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MORE OF THE ARTS AT BATES

The arts at Bates radiate well beyond their vibrant center within the academic departments and the Olin Arts Center.

Reflecting the College’s essential interest in enabling students to bring their best ideas to fruition, students have a vigorous and unencumbered role in Bates arts.

The Chase Hall Committee is a powerhous e among student arts organizations, offering the best in cutting-edge performance, from comedians to magicians to such musical icons as Snoop Dogg, The Roots and Gogol Bordello. The CHC also has an eye for new talent: Joan Baez came in 1961, just before her second album went gold, and an ascendant Dave Mat-thews Band played Bates in 1995.

The work of the CHC is supported by the Student Activities Office, whose own Village Club Series for the campus community showcases emerging comics and singer-songwriters from across the musical spectrum. The Freewill Folk Society hosts monthly contradances (a tradi-tional social dance form distinctive to the Northeast) and folk concerts.

The Robinson Players are among the nation’s oldest student-run theater organizations. Work-ing closely with the theater department, this prolific troupe’s offerings run from traditional musicals to avant-garde one-acts.

Under the aegis of the Art Commons, young artists, musicians and stage performers hone their craft in the wide-open spaces of Chase Hall’s Memorial Commons. Print and Web pub-lications provide other avenues for expression and reflection: SEED Magazine is a venue for creative work in word and image, while The Garnet has been the student literary magazine since 1922. New in 2009 was Blonde, dedicated to photography made by Bates people.

Also presenting pop, rock and roots performances is the student-run radio station, WRBC-FM, whose on-air presence is a creative outlet for both Bates people and local residents — forging an important link with the Lewiston-Auburn community. Learn more: bit.ly/facebook-wrbc

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The arts are a vital, dynamic daily presence at Bates

— intense, rigorous, messy, energetic and utterly trans-

formative, like all the best education. As Bates faculty,

staff and students insisted in our recent strategic plan,

Choices for Bates, Bates’ arts programs give students in

both study and performance a wide array of learning

experiences that are at once individual and collaborative.

The public benefits too, through our full annual program

of performances in which our students, our talented fac-

ulty and outstanding performers from around the world

showcase the vitality of the arts at Bates.

— Elaine Tuttle Hansen, President, Bates College

Welcome to the Arts at Bates!Where better to experience the excitement, the creativity and the transformative power of the arts than in an academic community such as Bates?

Rich in people and programs devoted to the practice and understanding of the arts, Bates presents each year a vital array of opportunities to create, contemplate, critique and applaud the arts in all their diversity.

Many of our students could have attended institutes or conservatories devoted solely to their preferred art form. But instead they came to Bates — drawn in by the liberal arts mission, a view of study, performance and art-making that strives to put an artistic life into a larger context.

Having had the good fortune to experience the arts at Bates for 20 years, I now perceive the College and community as a landscape of cherished memories, a constellation of venues that call me, in great anticipation, back each season:

• Skelton Lounge, where I attended poetry and fiction readings (one of which ended with the audience crouched on the floor for a mini puppet show) that provided me a summer’s worth of spectacular reading.

• Lake Andrews, where in 2007 the Bates Dance Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary with Paradise Pond, a stunning site-specific work by PearsonWidrig DanceTheater.

• The Chapel, where at a Multifaith Chaplaincy event, I was transported by a spectacular rendition of “The Flower Duet” from Léo Delibes’s opera Lakmé. One of the performers was a student of mine whose amazing musical talent had remained, until that moment, unknown to me.

• A raucous Schaeffer Theatre on Asia Night where a largely “unofficial” arts community performed a loudly cheered repertoire culminating with a stage full of Bollywood wannabes leaping, shimmying and gyrating away in the much-anticipated finale.

• A room in Pettengill Hall where honors student Emily Monty ’10, with enviable aplomb, defended her thesis on Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti’s bronze doors at the Baptistery in Florence, Italy.

• Gannett Theater, where students I pass at the gym or in Commons re-enacted murderous scenes from the Greek tragedy Alcestis, wearing costumes by an immensely talented student of mine.

