Saturday, Nov. 1
10:30 a.m.
Women’s soccer vs. Bowdoin.
Russell Street Field
11 a.m.
Field hockey vs. Bowdoin.
Campus Avenue Field
12:30 p.m.
Football vs. Bowdoin.
Garcelon Field
1 p.m.
Men’s soccer vs. Bowdoin.
Russell Street Field
1 p.m.
Gallery talk: A. Charles Kovacs, director of the Office of Career Services, discusses the museum exhibit From Byzantium to Russia: Popular Icons for Personal Devotion.
Olin Arts Center, Museum of Art
7 p.m.
Concert: The family folk quartet Sattuma, from Karelia, Russia, plays Russian and Finnish music on fiddles, accordion, clarinet, Estonian bagpipes, flutes, jaw harp, harmonica and other instruments. Admission: $5/$3. For information and reservations call 207-782-0386.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Dance performance: The Bates Modern Dance Company features works by guest artists and students. Free; no reservations.
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater
Sunday, Nov. 2
3 p.m.
Concert: The Portland String Quartet and guests Christina Astrachan, soprano, and Frank Glazer, pianist and Bates artist in residence, perform works by Mozart, Schumann, Fauré and Chausson. Sponsored by the Florence Pennell Gremley Endowed Fund. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
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
Monday, Nov. 3
7 p.m.
Lecture: Wildness and Shadowed Wonder: Some Words Against Forgetting the Earth by David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous. The Andrews Memorial Lecture in Ethics and Education. For information call 207-786-8272.
Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)
Tuesday, Nov. 4
Noon
Panel discussion: Science, Religion, and Ecology: A Public Conversation with author David Abram; Carl Straub, Clark A. Griffith Professor of Religion; Thomas Tracy, Phillips Professor of Religion; John Smedley, professor of physics; and Sharon Kinsman, associate professor of biology and of women’s and gender studies. Sponsored by the chaplain’s office. For information call 207-786-8272.
Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
1 p.m.
Gallery talk: Museum intern Joanna Ranken ’04. For information call 207-786-6158.
Olin Arts Center, Museum of Art
Wednesday, Nov. 5
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).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259
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 a student or faculty performance of music or dance is featured. For more information call the chaplain’s office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Thursday, Nov. 6
4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Corporal, Spiritual, and Political Works of Mercy on the Streets of Boston by Jim Greene, deputy director, Boston City Shelter Commission. Part of the series Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2003–04, sponsored by the chaplain’s office.
Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge
7 p.m.
Lecture: Achieving Diversity and Intercultural/Racial Understanding in an Academic Setting by S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and professor of neurobiology at Harvard University.
Muskie Archives
Friday, Nov. 7
7 p.m.
Play: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater Martin Andrucki. First performed in 1603, Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark may well be the most famous English-language play ever written. Admission: $6/$3. For information call 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer Theatre
8 p.m.
Concert: Jon Nakamatsu joins the Bates College Orchestra, directed by Lecturer in Music Philip Carlsen, for Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. Gold medalist in the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Nakamatsu headlined the 2002–03 Bates Concert Series. The orchestra also performs Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 (“Haffner”) and Dvorak’s Wind Serenade. Nakamatsu’s visit is sponsored by the Mellon Learning Associates Program in the Humanities. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
8:30 p.m.
Contradance: Traditional New England folk dancing to the band Wake the Neighbors. No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Admission: $6/$3, free to students. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.
Chase Hall Lounge
Saturday, Nov. 8
7 p.m.
Play: Hamlet (see Nov. 7 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
Sunday, Nov. 9
2 p.m.
Play: Hamlet (see Nov. 7 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
1 p.m.
Concert: Carmen Nadeau and Paul Jalbert, vocalists. Admission: $10. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Tuesday, Nov. 11
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
1 p.m.
Gallery talk: Museum intern Joanna Ranken ’04. For information call 207-786-6158.
Olin Arts Center, Museum of Art
Wednesday, Nov. 12
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).
Olin Arts Center, Room 25
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 a student or faculty performance of music or dance is featured. For more information call the chaplain’s office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Friday, Nov. 14
7 p.m.
Play: Hamlet (see Nov. 7 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
8 p.m.
Concert: Ben Tousley, folk singer, performs in a benefit for the Bates Hunger and Homelessness Organizing Committee.
Benjamin Mays Center
Saturday, Nov. 15
7 p.m.
Play: Hamlet (see Nov. 7 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
8 p.m.
Bates College Concert Series: Blue Note recording artist Kurt Elling, a jazz singer, composer and specialist in setting poetry to instrumental solos, appears with the Laurence Hobgood Trio. Admission: $8/$5. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Sunday, Nov. 16
2 p.m.
Play: Hamlet (see Nov. 7 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
3 p.m.
Concert: Frank Glazer, pianist and artist in residence, performs works by Haydn, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel and Chopin. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Monday, Nov. 17
8 p.m.
Plays: Linney Plays. Students in Professor Paul Kuritz’s directing class, Theater 370, direct one-act plays by Romulus Linney. Free; no reservations.
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater
Tuesday, Nov. 18
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Performer to be announced. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
1 p.m.
Gallery talk: Museum intern Joanna Ranken ’04. For information call 207-786-6158.
Olin Arts Center, Museum of Art
8 p.m.
Plays: Linney Plays (see Nov. 17 listing).
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater
Wednesday, Nov. 19
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).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259
7 p.m.
Lecture: From Kiev to Palermo: A History of Icons, by Rebecca Corrie, Phillips Professor of Art. Offered in connection with the current Museum of Art exhibition (see below).
Olin Arts Center, Room 104
7 p.m.
Lecture: Human Rights and Women’s Rights: Creativity and Dissidence, by Nawal El Saadawi, the Egyptian novelist, psychiatrist and commentator on the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab society. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center.
Muskie Archives
8 p.m.
Play: Linney Plays (see Nov. 17 listing).
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater
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 a student or faculty performance of music or dance is featured. For more information call the chaplain’s office at 207-786-8272.
Bates College Chapel
Thursday, Nov. 20
9, 10 and 11 a.m.
Kinderkonzert: In Strings: Once Upon A Tune, Portland Symphony Orchestra musicians introduce children ages 3 to 7 to symphonic music and the instrumental families. Admission: $3. For reservations call 207-773-6128, ext. 308.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Plays: Linney Plays (see Nov. 17 listing).
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater
Friday, Nov. 21
8 p.m.
Plays: Linney Plays (see Nov. 17 listing).
Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater
Nov. 24-30
Thanksgiving Recess. Administrative offices open through Nov. 26.
