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Wu Man has brought China's ancient, lutelike "pipa" to a global audience. See Feb. 28.

Thursday, Feb. 1

Noon

Service: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. For more information call 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

8 p.m.

Lecture: Mohammad Khatib and Feryal Abu Haikal speak about nonviolent struggle in Palestine. Khatib is a leading opponent of the Israeli separation barrier and Haikal was headmistress at the Kortuba School in Hebron, a model of nonviolent resistance. Cosponsored by the Mushahada Association, Multicultural Center, Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine and the politics department.

Edmund S. Muskie Archives

Friday, Feb. 2

7 p.m.

Women’s basketball vs. Williams.

Alumni Gymnasium

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: The Departed (2006), Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed, star-studded drama about betrayal on both sides of the law. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Saturday, Feb. 3

3 p.m.

Women’s basketball vs. Middlebury.

Alumni Gymnasium

6 p.m.

Men’s track and field: State of Maine Championships.

Merrill Gymnasium

7 p.m.

Performance: At Asian Performance Night, Bates students celebrate Asian culture and tradition with dance, music and poetry from Korea, China, Japan, India, Nepal, Vietnam and other nations. Sponsored by Sangai Asia. For more information e-mail ilim@bates.edu or mhoangha@bates.edu.

Schaeffer Theatre

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: The Departed  (see Feb. 2 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Sunday, Feb. 4

2 and 4:30 p.m.

Film: The Departed  (see Feb. 2 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

7:30 p.m.

Lecture: King’s Dream, American Realities: Paradoxical Trends in the African-American Condition by Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, and author of Rituals of Blood: The Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries. Sponsored by the College Lectures Committee, the Multicultural Center, the sociology department and the African American studies program.

Chase Hall Lounge

Tuesday, Feb. 6

12:30 p.m.

Noonday Concert: Pianist Chiharu Naruse and cellist James Kennedy. For more information call 207-786-6135.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

6:30 p.m.

Lecture: A topic TBA by Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew and a free-lance journalist who has conducted her own investigation of conditions and events in the West Bank and Gaza. Sponsored by Bates Students for Justice in Palestine.

Chase Hall Lounge

Wednesday, Feb. 7

4 p.m.

Seminar: Senior chemistry majors and/or visiting researchers discuss a topic TBA. For more information call 207-786-6294.

Dana Chemistry Hall, Room 300

4:15 p.m.

Panel discussion: Disrupting Privilege: Inequality, Community and Social Change. Emily Kane, named Whitehouse Professor of Sociology last fall, is joined by three of her former students for this Whitehouse Professorship event. The professorship was established in 1985 by David ’36 and Constance Whitehouse. For more information call 207-786-6476.

Chase Hall Lounge

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

Thursday, Feb. 8

Noon

Service: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. For more information call 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

6 p.m.

Men’s squash vs. Colby.

Bates Squash Center, 56 Plourde Parkway

Friday, Feb. 9

7 p.m.

Men’s basketball vs. Colby.

Alumni Gymnasium

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Sacha Baron Cohen’s hilarious, controversial mockumentary. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

8 p.m.

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

Saturday, Feb. 10

3 p.m.

Men’s basketball vs. Bowdoin.

Alumni Gymnasium

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: Borat (see Feb. 2 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Sunday, Feb. 11

2 and 4:30 p.m.

Film: Borat (see Feb. 2 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Monday, Feb. 12

3–8 p.m.

Red Cross blood drive, sponsored by the Bates College Emergency Medical Services. For more information call 207-795-4004.

Chase Hall Lounge

Tuesday, Feb. 13

12:30 p.m.

Noonday Concert: Pianist Frank Glazer, artist in residence. For information call 207-786-6135.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

3–8 p.m.

Red Cross blood drive, sponsored by the Bates College Emergency Medical Services. For information call 207-795-4004.

Chase Hall Lounge

Wednesday, Feb. 14

4 p.m.

Seminar: Senior chemistry majors and/or visiting researchers discuss a topic TBA. For more information call 207-786-6294.

Dana Chemistry Hall, Room 300

8 p.m.

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

Thursday, Feb. 15

Noon

Service: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. For more information call 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

Professor of Russian
Jane Costlow

4:30 p.m.

Lecture: Jane Costlow, professor of Russian, discusses a topic TBA as part of Spiritual Sojourners, a series sponsored by the chaplain’s office. For more information call 207-786-8273.

Chaplain’s Office, 161 Wood St.

7:30 p.m.

Women’s ice hockey vs. Buffalo.

Underhill Arena

Saturday, Feb. 17

11 a.m.

Men’s track and field: New England Division III championships.

Merrill Gymnasium

3 p.m.

Women’s ice hockey vs. Buffalo.

Underhill Arena

6 p.m.

Men’s ice hockey vs. Springfield College.

Underhill Arena

Monday–Friday, Feb. 19–23

Winter Recess: Administrative offices remain open.

Monday, Feb. 26

6 p.m.

Lecture: The Bates Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents a speaker TBA. Sponsored by the Office of Career Services. For more information contact 207-786-6232 or btrundy@bates.edu.

Chase Hall Lounge

"Gagaku" musician Takeshi
Sasamoto plays the "ryuteki"
("dragon flute").

8 p.m.

Concert: In the first of two World Music Week concerts, Bates presents Hitomi Nakamura, Mayumi Miyata and Takeshi Sasamoto, who play "gagaku," Japanese court music. They perform ancient works and new compositions including one by Bates faculty member Hiroya Miura. For more information call 207-786-6135.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Tuesday, Feb. 27

12:30 p.m.

Noonday Concert: Anastasia Antonacos, piano. For more information call 207-786-6135.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Wednesday, Feb. 28

4 p.m.

Seminar: Senior chemistry majors and/or visiting researchers discuss a topic TBA. For more information call 207-786-6294.

Dana Chemistry Hall, Room 300

Professor of Psychology
John Kelsey

4:30 p.m.

Lecture: Teaching and Learning about Parkinson's Disease by John Kelsey, professor of psychology, chair of the neuroscience program and recipient of the 2007 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching. The talk is sponsored by the Kroepsch Award Selection Committee, Bates 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 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: In The Last King of Scotland (2006), Forest Whitaker portrays the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

8 p.m.

Concert: Wu Man. In a landmark World Music Week event, one of the world’s foremost players of the traditional Chinese stringed instrument called the “pipa” comes to Bates. She has worked with such acclaimed performers as the Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma and such composers as Tan Dun and Philip Glass. For more information call 207-786-6135.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Exhibition

Feb. 5–16

Lewiston Housing Hillview Art Exhibit: In their annual show, children in a Lewiston Housing Authority arts program at the Hillview complex display their work. For more information call 207-783-8539.

Chase Hall Lounge

Museum of Art

Through March 18

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. Part of the statewide Maine Print Project. For more information call 207-786-6158.

"Acadian Spring," a 1990 woodcut by Charlie Hewitt.


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