Faculty to participate in Penobscot Theatre Co. forum on ‘Transformer Tales’
Several University of Maine faculty members are scheduled to take part in a Penobscot Theatre Co. forum to promote community conversation around Native stories of the past, present and future.
The July 18 event will be held from 6:30–8 p.m. at the Bangor Opera House to discuss the collaborative project, “Transformer Tales: Stories of the Dawnland.”
The original play, which focuses on Wabanaki culture and was created by local Wabanaki artists, will be performed during the theatre’s summer educational program for local students, according to a Penobscot Theatre Co. release.
The July 18 panel will include Assiniboine playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., UMaine’s fall 2016 Visiting Libra Professor in English and Theatre; Margo Lukens, a UMaine English professor who teaches courses in Native American literature and has produced and directed Native plays; as well as Carol Dana and Donna Loring of the Penobscot Nation.
Lukens will lead the conversation, which also will include some audience Q&A. The event is free and open to the public.
More about “Transformer Tales” is online.