2015 French Renaissance Harvest Banquet

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The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies is excited to announce its French Renaissance Harvest Banquet! This event will take place on Saturday, November 7th from 6:00pm-9:00pm at the UMass Amherst Marriott Center on the 11th Floor. Tickets are $75 per person and $125 per couple. This year, we are introducing a student discount of $35 per person. Please call 413-577-3603 to reserve your tickets by November 2nd. All proceeds go to benefit The Great Hall project, which seeks to recreate the Renaissance by building an authentic 16th century performance, lecture, and event space. This year we are celebrating the harvest of the Renaissance Center kitchen garden by taking a journey back to Renaissance France. There will be an authentic French Renaissance feast of appetizers, a sit-down dinner, and a delectable dessert using herbs and vegetables from the Renaissance Center?s own kitchen garden. Our menu features almond saffron chicken in bread, manchet bread and cheese with assorted herb oils, fish bisque with chestnuts and artichokes, rack of lamb ?in the French fashion?, rose cookies, spiced quince butter cake, mulled wine, hot spiced cider, and much more! Revel in the sounds of Renaissance France in the performance by Second Wind Renaissance Ensemble, a wind band that plays music from the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th centuries on period instruments. We will be serenaded by Nota Bene singing music of the French Renaissance a cappella. The Harper and the Minstrel will fill the room with their luxurious musical repertoire, while Michael Chapman juggles throughout the evening. During dessert, guests will be entertained with scenes from Shakespeare?s Henry V performed by the Young Shakespeare Players-East. This year, we will be presenting the Renaissance Center Medals to UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts Julie Hayes, John Lancaster, and John Nove for their years of friendship and service to the Center. Door prizes will be awarded to guests at the end of the evening, provided by local sponsors. Attendees of the banquet will receive a book of authentic French Renaissance recipes to take home with them, along with a sachet of teas grown from the Center?s kitchen garden. Renaissance Center calendars and tote bags will be for sale. The most convenient parking situation for the event would be the UMass Amherst parking garage, located right near the Marriott Center. Visit our website at www.umass.edu/renaissance or call 413-577-3603 for more information.