EXHIBITION: With the heart and the reason | Titi de Baccarat

Railroad Square Cinema 17 Railroad Square, Waterville, ME, United States

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 […]

EXHIBITION: New Mainers

Ocean House Gallery 299 Ocean Road, Cape Elizabeth, ME, United States

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. […]

EXHIBITION: Barça/Barzak: The immigrant’s hope | Papa Mendy

SPEEDWELL 630 Forest Avenue, Portland, ME, United States

Hosted by SPEEDWELL Projects, Barça/Barzak is a pop up shop featuring furniture by Senegalese artist Papa Mendy in conjunction with Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks, and Pathways. Each piece is handcrafted and […]

EXHIBITION: Seeing Otherwise

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME, United States

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, […]

CONVERSATION: The Stories We Carry

USM Glickman Library, Special Events Room, 7th floor 314 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, United States

This interactive literary event will help the audience to explore some of the ways in which storytelling and oral histories preserve our cultures and connect us to our origin.  A […]

FILM: To Light a Candle

Shettleworth Lecture Hall, Maine Historical Society 489 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Screening of To Light a Candle by Maziar Bahari. Through personal stories and dramatic archive footage, To Light a Candle gives a powerful account of the Baha’i people in Iran, a religious minority […]

FILM + PANEL: There is My Home

Bailey Hall, USM Gorham Campus 16 University Way, Gorham, ME, United States

There Is My Home 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, […]