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Noises Off, School Of Performing Arts
Noises Off, School Of Performing Arts
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
Michaet Frayn's wonderful Broadway hit is a farce about farce that takes the cliches of the genre and shakes them inventively through a series of kaleidoscopic patterns. Never missing a trick, it has as its first act a pastiche of traditional farce; as its second, a contemporary variant of the formula; as its third, an elaborate undermining of it. The play opens with a touring company dress'rehearsing Nothing On, a conventional farce. Mixing mockery and homage, the author heaps into this play within- a-play a hilarious melee of stock characters and situations. In a continuing effort to appeal to a …
Women's History Celebration, Women In Curriculum And Women's Studies Program
Women's History Celebration, Women In Curriculum And Women's Studies Program
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
This year's celebration, "Kaleidoscope: Women's History from Diverse Perspectives", is committed to encouraging the academic community to consider history from diverse perspectives. As always, we will provide an array of speakers, panels films and displays that will reflect the diversity of women's experiences culturally, religiously, and artistically.
Department Of Art-Guest Lecture Series, University Of Maine- Department Of Art
Department Of Art-Guest Lecture Series, University Of Maine- Department Of Art
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
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Kuni Sugiura: Dark Matters/ Light Affairs, University Of Maine- Museum Of Art
Kuni Sugiura: Dark Matters/ Light Affairs, University Of Maine- Museum Of Art
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The Museum of Art respectfully requests funding for the presentation of an art exhibition during the fall semester of the 2000/2001 academic year. Specifically, funding is requested for support of the touring exhibition: Kunie Sugiura: Dark Matters/Light Affairs. The exhibition will be presented in Carnegie Hall from November 2 - December 15, 200'l .
Peru: From Village To Empire Lecture Series And Performances, Hudson Museum
Peru: From Village To Empire Lecture Series And Performances, Hudson Museum
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
Peru: From Village to Empire traces the development of complex society in Peru from 13,000 BP to 1500 AD. The exhibit focuses on what led groups of people to choose a particular location and settle down, how these settlements developed from villages to towns to cities, and how kin related bands formed states and then empires. The exhibition will feature over thirty-five objects (ceramics, textiles and metalwork) and sixty graphics, including maps, photographs and drawings. The exhibit will be installed in the Museum's temporary exhibit level on the first level and on the ramp panels leading from the first to …
Franco American Month, University Of Maine
Franco American Month, University Of Maine
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The Franco American Studies Program is organizing its second annual Franco American Month at The University of Maine for the month of February, 2002. We are working with the Franco American Cente to plan a series of events focusing on the Franco American cultures of Maine. TV'e have planned four events, each one focusing on a different aspect of Franco American culture. We open with the fifth annual Mardi Gras dinner, to be held at York Commons on February 12,2002. This dinner has become a fadition among the local Franco American community and is well attended by many folks from …
Distinguished Lecture- Dr. Kent Ono, University Of Maine
Distinguished Lecture- Dr. Kent Ono, University Of Maine
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
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Project Mainstay Presentation By Dr. Stephen Krashen, University Of Maine
Project Mainstay Presentation By Dr. Stephen Krashen, University Of Maine
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
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"Stephen King Day," Public Talk, University Of Maine
"Stephen King Day," Public Talk, University Of Maine
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
Stephen King, the author of this year's University of Maine cl-ass book, Hearts in Atlantis, has agreed. to come to campus on October l. To honor Stephen King and to provide a context for this year's class book (part of which is set on our campus when Stephen was a student here in the 1960's), Wednesday October 3 is being designated "Stephen King Day." A number of activities are being planned., including a public talk.
Peru: From Village To Empire, Hudson Museum
Peru: From Village To Empire, Hudson Museum
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
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Ensemble Alternance - Pierre-Henri Xuereb, School Of Performing Arts
Ensemble Alternance - Pierre-Henri Xuereb, School Of Performing Arts
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
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Other Faces: The Mask Collection Of Marti Stevens, Hudson Museum, Maine Center For The Arts
Other Faces: The Mask Collection Of Marti Stevens, Hudson Museum, Maine Center For The Arts
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
From June l9 to September 1, 2001, the Hudson Museum will feature Other Faces: The Mask Collection of Marti Stevens. This exhibit will showcase 36 masks from Africa, Asia,Indonesia, the United States, Canada, and Central American, which were donated to the Hudson Museum in 1994. Other Faces will explore the origins of mask making, the role of masks in allowing individuals to transform from one form to another, the cultural function of masks, and how they are used in ceremonies, theatre and dance, and celebrations.
