Here is a preview of public events for April 2010. Click “Print this post” at the bottom of the page for a version especially formatted for printing.<\/p>\n
For up-to-date information throughout the month, see our Upcoming Events<\/a> list.<\/p>\n Except as noted, these events are open to the public at no charge.<\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>Concert: In celebration of his 60th birthday, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music William Matthews performs new music for piano, computer, flute and video in a program featuring faculty pianist Chiharu Naruse. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 2:30pm <\/strong>Mount David Summit: Bates\u2019 annual celebration of student achievement highlights research, creative work, projects conducted in the context of academic courses and community-based learning. Sponsored by the Dean of the Faculty\u2019s office and the Student Research Program. Learn more<\/a>. Pettengill Hall; New Commons Building; Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater<\/em><\/p>\n 3pm <\/strong>Baseball vs. Tufts. Leahey Field<\/em><\/p>\n 7 & 9pm <\/strong>Film: A title TBA. Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. Olin Arts Center, Room 104<\/em><\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>Dance performance: Presented in two programs, the Bates College Modern Dance Company performs new works<\/a>. Tonight: Program A. Admission: $6\/$3. For more information call 207-786-6135. Schaeffer Theatre<\/em><\/p>\n 8pm <\/strong>Concert<\/a>: The Bates College Choir, conducted by John Corrie, performs Mozart\u2019s Requiem<\/em> and other works. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 10am <\/strong>Men’s tennis vs. Middlebury. Wallach Tennis Center<\/em><\/p>\n Noon <\/strong>Baseball vs. Tufts (doubleheader). Leahey Field<\/em><\/p>\n 1pm <\/strong>Men’s lacrosse vs. Amherst. Campus Avenue Field<\/em><\/p>\n 1:30pm <\/strong>Forum: Jobs and the Clean Energy Race<\/em>. This forum<\/a> is an opportunity to learn about and discuss Maine\u2019s clean energy future with a panel of elected officials, business leaders and other community leaders. For more information contact this mcohen@bates.edu<\/a>. Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)<\/em><\/p>\n 2 & 7pm <\/strong>Film: A title TBA.<\/em> Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. Olin Arts Center, Room 104<\/em><\/p>\n 4pm <\/strong>Women’s tennis vs. Tufts. Wallach Tennis Center<\/em><\/p>\n 5pm <\/strong>Dance performance: Bates College Modern Dance Company<\/a>, Program B (see April 2).\u00a0Schaeffer Theatre<\/em><\/p>\n 8pm <\/strong>Concert<\/a>: Bates College Choir (see April 2). Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 2pm <\/strong>Dance performance: Bates College Modern Dance Company<\/a>, Program A (see April 2 listing).\u00a0Schaeffer Theatre<\/em><\/p>\n 2 & 4:30pm <\/strong>Film: A title TBA.<\/em> Sponsored by the Filmboard. Admission: $1. Olin Arts Center, Room 104<\/em><\/p>\n 5:30pm <\/strong>Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service, incorporating music and liturgy from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant sources. All are welcome. For more information call 207-786-8272. Chase Hall Lounge<\/em><\/p>\n 3:30pm <\/strong>Presentation: A Fork in the Road on Nuclear Weapons: Which Path to Security?<\/em> by retired Col. Richard Klaff, a 22-year U.S. Air Force veteran, and Dr. Ira Helsant of the organization Physicians for Social Responsibility, which sponsors this event. The pair offers medical and military perspectives on the role of nuclear weapons in national security policy. A question-and-answer session follows. For more information visit psrmaine.org<\/a> or call 207-841-5291. Chase Hall Lounge<\/em><\/p>\n 4:15pm <\/strong>Language Arts Live: Bates’ series of literary presentations offers a reading<\/a> by novelist, writer and critic Paul LaFarge, author of The Facts of Winter<\/em> (McSweeney\u2019s Books, 2005). Sponsored by the English department, the John Tagliabue Fund for Poetry and the Learning Associates Program. For more information, contact\u00a0this eosucha@bates.edu<\/a>. Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge<\/em><\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>Dance performance: Bates College Modern Dance Company<\/a>, Program B (see April 2 listing).\u00a0Schaeffer Theatre<\/em><\/p>\n 12:30pm <\/strong>Noonday Concert: Voice students of John Corrie, lecturer in music. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 4pm <\/strong>Softball vs. Husson (doubleheader). Lafayette Street Field<\/em><\/p>\n 2pm <\/strong>Lecture: Accounting for China\u2019s Growth<\/em>, a talk examining the sources and implications of China’s astonishing recent economic growth by Loren Brandt, a University of Toronto economist. Sponsored by the economics department. Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)<\/em><\/p>\n 4:30pm <\/strong>Women’s lacrosse vs. Endicott. Campus Avenue Field<\/em><\/p>\n 7pm <\/strong>Men’s lacrosse vs. Tufts. Campus Avenue Field<\/em><\/p>\n 6\u20139pm<\/strong> Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art. Artists, bring drawing board and supplies! Easels provided. Admission: $7 (free for Bates students). Olin Arts Center, Room 259<\/em><\/p>\n 7pm <\/strong>Concert: Bates College Jazz Band, directed by Tom Snow. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>Voice and speech performance: Students in Katalin Vecsey\u2019s course in voice and speech perform their final project. No reservations. For more information call 207-786-6135. Gannett Theater<\/em><\/p>\n 7pm <\/strong>Concert: Work by students in a course that explores making music with computers. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall <\/em><\/p>\n 9, 10 and 11am <\/strong>Kinderkonzert: The Portland Symphony Orchestra\u2019s Woodwinds Quintet presents Aesop\u2019s Fables<\/em>. Sponsored by the PSO. For more information contact 207-773-6128, ext. 308 or this hklenow@portlandsymphony.com<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 4:15pm <\/strong>Concert: Recital by voice students of Bonnie Scarpelli. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>Lecture: Paris Under Water: How The City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910<\/em> by Jeffrey H. Jackson, associate professor of history and director of the Environmental Studies program at Rhodes College. Sponsored by the religious studies department. Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52)<\/em><\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>Concert: Bates College Steel Pan Orchestra. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 4pm <\/strong>Women’s tennis vs. Connecticut College. Wallach Tennis Center<\/em><\/p>\n 4:30pm <\/strong>Softball vs. Tufts. Lafayette Street Field<\/em><\/p>\n 6pm <\/strong>Exhibition opening<\/a>: A reception opens the annual Senior Exhibition, featuring work by 16 studio art majors. For more information call 207-786-6158. Bates College Museum of Art<\/em><\/p>\n 6:15pm <\/strong>Presentation: Frank Glazer: Fountain of Youth<\/em> by Duncan Cumming ’93. Cumming, once a student of Glazer’s and now a music faculty member at the University of Albany, talks about his mentor in this event preceding Glazer’s final entry in a season-long review of the complete Beethoven sonatas. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>Concert: Pianist Frank Glazer, artist in residence, concludes his season-long review<\/a> of the complete Beethoven sonatas. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>Performance: Students from William Pope.L’s course in 1970s and ’80s avant-garde performance art perform their final projects. Free; no reservations. For more information call 207-786-6135. Pettigrew Hall, Black Box Theater<\/em><\/p>\n 10am <\/strong>Women’s tennis vs. Amherst. Wallach Tennis Center<\/em><\/p>\n Noon <\/strong>Softball vs. Tufts (doubleheader). Lafayette Street Field<\/em><\/p>\n Noon <\/strong>Women’s lacrosse vs. Connecticut College. Campus Avenue Field<\/em><\/p>\n 4pm <\/strong>Men’s tennis vs. Amherst. Wallach Tennis Center<\/em><\/p>\n 10am <\/strong>Men’s tennis vs. Connecticut College. Wallach Tennis Center<\/em><\/p>\n 3pm <\/strong>Concert: Piano recital by seniors Vanessa Truglio and Sarah Vigne. For more information call 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 5:30pm <\/strong>Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service (see April 4). Chase Hall Lounge<\/em><\/p>\n 6\u20139pm <\/strong>Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art (see April 7). Olin Arts Center, Room 259<\/em><\/p>\n 9am <\/strong>Men’s and women’s rowing host CBB President’s Cup. Bates Rowing House, Greene<\/em><\/p>\n 10am <\/strong>Men’s and women’s tennis vs. Hamilton. Wallach Tennis Center<\/em><\/p>\n 11am <\/strong>Women’s lacrosse vs. Colorado College. Campus Avenue Field<\/em><\/p>\n 2 pm <\/strong>Softball vs. St. Joseph’s (doubleheader). Lafayette Street Field<\/em><\/p>\n 5:30pm <\/strong>Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service (see April 4). Chase Hall Lounge<\/em><\/p>\n 1pm <\/strong>Baseball vs. Maine-Presque Isle (doubleheader). Leahey Field<\/em><\/p>\n 3pm <\/strong>Baseball vs. Colby. Leahey Field<\/em><\/p>\n 4pm <\/strong>Softball vs. Colby. Lafayette Street Field<\/em><\/p>\n 2pm <\/strong>Women’s lacrosse vs. Trinity. Campus Avenue Field<\/em><\/p>\n 3pm <\/strong>Concert: A program by violinist Mary Hunter, cellist Steve Witkin and pianist James Parakilas, James L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts. For more information call 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 5:30pm <\/strong>Spiritual gathering: Protestant worship service (see April 4). Chase Hall Lounge<\/em><\/p>\n 12:30pm <\/strong>Noonday Concert: Pianist Frank Glazer, artist in residence. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this\u00a0olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall<\/em><\/p>\n 7pm <\/strong>Women’s lacrosse vs. Bowdoin. Campus Avenue Field<\/em><\/p>\n 3:30pm <\/strong>Softball vs. Southern Maine (doubleheader). Lafayette Street Field<\/em><\/p>\n 6\u20139pm <\/strong>Figure drawing sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art (see April 7). Olin Arts Center, Room 259<\/em><\/p>\n 4pm <\/strong>Men’s lacrosse vs. Colby. Campus Avenue Field<\/em><\/p>\n 3pm <\/strong>Contradance: This “alternative contradance” offers traditional dancing to great modern bands. No experience needed; all dances taught and called. Beginners workshop at 7:30pm. Admission: $8\/$5. Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society. Chase Hall Lounge<\/em><\/p>\n Barlow Off-Campus Study Photo Exhibit<\/em>: Photographs reveal the academic and immersion aspects of Bates students’ study-abroad experiences. Pettengill Hall, Perry Atrium<\/em><\/p>\n Bates College Museum of Art<\/strong><\/p>\n Museum hours: 10am\u20135pm Tuesday\u2013Saturday<\/p>\nThursday, April 1<\/h3>\n
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Exhibits<\/h3>\n
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April 9-May 30<\/h4>\n