EXHIBITION: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
A selected exhibition of photographs by photographer Sebastião Salgado. >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<
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EXHIBITION: Everyday Maine
An exhibition featuring over 190 photographs from 74 Maine photographers. Curated by Bruce Brown, the exhibit features a joyous collection of Maine’s diversity across ability, economics, gender, geography, national origin, race, sexual orientation and work. “Our goal is to show in these times in our state, there is no ‘us’ and ‘them,’ there’s ‘we,’ said […]
EXHIBITION: Face to Face | Portraits by Rabee Kiwan
Born in Lebanon, Rabee Kiwan immigrated to the United States in 2002 to complete his medical training and he has lived in Portland since 2009. Rabee has been painting portraits, landscapes, and still lifes since he was a young child when his father gave him a watercolor set. Drawing inspiration from everyday life sustains his […]
EXHIBITION: Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways | Maine College of Art & Design
Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways exhibition at MECA&D's Institute of Contemporary Art. Migration, mobility, and displacement is the story of our era. Fears about human mobility and border crossers are reshaping politics; climate change promises to cause massive displacements; global leaders are scrambling to reconfigure and secure borders; people everywhere are moving to find […]
EXHIBITION: Home: Reflections on Place
Home: Reflections on Place is an art exhibit of work created by New Mainers. Home brings together artists who are first-generation Americans to explore the idea of personal residence or refuge. Leaving one’s home and finding another, assimilating ideas of family, culture and community in a new place are part of the immigrant experience. […]
EXHIBITION: Dorothea Rabkin: Tragedy to Transformation
Dorothea Rabkin & her sister Rose Dorothea Rabkin (1921-2008), fled post-war Berlin with her twin sister, Rose. They had been hidden throughout World War II by brave families who risked themselves to give shelter to “hidden children” and thereby saved their lives. Landing in New York City by boat, Dorothea found her new country to be open-minded, welcoming […]
EXHIBITION: IXNOS
IXNOS (which means “trace” in Greek) will focus on Lesvos, one of the most significant locations involved in the current worldwide movement of migrants and refugees. This year Portland celebrates its 15 year anniversary of its sister-city relationship with Mytilene, Lesvos. The island is also a major world center for bird migration. The exhibit will consist of […]
EXHIBITION: With the heart and the reason | Titi de Baccarat
I don't do politics, but I do practice art. My artistic creation is both poetic and social. I create because I dream. I believe things move only if we dream. But it is not just works of art that create change; change is created by the reflections, questions and emotions that art arouse. Dedicated to justice […]
EXHIBITION: New Mainers
Photographs by Jan Pieter van Voorst from New Mainers: The Portrait of Our Immigrant Neighbors by Pat Nyhan andJan Pieter van Voorst, with a foreword by Reza Jalali. Hosted by Ocean House Gallery. Opening reception Friday, October 12th, 5-7pm. Photograph by Jan Pieter van Voorst >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<
EXHIBITION: Seeing Otherwise
Exhibition that confronts and explores representations of mobility in art. Curated by Catherine Besteman, Chloé Powers, and Caroline Webb. Featuring work by: Romare Bearden, Phong Bui, Lalla Essaydi, Whitfield Lovell, Meleko Mokgosi, Richard Mosse, Fred Wilson, Leo Rubinfien, and Alfred Stieglitz. Gallery talk by co-curator Caroline Webb at 12 noon on Thursday, October 25th in the Landay Teaching Alcove. >> Click here to return to Exhibition […]
EXHIBITION: Out of the Fog: Retracing the Path to Greenland
Pairing Iceblink, a project by artist Carrie Scanga, with the archival source materials from Marie Peary Stafford’s papers that inspired Scanga’s work, this exhibit explores the personal and societal projections of spiritual aspirations onto the Arctic landscape. Stafford’s return to the land of her birth as an explorer in 1932 is documented in her journals […]
EXHIBITION: Flight | Alison Hildreth
Alison's sources are often derived from literature and history. In her current body of work she has been combining disparate ideas concerning migrations, refugees, medical drawings, astronomy, architectural traces, and more. Visual representations of these interests appear as a shape shifting progression where one image morphs into another, changes but still holds the prior imprint. […]
EXHIBITION: Peter Turnley: Refugees | Bates College Museum of Art
Peter Turnley (American, b. 1955) is a photojournalist known for documenting the human condition and current events. Over the last thirty years, Turnley has photographed some of the world’s most significant conflicts including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the 2003 war in Iraq. This exhibition, which is drawn from the permanent collection, focuses on one of […]
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THEATER: Refuge Malja ملجأ
When a Jewish-American war photographer feels compelled to assist a young refugee who steps in front her camera, she calls an old friend to translate but hesitates to reveal why she is so drawn to the boy. This poetic, decade-spanning drama explores how we each define and find our own malja (refuge). Written by Bess […]
