Wednesday, Sept. 3

4:10pm

Convocation: Margaret Imber, associate professor of classical and medieval studies, addresses a topic TBA during the annual ceremony beginning the academic year. In the third year of a Bates tradition, Imber was chosen last spring by the departing senior class to welcome the arriving Class of 2012. For more information call 207-786-6255.

Historic Quadrangle (rain site: Alumni Gymnasium)

8pm

Concert: Bassist-composer Avishai Cohen, called a "jazz visionary of global proportions" by DownBeat Magazine, brings drummer Mark Guiliana and pianist Shai Maestro to Bates. Admission: $10/$4. Tickets are available at www.batestickets.com. Sponsored by the music department. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Friday, Sept. 5

7 and 9:30pm

Film: Iron Man  (2008, 126 min.). Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Saturday, Sept. 6

10am

Men’s and women’s cross country vs. Colby.

Pineland Farms, New Gloucester

2 and 7pm

Film: Iron Man (see Sept. 5 listing). 

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Sunday, Sept. 7

2 and 4:30pm

Film: Iron Man (see Sept. 5 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Weekly Protestant worship service, incorporating music and liturgy from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant sources. The Rev. William Cutler leads the service with contributions from faculty, staff and students. All are welcome. For more information call 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

Tuesday, Sept. 9

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Pianist Frank Glazer, artist in residence, performs a Bach toccata and a Beethoven sonata. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Wednesday, Sept. 10

4:30pm

Men’s soccer vs. Maine-Farmington.

Russell Street Field

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

Thursday, Sept. 11

8pm

Bates College Concert Series: Danilo Pérez, the highly regarded Panamanian pianist and composer, performs with drummer Adam Cruz and bassist Ben Street. Admission: $10/$4, with tickets available at www.batestickets.com. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall 

Friday, Sept. 12

7 and 9:30pm

Film: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, 122 min.). Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Saturday, Sept. 13

8am

Spiritual gathering: Dharma Retreat. The Bates Dharma Society presents a daylong workshop with the Ven. Bhante Yogavacara Rahula, an American Buddhist monk of the Bhavana Society, West Virginia. Free, but space is limited. Attend all day or choose a session; for schedule of workshops or to reserve a place, contact Chloe Viner. 

Benjamin Mays Center

11am

Women’s soccer vs. Williams.

Russell Street Field

Noon

Field hockey vs. Williams.

Campus Avenue Field

2pm

Men’s soccer vs. Williams.

Russell Street Field

2 and 7pm

Film: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (see Sept. 12 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Sunday, Sept. 14

2 and 4:30pm

Film: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (see Sept. 12 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Weekly Protestant worship service (see Sept. 7 listing). Contact 207-786-8272.

Bates College Chapel

Tuesday, Sept. 16

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Wednesday, Sept. 17

6–9pm

Figure drawing (see Sept. 10 listing). 

Olin Arts Center, Room 259

8pm

Dance performance: Janis Brenner, an award-winning dancer, choreographer and dance company leader, offers a solo performance. Free, but tickets required. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Thursday, Sept. 18

4pm

Women’s soccer vs. Wellesley.

Russell Street Field

4:30pm

Lecture: Professor Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, a math historian, educator and ethnomathematics expert from Brazil, offers an informal talk on a topic TBA. He gives the annual Sampson Lecture later in the day. 

Hathorn Hall, Room 104

7:30pm

Lecture: Professor Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, a math historian, educator and ethnomathematics expert from Brazil, offers the annual Sampson Lecture on a topic TBA. Sponsored by the mathematics department.

Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)

7:30pm

Poetry reading: Craig Teicher ’01 reads from his award-winning debut volume, Brenda is in the Room. Sponsored by the English department.

Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge

Friday, Sept. 19

7pm

Film: Director Robert Adanto presents his new documentary The Rising Tide, which examines China’s astonishing economic and social development through the work of some of its most talented emerging artists. Presented by the Bates College Museum of Art as a complement to its current exhibition, Stairway to Heaven (described below). For more information call 207-786-6158.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

7 and 9:30pm

Film: Sex and the City (2008, 148 min.). Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 105

8pm

Volleyball vs. Tufts.

Alumni Gymnasium

Saturday, Sept. 20

Noon

Volleyball vs. Amherst.

Alumni Gymnasium

2 and 7pm

Film: Sex and the City (see Sept. 19 listing, but note room change). 

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Sunday, Sept. 21

2 and 4:30pm

Film: Sex and the City (see Sept. 19 listing, but note room change).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Weekly Protestant worship service (see Sept. 7 listing). 

