The UMass Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and the Fine Arts, the Mount Holyoke College Department of English, and the Smith College Department of Theatre host the two-week program. Major funders include the Five-Colleges Lecture Fund. Lectures and seminars held at UMass are open to students and faculty from throughout the Five Colleges.
Reservations are necessary.
On April 5 and 12, Purkey will lead a seminar for graduate students and faculty on productions performed by the Junction Avenue Theatre Workshop, which he helped found in the 1970s in Johannesburg, South Africa. The seminar will be held in the dean's office of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, South College. On April 11, Purkey will direct a workshop at the Rand Theater at UMass for students from the theater department, the New World Theater, and interested students from any of the Five Colleges. Purkey's only public offering will be a lecture on Mon. He will share his memories of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company and the anti-apartheid movement in Johannesburg.