12:30 p.m. — Noonday Concert
Artist-in-residence Frank Glazer, pianist, and Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of History Atsuko Hirai, soprano, perform a selection of Mozart arias. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
6-9 p.m. — Figure Drawing
Artists should bring drawing board and supplies. Easels provided. Admission: $7 (free for Bates students). Sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art.
Olin Arts Center, Room 259
7 p.m. — Lecture
Globalization: Why It Has a Human Face. Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati is the author of In Defense of Globalization, which argues for managed globalization as a force for good. Presented by the Bates Lecture Series and co-sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, the Bates economics department and the Bates Economics Society.
Chase Hall Lounge
7:30 p.m. — Concert
Electronic music by student composers. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
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
7 p.m. — Gallery Talk
David Kareken, a new-media artist and employee of Bates College Information and Library Services, will share his work. For more information call 207-786-6158.
Bates College Museum of Art
8 p.m. — World Music Weekend
The weekend's first concert features the Gamelan Mawar Mekar, the Blazing Sun Steel Pan Orchestra and special guest Greg Boardman on violin. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
10:30 a.m. — Club Athletic Event
Women's water polo tournament with teams from Boston University, MIT, the University of Vermont and Bates, Boston, Bowdoin and Wellesley colleges.
Merrill Gymnasium, Tarbell Pool
2 p.m. — World Music Weekend
Gregory Rosenthal '05 discusses music from China, and Joseph Maurey '05 speaks about music from Trinidad. For more information call 207-753-6968.
Olin Arts Center, Room 105
8:30 a.m. — Club Athletic Event
Women's water polo tournament (see March 5 listing).
Merrill Gymnasium, Tarbell Pool
3 p.m. — Concert
Benjamin Peck, senior thesis performance. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
5 p.m. — Film
Persons of Interest, a documentary based on interviews with people taken into custody by the U.S. Justice Department after Sept. 11 and held indefinitely on grounds of national security. Sponsored by the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center, Room 105
7 p.m. — Panel Discussion
Trans Panel, a discussion of gender, transgender and topics related to gender identity. Sponsored by the art and visual culture department.
Olin Arts Center, Room 104
9, 10 and 11 a.m. — Kinderkonzert
Brass: March to the Beat. 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.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
12:30 p.m. — Noonday Concert
Chiharu Naruse, pianist, and Steve Witkin, cellist. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Noon — Gallery Tour
Mark Bessire, director of the Bates College Museum of Art, leads a tour of the current exhibitions (listed in sidebar). For more information call 207-786-6158.
Bates College Museum of Art
5 p.m. — Film
Juvies, a documentary exploring the world of juvenile offenders serving incomprehensibly long prison sentences for crimes they either did not commit or were only marginally involved in. Sponsored by the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center, Room 105
6-9 p.m. — Figure Drawing
(see March 2 listing)
Olin Arts Center, Room 259
7 p.m. — Career Workshop
Linda Pogue, a management development and sales training specialist, helps participants learn to present themselves and interact comfortably in stressful professional situations. Sponsored by the Office of Career Services. Space limited to the first 100 reservations. For a reservation, call 207-786-6232, ext. 3.
Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)
7 p.m. — Films
The annual Primate Film Festival features two films on baboons and Jane Goodall's National Geographic presentation, My Life With the Chimpanzees. Sponsored by the biology department.
Carnegie Science Hall, Room 204
7 p.m. — Lecture
Landscapes: The Mind's Eye and the Inner Ear by
Franklin G. Burroughs, professor emeritus of English at Bowdoin College. The eighth annual Otis Lecture is made possible by the Philip J. Otis Endowment.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
7:30 p.m. — Lecture
Professor Liyakat Takim, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Denver, offers a talk on Islam. Sponsored by the Mushahada Association.
Chase Lounge
9 p.m. — Reflections
Busy Life, Peaceful Center: A Weekly Time of Rest for Body and Soul (see March 2 listing).
Bates College Chapel
7 p.m. — Lecture
Abrupt Climate Change, The Greenhouse Effect, and How We Can Make Money Cleaning up After Ourselves by Richard Alley, geoscientist, Pennsylvania State University. Sponsored by the College Lecture Series.
Chase Hall Lounge
7:30 p.m.
Lecture: Close Relations: Islam in the European Experience by Anouar Majid, chair of the English department at the University of New England.
Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)
5 and 7 p.m.
Films: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival presents: Goodbye Hungaria, chronicling the lives of a Palestinian refugee and an American volunteer in a Hungarian refugee camp (5 p.m.); and What the Eye Doesn't See, a drama set during the last days of Alberto Fujimori's presidency in Peru (7 p.m.). For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center, Room 105
8 p.m.