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Migrations: Poetry at SPACE
Migrations: Poetry at SPACE
A diverse collection of poets who live in Maine read and perform work that tracks the traces, paths, and pathways of various kinds of migration. All of the participating poets have been featured in Deep Water, a weekly poetry column in the Maine Sunday Telegram. Hosted by SPACE. Doors open at 6:30, event begins at 7. $5-$10 donation […]
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LECTURE: Piro Rexhepi | Colby College
LECTURE: Piro Rexhepi | Colby College
Piro Rexhepi | Geopolitical Whiteness: Euro-Atlantic Integration and the Postsocialist Assembling of Race and Sexuality to Control Migration in the Balkans As the final integration of the Western Balkans into the EU and NATO security structures completes the legal and political infrastructure of sealing the Euro-Atlantic geopolitical borders along the Balkans Refugee Route, overlapping national […]
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RECEPTION: Open Studios at Monson Arts Center
RECEPTION: Open Studios at Monson Arts Center
Stop by the Monson Arts Center from 3-5PM to see what’s been happening in the studios during the October residency session. Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways featured artist Maria Patricia Tinajero will be a resident artist at the Center, and will be on site showcasing work produced during her residency. >> Click here to […]
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Eric Gottesman: Visiting Artist Lecture
Eric Gottesman: Visiting Artist Lecture
Since 1999 he has been working in and around the Middle East and Africa collaborating with communities to produce photographs and videos that often challenge preexisting images and perceptions of a culture and/or place as well as the concept of singular artistic authorship
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EXHIBITION: A Nation of Immigrants: Home Lost, Home Found
This is a raw and fraught time in the world as we struggle to respond to the fact that 65 million people have been displaced from their homes. What is the experience of those newly arrived and those who may have come long ago? What has been gained, what has been lost? What does it […]
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SYMPOSIUM: Art + Politics | Maine College of Art & Design
SYMPOSIUM: Art + Politics | Maine College of Art & Design
Leaders in the art community will speak on the role of art in cultivating spaces for civic engagement on controversial topics and sparking social change. Break-out groups led by local experts will explore specific topics, ranging from Wabanaki perspectives on mobilities, borders, and sustainability to artists's political action. The symposium culminates in a keynote address […]
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CONVERSATION: Positive Proof: Contributions from our Immigrant Community
CONVERSATION: Positive Proof: Contributions from our Immigrant Community
A discussion with members of the immigrant community from entrepreneurs to teachers. Following the 4pm matinee of Refuge Malja ملجأ at Portland Stage. >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<
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CONVERSATION: Children of War: The Young Refugee Experience
CONVERSATION: Children of War: The Young Refugee Experience
Artistic Perspective discussion following the 2pm matinee of Refuge Malja ملجأ at Portland Stage inviting immigrant community members to talk about what they left behind. >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<
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FILM: El Mar La Mar
FILM: El Mar La Mar
An immersive and enthralling journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border, EL MAR LA MAR weaves together harrowing oral histories from the area with hand-processed 16mm images of flora, fauna and items left behind by travelers. Emerging from the ethos of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, J.P. Sniadecki's attentive documentary approach mixes perfectly with […]
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LECTURE: The Immigration Debate in Maine | Catherine Besteman
LECTURE: The Immigration Debate in Maine | Catherine Besteman
The Center for Global Humanities at the University of New England will be hosting Anthropologist and Colby College Professor Catherine Besteman who will be speaking on the immigration debate in Maine. Reception at 5 pm in the UNE Art Gallery, followed by the lecture at 6 pm in the WCHP Lecture Hall in Parker Pavilion. […]
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POETRY: Reading by Chen Chen
POETRY: Reading by Chen Chen
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry, […]
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PANEL: IXNOS Artists Discussion
PANEL: IXNOS Artists Discussion
IXNOS (which means “trace” in Greek) will focus on Lesvos, one of the most significant locations involved in the current worldwide movement of migrants and refugees. This year Portland celebrates its 15 year anniversary of its sister-city relationship with Mytilene, Lesvos. The island is also a major world center for bird migration. The exhibit will consist of […]
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FILM: Immigration and Popular Culture
FILM: Immigration and Popular Culture
