Campus Events

Fun activity for all students to get away from their academic work for an hour!Location: Meet at Mantor Green Cost: Minimal Payment Open to: UMF Community Only Sponsored By: Transfer Nontraditional Club For more info. contact: Arieanna Mills, 207-607-9424, , umf.transfernontraditionalclub-group@maine.edu)

Dr. Elizabeth Donaldson, prominent disability studies scholar and Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, will discuss Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, the historical figure behind the rest cure; reading Gilman in the pandemic; and present-day connections to the #FreeBritney movement.

This prerecorded keynote address will be available on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
Location: http://vimeo.com/newcommonsproject Cost: FREE Open to: Open to the Public Sponsored By: New Commons Project For more info. contact: Kristen Case, 207.778.7239, https://newcommonsproject.org/event/donaldson/, newcommonsproject@gmail.com)

The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series presents poet and non-fiction writer Jennifer Militello as the popular program’s final reader of the season. Militello will read from her work in a remote live reading at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 15. The reading will be followed by a question and answer talk back with the author. Location: Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/86262931499 Cost: FREE Open to: Open to the Public Sponsored By: The Creative Writing Department For more info. contact: Amy Neswald, 207-778-8024, , amy.neswald@maine.edu)

Come watch Kimi no Na wa (Your Name) in Lincoln Auditorium or via Zoom Friday, April 16th, at 6:30pm.
Movie description: Two japanese teenagers share a connection that feels magical when they discover they are swapping bodies. When they decide to meet in person, things become even more complicated. Register ahead of the event through a QR code provided on event posters. Zoom link will be provided after registration.Location: Lincoln Auditorium or Zoom Cost: FREE Open to: UMF Community Only Sponsored By: Office of Experiential and Global Education For more info. contact: Linda Beck , 207-778-7292, FilmNights RSVP

-Announcement of 2021-22 Elsie C. Grote Award Recipient
This competitive scholarship is awarded annually to a “full-time junior or senior female student, of meritorious academic standing, with preference given to those who have exhibited proficiency in one of the creative arts.” Preregistration Required, link to preregistration form: https://forms.gle/1Cw6MQ2iVD6yb8nu6

-Samantha Taylor: A Concept OST
Developing the sounds of a video game that doesn’t exist, Samantha Taylor takes advantage of the genre of video game music to produce a large quantity of theme-based compositions. If this game were to be developed, it would closely follow the story of two characters through their journey against each other and the world around them. The music, displayed virtually on Bandcamp, will also be explained by Samantha Taylor during Arts Week Monday, April 19th (Arts Night): 6:00pm in the Emery Performance Space.
Preregistration Required, link to preregistration form: https://forms.gle/1Cw6MQ2iVD6yb8nu6

-For Films Sake!: Screening of Short Films by Grant Forbes and Sam MacDonald
In conjunction with the exhibition, Unusual Articles: 2021 Senior Show, senior art majors Grant Forbes and Sam MacDonald will screen a selection of their short films.
These films are ridiculous, nonsensical, and just wacky, for lack of a better word. They are easy to watch and digest mentally, while offering a unique perspective on that internal world we create for ourselves in how we interact with the outside one, projecting mentally on how we view it in different ways, from how we interact with it, to how the things within it interact with each other. April 19th, 7:30pm. Emery Performance Space. Preregistration Required, link to preregistration form: https://forms.gle/jz2BKb4tvjN2DudE6

-Routines of Home: Eliza Robinson
Routines of Home is an installation exploring the subject of home and all of the forms that can take. This audio and visual performance piece uses technical elements in place of performers. April 16th-April 23, 2021. Emery Community Arts Center (lower level lobby)

-Unusual Articles: 2021 Senior Show
Grant Forbes, Warren Garrett, Lake France, Sam MacDonald, Samantha Taylor, Sara Taylor. April 8-May 7, 2021. Emery Community Arts Center & UMF Art Gallery
Location: Emery Community Arts Center & UMF Art Gallery Cost: FREE Open to: UMF Community Only Sponsored By: UMF Symposium, University Culture Committee, UMF Division of the Arts For more info. contact: Ann Bartges, 207-778-7461, , ann.bartges@maine.edu)

Join Dr. Elizabeth Donaldson for a live online discussion of mental illness in “The Yellow Wallpaper” hosted on Zoom by the New Commons Project.

No registration is required for this online live event that is open to the public.
Location: http://maine.zoom.us/j/82502683737 Cost: FREE Open to: Open to the Public Sponsored By: New Commons Project For more info. contact: Kristen Case, 207.778.7239, https://newcommonsproject.org/event/donaldsondiscussion/, newcommonsproject@gmail.com)

Quarry Animal Zero Fold: The Chaconne Project.
The final movement of The Partita in D minor for solo violin by J.S. Bach, the Chaconne has been interpreted by every age and transcribed for virtually every instrument. In this collaborative project, Kristen and Steve attempt translation of the Chaconne to the piano and the page. Kristen Case will read excerpts from a writing project developed over the course of the last few months: a suite of 64 poems generated by a set of structural constraints derived from Bach’s composition of the Chaconne. Like Bach’s 64 4-measure variations, which revolve around the same four notes, the poems in this suite each revolve around the same four words. Accompanying the poems and in conversation with them is a second-person essay dealing with concepts of personhood, memory, and violence. Images from an artist-book in process will accompany the reading/performance. Steve Pane will perform his transcription of Bach’s Chaconne, a hybrid of the solo violin original and the piano transcriptions by Ferruccio Busioni.
Preregistration Required, link to preregistration form:
https://forms.gle/oFLeZTrVQWrbnBzJ6

Location: Emery Community Arts Center Performance Space Cost: FREE Open to: UMF Community Only Sponsored By: UMF Symposium Day/University Culture Committee For more info. contact: Ann Bartges, 207-778-7461, https://www.umf.maine.edu/symposium/this-years-symposium/, ann.bartges@maine.edu)

Artist Crystal Cawley will discuss the inspiration and methods behind her artists edition of “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

This in-person event is open only to the UMF community (current students, staff, and faculty), and preregistration is required: https://forms.gle/wvHUeWZHL8MEmCFP9Location: UMF, The Landing Cost: FREE Open to: UMF Community Only Sponsored By: New Commons Project For more info. contact: Kristen Case, 207.778.7239, https://newcommonsproject.org/event/cawleytalk/, newcommonsproject@gmail.com)

Artist Crystal Cawley leads a beginners workshop on paper sewing that will enable you to turn discarded paper into art. All materials will be provided.

This in-person event is open only to the UMF community (current students, staff, and faculty), and preregistration is required: https://forms.gle/3SWLV71P6EQtb5Ej9Location: UMF, The Landing Cost: FREE Open to: UMF Community Only Sponsored By: New Commons Project For more info. contact: Kristen Case, 207.778.7239, https://newcommonsproject.org/event/cawleyworkshop/, newcommonsproject@gmail.com)

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For More information please contact andrew.willihan@maine.edu