BOOKS: I'm Your Neighbor at the Harlow Gallery
2018-11-10 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Harlow Gallery, 100 Water Street, Hallowell, ME, 04347, United States
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 interconnected books, "new arrival" students and "long term” students explore belonging and friendship. Anne will be joined by Kirsten Cappy of I’m Your Neighbor Books who will share other books set in immigrant communities. Additionally they will demonstrate how Maine has taken the lead nationally on using children’s books to welcome immigrants with the creation of the Welcoming Library. Audience members will have the opportunity to purchase immigration titles to benefit of local schools and the Welcoming Library will be available to view until 11/29/18.

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WORKSHOP: Multi-generational Art Workshop with Pamela Moulton & Titi de Baccarat
2018-11-10 11:00 - 15:00 | Meeting Room 1, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 their creations home.
Pamela Moulton, currently resides in Maine after spending 23 years in France. A Pennsylvania-born, Franco-American artist, Pamela is sculptor and installation artist. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont and Villa Arson, France. Pamela worked in New York as a set designer and art director while continuing to exhibit abroad as a fine artist. Motherhood brought her to Europe where she received her MFA from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’ Aix and studied choreography and education at IUFM Blois.
Titi de Baccarat is an artist who possesses many facets at once painter, sculptor, jeweler, clothing designer, and writer. Dedicated to justice in a hostile political context, he was forced to flee his country, Gabon, with only the wealth of his artistic ability. He has lived in Portland since February 2015. He believes that Art rehabilitates love, bringing together people of all countries, of all backgrounds, of all cultures, and all ethnicities. His upcoming work as a Printers Without Margins fellow will describe his experiences as an immigrant in the United States: his pain, fear, uncertainty, and his hope for his future here. “Immigration is not a color, it is pain and hope.”
Find more information at Portland Public Library.

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MUSIC + POETRY: Arabic Culture Night | Cony High School
2018-11-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Cony High School, 60 Pierce Drive, Augusta, ME, United States
Arabic Culture Night
Featuring Music by Jawad Al-Fatlawi and Poetry by Kifah Abdullah.
This event is co- sponsored by the Capital Area New Mainers Project and Augusta English-Languae Learners Program at Cony High School.
Refreshments following the performance.

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CONVERSATION: Artist as Activist
2018-11-11 15:30 - 16:00 | Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
A post show discussion with the actors engaged in the creation of Refuge *Malja* ملجأ following the 2pm matinee at Portland Stage.

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THEATER: American Dreams | An original play by Linda Britt
2018-11-11 16:00 - 18:00 | First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St., Auburn, ME, 04210, United States
“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 immigration story that is most meaningful to them. There are 26 monologues total; the producing company may do as few as ten or as many more as they choose.
Sponsored by Museum L-A.

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CONVERSATION: Assimilation: What must we give—and give up—to be American?
2018-11-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Beth Israel Congregation, 291 Main St., Waterville, ME, 04903, United States
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 an hour for attendees to have discussions about core questions facing the community.

The theme for the 2018-2019 academic year is "Home."

Community Conversations is funded in part through a generous grant from the Maine Humanities Council.

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LECTURE: Artist Talk | Sammy Baloji
2018-11-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College, 239 Maine St., Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
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 photography and video at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, in Strasbourg, France. Baloji juxtaposes photographic realities, combining past and present, the real and the ideal, to illicit glaring cultural and historical tensions. He explores architecture and the human body as traces of social history, sites of memory, and witnesses to operations of power.

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LECTURE: Beau-frog: Art and Franco American Activism (1970-1980)
2018-11-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Museum L-A, 35 Canal St., Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
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 void by exploring drawings made by a Franco-American artist engaged in struggles to support and defend the rights of Franco-Americans.
Sponsored by Museum L-A.

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LECTURE: Artist Talk | Sammy Baloji
2018-11-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Diamond Building, Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
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 photography and video at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, in Strasbourg, France. Baloji juxtaposes photographic realities, combining past and present, the real and the ideal, to illicit glaring cultural and historical tensions. He explores architecture and the human body as traces of social history, sites of memory, and witnesses to operations of power.
Lecture in Ostrove Auditorium. Sponsored by the Oak Institute for Human Rights, the Center for Arts and Humanities, and the Colby College Museum of Art.

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FILM: BISBEE '17 | SPACE Gallery
2018-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04103, United States
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 knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town’s darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexican desert and left there to die. This long-buried and largely forgotten event came to be known as the Bisbee Deportation.
The film documents locals as they play characters and stage dramatic scenes from the controversial story, culminating in a large scale recreation of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and offer conflicting views of the event, underscoring the difficulty of collective memory, while confronting the current political predicaments of immigration, unionization, environmental damage and corporate corruption with direct, haunting messages about solidarity and struggle.

