NEW DATE: 12/5/22: “Delimited Space II,” featuring Aaron Wyanski on piano 7:00pm, Emery Performance Space Free and open to the public Join UMF professor Aaron Wyanski for a recital of solo piano music featuring original works along with music by Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, and Fiona Apple. Aaron Wyanski is a…
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11/6/22: ArtsFarmington presents: “The Presence of the Past,” A solo performance by Timothy Burris on baroque lute and classical guitar 3:00pm, Emery Performance Space General Admission: $10 (This is a benefit concert with profits going to the United Way in Farmington) Free Admission for those 18 years & under In the…
Comments closedInside Vision: An Outside Exhibition of Inside Art November 3 – December 10, 2022 Opening reception: Thursday, November 3rd, 4:30-7:00pm Free and open to the public Inside Vision: An Outside Exhibition of Inside Art, curated by Jan Collins, Olivia Hochstadt and Sophie Craven, features art by individuals incarcerated at Maine State…
Comments closed10/27/22: Film Screening: I KNOW A MAN … ASHLEY BRYAN 7:00pm, Emery Performance Space Free and open to the public The documentary film, I KNOW A MAN … ASHLEY BRYAN, directed by Richard Kane, is a story about a 90+ year-old artist who skips and jumps in his heart…
Comments closed10/18/22: Urban Maine: Stories and Sounds 3:00pm-5:00pm Free and open to the public Fusion First Year Students will present their video interviews of authors, booksellers, tattoo artists and other members of the Portland community. Additionally, work includes video and sound pieces of the UMF-Farmington area.
Comments closed10/14: Keynote Lecture: James Phelan, “Close Reading and Narrative Medicine: Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Sunrise/Sunset’” 11:45am-1:00pm Free and open to the public Dr. James Phelan (Ohio State University) teaches and writes about narrative theory, the medical humanities, and the English and American novel. Rather than working in only one historical period, Phelan gravitates toward theoretical…
Comments closedPaying Attention: A Celebration of Dan Gunn and the Practice of Close Reading Friday, October 14, 2022 Emery Community Arts Center University of Maine Farmington Schedule of Events: 8:45 Welcome 9:00-10:15 Session 1 *Adèle St. Pierre (The Moses Brown School), “The beauty of words and the power of grammar in J.M.G. LeClézio’s ‘Mondo’” *Christine Darrohn (University of Maine Farmington), “Lingering: A Close Reading of Katherine Mansfield” *Astra Pierson…
Comments closed9/8/22: UMF Creative Writing Faculty Reading 7:15pm-8:15pm, Emery Performance Space Free and open to the public Please join the UMF Creative Writing faculty Julia Bouwsma, Gretchen Legler, Amy Neswald, Lewis Robinson, Amber Stone, and Jeffrey Thomson for a short reading of their work.
Comments closed10/6: Late Wonders: Book Launch and Poetry Reading with Wesley McNair 7:00pm, Emery Performance Space Free and open to the public With a plain-spoken tenderness, Wesley McNair’s story-like poems celebrate the dreamers and the misfits, the small but hard-earned triumphs of everyday life. Since the publication of his first book…
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