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October 2001 Calendar
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Tuesday, Oct. 2

12:30 p.m. Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4 p.m. Womens soccer vs. St. Josephs.
Russell Street Field


Wednesday, Oct. 3

4 p.m. Field hockey vs. Maine-Farmington.
Campus Avenue Field

4:30 p.m. Lecture: Ending Violence Against Women; The Power of Young Activists.
Heidi Randall, associate director of the Abused Womens Advocacy
Project.
Sponsored by the political science department.
Room G52 Keck Classroom, Pettengill Hall

6 p.m.  9 p.m.  Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts Center

7 p.m. Film: Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100. A documentary on the (at the
time of this film) worlds oldest living out African-American lesbian.
Benjamin Mays Center

9 p.m. Reflections: Busy Life, Peaceful Center; A Weekly Time of Rest for Body
and Soul. A candlelit contemplative time of meditation, quiet and short
readings from a variety of spiritual traditions. Each week features a
student or faculty performance of music or dance. For more information
call the chaplains office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel


Thursday, Oct. 4

7 p.m. Lecture: The Fine Art of Coming Out: A Feminist Religious View. Mary
Hunt.
A presentation in honor of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered History
Month.
Chase Hall Lounge


Friday, Oct. 5

3:30 p.m. Womens tennis vs. Connecticut College.
James G. Wallach Tennis Center

8 p.m. Concert: Lynn Deeves. Sponsored by alumni relations and the Abused  Womens
Advocacy Project. Admission: to be announced.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

8:30 p.m. Contradance: Wake the Neighbors. Admission: $6/$3.
Chase Hall Lounge


Saturday, Oct. 6

9 a.m. Mens tennis: Wallach invitational.
James G. Wallach Tennis Center

7 p.m. Concert: International Singing Concert. Sponsored by Northfield, a  co-ed a capella ensemble.
Bates College Chapel


Sunday, Oct. 7

9 a.m. Mens tennis: Wallach invitational.
James G. Wallach Tennis Center

7 p.m. Taiz Service: A candlelight contemplative service in the Christian
tradition modeled after the liturgies of the ecumenical monastic
community in Taiz, France. Brief readings and prayers, chants and silence.
Bates College Chapel


Monday, Oct. 8

4 p.m. Mens soccer vs. University of New England.
Russell Street Field

7:30 p.m. Lecture: Mathematician George Andrews. The Annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture Series.
Room 204, Carnegie Science Building

7:30 p.m. Lecture: Robert Costanza. For information call 207-786-6202.
Muskie Archives


Tuesday, Oct. 9

12:30 p.m. Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4 p.m.  Mens soccer vs. University of New England.
Russell Street Field


Wednesday, Oct. 10

4:30 p.m. Lecture: Live from New York, Its Another Bowl of Soup: The Holy Chaos  of Accompanying the Poor. Tanya Theriault, Catholic Worker, St. Joseph  House, New York. Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001 Series.
Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

6 p.m.  9 p.m. Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts Center

8 p.m. Concert: Classical Indian music by Anoushka Shankar, sitar virtuoso.
Admission: $15/$10. For reservations call 207-786-6135.
Bates College Chapel


Thursday, Oct. 11

8 p.m. Concert: Counting Crows. Sponsored by the Chase Hall Committee. Tickets are $28 and can be purchased at Bull Moose Records in Lewiston and Portland.
Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building


Saturday, Oct. 13

TBA Concert: Maine Music Society. Admission: TBA.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

7 p.m. Film: Run Lola Run, directed by Tom Tykwer. Lola, a flame-headed
hipster, has 20 minutes to race through the city and get her hands on 100,000
German marks or her boyfriend will be murdered. She experiences three
alternative destinies triggered by split second differences in the  chain of cause and effect. In German with English subtitles. Co-sponsored by  the
Bates College Film Board and L/A Arts. Admission: $5/$2.
Room 104, Olin Arts Center


Sunday, Oct. 14

Noon Womens tennis vs. Brandeis.
James G. Wallach Tennis Center

2 p.m.  Film: Run Lola Run (see Oct. 13 listing).
Room 104, Olin Arts Center

8 p.m. Concert: Matapat, French Canadian folk band. Admission: to be
announced.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall


Tuesday, Oct. 16

12:30 p.m. Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4 p.m. Womens soccer vs. Bowdoin.
Russell Street Field

Wednesday, Oct. 17-22
Fall Recess: No classes; administrative offices are open.