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Adam Fisher: Reddit Ask Me Anything
2018-11-15 10:00 - 13:00
Adam Fisher, Animation & Game Art Faculty
Thursday, November 15, 10am–1pm
Hi everyone! I'm Adam Fisher. I'm a stop-motion animator, filmmaker and, most recently, an educator. I've been lucky to work on some amazing projects over the years (Coraline, The Boxtrolls, Paranorman, Anomalisa, Tumble Leaf, Kubo and the Two Strings), and am very excited to join the Animation and Game Art faculty this year at Maine College of Art & Design! Prior to making the move home to Maine, I spent roughly 2 years animating on Laika's latest film, "Missing Link". Look for it this Spring! https://www.missinglink.movie/
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Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) is a great opportunity for an audience to ask questions about Adam Fisher's expertise in real time.
Look for the AMA here on November 15, 10am—1pm to join in! A more specific link will be promoted the day of.

PANEL: ACLU/ILAP on US Immigration Policy | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
2018-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.

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Traces | PANEL: ACLU/ILAP on US Immigration Policy | @ MECA&D
2018-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

POETRY: Reading & Performance | Kifah Abdullah, Emma Flores, & Devin Colella
2018-11-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 different galleries and places in Maine, and he is involved in many cultural and artistic projects. He is a member of Portland Public Art Committee, founder of the International Arabic Language Festival in Portland ME, co-founder of Arabic conversation group and first Arabic language website. Kifah teaches Arabic calligraphy at MECCA, Arabic instructor at SMCC, and the Language Exchange.
Kifah is working on collaborative artists projects which include: a poet, cellist, soprano singer, and dancer, and is putting together a show for WMPG titled ” Words and Music” it will starts in Sept 30th.
abdulla.kifah@gmail.com|
www.kifahabdulla.com
www.arabiclanguage.me

Emma Flores is a voice student of Scott Wheatley and a senior at Kennebunk High School. She is a member of the Tri-M Music Honor Society, and she performed all three years at the District and All State Music Festival in the mixed choir. Emma is a member of Opera Maine’s Opera Teen group and was chosen by Opera America in New York to serve on the national Opera Teen Advisory Board as Manager of Social Media and has recently become Co-Chair of the program. Emma has attended Brevard Music Center’s Summer Institute in North Carolina and Boston University’s Tanglewood.

Devin Colella can be seen in his funk / rock cello and drums duo, QUAD, as well as with improvisational classical crossover piano trio, Aeterna Trio, and singer- songwriter Shanna Underwood. Devin is interested in exploring new ways to play the cello, and works to introduce the cello to new kinds of music. He hopes to contribute to the growing movement of cellists who are experimenting with modern music.
www.quadtheduo.com
Find more information at Portland Public Library.

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BOOKS: Welcoming Immigrants with Children's Literature
2018-11-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Print: A Bookstore, 273 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 joined by Kirsten Cappy of I’m Your Neighbor Books, who will share other books set in immigrant communities. Additionally they will demonstrate how Maine has taken the lead nationally on using children’s books to welcome immigrants with the creation of the Welcoming Library. Audience members will have the opportunity to purchase immigration titles for the benefit of Greater Portland schools.

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FILM: Through the Repellent Fence | SPACE Gallery
2018-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04103, United States
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 huge inflatable spheres emblazoned with an insignia known as the “open eye” that has existed in Indigenous cultures from South America to Canada for thousands of years. The spheres were evenly spaced apart and extended north and south of the border a mile in each direction. “It’s a metaphorical suture stitching together cultures that have inhabited these lands long before borders were drawn.”
The film provides an intimate glimpse into the arduous process behind creating an ambitious artwork that will give voice to the shared history and enduring culture of Indigenous societies that have made the region their home for thousands of years before a border ever divided it. Interwoven with this thread are lush scenes using stunning cinematography to absorb viewers into striking land art environments that have preceded Post Commodity’s work. Scenes with other artists and intellectuals working in the land art realm provide context and insight as well. These include scenes with Chris Taylor of Texas Tech University’s Land Arts of the American West program, writer Lucy Lippard and Matt Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Through The Repellent Fence is an adventure in the artistic process blended with a road trip of discovery visiting sites and diverse perspectives to explore how land art can generate community interaction and perceptual shifts in how we interpret, engage and draw inspiration from our natural world.
Followed by a live video chat with Postcommodity's Raven Chacon, led by Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways co-curator Julie Poitras Santos.

