FARMINGTON—The UMF Emery Community Arts Center is launching its spring semester lineup with “American Conversations: Short Films and Artifacts,” a perceptive new media exhibit by Dawn Nye, UMF associate professor of Art – New Media. The exhibit runs from Jan. 27 – March 9. 2022. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, Jan 27, […]

FARMINGTON —The Greater Franklin Food Council will be hosting a Food and Farming Winter Book Club series starting in February. Three book selections will be offered that weave food system issues into other topics such as climate change, Indigenous wisdom, genetically modified plants, sustainable living, and more. Local community members can sign up to read […]

FARMINGTON — ArtsFarmington is pleased to present the talented Mt. Blue High School senior, Hope Chernesky. Hope will be performing in Nordica Auditorium on February 6 at 3 p.m. (Snow date will be Feb. 13.) Nordica Auditorium is located in Merrill Hall on the campus of UMF. Hope has been playing violin for over 10 […]

FARMINGTON — On Saturday, December 18 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Devaney Doak and Garrett Booksellers will welcome local Temple author John Hodgkins for a meet and greet and book signing of his latest book, Boiling Off: The Story of Maple Sugaring in Maine. In Boiling Off, Hodgkins invokes a world rich in both […]

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series presents award-winning writer Matthew Gavin Frank as the popular program’s third reader of the season. Frank will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Theodora J. Kalikow Education Center Lobby. The reading is free and open to the […]

FARMINGTON—The Emery Community Arts Center is pleased to present three live piano concerts this fall. Concerts feature performances by faculty from the UMF Division of the Performing Arts and are free and open to the public. Delimited Space: Aaron Wyanski in recital on Thur., Oct. 28, 7 p.m. Join Aaron Wyanski, UMF assistant professor of […]

When we last saw reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), he had formed an uneasy alliance with Venom (also Hardy), the symbiote living in his body. A symbiote is basically a second personality that can interact with its host, but also occasionally appear in physical form as a being with superpowers. The setup is reminiscent of […]

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series proudly presents award-winning poets Rosebud Ben-Oni and Carey Salerno for the popular program’s second event of the season. Ben-Oni and Salerno will read from their works at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 21, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading […]

The last two weekends at the box office have been dominated by the one-two punch of holdovers “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and “Free Guy.” But the opening of “Dear Evan Hansen” this past weekend changed that. By which I mean that it knocked “Free Guy” out of the #2 spot. […]

FARMINGTON — A British singer, songwriter and actor who blazed a trail of musical trends and pop fashion, David Bowie is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. His career was marked by a creative restlessness in which he was constantly reinventing himself, his music and his work across the […]