Such is the map of just one person’s experience of the arts at Bates. And I am happy to say that it’s woefully inadequate to describe the full spectrum of spaces and events hereabouts where the arts thrive.

Many of those opportunities appear in this publication. Many more will soon appear as determined by the vibrant academic agendas that a liberal arts campus such as Bates continues to imagine, day to day, semester to semester, and year to year.

Kirk ReadChair, Bates Arts CollaborativeAssociate Professor of French

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cPlan to Attend Listed concerts take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston.

See a complete schedule: www.bates.edu/musicconcerts

Ticket prices list [general public] / [seniors and students]. Purchase seats for ticketed events: www.batestickets.com

OCTOBEROct. 1Ethan Lipton and His OrchestraFriday at 7:30pmLikened to a “peek into a curio shop from a hundred years ago” by the Village Voice, songwriter and playwright Ethan Lipton offers jazzy, musically spare, conversationally scripted songs about bicycles, life, death, guilt and pets. $10

Oct. 3Naomi Shelton and The Gospel QueensSunday at 7:30pmThis highly acclaimed Brooklyn-based band brings a soulful, gritty blend of gospel and R&B to the Olin Arts Center. The Bates Gospelaires, a student ensemble, open. Learn more:

www.daptonerecords.com/naom-ishelton.html$16/$8

Oct. 6Ensemble 415Wednesday at 7:30pmViolinist Chiara Banchini leads this award-winning European early mu-sic ensemble in a program of cham-ber works and concerti of Tomaso Albinoni, Georg Muffat, Giovanni Albicastro and J. S. Bach.Learn more:

www.ensemble415.org$12/$6

Oct. 17Avishai Cohen’s AuroraSunday at 7:30pmAfter an amazing performance at Bates in 2008, Israeli bassist Cohen returns to the Olin Arts Center with his highly personal Aurora project. Complementing Cohen’s playing,

Vega, Germany’s Auryn String Quartet, jazz visionaries Vijay Iyer and Pat Martino, and Wu Man, a virtuoso on China’s stringed pipa.

international renown, performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas in 2009–2010. Guest artists have included songwriter Suzanne

THERE IS A WORLD OF MUSIC AT BATES. MUSIC DEPARTMENT

ENSEMBLES INCLUDE A CONCERT CHOIR, A FULL ORCHESTRA, A

FIDDLE BAND, A JAZZ BAND, THE STEEL PAN ORCHESTRA AND

THE DISTINCTIVE GAMELAN ORCHESTRA.

Bates’ vibrant music commu-nity is diverse and encompassing. Student and faculty musicians and acclaimed guest artists of-fer more than 150 presenta-tions and performances at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall during the academic year.

Bates students study Western and non-Western, classical and popular traditions. Department ensembles include a concert choir, the Bates College Orchestra, a fiddle band, a jazz band, the Carib-bean-flavored Steel Pan Orchestra and Bates’ distinctive Gamelan Orchestra. The department offers one-on-one instruction in instru-mental and vocal performance.

Concerts reflect the local com-munity and the world. Artist-in-residence Frank Glazer, a pianist of

The dancer Ening Rumbini and other guests join the Bates College Gamelan Orchestra in a 2009 concert.

Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens perform at Bates in October.

singing and composing are vocalist Karen Malka, percussionist Itmar Doari and oudist Amos Hoffman. Learn more: www.avishaimusic.com$12/$6 NOVEMBERNov. 13The Bates and Bowdoin College Orchestra With Pianist Frank GlazerSaturday at 7:30pmFor the second consecutive season, the orchestras of Bates and Bowdoin colleges combine forces for a con-cert at each institution. Conducted by Hiroya Miura of the Bates fac-ulty, the program’s featured work is Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, with world-renowned pianist Frank Glazer as soloist.Free admission, but tickets required

Nov. 14Chamber Music Society of Lincoln CenterSunday at 7:30pmThe quartet of pianists Gil Kalish

and Wu Han and percussionists Daniel Druckman and Ayano Kata-oka offer a program of works by a perfect combination of composers:

CONCERTS REFLECT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD. Guest artists have included songwriter Suzanne Vega (above),

Germany’s Auryn String Quartet, jazz visionaries Vijay Iyer and

Pat Martino, and Wu Man, a virtuoso on China’s stringed pipa.

