Stories about "Bates values"

A peek behind the curtain (Ep. 1): Contents of a costume shop
Friday, January 27, 2023 9:00 am
Step into the costume shop, ground zero for the many costumes in the Bates Theater Department's upcoming production of "Much Ado About Nothing" in the first "peek behind the curtain" of the production process.

‘Art & Activism’: The story behind this year’s two MLK Day posters
Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:49 am
Two distinctive posters for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates celebrates the idea that "the history of MLK is beautiful," says Olivia Orr, the graphic designer who created the posters. "We're allowed to be joyful and artistic and expressive.”

Color these Bates students grateful
Friday, December 2, 2022 10:19 am
Bates students held their own version of a paint and sip night at the Ronj to paint postcards to express gratitude to someone special in their lives

Video: ‘Really cool outfits out of trash’
Friday, December 2, 2022 10:03 am
Watch Bobcats strut their stuff during the annual Trashion Show, where students model outfits designed by fellow students and made from campus trash.

They don’t call it a trash can’t: Can-do students model fashion created from campus trash
Friday, November 18, 2022 9:59 am
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” as the proverb goes, and students took it to heart — and to the runway — during the 16th annual Trashion Show, and the first in-person edition since 2019.

Video: Learning life lessons in the Bates Garden
Friday, November 11, 2022 12:41 pm
“Some days you show up and everything you've planted has been eaten by groundhogs," says Nimco Jama '25, who tended the Bates Garden ove the summer. "That teaches you a lot about facing day-to-day challenges!
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Q&A: Navigating your ballot and what’s at stake in the 2022 midterms, with Jenna Dela Cruz Vendil ’06
Friday, November 4, 2022 10:46 am
Whether it’s your first time voting or you still think Dewey defeated Truman, you might have ballot questions.

Slideshow: Dionysus comes to Main Street America with ‘Hurricane Diane’
Friday, November 4, 2022 8:46 am
In directing a play with a message about climate change, Kush Sharma '23 explains how theater can be a way for people to feel they can "be part of change."

Bates receives $500,000 grant to fund major arts and technology project
Friday, October 28, 2022 8:46 am
A new Immersive Media Studio — a focal point of a major new arts and technology project funded by a $500,000 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation — will be a magnet pulling everyone from scientists to playwrights into collaboration.

‘An intention to do better’: Reparative gestures and nature meet in Carolyn Finney’s Otis Lecture
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:44 am
Environmental history is too often written without acknowledging the presence, passion, and stories of the Black people in it, and storyteller and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney aims to change that.