MUSIC + POETRY: The Power of We: Celebrating the Opening of the GPIWC Digital Language Lab & Fourth Floor Expansion

Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center 24 Preble St. 4th Floor, Portland, ME, United States

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center believes in the Power of We.  By working together, we can make great things happen. It is in this spirit that the Center showcases its expansion and launch of English language programming with an evening of music, art and conversation.  Representatives from the business, non-profit and political sectors will […]

LECTURE: Fierce Compassion, Well-Being, and the Reclamation of our Shared Humanity | Dr. Kamilah Majied

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

The Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion hosts a public lecture by Dr. Kamilah Majied, Howard University, Department of Social Work. This colloquy will offer participants the opportunity to learn about and practice cultivating fierce compassion through contemplative practice. The goal is to develop sustainability in our efforts to ground our day to day to […]

MUSIC: Hiroya Tsukamoto

Mayo Street Arts 10 Mayo Street, Portland, ME, United States

Hiroya Tsukamoto is a one of a kind composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan. Hiroya takes you on an innovative, impressionistic journey filled with earthy, organic soundscapes that impart a mood of peace and tranquility. Tickets available here.     >> Click here to return to Exhibition Affiliated Events Calendar <<

PANEL: Welcoming the Stranger in Maine and in the Jewish Culture

Maine Jewish Museum 267 Congress Street, Portland, ME, United States

The discussion will relate to the history of Jews welcoming the stranger, giving refuge to immigrants as an act of love. The topic will be: "Why give refuge? Why is welcoming the stranger a time honored practice, and what are the costs and benefits?" The panel discussion will be followed by a reception.  Hosted by […]

Migrations: Poetry at SPACE

SPACE Gallery 538 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

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 […]

LECTURE: Piro Rexhepi | Colby College

Diamond 343, Colby College 4000 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME, United States

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 […]

Julia Maria Künnap: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Julia Maria Künnap: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture Thursday November 1, 2018. 12–1pm Porteous Building, Osher Hall, Second Floor Julia Maria Künnap graduated in 2004 from the Estonian Academy of Arts, Jewellery Art Department under Prof Kadri Mälk. Before this she studied at Konstfack, Stockholm and in 2006 was the Artist in Residence at Alchimia School […]

RECEPTION: Open Studios at Monson Arts Center

Monson Arts Center N Main St., Monson, ME, United States

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 […]

Eric Gottesman: Visiting Artist Lecture

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

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