• Story: The Bates Arts Crawl announces “We’re here! We’re everywhere!”
• Video: On the trail of the Arts Crawl
• Image: The Arts Crawl map
• Slide show: An historic week for the arts at Bates
• News story: A Rumford Falls Times reporter describes “a night to remember“
• Video: In a prelude to the Arts Crawl, snow sculptures explain science
• Stories: Previews of the Arts Summit and Arts Crawl
• Report: The Arts Collaborative’s recent work (pdf) outlined in President Hansen’s Choices newsletter

The Arts at Bates 2011

“The arts are a vital, dynamic daily presence at Bates — intense, rigorous, messy, energetic and utterly transformative, like all the best education.” — President Elaine Tuttle Hansen

For more info about the arts at Bates, be sure to check out the  Arts 2011 calendar.

Click here to view the arts calendar and while you are there you can also download a printable version of the schedule!

Click here for a full-screen view of the Arts Crawl map.

In a smorgasbord of the performing and visual arts at Bates, the college presents its first-ever “Arts Crawl” starting at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28.

Modeled on downtown programs, such as the First Friday Arts Walks in Portland, that present diverse simultaneous attractions in myriad locations, the Bates Arts Crawl will offer music, dance, theater, literature and visual art all around campus. Among the presentations by students and faculty:

• Poetry and fiction readings
• Dance from step to modern to contact improvisation
• Theatrical monologues and short plays
• Music from a cappella to folk fiddling to jazz to gamelan
• Art exhibitions at the Bates College Museum of Art and in Chase Hall.

A map and schedule will be available. The Arts Crawl will be followed at 7 p.m. by the annual Asia Night of student performances, food and fashions in Schaeffer Theatre (which takes place again at 7 p.m. Saturday, and is also open to the public at no cost). For more information about the Arts Summit, please contact 207-786-6381 or nsalmon@bates.edu.

The Arts Crawl follows the college’s first Arts Summit, held earlier in the week, which brought visiting artists to campus to explore ways of enhancing the role of the arts and community involvement in the arts. Both events were organized by the Bates Arts Collaborative, a staff-faculty group furthering the arts at Bates.