2024
7/14/24: City Lights North Student Performances, 3:00pm
7/13/24: Longfellow Young Writers Camp Student Reading, 7:00pm
7/12/24 & 7/13/24: Maine Jazz Camp Student Concerts
7/7/24-7/11/24: Maine Jazz Camp Faculty Concerts, nightly at 8:00pm
6/21/24: Art Exhibition Opening Reception: The Thinking Hand, 5-7pm
6/2/24: Thomas Performing Arts Dance Showcase, 1:00pm & 4:00pm
5/17/24-5/19/24: Last Gas, directed by Gavin Pickering
5/16/24: Opening Reception: Artful Antics: Mt. Blue High School Art Show, 5:00-7:00pm
4/26/24: Strangers Sing A Cappella Concert, 7:00pm
4/18/24: An Evening of Theater: Advanced Acting Monologues and Zoo Story, 7:00pm
4/17/24: Artist Talks, By Any Means Necessary: 2024 Senior Show, 2:00pm
4/16/24: UMF Arts Night, 5:00pm
4/15/24: Pixel Hunter Student Film & Animation Festival, 7:00pm
4/11/24: Concert: Reckless Endangerment of Musicality: Original Compositions by Shaina Fusco and Theo Moore, 7:30pm
4/11/24: Opening Reception: By Any Means Necessary: 2024 Senior Show, 4:30-7pm
4/10/24: BeaverMoth, 7:30pm
4/4/24-4/7/24: UMF Theater presents Mina Loy’s “The Sacred Prostitute and Other Plays”
3/22/24: Concert: “Music from Italy,” 12:30pm
3/20/24: UMF Public Forum presents Changing How We Live On Earth: Perspectives on Sustainability, 7:00pm
3/7/24: Christine Correa Ensemble, “Just You Stand and Listen with Me: Songs of Protest and Resistance,” 7:00pm
2/29/24: International Short Film Festival Screening: THE 23RD ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS, 7:00pm
2/15/24: Aaron Wyanski: An Evening of Improvised Piano Music, 7:00pm
2/7/24: UMF Public Forum presents The Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence, 7:00pm
2/7/24: Artist Talk with Markeith Chavous, 12:30pm
1/27/24: Arts Farmington presents Doug Protsik on “Old Time Piano,” 7:00pm
1/25/24: Opening Reception: Markeith Chavous, ‘the waves and the mantram, part 1,’ 5:00pm-7:00pm
1/24/24: UMF Public Forum presents An Evening of Poetry, 7:00pm
1/12-1/14 & 1/19-1/21: Sandy River Players present, “You Can’t Take it With You”
2023
12/13/23: MAT177 3-D Printing Student Expo, 1:00pm
12/7/23 – 12/9/23: UMF Theater Workshop Production of “All the Good They Gave Us” and “Migratory Birds,” 7:00pm
11/15/23: UMF Public Forum featuring Dr. Patti Bailie, “Partnering with Nature: An Introduction to Nature Based Education,” 6:30pm
11/8/23: Diane Kruchkow, “How I became a literary rebel: The fascinating development of the small press movement in the 1970s, and my participation in it,” 12:30pm
10/25/23: UMF Public Forum featuring Dr. Tim Breton, “Making Waves with Big Ideas on Science Education and research in Western Maine,” 6:30pm
10/20/23: Rustica presents: “Making in Maine” Roundtable Discussion, 6:30pm
10/19/23: Traditional Native Storyteller Mike Dube with Singer Gaianne Dube, 6:30pm
10/18/23: ArtsFarmington presents, Lynn Vartan & Bridget Conway, 7:30pm
10/5/23: Opening Reception, “Inside Vision” 5:00pm-7:00pm
10/1/23: Sandy River Players presents, “3rd Annual Cabaret Night,” 2:30pm
9/27/23: UMF Internship Fellow Symposium, 12:30pm
9/26/23: BEAVERMOTH Live Storytelling Event, 7:30pm
9/24/23: Guitarist Liam Grant, “Amoskeag” Album-Release Tour, 7:00pm
9/20/23: The UMF Public Forum featuring Dr. James Melcher, “17th Annual UMF Supreme Court Preview and Review,” 6:30pm
9/20/23: Artist Talk with Annie Lee-Zimerle and Brian Zimerle, 1:00pm
9/7/23: Double-Feature Opening Reception for Annie Lee & Brian Zimerle Exhibition, and Elliott Schwartz Practice Rooms Project Sound Installation, 5:00pm-7:00pm
8/25/23: Emery Summer Concert Series presents, Dead Gowns, 7:00pm
8/6/23: Emery Summer Concert Series presents, Elena Ciampa & Friends, 2:00pm
7/29/23: Emery Summer Concert Series presents, Coleman Martin, 7:00pm
