Events Schedule: Summer 2011, corrected

Nicholas Leichter Dance

Hello from Bates! This preview of public events at the college for summer 2011 addresses an error in the version that was issued at 4:25pm May 24: The “click here” link below has been corrected. We apologize for the error.

Except as noted, these events are open to the public at no charge. (Where there is an admission fee, the cost for the general public appears first, followed by the cost for students and seniors.)

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For updated events information throughout the season, see our Upcoming Events page. Questions or comments? Contact events editor Doug Hubley at calendar@bates.edu.


Victoria Wyeth

June

10 Fri

4pm Reception and exhibit: Emerging Dis/Order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth and Andrea Sulzer, part of the statewide Maine Drawing Project, opens with a reception (see Museum of Art, below). FMI 207-786-6158.
Museum of Art

11 Sat

3:30pm Lecture and reception: Victoria Wyeth ’01 talks about the artists Andrew Wyeth (her grandfather) and Jamie Wyeth (her uncle), and the exhibition Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth (see Museum of Art, below). Reception in the adjacent Museum of Art follows. FMI 207-786-6158.
Olin Concert Hall


18 Sat

8am Clean Sweep: From electronics to sporting goods to furniture, quality items donated by departing students are up for purchase at Lewiston’s biggest “garage sale.” Proceeds benefit local nonprofits. FMI 207-786-6207.
Underhill Arena


July

11 Mon

7:30pm Bates Dance Festival lecture-demonstration: Camille A. Brown & Dancers. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


Crunchy Western Boys

14 Thu

6pm Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Crunchy Western Boys. In addition to “crunchy Western music,” this quartet works bluegrass, folk and Americana into its high-energy sets. Sponsored by the Bingham Betterment Fund and the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates. Bring a picnic and lawn chairs or blankets. Rain site TBA. FMI 207-786-6400.
Keigwin Amphitheater

15 Fri

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Camille A. Brown & Dancers. Brown sends a potent message of empowerment that reverberates from the stage. Talkback with the artists follows the concert. $24/$12. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


16 Sat

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Camille A. Brown & Dancers (see July 15). A talkback with the artists follows. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


18 Mon

7:30pm Bates Dance Festival lecture-demonstration: Nicholas Leichter Dance. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


Perpetual e-Motion

21 Thu

6pm Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Perpetual e-Motion. This duo brings a passion for sonic and technical experimentation to the art and soul of traditional music (see July 14). FMI 207-786-6400.
Keigwin Amphitheater

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Nicholas Leichter Dance performs its new The Whiz, an outlandish take on The Wizard of Oz. Talkback with the artists follows the concert. $24/$12. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


23 Sat

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Nicholas Leichter Dance (see July 21). Inside Dance lecture with writer Debra Cash at 7:15pm. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


25 Mon

7:30pm Bates Dance Festival lecture-demonstration: Zoe | Juniper. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


28 Thu

6pm Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Yankee Brass Band. This band is a historically accurate recreation of a mid-19th-century American brass band (see July 14). FMI 207-786-6400.
Keigwin Amphitheater

7:30pm Bates Dance Festival panel discussion: Global Exchange: Sharing Across Cultures. International choreographers discuss their work and the cultural environment in which they create. FMI 207-786-6381.
Pettigrew 301


Zoe | Juniper

29 Fri

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Zoe | Juniper. Blending dance and video, the duo’s A Crack in Everything looks at the emotional spectrum of justice and retaliation. Talkback with the artists follows. $24/$12. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre

30 Sat

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Zoe | Juniper (see July 29). Inside Dance lecture with writer Debra Cash at 7:15pm. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


August

1 Mon

7:30pm Bates Dance Festival lecture-demonstration: David Dorfman Dance. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


Terrence Karn

2 Tue

7:30pm Bates Dance Festival performance: The Musicians’ Concert. Composers and multi-instrumentalists offer original and improvised music from around the world. $12/$6. FMI 207-786-6381.
Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St., Lewiston

4 Thu

6pm Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Global Grooves at the Lake. Bates Dance Festival musicians, hosted by Terrence Karn, perform music from around the world (see July 14 and Aug. 2). FMI 207-786-6400.
Keigwin Amphitheater


5 Fri

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: David Dorfman Dance presents Prophets of Funk, driven by the sounds of Sly and the Family Stone. Talkback with the artists follows the concert. $24/$12. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


The Equus Projects

6 Sat

2pm Bates Dance Festival performance: A collaboration between The Equus Projects and Black Label Movement, UN/Stable Landscape is a site-specific performance exploring an encounter between horses and humans. $10. FMI 207-786-6381.
Chance Encounter Farm, 118 Fickett Road, Pownal

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: David Dorfman Dance (see Aug. 5). Inside Dance lecture with writer Debra Cash at 7:15pm.FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


7 Sun

2pm Bates Dance Festival performance: UN/Stable Landscape (see Aug. 6). FMI 207-786-6381.
Chance Encounter Farm, 118 Fickett Road, Pownal


11 Thu

6pm Midsummer Lakeside Concert: Jim Gallant. Offering catchy originals and contemporary covers, guitarist Gallant never fails to win listeners’ hearts and feet (see July 14). FMI 207-786-6400.
Keigwin Amphitheater

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Different Voices. A diverse evening of new works by international and emerging choreographers. $24/$12. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


12 Fri

8pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Different Voices (see Aug. 11). FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre


13 Sat

1pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Young Choreographers/New Works, an informal adjudicated showing of new works by talented festival students. FMI 207-786-6381.
Schaeffer Theatre

7:30pm Bates Dance Festival performance: Festival Finale. Festival participants perform works by Jennifer Archibald, David Dorfman, Nicholas Leichter and Lisa Race, plus a new work by Youth Arts Program participants. FMI 207-786-6381.
Alumni Gym


Untitled, 2011

Bates College Museum of Art

Hours: 10am–5pm Tuesday–Saturday. FMI 207-786-6158

June 10–Aug. 30

Selected Drawings and Photographs from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection.

June 10–Sept. 10

Emerging Dis/Order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth and Andrea Sulzer. These respected Maine artists explore themes of memory and loss, order and chaos, and emerging and converging human behavior. Part of the statewide visual arts initiative Where to Draw the Line: The Maine Drawing Project

June 10–Oct. 2.

Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth. Drawings, watercolors and illustrated letters from one of America’s most famous artist families. The show is assembled from the personal collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth ’01 and includes portraits of people now known as models for Andrew Wyeth. 

Other Exhibitions

July 1–Aug. 13

Dance photographs by Arthur Fink.
Chase Hall Gallery