Performing with the Bates College Orchestra, Sophia Budianto ’09 performs the flute solo in Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

Béla Bartók and George Crumb. They share fascinations with folk song, arresting harmonies and unique sounds, but diverge in ways — Bartók’s craggy, striking-ly etched aesthetic and Crumb’s magical, unearthly musical vision — that create a journey like no other. www.chambermusicsociety.org/ $12/$6

DECEMBERDec. 3–4Bates College Choir Friday–Saturday at 8pmConductor John Corrie leads the choir in a selection of opera cho-ruses ranging from the famed and familiar to masterpieces deserving more attention. As always in the Bates choir, student soloists are selected by audition.Free admission, but tickets required

Dec. 8 Bates College Jazz BandWednesday at 7pmLed by jazz pianist Thomas Snow, student vocalists and instrumental soloists are featured in a program mixing big-band and small combo settings and musical styles such as bossa nova, funk, classic swing and standards.Free admission, but tickets required

COREY

HARRIS ‘91

Roots musician

Corey Harris ‘91

starred in the

PBS documentary

The Blues and

received a

MacArthur

“genius grant.”

During a 2008

Bates residency,

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both the passion

that electrifies

his music and the

intellectual un-

derpinnings that

make it endure.

He calls it “dias-

pora rock,” and

it’s a passport

of sorts. “I can

travel with it,”

he says, yet still

feel at home.

P R O F I L E

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es The Department of Theater and the student-run Robinson Players (see inside back cover) stage more than a dozen plays and perfor-mance events in our three theaters each year. Our productions run the gamut from Greek tragedy to nar-rative film; from contemporary per-formance art to Shakespeare; from Moliere to new American drama.

Recent productions have in-cluded All the World’s a Grave, a “new Shakespeare play” by John Reed; the Pulitzer Prize-winning You Can’t Take It With You; and the Greek tragedy Alcestis, in the translation-adaptation by noted British poet Ted Hughes. Theater faculty are known for their work in the community as playwrights and filmmakers.

Students act, direct, write plays and make movies. They design scenery and lighting. They work in our shops to build sets and design and sew costumes. Meanwhile, they receive a first-rate liberal arts education as they combine criti-cal thinking with creative activity in learning the history, theory, and practice of performance.

Students can major in theater with a thesis project in narrative film-making. Courses in screenwriting and in acting and directing for the camera are offered on the Bates campus, and students can study away with industry professionals at the Maine Media Workshop and in London and Prague.

Plan to Attend Performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre and the Black Box Theater, and in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall — all at 305 College St.

See a complete schedule of theater department produc-tions: www.batestickets.com

Except as noted, admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for senior citizens and non-Bates students.

Purchase tickets: www.batestickets.com

For more informtion: 207-786-6161 • bit.ly/facebook-theater-dance

OCTOBEROct. 15–17Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-AbaireFriday and Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2pmFor her independent study, Michelle Schloss ’12 directs this story of

an amnesiac who awakens each morning as a blank slate on which her husband and teenage son must re-imprint the facts of her life — but one morning turns out to be different for the family.Free, no reservationsBlack Box Theater

NOVEMBERNov. 5–8Hotel Universe by Philip BarryFriday at 7:30pm; Saturday at 2 and 7:30pm; Sunday at 2pm; Monday at 7:30pmProfessor of Theater Paul Kuritz di-rects this “arch, witty and delight-ful” American comedy of manners by the author of the sparkling film classic, The Philadelphia Story.

