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APRIL 2024 |
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ON-GOING EVENTS IN APRIL
EVERY TUESDAY: NEW EPISODES OF 'CROP AND CLICK' FROM THE BATES MUSEUM PODCAST
Tune in for a special season of the museum's podcast, hosted and produced by the students of AVC 276 True or False: Documentary Photography. A new episode will drop every Tuesday until the end of the semester!
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EVERY WEDNESDAY: MAKE SPACE, 7:30 - 8:30 PM, LE RONJ COFFEE HOUSE
The Multifaith Chaplaincy hosts an hour of art making and free chai every Wednesday!
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April 1
LANGUAGE ARTS LIVE: SARAH BRAUNSTEIN, 7:00 PM, PETTENGILL G52
A Reading and Conversation with Sarah Braunstein, author of Bad Animals (W.W. Norton, March 2024). Her first novel, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W.W. Norton), was the winner of the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Fiction and a finalist for the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, The Sun, Playboy, and other publications. She is an Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing) at Colby College.
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April 2
THESIS PLAYWRITING READINGS: MINGZHENG WANG AND ALEX VOIGHT-SHELLY, 4:15 and 5:30 PM, GANNETT THEATER
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April 3
MOVIE & TALK BACK: TANTURA (2022), DISCUSSION FACILITATED BY PROFESSOR STEPHANIE PRIDGEON AND PHYLLIS GARBER JENSON, 6:30 PM, PETTENGILL G52
A showing and moderated discussion as a part of the Conflict and Peace in Israel and Palestine: Perspectives, Education and Engagement series sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, the Office of Equity and Inclusion and Student Affairs. Registration is required.
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April 4
LANGUAGE ARTS LIVE: MORGAN TALTY, 7:00 PM, PETTENGILL G52
A Reading and Conversation with Morgan Talty, a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation and author of the story collection Night of the Living Rez (Tin House Books 2022), which won the New England Book Award, the John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction. Talty is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine, Orono.
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APRIL 5
MOUNT DAVID SUMMIT, 1:45 - 6:00 PM, PETTENGILL HALL
The Mount David Summit is Bates’ annual campus-wide celebration of student academic achievement. The Summit highlights undergraduate research; student creative work in art, dance, theater, music and film/video; projects conducted in the context of academic courses; and community-engaged research. This years arts presentation topics include the digitization of fashion archives, the political work of a Peruvian art collective, and the life of a medieval psalter from its creation to present day. A panel discussion, moderated by BAC's own Tim Dugan, will center on 'The Art of Creative Process' in Bates Theatre.
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CONCERT: BOMBAY RICKEY, CINEMATIC WORLD MUSIC, 7:30 - 9:00 PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL
Presented by The Bates Department of Music: Praised as “a true treat for the adventurous ear” (TimeOut NY), Bombay Rickey is a five-piece band with a unique sound evocative of 1960s movie soundscapes. The group plays both covers and original music that borrow equally from the worlds of surf rock, cumbia, spaghetti-Western, and Bollywood, balanced out with soaring operatic vocals.
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APRIL 5 - 8
PERFORMANCE: MARCY PLAVIN SPRING DANCE CONCERT, SCHAFFER THEATRE
Artistic Direction by Tristan Koepke
In partnership between the Department of Theater and Dance and the Bates Dance Festival
Celebrating the legacy of Marcy Plavin, the founder of the Bates College dance program, this concert will feature works from faculty and nationally renowned repertory artists. Student artists engage with the choreographers throughout the Winter semester in the Dance Repertory & Repertory Styles courses and bring their dynamic works to the stage. Each repertory artist’s diverse way of moving and creating art empower student artists to expand their definition of dance as a powerful mode of artistic expression.
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APRIL 8
CONCERT: PIANO RECITALS, 4:30 - 6:00 PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL
Presented by The Bates Department of Music: The students of Bridget Covey and Chiharu Naruse will perform traditional classical piano solo pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt along with jazz and movie solo piano pieces.
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THEATER STUDENT PRESENTATION: NATALIA JACOBS, '26 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN PLAYWRITING, 7:00PM GANNETT THEATER
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STUDENT EVENT: SJP x SNAGGLETOOTH COLLAGE WORKSHOP, 7:30 - 9:30PM, LE RONJ COFFEE HOUSE
Snaggletooth Magazine, Bates' only student-run literary magazine, will be hosting a creative collage space centered in Palestinian art and symbols of resistance.
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APRIL 9
CONCERT: BATES JAZZ BAND, 7:30- 9:00 PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL
Presented by The Bates Department of Music: The always exciting Bates College Jazz Band performs its Winter Term concert!
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APRIL 9 - 11
THEATER PRESENTATIONS: WINTER 2024 SEMESTER SHOWINGS
A series of public events to see what our students have been working on during their winter semester! Includes performances from the following classes: THEA 250 Directing, DANC 251 Making Dance II, THEA 261 Acting, THEA 263 Voice and Speech, DANC 270C Studio: Modern Partnering, THEA 339 Advanced Playwriting, and THEA 350 Advanced Directing.
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APRIL 11
CONCERT: VOICE RECITAL, THE STUDENTS OF JOELLE MORRIS, 4:30 - 6:30 PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL
Presented by The Bates Department of Music: The students of Joelle Morris sing their hearts out!
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MOVIE & TALK BACK: 200 METERS (2020), DISCUSSION FACILITATED BY BOWDOIN PROFESSOR NASSER ABOURAHME, 6:30 PM, OLIN 104
A showing and moderated discussion as a part of the Conflict and Peace in Israel and Palestine: Perspectives, Education and Engagement series sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, the Office of Equity and Inclusion and Student Affairs. Registration required.
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PERFORMANCE: MUS 262 MUSIC THEATRE, FINAL SCENES, 7:30 - 9:00 PM, OLIN CONCERT HALL
Presented by The Bates Department of Music: Join the students of MUS 262 Musical Theatre as they perform their final scene presentations!
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APRIL 12
EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION: SENIOR THESIS 2024 AND NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST | MONUMENTAL SPECTACULAR, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, MUSEUM OF ART
Please join the Bates Museum of Art and the Department of Art and Visual Culture in celebrating the opening of the 2024 Thesis Exhibition, featuring the work of Amelia Hawkins, Yuri Kim, Avery Mathias, Miguel Ángel Pacheco, George Peck, Olivia Rabin, Emma Upton, and Joseph Vineyard. Also opening is Neue Slowenische Kunst | Monumental Spectacular, an exhibition of prints created by an elusive Slovenian artists collective.
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APRIL 13
CONCERT: CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR SUNDANESE GAMELAN DEGUNG, 7:30 - 9:00 PM, LA ARTS
Presented by The Bates Department of Music and LA Arts: Contemporary music for Sundanese gamelan degung with guest artist-composers Burhan Sukarma and Brian Shankar Adler. This Event will take place at LA Arts at 168 Lisbon Street in Lewiston Maine.
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