Sunday, Feb. 1
3 p.m.
Concert: Eugene Friesen, a Grammy Award-winning cellist whose work embraces jazz, world, sacred and pop music. With acclaimed jazz pianist Tim Ray. For more 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
Tuesday, Feb. 3
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Fiddle students of Greg Boardman, applied music faculty. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Poetry as a Path of Pilgrimage by Gary Lawless. The Brunswick poet shares stories and reflections from travels in North America and Europe. Part of the series Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2003–04, sponsored by the chaplain’s office. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge
5:30 p.m.
Women’s squash vs. Bowdoin.
Bates Squash Facility, 56 Alfred Plourde Parkway
Wednesday, Feb. 4
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, Feb. 5
7 p.m.
Lecture: Asking the Right Questions: The Development of Jewish Women’s Studies. Judith Plaskow, professor of religious studies at Manhattan College and author of the landmark text Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism From a Feminist Perspective, traces how feminist views of Judaism have evolved. The Zerby Lecture in Contemporary Religious Thought is sponsored by the chaplain’s office; for more information call 207-786-8272.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
Friday, Feb. 6
5 p.m.
Lecture: Wu Hung, professor in the College of the Humanities at the University of Chicago and author of Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, offers a lecture related to the current museum exhibit Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change. A roundtable discussion follows at 7 p.m. (see below).
Olin Arts Center, Room 104
6 p.m.
Men’s and women’s swimming vs. Connecticut College.
Tarbell Pool, Merrill Gymnasium
7 p.m.
Women’s basketball vs. Colby.
Alumni Gymnasium
7 p.m.
Lecture: David Grinspoon, planetary scientist and author of Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life, discusses the question of extraterrestrial life from scientific, historical and cultural perspectives. Sponsored by Sigma Xi and the departments of physics and geology.
Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (Room G52)
7 p.m.
Discussion: Chinese Art Explodes onto the Scene. This roundtable discussion of contemporary Chinese art and photography features Brian Wallis, chief curator, International Center for Photography, New York; Gu Zheng, visiting professor at Bates and curator of the museum exhibit Documenting China; and Wu Hung (see 5 p.m. item above). Mark Bessire, director of the Bates College Museum of Art, moderates.
Olin Arts Center, Room 104
8 p.m.
Concert: The Bates College Orchestra, conducted by Philip Carlsen, performs Britten’s Simple Symphony for string orchestra, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major. For more 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. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.
Chase Hall Lounge
Saturday, Feb. 7
3 p.m.
Women’s basketball vs. Bowdoin.
Alumni Gymnasium
6 p.m.
Men’s indoor track: State championships.
Merrill Gymnasium, Walter Slovenski Indoor Track
7 p.m.
Concert: Rock Us the Caucus, a political consciousness-raiser marking the eve of the Maine Democrats’ statewide caucus. Bands include the Minus Scale, Transparent, Who is Spain and Alpha 60. Sponsored by the Friends of Fair Labor. Admission: $5 door/$3 in advance (tickets available outside Commons the week before the show). For more information call 207-786-6255.
Chase Hall Lounge
8 p.m.
Concert: Pauline Oliveros, acclaimed since the 1960s as an experimental composer and pioneer in meditative music. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Monday, Feb. 9
7 p.m.
Lecture: Memory and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement by Valerie Smith, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, English and African American Studies, Princeton University. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center. For information call 207-786-8376.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
Tuesday, Feb. 10
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Frank Glazer, artist-in-residence, and Mark Howard ’75, of the applied music faculty, perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major in a reduction for two pianos. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
5:30 p.m.
Women’s basketball vs. St. Joseph’s.
Alumni Gymnasium
7:30 p.m.
Men’s basketball vs. St. Joseph’s.
Alumni Gymnasium
Wednesday, Feb. 11
5:30 p.m.
Men’s squash vs. Bowdoin.
Bates Squash Facility, 56 Alfred Plourde Parkway
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
8 p.m.
Performance: The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. Carolyn Myles ’04 directs student performers in this annual celebration of women’s rights and women’s bodies, sponsored by the theater department. Donations will support a local charitable organization.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Thursday, Feb. 12
4:15 p.m.
Lecture: The Day the Music Died: The Conspiracy Against Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Late 1950s by Glenn C. Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University, and author of All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America. Sponsored by the history department and the American cultural studies program. For information call 207-753-6933.
Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)
Friday, Feb. 13
5 p.m.
Film and lecture: A talk by Doris Pilkington, author of The Rabbit-Proof Fence, is coupled with a screening of the 2002 film made from her book about her mother’s escape from an Australian settlement camp and her trek across 1,000 miles of outback to rejoin her aboriginal family. Sponsored by the Multicultural Center. For information call 207-786-8376.
Benjamin Mays Center
7 p.m.
Men’s basketball vs. Williams.
Alumni Gymnasium
Saturday, Feb. 14
3 p.m.
Men’s basketball vs. Middlebury.
Alumni Gymnasium
Sunday, Feb. 15
1:30 p.m.
Men’s and women’s squash vs. Connecticut College.
Bates Squash Facility, 56 Alfred Plourde Parkway
Monday–Friday, Feb. 16–20
Winter Recess: Administrative offices remain open.
Wednesday, Feb. 18
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
Monday, Feb. 23
7 p.m.
Lecture: The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents a speaker to be announced. For information call the Office of Career Services at 207-786-6232.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
Tuesday, Feb. 24
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Horn students of Andrea Lynch, of the applied music faculty. For information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Coaching the Heart: Coaching, Teaching, Writing and the Spiritual Path. David Weber, English faculty member and cross-country track coach at Phillips Exeter Academy, shares spiritual truths discovered during three decades of coaching and teaching adolescents. Part of the series Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2003–04, sponsored by the chaplain’s office. For more information call 207-786-8272.
Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge
Wednesday, Feb. 25
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
Friday, Feb. 27
Concert: The Portland String Quartet performs music spanning the 20th century by three composers: Ernest Bloch, Peter Re and Maine native Walter Piston. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Saturday, Feb. 28
9 a.m.–8 p.m.
Youth Leadership School: The Bates College Republicans present a two-day Leadership Institute “boot camp of politics” designed to help conservative students prepare for political careers. To register, see this Web site: www.leadershipinstitute.org/02TRAINING/012YLS/012YLS.htm.
For more information, contact owolf@bates.edu or call 412-760-5482. Fee: $60.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
8 p.m.
Concert: A program of classic and modern jazz by the Steve Grover Trio, led by a well-known composer who teaches jazz piano and drums at Bates. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Sunday, Feb. 29
9 a.m.–8 p.m.
Youth Leadership School: Day two (see Feb. 28 listing).
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