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LECTURE: Ranu Mukherjee | Maine College of Art & Design Visiting Artist
2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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.

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Ranu Mukherjee: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Ranu Mukherjee: Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday, November 29, 2018; 6–7pm
Osher Hall, Porteous Second Floor
Free and open to the public
Ranu Mukherjee, Cracks, 2017, pigment and milk paint on paper on panel 75 x 51 inches (190.5 x 129.5 cm)
Ranu Mukherjee makes bodies of work and large scale installations by combining drawing, painting and print on fabric or paper alongside video, animation and choreography. Her work is marked by a deliberate use of saturated color, layering or collision of time frames,fragmentation and sensuality. Her art evokes questions of visibility, abstraction and the illusion of knowing, intensified by the algorithmic distribution of news images and information. In recent projects, she explores the present as a confluence of tension between colonial legacy and indigenous power, and ways that the colonized speak to the future. Her elemental treatment of landscape embodies the force of otherness; of the hybrid, the diasporic and the speculative.
“There is cultural time and there is material time. The body connects to both.” Shadowtime - Ranu Mukherjee

PANEL: Legacy and Influences of Immigration in Maine
2018-11-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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.
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FILM: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
2018-11-29 19:00 - 21:30 | Olin Arts Center, Bates College, 75 Russell St., Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
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 crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.
Hosted by the Bates College Museum of Art.

FILM + FOOD: Recipe Film Screening and Community Dinner | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
2018-11-30 16:30 - 18:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 follow.
Hosted by Maine College of Art & Design: Public Engagement Department
For more information contact Amelia Garretson-Persans at agarretson-persans@meca.edu
This event will take place in the MECA&D Cafe. The film screening will begin at 4:30PM, with a community dinner to follow at 5PM.

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Traces | FILM + FOOD: Recipe Film Screening + Community Dinner | @ MECA&D
2018-11-30 16:30 - 18:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

In Her Presence Cooking Video & Tasting Event
2018-11-30 16:30 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Culinary Talents of Immigrant Women to Be Showcased in Cooking Videos Screening and Food Tasting on November 30
The public event is a collaboration of In Her Presence and Maine College of Art & Design
On Friday, November 30, 4:30-5pm, cooking videos of seven immigrant women preparing their most treasured recipes will be screened at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D), Osher Hall, 2nd floor, 522 Congress Street, Portland. A tasting of the dishes in the videos will follow from 5–7 pm. On hand will be the immigrant women who participated in the project - a partnership of the In Her Presence non-profit and MECA&D - and the MECA&D student filmmakers who made the videos. The screening and tasting event is open to all members of the public.
“Maine College of Art & Design appreciates the opportunity to partner with In Her Presence, which is doing so much to empower women and girls from minority communities in Maine,” said Amelia Garretson- Persans, MECA&D project faculty advisor. “We encourage the Portland community to join us on November 30th to get to know the chefs behind the recipes, experience their delicious dishes, and gain insight into cultures from all over the world.”
Claudette Ndayininahaze, co-founder with Abusana Micky Bondo, In Her Presence, said, “We are thrilled to be able to share the talents of some of the remarkable women from In Her Presence. We hope this series will help them raise their visibility in the community and achieve their personal ambitions.”
Among the chefs and recipes showcased in the videos are Yolande Matoko Makaba, a resident of Portland, who came to Maine in 2016 from The Republic of the Congo. In the video, she prepares crème brûlée and crêpes, which she describes as the “most requested recipes within the realm of desserts,” and “simple and small, but very delicious.” Yolande trained professionally in the French pastry arts back home and has worked in grand hotels and restaurants. She hopes to someday use her skills professionally in the U.S. Other dishes featured in the videos include fish, brochette (BBQ skewers), and desserts from countries such as Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, and Angola.
Each year, Maine College of Art & Design partners with a local nonprofit organization on a public engagement project designed to benefit the community.
For updates on the project, visit inherkitchen.org or follow them on Instagram (@in.her.kitchen).
To RSVP to the screening and tasting (RSVP recommended) email inherkitchenofficial@gmail.com. There is a suggested donation of $10 for this event.
About In Her Presence
In Her Presence is created by and for women from minority communities in Maine. Through increased educational opportunities and providing access to knowledge through high level training, the nonprofit’s goal is to empower more women and girls to reduce systems of inequity, to advocate for themselves and their families, understand, analyze and assess the impact of racial injustices and learn tools to combat inequities. (www.inherpresence.org)

December Open House: MFA + MAT Admissions
2018-12-01 10:00 - 14:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, First Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Visit MECA&D for an Open House!
Come see first-hand why students are choosing to study in MECA&D's close-knit community and rigorous artistic programs. At an Open House, you'll have a chance to:
+ Get to know faculty and current students
+ Take a tour of our studios and res halls
+ Have your portfolio reviewed with professional artists
+ Explore the vibrant art scene in downtown Portland, Maine
This Open House is specifically designed for students interested in our MFA and MAT programs — each program will have a separate track. We'll send you more information within 48 hours of registration.
Sign up below!
If you have any questions about our Open Houses, you can contact us at admissions@meca.edu or 207.699.5026.

