Reunion Parade

Video scenes from the Annual Alumni Reunion Parade. H. Lincoln Benedict ’09.

Reunion Slide Show

Images from Reunion 2013. Photographs by H. Lincoln Benedict ’09, Mike Bradley and Phyllis Graber Jensen.

Who coined the cheer “Great day to be a Bobcat”?

This video reveals the origins of the distinctive Bates cheer “Great Day to Be a Bobcat.” H. Jay Burns.

More Still Photographs

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See Parade and Awards.

See “Andy’s Animals: Exploring Andrew Wyeth’s Depiction of Animals” photographs.

See “Nighttime Is the Right Time” photographs.

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Mikey Arsnow ’14 is a member of the Deansmen. Here he explains the dynamic within Bates’ oldest all-male a cappella group.

But who coined the phrase? Turns out that Reunion Weekend was the perfect time to find out.

Emily “Libby” Egan was one of four seniors to be honored by the Harward Center for outstanding community-engaged academic work. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

The seventh annual Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnerships Awards recognized 18 individuals and organizations in a celebration at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives on May 8, 2013.

The Harward Center provides Bates students, as well as staff and faculty, with opportunities in community-engaged research, volunteerism and environmental stewardship. Firmly rooted in the academic purpose of the College, the center is a focal point for connected learning that fuses academic discussion and community. In union with this mission, award recipients connect Bates with the larger community through collaboration, research and service.

Here are the 2013 honorees:

• Susan Hayward, former president of the Stanton Bird Club, received the 2013 James and Sally Carignan Award for Career Achievement.
• Seniors Emily “Libby” Egan, Jordan Lupo, Erin O’Connor and Edward “Ted” Wells received the 2013 Harward Center Student Award for Outstanding Community-Engaged Academic Work.
• Destany Franklin ’14, Ellen Gawarkiewicz ’13, Juwon Song ’15 and Kimberly Sullivan ’13 received the Award for Outstanding Community Volunteerism and Student Leadership.
• Anita Charles, lecturer in education and director of secondary teacher education, was honored with the Faculty Award for Outstanding New Community Partnership Initiative.
• Professor of French and Francophone Studies Mary Rice-DeFosse received the Faculty Award for Sustained Commitment to Community Partnership.
• Head Men’s Soccer Coach Stewart Flaherty and Dining Services Production Supervisor Keith Pray were presented with the Staff Award for Community Volunteerism, Leadership or Engagement.
• Community Financial Literacy, a nonprofit that offers financial literacy courses and counseling to all refugees, immigrants, asylees and low-income individuals, received the Community Partner Award for Outstanding New Initiative.
• Sherry Russell, former director of the Downtown Education Collaborative, received the Community Partner Award for Sustained Commitment to Partnership.
• The Bates Public Health Initiative was recognized with the Award for Outstanding Community Project/Partnership.
• Nick Bennett, staff scientist and Watershed Project director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, received the Bates-Morse Mountain Award for Environmental Stewardship.
• Dave Courtemanch of The Nature Conservancy’s Environmental Protection Program was presented with the Bates-Morse Mountain Award for Environmental Lifetime Achievement.

Creating knowledge: Daniel Paseltiner ’16 works on mathematical group theory for the course nicknamed “Math Camp” during Short Term 2013. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

The question was, “Why go to college?”

To prepare for a career. To encounter the breadth of academic possibilities. To learn how to learn. To figure yourself out.

Alumni offered those answers and others to the query with which Jill Reich began her Reunion presentation, Examining College Life. And they were all correct.

If you want to know how the Bates education addresses student needs, developmental and intellectual, it’s hard to imagine anyone better equipped than Reich. She is a developmental psychologist with a particular interest in cognitive processes — and she’s former dean of the faculty at Bates, from 2000 to 2011.

Her Saturday morning talk made an elegant case for Bates’ qualifications as a builder of intellects and a precursor, in Reich’s words, to a “meaningful life.” The heart of Reich’s presentation, so to speak, was the brain.

With their brains still developing and their futures still blank pages, college students are “emerging adults” — a phrase, in currency for a dozen or so years, describing people past adolescence but not quite grown up. It’s a demographic concept peculiar to affluent societies, says Reich, in which young people, say 18 to 30 years old, can take the time to explore life before settling down.

