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World AIDS Day: Observances at Bates include Lives at Stake, a student-organized installation of pictures and descriptions of 500 children with HIV/AIDS. Visitors are encouraged to pick a picture to wear around their necks for the day.
Historic Quad
Concert: The Bates College Choir, conducted by John Corrie, presents an evening of opera choruses and arias from Mozart, Purcell, Wagner and others. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Dance performance: In a program titled "Move Out," the Bates Modern Dance Company performs works by New York City choreographers Jodi Melnick and Jennifer Archibald, as well as pieces by Maine artist Louis Gervais and Bates faculty members Carol Dilley and Sarah McCormick. Admission: $6/$3. For more information call 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer Theatre
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Corrie |
Concert: Bates College Choir (see Dec. 1 listing).
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Dance performance: Bates Modern Dance Company (see Dec. 2 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
Concert: Pianist Frank Glazer, artist in residence, performs a selection of variations by Haydn, Beethoven’s Sonata in G, Op. 31, No. 1, and Schumann’s Carnival. For more information call 207-786-6135.
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Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Service: Roman Catholic worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Concert: Senior thesis performance by composer Patrick Kenna. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Lecture: Abolishing the Death Penalty by Jotaka Eaddy, coordinator of the grassroots education and mobilization program of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center. For more information call 207-786-8376.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
Dance: Bates Modern Dance Company (see Dec. 2 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
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"Spanish Labor,"a 2003 |
Gallery talk: Bates College Museum of Art staffers offer a tour of the current exhibition, Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print....The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976–2006 (see below). For more information call 207-786-6158.
Bates College Museum of Art
Noonday Concert: D.R. Richie ’09, sitar. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Presentation: Math senior thesis poster presentations.
Hathorn Hall, Room 209
Seminar: Senior chemistry majors and/or visiting researchers discuss a topic TBA. For more information call 207-786-6294.
Dana Chemistry Hall, Room 300
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). For more information call 207-786-6158.
Olin Arts Center, Room 259
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Concert: The Bates College Jazz Band, directed by Tom Snow, shares a bill with two smaller jazz combos, one led by pianist Snow and the other by saxman Greg Waters ’08. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Chase Hall Lounge
Film: A Scanner Darkly (2006), Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s vision of a frightening near future. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center, Room 104
Women’s basketball vs. Maine-Farmington.
Alumni Gymnasium
Performance: Students in Theater 263, a course in voice and speech, perform their final project, an adaptation of Billy Collins’ poem “Victoria’s Secret.” Free; no reservations. For more information call 207-786-6161.
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater
Service: Busy Life, Peaceful Center. A half-hour of quiet, candlelight, brief readings of poetry and musical performances by students. Sponsored by the chaplain’s office. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Service: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Noonday Concert: This specially scheduled concert features the Gamelan Mawar Mekar, Bates’ gamelan ensemble. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Men’s basketball vs. Maine-Farmington.
Alumni Gymnasium
Debate: The Brooks Quimby Debate Council tackles a resolution TBA. For more information call 207-577-8425.
Chase Hall Lounge
Reading: Poet Tracy K. Smith, author of the prizewinning 2003 collection The Body’s Question, reads from her work. Sponsored by the English department.
Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge
Service: A Mass marks the Roman Catholic Holy Day of Obligation celebrating the Immaculate Conception. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Men’s squash vs. MIT.
Bates Squash Center, 56 Alfred Plourde Parkway
Contradance: Traditional New England folk dancing to the band Wake the Neighbors. No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Admission: $5. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.
Chase Hall Lounge
Men’s and women’s track and field: Bates Pentathlon.
Merrill Gymnasium, Slovenski Track
Women’s basketball vs. Norwich.
Alumni Gymnasium
Service: Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols. A candlelit celebration of Advent, with readings and music appropriate to the season. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Service: Roman Catholic worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Lecture: Spiritual Sojourners, a series sponsored by the chaplain’s office, presents the Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen, Episcopal Bishop of Maine. For information call 207-786-8273.
Chase Hall Lounge
Seminar: Senior chemistry majors and/or visiting researchers discuss a topic TBA. For more information call 207-786-6294.
Dana Chemistry Hall, Room 300
Concert: The 46-member Auburn Community Band, directed by Milt Simon, presents its 25th annual holiday concert. For more information, call the Auburn Recreation Department at 207-784-0191.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Service: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Dance performance: Portland Ballet presents The Victorian Nutcracker, a version of the holiday classic adapted to reflect real people and places in Maine’s largest city. Admission: $20. Advance tickets are available through Bull Moose Music,
207-784-6463.&
Schaeffer Theatre
Dance performance: The Victorian Nutcracker (see Dec. 16 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
Winter Recess: Administrative offices close at noon Friday, Dec. 22, and reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007.
A Land of Opportunity: The Middle; North to South: Photographs by Jacob Bluestone ’07, an Otis Fellow who explored the Great Plains and the relationship between their topography and their inhabitants.
Chase Hall Gallery
Museum of Art
Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print. . . The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976–2006: One of Maine’s most distinctive and dynamic artists, Lewiston native Hewitt is held in especially high esteem for his printmaking. The repository for Hewitt’s graphic work, the Bates College Museum of Art shows some 80 images selected from its extensive Hewitt collection and a mural created for the occasion. For more information call 207-786-6158.
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