POETRY: Reading & Performance | Kifah Abdullah, Emma Flores, & Devin Colella
Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, United StatesKifah 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 […]
BOOKS: Welcoming Immigrants with Children’s Literature
Print: A Bookstore 273 Congress St., Portland, ME, United StatesPrint: 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 […]
FILM: Through the Repellent Fence | SPACE Gallery
SPACE Gallery 538 Congress St., Portland, ME, United StatesTHROUGH 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 […]
LECTURE: Ranu Mukherjee | Maine College of Art & Design Visiting Artist
Maine College of Art & Design 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, United StatesMaking 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 […]
Ranu Mukherjee: Visiting Artist Lecture
Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United StatesRanu Mukherjee makes bodies of work and large scale installations by combining drawing, painting and print on fabric or paper alongside video, animation and choreography
PANEL: Legacy and Influences of Immigration in Maine
Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, United StatesJoin 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 […]
FILM: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
Olin Arts Center, Bates College 75 Russell St., Lewiston, ME, United StatesHuman 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 […]
FILM + FOOD: Recipe Film Screening and Community Dinner | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
Maine College of Art & Design 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, United StatesA 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 […]