Something for Everyone at One Longfellow Square through May 31, 2012
Your Reasons for taking in a show or two at One Longfellow Square: Duke Robillard Band, Portland Jazz Orchestra, Arborea, Verbalized Medicine, and The Guru Ganesha Band
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Maine Historical Society Newsletter for the Week of May 21, 2012
It’s that time of year again; we’re heading out to the stadiums to watch our favorite baseball teams in action, be it the Red Sox or a local Little League chapter. We revel in the smells, the sounds, and the history. Baseball has been part of American society for several centuries. It is that universal appeal that makes baseball so much a part of many peoples’ experiences of summer.
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Portland Museum of Art Events and Movies for the Week of May 21, 2012
On view through May 28 “Edgar Degas, bristly, embittered, and occasionally misanthropic, may not have been an easy man to know. But there’s something extraordinarily intimate and compelling about ‘Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist’…” –The Boston Globe
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Traditional Irish Band The Ivy Leaf Celebrates CD Release at Blue May 30, 2012
The Ivy Leaf is a young traditional Irish quartet that came together through the Boston session scene. Featuring fiddles, flute & whistle, concertina, vocals and bouzouki and guitar accompaniment, the group’s influences are a blend of the old and new, taking on centuries old dance music and giving it a modern vigor. Among their influences are many of the local musicians who define the sound of Irish music in Boston and Providence. Enriching that tradition is an intense curiosity for old, isolated, or obscure forms of music, arming the group with an array of tunes from jigs to polkas to hornpipes, along with songs of both Irish and American origin.
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Join Anne Beattie, Author, New Yorker Contributor, Professor and Novelist at The Telling Room 5/31/12
Ann Beattie at The Telling Room, May 31st from 3:30-4:30pm for a roundtable with aspiring young writers. Open to all middle and high school students, the afternoon talk will allow students to engage a writer who has published numerous short story collections and novels over a 35-year career, including The New Yorker Stories in 2011.
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Maine Historical Society News for the Week of May 16, 2012
The Mysterious Penobscot Belle: Early Photography & A Forgotten Wabanaki Encampment in Portland in the mid-1800s Speaker: Harald E. L. Prins & Bunny McBride, Kansas State University The noted anthropologists will explore the story behind a mid-19th century engraving of Mary Louise, a beautiful Penobscot Indian woman, originally published as a “Fashion Plate” in a popular women’s magazine. This is the seventh and final program in the Richard D’Abate Lectures: Conversations About History, Art, and Literature.
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Movies and Events at The Portland Museum of Art for the Week of May 15, 2012
Tanja Alexia Hollander: Are You Really My Friend? On view through June 17 “I have crawled on the floor, played Legosand read books with children I just met, admired chickens and prize roosters, shared a bowl of gumbo in New Orleans with a friend I hadn’t met in real life…and listened to stories of family tragedy and strength.” –Artist Tanja Alexia Hollander, The Globe and Mail
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Telling Room Founder to Speak at TEDx on May 19th
Dear Telling Room Friend, We are pleased to invite you to join us on Saturday, May 19th at the TEDxDirigo Engage event at the University of Southern Maine’s Hannaford Hall, where author and Telling Room co-founder Susan Conley will give a talk on how The Telling Room uses dynamic, community-based creative writing programs to engage young people throughout Maine.
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317 Ensemble Showcase Public Event · By 317 Main Street Community Music Center
Where else can you see a cello quartet followed by a middle-school rock band and then a Grateful Dead ensemble? Come see the special all-ages 317 Student Ensemble Show upstairs on the new stage at Empire Dine and Dance on Sunday, May 20 at 2 pm.
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LAST CHANCE: Mother’s Day Inspired Writing Workshops May 19, 2012
“Women writers may or may not bear children or mother others—either literally or symbolically—but the instinct “to mother” is a profound, primal, and powerful force,” says Kirschner, who has taught at Boston College and was the 2011 Maine Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellow. “When we focus that force fully upon mothering the word, then and only then, can we fully inhabit and empower not just language but our highest literary selves.”
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St. Lawrence Arts Center Entertainment Schedule through May 2012
Your Reasons for taking in a show at the St. Lawrence Arts Center: The Reverie Machine, Christopher Giamo, Shopian, Eugene Mirman, Blue Stocking Film Series, Pete Dubuc, Dark Hallow Bottling Company,
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Cue: Portland Stage–Magazine for May 2012
Little Festival Returns Since its debut in 1989, Portland Stage’s Little Festival of the Unexpected has established a tradition of nurturing artists, invigorating audiences, and exploring new voices, new visions, and new forms of theater. Be in the audience this May 15 thru 19 and discover what new plays are emerging on the theater scene. Little Festival of the Unexpected features public readings of new works. Three to five playwrights are in residence each year at the Festival as they continue to develop their scripts with input from actors, directors, dramaturgs, and audience members.
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Check Out the Events Calendar for One Longfellow Through May 21, 2012
Here’s your reasons for checking out One Longfellow Square: Taiji, Qugong, Aztec Two Step, Eric Bettencourt, Monique Barrett, WMPG Annual Bluegrass Spectacular, The Grassholes, Tricky Britches, The Jerks of Grass, Shelby Lynne, Decompression Chamber Music, Andy Friedman, Tish Hinojosa, Chris Smither, Danielle Miraglia, Amy Black. Need I say MORE?
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You’re Going to Like the Music at The State Theatre through May 31st
Flogging Molly has never conformed to industry tastes; they’ve always been the outcasts who put their fans before commercial success, and they’ve always put their music before marketability. The rewards of such independence and integrity are undeniable on Speed of Darkness. You feel it from the first note to the last, the pathos and the passion, the sweeping and rollicking electricity of inspiration.
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