Featured Event

Singer/Songwriter  
Erica Wheeler

Erica Wheeler is an award-winning singer/songwriter and national touring artist with five critically acclaimed recordings to her credit.  Her work has been featured at the Walden Woods Institute, the Murie Center in Jackson, WY, the Iron Horse in Northampton, and Antioch New England University.  Erica offers her audience a deep sense of connection and a renewed sense of place and belonging.  Her workshop and performance is part of the Center for the Environment’s Environmental Leadership Series at Mount Holyoke College, a  program that seeks to bring professionals to campus whose work and goals place them in the role of environmental leaders striving to create a more environmentally sustainable and just society.

The Writing workshop will take place at Mount Holyoke College in Shattuck Hall, Cassani Lounge, on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. The workshop will be followed by an evening performance by Erica in the Blanchard Campus Center’s Great Room. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Environment, the Environmental Studies Program, and the Office of Student Programs. Both events are free, and wheelchair accessible.  The evening event is open to public, and the workshop is open to all Five-College students. 

Her album Good Summer Rain, sponsored in part by The Trust for Public Land (www.tpl.org), was hailed as “an imaginative, unforgettable journey through the American landscape and the lives lived there. Each song beautifully evokes the relationships between people and place today, spanning from the intimate streets of Greenwich Village to the sweeping vistas of Jackson Hole and reaching out to where farmland gives way to sprawl and wilderness gives way to industrial growth.”

Erica has facilitated “The Soulful Landscape” writing workshop and offered keynote concerts at conferences and events across the country.  Her extensive background in the performing arts, combined with her life-long passion for environmental studies, cultural history, and spirituality provide a unique and transformative experience. “Erica's outstanding workshop reminded us how deeply the arts can strengthen the voice and lend confidence to expressing one’s own understanding of place,” said Alesia Maltz, Department of Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire

For more information on Erica Wheeler, visit WWW.ERICAWHEELER.COM

For more information on the event, please contact the Center for the Environment, (413) 538-3091 or visit www.mtholyoke.edu/ce.

For directions, please contact (413) 538-2000 or visit www.mtholyoke.edu/go/students