These emerging adults enjoy privileges of adulthood but are still like children in important ways, such as being financially dependent on their families, lacking a clear idea of their career interests, or lacking intimate relationships.

Professor of Psychology Jill Reich. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

“It’s an age of identity exploration, and this is extremely important,” Reich said. “It’s really where our students can begin to ask, ‘Who am I? What’s important to me? How do I move through the world? What are my values, what are my talents?”

It’s an age of self-focus, Reich said, but that’s appropriate. “They’re leaving their parents, they’re leaving that intimate relationship where adults are telling them what to do and how to do it. But they haven’t yet established their own family, where they have an ongoing day-to-day set of obligations. And so they can be focused on themselves.”

Emerging adulthood is a time of hopefulness, too. People of this age “do believe that they’re going to have a better life than their parents, and that they do have the ability to do this, and they will succeed.”

Parallel to their personality development, students are also changing how they learn, and how they think about learning. Reich explained that the way we amass knowledge progresses along a continuum that begins with unquestioning reliance on what we see or are told, and ends at the sophisticated ability to evaluate evidence, synthesize through the gaps, relate it to experience, extrapolate and interpolate.

It’s a journey from external to internal reliance. Students arrive on campus midway through this continuum. “They come into college thinking there’s a right answer, and ‘I just have to get it,’” Reich said. “In fact, what happens developmentally is that they have to learn that knowledge is constructed, and there are very few [cases of] ‘one right answer.’ ”

Initially, students aren’t comfortable with this. “It means that they have uncertainty. It means that it isn’t as simple as going to the professor and asking, ‘What do you want?’

“Because what we want is for them to figure it out. What we’re looking for is, what is their process, what is their set of facts, what is their argument, how are they putting it together.” The intellectual goal, Reich said, is to send students out the door understanding where knowledge comes from and able to create it themselves.

The liberal arts education aims to support both the personal and intellectual journeys. “Fundamentally, what we’re about is helping our emerging adults ask, ‘Who am I?’ ” Reich said. ” ‘How do I fit into the world, what am I good at, what are my passions?’ ”

“And all of the kinds of experiences that we put together in a college education are really focused around this kind of question.”

“Ultimately, what this is all about is to lead a rich, satisfying and meaningful life,” she said. “And each individual is going to create an answer to that.”

This year’s Stangle Award was presented to Brad Adams ’92 at the Annual Gathering of the Alumni Association during the Bates Reunion Weekend on June 8, 2013, and was presented by Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard ’99, president of the Alumni Council.

Brad Adams ’92 is congratulated by President Clayton Spencer as he receives the Stangle Award for Distinguished Service to the Bates Community on June 8, 2013, at Reunion. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

Brad Adams is one of the top go-to alumni in Boston for Bates students interested in finance. Co-founder of Boston Corporate Finance and now a managing director of TM Capital, Brad has served as a mentor and expert adviser to countless Bates students and young alumni entering the world of finance.

Seeing a need for helping Bates students navigate those sometimes-rough waters, Brad worked tirelessly with the Bates Career Development Center to establish two fantastic programs, the Finance Bootcamp and Boston Finance Roadshow. The Finance Bootcamp brought alumni speakers to campus for a full day to teach students the ins and outs of the financial career search path.

The Boston Finance Roadshow is a competitive program that takes students to Boston to meet alumni who work in finance where they gain advice about various aspects of the industry and partake in a networking event with alumni and parents.

Truly generous, you will always pick up the phone and help your fellow Bobcat.

Each of these programs has been the model for many other Bootcamps, Roadshows and networking events throughout the years, which now encompass a variety of industries and offer an invaluable experience for scores of Bates students.

Brad, your determination to “pay it forward” and mentor countless students and young alumni entering your field is admirable. Truly generous, you will always pick up the phone and help your fellow Bobcat.

You have given Bates creative programming that has during the past 10 years been instrumental in engaging alumni speakers and hosts, not to mention been an inspiration to many Bates students. On behalf of the Bates College Alumni Association, I am pleased to present you with the Bruce Stangle Award for Distinguished Service to the Bates Community.

