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SmithArts at Smith College Smith College Theatre, Music, Dance, Art, Film/Media departments & Smith Office for the Arts (SOFA)

SmithArts represents the work of students and faculty in the Music, Art, Theatre, Dance, and Film/Media departments of Smith College in addition to the Smith College Office for the Arts (SOFA). Smith College Theatre Department Website
http://www.smith.edu/theatre/

Five College Dance Department
https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dance/

Smith College Music Department
http://www.smith.edu/music/

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College Art Department
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Smith College Film & Media Department
http://www.smith.edu/film-media

10/17/2025

Music Monday 2 featuring Smith’s new guitar faculty, James Limerick Kerr is October 20 at 1 pm in Sweeney Concert Hall. He will perform a program of Renaissance fantasias by Simone Molinaro (1599), arranged for hybrid picking guitar for an upcoming album release. The concert will also feature original music for the resonator steel guitar. Come enjoy live music in the middle of the day and start your week off right. Free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible!

Come to the second Music Monday this October 20 at 1 pm in Sweeney Concert Hall.Smith’s new guitar faculty James Limeric...
10/16/2025

Come to the second Music Monday this October 20 at 1 pm in Sweeney Concert Hall.
Smith’s new guitar faculty James Limerick Kerr will perform a program of Renaissance fantasias by Simone Molinaro (1599), arranged for hybrid picking guitar for an upcoming album release. The concert will also feature original music for the resonator steel guitar.

Music Monday 2 is this upcoming Monday, October 20 with James Limerick Kerr, Smith’s new guitar faculty, who will perfor...
10/16/2025

Music Monday 2 is this upcoming Monday, October 20 with James Limerick Kerr, Smith’s new guitar faculty, who will perform a program of Renaissance fantasias by Simone Molinaro (1599), arranged for hybrid picking guitar for an upcoming album release. The concert will also feature original music for the resonator steel guitar. 1pm in Sweeney Concert Hall.

This Friday, October 17 from 5-7 pm JostenLive! Presents Riddims & Rhythms in the Josten Performing Arts Library Mezzani...
10/15/2025

This Friday, October 17 from 5-7 pm JostenLive! Presents Riddims & Rhythms in the Josten Performing Arts Library Mezzanine.

Join Black Rhythms Dance, Smith College's Premier African and Caribbean Dance Team, for an hour of music, dance, and culture. JostenLive! is free and open to all.

From October 8–21, check out Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall for the 100–Level/Foundations Student Exhibit! It is an ex...
10/12/2025

From October 8–21, check out Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall for the 100–Level/Foundations Student Exhibit! It is an exhibition of work by current students in 100–level studio courses in the Department of Art.

Next, this Friday, October 17 from 5-7 pm in Josten Library Mezzanine
JostenLive! Presents Riddims & Rhythms. Join Black Rhythms Dance, Smith College's Premier African and Caribbean Dance Team, for an hour of music, dance, and culture. JostenLive! is free and open to all.

Upcoming next Sunday, October 19 from 1 through 3 PM in Sweeney Concert Hall is
5C Early Music Program Workshop: So Let Our Social Powers Combine
Music for New England Viols and Voices! Loren Ludwig, Tim Erikson, and friends lead a workshop in early New England music which was everywhere during the decades following the American Revolution. By 1800, Northampton was a regional hub of music printing, and instrument makers in communities up and down the Connecticut River worked to meet the new demand for musical instruments. Nearly everyone (rich and poor, enslaved and free) sang and played New England viols (similar to modern cellos and violas), fiddles, flutes, clarinets, bassons, and other locally-made wind instruments. Learn about this music and lift your own voices and hands in making music. Bring instruments if you wish.

This Thursday, October 9 at 4:30 pm in the Neilson Browsing Room come to Book Celebration: The Archangels of Funk by And...
10/06/2025

This Thursday, October 9 at 4:30 pm in the Neilson Browsing Room come to Book Celebration: The Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston!

Andrea Hairston ’74, Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies, will read from her novel, Archangels of Funk, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 4:30 p.m. in the Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library, with a book signing and reception to follow at the Kahn Institute, 21 Henshaw. Books will be available for purchase by Broadside Books.

This afternoon, come to An Afternoon of Clarinet Quintets in Sweeney Concert Hall at 3pm. Musicians from the New England...
10/05/2025

This afternoon, come to An Afternoon of Clarinet Quintets in Sweeney Concert Hall at 3pm. Musicians from the New England Repertory Orchestra join Smith faculty clarinetist Hannah Berube for a program of works for clarinet and strings. The program will feature Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 and the Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10 by the English composer and Pan-African activist Samuel Coleridge–Taylor.

Later this week, Andrea Hairston ’74, Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies, will read from her novel, Archangels of Funk on Thursday, October 9, 4:30-6 in the Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library, with a book signing and reception to follow at the Kahn Institute, 21 Henshaw. Archangels of Funk has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. LeGuin Prize. Books will be available to purchase.

Musicians from the New England Repertory Orchestra join Smith faculty clarinetist Hannah Berube for a program of works f...
10/02/2025

Musicians from the New England Repertory Orchestra join Smith faculty clarinetist Hannah Berube for a program of works for clarinet and strings. The program will feature Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 and the Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10 by the English composer and Pan-African activist Samuel Coleridge–Taylor.

Come to An Afternoon of Clarinet Quintets, this Sunday, October 5th at 3 pm inside Sweeney Concert Hall.

Next Sunday, come see musicians from the New England Repertory Orchestra join Smith faculty clarinetist Hannah Berube fo...
09/28/2025

Next Sunday, come see musicians from the New England Repertory Orchestra join Smith faculty clarinetist Hannah Berube for a program of works for clarinet and strings. The program will feature Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 and the Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10 by the English composer and Pan-African activist Samuel Coleridge–Taylor. 3 pm at Sweeney Concert Hall.

Ranging from Bach’s early G minor English Suite, to a Suite by English composer and polymath Stephen Hough, written for ...
09/24/2025

Ranging from Bach’s early G minor English Suite, to a Suite by English composer and polymath Stephen Hough, written for the performer, this recital will explore through contrast the narrative power of the musical Ballade and the stylized undanceable element of dance in suites. Albert Cano Smit is the Iva Dee Hiatt Visiting Artist at Smith.

This performance will take place this Saturday, September 27 at 3 pm in Sweeney Concert Hall.

Wowee. Last night, 2024 Smith Grad and member of the Handbell Choir Romy Negri held her own on Jeopardy! According to TV...
05/22/2025

Wowee. Last night, 2024 Smith Grad and member of the Handbell Choir Romy Negri held her own on Jeopardy! According to TVInsider, fans thought the Wednesday, May 21, episode was “one of the best” of Season 41. They chalked it up to the amount of Triple Stumpers and the players’ scores going into Final Jeopardy. Negri, currently a graduate student, competed against Brendon Liaw, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Sam Macken, from Boulder, Colorado.

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Smith’s dance, music, and theatre departments are excited to offer you an astonishing range of thought-provoking, inspiring, and just-plain-fun performances. Every semester features mainstage and studio theatre performances, faculty, and student dance performances and a wide range of faculty and student music performances. From new play readings to new works of choreography by graduate dance students to a series of informal concerts at lunchtime, we invite you to join us!