Events Schedule: Summer 2011, revised

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Camille Brown and Dancers

Hello from Bates! Here is a revised preview of public events at the college during summer 2011.

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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Learn more! The individual listings below contain links that will bring you to more information. Or if you’d rather cut right to the chase, use these links:

Clean Sweep
Bates Dance Festival
Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series
Bates College Museum of Art

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

The ninth Clean Sweep sale takes place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at the college's Underhill Arena, 145 Russell St. The sale is open to the public. To learn more, please contact Rosenbach at 207-786-8367 or jrosenba@bates.edu. When Bates College environmental coordinator Julie Rosenbach places cartons marked "Clean Sweep" in the college's dorms each spring, students know just what to do. In those cartons and at the college's ice arena, they drop off small furnishings, electronics, sports gear and other useable stuff they won't take along when they leave campus this spring. These goodies will be offered for sale at Clean Sweep, Bates' annual "garage sale" that keeps truckloads of useful items out of the waste stream and raises money for nonprofit organizations in the region. (NOTE: The summer 2009 edition of "Bates Invites You," Bates College's events calendar, incorrectly stated that the public is invited to help staff or donate items to Clean Sweep.We regret the error.) Bates is one of a number of colleges and universities nationwide that benefit both the environment and their communities each year by selling possessions donated by students as they head out at the end of the academic year. Bates' event has become a tradition on campus and in the region. Different nonprofits participate every year and the boxes Rosenbach places in dormitories are always filled to overflowing. "People look forward to the sale. They expect it," Rosenbach says. "And they really like being a part of it." This year, at least 10 nonprofit organizations will be taking part by collecting goods from around campus, helping organize the sale or volunteering at the event.

June

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

Nicholas Leichter Dance

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

Yankee Brass Band

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

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