WVII (Channel 7) advanced the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s 126th season, which features live performances beginning Oct. 10 at the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts. Tickets go on sale Sept. 7.
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University of Maine lecturer and Libra Professor William Yellow Robe passed away July 19 in Bangor after a long illness. He was 61. Yellow Robe, a member of the Assiniboine Nation from Fort Peck, Montana, joined the UMaine community first as a Visiting Libra Professor in fall 2004. He was an award-winning playwright with a […]
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The Bangor Daily News highlighted Kevin Birch, an organ and harpsichord instructor with the University of Maine, participating in St. John’s Organ Society’s Summer Recital Series to be held at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday starting Aug. 5. Birch will close out the series with his rectial on Sept. 2. More information can be found online.
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The Bangor Daily News reported that a number of local museums and entertainment venues will receive funds from the federal Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program. The Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine will receive more than $475,000.
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News Center Maine advanced three live performances of the classical ballet “Don Quixote” by the Bossov Ballet Theatre at the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts. More information is online.
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The Bangor Daily News reported that William S. Yellow Robe, acclaimed playwright and adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine, died July 19 at the age of 61. Yellow Robe, who taught numerous graduate and undergraduate classes at UMaine, explored the racial, cultural and emotional faultlines of Native American life through his plays, highlighting […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Centralmaine.com and the Portland Press Herald reported on the passing of longtime University of Maine art emeritus professor Michael Lewis. Lewis passed away June 27 at 79 years old.
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and VillageSoup highlighted the new Mid-Coast Salon exhibit “Art Matters” opening Aug. 4 at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast.
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The Mid-Coast Salon exhibit “Art Matters” opens Aug. 4 at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The show, on display at the center, 80 Belmont Ave., Belfast, is free and open to the public from 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday–Friday through Sept. 30. A free […]
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Jon Ippolito, a University of Maine professor of new media, spoke with Artnews about the auction of five non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of art originally created by Andy Warhol using an Amiga 1000 computer.
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