The University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts will host a Maine Indie Music Showcase, featuring four Maine-based bands, at 8 p.m. April 15. The event will include performances by headliner GoldenOak, a folk-inspired band with music rooted in the natural landscape; Gnocchi, a rock band from Orono; Midnight Breakfast, an indie-soul sextet; and […]
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The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is hosting a public presentation of the film “The House We Lived In,” with a post-screening talk and Q&A with the filmmaker Tim O’Donnell and his father. A decade in the making, O’Donnell confronts family, memory and addiction as he chronicles his father’s journey to recover lost memories […]
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The Ellsworth American noted that students from the University of Maine School of Performing Arts will join the Downeast Chamber Orchestra, Down East Maine’s newest classical music ensemble, for a concert of notable classical works led by violinist and conductor Anatole Wieck on Friday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at Hammond Hall. For more information […]
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The Travel featured the University of Maine’s Zillman Art Museum in a guide of best things to do in Bangor.
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Screenings of a filmed version of the opera “I Give You My Home,” with music and libretto written by Beth Wiemann, professor of music and director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, will be screened in venues across New England in March and April. The piece, inspired by the life and work of Rose Standish Nichols, […]
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The Department of Art’s 2023 Student Exhibition will open in Lord Hall Gallery from April 3–28. The gallery is free, accessible and open to the public Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. A public reception will be held on Friday, April 7 from 5–7 p.m. Refreshments will be served. This show is a celebration of […]
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Kaitlin McCullough has spent years shaping her own unique singing voice, and she is ready to share it with thousands of people during the 2023 University of Maine commencement ceremonies. Commencement is not the first event at which McCullough, a UMaine senior from Ellsworth majoring in music education, has sung the “National Anthem.” She performed […]
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported that the True North Theatre will host performances of the play “Silent Sky” on March 23, at the Versant Power Astronomy Center. For more information about the production, visit the center’s website.
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WFVX-TV (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) shared events from the University of Maine School of Performing Arts. This weekend, the UMaine Singers and Alumni Concert at the Collins Center for the Arts will celebrate longtime University Singers conductor, Dennis “DC” Cox. Next weekend, the Department of Theatre offers up the play “Everybody,” a modern adaption […]
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Orono-based theater company True North Theatre (TNT) will perform the play “Silent Sky,” based on the true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, at the Versant Power Astronomy Center in March and April. Performances of “Silent Sky” are scheduled as follows: Thursdays, March 23 and 30 at 7 p.m. Friday, March 24 at 7 p.m. […]
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