Stories about "Maine/world"
Bates Dance Festival holds youth arts program
Wednesday, July 30, 1997 10:22 am
The Bates College Dance Festival, in sponsorship with the City of Lewiston Recreation Department, is conducting a three-week "Youth Arts Program" from July 28 through Aug. 16 at the Lewiston Memorial Armory on Central Avenue. Sixty-one Lewiston children, ages six to 17, are involved with music and dance classes Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to noon.
Bates Dance Festival and Maine Audubon Society present outdoor environmental performance project
Wednesday, July 30, 1997 10:03 am
An outdoor dance performance featuring professional dancers and local participants of all ages will be held at a Falmouth sanctuary on Aug. 13 and Aug. 16. The Bates Dance Festival and Maine Audubon Society are co-sponsoring two performances of a newly commissioned site specific work, "A Curious Invasion," inspired by the landscape of Gilsland Farm and created by internationally renowned environmental/outdoor artists Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig & Company.
Environmental/outdoor artists available for photo opportunity
Tuesday, July 8, 1997 3:43 pm
Internationally acclaimed environmental/outdoor artists Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig will be available at 2 p.m, July 16 for a photo opportunity on the location of their newly commissioned site-specific dance performance, A Curious Invasion, inspired by Maine Audubon's Gilsland Farm Sanctuary, located on 118 U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth. The choreographers will choose from the various field and forest habitats to inspire their movement.
Story teller to appear at Bates
Friday, June 20, 1997 11:48 am
Master story teller John McDonald will offer an evening of traditional Maine humor at 7 p.m. Thursday, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. Children are especially welcome, and the public is invited to attend free of charge.
Eight Mitchell Scholars to attend Bates
Thursday, June 5, 1997 11:17 am
Eight Maine students who received $2,500 scholarships from a fund created by former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell will attend Bates College in September 1997. More than 170 Maine students applied for 30 Mitchell Scholarships awarded on the basis of academic achievement, financial need, community spirit and public service.
Bates Dance Festival plans community performance project
Monday, June 2, 1997 10:28 am
The Bates Dance Festival invites senior citizens and teenagers from Lewiston-Auburn and surrounding communities to participate in a three-week intensive workshop, July 28 through Aug. 15, under the direction of choreographer and educator Jeff Bliss.
Area residents are among Bates grads
Monday, May 26, 1997 12:41 pm
Twenty area residents received bachelor's degrees during Bates College's 131st commencement exercises on Monday (May 26) in an outdoor ceremony on the main quadrangle. Oscar Arias, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former president of Costa Rica, delivered the commencement address to an audience of some 3,000.
Wortham receives Maine Service-Learning Award
Thursday, May 1, 1997 11:52 am
Stanton Wortham, assistant professor of education at Bates College, has been honored with the Maine Campus Compact's Faculty Service-Learning Award. Wortham was recognized for designing several innovative service-learning projects, including a program in which Latino Bates students tutor and mentor Latino schoolchildren in S.A.D. 52 (Turner, Maine) schools.
A.V.C.O. to perform spring concert
Friday, April 18, 1997 4:05 pm
Winter's passing will be noted with a hat off to spring when the Androscoggin Valley Community Orchestra (AVCO) performs its next concertat 8 p.m. May 3, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Gov. Angus King to speak
Thursday, April 17, 1997 3:52 pm
Gov. Angus King will speak on "Leadership: Reflections at Midterm," at 4:30 p.m. April 29, in the Benjamin Mays Center.