Through collaging and multiple views of specific architectural features, Donoff’s images seek to reflect in two dimensions effects that the architect created in three. The exhibition is intended to comment on how photography influenced both Le Corbusier’s designs and how we perceive them.

Donoff graduated from Bates in 1989 and holds a master’s degree in architecture from Washington University, in St. Louis. She made the photographs in the exhibition during a 1993 visit to France supported by the Steedman II Traveling Fellowship from the university’s School of Architecture. She is now an architect and planner in New York City.

Donoff’s exhibition runs through March 24, as does the Upper Gallery exhibit. That show, 2001 Biennial Design Awards of the Maine Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, consists of building designs, by firms throughout Maine, that were judged for excellence in architecture. For more information about the exhibit, call Judith Harvie of the AIA at 207-623-1218.

The Bates College Museum of Art was founded to preserve the nation’s largest repository of Marsden Hartley drawings and other items relating to this important American artist, a Lewiston native. Its other holdings include a robust print collection and notable works by Maine artists of national significance, such as Dahlov Ipcar, the late William Thon, Neil Welliver and Charles Hewitt.

The flagship museum for the Maine Art Museum Trail, the Bates College Museum of Art is located in the Olin Arts Center, at the edge of the Bates campus on Russell Street, Lewiston. Admission is free. The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sun. The museum is closed New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. For additional information, please call 207-786-6158.

Boston filmmakers DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter will screen the Maine premiere of Lift, their dramatic film about shoplifting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, in the Keck Room, Pettengill Hall, at Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Set in Roxbury, Mass., Lift is an emotionally moving mother-daughter story that revolves around the high-stakes world of shoplifting. The movie “teems with life,” writes The New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell, who calls the picture “a lively and thoughtful attack on the perfidious materialism that has always prowled the country’s inner cities like a hungry cat, preying on acquisitive young African-Americans.”

Winner of the 2001 Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at HBO’s UrbanWorld Film Festival in New York, Lift has earned acclaim at various other festivals, including Sundance — the premier U.S. event for independent filmmakers, held each year in Salt Lake City — and the Acapulco Black Film Festival.

Lift was selected from more than 60 scripts as the U.S. winner of the 1998 Sundance/NHK Filmmakers Award. Davis and Streeter also screened their well-regarded 1997 debut film, Black & White & Red All Over, at Sundance.

Lift stars Lonette McKee (seen in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, Jungle Fever and Sparkle) Kerry Washington (Save the Last Dance), veteran Barbara Montgomery, Eugene Bryd (Whiteboys and Dead Man) and rap artist Sicky Fingaz. Lift, according to film critic Anthony Kaufmann, “complicates the conventions of the ‘urban drama’ with a smart new take, surpassing the stereotypes of Yo! MTV Raps and Boyz in the Hood.”

Davis and Streeter’s Bates appearance, which includes a visit with an American cultural studies class, is sponsored by the Department of Theater and Rhetoric, and the African American studies and American cultural studies programs. For more information, contact Charles Nero at 207-786-6415 or this cnero@bates.edu.

Evans presented Speechless, a look at the history of hip-hop, at the 2001 Bates Dance Festival. Started as an underground dance movment by African-American teenagers in the 1980s, hip-hop has grown into an international music, fashion, film and dance phenomenon. Since 1991, Evans has appeared in such major performances as the Q102 Monster Concert with recording artist TL; John Coltrane Project, commissioned by the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia; and Dance Africa America in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.

Captivating audiences as a member of Rennie Harris’ dance company, Evans has performed and taught at major venues throughout the world. He co-developed and co-starred in the role of Mercutio in Rome and Jules, Harris’ dazzling spin-off of Romeo and Juliet. He has also appeared in feature films and dance videos. Evans has “something important to say,” said the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Kimberly Roberts of The Philadelphia Tribune called him “exciting . . . with cat-like quickness and the stupefying hang time of Allen Iverson.”

Evans’ Bates appearance is sponsored by Bates College Modern Dance, Office of the Dean of Students, Amandla! and L/A Arts.

The documentary film Helen Nearing & The Good Life: Conscious Living and Conscious Dying will be shown at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in Skelton Lounge of Chase Hall at Bates College. The public is invited to attend the screening, followed by a discussion with its Portland producers Polly Bennell and Andrea Sarris, free of charge. The presentation is part of a series, “Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02,” sponsored by the chaplain’s office.

The film, first released in 2000, examines the lives and deaths of Maine authors Helen and Scott Nearing, best-known for their book about homesteading,Living the Good Life: How To Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World. More than a biography of Helen, this film explores the Nearings’ commitment to self-sufficiency and voluntary simplicity. It also unveils the spiritual philosophy in which their lives and work were rooted.

Arriving in the Maine village of Harborside in 1952, the Nearings eventually wrote more than 50 books and hosted a steady stream of visitors seeking to learn about their way of life. Producers Bennell and Sarris spent five years collecting photographs, interviews and archival footage to create this film portrait.

Part of the film explores Helen Nearing’s eagerness to face death. “I have never taken the outside of life too seriously,” Nearing says in the film. “The real Life, with a capital L, is behind all this scenery. I’m anxious to get there and experience that, but I still have to live my day in school. So as long as the old body can continue, I’ll stay here – but I’m on my way somewhere else. In transition.” Scott Nearing died at the age of 100, in 1983, when he decided to stop eating solid foods. Helen died in 1995 when the car she was driving struck a tree.

Following the screening of the film at Bates, Bennell and Sarris will answer questions and discuss how producing this documentary affected their own spiritual journeys.

Next in the Spiritual Journeys series is Dr. David Loxterkamp, familiy practice physician of Belfast, Maine, who will discuss Practicing Medicine as ‘Practicing the Presence of God at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, in Skelton Lounge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.

Internationally acclaimed pianist and Nonesuch recording artist Richard Goode will open the 2001-02 Bates College Concert Series with an interpretation of classical masterpieces at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The concert is free and open to the public, with seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Other concerts in the series include a performance by Goode and his wife, violinist Marcia Weinfeld, at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, and a concert by the chamber ensemble, Trio Parole, featuring the complete Mozart piano trios in two separate programs at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15, and Sunday, Sept. 16. Tickets for these performances are $15 general admission and $10 for senior citizens and students. All performances will be held at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall on the Bates College campus.

Specializing in adaptations from the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Mozart and others, Goode infuses his piano interpretations of such classical fare with energy and expressiveness. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Goode’s immersion in the music is total, to the point of singing lustily with it, and there were moments when it seemed as if he felt the instrument were inadequate to reach the emotive peaks he was seeking.” The Dallas Times Herald said, “Richard Goode may be the best pianist in America.”

A native of New York, Goode has studied with Elvira Szigeti, Claude Frank, Nadia Reisenberg of the Mannes College of Music and Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. Along with Mitsuko Uchida, Goode serves as co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival.

Goode has performed throughout Europe, with regular appearances in Paris, London, Amsterdam and Vienna. Over the past few seasons, he has performed with a collection of the world’s most revered orchestras, including the Boston, Chicago, Deutsches and BBC symphony orchestras. The producer of more than two dozen recordings, Goode holds the distinction of being the first American-born pianist to record the entire collection of Beethoven sonatas, for which he received a 1994 Grammy Award nomination.

Weinfeld began studying the violin in her native Buffalo before studying with Philipp Naegele at Smith College, Broadus Erle at the Yale School of Music and Felix Galimir at the Mannes College of Music. Weinfeld performed in the National Arts Centre Orchestra and has also been a soloist with the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler.