All events are open to the public and are free of charge unless otherwise indicated.

9 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m.  Kinderkonzert: Strings: It's Opposite Day. A Portland Symphony Orchestra string quartet demonstrates different opposites with instruments and music. Admission: $2.50. For information call 207-773-6128, ext. 308.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

7 p.m. Poetry: Presente! An exploration in song and spoken word of the plight of political prisoners in the United States by a Boston-based group of poets and musicians led by Richard Cambridge. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Benjamin Mays Center

7:30 p.m. Films of Muslim Life Series: Where is the Friend's Home? Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostomi. A boy defies his parents by searching for a friend's home to return a notebook so that the friend will not be expelled from school. Farsi with English subtitles. A faculty member or Muslim student will host a discussion after the film. Sponsored by the anthropology department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation.
Room 104, Olin Art Center

12:30 p.m. Noonday Concert: Sarah Overmeyer '05, viola, and Frank Glazer, pianist and artist in residence, will perform music by Schubert.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

4:30 p.m. Lecture: Economics and Religion. Robert J. Barro, the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, gives the Thomas Sowell Professorship Inaugural Lecture in Economics.
G52, Keck Classroom, Pettengill Hall

4 p.m. Baseball vs. Middlebury.
Leahey Field

7 p.m. Dance Concert: Dance as a Collaborative Art, hip-hop dance with guest artist Patrik Bordovsky.
Alumni Gymnasium

8:15 p.m. Lecture: Daniel Berrigan, SJ, presents the William Stringfellow Lecture in Peace and Justice.
Bates College Chapel

8 p.m. Concert: Vicente Lopez, pianist, performs classical, popular and traditional Ecuadoran music. Sponsored by the foreign language department. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

8:30 p.m. Contradance: An evening of traditional New England folk dancing with the band Wake the Neighbors is part of the Stringfellow series of events. No experience necessary; all dances taught. Admission $6/$3. For information call 207-786-6255.
Chase Hall Lounge

Noon-10 p.m. Juggling Festival. Workshops from 1-5 p.m. include club and ball juggling and club passing.  At 7:30 p.m., a public performance features the Airborne Comedians. Also: competitions and plenty of open space for juggling, unicycling, learning and teaching. For more details, see www.bates.edu/~wschultz/juggling/fest.htm. Sponsored by the Bates College Juggling Club.
Alumni Gymnasium and Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building

Noon Concert: Ronjstock, daylong music with the Jerks of Grass, Apollo Sunshine, the Coming Grass and Moon Boot Lover. For more information, call 207-786-8369.
Behind the Ronj, 32 Frye St.

12:30 p.m. Noonday concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

6-9 p.m. Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts Center

7:30 p.m. Films of Muslim Life Series: The Circle. Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi. Women at the bottom of Iran's social ladder who have no male relatives to legitimize them land in trouble with the law, often for little reason. Farsi with English subtitles. A faculty member or Muslim student will host a discussion after the film. Sponsored by the anthropology department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation.
Room 104, Olin Arts Center

7:30 p.m. Performance: Reverend Billy, political comedy and theater. Reverend Billy is the stage name of Bill Talen, a professional actor turned activist who preaches a decidedly different sermon.
Chase Hall Lounge

8 p.m. Concert: Stephan Crump Quintet. Sponsored by the music department. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

8 p.m. Concert: Composer Beth Wiemann, University of Maine, and Jonathan Hallstrom, Colby College, perform and discuss their music.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Noon-6 p.m. Music Festival: First annual WRBC Roots Music Festival, featuring Maine acts Sara Cox & Nate Schrock, folk; Chairback Gap, bluegrass; King Memphis, rockabilly; Diesel Doug & The Long Haul Truckers, country; and from Chicago, Studebaker John & The Hawks, blues. Sponsored by the Bates College radio station, WRBC. For more information call 207-777-7915.
Keigwin Amphitheater (rain site: Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building)

7 p.m. Radio Theater: The Robinson Players and WRBC-FM, Radio Bates College present the Maine radio premiere of Shakespeare's "Tragedy of King Lear", adapted for radio and directed by Matteo Pangallo ('03). Please see www.learonline.net for more information.
WRBC, 91.5 FM

3 p.m. Concert: Brunswick Regional Youth Orchestra, conducted by Paul Ross. Tickets at the door: $5.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

12:30 p.m. Noonday Concert: Angel Rugan '04, baroque flute; Rose Pruiksma, assistant professor of music, viola da gamba; John Corrie, assistant in music instruction and choir director, harpsichord. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

6-9 p.m. Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts Center

7:30 p.m. Films of Muslim Life Series: Guelwar. Senegalese film directed by Ousmane Sembene. When the body of a Christian is mistakenly buried in a Muslim cemetery, a black comedy of red tape, corruption and petty village conflict breaks out. Wolof with English subtitles. A faculty member or Muslim student will host a discussion after the film. Sponsored by the anthropology department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation.
Room 104, Olin Arts Center

8 p.m. Theater: Assistant Professor of Theater Ellen Seeling's workshop class in puppet theater. Free, no reservations. 
Schaeffer Theatre

8 p.m. Concert: Ken Kobori, saxophone. Sponsored by the music department.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

8 p.m. Concert: Klezmaniacs, world-traveled band playing Yiddish songs, Hasidic nigunim and klezmer, the 'Jewish jazz' of eastern Europe.
Chase Hall Lounge

8 p.m. Theater: Assistant Professor of Theater Ellen Seeling's workshop class in puppet theater. Free, no reservations.
Schaeffer Theatre

8 p.m. CD Release Concert: Wake the Neighbors, a Celtic ensemble featuring fiddle, flute, banjo, didgeridoo, percussion and uilleann pipes. Admission: $5. Sponsored by the Bates College Freewill Folk Society.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

12:30 p.m.  Noonday concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

6-9 p.m. Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7.
Room 259, Olin Arts Center

7:30 p.m. Films of Muslim Life Series: Ceddo. Senegalese film directed by Ousmane Sembene.  The kidnaping of a beautiful princess during the Muslim expansion leads to a clash between the Muslims and the Ceddo, a feudal class of common people. Wolof with English subtitles. A faculty member or Muslim student will host a discussion after the film. Sponsored by the anthropology department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation.
Room 104, Olin Arts Center

10 a.m. Commencement exercises. Lunch follows on library patio for the Bates community, members of the graduating class and their guests.
Main Quadrangle (rain site: Merrill Gymnasium)

EXHIBITIONS

May 1-24 Posibilidad: Photos from Life on the Edge. Exhibit of images of people living in countries at war throughout Latin America by Jim Harney, artist in residence, Posibilidad, a Bangor-based organization that addresses globalization. Bates College Chapel

Museum of Art Through May 26, 2002 Upper Gallery: Annual Senior Exhibition Lower Gallery: Photo(documentary), an exhibition exploring the documentary nature of photography organized by museum intern, Adina Mori Õ02. Through Aug. 23 Lower Gallery: Collection Highlights Museum hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. School groups are welcome to all exhibitions. Tours conducted by museum staff. Advance registration for groups required. Visitors are welcome throughout the exhibitions. Information: 207-786-6158.