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2024 Performance Series

Tickets from $5-35 on sale now

Experience profound, provocative, beautiful, and entertaining live art by attending a performance, concert, work in progress showing, or artist talk this summer.

In-person sales begin June 28

Visit our Box Office Tuesday – Saturday, 1-5pm

Pettigrew Hall, 305 College St., 1st Floor, Room 200

Click here for box office policies.

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2024 Calendar of Performances

2024 Live Performances

Aretha Aoki & Ryan MacDonald

IzumonookunI

Fri & Sun| July 12 & 14

Schaeffer Theatre

Concerts on the Quad

Bondeko

Wed | July 17

Bates Historic Quad

Free and open to the public

Sean Dorsey Dance

The Lost Art of Dreaming

Fri & Sat | July 19 & 20

Schaeffer Theatre

Musicians’ Concert

Mon | July 22

Schaeffer Theatre

Moving in the Moment

Wed | July 24

Alumni Gym

BDF x CRĀV

The Continuum of Black American Artistry panel discussion

Canceled

BDFête

a party for our community!

Sat | July 27

The Bates Library Quad

Tickets on sale now!

BDF Street Style Performance Exhibition

Sat | July 27

Alumni Gym

TRIBE

Black Hole – Trilogy and Triathlon

Thurs & Fri | August 1 & 2

Schaeffer Theatre

More Events

J’Sun Howard

The Righteous Beauty of the Things Never Accounted For | Artist in Residence Work in Progress

Wed | July 3

Alumni Gym

Free and open to the public

Deville Cohen

Hand to Mouth: Three Duets | Artist in Residence Work in Progress

Thurs | July 25

Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston

Free and open to the public

Gesel Mason

Yes, And | Artist in Residence Work in Progress

Fri | July 26

Maine’s People Alliance, 155 Lisbon Street

Free and open to the public

Master class

with Shakia “The Key” Barron

Sat | July 27 | 3:30pm

Gray Cage

Pay $25 at the door

Kimberly Bartosik/daela

Blur | Artist in Residence Work in Progress

Sun | July 28

Memorial Commons

Free and open to the public

Dancing with Legacy

a discussion with Shamel Pitts and Kimberly Bartosik

Mon | July 29 | 7:30pm

Schaeffer Theatre

Free and open to the public