Indiana University drama profes-sor W. J. Meserve ’45 calls Barry “a meticulous craftsman and stylist in language,” while The New York Times described the play as “fun to watch.”Gannett Theater

Nov. 18Directing-Class ProjectsThursday at 7:30pmPlays from FUSION Theatre Com-pany of Albuquerque, N.M., “the most polished theater in town,” founded by Dennis Gromelski ’88. Directed by students in Professor Paul Kuritz’s directing class.Free, no reservationsGannett Theater

DECEMBER Dec. 8Voice and Speech PerformanceWednesday at 7:30pmStudents in Katalin Vecsey’s voice and speech course perform their final project.Free, no reservationsGannett Theater

Dec. 9Directing-Class ProjectsThursday at 7:30pmSee Nov. 18.Free, no reservationsSchaeffer Theatre

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P R O F I L E

SULOCHANA DISSANAYAKE ‘09

A Sri Lankan native, Sulo Dissanayake directed nine

plays at Bates — including a mainstage produc-

tion, usually reserved for a theater professor. The

faculty, she says, offers an “intellectual freedom

that makes you realize your potential.” A Watson

Fellowship enabled Dissanayake to study theater in

South Africa and Indonesia. For her, all the world

truly is a stage.

Caroline Servat ’10 performs a solo scene from Neil LaBute’s Bash, a 2010 production directed by Katalin Vecsey, lecturer in theater and the college’s vocal coach.

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PERFORMANCES, COURSES AND THE CELEBRATED BATES DANCE FESTIVAL MAKE DANCE A

FOUR-SEASON ENDEAVOR AT BATES, AS WE AIM TO REFLECT A BROAD UNDERSTANDING

OF ART AND CULTURE THROUGH THIS DYNAMIC MEDIUM.

A dancer leaps during a Bates College Modern Dance Company performance.

ALISSA HOROWITZ ‘08

Now teaching in New York, Alissa Horowitz

ran with the dance resources Bates offered.

Her senior thesis explored dance as a form

of polit ical protest, culminating with campus

performances captured on video. “My pas-

sion for the project came on like a tidal wave,

knocking everything else out of the way and

absorbing me completely,” she says.

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Dance at Bates is a four-season activity, feeding student passion for dance with academic courses and performing opportunities during the school year and with professional training during the summer at the Bates Dance Festival (described at right). Through studio workshops or fully mounted stage performances, dancers and specta-tors experience the excitement of dance as a dynamic process of exploration and discovery. Within the Department of Theater and Rhetoric, Bates offers a vibrant minor in dance, integrating theory and practice to achieve an under-standing of art and culture through this discipline. We encourage choreographic exploration through original student work, while frequent visits from guest artists help us develop and perform an evolving contemporary repertory. Whether as a focus of academic study or a co-curricular way of life, Bates offers its students a wealth of opportunities in dance.

Plan to Attend Most dance program and Bates Dance Fes-tival performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

For more information: 207-786-6161 • www.bates.edu/DANC.xml

OCTOBEROct. 9–10Modern Dance Company: Parents & Family Weekend ConcertFriday and Saturday at noonThis Parents & Family Weekend concert features choreography by Bates faculty and students.Free, no reservationsSchaeffer Theatre

NOVEMBERNov. 13–15Bates College Modern Dance CompanySaturday at 5pm; Sunday at 2pm; Monday at 7:30pmWorks by Monica Bill Barnes and others are performed by students in Dance Repertory Performance. Advanced Jazz Repertory students do a piece by Maine’s Debi Irons. Schaeffer Theatre$6/$3

THE BATES DANCE FESTIVAL The Bates Dance Festival is a nationally recognized presenter of world-class contemporary dance. Each summer the festival brings together an international commu-nity of choreographers, performers, educators and students to study, create new work and perform.

The six-week season of public performances takes place in the intimately scaled Schaeffer Theatre. Inside Dance lectures offer insights that build audience appreciation for dance. Training programs for diverse age groups serve a total of 340 par-ticipants with diverse dance classes. The festival nurtures a cooperative atmosphere that encourages explora-tion and a creative exchange of ideas.

Over the years renowned cho-reographers such as Rennie Harris, Doug Varone and Bebe Miller have built major works at Bates that have toured inter-nationally to critical acclaim.

