The Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee is accepting grant applications from the University of Maine community. Grants support up to 50 percent of expenses associated with cultural events that enhance the artistic, cultural and intellectual life of the University of Maine. The next application deadline is Nov. 28. Proposals must be submitted online using the […]
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Artist and Harvard University lecturer Katarina Burin will give a free, public presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the University of Maine Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center. Burin’s appearance is part of Tuesdays at the IMRC, the Intermedia MFA visiting artist series. Originally from Slovakia, she creates drawings, models, collages and installation […]
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Storyteller Mike Daisey takes on Herman Melville’s masterpiece of revenge, fate and whaling terminology in a hilarious 90-minute monologue at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. Daisey, who was born in Fort Kent and graduated from Nokomis Regional High School and Colby College, weaves […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about “Constellations,” a joint production of the School of Performing Arts and Emera Astronomy Center. UMaine’s Jordan Planetarium will be the setting for the play by British playwright Nick Payne that opens Nov. 15. Marcia Joy Douglas, an associate professor of theatre, will direct the […]
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The University of Maine’s Jordan Planetarium will be the setting for “Constellations,” a play by British playwright Nick Payne that opens Nov. 15 as part of the School of Performing Arts season. Associate Professor of Theater Marcia Joy Douglas will direct the production that features a cast of two. UMaine’s Innovative Media Research and Commercialization […]
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A California-based artist who uses photography, installation and sculpture to draw attention to the mundane and find meaning in the human experience, will deliver a presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8 at the Innovative Media Research and Communication Center at the University of Maine. Will Rogan’s free, public presentation is part of “Tuesdays at […]
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The Maine Edge published a review of the University of Maine School of Performing Arts production of “Big Love.” The play by Charles Mee is adapted from the ancient Greek play “The Suppliant Women” by Aeschylus, according to the article. The show, directed by Tom Mikotowicz, runs through Oct. 30 at Hauck Auditorium on the […]
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A cast of nine undergraduates will premiere “Wood Bones,” a play by Assiniboine playwright William Yellow Robe Jr., at the University of Maine Nov. 4. Yellow Robe will direct the production, which is part of the School of Performing Arts season. Performances in the Black Box Theatre are at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 4–5 and Nov. […]
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A multimedia documentary theater piece about the life-altering impact of war on veterans and their families will be performed at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. BASETRACK LIVE is a viscerally powerful collaboration between the award-winning theater company En Garde Arts and corpsmen from […]
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When Samuel Borer isn’t choreographing the University of Maine’s next School of Performing Arts dance performance, running an ultramarathon, protecting the nation from weapons of mass destruction or figuring out new ways to detect one of the physical world’s most elusive subatomic particles, he’s probably thinking about space exploration. Borer has wanted to be an […]
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