This year the award was presented to Julia Sleeper ’08 at the Annual Gathering of the Alumni Association on June 8, 2013, by Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard ’99, president of the Alumni Association.

Julia Sleeper ’08, recipient of the Distinguished Young Alumni Award at Reunion for her work with Tree Street Youth Center in Lewiston, poses with President Clayton Spencer. Photograph by H. Lincoln Benedict ’09.

As executive director and co-founder of Lewiston’s Tree Street Youth Center, Julia exemplifies the “intellectual discovery and informed civic action” championed in the Bates mission statement.

Tree Street Youth places a strong emphasis on academic achievement. Here Sleeper, left, congratulates a student upon his graduation from Lewiston High School with Sullivan, right. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

She began her service to the Lewiston-Auburn community while a student at Bates, helping to establish a successful after-school homework help program at Trinity Jubilee Center, a local soup kitchen and safe haven.

Upon graduating, she continued working there as an AmeriCorps volunteer and eventually co-founded Tree Street Youth Center with Kim Sullivan, a member of the Class of 2013, in partnership with Trinity Episcopal Church and local community members. Tree Street opened its doors in 2010 in the heart of Lewiston’s downtown neighborhood, known locally as the “tree streets.”

Your respect for the abilities and dignity of all people fosters unity across lines of difference.

Through academics, the arts and athletics, not to mention a robust college prep program, the center strives to empower downtown youth and their families to be fully participating members of their communities. Many Tree Street volunteers are current Bates students — sometimes more than 50 per semester.

Julia, you have built upon your Bates experience to create a transformational youth center, offering a safe space for youth of all ages that encourages healthy physical, social, emotional and academic development.

Your respect for the abilities and dignity of all people fosters unity across lines of difference. You have also founded an avenue for meaningful community engagement for many Bates students, enriching their Bates and Lewiston experiences.

Your belief in the power of our differences and especially that great equalizer — education — is an inspiration to the families you serve, and it is an inspiration to us. On behalf of the Bates College Alumni Association, it is my pleasure to present you with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award.

The Bates art museum is closed during summer 2013 for the replacement of its old halogen lights (shown in this image of Fransje Killaars’ 2013 exhibition “Color at the Center”) with energy-saving LEDs.

The Bates College Museum of Art is closed for the summer for the installation of a state-of-the-art (so to speak) lighting system.

New LED lighting will dramatically cut the museum’s electrical consumption, because LEDs not only use less electricity than the museum’s current halogen lights, but run much cooler, reducing the air conditioning burden.

Other benefits will directly affect the experience of viewing art in the 27-year-old museum, explains director Dan Mills. For one, the new fixtures afford more flexibility in aiming and shaping the projected light. “We’ll have a menu of lighting solutions that we can apply to our artworks and exhibitions,” Mills says.

The new system will also protect artwork. For one thing, the LEDs don’t emit ultraviolet light, which can degrade artwork. They can be dimmed without changing the color of the light, which will enable the museum to display light-sensitive works more effectively under reduced lighting.

A far cry from the feeble red light-emitting diodes of the 1970s and ’80s, today’s LEDs “are a technology that has evolved significantly in recent years,” Mills says.

Totaling more than 100 fixtures, the new lights will be installed in exhibition areas on both floors of the museum, located in Bates’ Olin Arts Center, on Russell Street.

The system will cut electrical consumption by 60 percent just for running the lights, with additional savings in climate control. Though LEDs cost more up front than other lighting systems, they pay for themselves relatively quickly through energy conservation.

The LED units are made by Lighting Services Inc. of Stony Point, N.Y.

The units are not base fixtures with replaceable bulbs like halogen or incandescent lights, but instead come as single integrated pieces. They have a life expectancy of at least 17 years, Mills says. Such longevity will spare museum staff considerable trouble. In the main-floor gallery alone, bulbs in the old system failed at the rate of 10 or so per exhibition, Mills explains.

“This meant we’d have to rent a hydraulic lift a few times per show, and staff would have to go up to replace lamps. With the new system, we’ll only need the lift once per exhibition,” to aim and adjust the fixtures.

The dimming controls are “computer-controlled and very sophisticated,” he adds, “allowing us to set and closely manage manage light levels.”

