The Gypsy-punk-cabaret band Gogol Bordello plays the Gray Cage on Oct. 13

Monday, Oct. 1

7 p.m.

Presentation: A Global Perspective of HIV/AIDS through Cultural Immersion and Volunteering in South Africa by Phillips Fellow Zachary Risler ’08. Risler will describe his experiences as a volunteer with Global Leadership Adventures at an HIV/AIDS clinic in Cape Town, an epicenter of the international AIDS epidemic. For more information call 207-753-6952.

Edmund S. Muskie Archives

7:30 p.m.

Reading: Austrian novelist and playwright Elisabeth Reichart, who has stated that her writing “attempts to confront taboos or silence,” reads from her recent fiction. Sponsored by the Department of German and Russian Studies.

Chase Hall, Hirasawa Lounge

Tuesday, Oct. 2

Noon

Gallery talk: Under discussion is the current exhibition, Green Horizons (see description at the end of these listings).

Olin Arts Center, Museum of Art

12:30 p.m.

Noonday Concert: Joe Manis, a saxophonist from Massachusetts, performs with drummer Mike Calabrese. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4:15 p.m.

Reading: In a rare East Coast appearance, Joanne Kyger, a towering figure in California’s poetry community and author of the new collection About Now (National Poetry Foundation), reads from her work. Sponsored by the environmental studies program.

Benjamin Mays Center

Wednesday, Oct. 3

Tukufu Zuberi

4:10 p.m.

Chemistry seminar on a topic TBA.

Dana Chemistry Hall, Room 300

5:30 p.m.

Field hockey vs. Husson.

Campus Avenue Field

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.

Lecture: The 2007–08 Bates College Lecture Series opens with a talk by Tukufu Zuberi, professor of sociology, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Chase Hall Lounge

Thursday, Oct. 4

6 p.m.

Lecture: The Psychology Club presents a talk on a topic TBA.

Pettengill Hall, Room G52

Friday, Oct. 5

Vienna Piano Trio

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: Transformers  (2007, 144 min.). Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

8 p.m.

Concert: One of the world’s foremost violin, cello and piano ensembles, the Vienna Piano Trio performs music by Beethoven, Erich Korngold and Brahms. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Saturday, Oct. 6

10 a.m.

Volleyball vs. Gordon.

Alumni Gymnasium

2 p.m.

Volleyball vs. Wheaton.

Alumni Gymnasium

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: Transformers (see Oct. 5 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Sunday, Oct. 7

2 and 4:30 p.m.

Film: Transformers (see Oct. 5 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

5:30 p.m.

Weekly Protestant worship service. For more information call 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

Monday, Oct. 8

7 p.m.

Presentations: Three Otis Fellows discuss the results of their fellowship-funded research. Kaitlin Galloway ’10 presents El Camino de Santiago: A Pilgrimage of Land and Spirit; and Alexander Martin ’08 and Benjamin Reilly ’08 present In the Footsteps of Natives and Northmen: The Northern Forest by Canoe. For more information call 207-753-6952.

Chase Hall Lounge

Tuesday, Oct. 9

12:30 p.m.

Noonday Concert: Frank Glazer and Chiharu Naruse perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor on two pianos. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Wednesday, Oct. 10

Duncan Cumming '93

4 p.m.

Biochemistry seminar: Seniors Shawna-Kaye Lester, Craig van Keuren and Mike Henry present research projects.

Pettengill Hall, Room G35

4 p.m.

Men’s soccer vs. Plymouth State.

Russell Street Field

4 p.m.

Women’s soccer vs. Southern Maine.

Leahey Field

4:30 p.m.

Lecture: A presentation TBA in the Spiritual Sojourners series, sponsored by the chaplain’s office. For more information call 207-786-8272.

161 Wood St., Seminar Room

6–9 p.m.

Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art (see Oct. 3 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 259

7 p.m.

Concert: Pianist Duncan Cumming ’93 premieres two works by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, in a program also including music by Debussy, Chopin and Weber. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

7 p.m.

Presentation: Three senior Phillips Fellows present the results of their fellowship-funded research. Shawna-Kaye Lester presents Movement of Jah People, and Anthony Begon and Ross Van Horn present Addressing the Cycle of Poverty through Education in Cambodia. For more information call 207-753-6952.

Chase Hall Lounge

Friday, Oct. 12

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: Hairspray (2007, 117 min.). Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

8 p.m.

Contradance: Traditional New England folk dancing to the band Bustopher Jones (formerly known as Wake the Neighbors). No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Beginners’ workshop at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $5. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.

Chase Hall Lounge

Saturday, Oct. 13

Inon Barnatan

11 a.m.

Men’s cross country: State of Maine Championship.

Pineland Farms, New Gloucester

11 a.m.

Men’s tennis: Wallach Invitational.

Wallach Tennis Center

Noon

Women’s cross country: State of Maine Championship.

Pineland Farms, New Gloucester

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: Hairspray (see Oct. 12 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

8 p.m.

Bates Concert Series: Described as “refined, searching, unfailingly communicative” by London’s Evening Standard, pianist Inon Barnatan performs sonatas by Haydn, Barber and Schubert. Admission: $10/$3. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

9 p.m.

Concert: A cult favorite, the eclectic “gypsy-punk” band Gogol Bordello is presented by the Chase Hall Committee. Admission: $10 door/$12 online (includes a $2 handling fee). For more information call 207-795-7496.

Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building

Sunday, Oct. 14

11 a.m.

Master class: Bates Concert Series artist Inon Barnatan, pianist. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

2 and 4:30 p.m.

Film: Hairspray (see Oct. 12 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

5:30 p.m.

Weekly Protestant worship service. For more information call 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

Monday, Oct. 15

7 p.m.