Bates College Concert Series: Quartetto di Venezia, with an all-Italian program by Verdi, Boccherini and others. Admission: $8/$5. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Contradance: Traditional New England folk dancing to the band Wake the Neighbors. No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Admission: $7/$5. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society.
Chase Hall Lounge
8 p.m.
Theater:
The Three Sisters. Martin Andrucki, Dana Professor of Theater, directs Chekhov's tale of three sisters stuck in a Russian backwater. Admission: $6/$3. For ticket information call 207-786-6161 or visit the box office Web site (
https://transact.bates.edu/boxoffice/).
Schaeffer Theatre
8 a.m.
Youth Leadership School: This two-day “boot camp of conservative politics” shows students how to launch a political career. For more information call 781-248-0808.
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
5 and 8 p.m.
Films: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival presents: Deadline, a documentary on the legal process that led to the decision to commute the sentences of Illinois' Death Row inmates (5 p.m.); and Discordia, a documentary exploring a student riot sparked by Benjamin Netanyahu's planned visit to a Montreal campus (7 p.m.). For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center, Room 105
8 p.m.
Concert: Directed by Philip Carlsen, the Bates College Orchestra performs music by Haydn, Faure, Wagner and Copland. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Theater: The Three Sisters (see March 11 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
8 a.m.
Youth Leadership School (see March 12 listing).
Edmund S. Muskie Archives
2 p.m.
Theater:
The Three Sisters (see
March 11 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
5 and 8 p.m.
Films: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival presents two documentaries: Repatriation, exploring the fates of two North Korean prisoners in South Korea (5 p.m.); and Saints and Sinners, which follows the challenging journey of a devoutly Catholic gay couple determined to marry in a Catholic church. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center, Room 105
7 p.m.
Concert: Jeffrey Bartolini, cellist, in a senior thesis performance. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Linnzi Furman '05, pianist. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
6-9 p.m.
Figure drawing (see March 2 listing).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259
9 p.m.
Reflections: Busy Life, Peaceful Center: A Weekly Time of Rest for Body and Soul (see March 2 listing).
Bates College Chapel
8 p.m.
Concert: Mihoko Maru, clarinetist, in a senior recital. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
8 p.m.
Theater: The Three Sisters (see March 11 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
8 p.m.
Theater: The Three Sisters (see March 11 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
2 p.m.
Theater:
The Three Sisters (see
March 11 listing).
Schaeffer Theatre
3 p.m.
Concert: Compositions by Kevin Weiler in a senior thesis program. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Bates voice students of John Corrie, lecturer in music. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
6-9 p.m.
Figure drawing (see March 2 listing).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259
7:30 p.m.
Lecture: The Bates College Republicans present William Kristol, one of the nation's leading political analysts and commentators and the editor of the influential political magazine
The Weekly Standard. For more information call 781-248-0808.
Chase Hall Lounge
8 p.m.
Performance: The Bates Gamelan Mawar Mekar presents music and dance of West Java, Indonesia, with master drummer Undang Sumarna and dancer Ben Arcangel as guest artists. Sponsored by The Freeman Foundation. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
9 p.m.
Reflections: Busy Life, Peaceful Center: A Weekly Time of Rest for Body and Soul (see March 2 listing).
Bates College Chapel
3 p.m.
Performance-presentation: Classical Chinese opera. A nine-person troupe from Beijing performs Picking Up the Jade Bracelet and Night Fight at Crossroads Inn. Wenwei Du, associate professor of Chinese at Vassar College, explains each piece, and a question-and-answer period follows. Sponsored by the Freeman Foundation Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative. For more information call 207-786-6195.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
12:30 p.m.
Noonday Concert: Bates voice students of John Corrie, lecturer in music. For more information call 207-786-6135.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
6-9 p.m.
Figure drawing (
see March 2 listing).
Olin Arts Center, Room 259
7 p.m
Stringfellow Award Ceremony: Speaker TBA. The William Stringfellow Awards annually recognize the achievements of a Maine citizen and of a Bates College student who are dedicated to the promotion of peace and justice. For more information call the Office of the Chaplain at 207-786-8272.
Chase Hall Lounge
8 p.m.
Concert: Gavin Degraw, the acclaimed young New York singer-songwriter, is touring in support of his debut album,
Chariot. Special guests Michael Tolcher and Jem. $20 general public/$15 students. Sponsored by the Chase Hall Committee. For more information call 207-795-7496.
Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building
9 p.m.
Reflections: Busy Life, Peaceful Center: A Weekly Time of Rest for Body and Soul (see March 2 listing).
Bates College Chapel
