Monday, May 1

3:30 p.m.
Softball vs. Southern Maine
(doubleheader).
Lafayette Street Field

4 p.m.
Baseball vs. Husson.
Leahey Field

Tuesday, May 2

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

4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Beyond the Fringes of Life: Stories of Transformation by Calvin Dube, program manager for the Trinity Soup Kitchen. Part of the 2005-06 Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul series. Sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge

Wednesday, May 3

4 p.m.
Baseball vs. Colby.
Leahey Field

4:10 p.m.
Lecture: Transatlantic Relations: A German Perspective by Wolfgang Vorwerk, consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany. Sponsored by the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages and Literatures.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives

4:15 p.m.
Lecture: Building and Sustaining a Research Program on Modern Optics by Hong Lin, professor of physics. The Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Series is co-sponsored by the College Division Chairs, Information and Library Services and the Dean of the Faculty's Office.
Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)

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

7:30 p.m.
Film and discussion: Filmmaker Walter Miale screens and discusses Deadly Mistakes?, his short-film compilation about Iraq and the war on terrorism, as well as a preview of his next film. Sponsored by the Bates Democrats. For more information call 201-739-4489.
Chase Hall Lounge

Friday, May 5

8 p.m.
Contradance: Traditional New England folk dancing to the band Wake the Neighbors. No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Admission: $8/$7. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.
Chase Hall Lounge

Saturday, May 6

1 p.m.
Baseball: Alumni game.
Leahey Field

Sunday, May 7

Noon
Baseball vs. Williams (doubleheader).
Leahey Field

Tuesday, May 9

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

6:30 p.m.
Film and discussion: Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki shows and discusses his 2005 documentary Why We Fight, which analyzes the current state of the "military-industrial complex" first cited by President Eisenhower. Sponsored by the Bates Democrats and the departments of history and political science. For more information call 201-739-4489.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives

Wednesday, May 10

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

7:30 p.m.
Lecture: Identity and Community in 14th-Century Constantinople: The Case of the Imperial Prime Minister's Monastery by Sarah Brooks, lecturer in medieval art and research associate in the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sponsored by the Program in Classical and Medieval Studies and the Alison Lockwood Lecture Fund of the Department of Art and Visual Culture.
Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)

Sunday, May 14

Concert: Self-described "anarchist band" Requiem and the experimental, down-tempo metal band Giant perform with two local bands TBA. Sponsored by WRBC-FM and the New World Coalition, the event includes a radical-book fair and benefits the Maine Social Forum. Admission: $5. For more information contact rconrad@riseup.net or 207-212-0145.
Chase Hall Lounge

Tuesday, May 16

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

Wednesday, May 17

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

7 p.m.
Poetry reading: Ira Sadoff, Dana Professor of Poetry at Colby College and author of eight books including the poetry collections Emotional Traffic and Palm Reading In Winter, reads from his work. Sponsored by the English department.
Chase Hall Lounge

Friday, May 19

Time TBA
Concert: The college radio station, WRBC-FM, presents hardcore rapper Immortal Technique. Admission: TBA. For more information call 207-777-7532.
Benjamin Mays Center

Tuesday, May 23

8 p.m.
Performance: Students in William Pope.L's course in contemporary
performance poetry give their final performances. Free; no reservations.
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater