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November 2001 Calendar
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Thursday, Nov. 1

7 p.m. Presentation: Warriors: Navajo Codetalkers.
Photographer Kenji Kawano discusses his exhibit, which chronicles the contributions of Navajo soldiers who provided the language used for communicating classified messages and troop movements for the U.S. Pacific campaign during World War II. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center.
Chase Hall Lounge

7:45 p.m. Opening Reception: Warriors: Navajo Codetalkers. Kenji Kawano’s photography exhibit opens with a reception featuring foods from five Native American nations.
Chase Hall Gallery

 7 p.m. Film: Primate Film Festival. Featuring Baboon Behavior and Baboon Social Behavior by Irven DeVore and My Work with Chimpanzees in Gombe by Jane Goodall.
Room 204, Carnegie Science


Friday, Nov. 2

4:30 p.m. Lecture: Practicing Medicine as Practicing the “Presence of God”: Notes of a Catholic Doctor. David Alan Loxterkamp, family practice physician, Searsport. Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02 Series.
Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

8 p.m. Concert: The 2001 Florence Gremley Concert. Pianist Frank Glazer, artist-in-residence, and the New England Piano Quartette. Made possible through the Florence Pennell Gremley Endowed Fund.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

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



Saturday, Nov. 3

12:30 p.m. Football vs. Bowdoin.
Garcelon Field

8 p.m. Concert: Slice of Rice, Frijoles, and Greens. A humorous and poignant mix of stories that gives vivid insights into the Asian, Latino, African and Deaf American experiences. Using theater, music and movement, these artists open windows to their own world through their personal tales. Sponsored by Sangai Asia.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall


Sunday, Nov. 4

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

7:30 p.m. Concert: Barachois, French Canadian folk group from Prince Edward Island. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society. Admission: $12/$8. For information call 207-795-5180.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall 


Monday, Nov. 5

7 p.m. Lecture: The Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship. Speaker to be announced. For information call 207-786-6232.
Chase Hall Lounge 


Tuesday, Nov. 6

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


Wednesday, Nov. 7

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

7 p.m. Lecture: The Unique Status of Tribal Courts in the Context of the U.S. Judicial System by the Honorable Robert Yazzie, chief justice of the Navajo Nation. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center.
Benjamin Mays Center

7:30 p.m. Lecture: Patricia Gurin, professor of psychology, University of Michigan. Sponsored by the Dean of the College. For more information call 207-786-6252.
Muskie Archives

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 chaplain’s office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel 


Thursday, Nov. 8

4:30 p.m. Lecture: You Can’t Kill the Spirit: A Journey Through Suffering. Bennett E. Tousley, folk singer and storyteller from Woburn, Mass. Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02 Series.
Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall 

8 p.m. Theater: Brave New World, directed by Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz. Adapted for the stage by David Rogers, Aldous Huxley's play is set in the future where mindless happiness is universal, babies are decanted from bottles, and frustrations are eliminated with drugs. What happens when an old-fashioned human blunders into this brave new world? Admission: $6/$3. For information call 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer Theatre


Friday, Nov. 9  

8 p.m. Concert: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! performed by pianist John Kramer ’95.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

8 p.m. Theater: Brave New World, directed by Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz. Adapted for the stage by David Rogers, Aldous Huxley's play is set in the future where mindless happiness is universal, babies are decanted from bottles, and frustrations are eliminated with drugs. What happens when an old-fashioned human blunders into this brave new world? Admission: $6/$3. For information call 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer Theatre


Saturday, Nov. 10

11 a.m. Swimming vs. Bowdoin and Colby.
Tarbell Pool, Merrill Gymnasium 

7 p.m. Film: King of Masks, directed by Wu Tianming, China. A traveling magician adopts a boy disciple who turns out to be a girl. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Admission: $5/$2.
Room 204, Olin Arts Center

8 p.m. Concert: Bates College Orchestra, directed by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

8 p.m. Theater: Brave New World, directed by Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz. Adapted for the stage by David Rogers, Aldous Huxley's play is set in the future where mindless happiness is universal, babies are decanted from bottles, and frustrations are eliminated with drugs. What happens when an old-fashioned human blunders into this brave new world? Admission: $6/$3. For information call 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer Theatre