Bates College Chapel

Monday, Sept. 22

7pm

Bates College Lecture Series: From Silent Spring to Silent Night: What Do Frogs Tell Us About Human Health? by Tyrone Hayes, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and expert on the effects of chemical pollution on frogs.

Chase Hall Lounge

Tuesday, Sept. 23

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Dean Stein, violinist. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

5pm

Field hockey vs. New England College.

Campus Avenue Field

Wednesday, Sept. 24

4:30pm

Men’s soccer vs. Plymouth State.

Russell Street Field

6–9pm

Figure drawing (see Sept. 10 listing). 

Olin Arts Center, Room 259

7:30pm

Lecture: What Happens On November 5? Activating Citizenship (No Matter Who Wins) by Peter Levine, director, the Center For Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Tufts University. The first installment in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships series The Civic Forum: Engaged Citizenship and the Election. For more information call 207-786-6202. 

Edmund S. Muskie Archives

Thursday, Sept. 25

4pm

Women’s soccer vs. Babson.

Russell Street Field

7pm

Lecture: Gary Taylor, George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University, discusses white literary criticism. The Emily Carroll Carleton Lecture is sponsored by the English department.

Chase Hall Lounge

7pm

Film: Visible Silence: Marsden Hartley, Painter and Poet by Connecticut-based filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films. The Bates Museum of Art and 217 Films present the world premiere of this documentary about Marsden Hartley, Lewiston native and pioneering modernist painter. The film features many pieces from the museum’s valuable archive of Hartley’s personal effects.

Olin Arts Center

Friday, Sept. 26

7 and 9:30pm

Film: Get Smart (2008, 110 min.). Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1.

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

8pm

Bates College Concert Series: Concert: Pablo Aslan’s Avantango, a troupe of Argentine natives residing in New York City, features some of the world’s leading tango musicians and dancers. Admission: $10/$4, with tickets available at www.batestickets.com. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Saturday, Sept. 27

2 and 7pm

Film: Get Smart (see Sept. 26 listing).

Olin Arts Center, Room 104

2:30pm

Men’s soccer vs. Tufts.

Russell Street Field

9:30pm

Concert: Girl Talk, aka Gregg Gillis, the notorious and wildly imaginative master of mixes and mashups that draw from myriad Top 40 genres and eras. With special guests the Death Set. Admission TBA; visit www.batestickets.com. Sponsored by the Chase Hall Committee. For more information call 207-795-7496.

Gray Athletic Building (NOTE: This is a change in venue)

Sunday, Sept. 28

8:30am

Symposium: A daylong folk art symposium related to the exhibitions taking place across Maine, including at the Bates College Museum of Art, under the aegis of the Maine Folk Art Trail (described below). For more information, call 207-786-6400. 

Olin Arts Center

2 and 4:30pm

Film: Get Smart (see Sept. 26 listing, but note room change).

Pettigrew Hall, Room 301 (Filene Room)

4pm

Lecture: The Importance of the Separation of Church and State by Ellery Schempp, a prominent advocate for said separation and the litigant in the 1963 Supreme Court case that found that public school-mandated Bible readings were unconstitutional. Sponsored by the Secular Students Alliance.

Chase Hall Lounge

5:30pm

Spiritual gathering: Weekly Protestant worship service (see Sept. 7 listing).

Bates College Chapel

Monday, Sept. 29

4:15pm

Paul Rozin, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, presents his findings on the moral, psychological and social factors involved in food choices. The psychology department's Diversity and Domains of Life lecture series is supported by the Mellon Innovation Fund.

Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)

Tuesday, Sept. 30

12:30pm

Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Museum of Art

Through Dec. 14

Flourishing Folk: New England Decorated Works on Paper And Document Boxes from the Deborah N. Isaacson Trust: This exhibit represents Bates in the Maine Folk Art Trail, a collaboration among 11 museums and historical societies statewide to guide visitors to the best of Maine folk art — work produced by ordinary people without professional training. Shown are beautifully decorated family records and presentation pieces, as well as ornate document boxes and rare woodblock "ream sheet prints" that early paper companies used to label their products.

Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers: As the 2008 Beijing Olympics have put China in the spotlight this summer, this exhibition offers alternative perspectives on that intriguing, dynamic nation. Seventeen Chinese artists use photographs and other media to examine how rapid economic reform, new personal wealth and rapid industrialization have changed China’s urban environment, from street scenes to skyscrapers and iconic national monuments.