Screening of The Search for General Tso by Ian Chenney. As much an immigration history as a culinary one, this entertaining and informative documentary uses the ubiquitous Americanized Chinese dish, General Tso’s chicken, as a lens onto a larger story of migration, adaptation and innovation in American popular culture. Early on, the film poses the question, […]
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PANEL: Immigrant Advocacy in Maine
PANEL: Immigrant Advocacy in Maine
Join us for a panel discussion about Immigrant Advocacy in Maine, hosted by Portland Press Herald reporter, John Richardson. Panelists will talk about advocacy and programs to support Maine immigrants. Panelists include: Juliet Brown from the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP), Hannah DeAngelis, Director of Refugee Resettlement at Catholic Charities Dinah Minot, Director of the Creative Portland, City […]
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FILM: There is My Home
FILM: There is My Home
The University of Southern Maine Food Studies Program presents There is My Home on November 8, 2019 at 4pm in room 108 of USM's Lewiston campus. This 30-minute documentary features Hawa Ibrahim and Batula Ismail, two women trying to support their families as farmers in Maine. Born and raised in the Jubba River Valley of Somalia, both learned […]
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MUSIC + POETRY: Culture and Displacement | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
MUSIC + POETRY: Culture and Displacement | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
Musicians from Palaver Strings will collaborate with Portland based Iraqi immigrants Kifah Abdulla and Jawad Al-Fatlawi to showcase the experiences of Iraqi immigrants in Maine through spoken word and music. Kifah Abdulla, a poet and artist will share his personal narrative through spoken word while Jawad Al-Fatlawi, a oud player, composer, and oud maker, will […]
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LECTURE: Understanding Violence in Central Africa, Laura Seay
LECTURE: Understanding Violence in Central Africa, Laura Seay
Understanding Violence in Central Africa From Laura Seay: "I am an assistant professor of Government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. My research is centered around the study of community responses to conflict and U.S. foreign policy in Africa’s Great Lakes region. I am currently finishing a book, Substituting for the State, about the role non-state actors play in […]
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FILM: Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar | Maine College of Art & Design
FILM: Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar | Maine College of Art & Design
The checkpoint is closed: “Detour, detour!” shouts a taxi driver, announcing the beginning of yet another uncertain search for a way around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank. Infiltrators is a visceral “road movie” that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and […]
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Empower the Immigrant Woman Conference
Empower the Immigrant Woman Conference
With a mission to “Empower, Educate & Inspire the Immigrant Woman”, EIW works to motivate Maine’s immigrant women to, with the League of Women Voters, highlight voting engagement issues specific to their mission, raise awareness of their challenges, and honor their community “Trailblazers”. The all-day conference will kick off at 9am with a Forum whose […]
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BOOKS: I’m Your Neighbor at the Harlow Gallery
BOOKS: I’m Your Neighbor at the Harlow Gallery
Welcoming Immigrants with Literature As part of the Maine Migrations statewide celebration, we are honoring the contribution that children’s literature plays in the larger immigration conversation. Author and illustrator Anne Sibley O’Brien will share her new picture book SOMEONE NEW, the companion to her award-winning I’M NEW HERE. In her […]
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WORKSHOP: Multi-generational Art Workshop with Pamela Moulton & Titi de Baccarat
WORKSHOP: Multi-generational Art Workshop with Pamela Moulton & Titi de Baccarat
Join teaching artists Pamela Moulton and Titi de Baccarat for a multi-generational art workshop on Saturday, November 10 between 11:00am and 3:00pm. The artists will work with Adults, Children and Teens to create imaginary, surreal, multi-cultural houses to be suspended on an interactive papermache tree which will be kept on display at Portland Public Library and/or bring […]
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CONVERSATION: Artist as Activist
CONVERSATION: Artist as Activist
A post show discussion with the actors engaged in the creation of Refuge *Malja* ملجأ following the 2pm matinee at Portland Stage. >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<
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THEATER: American Dreams | An original play by Linda Britt
THEATER: American Dreams | An original play by Linda Britt
“American Dreams” is an original play by Linda Britt with monologues that focus on the immigrant experience in the U.S., an experience which varies widely depending on country of origin, race, religion, age, and location. The monologues allow the actors to tell the story of each immigrant character, and focus on the aspect of their […]
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CONVERSATION: Assimilation: What must we give—and give up—to be American?
CONVERSATION: Assimilation: What must we give—and give up—to be American?
