Bangor Humanities Day kicks-off on Friday evening (Feb. 2nd) at 6pm with a聽Humanities Powered by PechaKucha聽event at COESPACE. Presentations topics will include making a living as an author, medical ethics, the 海角社区 Multi-Cultural Center, Peter Archambault (an artist from Madawaska), wedding perfection hysteria, and bacteriophage.
For the big day (Saturday Feb. 3rd) there are three all day events:
- 础听蝉迟耻诲别苍迟听art show (6-8pm Friday and 10am-2pm Saturday) at聽.
- A downtown cultural scavenger hunt聽with prizes given out at 6pm at聽U海角社区 Museum of Art. Locations include all of our host partners as well as the Rock and Art Shop. (See below.)
- A StoryWalk庐* of聽, a children’s book by local author Lee DeCora Francis that can be found in the windows of 15 downtown businesses. The title page is at the UMMA, and the first pages are at Bagel Central, wraps up to Fork and Spoon, and ends at Epic Sports.聽(See below.)
Scheduled programming for the 2018 Bangor Humanities Day kicks starts at聽11am聽at the聽聽where the聽聽will be performing a concert and then holding a petting zoo, where young ones interested in checking out the instruments can do so with the help of BSYO members.
Our co-sponsor聽聽is hosting the following three programmed activities in the early afternoon:
- 础迟听12:15pm, come enjoy the music of a local聽Celtic Quartet聽performing Irish and Scottish tunes and songs. Pauleena MacDougall on fiddle, Nancy Neff on accordion, Cathy Segee on flute and whistle, and Daryne Rockett on harp. Performance in the Atrium.
- 础迟听1:15, check out the聽Grant Workshop: an informal panel designed to help cultural workers in the arts and humanities to learn about the broad range of grants that are available to provide financial support for public cultural programs. Representatives from the 海角社区 Humanities Council and the Bangor Commission on Cultural Development will discuss their grant programs, will provide tips on what makes a winning application, and will answer audience questions. Located in聽Crofutt聽Room.
- Finally at聽2:15, head over to the聽Oral History Workshop. Ever wanted to record family or community stories but not sure how to go about it? Join folklore archivist Katrina Wynn and learn the basics of doing oral history recordings. Then starting at聽3pm聽Katrina will be demonstrating by collecting stories from anyone in the community who鈥檇 like to contribute from the prompt: 鈥What habit, acquisition, or event made you feel like you had become an adult?鈥. Located in Business Center.
3:15聽sees programming heading over to聽, where the focus shifts back to performance with聽聽Poetry & Prose Reading. The Happening Series聽鈥渁re multi-disciplinary, genre-fluid, and collaborative creative events, curated and facilitated by students at U海角社区 and (typically) hosted by the Franco-American Centre. We look to provide a space for dynamic creative performances: writers, dancers, visual artists, musicians, actors, workshop leaders, community engagers, scholars and everything outside and in-between.聽Our events are as dynamic as the content presented 鈥 one night might consist of a poetry reading in tandem with a print installation piece, another might look like an integrated music/drama performance, and yet another might explore a social engagement workshop.鈥
础迟听5:30, the day wraps up at聽听飞颈迟丑听art & hors d鈥檕euvres听(产测听)聽and a cash bar. UMMA director George Kinghorn will be giving tours of the gallery鈥檚 new collections. In addition, the聽cultural scavenger hunt prize drawing聽(including two tickets to a Penobscot Theatre show, a gift certificate for The Rock and Art Shop, and copies of the children鈥檚 book聽聽by Lee DeCora Francis) will be held at聽6pm.
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*The StoryWalk庐 Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Storywalk庐 is a registered service mark owned by Ms. Ferguson.