Financial Aid Office
8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Blair Hall

Meet the House Directors
By appointment only
Parents and families are invited to make an individual appointment with the house director of their student’s residence hall if they wish to talk about their student’s residential experience. House directors will reserve time for these appointments through the day Friday (and, if necessary, Saturday).

• Adam Ortiz, Dakin House director
  aortiz@hampshire.edu
  413.559.5770
• Matt Swiatlowski, Merrill House director
  mswiatlowski@hampshire.edu
  413.559.5454
• Araiña Muñiz, Greenwich/Enfield House director
  amuniz@hampshire.edu
  413.559.5314
• Nicholas Capell, Prescott House director
  nacPH@hampshire.edu
  413.559.5085

Open Classes
9 a.m.–6 p.m.
Families and friends are welcome to observe classes. Schedules are available online (click here >>) and at the registration desk.

Trans-Asia Photography: A Symposium
9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH), East Lecture Hall
At this one-day symposium, an interdisciplinary group of scholars will offer short presentations on historic and contemporary photography from Japan, India, Korea, China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The symposium marks the first birthday of the Trans-Asia Photography Review, an online scholarly journal published by Hampshire College in collaboration with the University of Michigan Library. The guest editor of the Fall 2011 issue, Dr. Ayelet Zohar, will be one of the speakers.

Other speakers will include Samuel Morse (Amherst College), Aprile Gallant (Smith College Museum of Art), Ajay Sinha (Mount Holyoke College), David Odo (Yale University Art Gallery), John Stomberg (Mount Holyoke College Art Museum), Doreen Lee (Northeastern University), Young Min Moon (University of Massachusetts), Stephanie Tung (Princeton University), and Hyewon Yi (CUNY Graduate Center).

Registration is requested. Please email Sandra Matthews if you plan to attend.

Lunch
11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Dining Common
Door price: $5.40

Lemelson Center: Design and Innovation for Social Change
1–3 p.m.
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for Design
Want to create a solution to the energy crisis? Start your own business? Be a metal sculptor? Make your own musical instruments? Work with people around the world to create change? Our students and alums have done all of these things, and more. Join our faculty, staff, and students for an open house in the shop. Watch a demonstration, check out some of our student projects, or talk to our staff about this year’s courses and events. Light refreshments will be provided.

Information Tables: Global Education Office and Career Options Resource Center
1–4 p.m.
Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH), Torrey Courtyard

Martial Arts Demonstration
2–3 p.m.
Robert Crown Center (RCC), meet at front desk
Hampshire offers a wide variety of martial arts. Come to this demonstration session to see them in action and learn about opportunities to get involved.

Arts and Crafts Fair
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Prescott, Tavern
Annual student-run fair with creative and fun works for purchase by Hampshire students.

Panel Discussion: The Ins and Outs of Division II
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH), West Lecture Hall
Learn more about Division II from current Division II and III students and Associate Professor Laura Wenk.

TIME CHANGE: Women's Soccer: St. Joseph's College of Vermont vs. Hampshire College
Now Sunday, October 16 at 1 p.m.

President’s Reception
5-7 p.m.
Johnson Library Center, Gallery
Meet Hampshire's new President, Jonathan Lash, and tour the Hampshire College Faculty Art Exhibition.

Local Food Dinner
5-7 p.m.
Dining Common
This dinner will showcase food from the Hampshire Farm Center and from other growers, including Hampshire alum farmers, in the surrounding area.
Door price: $6.85

Services and Kosher Shabbat Dinner
5:30 p.m. services and 6:30 p.m. dinner
Merrill House Office, Living Room
All are welcome to the services.

2011 Alumni Reel Premiere
8 p.m.
Film, Photography, and Video (Liebling Center), Bill Brand Screening Room
John Gunther 84F, manager for advanced media, will introduce the Alumni Reel, which is a compilation of short clips from recent works by alums in the film and video industry.

Crazy Pitches Concert
8 p.m.
Prescott, Tavern
The Crazy Pitches a capella group is a group of students who work together to arrange, teach, learn, and perform songs that are not typical a capella tunes. The goal of the group is to make unique music together and perform for the Hampshire community.

NDC Comedy Troupe
9-10 p.m.
Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH), West Lecture Hall
The NDC is Hampshire College's longest-running improv comedy troupe. They bring spontaneous theatre to the Hampshire community. Hilarity may ensue.