7/22/23: Improv Show featuring Teachers Lounge Mafia & You Should Smile More, 7:00pm
7/17, 7/18, 7/20 + 7/21/2023: Longfellow Young Writers Camp Events, 7:00pm
7/16/23: City Lights North Student Performance, 3:00pm
7/9/23-7/13/23: Maine Jazz Camp Faculty Concerts, 8:00pm
6/30/23: Emery Summer Concert Series presents, Lumus, 7:00pm
6/24/23: Opening Reception: “Dona Seegers: A Celebration of Art and Life,” 5:00pm-7:00pm
6/2/23 + 6/3/23: Thomas Performing Arts Center Dance Team Showcase, Fri. at 6:30pm and Sat. at 11:00am
5/13/23: Opening Reception: Mt. Blue High School Art Show, 2:00pm-4:00pm
4/28/23: Strangers Sing Acapella Concert, 7:00pm
4/25/23: Sound as Art: Student Showcase
4/19/23: UMF Symposium Day Events
4/18/23: UMF Arts Night
4/17/23: Pixel Hunter Student Film & Animation Festival, 7:00pm
4/15/23: MAN FROM PRETENTIA: Preview screening of Visiting Libra Scholar Chih-Hsuan Liang’s new documentary film, 7:00pm
4/14/23: ArtsFarmington presents storyteller Antonio Rocha, 7:00pm
4/11/23: Beaver Moth: Live Storytelling Event, 7:30pm
4/6/23 – 4/8/23: Theater Production: Small Mouth Sounds, 7:00pm
4/6/23: Opening Reception: Primordial Soup-BA in Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition, 4:30pm-7:00pm
3/29/23: Concert: Kyle Grimm, 7:00pm
3/24/23: Concert: Mali Obomsawin Sextet, 7:00pm
3/9/23: Artist Talk with Katie St. Clair and Tidelines Closing Reception, 4:30pm
3/8/23: Performance with Roger Zahab and Aaron Wyanski, Being Slowly Nowhere: Music of the New York School, 7:00pm
3/1/23: Intermission featuring Aaron Wyanski on piano, 11:45am-1:00pm
2/18/23: Concert: Darby Sabin, 7:00pm
1/12/23 – 1/14/23 & 1/20/23 – 1/22/23: Sandy River Players presents, Into the Woods
2022
12/9/22: Film Screening: MASTER OF LIGHT + Holiday Letter Writing for Incarcerated Artists
12/8/22: Capoeira: History & Demonstration
12/5/22: “Delimited Space II,” featuring Aaron Wyanski on piano
12/1/22: “Banned Books-A Reader’s Theater Performances”
11/10/22: Film Screening- 22ND ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS
11/6/22: Concert – ArtsFarmington Presents: Timothy Burris, “The Presence of the Past”
11/4/22: Panel Discussion: “Outside In–Inside Out: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Incarceration”
11/3/22: Art Exhibition Opening Reception: Inside Vision: An Outside Exhibition of Inside Art
11/2/22: Panel Discussion: “Cultivating Care: Creating Meaningful Curriculum and Community”
10/27/22: Film Screening, I KNOW A MAN…ASHLEY BRYAN, directed by Richard Kane
10/18/22: Short Film Screenings and Presentations by UMF Students, “FYS100-Urban Maine: Stories and Sounds”
10/14/22: Paying Attention: A Celebration of Dan Gunn and the Practice of Close Reading
10/6/22: Late Wonders: Book Launch and Poetry Reading with Wesley McNair
10/4/22: Artist Talk with Barbara Sullivan
9/29/22: Art Exhibition Opening Reception: Barbara Sullivan, Forty + Years: A Retrospective
9/18/22: Outdoor Concert – ArtsFarmington presents: “Song from Here”
9/9/22: Bread & Puppet Theater presents, “Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Apocalypse Defiance”
9/8/22: UMF Creative Writing Faculty Reading
8/27/22: Free Outdoor Concert featuring Louisa Stancioff with Dead Gowns
8/7/22: ArtsFarmington presents: Buttonwood Trio Benefit Concert
7/15/22: Free Outdoor Concert featuring Lauren Crosby with Darby Sabin
7/9/22: “Meet the Artists Among Us” Gallery Talk
6/25/22: Free Outdoor Concert featuring Nuclear Salad with Sagittarius Rising
6/17/22: Art Exhibition Opening Reception: The Art Among Us 2
6/16/22: Bloomsday: A Modernist Celebration
5/17/22: A Book Launch Trifecta featuring Jeffrey Thomson, Kathryn Miles and Bill Roorbach
4/27/22-5/2/22: A World of Monsters: An Honors 277H One-Week Pop-Up Exhibit
4/27/22: New Commons Project Lecture
4/25/22: New Commons Film Series: FANNIE’S LAST SUPPER
