• Pre-Performance Lecture: Jupiter String Quartet

    Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME, United States

    Anatole Wieck, professor of Music, Violin/Viola and Orchestra at UMaine, will give a pre-performace lecture before Jupiter String Quartet takes the stage Friday night. The 6:30pm lecture will be held in Miller's Cafe, inside the Collins Center for the Arts, and will give attendees insight and background knowledge into the quartet's 7:30pm performance that night […]

  • Human Beans: A Bean Supper Series

    Church of Universal Fellowship 82 Main Street, Orono, ME, United States

    Throughout the Fall, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center will be holding a series of bean suppers as part of our annual symposium theme of "Society, Colonization and Decolonization." Each of the suppers will feature a different cultural identity and bean recipe, including Franco-American bean-hole beans with brown bread, US southwestern-style beans with red & green chiles, Cuban bean […]

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  • Mary and Molly: In the Spirit of the Ancestors

    Bangor Public Library 145 Harlow St., Bangor, ME, United States

    The McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the Bangor Public Library present “Mary and Molly: In the Spirit of the Ancestors, a Birthday to Remember” A One Act play by Donna M. Loring PRODUCED BY THE MCGILLICUDDY HUMANITIES CENTER DIRECTED BY WILLIAM S. YELLOW ROBE, JR. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 2:00 - 4:00 PM Minsky Lecture Hall, Bangor […]

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  • Wabanaki Artist Showcase – James Francis

    Hudson Museum

    Wabanaki Artist Showcases at the Hudson Museum provide an opportunity to see artists in action.  Join a free demonstration and talk by James Francis, Penobscot Multimedia Artist. See the Hudson […]

  • Pre-Performance Lecture by King Chair Caroline Bicks,”Midsummer Night Queens”

    Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono, ME, United States

    Pre-performance reception and lecture entitled “Midsummer-Night Queens”, presented by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. UMaine professor and Stephen E. King Chair Caroline Bicks, a Shakespeare scholar, will conduct the lecture about […]

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  • McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series : Before Tomorrow

    Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

    Greg Quill's review of Before Tomorrow from The Star: "A disturbing and powerful metaphor for the doom visited on the Inuit after their insulated world was penetrated by Europeans in the mid-1800s, Before Tomorrow, co-directed by native filmmakers and writers Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, imagines a moment in which these once hardy people, ill-equipped […]

  • Queering the Fin de Siecle: Recognizing Queer Identities in the Modernist Era of Literature

    Writing Center Neville Hall, #404, Orono, ME, United States

    Senior English major and McGillicuddy Humanities Center fellow Connor Ferguson will present his project, “Queering the Fin de Siècle,” on December 6th, 2019, from 2-4pm in the Writing Center. This project focuses on the importance of recognizing queer identities in the modernist era of literature, the way industrialization and globalization affected queer individuals, and how […]

  • Aydrea Walden, “The Oreo Experience”

    Minsky Recital Hall Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

    The Rising Tide Center, in collaboration with the Honors College, the Bailey Fund, the Communication and Journalism Department, and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, presents stand-up comedienne Aydrea Walden performing "a […]

    Free
  • Aydrea Walden, “Black Girl in a Big Dress”

    Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

    The Rising Tide Center, in collaboration with the Honors College, the Bailey Fund, the Communication and Journalism Department, and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, presents two unique events with stand-up comedienne […]

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