Campus events: Oct. 1–31, 2017
Hello from Bates!
This is a listing of public events at the college during October 2017.
The public is invited to these events. Except as noted, admission is free.
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Questions or comments? Contact events editor Doug Hubley at calendar@bates.edu.
Recurring Events
Taking place while Bates is in session. Please confirm before you go.
5:40pm daily | Dharma meditation: A 20-minute group meditation. Monday-Saturday the meditation is silent. On Sundays, participants choose a group practice, often followed by dinner or discussion. FMI 207-786-8272.
Gomes Chapel
12:15pm Mon | Noontime meditation facilitated by the Multifaith Chaplaincy. Meditation instruction is offered at noon. FMI 207-786-8272.
Gomes Chapel
7pm Tue | Zen meditation: Associated Buddhist Chaplain Heiku Jaime McLeod offers Tuesday Zen sessions during the academic year. Cushions provided, beginners welcome — instruction is offered at 6:30. FMI jaime@treetopzencenter.org.
Gomes Chapel
6pm Wed | Life drawing with the Museum of Art. Dry-media easels and drawing benches provided, bring drawing board and supplies. $10/$9 museum members; $90/$80 for 10-session tickets purchased in advance. FMI 207-786-8302.
Olin 259
10am Sun | Quaker meeting presented by the Lewiston Friends. FMI 207-786-8272.
163 Wood St.
3 Tue
4pm | Women’s soccer vs. Bowdoin.
8pm | Men’s soccer vs. Maine Maritime.
Garcelon Field
4 Wed
8pm | The Lectern: What are the rules we live by? What are the rules of the game we’re playing? And what happens when rules take over? Using movement, text, sound, song and a catwalk runway, Sara Juli and Claire Porter are joined by Bates students as they address these questions in an excerpt from their comic work in progress. A talkback follows. FMI 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer Theatre
5 Thu
7pm | Wendy Warren on slavery in New England: A talk by an assistant professor of history at Princeton and the author of New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. The annual Andrews Lecture honors Bertha May Bell Andrews, who established the physical education program for women at Bates and who believed that education without morality is useless. FMI 207-786-8272.
Muskie Archives
6 Fri
7pm | Filmboard screening: Free weekly screenings of mainstream and independent cinema. FMI dunterbe@bates.edu.
Olin 104
7pm | Volleyball vs. Hamilton.
Alumni Gym
7:30pm | Resinosa Ensemble: A trio consisting of mezzo-soprano Joëlle Morris, cellist Eliza Meyer and pianist Bridget Convey, a member of the Bates faculty. This program explores the theme of love through work by major poets set to music by, among others, Johannes Brahms, Astor Piazzolla and Amy Beach. Free, but tickets required: batesconcerts.eventbrite.com. FMI 207-786-6135, olinarts@bates.edu or bates.edu/music.
Olin Concert Hall
7 Sat
2pm | Volleyball vs. Williams.
Alumni Gym
8 Sun
2pm | Women’s soccer vs. Elms College.
Russell Street Field
4:30pm | Men’s soccer vs. Bowdoin.
Garcelon Field
10 Tue
5pm | Field hockey vs. Babson.
Campus Avenue Field
7pm | Volleyball vs. Bowdoin.
Alumni Gym
11 Wed
Noon | Public Works in Progress: Spotlight on Student Work: Lunch and brief presentations from students about community-engaged work they did during summer 2017. Faculty, staff and off-campus guests are invited to charge their Commons lunch to the Harward Center and bring their trays upstairs. FMI 207-786-8241 or dray3@bates.edu.
Commons 221–222
8pm | Men’s soccer vs. Thomas.
Garcelon Field
12 Thu
4:30pm | The Greatest Hits of Mongol History: The Mongol Empire’s legacy was complicated. The Mongols destroyed kingdoms and killed tens of thousands of people, but also facilitated political, economic and religious connections. Colleen Ho (University of Maryland) analyzes the enigmatic Chinggis (aka Genghis) Khan, highlights Mongol appearances in modern culture and presents the Mongols as nuanced players in history. FMI hcameron@bates.edu.
