furniture Mead Art Museum 5:30pm - 7:00pm Pioneer Valley Soundscapes Documentaries Stirn Auditorium 8:00pm - 9:30pm Films at the Farm Book and Plow Farm, Tuttle Hill Greenhouse IN CASE OF RAIN: Event takes place same time on Saturday. 8:00pm AC Jazz Ensemble Concert Buckley Recital Hall

SUNDAY MAY 4
2:00pm - 2:30pm King Phillips Hill Kirby Theater Lobby 2:30pm - 3:15pm Kirby Performance Series Kirby Theater immediately following... A Marriage: Art and Science Holden Theater Courtyard Wedding reception to follow in Holden Theater 4:00pm Madrigal Singers Concert Mead Art Museum 7:00pm AC Jazz Combos Concert Buckley Recital Hall

ONGOING EVENTS CREDITS

Festival Producer: Faculty Advisor: Arts at Amherst Steering Committee: Sam Congdon Wendy Woodson Elizabeth Barker Jeffers Engelhardt Carol Keller Wendy Woodson Interactions with Constructed Spaces

A gallery exhibition documenting the sculptural research with the ubiquitous material, cardboard, undertaken by students of Markus Wirthmanns Garage Sciences class.
Frost Library, on view throughout festival

Artists Book Display

A curated display of artists books from Frost Librarys circulating collection. Come browse! Frost Library, on view throughout festival

Special Thanks:

Amherst OAS Jon Doyle Kathy Couch Reilly Horan George Shaheen Amherst Custodial Services Amherst Special Services Book and Plow Farm Frost Library

Illumination

Visiting artist Markus Wirthmann illuminates the steeple at the Mead Art Museum.
Mead Art Museum, on view throughout festival (Opening reception May 1 at 7:45.)

Painting a Place with a View

Dave Gloman, Resident Artist in the Art and History of Art Department, will paint/perform a large-scale landscape painting at the Book and Plow Farm. The painting will be painted directly outdoors over a period of 24 hours, capturing the view of the Pelham Hills.
Tuttle Hill, Book and Plow Farm Dave will begin painting at 9:00am on Friday, May 2 and conclude the painting at 9:00am on Saturday, May 3. You may visit his outdoor studio at any time.

EVENT LISTINGS
Thursday, May 1

EVENT LISTINGS
Friday, May 2

Blurred Lines: Creating Performance for Non-Traditional Spaces

A Closer Look at American Furniture

Thursday, May 1 @ 4:00pm Live performance is a medium unlike any other. No play will ever be performed the same way twice; no experience can ever be repeated. When a production breaks the fourth wall, its audience is immersed fully and completely into the world of the play. Whether theater or location theater, it offers an experience that is limitless. Led by independent director and visiting Professor Charlotte Brathwaite, the spring directing studio will create artistic expressions in spaces on the Amherst College campus.
Various locations around campus. Gather on the steps of Frost Library.

Friday, May 2 @ 4:30pm Join Patricia Kane, Friends of American Arts Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery, for this gallery talk about some of the Meads masterpieces of early American furniture.
Mead Art Museum

Pioneer Valley Soundscapes Documentaries

Friday, May 2 @ 5:30pm

Procession and Performance by the Expandable Brass Band

Thursday, May 1 @ 6:30pm To celebrate the beginning of the Amherst Fringe, the Pioneer Valleys Expandable Brass Band, the subject of a documentary featured in the Pioneer Valley Soundscapes event, will perform a mobile set around Amhersts campus. The procession will begin at Converse Hall and conclude in the Freshman Quad.

capture the richness and diversity of musical life in the Pioneer Valley: the activism of the Expandable Brass Band, the artistry of the Amherst-based rapper LuieGo, the electronic dance music collective MASS EDMC, the performance of South Indian Nataraj dance, the singer-songwriter duo Hannah & Maggie, and the community Antonucci, Justin Aoyama, Alexis Ligon, Elizabeth Paul, Abigail Duquette, Nicholas Kane, Zoe Langsdale, and Jake Reed.
Stirn Auditorium