The installation will require rewiring and structural work in the ceilings. At the same time, floor and wall surfaces will be replaced.

The work is estimated to total some $221,000, with the lighting work accounting for $190,000.

The museum reopens Sept. 13 with the exhibition Redefining the Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers.

Bates Museum of Art interns Eliza Pyne ’13, at left, and Irem Ikizler ’15 discuss the art of Fransje Killaars in a March gallery talk for Killaars’ “Color at the Center,” an exhibition they helped prepare. Photograph by Michael Bradley/Bates College.

Until last winter, “I never handled a work of art other than my own,” says Doug Welsh ’14, a studio art major from San Ramon, Calif.

That changed when Welsh became a curatorial intern at the Bates College Museum of Art. Working with museum director Dan Mills, Welsh helped produce an exhibition of prints by Max Klinger, an intriguing 19th-century German artist whose work anticipated Surrealists like Salvador Dalí.

Welsh got to examine the Klinger prints up close and personal — wearing white cotton gloves and making notes with pencil, not pen, to avoid any risk of smudges or stains on the art.

“It was really cool,” Welsh says. “It’s entirely different when the art is outside of the glass and not on the museum wall.”

“To work directly with objects, to handle and learn about them and from them, to care for them, is an invaluable experience,” says museum curator Bill Low.

It’s an experience that a small museum “can provide in amazing ways” for students, he adds.

“When they study extraordinary works, or works by great artists, students are understandably awed and excited,” Low says. ” ‘Yes, this beautiful drawing is actually by Matisse. Yes, Cezanne worked directly on this rare lithograph.’ ”

Doug Welsh ’14 worked with art museum director Dan Mills, left, to organize an exhibition of prints by 19th-century artist Max Klinger. Photograph courtesy of the Bates College Museum of Art.

Welsh was one of five interns involved in organizing exhibitions at the museum during the fall and winter of 2012-13. Two more curatorial interns, Cara Garcia-Bou ’13 of Eastchester, N.Y., and Nell Wachsberger ’13 of New York City, assisted with the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions, a showcase of museum purchases and gifts from alumni and friends.

For those three, the work entailed research into the artworks and artists, in addition to preparing the artworks for showing.

Two other students had a very different kind of experience. Eliza Pyne ’13 of Atherton, Calif., and Irem Ikizler ’15 of Nashville, Tenn., worked side-by-side with renowned Dutch artist Fransje Killaars on the creation of Color at the Center, a powerful exhibition of fabric installations that was divided between the Bates museum and Museum L/A, located in a former textile mill in downtown Lewiston.

Pyne and Ikizler were an important part of an installation crew of museum and facilities staff and local artists. “It’s unusual for students to have an opportunity to work so closely with a noted international artist and with community members,” said Mills. “They also presented a fine gallery talk about the Killaars exhibition and shared their insights with the public.”

For Ikizler and Pyne, working with the energetic and exacting Killaars was an unmatched experience. There was physical work (including ironing) and for Pyne, the opportunity to participate in a performance at the show’s opening while draped in one of Killaars’ fabric creations.

Most important, the pair were privy to many of the negotiations between artist and institution that led to a completed exhibition. “This understanding of collaboration is a concept that will ultimately serve me well in any field I work in,” says Ikizler.

Choosing works for the exhibition of recent additions to the museum’s collection, Wachsberger and Garcia-Bou had to make decisions about representing and explaining different media, and what to tell viewers in wall texts.

Seniors Nell Wachsberger, standing, and Cara Garcia-Bou helped prepare an exhibition of recent museum acquisitions. Photograph courtesy of the Bates College Museum of Art.

That gave Garcia-Bou insight into the factors a museum considers as it reaches out to diverse audiences. “At first the responsibility was a little scary,” she says. “But once we started thinking about who our audience was, it was easier to make the decisions.”

Welsh, too, needed to draft wall texts. There was library time involved, but because Welsh turned up only three books about Klinger (one by the artist himself), Mills urged Welsh to include his own interpretations of the work along with historical or technical perspectives.

He kept a museum journal and visited the works at length to develop sound impressions. “It was very personal and reflective,” says Welsh. A work like “Fallen Rider,” with a man pinned under his horse as a wolf and a flock of ravens look on, was rich with possible meanings.

