Maine College of Art

PANEL: Welcoming the Stranger in Maine and in the Jewish Culture
2018-10-28 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, 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 the Maine Jewish Museum.

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THEATER: Refuge Malja ملجأ
2018-10-30 - 2018-11-17 | Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 Welden, with Arabic translations by Ali Al Mshakheel. Directed by Kareem Fahmy.
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Migrations: Poetry at SPACE
2018-10-30 18:30 - 20:30 | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04103, 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 suggested.
Participating poets include:
o Kifah Abdulla, who is poet, visual artist, and teacher and was a prisoner of war in Iran for more than eight years;o Linda Aldrich, Portland’s newest Poet Laureate;o Samaa Abdurraqib, who, among many community projects, works with the For Us, By Us Fund, which builds capacity for people of color in Maine;o Colin Cheney, who teaches at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at the Maine College of Art & Design and co-hosts the podcast Poet in Bangkok;o LaLa Drew, who runs a poetry night for Queer and Femme People of Color and writes for Black Girl in Maine and the Phoenix;o Dawn Potter, who directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and is the author of eight books of prose and poetry;o and Lee Sharkey, who is the author of eleven books of poems and whose work has won many awards.

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LECTURE: Piro Rexhepi | Colby College
2018-10-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Diamond 343, Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME, 04901, 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 and post-national governing processes have normalized racialized border regimes, where the separation of post-socialist ‘Balkans’ from the post-colonial ‘Middle East’ has come to influence new everyday politics and infrastructures of life. Geopolitical Whiteness examines the post-socialist recalibration of European colonial race-making in the contemporary Euro-Atlantic bordering processes in the Balkans. Moving beyond the presentist critique of post-socialist neoliberalism in Cold War Area Studies epistemic infrastructures, it provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the ways in which Euro-Atlantic integration of the post-socialist peripheries has revitalized and redesigned a longer European commitment of racialized imperial statecraft at its eastern and southeastern geopolitical borders. Focusing on the Balkans as a locale of multiple and overlapping territorial regimes and as an object of global governance, I look at the mobilization of memory, migration, race, gender and sexuality in the sealing of the Balkan refugee passage and the simultaneous deployment of that process towards the racial rearticulation of the Balkans as Euro-Atlantic geography.
Piro Rexhepi holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Strathclyde and has held research fellowships at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at University of Graz, the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe at the University of Rijeka, and teaching positions at the State University of New York, City University of New York and New York University. His research focuses on the politics of religion, sexuality and coloniality in international relations, with a particular focus on the relationship between the Balkans and the Middle East. Previously, his work has examined the intersection of EU enlargement politics with sexual rights, exploring the production of Islamophobia in Muslim-majority countries in the Balkans. His research at MPI-MMG interrogated the ways in which the politics of preservation in Sarajevo and Salonika fuel urban renewal, gentrification, and Europeanization, having drastic effects on the lives of migrant and marginalized urban communities.

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Julia Maria Künnap: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, 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 of Contemporary Jewellery in Florence. She has exhibited in various group exhibitions throughout Europe and in 2013 presented her first solo exhibition in the Emerging Artist Platform at Sienna Patti.

I am inspired by imperfection. It is a strong source of motivation. If I see a perfect thing—an artwork, a poem—I just breathe in and breathe out. It just comes and then goes. But if I see something that irritates me, I start analyzing. Why am I irritated? Why isn’t it perfect? Where is the ‘mistake’ made? Usually, once I have deconstructed the whole piece in my mind, I already have so many good ideas. In the end, these ideas don’t have much to do with the source of inspiration.
Read interview between Aaron Decker '12 and Julia Maria Künnap at Art Jewelry Forum

Funded through the generous support of the Windgate Charitable Foundation.
Header Photography: Courtesy of the artist

RECEPTION: Open Studios at Monson Arts Center
2018-11-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Monson Arts Center, N Main St., Monson, ME, 04464, 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.

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Eric Gottesman: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Eric Gottesman: Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday, November 1, 2018; 6–7pm
Porteous Building, Osher Hall, Second Floor
Free and open to the public
Eric Gottesman, For Freedoms Super PAC
Eric Gottesman is a photographic artist, teacher, and activist. 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.
His current collaborative project For Freedoms, is the first artist-run Super PAC. Starting in January 2016 with Gottesman’s co-founder Hank Willis Thomas to encourage new forms of public critical discourse. The medium for this project is American democracy, the "readymade" is the Super PAC (a federal designation for organizations that raise money for "political speech"), and the mission is to forge more transparent and representative forms of political discourse.