Wednesday, Oct. 17

6 p.m.  9 p.m. Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts Center

6:30 p.m.  Performance: Cinderella by the Tanglewood Marionettes. A puppetry demonstration begins the program and a question and answer session concludes it. Sponsored by the Maggie Trafton Authors for Young
Readers. Space is limited. Tickets are required and available in the Auburn
Public Library childrens department beginning Oct. 1.
Donation: $2.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

7 p.m. Volleyball vs. Colby.
Alumni Gymnasium


Saturday, Oct. 20

11 a.m. Womens soccer vs. Connecticut.
Russell Street Field

11 a.m.  Field hockey vs. Connecticut College.
Campus Avenue Field

1 p.m. Football vs. Middlebury.
Garcelon Field

2 p.m. Mens soccer vs. Connecticut College.
Russell Street Field


Tuesday, Oct. 23

12:30 p.m. Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4:30 p.m. Lecture: Helen Nearing & The Good Life: Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. A documentary film and discussion with Portland producers Polly Bennell and Andrea Sarris. Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001
Series.
Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

7 p.m. The Annual Philip J. Otis Lecture: Coming Home to Eat. Gary Paul
Nabhan, director of the Center for Sustainable Environments, Northern Arizona
University. A reception follows the lecture.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall


Wednesday, Oct. 24

4 p.m. Mens soccer vs. Bowdoin.
Russell Street Field

6 p.m.  9 p.m. Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts Center

7 p.m. Celtic Storytelling: Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.
Chase Hall Lounge

9 p.m. Reflections: Busy Life, Peaceful Center; A Weekly Time of Rest for Body and Soul. A candlelit contemplative time of meditation, quiet and short
readings from a variety of spiritual traditions. Each week features a
student or faculty performance of music or dance. For more information
call the chaplains office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel


Thursday, Oct. 25

4:30 p.m. Lecture Series. African-American History Through the Eyes of an Artist. Author, painter and puppeteer Ashley Bryan, Emeritus Professor of Art,
Dartmouth College. Difference...Race, Class, Gender etc. lecture
series.
Benjamin Mays Center

8 p.m. Annual Writers Harvest Reading: Poet and fiction writer Marge Piercy  will read from her work. Donations accepted.
Benjamin Mays Center


Friday, Oct. 26

4:10 p.m. Lecture: Environmental Contaminants and Human Health: Fishing for  Answers.
Rebecca van Beneden, professor of marine sciences, University of Maine,
Orono. Sponsored by the biology department.
Room 113, Carnegie Science Hall

4:15 p.m. TGIF Lecture Series, Women in the World. Speaker to be announced.
Muskie Archives

7 p.m. Exhibition Opening: Pamela Johnson, Recent Work. Artists talk followed  by a reception.
Upper Gallery, Museum of Art

8 p.m. Concert: Tina DeVeron. Sponsored by alumni relations and the Abused  Womens Advocacy Project. Admission: to be announced.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall


Sunday, Oct. 28

8 a.m. Mens and womens rowing: Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Regatta.
Bates College Boat House, Greene


Monday, Oct. 29

7 p.m. The Annual Zerby Lecture in Contemporary Religious Thought.
Earth-Keeping: A Report from the Field. Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Neibuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, will present an oral and  visual report on the earth-keeping practices of religious communities in
Alaska, the Philippines, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Egypt and Scotland.
Muskie Archives


Tuesday, Oct. 30

12:30 p.m. Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

9 p.m. Reflections: Busy Life, Peaceful Center; A Weekly Time of Rest for Body and Soul. A candlelit contemplative time of meditation, quiet and short
readings from a variety of spiritual traditions. Each week features a
student or faculty performance of music or dance. For more information
call the chaplains office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel


Wednesday, Oct. 31

6 p.m.  9 p.m. Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts Center


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EXHIBITIONS

Bates College Chapel
Through Oct. 6 Evocations of Spirit. An exhibition of works by Bates artists exploring the spiritual life.

Ladd Library
Through Nov. 23 FLOPHOUSE: Life on the Bowery. Photographs and Stories from Americas  Most Famous Skid Row. An exhibition of photographs by New-York based photographer Harvey Wang. Sponsored by the chaplains office.

Museum of Art
Through Oct. 17 Upper Gallery: Hyman Bloom: The Lubec Woods.
Through Nov. 25 Lower Gallery: Zhang Yi: Watercolors from China.
Oct. 26  Nov. 25 Upper Gallery: Pamela Johnson, Recent Work.

Museum hours are Tuesday  Saturday, 10 a.m.  5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.- 5 p.m. Closed on Mondays. School groups are welcome to all exhibitions. Tours conducted by museum staff. Advance registration for groups required. Call 207-786-6158. Visitors are welcome throughout the exhibition. Information:  207-786-6158.

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