Tuesday, April 1

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Voice students of John Corrie (first group). Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4:30pm

Softball vs. Husson (doubleheader).
Lafayette Street Field

Wednesday, April 2

4pm

Lecture: J. Denry Sato of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory discusses the regulation of the ion channel that is mutated in most cystic fibrosis cases. Sponsored by the biology department.
Carnegie Science Building, Room 204

6-9pm

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

7pm

Concert: The Bates College Jazz Band, directed by Tom Snow. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Chase Hall Lounge

7pm

Women’s lacrosse vs. Colby.
Campus Avenue Field

7pm

Lecture: Sabbath: Self-Care or the Mending of the World? by Barbara Brown Taylor, author, Episcopal priest and Harry R. Butman Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont College. The annual Zerby Lecture is sponsored by the Multifaith Chaplaincy. Contact 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel

7:30pm

Performance: Students taking a theater course in voice and speech perform their final projects. Admission is free; no reservations. Contact 207-786-6161 or the online box office.
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater

Thursday, April 3

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Voice students of John Corrie (second group). Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4:30pm

Lecture: Campaigning for America: Edmund S. Muskie’s 1968 Vice Presidential Campaign by Joel Goldstein, an expert on the vice presidency and visiting professor at the Muskie School of Public Service and the University of Maine School of Law. Contact 207-786-6272 or muskie@bates.edu.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

8pm

Concert: A senior thesis performance of music composed by Rachel Wardell. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Friday, April 4

7pm

Exhibition opening: A reception opens two student exhibitions, the annual Senior Exhibition and The Kimono and Traditional Japanese Culture. Contact 207-786-6158.
Bates College Museum of Art

8pm

Concert: A senior thesis performance by violinist Marissa Johnson. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Saturday, April 5

10am

Men’s and women’s track and field vs. Colby.
Russell Street Field

2pm

Men’s tennis vs. Tufts.
Wallach Tennis Center

2:30pm

Softball vs. Bowdoin (doubleheader).
Lafayette Street Field

8pm

Concert: A senior thesis performance of music composed by Brett Hine. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Sunday, April 6

4pm

Concert: A senior thesis performance of music composed by Chloe Raynes. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Weekly Protestant worship service. Contact 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel

Monday, April 7

8pm

Concert: A senior thesis performance of music composed by Nate Witherbee. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Wednesday, April 9

6-9pm

Figure drawing (see April 2 listing).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259

Thursday, April 10

9, 10 and 11am

Kinderkonzert: Strings: Strings at School. Portland Symphony Orchestra string players describe how their favorite subjects from school relate to music. Admission: $3. For reservations: 207-773-6128 ext. 306 or education@portlandsymphony.com.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Saturday, April 12

3:30pm

Baseball vs. Middlebury.
Leahey Field

Sunday, April 13

Noon

Baseball vs. Middlebury (doubleheader).
Leahey Field

1pm

Softball vs. Fisher (doubleheader).
Lafayette Street Field

Monday, April 14

3:30pm

Baseball vs. Thomas College.
Leahey Field

Tuesday, April 15

3:30pm

Softball vs. Thomas (doubleheader).
Lafayette Street Field

Wednesday, April 16

6-9pm

Figure drawing (see April 2 listing).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259

Thursday, April 17

4:30pm

Softball vs. Colby.
Lafayette Street Field

Friday, April 18

3pm

Baseball vs. Colby.
Leahey Field

Saturday, April 19

10am

Women’s tennis vs. Connecticut College.
Wallach Tennis Center

1pm

Men’s lacrosse vs. Tufts..
Campus Avenue Field

2pm

Men’s tennis vs. Connecticut College.
Wallach Tennis Center

Sunday, April 20

9am

Rowing: CBB Presidents’ Cup Regatta.
Bates Boathouse, Greene

10am

Women’s tennis vs. Williams .
Wallach Tennis Center

2pm

Men’s tennis vs. Williams.
Wallach Tennis Center

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Weekly Protestant worship service. Contact 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel

Tuesday, April 22

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Performer TBA. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.
Bates Boathouse, Greene

7pm

Women’s lacrosse vs. Bowdoin. .
Campus Avenue Field

Wednesday, April 23

6-9pm

Figure drawing (see April 2 listing).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259

8pm

Multimedia presentation: Rock ’n’ roll historian Barry Drake presents his newly revised lecture on ’60s rock. Sponsored by the Chase Hall Committee. .
Benjamin Mays Center

Friday, April 25

4:30pm

Softball vs. Tufts.
Lafayette Street Field

Saturday, April 26

Noon

Baseball vs. Bowdoin.
Leahey Field

1pm

Men’s lacrosse vs. Wesleyan.
Campus Avenue Field

7:30pm

Dance performance: Home and Away features original dances performed by Jill Eng, Boston's Jody Weber and members of her company Weber Dance, and Bates dance program director Carol Dilley. Contact 207-753-6977.
Merrill Gymnasium, Marcy Plavin Studio Theater

Sunday, April 27

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Weekly Protestant worship service. Contact 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel

Monday, April 28

5:30pm

Softball vs. Southern Maine.
Lafayette Street Field

Tuesday, April 29

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Pianist James Parakilas and dancers Carol Dilley and Jill Spiewak Eng perform new works. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu .
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Wednesday, April 30

4:30pm

Discussion: In the Passion Narratives series, presenters reflect on a shared passion that inspires conversation about meaning, feelings and connections. Sponsored by the Multifaith Chaplaincy. Contact 207-786-8272.
161 Wood St., Seminar Room

6-9pm

Figure drawing (see April 2 listing).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259

Exhibition

April 28-May 18

Recent Work: Photographs by Michael Reidy, Kirk Read and Claudia Aburto Guzmán: These members of the Bates faculty in diverse fields offer different perspectives on the photographic medium. Aburto Guzmán shows figurative black-and-white silver prints, Read presents digital images from a daily photo diary and Reidy displays film images made in Japan last June with an inexpensive Holga camera.
Chase Hall Gallery

Bates College Museum of Art

April 4-May 24

Senior Exhibition: Seven graduating studio art majors show work from their year-long thesis projects, in a program that emphasizes creating a cohesive body of work through sustained studio practice and critical inquiry. Media include paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints.
Bates Gallery

April 4-July 19

The Kimono and Traditional Japanese Culture: Investigating Kimono through Ukiyo-e in the Bates College Art Museum Collection: For this entry in the museum’s Students in the Vault series, Hisa Abe ’08 has assembled woodblock prints in the “Ukiyo-e” genre that highlight the roles, variety and importance of kimono patterns in these widely distributed scenes of popular culture.
Synergy Seminar Gallery

Through May 24

Taking Different Trails: The Artists’ Journey to Katahdin Lake: Scenes of and from Katahdin Lake, known for its views of Maine’s tallest mountain, by artists who took part in a historic public-private effort to preserve nearly 7,000 acres of land including the lake and the old-growth forests around it.
Collection Gallery

Museum hours: 10am–5pm Tuesday–Saturday