Bates College Presents THE FIFTH ANNUAL TASTE OF LEWISTON-AUBURN – TODAY from 11am-1pm – in the Gray Cage. Come have a taste of what many great restaurants in the Lewiston-Auburn Area has to offer. Participants include Mother India, Fish Bones, Gritty McDuff's, and many more! Admission is $5, and all proceeds will be donated to the Lots to Gardens Program (a youth and community driven organization that uses sustainable urban agriculture to create access to fresh food, and to nurture healthy youth and a healthy community (www.stmarysmaine.com) Questions? Please feel free to contact Sara Noyes via email (snoyes@bates.edu) or by phone (755-5936). Sponsored by the Bates College Student Activities Office
THE MULTIFAITH CHAPLAINCY - Mindfulness Meditation – today from 12:10-12:40 – Chapel - Chaplaincy Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to things as they are. Each session will open with a brief poem or reading followed by a guided meditation practice such as loving-kindness meditation, basic mindfulness, mindful eating, the body scan, walking meditation, and more.
THE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, Bates’ one and only improv group, will be holding auditions this week! Please come to either group A or B and show us your WILD SIDE! Today and Thursday from 4-6 (group A) and 7-9 (group B) in Skelton Lounge.
THE 2009 FALL WORKSHOP SERIES - 4:30-5:30PM - The will OCS offer an hour-long interactive workshop on RESUMÉS today. Please register to attend workshops in the Calendar section of eRecruiting. All workshops are held in the OCS Conference Room at 31 Frye Street from 4:30-5:30 pm.
MUSEUM OF ART LECTURE: Art maven Carl Little discusses the work of Bernard Langlais, putting his abstract wood constructions featured in the current museum exhibition in the context of his greater ouevre. Among Carl Little's many books are Edward Hopper's New England and The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent. His reviews and articles appear in a range of regional and national publications, including Art New England and Art in America. He contributed an essay to the catalogue for the exhibition "Bernard Langlais: Independent Spirit" at the Portland Museum of Art in 2002. – Today at 6:00 pm in Olin 104
Please join us for the EID FESTIVAL, as we celebrate the biggest Muslim holiday which marks the end of the month of Ramadan. We invite you to this evening of fine food and fun. Come and see how people from different cultures celebrate this occasion. The Benjamin Mays Center – Today from 6 to 8 p.m.
ADMISSIONS PHONE-A-THON: Come to the Admissions Office in Lindholm House tonight from 6-8 and Thursday from 7-9 to get delicious food (Heidi’s Deli tonight and Tu Casa on Thursday) while calling prospective students for the class of 2014. For more information, contact eedmonso@bates.edu.
VOLLEYBALL vs. Bowdoin. 7 p.m. in Alumni Gymnasium.
INFORMATION SESSIONS FOR SOPHOMORES who are interested in studying on a JSA or JYA program during their junior year. There will be two repeated sessions. The first session will begin at 7:00 p.m and the second session will begin at 9:00 p.m. in Chase Lounge TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd .
PEER WRITING ASSISTANTS: Staff meeting from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. in New Commons 211. See you there!
Tonight, the Harward Center for Community Partnerships inaugurates its 2009-2010 CIVIC FORUM series with a panel presentation entitled, "Dealing with Climate Change: The Debate among Policy Makers.” Panelists will include Ted Koffman, the Executive Director of Maine Audubon, and former chair of the Natural Resources Council; Pete Didisheim, Advocacy Director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine; Melissa Carey, Climate Change Policy Specialist with the Environmental Defense Fund; and Tom Tietenberg, Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at Colby College. The panel will focus on the pros, cons, points of confusion and contention in the current policy debate over climate change. The panel will be held at 7:30pm in the Muskie Archives. The Civic Forum is a lively series that invites the audience to wrestle with and explore civic, political and policy issues of significance to the Bates community, Maine, and beyond. For more information, please contact Kristen Cloutier at the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College at 207-786-6202.
Missed the first meeting? It ain’t no thang! Come talk about dance with other people who love to watch, move, explore, jump and jive. Let’s feel alive! Join the BATES DANCE CLUB tonight at 8:30 in PGill G66.
PALG Session for Professor Schlax's Chemistry 107A class. The session is open to all students of the class and is led by Sasha Villahermosa. 9pm PGill G21 Sept. 23