Part of the Community Conversations series, co-hosted by Beth Israel Congregation and the Center for Small Town Jewish Life. Entering its third year, Community Conversations aims to bring together college students with the local community to talk about issues of common concern. It brings top-notch speakers to Beth Israel Congregation for an hour-long educational program followed by […]
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LECTURE: Artist Talk | Sammy Baloji
LECTURE: Artist Talk | Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, in the mineral-rich Katanga province of Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied Computer and Information Sciences and Communication at the University of Lubumbashi. With a borrowed camera, he began photographing scenes as sources for his cartoons. He soon enrolled in photography courses in DRC, and continued with […]
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LECTURE: Beau-frog: Art and Franco American Activism (1970-1980)
LECTURE: Beau-frog: Art and Franco American Activism (1970-1980)
Susan Pinette, Director of Franco American Programs at the University of Maine, will give a free talk about the artwork on display and Peter Archambault's life in the Museum L-A gallery space. The history of Franco-American communities in the seventies and eighties has not yet been written. This talk aims to begin to fill this […]
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LECTURE: Artist Talk | Sammy Baloji
LECTURE: Artist Talk | Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, in the mineral-rich Katanga province of Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied Computer and Information Sciences and Communication at the University of Lubumbashi. With a borrowed camera, he began photographing scenes as sources for his cartoons. He soon enrolled in photography courses in DRC, and continued with […]
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FILM: BISBEE ’17 | SPACE Gallery
FILM: BISBEE ’17 | SPACE Gallery
BISBEE ’17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. For more information about the film, visit streamingmoviesright.com/us/movie/bisbee-17. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close […]
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PANEL: ACLU/ILAP on US Immigration Policy | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
PANEL: ACLU/ILAP on US Immigration Policy | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
Panel Title: The “Know-Nothing” Movement Is Back: Examining Current U.S. Immigration Policy Through A Historical Lens Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine and the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project discuss what current anti-immigrant U.S. policy has in common with the Know Nothing movement from the nineteenth century. This event will be hosted in […]
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POETRY: Reading & Performance | Kifah Abdullah, Emma Flores, & Devin Colella
POETRY: Reading & Performance | Kifah Abdullah, Emma Flores, & Devin Colella
Kifah Abdulla is a poet, artist, performer, and teacher. He reads poetry and short stories with music. Kifah published his first book of poetry” Dead Still Dream ” he is working on his memoir book ” Mountains Without Peaks ” and his second book of poetry. Kifah is a visual artist, his works has exhibited in […]
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BOOKS: Welcoming Immigrants with Children’s Literature
BOOKS: Welcoming Immigrants with Children’s Literature
Print: A Bookstore is honoring the contribution that children’s literature plays in the larger immigration conversation. Author and illustrator Anne Sibley O’Brien will share her new picture book SOMEONE NEW, the companion to her award-winning I’M NEW HERE. In her interconnected books, new arrival students and "long term” students explore belonging and friendship. Anne will be […]
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FILM: Through the Repellent Fence | SPACE Gallery
FILM: Through the Repellent Fence | SPACE Gallery
THROUGH THE REPELLENT FENCE follows art collective Postcommodity as they strive to construct Repellent Fence, a two-mile long outdoor artwork that straddled the U.S.-Mexico border. Postcommodity consists of three Native American artists who “put land art in a tribal context.” Aided by the communities on both sides of the border in 2015 the artists installed a series 28 […]
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LECTURE: Ranu Mukherjee | Maine College of Art & Design Visiting Artist
LECTURE: Ranu Mukherjee | Maine College of Art & Design Visiting Artist
Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways featured artist Ranu Mukherjee will talk about her practice and work in the exhibition at MECA&D's ICA. The talk will be hosted in MECA&D’s Osher Hall. >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<
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PANEL: Legacy and Influences of Immigration in Maine
PANEL: Legacy and Influences of Immigration in Maine
Join us for a panel discussion about Legacy and Influences of Immigration in Maine hosted by Portland Press Herald reporter, Megan Doyle. Panelists will talk about advocacy and programs to support Maine immigrants. Panelists TBA. Find more information at Portland Public Library. >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<
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FILM: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
FILM: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
Human Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis. More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee […]
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FILM + FOOD: Recipe Film Screening and Community Dinner | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
FILM + FOOD: Recipe Film Screening and Community Dinner | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
A short screening of recipe films created by MECA&D students in the Public Engagement class Animation Exchange in collaboration with cooks from In Her Presence, a not-for-profit serving women from various immigrant communities in Maine through English classes, self-advocacy tools, and a variety of workshops. Community dinner featuring recipes from In Her Presence contributors to […]
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PANEL: Identities in Migration: On Being Somali-Mainers
PANEL: Identities in Migration: On Being Somali-Mainers
A panel of Somali-Mainers discuss the historical context in which they migrated to the United States, what it means to be Somali in Maine, and how their identities have been shaped by migration. Hosted by the World Affairs Council of Maine. >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<