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February 2024

The weather is getting colder, but arts events in the Bates Community are just heating up!

ARTS EVENTS

FEBRUARY 2

ARTIST LECTURE: SKY HOPINKA, 4:30PM, OLIN 104

video and sound artist, photographer, and writer Sky Hopinka will discuss his work in a lecture presented by the Bates Museum of Art. Hopinka’s four-minute video Mnemonics of Shape and Reason is featured in the museum’s current exhibition Exploding Native Inevitable, on view through March 4, 2024, and his video Sunflower Siege Engine, will be screened in a mini film festival on February 28 (see below!).

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More on Sky Hopinka


STUDENT CLUB EVENT: LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION WITH THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN SOCIETY, 5:00-8:00PM, MEMORIAL COMMONS

Please join the Southeast Asian Society in celebrating the Lunar New Year with a catered Vietnamese dinner(including vegetarian options), and learning about lucky traditions, trivia, and prizes. Bring your best self to ring in the new year! The event is free, but space is limited and reservations should be made through Bates Engage.

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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


FEBRUARY 4

CONCERT: NOSTALGIA - A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGACY OF FRANK GLAZER, 3:00PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL

We are delighted to present a selection of songs from Frank Glazer's own compositions, as well as works by Brahms. Mr. Glazer, an internationally renowned concert pianist, was an artist-in-residence in the Department of Music at Bates College from 1980-2015. These works will be performed by Duncan and Hilary Cumming along with current Bates faculty members Joëlle Morris, Chiharu Naruse, and Dean Stein. Please join us in celebrating the rich and inspiring musical legacy of Mr. Glazer.

Ticketing Information

FEBRUARY 9 - 10

OFF CAMPUS DANCE PERFORMANCE: OF THIS PLACE, COLBY COLLEGE, GORDON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Of This Place is a community-based performance project that surfaces and celebrates stories of Waterville, Maine, and Colby College, and sheds light on those people and places – past and present – who have shaped our communities in powerful ways. Directed by Matthew Cumbie, this new dance theater work is supported by the Arts Office and the Gordon Center Departments (Music, Cinema Studies, and Performance, Theater, and Dance), as well as the Colby Libraries and the Center for Arts and Humanities, and is being co-created with an interdisciplinary team of Colby faculty, staff, students, and local and visiting artists and scholars, including our own Tristan Koepke!

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FEBRUARY 13

MUSEUM ART CAFE: VALENTINE'S DAY EDITION, 5:00PM, MUSEUM OF ART

Looking for a chance to destress or make a last minute valentine? Come down to the Museum for our next Museum Art Café! Make fun art with your friends from the Bates Arts Society, enjoy delicious coffee from the Ronj and cookies from Bates dining, and check out our current exhibitions. All students are welcome!

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FEBRUARY 16

MASTERCLASS WITH CHIEF ADJUAH (FORMERLY CHRISTIAN SCOTT), 2:30 PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL

Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott), will present a lecture and presentation on his modalities of thinking and general approach to music. His vast experience and free thinking has led in recent years to his development of what he calls "Stretch Music," in which the conventions of music (melody, harmony and rhythm) are stretch to achieve artistic goals. His presentation will last approximately 45 minutes and will be followed by a brief Q & A session. This event is free and open to the public.

Ticketing Information


OLIN CONCERT SERIES: CHIEF ADJUAH (FORMERLY CHRISTIAN SCOTT), 7:30PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL

The 5 time Grammy-Nominated Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) brings his group to Bates college with his own style of jazz which he calls Stretch Music!

Ticketing Information


February 28

FILM FESTIVAL: PRESENCE IS POWER - AN EVENING OF INDIGENOUS SHORT FILMS, 4:30-7:30PM, MUSEUM OF ART

Immerse yourself in a wide variety of Indigenous short films alongside Bates Museum of Art’s current exhibition Exploding Native Inevitable. Mimicking a film festival, this one-night-only event presents the work of Indigenous filmmakers–including writers, directors, actors, and producers–making work today. All films were made within the last ten years and represent voices from tribes around what is today called the United States and Canada. Videos by artists represented in the exhibition, as well as many others not yet seen at Bates, create a rich night of programming beyond the museum and around the Bates campus. 

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SAVE THE DATE:

WINTER ARTS FESTIVAL

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

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