“Klinger’s subject matter is just so fantastical and strange, and he plays with ambiguity and multiplicity,” Welsh says.

The Bates museum hosts three to six interns per semester — most often art and visual culture majors, but “we’ve had interns majoring in education, American cultural studies, women and gender studies, and more,” says Low. Interns work with education curator Anthony Shostak as well as Low and Mills. Access to the collections is integral all to the internships.

In addition to curatorial interns, there are collection-management interns who do research, process new acquisitions, maintain the collection database and assess the condition of works.

The staff prepares readings for the students to provide theoretical context for the hands-on work, and coordinates with the students’ advisers to ensure the experience is supporting the students’ larger academic goals. The interns produce reports at the end of their projects.

With a small staff, the museum benefits from the interns’ help. But what the students gain is irreplaceable: “a comparatively rare opportunity for hands-on work in a museum setting,” says Low. “It’s high-level work, access to collections and really professional training.

“It’s harder for larger museums to provide those kinds of opportunities.”

Corey Harris ’91 opens Bates’ brand-new Concerts on the Quad series July 18. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

Happy summer from Bates! Here’s a listing of public events at the college from June 15 through Aug. 15, 2013.

The Bates Dance Festival will proceed as always, but in other ways this is an unusual summer for the arts at the college.

The Bates College Museum of Art is closed until Sept. 13 for the installation of an energy-saving LED lighting system that will improve the viewing experience for visitors.

A previous Clean Sweep ‘garage sale’ at Bates. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

Continuing Bates’ long and popular tradition of free outdoor summer concerts are the new Concerts on the Quad. Replacing the Midsummer Lakeside Concerts, this series focuses on the blues.

Admission: See individual Bates Dance Festival events for admission information. Concerts on the Quad are free. And Clean Sweep on June 15 only costs if you buy something! (And we hope you do.)

Want the latest events information? Visit the daily Events page. Questions or comments? Contact events editor Doug Hubley at calendar@bates.edu.

Thanks for your interest in Bates.

June

15 Sat

8am | Clean Sweep: A bargain-hunter’s paradise, Bates’ popular “garage sale” of worthy possessions donated by students, staff and faculty returns for the 13th year. FMI 207-786-6207.
Underhill Arena

July

2 Tue

7:30pm | Ladysmith Black Mambazo: L/A Arts presents the renowned South African singing group in a concert rescheduled from February. All tickets purchased or won for the February date will be honored. FMI 207-782-7228 or mail@laarts.org.
Gomes Chapel

Dancer-choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin. Photograph by Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times.

9 Tue

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival Show & Tell: Nejla Yatkin / NY2Dance: Yatkin and members of her company give a lecture-demonstration for their piece “Oasis.” FMI Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

12 Fri

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival performance: Nejla Yatkin / NY2Dance: One of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch,” Nejla Yatkin / NY2Dance performs the world premiere of “Oasis,” an evening-length multimedia work based on the story of Layla and Majnoon, a tale regarded as the Middle Eastern forerunner of Romeo and Juliet. Admission $25 / $18 / $12 (adults/seniors/students). FMI: Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

13 Sat

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival: Nejla Yatkin / NY2Dance (see July 12).
Schaeffer Theatre

Doug Varone and Dancers return to the Bates Dance Festival in 2013. Photograph by Cylla von Tiedemann.

16 Tue

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival Show & Tell: Doug Varone and Dancers: Varone and his superb dancers pull back the curtain on 25 years of their dancemaking process. FMI Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

18 Thu

6:30pm | Concerts on the Quad: Corey Harris: Bates’ new concert series concentrates on that quintessential American music, the blues. Corey Harris ’91, a singer-songwriter featured in the 2003 Martin Scorsese blues documentary Feel Like Going Home, opens the series with a solo show. Admission is free; bring a picnic and chairs or blankets. FMI 207-786-6400.
Historic Quad

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival performance: Doug Varone and Dancers. Acclaimed dancemakers Varone and company return to the festival to celebrate their 25th anniversary with a stunning new work, “Mouth Above Water,” set to a haunting score by Julia Wolfe; and Varone’s signature work “Rise.” $25 / $18 / $12 (adults / seniors / students). FMI: Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

20 Sat

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival: Doug Varone and Dancers (see July 18).
Schaeffer Theatre

23 Tue

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival Show & Tell: Bebe Miller Company: Miller offers insight on the making of her 25-year retrospective work, “A History.” FMI Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

A dancer in the Bebe Miller Company. Photograph by Valerie Oliverio.

