LEWISTON — She’s logged hours playing one-on-one basketball tournaments with the kids at Hillview Apartments, winning every round, but three weeks ago, Jessica Igoe noticed they’d gotten better. “For the first time they pushed back and I almost fell over,” she said. The kids have gotten older. So has she. After volunteering in more than a […]
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Wanted: Works for Bates’ ‘Starstruck’ exhibit
LEWISTON — The Bates College Museum of Art is seeking high-quality submissions for its 2012 exhibition “Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography.” Though emphasizing images by four invited artists, the exhibition will also feature images submitted by photographers whose work conforms to a juried format with a high standard of excellence and a focus on […]
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Violist, pianist will perform at Bates
LEWISTON — Internationally renowned violist Robert Dan and Maine pianist Chiharu Naruse will perform Saturday, May 14, at Bates College. The performance is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For more information, call 786-6135 or email [email protected]. The first half of the concert includes the Sonatina Op. 137, No. 3, by […]
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Response to catastrophes to be topic at Bates
LEWISTON — The roles that the public and private sectors can play in reducing future damage and paying for losses following extreme events will be the topic of a presentation by Howard Kunreuther at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, in G-52 Pettengill Hall. Kunreuther is a member of the Bates class of 1959 and is […]
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Bates College professor to perform interactive dance-video piece
LEWISTON — Rachel Boggia, acting director of Bates College’s dance program, will perform “In the Very Eye of the Night,” a dance incorporating interactive video, on Monday, May 16. The piece is an 11-minute solo created by Marlon Barrios Solano, a Venezuelan dance and new-media artist, teacher and researcher. He conceived this piece as a […]
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Two indie bands bound for Bates
LEWISTON —Two eclectic up-and-coming indie bands, the David Wax Museum and Dawn Landes & The Hounds, will perform at Bates College on Saturday, May 21. Named Americana Artist of the Year in the 2010 Boston Music Awards, the David Wax Museum has been called “pure, irresistible joy” by NPR’s Bob Boilen and was hailed by […]
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Acclaimed author speaks with students about immigrant experiences
LEWISTON — “We always knew pieces of our lives were missing, but no one could ever describe them to us,” Ethiopian-American novelist Dinaw Mengestu said to a small group of students and educators at the Lewiston Public Library on Tuesday afternoon. His family didn’t talk about their former lives in Ethiopia, he said, “because of […]
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Bates president to head Johns Hopkins program
Bates College President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has been named executive director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth, a Baltimore-based program for gifted schoolchildren. Bates College announced last week that Hansen would be leaving the Lewiston school this summer for a leadership position elsewhere, but it declined to say where she was going until […]
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Bates College President Elaine Tuttle Hansen going to Johns Hopkins
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Elaine Tuttle Hansen, who’s stepping down in July as president of Bates College, says she will begin work at Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 1. The Baltimore school announced Hansen’s appointment as executive director of its Center for Talented Youth. In that role, Hansen said, she will oversee an organization dedicated […]
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Bates president to step down in July
LEWISTON — Bates College President Elaine Tuttle Hansen on Wednesday announced she would step down effective July 2011, after nine years with the college. Hansen will assume a leadership position elsewhere to be announced within the next two weeks, according to a news release. On Wednesday night, Hansen waxed nostalgic about the community in which […]