UMaine will host a screening of the award-winning holocaust documentary “Defiant Requiem,” followed by a concert by the Silver Duo featuring music composed by concentration camp prisoners. The screening and concert will take place at 1 p.m., Oct. 29 in Minsky Recital Hall, and is free and open to the public. “Defiant Requiem” tells the […]
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The transformation of the University of Maine from a traditional land grant school to the flagship campus of the University of Maine System is the subject of the annual Maine Heritage Lecture on Monday, Oct. 23. Howard Segal, professor of history, will speak on “Becoming Modern: The Transformation of the University of Maine, 1965–2015,” beginning […]
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High school students can learn how to safely prepare smoked chicken at the next University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H Science Saturday, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Oct. 28 at UMaine’s J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center in Old Town. Participants will learn how to safely prepare and cook whole chicken in a home smoker, and about […]
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It’s a story as old as humanity: the eagerness to trade the good things we have for what we think will surely be better. Composer Igor Stravinsky captured that age-old theme in “L’Histoire du Soldat” (The Soldier’s Tale), and Oct. 27–29, the University of Maine School of Performing Arts will bring it to the Cyrus Pavilion stage. […]
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More than 100 Bangor and Brewer area high school students studying advanced French and Spanish are expected to participate in World Languages Day Oct. 12 at the University of Maine. The annual event, offered by UMaine’s Department of Modern Languages and Classics, features immersion activities in French and Spanish, including a culture bowl, scavenger hunt, […]
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Items left behind by escaping migrants traveling along the Arizona/Mexico border are on display at The Wilson Center for Spiritual Exploration and Multifaith Dialogue in Orono until mid-November. The exhibit, titled “Along the Migrant Trails,” features an array of lost objects — wallets (still with their contents), cowboy boots, children’s clothes, backpacks, and even letters, […]
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The School of Performing Arts at the University of Maine will host two performances of Mainely Baroque, a musical trio of European early music specialists, in concert with UMaine students and faculty. Mainely Baroque returns to UMaine with a program of repertoire for multiple voices or parts, titled, “A più parti: 17th century music for […]
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Editor’s note: as of Oct. 11 the inaugural King Chair Lecture has been postponed indefinitely. The power of stories will be the focus of the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Oct. 25 at the University of Maine by internationally recognized educator Nancie Atwell. The free public lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital […]
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Editor’s note: In this student profile, graduate student Marina Cucuzza writes about the value of her summer experience at the Darling Marine Center. The University of Maine Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions partially funded her research. As the summer came to a close, I left the Darling Marine Center to begin my first semester of […]
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The Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine is offering a variety of performances throughout the 2017–18 season. October events will include a Shakespearean play, Dutch vocal ensemble concert, and a magic and illusions show. Aquila Theatre will bring “Hamlet,” the classic tale of love, revenge, mortality and madness, to the CCA […]
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