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Note: This is the final monthly calendar for the 2007–08 academic year. In late spring, the Office of Communications and Media Relations publishes a listing of summer events open to the public at Bates College. Thursday, May 17:30pmLecture: Dennis Ross, former lead negotiator and key architect of U.S. policy in the Middle East peace process, speaks on a topic TBA. Presented by the Bates College Republicans. Friday, May 28pmConcert: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan perform duos and solos by Beethoven, Kodaly, Golijov and Chopin. Free, but reservations required. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.ed. 8pmContradance: Traditional New England folk dancing to the band Bustopher Jones. No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Beginners’ workshop at 7:30pm. Admission: $5. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society. Saturday, May 38pmConcert: Flutist Carl Dimow, guitarist Nathan Kolosko and percussionist Norm Bergeron perform South American music. Free, but reservations required. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. Sunday, May 4NoonEarth Day observance: An Environmental Coalition gathering features recycled craft workshops, T-shirt tie-dyeing and snacks. 3pmPoetry reading: Pamela Alexander ’70, a member of the Oberlin creative writing faculty and author of four poetry collections, and X.J. Kennedy P’86, P’94, a poet and author of children’s books, read from their work. A reception and book signing follow. The inaugural event of the John Tagliabue Poetry Fund honors the late poet and Bates professor. Contact 207-786-6237. Monday, May 52pmBaseball vs. Fisher College (doubleheader). Tuesday, May 612:30pmNoonday Concert: In a special hour-long program, the nationally acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet uses live music and projected visuals to trace the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through Western music. Free, but reservations required. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. 7pmLecture: The Inquisition, Women, and Sexuality: Excavations in the Archives of the Holy Office by Jacqueline Holler, associate professor of history and of women’s and gender studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. Sponsored by the Charles and Virginia Tangney Fund and the history department. 7pmPresentation: London-based biologist and playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak discusses and plays audio excerpts from Baghdad Wedding, his debut play, which looks at the Iraq War from the perspective of sophisticated middle-class Iraqis. Sponsored by the English department. Wednesday, May 76pmFilm and lecture: Artist Chris Huntington presents his movie Katahdin Lake: Painter’s Paradise, followed by a discussion of plein-air painting strategies by artists in the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition Taking Different Trails: The Artists’ Journey to Katahdin Lake (described below). Sponsored by the Museum of Art. Contact 207-786-6158 or museum@bates.edu. 6–9pmFigure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7 (free for Bates students). Contact 207-786-6158 or museum@bates.edu. Thursday, May 812:30pmNoonday Concert: In a special Thursday program, clarinetist Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan ’10 performs a Brahms sonata. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. Friday, May 98pmConcert: The G-Sharp Duo presents a program of French music for piano and violin. Free, but reservations required. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. 8pmContradance. Traditional New England folk dancing to the band Bustopher Jones. No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Beginners’ workshop at 7:30pm. Admission: $5. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society. Tuesday, May 13TBAMen’s tennis: Bates hosts the 2008 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships. Through May 18. Contact 207-786-6345. 12:30pmNoonday Concert: Pianist Igor Lovchinsky performs music by Bach and Chopin, as well as solos inspired by songs of the band Radiohead. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. 3pmBlood drive: An American Red Cross blood drive is sponsored by the Bates College Emergency Medical Services. Contact 207-795-4004. Wednesday, May 14TBAMen’s tennis: Day Two of the 2008 NCAA Division III Championships (see May 13 listing). 4:30pmLecture: Presentation TBA in the Spiritual Sojourners series, sponsored by the Multifaith Chaplain’s office. Contact 207-786-8272. 6–9pmFigure drawing (see May 7 listing). Thursday, May 15TBAMen’s tennis: Day Three of the 2008 NCAA Division III Championships (see May 13 listing). 9, 10 and 11amKinderkonzert: Percussion: Cowboy Ed Rides Again: Portland Symphony Orchestra percussionists take students on an Old West adventure. Admission: $3. For reservations contact 207-773-6128 ext. 306 or education@portlandsymphony.com. 7:30pmPerformance: A Short Term theater production workshop led by Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, offers two short plays: Vaclav Havel’s 1975 political satire Unveiling and the American and English-language premiere of Prah, by Gyorgy Spiro, Hungary’s greatest living playwright. Spiro is on campus during the performance week. Contact 207-786-6161 or www.bates.edu/boxoffice. Friday, May 16TBAMen’s tennis: Day Four of the 2008 NCAA Division III Championships (see May 13 listing).Wallach Tennis Center 7:30pmPerformance: The short plays Unveiling and Prah (see May 15 listing). Saturday, May 17TBAMen’s tennis: Day Five of the 2008 NCAA Division III Championships (see May 13 listing). 7:30pmPerformance: The short plays Unveiling and Prah (see May 15 listing). Sunday, May 18TBAMen’s tennis: Conclusion of the 2008 NCAA Division III Championships (see May 13 listing). 7:30pmPerformance: The short plays Unveiling and Prah (see May 15 listing). Tuesday, May 2012:30pmNoonday Concert: Pianist Lydia Kilian performs works of Bartok, Chopin and others. Contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. 7pmPerformance: Students in William Pope.L’s course in contemporary performance poetry perform their final projects. Free; no reservations. Contact 207-786-6161 or www.bates.edu/boxoffice. Wednesday, May 216–9pmFigure drawing (see May 7 listing). 7:30pmDance performance: A program of student choreography plus the dance piece created for the Short Term unit “Tour, Teach, Perform.” Free; no reservations. Contact 207-786-6161 or www.bates.edu/boxoffice. Bates College Museum of ArtMuseum hours: 10am–5pm Tuesday–Saturday Through May 24Senior 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. 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 old-growth forests around it. Through July 19The 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. |
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