<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">-------- Original Message -------- <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <TBODY><TR><TH align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Subject: </TH><TD>Fwd: Hampshire College and the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival</TD></TR><TR><TH align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Date: </TH><TD>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:06:35 -0500</TD></TR><TR><TH align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">From: </TH><TD>Linda McDaniel <A class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lmcdaniel@hampshire.edu"><lmcdaniel@hampshire.edu></A></TD></TR><TR><TH align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">To: </TH><TD>Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies:;, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:plane@hampshire.edu">plane@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bbyg@hampshire.edu">bbyg@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cmtHA@hampshire.edu">cmtHA@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:elyanow@comcast.net">elyanow@comcast.net</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ggoehring@hampshire.edu">ggoehring@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:guitarandall@gmail.com">guitarandall@gmail.com</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jdegenhardt@hampshire.edu">jdegenhardt@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jdrabinski@hampshire.edu">jdrabinski@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kmachari@uiuc.edu">kmachari@uiuc.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kmDO@hampshire.edu">kmDO@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mturre@hampshire.edu">mturre@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:scottreeds@earthlink.net">scottreeds@earthlink.net</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sreeds@hampshire.edu">sreeds@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:uvagelpohl@hampshire.edu">uvagelpohl@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vials@hfa.umass.edu">vials@hfa.umass.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:taziz@hampshire.edu">taziz@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mpatierno@hampshire.edu">mpatierno@hampshire.edu</A>, <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:skeats@hampshire.edu">skeats@hampshire.edu</A></TD></TR></TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <PRE>>
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>Dear Colleagues,
>As part of the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival and the series Art, Exile,
>Memory, Hampshire will be screening 2 films:
>
>Berlin-Jerusalem (Monday, March 27, 9:30 pm in FPH West Lecture Hall) and The
>Man Without a World (Wednesday, March 29, 9:30 pm in the FPH West Lecture
>Hall).
>Both are free for Hampshire and Five College students, faculty and staff.
>
>For information on these films, go to
><A class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=8170">http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=8170</A>
>
>For information on the festival, which begins this week, go to:
><A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ValleyJewishFilm.org">www.ValleyJewishFilm.org</A> <A class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.valleyjewishfilm.org/"><http://www.valleyjewishfilm.org/></A>
>
>March 19-April 9 2006
>
>Find out what a Catholic nun, an Ethiopian
>refugee, and Barbie have in common...
>at the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival!
>
>Amherst
>Chicopee
>Northampton
>Shelburne Falls
>Springfield
>West Springfield
>Starting next week, a spectacular array of engaging, award-winning films from
>around the world awaits local filmgoers of all ages. Come explore the Jewish
>Diaspora, contemporary culture, history and politics, secular and religious
>life through compelling feature films, inspiring documentaries, and
>entertaining shorts.
>
>The Festival begins Sunday March 19 with a week
>of films and related events for
>kids and adults in the Upper Valley -- Amherst, Northampton and Shelburne
>Falls. Comedy, drama, documentary, animation and storytelling-you'll find it
>all at the Festival. Check out Only Human at
>Pleasant Street Theater (3/23), a
>wonderfully twisted Spanish black comedy that turns a dinner with the in-laws
>into a living nightmare when a Jewish daughter brings home her Palestinian
>fiancé to meet her family. Only Human can also be seen later in the Festival
>at Springfield's Basketball Hall of Fame (4/1).
>
>During the second week, the Festival launches in Springfield March 29 with the
>internationally acclaimed feature film Ushpizin (Hebrew for Guest) at West
>Springfield's Showcase Cinema. Winner of numerous national and international
>awards, this riveting comic drama is steeped in
>authentic orthodox culture that
>doubles as an uplifting spiritual experience. A
>6:30 reception precedes the 7:30
>show time.
>
>Other Festival highlights include Live & Become, winner of several awards
>including the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival's Audience Award. Funny
>and insightful, it entwines issues of politics, religion, love, and identity
>around the fate of one young boy. Live & Become screens twice - 3/25 in
>Shelburne Falls and 4/2 in Springfield.
>
>Also, check out The Tribe, a jazz-like riff that
>tackles the history of Barbie,
>Jews, and Jewish identity in 18 minutes and poses the question "What does it
>really mean to be a member of the tribe?" Showing four times (3/23 and 4/8 in
>Northampton, 3/25 in Shelburne Falls, and 4/1 in Springfield).