EXHIBITION: A Nation of Immigrants: Home Lost, Home Found
2018-11-02 - 2018-11-24 | Harlow Gallery, 100 Water Street, Hallowell, ME, 04347, United States
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 mean to be a “Nation of Immigrants”?
Opening reception (potluck! Please bring a dish or beverage to share) November 2nd, 5-7 pm.

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Traces | SYMPOSIUM: Art + Politics | @ MECA&D
2018-11-02 09:30 - 17:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

SYMPOSIUM: Art + Politics | Maine College of Art & Design
2018-11-02 10:00 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 and a closing reception. Registration is free. Due to limited seating, please complete the RSVP Form found on the Symposium Website.

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CONVERSATION: Positive Proof: Contributions from our Immigrant Community
2018-11-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
A discussion with members of the immigrant community from entrepreneurs to teachers. Following the 4pm matinee of Refuge Malja ملجأ at Portland Stage.

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CONVERSATION: Children of War: The Young Refugee Experience
2018-11-04 15:30 - 17:00 | Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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.

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FILM: El Mar La Mar
2018-11-04 18:30 - 20:30 | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04103, United States
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 Joshua Bonnetta's meditations on the materiality of film.
Screening begins at 7, doors open at 6:30. For more information contact Jon Courtney at jon@space538.org
www.space538.org/events/el-mar-la-mar

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LECTURE: The Immigration Debate in Maine | Catherine Besteman
2018-11-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Center for Global Humanities, UNE Portland Campus, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland, ME, 04103, United States
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
2018-11-07 17:00 - 18:30 | Miller Library, Colby College, 5100 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
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, Tin House, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the 2018-2020 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University. He lives with his partner and their pug dog, Mr. Rupert Giles.
Part of the Colby College Visiting Writers Series. Chen appears as the Kristina Stahl Writer-in-Residence.

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PANEL: IXNOS Artists Discussion
2018-11-07 17:30 - 19:00 | USM Glickman Library, Room 423/4, 314 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 photographs, art work, portfolio books, texts and artifacts relating to these paths of migration through the island. In addition to work by Allen-Efstathiou and Snell, featured will be photographs by Michael Honegger of Nice, France; maps by Dr. Irwin Novak, plus work by Jeff and Lydia Badger, and members of the Peregrine Press -- Jessyca Broekman, Kate Chappell, Delphine Sherin, Kit Browne Pike, Susan Amons, Debbie Schmitt, Kate Katomski and others.
Hosted by the Hellenic Society of Maine with support from Peregrine Press.
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FILM: Immigration and Popular Culture
2018-11-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Auburn Hasty Community Center, 46 Pettengil Park, Auburn, ME, 04210, United States
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, “If Chinese Americans comprise only 1% of the U.S. population, why are there Chinese restaurants in almost every city across America?” The filmmakers seek the answer in a thoughtful journey through the Chinese American experience, from the arrival of boatloads of immigrants to take part in the Gold Rush and the building of the railroads in the 19th century, all the way to the age of Panda Express.
Part of Becoming American: A Documentary Film and Discussion Series on Our Immigration Experience. The Becoming American series is a three-month public program featuring documentary film screenings and moderated discussions designed to encourage an informed discussion of immigration issues against the backdrop of our immigration history.
Please register to attend here. Sponsored by Museum L-A.

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CONVERSATION: The Stranger and the Spiritual
2018-11-07 21:00 - 21:30 | Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
A discussion with a Rabbi and an Imam about their faiths, and about what different scriptures say with regard to how we care for those we don't know. Following the 7:30pm performance of Refuge *Malja* ملج at Portland Stage.

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PANEL: Immigrant Advocacy in Maine
2018-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 of Portland
TBA
Find more information at Portland Public Library.

