Also at Bates each summer is the nationally renowned 2009 Bates Dance Festival, with public concerts, workshops and lectures taking place this year from July 11 through Aug. 8. For tickets and more information: 207-786-6381 • dancefest@bates.edu

Saturday, June 20

8am

Clean Sweep: Bates' annual "garage sale" of electronics, furnishings, household items, bikes, books, sporting goods, toys and other articles donated by departing students and the community. Clean Sweep keeps perfectly good items out of the landfill while proceeds from the sale benefit local nonprofits. The public is invited to donate items and/or volunteer to staff the event. Contact 207-786-8367 or jrosenba@bates.edu.
Underhill Arena

Thursday, July 9

6pm

Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Three Point Trio. Jazz standards and originals by guitarist (and Bates physics professor) John Smedley, bassist Tim Clough and drummer Tom Schipper. Together since 2007, the band has enlivened events ranging from club dates to wedding anniversaries. Sponsored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and the Bingham Betterment Fund. Bring a picnic, lawn chairs or blankets, family and friends. Contact 207-786-6400.
Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews (rain site: Olin Arts Center Concert Hall)

Thursday, July 16

6pm

Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Carolyn Currie. "Even more impressive than Currie's obvious talent as a performer is her genius as a songwriter and lyricist," wrote a reviewer for the magazine Tacoma Reporter. "You will swear, by the end of the night, that at least one of her poetic melodies was written specifically about you." The Maine-based, nationally esteemed Currie performs in support of her latest CD, Waves of Silence. Sponsored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and the Bingham Betterment Fund. Bring a picnic, lawn chairs or blankets, family and friends. Contact 207-786-6400.
Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews (rain site: Olin Arts Center Concert Hall)

Thursday, July 23

6pm

Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Ti' Acadie. Meeting as colleagues in the well-known Maine contradance band Scrod Pudding, Pam Weeks, Jim Joseph and Bill Olson went on to incorporate their love of Francophone music from Canada and Louisiana into their work. Nowadays this danceable band plays Cajun, Acadian, Québécois and New England country dance music, as well as diverse tunes written by Weeks. Sponsored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and the Bingham Betterment Fund. Bring a picnic, lawn chairs or blankets, family and friends. Contact 207-786-6400.
Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews (rain site: Olin Arts Center Concert Hall)

Thursday, July 30

6pm

Midsummer Lakeside Concert: One World Music Ensemble. This gathering of world-class, world-beat musicians and composers from the 2009 Bates Dance Festival weaves a tapestry of sound using instruments from all corners of the Earth: percussion, accordion, bouzouki, marimba, kalimba and more. Get up and dance, or just relax and get your global groove on! Sponsored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and the Bingham Betterment Fund. Bring a picnic, lawn chairs or blankets, family and friends. Contact 207-786-6400.
Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews (rain site: Olin Arts Center Concert Hall)

Thursday, Aug. 6

6pm

Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Réveillons! This Montréal-based quartet offers a fresh, innovative approach to the traditional music of Québec. Réveillons! fits right in with the current collective longing to return to our roots, striving to revive traditions and cultural heritage. Sponsored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and the Bingham Betterment Fund. Bring a picnic, lawn chairs or blankets, family and friends. Contact 207-786-6400.
Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, overlooking Lake Andrews (rain site: Olin Arts Center Concert Hall)

Bates College Museum of Art

Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. Free admission. Hours: 10am-5pm Tuesday-Saturday

June 12-Dec. 11

Our Positive Bodies: Mapping Our Treatment, Sharing Our Choices: Created in Nairobi, Kenya, by the Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health in 2004, this exhibition explores "body mapping," a technique devised to help HIV-positive women cope with the fact that they were likely to die prematurely and leave their children behind. In body mapping, life-size silhouette self-portraits express the feelings, memories, treatment and identities of those likely to die of AIDS. These powerful portraits and the celebratory process used to paint them allow HIV-positive people to explore both their own options and ways that other people influence their ability to stay healthy.

June 12-Oct. 3

Bernard Langlais: Medium and Abstraction: Though known for his large, whimsical wildlife sculptures, Bernard Langlais also made bold abstract wood reliefs that fused his Maine upbringing with influences from the New York avant-garde. This exhibition, co-curated by Erin Gilligan '09, focuses on a select group of Langlais' abstractions and includes an introduction to an outside context influencing him in their creation. Langlais exploited the possibilities of his medium through found objects ranging from toothpicks to driftwood, and in so doing established an intimate approach to the character of wood.

Selections from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection: In 1951, in compliance with the artist's wish, the heirs of the Marsden Hartley estate left as a gift to Bates College the last remaining effects from the pioneering American modernist's home and studio in Corea, Maine. This exhibit comprises highlights from this extraordinary collection of drawings, paintings, photography, personal objects and ephemera.