26 Fri

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival performance: Bebe Miller Company: Exploring the unruly edges of heart and mind, the award-winning Miller and troupe mark 25 years of dancemaking with the performance installation “A History.” This evening-length work centers on the decade-long dancing relationship between company members Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones. Admission: $25 / $18 / $12 (adults / seniors / students). FMI: Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

27 Sat

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival: Bebe Miller Company (see July 26).
Schaeffer Theatre

28 Sun

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival Show & Tell: Stephan Koplowitz: An award-winning director, choreographer and media artist, Koplowitz is internationally recognized for creating site-specific works for such architecturally significant sites as Grand Central Station and London’s Natural History Museum. FMI Visit the website.
Olin Concert Hall

30 Tue

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival Show & Tell: Bridgman | Packer Dance: Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer unpack the evolution of their journey into the magical world of dance and technology. FMI Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

31 Wed

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival performance: Musicians’ Concert: Thoughtful, playful and profound music takes center stage when these extraordinary composers, known for their collaborations with dancers, perform a program of original and improvised works that blend musical styles from around the globe. Admission: $15 / $7 (general admission). FMI Visit the website.
Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St.

Portland-based blues musician Samuel James. Photograph by Jon Reece.

August

1 Thu

6:30pm | Concerts on the Quad: Samuel James: Bates’ new concert series concentrates on that quintessential American music, the blues. A Portland bluesman praised by the French edition of Rolling Stone as a “guardian of lightning,” Samuel James offers a solo performance. Admission is free; bring a picnic and chairs or blankets. FMI 207-786-6400.
Historic Quad

2 Fri

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival performance: Bridgman | Packer Dance: Bridgman | Packer has developed a unique approach to integrating video into dance — making it, in effect, their third dance partner. Their newest work, “Voyeur,” is inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and presents fragments of private lives. Admission $25 / $18 / $12 (adults / seniors / students). FMI Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

A scene from “Voyeur,” a multimedia work created by Bridgman | Packer Dance and inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. Photograph by Arthur Fink.

3 Sat

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival: Bridgman | Packer Dance (see Aug. 2).
Schaeffer Theatre

7 Wed

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival performance: Moving in the Moment: A festival favorite: an evening of improvisational performance with contact improviser, Nancy Stark Smith, and festival faculty and musicians. FMI Visit the website.
Alumni Gymnasium

8 Thu

Choreographer Kendra Portier will show work in the Bates Dance Festival’s “Different Voices” concert.

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival performance: Different Voices: Showcasing diverse styles and perspectives, Different Voices features visiting choreographers from around the globe. The program includes new works by Jennifer Archibald, New York-based hip hop/jazz choreographer; the Bay area’s fierce dance/music duo La Alternativa; and Ethiopian artist Shiferaw Tariku. Admission: $25 / $18 / $12 (adults / seniors / students). FMI Visit the website.
Schaeffer Theatre

9 Fri

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival: Different Voices (see Aug. 8).
Schaeffer Theatre

10 Sat

7:30pm | Bates Dance Festival performance: Festival Finale: Help us celebrate the next generation of dance luminaries! Festival students perform a high-energy evening of new works created by faculty members Jennifer Archibald, Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, Autumn Eckman, Bebe Miller and Doug Varone. This culmination of the festival’s training program also showcases the talents of local youth in our Youth Arts Program. Admission: $6 (cash sales at the door only). FMI Visit the website.
Alumni Gymnasium

Blues, gospel and jazz singer Francine Reed returns to Bates Aug. 15.

15 Thu

6:30pm | Concerts on the Quad: Francine Reed: Bates’ new concert series concentrates on that quintessential American music, the blues. In her third visit to Bates, veteran blues, gospel and jazz singer Francine Reed and her band close this year’s series. Admission is free; bring a picnic and chairs or blankets. FMI 207-786-6400.
Historic Quad