 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Thursday, March 1NoonService: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. Bates College Chapel Friday, March 24:15 p.m.Lecture: A presentation on rendering data and concepts into images by Felice Frankel, a research scientist at MIT and head of the Envisioning Science program at Harvard's Initiative in Innovative Computing. Presented by the new Bates College Imaging and Computing Center. For more information call 207-753-6945. Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52) 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Casino Royale (2006), the "prequel" to the James Bond canon, featuring the acclaimed new 007, Daniel Craig. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 Saturday, March 32 p.m.Men’s lacrosse vs. Endicott. Campus Avenue Field 2 p.m.Presentation: The Marcus Roberts Trio, appearing this evening in a Bates College Concert Series event, presents a jazz master class. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Casino Royale (see March 2 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104 8 p.m.Bates College Concert Series: The Marcus Roberts Trio, led by a pianist widely celebrated for giving new and vital interpretations to historical jazz styles. Admission: $15/$5. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Sunday, March 42 and 4:30 p.m.Film: Casino Royale (see March 2 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104
3 p.m.Concert: In its annual visit, the Portland Chamber Music Festival offers music by Mahler, Dvorak and William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Tuesday, March 612:30 p.m.Noonday Concert: Jazz performed by faculty members Dale Chapman, saxophone, and John Smedley, guitar, with bassist Jeff Taylor and drummer Michael Hansen. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Wednesday, March 74:15 p.m.Lecture: Jean Thenoud and Jewish Kabbala. Ian Christie-Miller, an expert in the identification of historic manuscripts through watermarks, gives an illustrated lecture on Kabbalism and the French Franciscan monk Jean Thenaud. Sponsored by the philosophy and religion department. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 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 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.Film: The annual Primate Film Festival features two films on baboon field research and one about Jane Goodall's chimpanzees. Sponsored by the biology department. Carnegie Science, Room 204 7:30 p.m.Reading: In the third annual Beyond Words, student poets published in Bates' online humanities magazine E-clectic read from their work. Sponsored by the dean of the faculty's office. Benjamin Mays Center Thursday, March 8NoonService: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. Bates College Chapel Friday, March 95:30 p.m.Reception and signing: Artist Charlie Hewitt and author David P. Becker help celebrate Hewitt's current museum exhibition and the Maine Print Project, an unprecedented statewide collaboration of museums and art institutions. The pair will sign the exhibition catalog and Becker's Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800–2005, the Maine Print Project publication. For more information call 207-786-6158. Bates College Museum of Art 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Night at the Museum (2006), Ben Stiller's star-studded nocturnal adventures at a natural history museum. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 7:30 p.m.Play: The Contrast by Royall Tyler. Paul Kuritz, professor of theater, directs this production of the first American comedy (1787), which makes sport of the differences between Americans and Europeans. Admission: $6/$3. For reservations call 207-786-6161. Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater 8 p.m.Bates College Concert Series: Steven Lubin, an acclaimed fortepianist, and the versatile baritone Thomas Meglioranza perform an all-Schubert concert including the Schwanengesang song cycle, a piano sonata and popular lieder. Admission: $5. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall 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, March 107 p.m.Dance performance: The DC-Dabkeh Troupe performs Middle Eastern folkloric dance -- particularly "dabkeh," a celebratory community style found in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. Sponsored by Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine, the Olin Arts Center, the Multicultural Center, the music department and Mushahada. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Night at the Museum (see March 9 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104 7:30 p.m.Play: The Contrast (see March 9 listing). Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater 8 p.m.Concert: Amandla!, a student organization dedicated to promoting understanding among students of African descent and the Bates community, presents Cultural Extravaganza, a participatory evening of West African drumming and dance, led by Baba Kevin and Betsy Bott of the Blue Hill-based Ngoma. Benjamin Mays Center 8:30 p.m.Concert: Canadian DJ Kid Koala, who bases his scratching on blues but is known for his imagainative use of samples from other genres, has opened for Radiohead, Björk and the Beastie Boys. Sponsored by WRBC-FM. Admission fee TBA. Schaeffer Theatre Sunday, March 112 p.m.Play: The Contrast (see March 9 listing). Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater 2 and 4:30 p.m.Film: Night at the Museum (see March 9 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104 3 p.m.CANCELLATION: Today's Olin Arts Center concert by pianist Frank Glazer, artist in residence, has been canceled. Tuesday, March 1312:30 p.m.Noonday Concert: Pianist Frank Glazer, artist in residence, and soprano Christina Astrachan. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Wednesday, March 144 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 6–9 p.m.Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art (see March 7 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 259 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Fast Food Nation (2006), director Richard Linklater's dramatization of the best-selling food-industry exposé. Admission: $1. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 7:30 p.m.Lecture: Gender, Islam and the War on Terror by Asma Barlas, professor of politics and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College. Sponsored by the College Lectures Committee. Chase Hall Lounge Thursday, March 159, 10 and 11 a.m.Kinderkonzert: Woodwinds. Portland Symphony Orchestra musicians introduce children ages 3 to 7 to symphonic music and the instrumental families. Admission: $3. For reservations call 207-773-6128. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall NoonService: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. Bates College Chapel
4:30 p.m.Lecture: Sue Houchins, associate professor in the programs of African American and women's and gender studies, and special assistant to the president for issues of diversity, shares her faith story. Part of Spiritual Sojourners, a series sponsored by the chaplain's office. For more information call 207-786-8273. 161-163 Wood St., Seminar Room 4:30 p.m.Lecture: John Baughman, associate professor of politics, talks about his new book, Common Ground: Committee Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives. Part of the Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Series, sponsored by the division chairs, Information and Library Services, and the dean of the faculty's office. Pettengill Hall, Room G65 Friday, March 167 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Dreamgirls (2006), an all-star cast presents the fictionalized story of a singing group much like the Supremes. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 7 p.m.Performance: Rafael Casal of the HBO series Def Poetry performs spoken-word poetry, a style designed to be read aloud rather than on the page and often including other lyric forms and prose. Sponsored by SEED, a literary magazine at Bates. (See March 17 for related event.) Benjamin Mays Center 7:30 p.m.Play: The Contrast (see March 9 listing). Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater Saturday, March 171 p.m.Men’s lacrosse vs. Trinity. Campus Avenue Field 1 p.m.Poetry workshop: Rafael Casal of the HBO series Def Poetry leads a workshop on spoken-word poetry. Sponsored by SEED, a literary magazine at Bates. (See March 16 for related event.) Benjamin Mays Center 2 p.m.Conference: Amandla! presents the fifth annual Unity Conference, whose theme Generation C: Generation Consciousness explores politics, gender and culture. Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52) 7 p.m.Dinner: Amandla!'s Unity dinner features a keynote speaker TBA and tasty food, including Somali cuisine. Edmund S. Muskie Archives 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Dreamgirls (see March 16 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104 7:30 p.m.Play: The Contrast (see March 9 listing). Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater 8 p.m.Concert: Chamber music from West Java featuring renowned singer Euis Komariah; her accompanist Gangan Garmana, who plays a type of zither; and the Bates gamelan ensemble, playing the college's new, built-to-order gamelan degung, a set of gongs and metallophones. Sponsored by the music department. For more information call 207-786-6135 or 207-753-6968. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall 10 p.m.Dance: Amandla!'s Triad, the biggest annual party at Bates, features hip hop, R&B, dancehall, soca, alternative, techno, rock, salsa and reggaeton. Chase Hall Sunday, March 182 p.m.Play: The Contrast (see March 9 listing). Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater 2 and 4:30 p.m.Film: Dreamgirls (see March 16 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104 3 p.m.Concert: Pianist Akiko Doi offers a senior thesis performance. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Monday, March 197 p.m.Film: Invisible Children is a 2003 film by a nonprofit organization with the same name that works to stop the war in Uganda and create a safe environment there for children. Sponsored by the New World Coalition. Benjamin Mays Center Tuesday, March 2012:30 p.m.Noonday Concert: Chase the Fiddlers, a folk fiddle ensemble directed by Greg Boardman. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Wednesday, March 214 p.m.Men’s lacrosse vs. Gordon. Campus Avenue Field 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 6–9 p.m.Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art (see March 7 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 259 Thursday, March 22NoonService: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. Bates College Chapel 4:30 p.m.Women’s lacrosse vs. New England. Campus Avenue Field 7 p.m.Lecture: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, an expert in race and social justice issues, discusses her book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. The annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Lecture is sponsored by the chaplain's office. For more information call 207-786-8272. Chase Hall Lounge Friday, March 237 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Flags of Our Fathers (2006), director Clint Eastwood dramatizes the lives of the servicemen who raised the flag on Iwo Jima. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 Saturday, March 24NoonSoftball vs. Brandeis (doubleheader). Leahey Field 12:30 p.m.Women’s lacrosse vs. Amherst. Campus Avenue Field 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Flags of Our Fathers (see March 23 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104 Sunday, March 252 and 4:30 p.m.Film: Flags of Our Fathers (see March 23 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104 Monday, March 264 p.m.Men’s lacrosse vs. Southern Maine. Campus Avenue Field 7 p.m.Lecture: The Bates Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents a speaker TBA. Sponsored by the career services office. For more information call 207-786-6232. Chase Hall, Chase Lounge 8 p.m. Concert: The Roots, an adventurous and pithy hip-hop band recently nominated for two Grammys, appears in a Chase Hall Committee event. Tickets cost $30 and are sold at Bates, Bowdoin and Colby colleges, all Bull Moose Music locations and at the online box office. For more information, please call 207-795-7496. Tuesday, March 27 12:30 p.m.Noonday Concert: Voice students of John Corrie. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall 2:30 p.m.Baseball vs. Maine-Farmington. Leahey Field 4:10 p.m.Lecture: Kathryn Whorf '04, of the medical oncology department at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, offers a seminar on the environmental and social factors associated with the increase in pediatric obesity in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the biology department. Carnegie Science, Room 204 Wednesday, March 284 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 p.m.Women’s lacrosse vs. Gordon. Campus Avenue Field 6–9 p.m.Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art (see March 7 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 259 Thursday, March 29NoonService: Ecumenical worship with Eucharist, led by the college chaplain. Bates College Chapel 12:30 p.m.Noonday Concert: Clarinet students of Carol Furman. For more information call 207-786-6135. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall 7:30 p.m.Lecture: Le Thi Lien, a leading Vietnamese archaeologist, discusses the Ba Dinh Site, an excavation in Hanoi revealing artifacts dating back to the eighth century. Sponsored by the art and visual culture department. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 Friday, March 30
2:30 p.m.Mount David Summit: The annual campus-wide celebration of student academic achievement, highlighting undergraduate research, creative work and service-learning. Sponsored by the dean of the faculty's office and the Mellon Learning Associates Program, with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Pettengill Hall and other locations 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Will Smith in an acclaimed performance as a salesman and single father getting his life back on track. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 7:30 p.m.Dance performance: The Bates College Modern Dance company presents the first of two programs in its annual spring concert, featuring works by faculty, staff and senior citizens. Program A will be repeated at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 1. Admission: $6/$3. For reservations call 207-786-6161. Schaeffer Theatre 7:45 p.m.Conference: From National Disintegration to National Reunification: The Legacy of the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. Organized by Alexandre Dauge-Roth, assistant professor of French, this conference comprises two days of lectures and panel presentations by international experts on, and survivors of, the 1994 Rwandan genocide. A related student presentation takes place during the Mount David Summit (described above) at 4:30 p.m. in Pettengill Hall, Room G21. For more information call 207-786-6281. Chase Hall Lounge Saturday, March 319 a.m.Conference: Day Two of From National Disintegration to National Reunification: The Legacy of the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda (see March 30 listing). Pettengill Hall, Room G52 (evening session in Chase Hall) 2 p.m.Men’s lacrosse vs. Williams. Campus Avenue Field 7 and 9:30 p.m.Film: Pursuit of Happyness (see March 30 listing). Olin Arts Center, Room 104 7:30 p.m.Dance performance: The Bates College Modern Dance company presents the second of two programs in its annual spring concert, featuring works by faculty, staff and senior citizens. Program B will be repeated at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 2. See March 30 listing for general information. Schaeffer Theatre
8 p.m.Concert: In a landmark musical collaboration, the Bates College choir and orchestra, the Androscoggin Chorale and Maine Chamber Ensemble, and two high school chorales join forces for an all-Brahms program including the monumental Requiem. Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen and Maine Gov. John Baldacci are scheduled to make opening remarks. Admission for the public: $17.50 door/$15 advance; call 207-782-7228. Students with valid ID enter free, but tickets are required; call 207-786-6135. Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 27 Bartlett St., Lewiston Museum of ArtThrough March 18, 2007Scrape, 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.
|
|
|
|
Feedback |
