{"id":104663,"date":"2016-12-02T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=104663"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:08:17","slug":"bates-at-night-a-refuge-of-silence-called-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/02\/bates-at-night-a-refuge-of-silence-called-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates at Night: A respite called {Pause}"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\n\t
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Jackson Whitehouse '17 of Cleveland, Ohio, plays the guitar during Pause on Nov. 30.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Multifaith fellow Denali Nalamalapu '17 of Falmouth, Maine, reads the Jorge Luis Borges poem \"Boast of Quietness.\"<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Students gather by candlelight in the Gomes Chapel on Nov. 30 2016 for Pause.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Even as the academic intensity increases heading into the end of the semester, students can rely on one constant. Every Wednesday evening in the Gomes Chapel throughout the semester, students gather by candlelight for {Pause}, a secular service of music, poetry, silence, dance, and art.<\/p>\n

The service runs about half an hour, beginning and ending with the playing of a crystal singing bowl, a traditional Eastern meditation aid whose sound reverberates throughout the chapel. In between, students offer readings, songs, or dance. \u201cYou get to sit back in the middle of the week in a candlelit chapel and just be,\u201d said Denali Nalamalapu \u201917 of Falmouth, Maine.<\/p>\n

Nalamalapu first attended {Pause} as a sophomore, and now, as a Multifaith Fellow, produces the programming every week. During the Nov. 30 gathering, she read the Jorge Luis Borges poem “Boast of Quietness,” which opens the novel Inheritance of Loss<\/em>\u00a0that she is studying for literature thesis.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s nice to be able to literally just take a pause and be in silence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThere are so many demands on Bates students and schedules are usually full to the brim,\u201d said Multifaith Chaplain Brittany Longsdorf. \u201cWe hope {Pause} can create a moment of quiet respite in the week.”<\/p>\n

Jackson Whitehouse \u201917 of Cleveland, Ohio, played several acoustic guitar pieces on Wednesday, yet he was quick to highlight the restorative absence of sound during {Pause}.<\/p>\n

\u201cSilence is a very important thing,\u201d he said, noting the 30 pages of writing soon due for class. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to be able to literally just take a pause and be in silence with a bunch of other people who are just decompressing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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