December Open House: BFA Admissions
2018-12-01 10:30 - 15:00 | Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Visit MECA&D for an Open House!
Come see first-hand why students are choosing to study in MECA&D's close-knit community and rigorous artistic programs. At an Open House, you'll have a chance to:
+ Get to know faculty and current students
+ Take a tour of our studios and res halls
+ Have your portfolio reviewed with professional artists
+ Explore the vibrant art scene in downtown Portland, Maine
This Open House is specifically designed for students interested in our BFA program — we'll send you more information within 48 hours of registration.
Sign up below!
If you have any questions about our Open Houses, you can contact us at admissions@meca.edu or 207.699.5026.

PANEL: Identities in Migration: On Being Somali-Mainers
2018-12-01 17:30 - 19:30 | Talbot Lecture Hall, USM Portland Campus, 85 Bedford St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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.

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Info Session: Artist Painting Retreat on the French Riviera
2018-12-02 15:00 - 16:00

FILM: REASON 4369
2018-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 | L/A Arts, 221 Lisbon St., Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
*** Note date change due to inclement weather***

Reason 4369 is directed by Zamzam Elmoge, produced by the GENZ team. The film focuses on giving a platform for Lewiston kids to tell their stories and break the stereotypes they hear about themselves every day. Click here to watch the trailer.

This is a free event. Refreshments provided. There will be a Q&A with the filmmakers following the screening.

The #GENERATIONZPROJECT is a film-based storytelling initiative that focuses on empowering the adolescents of Generation Z on sharing their stories. They are a group of high school students from Lewiston High School committed to expressing their identities and having their voices be heard by older generations.

Hosted by Museum L-A in partnership with Tree Street Youth, Generation Z Project, and L/A Arts.

WORKSHOP: I_Legal Demonstration and Action | Maria Patricia Tinajero
2018-12-07 11:00 - 20:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
I_Legal (2018) explores paper “as the first technology” that allowed for global mobilization of ideas, a kind of global immigration that explores the connections between art, history, politics and the environment. I_Legal (2018) devotes attention to the process of fermentation that acts as a source of energy and as a metaphor for free mobilization. The fermented plant fibers become pulp used to cast paper suitcases, tangible symbols of mobility. In this context, the suitcase is viewed as a familiar object that challenges its conventional use by asking the viewers to respond to the emotional burden of unwanted mobilization. These paper-thin “shells” are inadequate containers in their attempt to hold our most intimate articles; yet they are ghostly presences that invite us to reflect upon vulnerability as the foundation for strength. These are transient beings entangled in the tentacles of temporal mobilization and permanent displacement. On December 7, the paper suitcases will be disassembled in a process of cutting, soaking and re-pulping that captures the poetic gesture of tracing imperceptible immigration that takes place all the time. The repurposed paper suitcases, as postcards, serve two purposes:

As the “starter” for action to support immigrants in distress by writing letters to oppose the proposed Public Charge Regulation (http://www.regulations.gov/document?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001)
As a “thank you” gift to all who participate in this action

Drop-in Workshop: 11:00AM-5:00PM
Demonstration & Letter Writing: 5:00-8:00PM

CELEBRATION: AFRiCAN DUNDADA presents "A Celebration Of Culture"
2018-12-07 17:00 - 21:00 | Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
AFRiCAN DUNDADA and the Portland Public Library presents “A Celebration of Culture” an event that celebrates Portland’s culture and diversity.
Come and enjoy free Yoga, Meditation and an Afro Beat Dance class by Veeva and Miss Holmes before we start the night with original poetry by Isaac Kinzambi, stand up comedy by Maine’s own (Mr. Funny Man comedian) James Swaka and dance with the traditional Acholi Dancers. AFRiCAN DUNDADA will perform with his unique style of music – a mix of Afro Beat, reggae, dance-hall and hip-hop and the evening will conclude with a dance party by Maine’s best DJ – DJ Be See of AD.vs.FX.
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