WHEN: May 17, 18, and 19

WHERE: UMaine Darling Marine Center, Walpole, Maine (http://www.dmc.maine.edu)

May 17 is fast approaching! We are looking forward to seeing you all soon. We are excited for more meals and conversations, to hear what you’ve been up to, to share in all of our creativities.

We have already received responses from many of you who plan to participate in Walpole next month. So far, we will be joined by performers, novelists, researchers, teachers – faces both familiar and new.

Once again, our gathering will take place May 17, 18, and 19 at the UMaine Darling Marine Center in Walpole (http://www.dmc.maine.edu/).

For those who haven’t responded, please let us know by APRIL 15 if you plan to join the gathering. In order to reserve a space for you at the Darling Center, we need to know if you want to reserve a room for the Friday the 17^th and/or Saturday the 18^th.  We also need to give the Darling Center catering counts; please let us know what meals you will be sharing with us during the weekend (Saturday: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner; and Sunday: Breakfast)

We will begin Friday evening at 7PM with conversation and a screening of short films by Louise Bourque (http://www.bu.edu/prc/vernacular/bourque.htm). Friday will also be your time to sign up to read or present your work on Saturday. All day Saturday will be devoted to you and your work.  We will unwind Saturday evening with the music and conversation of a kitchen party, and wrap up Sunday morning with breakfast and a closing discussion.

The program is free for you. We will be paying for room and board for all of you who would like to join us and we will not be asking for money at the event. However, we ask that you consider sending a donation to help make our gathering an annual event. This will be our third consecutive year, but without your donations it may be our final. We hope for many more.

All donations are tax-deductible and can be made through the Franco American Studies program website (http://umaine.edu/francoamericanstudies). Click on the “give now” button near the top; we can be found under the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

For more information, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Hope to hear from you.

Tuesday

February 12, 2013

5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

FREE!  (Donations Accepted)

Fun ~ Food ~ Music

@ the Alfond Lounge w/ parking at the Alfond

across from the Franco-American Centre

Orono, Maine

For more information:

Lisa Michaud  – (207)581-3789 – lisa_michaud@umit.maine.edu

Come join the students of FAS 101: Introduction to Franco American Studies in an old-style kitchen party with fiddler Michele Roy, mandolinist Don Cunningham, and guitarist Will West.  Cindy Larock, master folk dancer who specializes in traditional French Canadian step dancing (la gigue) and social dancing (contre danse, quadrille, etc.) will call, leading us in a selection of fun and easy contras and other jigs and reels rooted in the old-time kitchen parties of Quebec.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

9:30am, followed by lunch

Crossland Hall, UMaine Orono

FREE and ALL ARE WELCOME

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
9:00 AM
Franco-American Center
University of Maine, Orono
110 Crossland Hall

For more information, please visit: http://www.maine.gov/legis/opla/francoamerican.htm

Join us at 2:00 p.m.

on Saturday Nov.3, 2012

At the

Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain

University of Maine, Crossland Hall

(Across from the Alfond Arena)

Chicken Stew & Ployes will be served after

Contact:  Lisa Michaud, 581-3789

or email:  Lisa.Michaud@umit.maine.edu

for more information, visit joseevachon.com

Finding Your Inner Moose: Ida Leclair’s Guide to Livin’ the Good Life
by Susan Poulin

“Wondering how to live the good life? Well, it turns out, you can really learn a lot about that from a moose. And Ida Leclair. Ida (and Susan Poulin, author of  Finding Your Inner Moose) draws upon her personal experiences and those of the majestic moose to offer down-to-earth, commonsensical advice in her hilarious new self-help book (seriously, it’s wicked funny!). Come say hi!“

Franco-American Centre, Crossland Hall, University of Maine, Orono

6PM, October 24th, 2012

Read more about Finding Your Inner Moose at http://www.islandportpress.com

Susan Poulin’s website: http://www.poolyle.com

For more information about this event:

Susan Pinette – (207)581-3791 – susan.pinette@umit.maine.edu

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Nos Histoires de l’Île Scholarship: Information

Nos Histoires de l’Île Scholarship: Application

Come join us for screenings of two documentary films and one video presentation:

EXPULSION: The Story of Acadia
Tuesday, April 3, 9:30 & 12:30 screenings

• “Drawing from the highly acclaimed series, Canada: A People’s History, this one-hour documentary examines the events leading up to the brutal expulsion. Through dramatic re-enactments and interviews with Acadian descendants, it brings to life a human tragedy, one that changed the course of history and established a legacy and culture that lives on to this day.”

FRANCO AMERICANS and WHITE PRIVILEGE: Can white ethnicities exist?
Thursday, April 5, 9:30 & 12:30 screenings

• “Susan Pinette, director of UMaine’s Franco American Studies program, looks at racialized assumptions of white privilege and questions if a space can exist for diverse ethnicities within white skin. Dr. Pinette examines how French Canadian immigrants to 19th-century New England were racialized as the ‘other’ due to their French language and culture, and how succeeding generations of Franco Americans relate to an American concept of whiteness.”

RÉVEIL: WAKING UP FRENCH
Tuesday, April 10, 9:30 & 12:30 screenings

• “Réveil is a powerful documentary film that explores the struggle for cultural survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communities of New England. The film traces French heritage from immigration from Québec and Acadia, through persecution of Franco-Americans by the Ku Klux Klan, to language loss, to cultural renaissance and heritage preservation. Through their determined loyalty to the French Catholic faith, language, and cultural values, the French of New England continue to discover new ways of renewal and cultural diversity through heritage language reacquisition.”

FOR MORE INFO, CONTACT:

Lisa Michaud – 581-3789 – lisa.michaud@umit.maine.edu

Paige Mitchell – 581-3832 – paige.mitchell@umit.maine.edu

An Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border, by Jacques Poitras

Finalist, 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

Franco-American Centre, University of Maine, Orono

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 12PM – 1:30PM

Bring your own brown bag lunch, or join us for soup, bread, and ployes

Books will be available for purchase. All are welcome.