Wednesday, Sept. 4
4:10 p.m.
Convocation: "Leadership and Responsibility in the 21st Century: What Will Your Role Be?" by Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. surgeon general.
Main Quadrangle (rain site: Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building)
6-9 p.m.
Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7 (free for Bates students).
Room 259, Olin Arts Center
Friday, Sept. 6
7 p.m.
Opening reception and artist's lecture: Dirt Piles. Nationally known artist Grace Knowlton presents works on paper and sculptures inspired by earthen mounds.
Room 104, Olin Arts Center, and Lower Gallery, Museum of Art
Sunday, Sept. 8
1 p.m.
Women's soccer vs. Salem State.
Russell Street Field
Tuesday, Sept. 10
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Wednesday, Sept. 11
4 p.m.
Women's tennis vs. Babson.
James G. Wallach Tennis Center
7 p.m.
Women's volleyball vs. Maine-Farmington.
Alumni Gymnasium
6-9 p.m.
Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7 (free for Bates students).
Room 259, Olin Arts Center
7:30 p.m.
Commemoration: One Year Later. A service of remembrance marking the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.
Bates College Chapel
Friday, Sept. 13
7 p.m.
Opening reception and artist's lecture: Transforming Silence/Translating Light. Wilfred Richard, photographer and Mellon Fellow in residence in environmental studies, discusses his Arctic and Antarctic images on display at Bates.
Room 104, Olin Arts Center and Lower Gallery, Museum of Art
8:30 p.m.
Contradance: An evening of traditional New England folk dancing to the band Wake the Neighbors. No experience necessary; all dances taught and called. Admission: $6/$3. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.
Chase Hall Lounge
7 p.m.
Concert: Concert band festival with area and Bates students.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Saturday, Sept. 14
11 a.m.
Women's soccer vs. Colby.
Russell Street Field
Noon
Field hockey vs. Colby.
Campus Avenue Field
2 p.m.
Men's soccer vs. Colby.
Russell Street Field
Tuesday, Sept. 17
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Wednesday, Sept. 18
4:10 p.m.
Lecture: West Nile Virus by T. J. Lepore, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Room 113, Carnegie Science
6-9 p.m.
Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7 (free for Bates students).
Room 259, Olin Arts Center
9 p.m.
Reflections: Busy Life, Peaceful Center: A Weekly Time of Rest for Body and Soul. A candlelit contemplative time of meditation, quiet and short readings from a variety of spiritual traditions. Each week features a student or faculty performance of music or dance. For more information call the chaplain's office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Thursday, Sept. 19
4 p.m.
Field hockey vs. Southern Maine.
Campus Avenue Field
Saturday, Sept. 21
10 a.m.
Women's tennis vs. Bowdoin.
James G. Wallach Tennis Center
8 p.m.
Concert: Wind players of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Sunday, Sept. 22
7 p.m.
Taizé Service: A candlelit contemplative service in the Christian tradition modeled after the liturgies of the ecumenical monastic community in Taizé, France. Brief readings and prayers, chants and silence.
Bates College Chapel
7:30 p.m.
Hispanic Heritage Month: Dance performance by Zoia Cisneros, Bates class of 2002.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Monday. Sept. 23
7 p.m.
Lecture: The Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship. Speaker to be announced. For information call 207-786-6232.
Muskie Archives
4:30 p.m.
Lecture: In Solidarity With the No Longer and the Not-Yet: Stories of Collective Resistance, Struggle and Creation, by members of the Maine Center for Justice, Ecology, and Democracy, a cooperative organic farm and community-organizing center dedicated to creative social change. Part of the series Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2002-03.
Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall
Tuesday, Sept. 24
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
4 p.m.
Men's soccer vs. Maine-Farmington.
Russell Street Field
Wednesday, Sept. 25
4 p.m.
Lecture: The Currents of Life: Electron Flow Through Water and Proteins, by Harry Gray, Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute of Technology at California Institute of Technology; George S. Hammond '43 H'73 Eminent Scientist Inaugural Lecture.
Muskie Archives
4:10 p.m.
Lecture: Christopher Hitchens, author and longtime contributor to The Nation magazine.
Room G52, Pettengill Hall
6 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Professors and students discuss globalization. Sponsored by the Bates Democrats, the Anti-Sweatshop Coalition and the Bates Libertarians.
Benjamin Mays Center
6-9 p.m.
Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists should bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7 (free for Bates students).
Room 259, Olin Arts Center
7 p.m.
Women's volleyball vs. Southern Maine.
Alumni Gymnasium
8 p.m.
Poetry reading: Carl Dennis, author of Practical Gods and winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Chase Hall Lounge
8 p.m.
Lecture: 21st Century Chemistry: Fuel from Sunlight and Water, by Harry Gray, Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute of Technology at California Institute of Technology; George S. Hammond '43 H'73 Eminent Scientist Inaugural Lecture.
Muskie Archives
9 p.m.
Reflections: Busy Life, Peaceful Center; A Weekly Time of Rest for Body and Soul. A candlelit contemplative time of meditation, quiet and short readings from a variety of spiritual traditions. Each week features a student or faculty performance of music or dance. For more information call the chaplain's office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Thursday, Sept. 26
5 p.m.
Field hockey vs. Gordon.
Campus Avenue Field
Saturday, Sept. 28
3 p.m.
Men's and women's cross country: Bates Invitational.
Twinbrook Recreation Center, Cumberland
9 p.m.
Hispanic Heritage Month: Two-day marathon of Puerto Rican and Hispanic films. For information on titles, call 207-786-8215.
Room 104, Olin Arts Center
Sunday, Sept. 29
7:30 p.m.
Bates College Concert Series: Jon Nakamatsu, gold medalist in the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Admission: $7/$5.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
9 p.m.
Hispanic Heritage Month film series (see Sept. 28 listing).
Room 104, Olin Arts Center
Monday, Sept. 30
4 p.m.
Lecture: The Estimation of China's Economic Growth Rate by Lawrence R. Klein, Nobel Prize-winning econometrician and Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics and Finance (emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Keck Room, Pettengill Hall
