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 University of Maine is addressing the state’s shortage of foreign language teachers and the resulting lack of language instruction for young learners in an after-school program at the Franco-American Center. Launched last fall, K–5 students in the Bangor-Orono-Old Town receive two hours of French-language instruction, twice a week, for a $50 fee. The program […]
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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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The University of Maine Office of International Programs and International Student Association will host a daylong celebration of cultures Saturday, Nov. 5 in the New Balance Student Recreation Center. The 29th annual Culturefest will feature international cultural exhibits, food, children’s activities, a style show and performances from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The family-friendly event […]
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Over the next week, nearly 60 graduate and undergraduate students in economics, engineering, ecology and environmental sciences, and other majors will volunteer their time to build and wrap window inserts for 21 area community members to help conserve heat in their homes this winter. The project is an outgrowth of a partnership developed last fall […]
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Read transcript The latest installment of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s “Growing Maine” series tells the story of Patty and Gary Treworgy and their children on their second-generation orchard and family farm. Treworgy Family Orchards in Levant had a rough start after the first planting of apples failed. But with perseverance and by “starting […]
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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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Students in the University of Maine Marine Sciences Club are partnering with area schoolchildren to enter the 2016 Atlantic Miniboat Regatta with a nearly 5-foot unmanned sailboat equipped with GPS to track its voyage to Europe by way of the ocean currents. The regatta is organized by Educational Passages, a Belfast, Maine-based program that teaches […]
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The University of Maine Bureau of Labor Education will hold an event to commemorate 50 years of service to the working women and men of Maine on Oct. 27. Edward C. Schlick, former communications director of the Maine AFL-CIO, friend of labor, activist and artist (1928–2013), will be honored with an unveiling of five new […]
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Climate change and its impact on Maine will be the focus of an address by U.S. Sen. Angus King when he gives the Senator Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Lecture at the University of Maine Nov. 10. King’s address, “Maine and Climate Change: The View from Greenland” begins at 3:30 p.m., in the Collins Center […]
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