MEN’S TENNIS vs. Southern Maine. 4pm, Wallach Tennis Center.

LECTURE: JUNOT DÍAZ is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009.  He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. – Friday, March 30 at 4:30 pm in the Benjamin Mays Center

LECTURE: A TALK by Stephanie Blackwood, an expert in community relations and marketing who has launched several prominent GLBT-focused businesses. 5pm, Muskie Archives.

This weekend FILMBOARD proudly presents The Curious Case of Benjamin Button!!!  David Fincher directs this adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale set in the early 20th century that follows Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), a man who was born in his 80s and continually grows younger. The story throws linear conventions upside down to explore love, loss and memories from the perspective of a character living under incredibly unique -- and unexpectedly difficult -- circumstances. Cate Blanchett co-stars in this Oscar nominee for Best Picture. Show times are Friday at 7 and 10, Saturday at 2 and 7, and Sunday at 2 and 5 in Olin 104.  NOTE: show times are slightly different from usual due to the length of the movie.  As always, admission is only $1 No better way to catch up on movies from this past fall or watch them again! Free posters are also available for the fall releases W., The Rocker, and Transporter 3, so please come see a Filmboard member at the showing if you are interested.  Please remember, there is no food or drink allowed in Olin 104.  *Brought to you by your friends at Filmboard*

The Department of Theater and Rhetoric and The Freeman Foundation for East Asian Studies Present TWO PLAYS OF THE KYOGEN: "The Crab" and "Persimmons" - An Independent Study Project in Directing by Doug Ray. '10 - Friday, March 20th at 7:30 pm, Saturday, March 21th at 2:30 pm, Sunday, March 22th at 2:30 pm Free Admission / In English - Black Box Theater - Only 33 Seats Available - Doors Open 15 Minutes Before Performance -Enter a world of magic, fantasy, and incompetence  in a presentation of one of the world's oldest forms of theater, Kyogen, classical Japanese farce.

COFFEEHOUSE: The International Club presents to you another great coffee house. With a whole range of performance including a bollywood dance, a sword-balancing belly dancer, some hip hop antics and plenty more!!! Come one and all to Chase Hall lounge at 7.30 pm and witness a great exhibition of talent from all over the world!!!

Have no fear, the DATING DOCTOR IS HERE! That's right, the man who inspired the movie Hitch with Will Smith is coming to Bates at 9pm in the Benjamin Mays Center.  David Coleman is known nationwide as The Dating Doctor and "America's Real-Life Hitch." He has been named the National Speaker of the Year on 10 separate occasions - 7 times by Campus Activities Magazine and 3 times by The National Association for Campus Activities. He recently won again for 2006! He is a highly sought after speaker, entertainer, and retreat facilitator. - http://www.datingdoctor.com/bio.html The Dating Doctor David Coleman is brought to you by the Chase Hall Committee.

BATES BUS SCHEDULE: The bus departs from Campus Ave. in front of Chase Hall.  Sign-up in advance for all trips in the Student Activities Office in Chase Hall.  This Saturday’s trip will be going to the OLD PORT free.  Bus leaves Chase Hall at 12 noon and returns to campus at 5:00 pm.

Join SANGAI ASIA for an ARTS AND CRAFTS WORKSHOP, where we will be making lanyard bracelets, stars, decorating fans, and teaching calligraphy! Be creative and show off your artistic skills to your friends! Col280 Kitchen on Saturday, March 21 at 1:00 pm.

Hip-hop into spring with a balance and swing! Bates is hosting an ALTERNATIVE CONTRADANCE this Saturday at 8pm in Merrill Gym Dance Studios. Free to Bates students, $5 other students, $8 other. This you don’t want to miss!

This Saturday, you won't want to miss the musical stylings of CRAZYWATER (Derek Rocchini, piano/vocals and Alex Iyer, percussion). 8-11 pm, Commons Fireplace Lounge, featuring special guest vocalists Nick Blomberg and Megan Guynes.

CHAPEL WORSHIP - 5:30 PM in Skelton Lounge.  Donelle Durham '09 is speaking and the Bates Gospel Choir is singing.  Chapel worship is an interdenominational, multiethnic service of Christian worship.  All are welcome!

The Department of Theater and Rhetoric Presents RICHARD DIGBY DAY, Artistic Director, London Dramatic Academy - Will speak on: "Acting Shakespearean Comedy" - Monday the 23Rd, 12 noon to 12:50 - Gannett Theater  and Study Abroad with the London Dramatic Academy Information Session, Monday the 23rd New Commons 201 1:15- 2:30 pm - NOTE: Study could constitute one half of the General Education Concentration: Shakespearean Acting - Richard Digby Day was Leverhulme Scholar at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and their first student of Direction. He has been Director of five British regional theatres as well as the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park London. His work has been seen in the West End and in Canada, Denmark and Ireland. From 1990 – 1998 he was Director of the National Theatre Institute at the O’Neill Centre in the USA. He has directed many of the UK’s leading actors and is credited with giving Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Grant and Imelda Staunton their first professional work. He has been LDA’s Director since fall 2003. 

Office of Multicultural Affairs - Arturo Schomburg Afro-Latino Speaker Series presents WOMEN OF POWER Panel Discussion - MARFA INOFUENTES (Afro-Bolivian cultural activist)  &   ROSANA SILVA CHAGAS  (Afro-Brazilian political activist) - Monday, March 23rd. 4:15 p.m. Benjamin Mays Center. This series highlights contemporary Afro-Latino/a scholars and artists who focus on topics including Afro-Latino/a identity, politics, culture, literature and history.  The Women of Power panel marks the last of the three lectures in this series for this academic year.  Co-sponsored with the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI)

April break is coming... spend it in Camden NJ!   During the semester break, the Bates Christian Fellowship is sponsoring a SERVICE TRIP TO CAMDEN NJ where we will be working with Urban Promise, a ministry to
children and youth.  (see http://www.urbanpromiseusa.org/).  During the day, we help out in their day school or do work projects, in the afternoons we work at after school programs throughout the city, and in the evening we engage themes of the interaction of Christian faith with poverty, racism, and justice.  The cost is $250.   Space is limited to 15 students.   Contact Bill Cutler (wcutler) if interested!

2:30 pm  An overview of resources and effective strategies for finding jobs and internships presented by Bates    Office of Career Services. (Except Jan. 23 and March 27) in the Renyi Room #211
4:15 pm    Come to Debate’s weekly practice – Pettigrew 309
6:00 pm    Join Bates Hillel Friday nights for our Weekly Shabbat services and dinner in Frye Street Union.  Services start at 6:00 and are followed by dinner at 6:30.  All are welcome.
6:00 pm  COLLEGE SHUTTLE - The shuttle runs on Friday and Saturday nights from 6 pm - 12 am, and Sunday from 12 pm - 6 pm.  The shuttle runs to Auburn locations at the beginning of each hour, and runs to Lewiston locations on the half hour.
8:00 pm Biology 101B PALG session.  The session is open to all students of the class and is led by Hannah Mack.  PGill 162