>
>Many co-sponsors have made this year's Festival
>possible, including the National
>Yiddish Book Center, Smith College Hillel, Elms College, Hatikvah Holocaust
>Education Center, UMASS Amherst Office of Jewish Affairs, Pothole Pictures
>[MSOffice1] <> , Hampshire College, Jewish
>Family Services, and the Eric Carle
>Museum of Picture Book Art. The Festival was coordinated in large part by the
>Springfield Jewish Community Center and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
>
>More than 30 award-winning films over 3 weeks plus guest speakers, panel
>discussions, storytelling, receptions, and music await you! See you at the
>movies!
>
>Other Film Highlights in the Springfield Area
>* Sister Rose's Passion (Elm's College)
>* A Cantor's Tale (JCC)
>* The Phoenix Effect (JCC)
>* Forgotten Refugees (Basketball Hall of Fame)
>* Only Human (Basketball Hall of Fame)
>* One Day in September (Western New England College)
>* Live & Become (Basketball Hall of Fame)
>
>For a Detailed Schedule with film summaries, go to <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ValleyJewishFilm.org">www.ValleyJewishFilm.org</A>
><A class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.valleyjewishfilm.org/"><http://www.valleyjewishfilm.org/></A>
>
>
>Other Upper Valley Highlights
>
>* 39 Pounds of Love (Pleasant Street Theater)
>* Another Road Home (UMASS)
>* Odessa...Odessa! (National Yiddish Book Center)
>* Really Rosie (Eric Carle Museum)
>* Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School (Smith College)
>* Divan (Pleasant Street Theater)
>* Odessa... Odessa (National Yiddish Book Center)
>* Berlin, Jerusalem (Hampshire College)
>* Keep Not Silent (Pleasant Street Theater)
>* Only Human (Pleasant Street Theater)
>* Matisyahu (Smith College)
>
>
>Of Special Interest
>
>* Under 21: Mini-Festival for Youth (Smith College) with a Teens only
>party
>* Klezmer Concert (Yiddish Book Center)
>* Panel Discussions (with The Phoenix Effect)
>* Families with Children Programs (Amherst, Springfield & Shelburne
>Falls)
>* A Wealth of Women's Stories (including Campfire, Between Us, Sister
>Rose's Passion, Paradise Lost)
>* Award Winning Israeli Films (including Ushpizin, Live & Become,
>Berlin-Jerusalem, Live & Become, Only Human)
>
>
>Venues/Greater Springfield
>
>* Showcase Cinema
>* Basketball Hall of Fame
>* Jewish Community Center
>* Elms College
>* Western New England College
>
>
>Venues/Upper Valley
>
>* Smith College
>* Pleasant Street Theater
>* Eric Carle Museum
>* UMASS
>* Hampshire College
>* National Yiddish Book Center
>* Memorial Hall/Shelburne Falls
>
>
>Tickets at the Door or in Advance $8/General Admission; $6/Seniors,
>Students, Children; $28/4-Pack Pass. Some college screenings are free to
>college students with valid ID. Credit card phone orders through the JCC
>413.739.4715
>
>
>Ticket Outlets
>* Jewish Community Center/Springfield
>* Broadside Bookshop/Northampton
>* Food for Thought Books/Amherst
>* National Yiddish Book Center/Amherst
>* World Eye Bookshop/Greenfield
>* Boswell's Books /Shelburne Falls
>
>For More Information For complete details and to sign up for e-mail updates,
>go to <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ValleyJewishFilm.org">www.ValleyJewishFilm.org</A> <A class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.valleyjewishfilm.org/"><http://www.valleyjewishfilm.org/></A> or call the
>Springfield JCC 413.739.4715. Email questions to <A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:adryansky@comcast.net">adryansky@comcast.net</A>
>
>Sponsors Harold Grinspoon Foundation Arts & Culture Initiative, the
>Springfield Jewish Community Center, the Jewish
>Endowment Foundation of Western
>Massachusetts-a committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Springfield, the
>National Yiddish Book Center, and Sapirstein & Sapirstein, Attorneys at Law.
>Additional funding is provided by the Springfield, Amherst and Northampton
>Cultural Councils, local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural
>Council, a state agency. Major media sponsors are WFCR, the Republican,
>Reminder Publications, and the Valley Advocate.
>
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>
> _____
>
>Rachel Rubinstein
>Jeremiah Kaplan Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish American Literature and
>Culture
>School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
>Hampshire College
>(413) 559-5518
--
Linda McDaniel
Assistant to the Dean
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
phone: 413-559-5362
FAX: 413-559-5481
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