Pettengill G65
7:30pm | Putting Theory Into Practice: Poverty and the Expansion of Health Care. A panel discussion with representatives from Maine Equal Justice Partners. This Harward Center series is designed to inform the community about policy topics affecting everyone and to encourage grass-roots action. FMI 207-786-6202.
Pettengill G52
13 Fri
7pm | Filmboard screening (see Oct. 6).
Olin 104
7pm | Volleyball vs. Connecticut College.
Alumni Gym
7:30pm | Gruesome Playground Injuries: Written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by Kei Ching ’18, this play is a compelling and unconventional love story, told over 30 years, about the intimacy between two people when they drop their defenses and allow their wounds to show. Suggested donation: $5. FMI bates.edu/theater/season or 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer Theatre, Black Box Theater
14 Sat
Noon | Field hockey vs. Tufts.
Campus Avenue Field
Noon | Women’s soccer vs. Tufts.
Russell Street Field
2pm | Volleyball vs. Wesleyan.
Alumni Gym
3pm | Men’s soccer vs. Tufts.
Russell Street Field
3pm | Sean Dorsey Dance: The Missing Generation. First seen at Bates during the 2015 Bates Dance Festival and created by choreographer Dorsey, who is also one of the performers, this work gives voice to longtime survivors of the early AIDS epidemic. Suggested donation: $5. FMI bates.edu/theater/season or 207-786-6161.
Schaeffer Theatre
7:30pm | Auryn Quartet: An outstanding career spanning three decades has made the Auryn Quartet one of the most sought-after and respected ensembles performing around the globe. An Olin Concert Series presentation. $15: batesconcerts.eventbrite.com. FMI 207-786-6135, olinarts@bates.edu or bates.edu/olin-concert-series.
Olin Concert Hall
7:30pm | Gruesome Playground Injuries (see Oct. 13).
Schaeffer Theatre, Black Box Theater
15 Sun
Noon | Field hockey vs. Amherst.
Campus Avenue Field
Noon | Women’s soccer vs. Amherst.
Russell Street Field
3pm | Men’s soccer vs. Amherst.
Russell Street Field
7:30pm | Gruesome Playground Injuries (see Oct. 13).
Schaeffer Theatre, Black Box Theater
21 Sat
8am | Men’s tennis: Wallach Tournament.
Wallach Tennis Center (rain site: Merrill Gym)
Noon | Field hockey vs. Middlebury.
Campus Avenue Field
Noon | Women’s soccer vs. Middlebury.
Russell Street Field
1pm | Football vs. Middlebury.
Garcelon Field
1pm | United Nations Day: Celebrating the Sustainable Development Goals. In anticipation of United Nations Day on Oct. 24, four Maine educational leaders are honored for work related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal No. 4: Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education. The honorees are Ekhlas Ahmed, “Make it Happen” site coordinator for Portland’s public schools; Kristie Clark, principal of Longley School, Lewiston; Martha Kempe, head of schools at the Wayfinder Schools, Camden; and Claude Rwaganje, director of community financial literacy, Portland. FMI kcloutie@bates.edu.
Olin Concert Hall
2pm | Men’s soccer vs. Middlebury.
Russell Street Field
22 Sun
8am | Men’s tennis: Wallach Tournament.
Wallach Tennis Center (rain site: Merrill Gym)
23 Mon
7:30pm | How to Be an Antiracist: A talk by Ibram X. Kendi, professor of history and international relations and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Sponsored by the Office of Equity and Diversity. FMI 207-786-6031.
Gomes Chapel
24 Tue
3pm | Women’s soccer vs. Colby.
Russell Street Field
7pm | Volleyball vs. St. Joseph’s College.
Alumni Gym
25 Wed
Noon | Public Works in Progress (see Oct. 11).
Commons 221–222
7:30pm | Frank Carlberg and Our Big Band: The Olin Concert Series welcomes jazz pianist Frank Carlberg back for a concert of music featured on his newest CD, the Thelonious Monk tribute Monk Dreams, Hallucinations and Nightmares. $15: batesconcerts.eventbrite.com. FMI 207-786-6135, olinarts@bates.edu or bates.edu/olin-concert-series.
