{"id":31834,"date":"1997-09-11T15:10:10","date_gmt":"1997-09-11T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=31834"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:35:02","slug":"parents-weekend97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1997\/09\/11\/parents-weekend97\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates celebrates Parents and Families Weekend September 26-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College will celebrate &#8220;Parents and Families Weekend&#8221; Sept. 26 &#8211; Sept. 28 with many on-campus events for students and their parents, alumni and Bates employees. The following events are open to the public:<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY, SEPT. 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Exhibit: Alex Grey&#8217;s <em>Numinous Flesh<\/em>, 10 a.m. &#8211; 5 p.m. in the Olin Museum of Art. Free.<\/li>\n<li>Theater at Bates will stage the world premiere of Carolyn Gage&#8217;s <em>The Ugly Ducklings<\/em> at 6 p.m. in Gannett Theater. The drama is about the destructive effects of homophobia on girls and young women. Tickets are $2 for general admission and may be purchased at the box office. For reservations and additional ticket information, call the box office at 207- 786-6161.<\/li>\n<li>The Bates College Modern Dance Company in Concert at 8 p.m. in Schaeffer Theatre. Free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY, SEPT. 27 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Exhibit: Alex Grey&#8217;s <em>Numinous Flesh<\/em>, 10 a.m. &#8211; 5 p.m. in the Olin Museum of Art. Free.<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s soccer vs. Tufts, 11 a.m. at Leahey Field. Free.<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s soccer vs. Tufts, noon at Lafayette Street Field. Free.<\/li>\n<li>Field hockey vs. Tufts, noon at Russell Street Field. Free.<\/li>\n<li>Football vs. Tufts, 1:30 p.m. at Garcelon Field. Free.<\/li>\n<li>Theater at Bates stages Carolyn Gage&#8217;s <em>The Ugly Ducklings<\/em> at 6 p.m. in Gannett Theater. The drama is about the destructive effects of homophobia on girls and young women. Tickets are $2 for general admission and may be purchased at the box office. For reservations and additional ticket information, call the box office at 207-786-6161.<\/li>\n<li>The Bates College Modern Dance Company in Concert at 8 p.m. in Schaeffer Theatre. Free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY, SEPT. 28 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Exhibit: Alex Grey&#8217;s <em>Numinous Flesh<\/em>, 1 p.m. &#8211; 5 p.m. in the Olin Museum of Art. Free.<\/li>\n<li>Theater at Bates stages Carolyn Gage&#8217;s <em>The Ugly Duckling<\/em> at 2 p.m. in Gannett Theater. The drama is about the destructive effects of homophobia on girls and young women. Tickets are $2 for general admission and may be purchased at the box office. For reservations and additional ticket information, call the box office at 207-786-6161.<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s Soccer vs. Babson, 2 p.m. at Lafayette Street Field. Free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College will celebrate &#8220;Parents and Families Weekend&#8221; Sept. 26 &#8211; Sept. 28 with many on-campus events for students and their parents, alumni and Bates employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,24,39],"tags":[6135,6763,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-31834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-athletics","category-event-highlights","tag-music-tag","tag-parents-families-weekend","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92052,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31834\/revisions\/92052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}