A typical evening at the festival includes an Inside Dance talk followed by a stunning premiere of work by an artist such as David Dorfman, Kate Weare or Liz Lerman. Also on the schedule is the popular Musicians’ Con-cert and Moving in the Moment, an evening of improvisation for the whole family. The Festival Finale showcases new works created by the faculty and per-formed by our talented students.

For more information: 207-786-6381 • dancefest@batesedu • www.batesdancefestival.org

A longtime favorite at the Bates Dance Festival, choreographer Bebe Miller brought her company to Lewiston in 2009 to perform Necessary Beauty.

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es With nearly 100 declared majors, equally divided between studio art and the history and criticism of visual culture, this is one of the largest departments at Bates.

Six faculty prepare students to work in painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking and installation art and design. Five teach courses on the visual cultures of Africa, Asia, the Islamic world, Europe and the Americas from antiquity to the contemporary world. While preparing students for careers throughout the field, we bring insight into current analyti-cal practice and studio production to the larger college curriculum.

Lectures by visiting artists and his-torians, many of them alumni, are open to the public. Speakers have included video artist Kate Gilmore ’97, Christie’s director of contem-porary art Joshua Holdeman ’93 and Helen Evans, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curator of early Christian and Byzantine art.

Plan to Attend Events spon-sored by the Department of Art and Visual Culture take place in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., and other campus locations.

They are usually open to the public at no charge.

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Emma Scott ’10 chooses a print for exhibition in the Bates College Muse-um of Art. Art and visual culture majors study history and theory in class, but also work with original objects here at Bates and in other museums. Most participate in internships at leading museums and auction houses during their college summers.

TYPICAL EVENTSAutumn events are rooted in our teaching and, in contrast to our winter schedule, are announced at short notice. Please watch the Bates College events site (home.bates.edu/views/events/) and our Face-

book fan page, bit.ly/facebook-avc, for announcements of lectures and exhibitions — including the follow-ing types of activity that are usu-ally offered at the Olin Arts Center:

Senior Thesis Open StudiosSenior majors in studio art begin working towards their April senior thesis exhibition in a fall class. They often organize open-studio

CHRISTOPHER SOKOLOWSKI ‘90

Chris Sokolowski exemplif ies the wide range of

careers open to art majors. He is a paper con-

servator at Harvard, accomplished in restor-

ing and stabil izing historic artifacts ravaged

by time and the elements. “Art conservation is

three f ields braided together — studio art, art

history and materials science,” he says. “I got

a nice introduction to all three at Bates.”

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installations to introduce their work in progress to fellow students and the public.

Class Work-In-Progress InstallationsStudents in a course often stage events and install work for public exhibition. Examples from 2009 include an installation marking the International Day of Climate Ac-

tion and A Series of Unfortunate Ideas, presented by the Visual Meaning class in the New Com-mons Building.

Artist VisitsArtists invited to work with courses frequently offer public lectures as well. Recent visitors have included graphic designer Brandy Gibbs-Riley ’96, now on faculty at Colby-Sawyer College, and accomplished video artist Kate Gilmore ’97.

Lectures By Visiting Historians and Critics: In connection with courses, and in collaboration with other programs and the Bates College Museum of Art, the department regularly hosts leading curators and other scholars who provide public lectures. These have included talks by Helen C. Evans, curator of early Christian and Byzantine art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Dorothy Glass, a professor at the Biblioteca Hertz-iana in Rome and Susan L. Ward, art historian at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Alums in the ArtsIn addition to visits by practicing artists, the department, with the Bates College Museum of Art, presents talks by graduates now working in the field. These have included Jason Goldman ’00, speaking on Beat artist Jay De-Feo; and Thomas Denenberg ’90, chief curator at Maine’s Portland Museum of Art.

Presentations by Interns and Grant AwardeesIn the course of their work at Bates, students often receive internships at auction houses and galleries and at such leading museums as Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, the Smithsonian, and in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frick Collection. These students, as well as Bates Museum of Art interns and students who have conducted independent projects off campus, describe their work in talks presented to the campus community and the public.

PREPARING STUDENTS FOR CAREERS THROUGHOUT THE ART WORLD, THE DEPARTMENT OF ART

AND VISUAL CULTURE JOINS STUDIO PRACTICE WITH STUDY IN THE HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF ART.

Studio art major Sam Guilford ’10 prepares for the annual Senior Exhibition in his Olin Arts Center studio.

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ONE FACET OF THE BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, WHERE

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EXHIBITIONS:THROUGH SEPT. 25Joseph Nicoletti: A RetrospectiveJoseph Nicoletti, who has taught at Bates since 1981, is a vital force in representational painting in Maine, a creator of gorgeous, psychologically fraught still lifes and self-portraits. This exhibi-tion features paintings and drawings from public and private collections and is accompanied by an illustrated catalog.

Visitors enjoy the opening reception for an exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art.

The premier art venue for west-central Maine and home to the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, the Bates College Museum of Art offers diverse exhibitions and educational out-reach programming that draws on the best of contemporary art and the museum collection.

A laboratory for the arts, the museum is an environment where broad audiences explore and discover synergies cre-ated by the visual arts across the academic disciplines of a liberal arts education. Museum staff work collaboratively with artists, faculty, student interns and independent scholars to conceive, plan and deliver innovative programs and relevant exhibitions.

Through its collections, exhibitions, lectures, films, studio sessions and internships, the museum offers points of entry into the investigation of art production, theory, his-tory and practice,through time and across the globe. Plan to Attend The Bates Col-lege Museum of Art is located in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. Except as noted, there is no charge for museum admission.

Hours: 10am–5pm Tuesday– Friday (until 6pm Wednesdays during the academic year).

For more information: 207-786-6158 • www.bates.edu/museum.xml • bit.ly/facebook-museum

TAKAKO YAMAGUCHI ‘75

Painter Takako Yamaguchi and her classmates

“interpreted the term ‘liberal arts’ quite literally as

a license to study dance, literature, history and the

rest of it — an exploration of the unknown,” she says.

“Painting is what I found there.” Visiting campus last

year, she says, “I was impressed by the museum and

its commitment to contemporary art. It’s a great

asset for students.”

Les Femmes du Maroc: Grand Odalisque (2008; detail), a chromogenic print

by Lalla Essaydi.

Still Life after Bellini

(2003; detail), an oil painting by

Bates lecturer in art Joseph Nicoletti.

Bacchus Changes Sailors to Dolphins (detail; 2003), a painting in gouache by Wally Reinhardt from the exhibition

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free for Bates students). Bulk-admis-ion discounts are also available.

Global Lens Film SeriesFridays and Saturdays at 8 pmOrganized by the Global Film Initiative, the series draws from cinematic talent around the planet, with an emphasis on Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Ten feature-length films constitute the 2010 series. Learn more: www.globalfilm.org/$5 (free for Bates students)Olin Arts Center, Room 105

OCTOBEROct. 9Les Femmes du Maroc: Gallery Talk and Opening ReceptionSaturday at 3:30pmExhibition curator Nick Capasso of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park discusses Lalla Es-saydi and the exhibition. Olin Arts Center, Room 104 Oct. 13

Landscapes of Maine: Then and NowDrawn from the museum’s col-lection, this exhibition show-cases Maine landscapes from 1880–1905 alongside landscapes from 100 years later, inviting contemplation of the evolution of Maine’s landscape and how artists approach it.

Recent AcquisitionsRecent additions to the collection highlighting gifts from alumni and friends of the museum, featuring works by Kiki Smith, William Pope.L, Bernard Langlais and others.

OCT. 8–DEC. 20Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du MarocLes Femmes du Maroc features large-scale photographs and is adapted from Eugene Delacroix’s iconic Les Femmes d’Algiers of 1834. Essaydi is a Moroccan-born artist of international prominence whose work deals with women in Islamic society, Orientalism and art’s history.

Wally Reinhardt: Collaborations With OvidSince the 1980s, Reinhardt has focused solely on paintings interpreting Ovid’s Metamorpho-ses, vividly bringing to life many favorite characters of classical mythology.

EVENTS:ONGOINGLife Drawing SessionsWednesdays during the academic year at 6 pmModels, drawing benches and dry media easels are provided. Olin Arts Center, Room 259 $7 ($6 for museum members and

Artist TalkSaturday at 6pmPainter Wally Reinhardt discusses his exhibition Collaborations with Ovid and his exploration of the classical poet’s Metamorphoses.Olin Arts Center, Room 104

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Literary events at Bates have included visits by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout ‘77, shown here during

a local book signing.

JESSICA ANTHONY ‘96

Author of the acclaimed 2009 debut novel The

Convalescent, Jessica Anthony ‘96 found her powers

of expression transformed by a Bates poetry course

with Senior Lecturer Robert Farnsworth.“ Rob taught

me the value of tightness and necessity, the primal

life of the single word,” she says. “Bates gave me

priceless bounty as a writer.”

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THE LANGUAGE ARTS LIVE SERIES CELEBRATES THE POETRY AND FICTION

WRITERS WHO REVEAL BEAUTY AND MEANING IN OUR OWN STORIES.

Bates has a long tradition of wel-coming writers to read from their work. For 30 years, Bates professor and poet John Tagliabue brought such noted writers to campus as Al-len Ginsberg. Since 1991, when the College instituted a creative writing concentration within the English major, Bates has hosted more than 75 acclaimed poets and writ-ers, among them Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott; Pulitzer Prize winners Donald Jus-tice, Elizabeth Strout ’77 and Yusef Komunyakaa; Grace Paley, Marge Piercy and Sarah Manguso. Recent alums who have authored prize-winning debuts have also returned to read, such as Jessica Anthony ’96, Christina Chiu ’91 and Craig Teicher ’91.

Plan to Attend Open to the pub-lic free of charge, Language Arts Live readings take place in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. For more information: 207-786-6326 • 207-786-6256 • [email protected] • [email protected]

SEPTEMBERSept. 22Fiction Reading by Courtney EldridgeWednesday at 7:30pmCourtney Eldridge wrote the acclaimed short-story collection Unkempt (Mariner Books, 2005) and The Generosity of Women (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), a novel. Her work has appeared in numerous literary publications. “Eldridge creates dark chaotic worlds, then traps the

reader inside this space until they have read the last word, thereby becoming her collaborator,” said the San Francisco Chronicle.

Sept. 27Poetry Reading by Marianne BoruchMonday at 7:30pmMarianne Boruch has won many awards for her six collections of poetry, of which the most recent is Grace, Fallen From (Wesleyan University Press, 2008). “Her

poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice,” said fellow poet Robert Pinsky.

OCTOBEROct. 11Fiction Reading by Debra Spark Monday at 7:30pmDebra Spark’s novels include The Ghost of Bridgetown (Graywolf, 2001) and 2009’s Good for the Jews (University of Michigan), in which her “prose is tight, funny, insightful and occasionally heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly).

Oct. 28Poetry Reading by Wesley McNairThursday at 7:30pm Called by The Hartford Courant “one of the most inventive minds in American poetry,” Maine’s Wesley McNair has written or edited 18 books, the most recent of which is Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems (Godine, 2010). His awards include fellowships from the Rock-efeller, Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, and two from the National Endowment for the Arts.

NOVEMBERNov. 17Reading by Ander MonsonWednesday at 7:30pmAnder Monson is the author of several poetry chapbooks and limited edition letterpress collabo-rations, a website and five books — most recently the forthcoming poetry collection The Available World (Sarabande, 2010) and the nonfiction Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf, 2010). He lives and teaches in Tucson, Arizona.

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ONGOING MUSEUM OF ART EVENTS

Global Lens Film Series, 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, Olin Arts Center, Room 105 $Life Drawing Sessions, 6pm Wednesdays, Olin Arts Center, Room 259 $

BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART EXHIBITIONS

Through Sept. 25:

Joseph Nicoletti: A RetrospectiveLandscapes of Maine: Then and NowRecent Acquisitions

Oct. 8–Dec. 20

Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du MarocWally Reinhardt: Collaborations With Ovid

O N G O I N G A R T S E V E N T S F A L L 2 0 1 0

Sept. 22 , 7:30pm, Fiction Reading by Courtney Eldridge, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Sept. 27, 7:30pm, Poetry Reading, by Marianne Boruch, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Oct. 1, 7:30pm, Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Oct. 3, 7:30pm, Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Oct. 6, 7:30pm, Ensemble 415, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Oct. 9, noon, Modern Dance Company: Parents & Family Weekend Concert, Schaeffer Theatre

Oct. 9, 3:30pm, Gallery Talk by Nick Capasso on Les Femmes du Maroc, Bates College Museum of Art

Oct. 9, 7:30pm, Bates Composers Society: The Rest Is Music, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Oct. 10, noon, Modern Dance Company: Parents & Family Weekend Concert, Schaeffer Theatre

Oct. 11, 7:30pm, Fiction Reading by Debra Spark, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Oct. 13, 6pm, Artist Talk, Wally Reinhardt, Collaborations With Ovid, Bates College Museum of Art

Oct. 15–16, 7:30pm, Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, Black Box Theater

Oct. 17, 2pm, Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, Black Box Theater

Oct. 17, 7:30pm, Avishai Cohen’s Aurora, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Oct. 28, 7:30pm, Poetry Reading by Wesley McNair, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Nov. 5, 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $

Nov. 6, 2 and 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $

Nov. 7, 2pm, Theater, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $

Nov. 8, 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $

Nov. 13, 5pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $

Nov. 13, 7:30pm, Bates and Bowdoin Orchestra with Pianist Frank Glazer, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Nov. 14, 2pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $

Nov. 14, 7:30pm, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Nov. 15, 7:30pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $

Nov. 17, 7:30pm, Poetry and Memoir Reading by Ander Monson, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Nov. 18, 7:30pm, Directing-Class Projects, Gannett Theater

Nov. 29, 7pm, Artist Talk, Lalla Essaydi, Les Femmes du Maroc, Bates College Museum of Art

Dec. 3-4, 8pm, Bates College Choir, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Dec. 5, 3pm, Pianist Frank Glazer Celebrates Robert Schumann, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Dec. 8, 7pm, Bates College Jazz Band, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Dec. 8, 7:30pm, Voice and Speech Students, Gannett Theater

Dec. 9, 7:30pm, Directing-Class Projects, Schaeffer Theatre

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PLAN TO ATTEND Event TypeThe color blocks at right match the bars below to indicate the event type. AdmissionMost of these events are open to the public at no cost. But there is an admission fee for events marked $.Buy tickets www.batestickets.com

MUSIC

Updated schedule of Olin Concert Hall events: www.bates.edu/musicconcerts 207-786-6135 • [email protected] • bit.ly/facebook-music

THEATER AND DANCEUpdated schedule of theater and dance productions: www.batestickets.com207-786-6161 • bit.ly/facebook-theater-dance • www.bates.edu/DANC.xml

BATES COLLEGEMUSEUM OF ART

Museum hours: 10am–5pm Tuesday–Friday (until 6pm Wednesdays) 207-786-6158 • [email protected] • www.bates.edu/museum.xml • bit.ly/facebook-museum

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The arts are a vital, dynamic daily presence at Bates

— intense, rigorous, messy, energetic and utterly trans-

formative, like all the best education. As Bates faculty,

staff and students insisted in our recent strategic plan,

Choices for Bates, Bates’ arts programs give students in

both study and performance a wide array of learning

experiences that are at once individual and collaborative.

The public benefits too, through our full annual program

of performances in which our students, our talented fac-

ulty and outstanding performers from around the world

showcase the vitality of the arts at Bates.

— Elaine Tuttle Hansen, President, Bates College

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