Writer and photographer Elizabeth Rush will deliver the Otis Lecture at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, in Bates College’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. Rush’s book, “Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore,” was excerpted by The Guardian and praised by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rush’s book details communities’ responses to rising sea levels. Tickets are free but are required by visiting bit.ly/Otis1027. Olin Arts Center Concert Hall is at 75 Russell St., Lewiston. FMI: hfear@bates.edu. (Photo courtesy of Stephanie Ewens)