Presentation: Two senior Phillips Fellows present the results of their fellowship-funded research. Leeanne Cunningham presents Racism, Discrimination, and Prejudice of African Descendents in Brazil, and Suresh Rana presents Exploring Bangladeshi Communities to Understand Crosscultural Perspectives and Religious Interpretations of Cancer and Cancer Treatment. For more information call 207-753-6952.

Chase Hall Lounge

Tuesday, Oct. 16

12:30 p.m.

Noonday Concert: Commemorating the late Bates staffer and WRBC-FM deejay, the Linwood Martinkus Memorial Concert features Thomas Snow, pianist and director of the Bates College Jazz Band. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4 p.m.

Men’s soccer vs. Endicott.

Russell Street Field

Wednesday, Oct. 17

7 p.m.

Volleyball vs. Colby.

Alumni Gymnasium

Oct. 17–21

Fall Recess: No classes, but administrative offices are open.

Wednesday, Oct. 17

6–9 p.m.

Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art (see Oct. 3 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 259

Thursday, Oct. 18

9, 10 and 11 a.m.

Kinderkonzert: Planet Brass. Brass-instrument players from the Portland Symphony Orchestra use songs and stories to teach about their instruments and diverse global cultures. Admission: $3. For reservations contact 207-773-6128 ext. 306 or education@portlandsymphony.com.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Friday–Sunday, Oct. 19–21

Homecoming Weekend:
See the full schedule.

Saturday, Oct. 20

11 a.m.

Women’s soccer vs. Middlebury.

Russell Street Field

Noon

Field hockey vs. Middlebury.

Campus Avenue Field

1 p.m.

Football vs. Middlebury.

Garcelon Field

2 p.m.

Men’s soccer vs. Middlebury.

Russell Street Field

Sunday, Oct. 21

5:30 p.m.

Weekly Protestant worship service. For more information call 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

Monday, Oct. 22

4 p.m.

Computational chemistry seminar featuring a speaker and topic TBA.

Dana Chemistry, Room 219

7 p.m.

Film: Day One of the Tolkien Film Festival at Bates features The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, 178 min.), the first of director Peter Jackson’s three films based on Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings. For more information call 207-786-8294.

Pettigrew Hall, Filene Room

Tuesday, Oct. 23

Shawn Thwaites

12:30 p.m.

Noonday Concert: Shawn Thwaites, director of the Bates Steel Pan Orchestra, performs on the pans. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

7 p.m.

Film: Day Two of the Tolkien Film Festival features The Two Towers (2002, 179 min.), the second of director Peter Jackson’s three films based on Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings. For more information call 207-786-8294.

Pettigrew Hall, Filene Room

Wednesday, Oct. 24

4:30 p.m.

Lecture: A presentation TBA in the Spiritual Sojourners series, sponsored by the chaplain’s office. For more information call 207-786-8272.

161 Wood St., Seminar Room

6–9 p.m.

Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art (see Oct. 3 listing)

Olin Arts Center, Room 259

7 p.m.

Film: Day Three of the Tolkien Film Festival features The Return of the King (2003, 201 min.), the final installment in director Peter Jackson’s film trilogy based on Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings. For more information call 207-786-8294.

Pettigrew Hall, Filene Room

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007, 100 min.). Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

7 p.m.

Lecture: Sculptor and Green Horizons artist Michael Shaughnessy discusses his use of hay as a renewable, nontoxic, biodegradable medium. Sponsored by the Bates Museum of Art.

Olin Arts Center, Room 105

7 p.m.

Volleyball vs. Tufts.

Alumni Gymnasium

Thursday, Oct. 25

7 p.m.

Lecture: Filming the Lord of the Rings: How Peter Jackson Coped with J.R.R. Tolkien by Professor Thomas Shippey, Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St. Louis University and a leading Tolkien scholar. Concluding the Tolkien Film Festival at Bates, the lecture is sponsored by the English department, the College Lectures Committee, the interdisciplinary studies program and the humanities division. A reception follows in the Olin lobby. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

7:30 p.m.

Theater: For her senior thesis production, Amanda Ayotte directs The Birthday Party, the first full-length play by acclaimed playwright Harold Pinter. Admission: $6/$3. For more information call 207-786-6161 or visit transact.bates.edu/boxoffice.

Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater

Friday, Oct. 26

7:30 p.m.

Theater: The Birthday Party (see Oct. 25 listing).

Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, 138 min.). Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Saturday, Oct. 27

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Film: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (see Oct. 26 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

7:30 p.m.

Theater: The Birthday Party (see Oct. 25 listing).

Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater

8 p.m.

Concert: Award-winning classical guitarist Petar Jankovic performs Spanish and South American music by Albeniz, Piazzolla and others. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Sunday, Oct. 28

2 and 4:30 p.m.

Film: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (see Oct. 26 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

5:30 p.m.

Weekly Protestant worship service. For more information call 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

7:30 p.m.

Theater: The Birthday Party (see Oct. 25 listing).

Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater

Monday, Oct. 29

4:10 p.m.

Biology seminar featuring a researcher and topic TBA. Refreshments in the lounge, Room 110, precede the presentation at 3:45. For more information call 207-786-6490.

Carnegie Science, Room 204

Tuesday, Oct. 30

12:30 p.m.

Noonday Concert: Futaba Niekwa, pianist. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Bates College Museum of Art

Through Dec. 9

Green Horizons: This dynamic interdisciplinary project presents important artists from Maine and the world in an attempt to spark conversations around the urgent questions: What is green? What is sustainable? Transcending traditional exhibition practices to include collaborations with writers and choreographers, the project reaches beyond the museum walls to site-specific works on the Bates campus and elsewhere. Sponsors include the Synergy Fund. Museum hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday.