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JANUARY 2024

Happy New Year from the Bates Arts Collaborative! 

Join us for the art events happening in the Bates community in January and early February.

ARTS EVENTS

JANUARY 10

THEATER AND DANCE WINTER HUDDLE, 7-8PM, SCHAEFFER THEATRE

Gather with us this evening to talk about all the exciting things happening this semester! We'll discuss winter classes, upcoming productions, and students opportunities. We'll also talk about our dance Repertory Artists and theater Guest Artists, including our Guest Director Kevin R. Free who will be there to meet you all!

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JANUARY 11

MUSEUM RECEPTION: EXPLODING NATIVE INEVITABLE AND BRAD KAHLHAMER: NOMADIC STUDIO, MAINE CAMP, 4:30-6:15PM, MUSEUM OF ART

Please join us for the reception of the Exploding Native Inevitable exhibition, and Brad Kahlhamer: Nomadic Studio Maine Camp. Some of the artists will speak about their work in a gallery talk starting at 5 PM.

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EXPLODING NATIVE INEVITABLE PERFORMANCES AND VIDEO SCREENINGS, FEATURING THE MALI OBOMSAWIN XTET, 6:30-7:45PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL

Please join us for welcoming remarks by curators Brad Kahlhamer and Dan Mills, and performances and screenings of several video shorts by artists in the Exploding Native Inevitable exhibition. Co-sponsored by the museum and the Department of Music, the contemporary jazz performance by the Mali Obomsawin Xtet will conclude the evening.

Schedule of events

Ticketing Information


JANUARY 11 & 12

AUDITIONS: THE GRAVEDIGGERS UNION BY BRIAN JAMES POLAK, 6-9PM, SCHAEFFER THEATRE

About the play: A colorful collection of gravediggers at a New Hampshire cemetery are suddenly at risk of losing their livelihoods when the Walmart of cemeteries opens just across the street. Faced with the possible loss of their dysfunctional but comforting existence, they do what most people would do in this circumstance, they try to buy their graveyard by putting on a play to raise money. What could go wrong?

Note: Two of the roles will be played by theater majors for their respective thesis projects.
Learn more about the audition process
Audition Materials


JANUARY 25

GROUP DISCUSSION: NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ BY MORGAN TALTY, 4:30-5:30PM, COMMONS 221

To support a campus-wide community read of Morgan Talty's debut story collection, 100 copies have been made available by the Office of Equity and inclusion and the Dean of Faculty's Office! A group discussion will be lead by Rhetoric, Screen and Film Studies faculty Stephanie Kelley-Romano on the 25th, preceding Talty's Literary Arts Live event on the first of February (see below). 

JANUARY 26

ARTIST LECTURE: DANCE AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY ARTIST ROSY SIMAS, 7:30PM, OLIN 104

Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance, the Bates Dance Festival, and the Bates Museum of Art's Exploding Native Inevitable Project. More details to be announced.

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JANUARY 27

DANCE WORKSHOPS WITH ROSY SIMAS

Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance, the Bates Dance Festival, and the Bates Museum of Art's Exploding Native Inevitable Project. All are invited to participate. More details to be announced.

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 LOOKING AHEAD:  

EARLY FEBRUARY 

FEBRUARY 1

LITERARY ARTS LIVE: MORGAN TALTY, 7-8PM, OLIN 210

Literary Arts Live is bringing award-winning Maine author Morgan Talty to campus for a reading of Night of the Living Rez, followed by a book signing. This event is co-sponsored by the English Department and the Bates Museum of Art's Exploding Native Inevitable Project.

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FEBRUARY 3

DANCE PERFORMANCE: STAYCEE PEARL DANCE PROJECT & SOY SOS, 7:30PM, SCHAEFFER THEATRE

Circles: going in is a full-length dance work celebrating #BlackGirlMagic. Layering dance, visual arts, with pulsing beats and bass lines, the work presents snapshots of popular culture through choreographer Staycee Pearl’s lens as a Black woman. With an ensemble of five dancers, CIRCLES: going in is a colorful, unapologetic, and daring path to self-reclamation. Central to the work is an original sound score of hip-hop, house, techno and ballroom music samples – bringing the joy, spontaneity and uncensored freedom of self-expression from the club to the stage.

Ticketing Information

Learn more about STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos

Bates Arts Collaborative acronym BAC used to create statement "bac the arts"

The arts are everywhere at Bates!

MUSIC
Department of Music
Crosstones
Deansman
Manic Optimists
Merimanders

TakeNote

Bates Musicians Union

Gospelaires

Small Ensembles Club

THEATER & PERFORMING ARTS
Department of Theater & Dance

Robinson Players

Bates Circus Arts Club

Village Club Series

DEBATE
Brooks Quimby Debate Council

STUDIO ART AND ART HISTORY
Department of Art and Visual Culture

Bates Museum of Art


PUBLICATION
Snaggletooth Magazine
The Bates Student

DANCE
Bates Dance Festival
Department of Theater and Dance
2BEATS
Bollywood Dance Team
Bates Dragon and Lion Dance Association
Ace+

FIBER ARTS

Knit Wits


CULTURE GROUPS WITH ARTS EVENTS
Asian Students Association
South Asian Student Association

Caribbean Student Association
Raices Unidos.
Black Student Union
Africana Club
Bates Multifaith Chaplaincy

BROADCASTING

WRBC
Filmboard
Film Production Club

UMBRELLA ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Bates Arts Society

Want your art organization or event to be included in future newsletters? Email us at batesarts@bates.edu.

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