4/21/22 & 4/22/22: An Evening of Performance featuring Monologues & Robert Mearns’ one act play, Senior Prom
4/20/22: UMF Symposium Day
4/19/22: UMF Arts Night
4/18/22: Pixel Hunter Student Short Film & Animation Festival
4/14/22: Concert: “Tonight at Noon: Charles Mingus at 100” featuring Pianist Aaron Wyanski
4/8/22: NCP Keynote Lecture with Alissa Hessler, “Urban Exodus”
4/7/22: Book Launch: What Have I Done? by Carrie Close (UMF ’22)
4/7/22: Who We Are, What We Do: UMF Senior Art Exhibition Opening Reception
3/29/22 & 3/30/22: Concert: “A Performance of Piano Technologies: Strings, Hammers, and Digital Files,” featuring pianist Steven Pane
3/24/22: Screening: TRUTH TELLERS
3/23/22: Artist Talk with Huey Coleman
3/22/22: New Commons Film Series: BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
3/9/22: New Commons Project: Emily Dickinson Symposium
3/2/22: Dr. Kristen Case, “Making Nothing Happen: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Magic”
3/1/22: Opening Reception: Departures: Peace Corps Pandemic Stories
2/24/22: New Commons Film Series: WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY
2/23/22: New Commons Keynote: Rachel Lindsay, “PERSEPOLIS & the Graphic Memoir”
2/12/22: New Commons Film Series: PERSEPOLIS
2/7/22: Faculty Panel: “The Cultural Context of Persepolis”
1/27/22: Artist Talk with Dawn Nye
2021
12/9/21-12/12/21: Death of a Salesman, Directed by Linda Britt
11/18/21: Screening – 21st Annual Animation Show of Shows
11/17/21: Aaron Wyanski, “Get Out and Horror Soundtracks”
11/12/21: An Evening of Poetry with Maine Poet Laureates Stuart Kestenbaum & Julia Bouwsma
11/10/21: New Commons Keynote Lecture: Kevin Wynter, “The Final Brother: On Horror and Black Survivability”
11/8/21: An Evening with Maine Inside Out: “We Do This For Them”
11/5/21: Michael Johnson, “GET OUT and the History of African Americans in Horror Films”
11/4/21: Art Exhibition Opening Reception: sea/sky, blood, earth, you
11/3/21: Concert – Musical Temporalities: Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Trajectories
11/2/21: Concert – Musical Temporalities: Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Trajectories
11/2/21: Franklin County Community Action Meeting
10/28/21: Concert – Delimited Space: Aaron Wyanski in Recital
10/25/21: Shelton Waldrep, Lecture on David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?”
10/14/21: New Commons Film Series: THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
10/13/21: Panel Presentation, “#LandBack, Water Rights, and Decolonization in Wabanaki Territory”
10/7/21: Martha Mooke, “Mission: Imagination”
10/6/21: Stephen Grandchamp, “David Bowie 101: A Video Introduction to David Bowie”
9/22/21: Dawn Nye, “Facing Away Photography Workshop”
9/15/21: Ann Bartges and Kristen Case, “Discussion of ‘Reimagining the Real’ and ‘Christina’s World'”
9/3/21: Emery’s 10th Anniversary Celebration
9/2/21: Emery’s 10th Anniversary Celebration
9/2/21: Palette of the Forest Opening Reception
9/2/21: Reimagining the Real Opening Reception
4/21/21: Quarry Animal Zero Fold: The Chaconne Project
4/19/21: Arts Night Spring 2021
Fall 2020- Spring 2021: Liminal Space
2020
7/31/20: The Couch Jam Week 4: Lindsay Mower and Campfire Flicker Lights double-feature.
7/24/20: The Couch Jam Week 3: Draudiga and No Coffee double-feature.
7/17/20: The Couch Jam Week 2: Kait Frost and The Taylor Twins double-feature.
7/10/20: The Couch Jam Week 1: Brian Richmond and Tumbledown double-feature.
2/28 + 2/29: Read Our Lips
2/21: (UN)DOCUMENTS by Jesus I. Valles
2/13: Animation Show of Shows
2/1: Droplet Dance with Molly Gawler and Lissa Schneckenburger
1/30: VOYAGER Opening Reception.
1/30: SHARED SPACE LEWISTON.
1/30: The National Bird: A performance by Arturo Herrera.
