Anime Film Night: Spirited Away
2025-02-19 17:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Lincoln Auditorium, UMF Roberts Learning Center
Visiting ALLEX fellow Atsumi Shibata will be hosting an anime film night Wednesday evening, showing Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. This co-curricular event is sponsored by the Office of Experiential and Global Education with funding from the UISFL Grant and is eligible for credit toward the first Global Competency Micro-Credential Badge. Location: Lincoln Auditorium, UMF Roberts Learning Center. FREE. UMF Community Only. Sponsored by: Office of Experiential and Global Education. Contact: Brooke-Lynn Hinkley, 207-778-7519.

John Harlow: Take Only What You Can Carry
2025-02-20 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-21 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-22 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-23 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-25 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-26 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-27 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-28 12:00 - 16:00 and 5 more dates | UMF Art Gallery, 246 Main St, Farmington, ME, United States
The UMF Art Gallery proudly presents ‘Take Only What You Can Carry,” a real-life photographic exhibit by John Harlow, UMF Art and New Media alumni. The exhibit is on display from Thursday, Feb. 6 through March 28.
Harlow’s work in photography and video conveys intimate, raw documents of family life, domestic spaces, and personal chaos. Inspired by conversations and encounters in his photowalks through poor and working-class neighborhoods of his hometown of Skowhegan, His work is deeply human, combining elements of documentary photography with a painterly sensibility that invites viewers to confront discomfort, beauty, and vulnerability all at once.
Location: UMF Art Gallery. FREE. Open to the Public. The UMF Art Gallery is dedicated to bringing contemporary art to the campus and regional communities. The gallery is located at 246 Main Street, behind the Admissions Office.
Gallery hours are Tuesdays-Sundays 12-4 p.m., and by appointment. Please contact Sarah at maline@maine.edu or 207-778-1062 for more information or to make an appointment. https://www.artgalleryumf.org/

Art Exhibit, "Holobiont: Woodcut Prints by Amanda Lilleston"
2025-02-20 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-21 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-22 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-24 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-25 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-26 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-27 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-28 12:00 - 18:00 and 4 more dates | Emery Community Arts Center
“Holobiont” presents a selection of woodcut prints and collages by Maine-based artist, Amanda Lilleston. A holobiont is a host organism and its associated organic community that functions as a single ecological unit. Inspired by the interconnected systems of biology and physiology, Lilleston uses woodcut printmaking as a tool to explore the mutuality between the world and the bodies it continually shapes. Through drawing, relief carving, and printing, she transforms imagery of the body and landscape into shifting and evolving compositions, investigating the idea of self and what that means in an interconnected environment. Lilleston is an Assistant professor of Art at Cooby College and has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally including the International Triennial Colour in Graphic Arts in Torún, Poland; Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial; the Atlanta Print Biennial; the Zillman Art Museum, and upcoming participation in the DI CARTA / PAPERMADE 6th edition: International Contemporary Art Biennale at the Museo Civico Palazzo Fogazzaro in Schio, Italy.
Holobiont will be on view in Emery Community Arts Center from Jan. 30-March 8, 2025. Gallery Hours: Mon.-Sat., 12pm-6pm; closed holidays and university breaks. Location: Emery Community Arts Center. FREE. Open to the Public. Contact: Ann Bartges, 207-778-7461, ann.bartges@maine.edu. https://wpsites.maine.edu/emerycommunityartscenter/2025/01/16/amanda-lilleston-holoboint/
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ArtsFarmington Presents: UNBOUGHT
2025-02-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Emery Community Arts Center
ArtsFarmington is pleased to offer its next program “UNBOUGHT” at the Emery Performance Space in Farmington with a reception to follow at the North Church. February is Black History Month and March is Women’s HistoryMonth. This makes “Unbought” especially timely. It features the dramatic stories of three African American women played by Tiffany Terrell: Ida B. Wells, journalist and women’s suffrage activist; Sally Hemings, the slave with whom Thomas Jefferson fathered six children; and Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Congresswoman from New York and first African American woman to run for President. The title of the show derives from Shirley Chisholm’s memoir, “Unbought and Unbossed.”
The musical score features jazz, folk, popular and classical works by African American composers as interpreted by a cellist, pianist, and percussionist. Admission: $20, more if you can, less if you can’t. All welcome, no one turned away. Sponsored by ArtsFarmington. Free for UMF students. Youth 18 & under free through our Arts Inspire Youth program. Tickets at artsfarmington.org with a limited number available at the door. Contact: artsfarmingtonmedia@gmail.com.

TRIO Week Kickoff Carnival
2025-02-24 12:30 - 14:00 | The Landing, Olsen Student Center
Join Johnson Scholars to kick-off our TRIO Week celebration with carnival games, prizes, and snacks! All campus welcome. Location: The Landing, Olsen Student Center. FREE, UMF Community Only. Sponsored by Johnson Scholars. Contact: Joe McShane, 207-778-7068, joseph.mcshane@maine.edu.

Chinese Tea Ceremony
2025-02-25 17:00 - 18:00 | UMF Kalikow Education Center
Visiting professor Dr. Ruifang Han will be hosting a traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony.
This co-curricular event is sponsored by the Office of Experiential and Global Education with funding from the UISFL Grant and is eligible for credit toward the first Global Competency Micro-Credential Badge. Location: UMF Kalikow Education Center, Rm. 107. FREE. UMF Community Only. Sponsored by: Office of Experiential and Global Education. Contact: Brooke-Lynn Hinkley, 207-778-7519.

CANCELED: Visiting Writers Series Reading
2025-02-27 19:30 - 21:00 | The Landing, UMF Olsen Student Center
The Visiting Writers Series presents fiction writer Nick Fuller Googins. The reading will be followed by a book signing with the author.
Location: The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center, FREE, Open to the Public, Sponsored by; The UMF Creative Writing Department, Contact Amy Neswald, 207-778-8024, amy.neswald@maine.edu