"Echoes Across The Himalayas" A Photographic Exhibit By Barbara Goodbody, University Of Maine- Hudson Museum
"Echoes Across The Himalayas" A Photographic Exhibit By Barbara Goodbody, University Of Maine- Hudson Museum
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
From June 9 to September 1,2001,, the Hudson Museum will feature "Echoes Across the Himalayas. " This exhibit explores the lives of Tibetans in exile in Mussoorie, India at the Tibetan Homes School for refugee children. Founded by the Dalai Lama in 1962 to provide a safe residential environment for children escaping Chinese oppression in Tibet, the school allows the students to retain Tibetan cultural values and beliefs. "Echoes Across the Himalayas" illustrates the children's struggle to maintain cultural identity while [ïing as exiles in a foreign land.
Three Bands Concert, School Of Performing Arts
Three Bands Concert, School Of Performing Arts
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
For the fifth straight year, the University of Maine music department is partnering with Eastern Maine Charities to hold a Three Bands Concert as a fundraiser for the charity and for community involvement for the University. More than 600 people attended the concert last year, and proceeds were used to benefit the Children's Miracle Network and Acadia Hospital's Speak Out for Kids. The three bands concert, held in April at Hutchins Concert Hall at Maine Center for the Arts, includes a local middle or elementary school band" a local high school band, and the UMaine Concert Band. As an added …
Guest Artist - Ann Danis, School Of Performing Arts
Guest Artist - Ann Danis, School Of Performing Arts
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
On April 21,2001, the University of Maine Chamber Orchestra is inviting a guest artist, Ann Danis, to conduct a concert by composers Smetana, Dvorak, Giannini, Reed and Handel. This particular music was chosen by Mr. Farnham and Ms. Danis because they felt it would be musically meaningful to both the orchestra and the audience.
James Mcbride Visit, University Of Maine
James Mcbride Visit, University Of Maine
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The author of this year's University of Maine class book, James McBride, has agreed to come to campus for a one day visit, March 28, 2001. His memoir of growing u! i.r a large, mixed-race family, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White mother, tells the the poignant and powerful story of his mother's fierce determination to bring her twelve children through poverty and racism to claim a viable place in middle class American society, This is the story of a unique American family, told with humor and tenderness and an unflinching candor. James McBride will …
Spring 2001 Women's History Celebration, University Of Maine
Spring 2001 Women's History Celebration, University Of Maine
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
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Picasso At Lapin Agile, School Of Performing Arts
Picasso At Lapin Agile, School Of Performing Arts
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
Picasso at the Lapin Agíte was the winner of 1996 New York Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Best Play" and "Best Playwright." This long-running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned -Scientist transformed physics with this theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter, Steve Martin, plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other …
Cabaret, School Of Performing Arts
Cabaret, School Of Performing Arts
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
Cabaret will incorporate the talents of at least 100 people, including a cast of 48 students, plus musicians and behind-the'scenes crews. Everyone involved is excited at the prospect of participating in a production.of such magnitude. However, the emerging concern is the lack of students able to play all of the instruments demanded by the score. We believe we have students capable and available to fit at least 1ó of the musical parts, but we respectfully ask the Cultural Affairs Committee to grant funds to help cover expenses for positions that cannot be fitted by students. The most pressing need is …
Peace Week 2000, Peace Studies Program
Peace Week 2000, Peace Studies Program
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The Peace Studies Program and the Office of Multicultural Programs are collaborating on a series of events during the week of February 5-9,2001 These events are apart of the UMaine celebration of Black History Month as well as the Peace Studies spring series, *2001: A Peace Odyssey." On February 5,2001, we will bring the special multimedia show American Pictures back to UM. V/hen last here in February 1998, American Pictures engaged hundreds of students, faculty and staff in a powerful experience of racism and oppression in the U.S. V/e have also scheduled a "debriefing" conversation on American Pictures for February …
Franco American Week, University Of Maine- Orono
Franco American Week, University Of Maine- Orono
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The first annual Franco American Week will take place at the University of Maine February Z7-March 60, 2001. This week is designed to bring together on and off campus communities in order to celebrate and explore Franco American Cultures, We have a variety of speakers and performers lined up: Josée Vachon, a Franco American musician; Michael Parent, a Franco American singer, songwriter, storyteller and writer; Denis Ledoux, a Franco American writer and teacher; the Nos Histoires de l'ile, a group of local oral historians; Robert Chinard, a genealogist; and several Franco American poets and writers, We are asking the Cultural …
New Writing Series Spring 2001, English Department
New Writing Series Spring 2001, English Department
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
Our programming for Spring 2001 brings to campus a diverse group of poets, from emerging writers like Kristin Prevallet and Robert Fitterman to Bollingen-pnze winner Robert Creeley, and from locally-based writers like Sylvester Pollet and Constance Hunting to nationally recognized writers like Eileen Myles. In combination with the Maine Poetry and Story Exchange (featuring Maine writers of all kinds) and the Maine Review Reading (representing the work of UMaine undergraduate writers), the Series is designed to provide maximum exposure to the widest range of possibilities in the art of poetry.