MARCH 26, 2020
Workshop – Nature Journaling for Kids (ages 8-12)
Thursday March 26, 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm EDT
You won’t need to leave your home to engage and reconnect with nature in this livestream workshop.
Learn to make illustrated nature notebook pages from your own encounters with wild or urban nature. What animals, plants, insects and natural objects have you seen? How do they interact with their environment, and with you?
No drawing or writing experience required! If you are able to spend ten minutes outdoors in your backyard during the workshop, that’s great. If not, inspiration can come from a houseplant, family pet, shell, pinecone, or even stuffed animal. Come to live stream prepared with paper or a notebook; pencil. Colored pens, crayons, markers, etc. are fine too!
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
On Wednesday, September 18th, from 7-9 pm in the Coolidge Museum, come celebrate Forbes Library’s 125th Anniversary with Writing In Common, an evening of readings by local writers whose work, within the library and in the broader community, has made space for literature’s role in contributing to and shaping the social worlds we share. Co-hosted by Straw Dog Writers Guild and the Forbes Writer in Residence, ten writers–poets, novelists, and children’s authors–will share their work with a celebration of the library and what it has made possible.
The readers for the evening are:
Floyd Cheung
Mike Curato
Matt Donovan
Diana Gordon
Rich Michelson
Naila Moreira
Leslea Newman
Ruth Ozeki
Susan Stinson
Jane Yolen
APRIL 13, 2018
On four Northampton Arts Nights Out this spring, photographer Pamela Petro and poet Naila Moreira will present an art exhibit, Dusk at Macleish, of seven ecological graphic poems. Their work, in word and image digital presentation, will be projected on a triptych of screens. The photos and poems of Dusk at MacLeish reflect on the fragile moment in ecological history in which we live, suggesting liminal moments between light/dark, seen/intuited, day/night, present/future. The project juxtaposes moved-image photographs taken at dusk by Petro with poems written simultaneously by Moreira, created in a series of visits to the Smith College MacLeish Field Station in Whately, Massachusetts. The simultaneity of artistic production allows for a deep focus on place, setting, and ecological framing, making the landscape itself a powerful collaborator in the work. The series forms part of Arts Afield, a program at the MacLeish Field Station supported by the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS).
Pop-up parklet On the Green by the Smith College Art Museum
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
MAY 2, 2018
Smith’s Special Trees: A Musical Tribute
Soprano Mary Hubbell will premier an art song based on a new poem by Naila Moreira — American Elm, College Hall — with new music by Gregory Brown. Monica Jakuc Leverett will accompany on piano, and also perform some of Brown’s Lopsided Waltzes. The concert is cosponsored by the Smith College Tree Committee.
Smith College Sage Hall
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm, Wednesday May 2
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