PRESENTATION: Scotland: The Traditions of Sustainability Folklore & Organic Farming - Kaitlin Webber will talk about her experience as an Otis Fellow. The purpose of the Otis Fellowship program is to encourage Bates students to explore and reflect upon new adventures and innovative ways to understand, appreciate, and express our interdependencies with the earth in the tradition of Phil Otis ('95). Sponsored by the Office of the Environmental Coordinator and Environmental Studies Program. Thursday, October 01, 2009, 12:10 PM until 1:00 PM New Commons 22.
STITCHING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE! We invite interested students, faculty, staff to gather at the Costume Shop in Schaeffer Theater on Thursday, October 1st from 4-7pm to cut and SEW DRAFT STOPPERS in our effort to make 350 (!) of them in conjunction with the L/A 350 Project on October 24th. These "stoppers" will help block drafts in doors and windows in a number of L/A homes and will be dispersed through an ongoing winterization project in Lewiston/Auburn. If you'd like to help out, please contact Sarah Potter in the Bookstore (spotter@bates.edu or x6120). We could use 4 or 5 people to sew straight lines and 4-5 people to cut fabric. There'll be a few tasty snacks on hand, as well!
POETRY READINGS: Tessa Joseph Nicholas, former editor of Carolina Quarterly, has published poems in journals such as Sulfur, Talisman, minor/american, Cold Mountain Review, and the Seneca Review. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University and a PhD in English from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she teaches New Media Studies in the Department of Computer Science. Tessa is currently completing a poetry manuscript Kennebec: Birthing based on the 1785-1812 diaries of Martha Ballard, who during these years, worked as a midwife in Hallowell, Maine, the poet’s hometown. Arielle Greenberg is the author of the poetry collections My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbooks Shake Her (Dusie Kollektiv, 2009) and Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003). She is co-editor of Starting Today: Poems from Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa, forthcoming 2010), amongst other anthologies. Greenberg also is editor of a college reader, Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006). She is an Associate Professor in the poetry program at Columbia College Chicago and lives in Evanston, IL with her family. Greenberg is spending 2009-2010 in Belfast, Maine working on an oral history of the new back-to-the-land movement. - Thursday, October 1 at 4:15 pm in Chase Hall Lounge
Bates Immigrant Rights Advocacy Group (BIRA) partners with Catholic Charities to run a REFUGEE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM. If you are interested in becoming more involved in the Lewiston Community or working with immigrant populations, come hear from veteran volunteers and organizations that need your help!! Thursday, October 1 at 7:00 pm in Pettengill G52
Join us for VCS this Thursday! DANA ALEXANDRA - Thursday, October 1, @ 9PM in the Mays Center - "At just 22, this rural Pennsylvania native has figured out how to capture an audience. With a distinctly delicate voice that could relax even the most uneasy mind, Alexandra shows she is not only a beautiful voice but an accomplished songwriter as well." For more info about Dana, check out her myspace at http://www.myspace.com/danaalexandraa For info about upcoming shows and links to videos, music and more from the artists, join the VCS VCS Facebook Group and visit http://www.bates.edu/vcs.xml. As always, there will be chai, tea, coffee, cookies, and fantastic company...what more could you ask for? See you there! Brought to you by the Village Club Programmers and the Student Activities Office bio from http://sonicbids.com/danaalexandra
This Friday and Saturday are COLLEGE RING SALE DAYS AT THE BOOKSTORE! Friday, October 2, from 1:00 to 5:00 pm and Saturday, October 3, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, in the Bookstore Foyer Chase Hall.
TALK: Looking at Lightning - A Presentation for the Non-Specialist by Dr. Glenn Schmieg, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Prof. of Physics Emeritus. Professor Schmieg will show colored slides of various lightning strikes and describe how lightning is created. He also will discuss the dangers of lightning as well as the use of lightning rods on homes, buildings and boats. A question and answer period will follow the talk. Friday, October 02, 2009 at 2:45 PM Carnegie Science Hall, Room 204
VIDEO SCREENING: A VISIT TO THE PHARMACY. Written, filmed, and produced by Bates Students, in collaboration with staff from the B Street Health Center and Bedard Pharmacy. It provides information in both English and Somali about prescriptions and pharmacies. The project is an extension of coursework in Biology s39 taught by Professor Karen Palin. Friday, October 02, 2009 at 3:30 PM Pettengill G65
Parents Weekend: Student Research Poster Session. Each year the Office of the Dean of the Faculty hosts a popular POSTER SESSION ON STUDENT RESEARCH and SERVICE-LEARNING to inform parents and families about the sophistication of student research at Bates and the important roles research and service-learning play in undergraduate education. Friday, October 02, 2009 at 4:15 PM Perry Atrium, Pettengill Hall
CONCERT: Duncan Cumming '93, piano & Hilary Cumming, violin. Performing works of Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak as well as "Duo", composed by Bates College Professor of music, William Matthews. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Contact 207-786-6135 or E-mail: olinarts@bates.edu Friday, October 02, 2009 at 7:30 PM Olin Arts Center, Concert Hall
FILM: GLOBAL LENS: My Time Will Come. A predawn murder sets in motion a series of interlocking tragedies that eventually find their way to the city morgue's brooding Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated from the world around him, Arturo develops an oddly intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases, gradually forcing him to confront his connection to the living, and the dead. Adapted from the novel De Que Nada Se Sabe, director Victor Arregui's serpentine tale is a dark but sympathetic portrait of one man's solitude set against a richly textured rendering of Quito, Ecuador's capital city. $5 general admission, free for Bates students. Friday, October 02, 2009 at 8:00 PM Olin Arts Center, Room 105
The Student Activities Office is offering a great trip to go WHITEWATER RAFTING ON THE DEAD RIVER. The trip will be this Saturday, October 3rd. The cost will be $75, and this will include rafting and all of the equipment, a roundtrip coach bus, snacks on the bus and a great meal at the end of the trip. The trip is open to all students, staff, faculty and PARENTS, as well as affiliated friends and family members. The recommended age is at least 14, in case you are interested in bringing children or siblings along for the ride. For students that are interested in going but are concerned about the cost assistance may be available - please ask if you are interested.