2019
12/:10 UMF Project Gallery
12/9: Fall Student Music Performances
12/5: New Commons Project presents: Jericho Brown
12/4, 12/6 and 12/7: Bust-A-Move Beavers Fall Showcase
11/22: New Commons Project presents: James Baldwin Symposium
11/16: Frank Giampietro presents: Requiem for the Gettysburg Address
11/13: New Commons Project presents: Jonathan Gray
11/10: Bread & Puppet: The Essential Furthermore
11/9+11/10: Bread & Puppet Workshop
10/30: New Commons Project presents: Simpsons Roundtable
10/23: New Commons Project presents: Sabine Klein
10/22: Jeffrey Thomson: Half/Life–Book Launch and Film Preview of Blink
10/18: Western Maine Music Series presents: An Anderson
10/16: New Commons Project presents: Cheryl Savageau
*CANCELLED* 10/11: New Commons Project presents: Siobhan Senier
*MOVED*9/28: New Commons Project presents: Canoe Trip Slideshows
9/27 & 9/28: Sandy River Players presents: Court of Final Reckoning (A play by Anna Freeman)
9/27: New Commons Project presents: Lisa Brooks
9/20: Western Maine Music Series presents: Crunchcoat
9/12: Myth & Mirth Opening Reception, 5-7pm
6/20: Dyado Concert
6/14/19: Dreadful Unimaginings Opening Reception
5/16: Mt. Blue High School Student Art Exhibition Opening Reception
4/30: Lauren Crosby Concert
4/23: Arts Night
4/22: Pixel Hunter Student Film & Animation Festival
4/19: New Commons Roundtable on the Pastoral
4/18: New Commons Screening: In Search Of Beethoven
4/17, 4/19 & 4/20: Bust-A-Move Beavers Spring Showcase
4/17: Lecture with Dan Beachy-Quick
4/5: A Night with the Burton-Matthews-Drury Trio
4/4: Opening Reception: UMF Senior Exhibition
3/27: New Commons Project Keynote Lecture: C.R. LawnÂ
3/14: New Commons Screening: SEED
3/13: Art on Campus: Patrick Casey
2/22-2/24: The Vagina Monologues
2/14: New Commons Screening: LOST BOYS OF SUDAN
1/31: Opening Reception: John Umphlett, Elements of Degradation
1/31: New Commons Project presents MILO
2/1: Artist Talk with John Umphlett
2018
12/5: New Commons Project Lecture: Dan Gunn
11/28, 11/30, 12/1: BAM: Bust-A-Move Beaver’s Fall Showcase
11/28: New Commons Project Keynote: Wendy Lee
11/20: New Commons Project Performance: Anthony Green
11/7: New Commons Project Performance: Gustavo Aguilar Get Libre Collective
11/5: Artist Talk With Robert Shetterly.
11/1: New Commons Project Screening: Chasing Trane
10/31: New Commons Project: Anthony Davis Concert
10/25: American Dreams/Immigrations Stories AND Photo Journal Opening Reception (UPDATED EVENT)
10/10: Animation Show of Shows
10/10: New Commons Project Keynote: Nick Tobier
10/4: New Commons Project Screening: Exit Through the Gift Shop
10/3: Art on Campus Visiting Artist Talk- Lisa Weinblatt
9/26: TUG Collective: In Conversation with Sarah Maline
9/26: Visiting Speaker: David Ross
9/22:Torres Meets Tarrega: Music of Francisco Tarrego and Contemporaries.
9/21: Inner Fragments: Presentation by curators Parisa Ghaderi and Mahsa Soroudi
9/19: New Commons Project Keynote: Brian Purnell and Jason Mittell
9/19: Art on Campus Visiting Artist Talk- H. Jennings Sheffield.(This event is cancelled.)
9/14: Fall Concert- Dominic Lavoie and Jeff Beam
9/7-9: Sandy River Players: Agnes of God
7/27: GoldenOak Concert
7/15-21: Longfellow Writer’s Camp Nightly Readings
7/14: City Lights
6/20: Concert on the Lawn: Dyado, Izaak Optaz & Oshima Brothers
5/18: Sue Farris: Nature Based Education: Green Chimneys
5/5: Fiddlehead Festival
5/4: Shana Youndahl: Coming of Age: An Honors 101 Exploration in Object, Dance and Video
5/1: ENG 277: Small Press Publishing and Book Arts Exhibition of Work
4/28: Bread & Puppet Theater: The Basic Bye-Bye Show
4/24: Arts Night
4/23: Pixel Hunter
4/11-14: Bust A Move Beavers
4/12: Book Authors Event
4/11: Artist Talk with Christopher McNulty
4/7: Body and Sold: Human Rights Script Reading
4/6: New Commons Project Nominations/PresentationÂ
3/31: Pihcintu Choir
3/27: Public Classroom: Melissa Thompson
3/22-23: Immigration Stories: Play by Linda Beck
2/27: Public Classroom: Meredith Swallow
2/23: V-day: Vagina Monologues
2/16: Artist Talk with Katrina Majkut
2/14: Audrey Chen and Phil Minton
1/30: Public Classroom: Frank Underkuffler
1/27: Michael Cooper