Jake Meginsky/Vic Rawlings Electro-Acoustic Duo

Thursday, May 1 @ 7:00pm Jake Meginsky (electronics, tranducers) and Vic Rawlings (cello, electronics) employ an array of speaker parts, vibrating objects, and pure electronics to amplify otherwise inaudible sounds and highlight the acoustic properties of the space in this improvisation.
Merrill Science Building Courtyard

Films at the Farm

Friday, May 2 @ 8:00pm

Illumination Opening Reception

Tuttle Hill Greenhouse, Book and Plow Farm

house on Tuttle Hill. The program will include work by faculty, staff, and students at Amherst and the Five Colleges. Wear good outdoor shoes and bring a blanket for the grass! Be there by sunset for refreshments and prime seats! More information about the program at amherstfringe.tumblr.com.

Thursday, May 1 @ 7:45pm Visiting artist Markus Wirthmann illuminates the steeple at the Mead Art Museum. Gather in the Mead Art Museums courtyard to watch the steeple light up. Refreshments will be served.

Amherst College Jazz Ensemble Concert

Friday, May 2 @ 8:00pm The Amherst College Jazz Ensemble in concert, with musical guests Jazz Combo Toxic Thunder.
Buckley Recital Hall

EVENT LISTINGS
Saturday, May 3

EVENT LISTINGS
Sunday, May 4

Going Digital

Saturday, May 3 @ 12:00pm Join student curators Robert Croll 16 ; Sylvia Ngo 14 ; Rosemary Frehe 17 and Elise Kei-Rahn 16 (UMASS) for this exploration of new approaches to exhibiting a recently-acquired born digital artwork in the museums collection: Peter Miltons Sight LInes I; Tracking Shot (2008), the Meads 2014 acquisition made using the Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund.
Mead Art Museum

King Phillips Hill

on view Sunday, May 4 @ 2:00pm A collaborative investigation of history and landscape, King chusetts that is said to be the former council headquarters of the Wampanoag Indian leader Metacom, also known as King Phillip. Both artists made separate visits to visually document the site according to a set of mutually agreed upon rules and restrictions.

Kirby Theater Lobby

Scripts and Scores Studio Performances

Saturday, May 3 @ 2:00pm Students from Wendy Woodsons Scripts and Scores class present improvisations and original dance, theater, and video works.
Webster Hall, Studio 1

Kirby Performance Series

Solo Performance Series

Saturday, May 3 @ 5:30pm Amherst College artists present a series of solo performance work. Performers include: Peter Lobdell, David Schneider, Peter Schmitz, and Josh Wren. More information about each performance can be found at amherstfringe.tumblr.com.
Webster Hall, Studio 3

Sunday, May 4 @ 2:30pm A series of new collaborations between music and dance by Amherst College artists. Performances: Language Games, an in-progress work exploring the intersection of dance and music, Galaxies, which brings together a dance soloist and a string quartet, and Memory Mapping, a dance duet. More information about each performance available at amherstfringe.tumblr.com.
Kirby Theater

A Marriage: Art and Science

Holden Theater Courtyard

Sunday, May 4 immediately following Kirby Performance Series

Screening of Experimental Film, Video, and Else

Saturday, May 3 @ 6:45pm Guest curator Kyros Kikos presents an evening of short experimenStirn Auditorium

Marriage Reception/Festival Closing Reception

Sunday, May 4 after the wedding ceremony
Holden Theater

Madrigal Singers Concert

Amherst Symphony Orchestra Concert

Saturday, May 3 @ 8:00pm The Amherst Symphony Orchestra, Mark Lane Swanson, Music Director & Conductor, closes its 13-14 season and Spring semester exploring great second symphonies with a performance of Ludwig van Beethovens exciting Symphony #2 in D major. Tickets will be sold only on the night of the concert beginning at 7 pm in the lobby of Arms Music Center. General admission is $10, seniors and students $5, free to Five College students.
Buckley Recital Hall

Sunday, May 4 @ 4:00pm Luxuriate in the sounds of Amherst Colleges celebrated Madrigal Singers at this special concert in the museums walnut-paneled Rotherwas Room.
Mead Art Museum

Amherst College Jazz Combos Concert

Sunday, May 4 @ 7:00pm Amherst College Jazz Combos in concert: BLK, Jasual and Calvins Hobbs.
Arms Music Center, Room 7