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Meredith Host: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Meredith Host: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday November 8, 2018. 12–1pm
Porteous Building, Osher Hall, second floor

Meredith Host was born and raised in Detroit Rock City and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute in 2001. Meredith has spent time at numerous ceramic residencies including The School for American Crafts at RIT in Rochester, NY, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, and Dresdner Porzellan Manufactory in Dresden, Germany. At Watershed, Meredith was the 2005 Salad Days Artist where she designed and produced 500 salad plates for their annual fundraiser. In 2008, she completed her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from The Ohio State University . In 2011, Meredith was named one of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Emerging Artists as well as one of the Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists. Meredith lives in Kansas City, MO where she is a full time studio potter. She is a core member of the Kansas City Urban Potters.
Funded through the generous support of the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

Header Photography: Jason Bradbury; courtesy of the artist

FILM: There is My Home
2018-11-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Room 108, USM, Lewiston Campus, 51 Westminster St, Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
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 to farm at a young age from their parents. When civil war broke out in 1991, their villages were repeatedly raided for food. Thousands of friends, family and fellow villagers were brutally killed. Hawa and Batula fled and eventually reached safety in refugee camps in Kenya. In 2004, they were resettled in Dallas and Baltimore respectively. But they struggled to adapt to city life. In 2004 they learned of a place called Lewiston, Maine — a small northern city close to farmland. That's where this story begins.

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MUSIC + POETRY: Culture and Displacement | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
2018-11-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 present his story through his instrument. Palaver musicians will support the two musicians through new arrangements of Iraqi songs and through improvisational accompaniment to the verbal story. They will be joined by poets and writers Reza Jalali and Ekhlas Ahmed who will read from their work.
As a musician-led ensemble, Palaver is driven by collaborative processes, through which its Co-Artistic Directors share musical and administrative leadership. While each member of the ensemble brings unique experiences to the table, they share a passion for taking classical music beyond the concert hall to engage with new and diverse audiences. In these personal, unconventional settings, Palaver strives to use music to address social issues, promote education and healing, and inspire peers and community to support the arts.
This event will be hosted in the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.

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Traces | MUSIC + POETRY: Culture + Displacement | @ MECA&D
2018-11-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

FILM: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
2018-11-08 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.

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LECTURE: Understanding Violence in Central Africa, Laura Seay
2018-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Chace Community Forum, 178 Main St, Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
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 governing the eastern DRC in response to the Congolese state’s weakness in North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri. I am also engaged in a new project on the effects of U.S. legislation designed to mitigate conflict in central Africa and in 2014, I am leading an impact evaluation of a large community-based reconstruction (CBD) governance intervention in four Congolese provinces.
My research and teaching interests include qualitative and mixed methods, African politics and development, and post-conflict state reconstruction. I have also worked with the World Bank in Nigeria on efforts to improve the national primary health care system through evaluating the implementation of a results-based finance system, with particular attention to reducing instances of maternal, infant, and child mortality by removing demand-side barriers to system access.
At Colby, I teach African politics, conflict, and research methods. I blog about African politics, development, and security at Texas in Africa and am a contributor to the Duck of Minerva, the Christian Science Monitor’s Africa Monitor blog, and The Atlantic.com."
Find out more about this event on the Mid-Maine Global Forum website.

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FILM: Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar | Maine College of Art & Design
2018-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 over a bewildering matrix of barriers.
Following this high stakes “game” of cat and mouse with a handheld video camera, Khaled Jarrarʼs debut documentary was the standout success at the 2012 Dubai International Film Festival, winning the Muhr Arab Documentary Prize, the Special Jury Prize, and the International Critics Prize.
Maine College of Art & Design MFA'19 candidate Inass Yassin will introduce the film, and lead a short discussion after the screening.
This event will take place in MECA&D's Osher Hall.

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Traces | FILM: Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar | @ MECA&D
2018-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Empower the Immigrant Woman Conference
2018-11-10 09:00 - 20:00 | USM Wishcamper Center, 34 Bedford St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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 goal will be to educate the newest Americans on the programs and services available to address education, social and challenges faced. Join us at 6pm as we recognize trailblazer women who are serving and changing Maine communities with their work in specific immigrant communities in Maine, across America, and abroad.
Morning events at USM Wishcamper Center
9am - 1pm - Conference Program Flow
11:30 - 1pm Resource Fair Display & Networking with Service Providers
***PLEASE NOTE AFTERNOON CHANGE OF VENUE TO CONGREGATIOM BET HA'AM (81 Westbrook St, South Portland, ME 04106)***
5:30pm Pre-event Reception
6:30pm· Evening Trailblazer Celebration

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November Open House: BFA Admissions
2018-11-10 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 upon 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.

BOOKS: I'm Your Neighbor at the Harlow Gallery
2018-11-10 11:00 - 13:00 | 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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