Olin Concert Hall
7:30pm | Putting Theory Into Practice: Public Health: With Hilary Schneider ’96, Maine government relations director of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network; and Erin Guay, executive director, Healthy Androscoggin. This Harward Center series is designed to inform the community about policy topics affecting everyone and to encourage grass-roots action. FMI 207-786-6202.
Pettengill G52
26 Thu
4:15pm | Saving Our Mothers From Hell: Gesar, Mulian and the ‘Good Buddhist.’ A talk by Texas State University professor Natasha L. Mikles, whose work considers the portrayal of Buddhist hells in epic and popular narratives at the Sino-Tibetan frontier, and who is considered America’s foremost scholar on the Tibetan Gesar epic. FMI amelnick@bates.edu.
Pettengill G21
6:30pm | Literary Arts Live: Jason Ockert, fiction writer. A reading and conversation with Ockert, the award-winning author of Wasp Box, Neighbors of Nothing and Rabbit Punches. Book sales and signing follow the event. FMI janthony@bates.edu.
Pettengill G52
7pm | Purposeful Work Unplugged: Garth Timoll ’99. A conversation with Timoll, managing director at Top Tier Capital Partners and a Bates trustee. This is the latest in a series of Q&As with alumni, faculty and friends about career trajectories and traits that support meaningful work. FMI 207-786-6128.
Commons, Fireplace Lounge
27 Fri
6pm | Gallery talk and exhibition opening: Sculptor Rona Pondick and painter Robert Feintuch, a longtime member of the Bates art faculty, share interests in making work that uses the body to pursue psychologically suggestive meanings. Their gallery talk introduces their joint exhibition, Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying (see below). Reception in the Museum of Art follows. FMI bates.edu/museum, 207-786-6158 or museum@bates.edu.
Museum of Art
7pm | Filmboard screening (see Oct. 6).
Olin 104
28 Sat
8pm | Richard Goode, pianist. Goode, hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, is acknowledged worldwide as one of the leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. An Olin Concert Series presentation. $25: batesconcerts.eventbrite.com. FMI 207-786-6135, olinarts@bates.edu or bates.edu/olin-concert-series.
Olin Concert Hall
30 Mon
7pm | Tournées Film Festival: A peine j’ouvre les yeux. This six-part French and francophone festival opens with Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid’s powerful debut. Not only a striking portrait of a woman on the cusp of adulthood, the film is an insightful, complex look at life under a repressive political regime, with its compromises, commitments and corrosive effects on relationships. (2010; 142 min.; English subtitles). A reception opens the festival at 6:30 p.m. FMI bates.edu/french/ffs-events or 207-786-8239.
Olin 104
31 Tue
4:15pm | Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction: A talk by Joseph Rouse, author of four books and a member of the philosophy department and the interdisciplinary Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University. Sponsored by the philosophy department. FMI jbelive2@bates.edu.
Hedge 208
Museum of Art
bates.edu/museum
museum@bates.edu
Through Oct. 7
Kate Gilmore: In Your Way. Gilmore ’97 presents nine performance-based videos and one live performance / sculptural installation. Her videos focus on women, including herself, wearing stereotypically feminine apparel while performing difficult labor-intensive tasks.
At Home and Abroad: Works from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection. This pioneering modernist began and ended his life in Maine. Drawn from Bates’ collection of Hartley works and his own collection of objects, photographs and ephemera, as well as loaned works, the exhibition explores his itinerant life and astonishing creativity.
Oct. 27, 2017–March 23, 2018
Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying. A couple since the mid-1970s, sculptor Rona Pondick and painter Robert Feintuch share interests in making work that uses the body to pursue psychologically suggestive meanings: Both believe that the body speaks. This remarkable exhibition, the first substantial exhibition of both their work together, includes sculptures and prints by Pondick and paintings by Feintuch, who is a senior lecturer in art and visual culture at Bates. After Bates, the exhibition travels to several U.S. museums.