 
Sunday, Nov. 11

2 p.m. Theater: Brave New World, directed by Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz. Adapted for the stage by David Rogers, Aldous Huxley's play is set in the future where mindless happiness is universal, babies are decanted from bottles, and frustrations are eliminated with drugs. What happens when an old-fashioned human blunders into this brave new world? Admission: $6/$3. For information call 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer TheatreTheatre

7 p.m. Film: King of Masks (see Nov. 10 listing).
Room 204, Olin Arts Center 


Monday, Nov. 12

9 p.m. Dance: Hip-hop lecture and demonstration with Clyde Evans Jr.
Olin Arts Center


Tuesday, Nov. 13

12:30 p.m. Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall


Wednesday, Nov. 14

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

7 p.m. Reading and Lecture: The Glass Palace. Author Amitav Ghosh will read from his work and discuss his background research among South Asian communities. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center.
Muskie Archives

8 p.m. Theater: The Shallow End and The Lost Colony, directed by students in Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz’s directing class, Theater 370. These one-act plays by Wendy MacLeod take a comic yet touching look at what it means to be young and gaining adult awareness. Free; no reservations accepted.
Gannett Theater, Pettigrew 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 chaplain’s office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel 


Thursday, Nov. 15

8 p.m. Dance: Performance by Clyde Evans Jr.
Schaeffer Theatre

8 p.m. Theater: The Shallow End and The Lost Colony, directed by students in Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz’s directing class Theater 370 (see Nov. 14 listing).
Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall 


Saturday, Nov. 17

11 a.m. Men’s and women’s swimming.
Tarbell Pool, Merrill Gymnasium


November 19 – 25

Thanksgiving Recess; administrative offices open through Nov. 21. 


Monday, Nov. 26

5:30 p.m. Women’s basketball vs. University of New England.
Alumni Gymnasium

7:30 p.m. Men’s basketball vs. University of New England.
Alumni Gymnasium

7:30 p.m. Lecture: Speaker, J. Greene, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Sponsored by the Dean of the College. For information call 207-786-6202.
Muskie Archives 


Tuesday, Nov. 27

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


Wednesday, Nov. 28

4:10 p.m. Lecture: The Sawyer Biology Lecture. Towards a Model of the Ultrastructure of the Poliovirus RNA Replication Complex. John M. Lyle ’95, Ph.D. candidate in microbiology and immunology, Stanford University. Reception to follow. Made possible through the William Sawyer Memorial Lecture Fund.
Room 113, Carnegie Science

6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts 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 chaplain’s office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel 


Thursday, Nov. 29

4:30 p.m. Lecture: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Featuring Andrea Smith, Cherokee Nation, a founder of WARN (Women of All Red Nations) and INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center.
Benjamin Mays Center  

8 p.m. Theater: The Shallow End and The Lost Colony, directed by students in Professor Theater Paul Kuritz’s directing class, Theater 370 (see Nov. 14 listing).
Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall 


Friday, Nov. 30

7 p.m. Concert: WithOutRezervation (WOR), Native American rap group. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center. For information call 786-8215.  
Chase Hall Lounge

8 p.m. Concert: Bates College Choir, directed by John Corrie, performs Handel’s Messiah, Part I.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

8 p.m. Theater: The Shallow End and The Lost Colony, directed by students in Professor Theater Paul Kuritz’s directing class, Theater 370 (see Nov. 14 listing).
Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall


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EXHIBITIONS
Chase Hall Gallery
Nov. 1 – 15. Warriors: Navajo Codetalkersby photographer Kenji Kawano. Exhibit chronicles the contributions of Navajo soldiers, who provided the language used for communicating classified messages and troop movements for the U.S. Pacific campaign during World War II.

Ladd Library
Through Nov. 23. FLOPHOUSE: Life on the Bowery. Photographs and Stories from America’s Most Famous Skid Row. An exhibition by New York-based photographer Harvey Wang. Sponsored by the chaplain’s office.
Through Dec. 1. Portland book artist Rebecca Goodale exhibits her work.

Museum of Art
Through Nov. 25. Upper Gallery: Pamela Johnson, Recent Work.
Lower Gallery: Zhang Yi: Classical Feelings, watercolors from China.

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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