WABI (Channel 5) reported on a performance by the World Famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater at the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts. For the last nine years, the family-friendly extravaganza has been based at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. It includes European-style clowns, juggling acts and performing pets. Popovich, […]
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Members of the University of Maine community and general public are invited to join a bus trip to Portland to tour collections at the Osher Map Library, as well as attend a public lecture and view William Shakespeare’s First Folio at the Portland Public Library. The UMaine Humanities Center (UMHC) and Department of English are […]
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The Ellsworth American reported the Ellsworth Community Music Institute will present the Silver Duo — cellist Noreen Silver and pianist Phillip Silver — in a free concert from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 7 at the General Bryant E. Moore Community Center theater. The husband-and-wife Silver Duo was founded when the musicians were […]
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The annual spring tour of the University of Maine Symphonic Band April 6–9 will feature 10 free public performances, including school assemblies and community concerts. The Symphonic Band, directed by Christopher White, is an auditioned group of 45 woodwind, brass and percussion performers with a repertoire that spans nearly 250 years. The band will feature […]
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George Kinghorn, executive director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor, was featured in the April issue of Maine Home + Design magazine. Kinghorn was drawn to UMMA’s impressive contemporary art collection, which includes 3,800 works, with a concentration in original prints and photography, and potential for growth, according […]
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Mnozil Brass, often called the “Monty Python of the music world,” will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 10, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The seven-member ensemble features talented musicians who earn a living by not taking themselves too seriously. Thomas Gansch, Robert Rother, Roman Rindberger, Leonhard Paul, […]
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The Collins Center for the Arts will go to the dogs. And cats, parrots, goats and a miniature horse when the World Famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater takes the stage at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 3. For the last nine years, the family-friendly extravaganza has been based at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las […]
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Be transported from rousing Saturday night juke joint music to Sunday morning church gospel with “True Blues: Sin and Redemption” at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 26, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. True Blues (Corey Harris, Guy David and Alvin Youngblood Hart) and the Campbell Brothers (Chuck Campbell, Phillip […]
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The Bangor Daily News advanced the second annual Maine Science Festival set for March 18–20 throughout Bangor. The University of Maine is participating in several demonstrations, hands-on activities and panels at the festival, which seeks to stimulate interest in science and heighten awareness of its impacts. The article mentioned 10 can’t-miss events at this year’s […]
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“Documenting China,” an exhibition of photographs by University of Maine Professor of Art Laurie Hicks, taken during three research trips beginning in 2010, will be on display March 25–June 30 at UMaine’s Hudson Museum. An artist’s reception will be held from 5:30–7 p.m., March 31. The Hudson Museum, located in the Collins Center for the […]
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