LEWISTON — The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center will host the first L/A Poutine Feast-ival from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in the street and inside the center at 46 Cedar St. “The corner of Oxford and Cedar streets will become a block party with food trucks serving your favorite Quebecois poutine,” said Francis Gagnon, the […]
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Franco Center hosting French classes for adults
LEWISTON — The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center will host French classes for adults starting Monday, Sept. 10. The 10-week session will be held Mondays from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. through late November. The classes are intended for those who want to improve their proficiency in French. Varied topics will be used as a guide […]
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Normand Gagnon and friends present musical show at La Rencontre
LEWISTON — Normand Gagnon, master French-Canadian button accordionist, will be featured at La Rencontre on Thursday, Sept. 13, at The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center. La Rencontre is scheduled for 11:25 a.m. La Rencontre is a multi-language event and not restricted to French-speakers or those of Franco descent. All are welcome to attend this […]
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Quebec choir to perform concert at Franco Center
LEWISTON — The Gendron Franco Center will host Choeur en Supplement’Air, a 50-voice choir from Quebec, in concert at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17. This year they will present five concerts in northern New England. In addition to their annual concert in Canada, some 50 of the 400 choristers of the Choeur en Supplement’Air (also […]
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Night of African dance music at Franco Center
LEWISTON — All are invited to celebrate the end of summer at the multicultural Dance Party Social at the Gendron Franco Center from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Aug. 25. The event will be held in Heritage Hall at 46 Cedar St. On-site parking is available. This is another of the center’s events designed to […]
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Pianist 17-year-old Kostelanetz at Franco Center
LEWISTON — Ksenia Kostelanetz will present the fourth annual Frank Glazer Memorial Steinway Concert at the Gendron Franco Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23. Glazer, who played the inaugural concert on the center’s Steinway piano in 2006 and returned every year to present solo concerts, died in January 2015, weeks shy of his 100th […]
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Jay High classmates reunite to present historical and musical show at next La Rencontre
LEWISTON — The next La Rencontre at the Gendron Franco Center will reunite 1980 Jay High School graduates, Wheaton College Professor Mark D. LeBlanc and Central Maine Community College Adjunct Professor Mitchell Clyde Thomas, for a unique show called “From Maine to France and Somehow Back Again: New England in World War I.” La Rencontre […]
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Franco Center hosting day-trip to southern Maine
LEWISTON — Mitch Thomas, executive director at The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center, and Bert Dutil, popular bus trip leader, will lead a group on a Coast of Maine Day Trip on Friday, Aug. 10. Lunch at Foster’s Clambakes in York Harbor will be the ultimate destination. Stops will be made at Reny’s in […]
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Emerge Film Festival opens in Lewiston-Auburn
Elisabeth Salberg of Auburn enters the Emerge Film Festival on Friday evening at The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston, after chatting with Andrea Libby, volunteering at the ticket desk. Salberg will volunteer at the festival this weekend. The festival continues Saturday in several locations throughout Lewiston and Auburn. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)
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Freeport High School Chamber Choir to perform at April La Rencontre
LEWISTON — The La Rencontre at the Gendron Franco Center will feature the 22-member Freeport High School Chamber Choir on Thursday, April 12. La Rencontre (“the gathering”) will start at 11:25 a.m. The cost of the meal and program is $12 a person. The doors and the bar will open at 10 a.m. Guests may […]