Concert: “Tonight at Noon: Charles Mingus at 100” Featuring Pianist Aaron Wyanski April 14 at 7:00pm This event is free and open to the public. Join Aaron Wyanski, UMF assistant professor of music composition, for a solo piano recital celebrating the centennial of musical visionary Charles Mingus.
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Book Launch: What Have I Done? by Carrie Close (UMF ’22) April 7 at 7:00pm Emery Performance Space This event is free and open to the public. Please join UMF graduating senior, Carrie Close, as she launches her new book, What Have I Done?, a collection of poems and short stories published…
Comments closedNCP Keynote: Alissa Hessler, “Urban Exodus and LIVING THE GOOD LIFE” April 8, 11:45am-1:00pm This event is free and open to the public. Alissa Hessler’s presentation draws from her experience founding and producing Urban Exodus, a website and podcast that documents the inspirational stories of contemporary people leaving the city…
Comments closedWho We Are, What We Do: UMF Senior Exhibition April 7 – May 7 Opening Reception: April 7 from 4:00pm-7:00pm Students in the Visual Arts program at the University of Maine Farmington will exhibit their capstone artwork in this year’s senior art show, Who We Are, What We Do.…
Comments closedNCP Film Series: “THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM” March 22 at 7:00pm This event is free and open to the public. Please join us for a screening of, BIGGEST LITTLE FARM, a 2018 American documentary film directed by John Chester. Sponsored by: The New Commons Project
Comments closed“A Performance of Piano Technologies: Strings, Hammers, and Digital Files” Featuring Pianist Steven Pane March 29 at 4:30pm and March 30 at 11:45am This event is free and open to the public. Join Steven Pane, UMF professor of music, for a performance inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s idea that technology…
Comments closedArtist Talk with Huey Coleman March 23, 2022 12:00pm-1:00pm For Common Time at UMF Huey will show selections from his feature length documentary film portraits on Maine Franco-American musicians, Jazz legend Marian McPartland, Literary icon Henry David Thoreau, and Maine’s Greatest Mountain, Katahdin. Huey’s Bio:…
Comments closedNew Commons Project: Emily Dickinson Symposium March 9, 2022 Emery Community Arts Center This event is free and open to the public. Join us for a day-long exploration and celebration of the poetry of Emily Dickinson. 10:00am-11:00am: Student Panel 11:45am-1:00pm: “Composed of Nows”. A Keynote conversation on Emily…
Comments closedDr. Kristen Case, “Making Nothing Happen: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Magic” March 2 at 4:00pm Emery Community Arts Center Performance Space This event is free and open to the public. This talk will discuss Dickinson’s striking ability to pull readers into her poetry through her use of elision, omission, and…
Comments closedFilm Screening: TRUTH TELLERS Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 7:00pm Emery Performance Space Free and open to the public. THIS NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM DIVES INTO THE LIVES OF COURAGEOUS AMERICANS FIGHTING FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND INDIGENOUS RIGHTS THROUGH THE EYES OF ROBERT SHETTERLY, A LONG TIME ACTIVIST…
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