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February 2019
Douglas Rawlings, Poetry Reading
Doug Rawlings, author of Orion Rising and co-founder of Veterans For Peace, shares his poetry. This event is part of the New Commons Project's consideration of Thanhha Lai's INSIDE OUT & BACK AGAIN, a young adult verse novel that tells the story of a…
Find out more »Keynote Event: Tara Weikum, “Editing INSIDE OUT & BACK AGAIN”
Join Tara Weikum (Vice President and Editorial Director at HarperCollins Publishers) as she shares her experiences of working as editor of Thanhha Lai's INSIDE OUT & BACK AGAIN.
Find out more »March 2019
The New Commons Film Series: SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY (with Will Bonsall)
The New Commons Film Series presents SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY, a 2016 award-winning documentary that explores the pressing seed issues of the day, from the loss of global seed diversity to biotech patents and the corporate take-over of seed. Will Bonsall, locally grown, nationally…
Find out more »Workshop with Laressa Dickey, “Diligence, Devotion, Common(s)ense: Shopping for Poems in the Fedco Seed Catalog”
Many chart the year by the annual dreaming we do while thumbing through (or scrolling through) a seed catalog. Thoughts and inklings of herbs, vegetables, fruits become places that are walked off, plotted out, tilled, worked over, and seeded with what we wish to…
Find out more »Laressa Dickey, “From the Association of Stubborn Folks: All them pretty houses won’t feed them people”
How do we make a life in a place? How do we become of that place? How, when we leave that place, can it be that it never lets us leave? What is the mark it makes? How do we come to terms with…
Find out more »Keynote Event: C.R. Lawn, “The FEDCO SEED CATALOG: More Than a Marketing Tool”
C.R. Lawn, the founder of Fedco Seeds, will tell how its graphic-laden, horticulturally-rich, liberated literacy offered tools to combat the corporate takeover of the seed industry, restore the seed commons and teach others how to rein in out-of-control privatization and uber-marketed corporate capitalism run…
Find out more »Meet the Energy Behind FEDCO Seeds
What does it take to run a $5 million consumer-worker cooperative, filling more than 40,000 orders a year of everything from seeds to trees? Talk with workers who own this 40 year-old business and watch them in action. Limited to 12. Register at goldleaf@maine.edu…
Find out more »April 2019
Steven Pane, BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL” (Franz Liszt piano transcription)
World-class pianist and UMF Professor Dr. Steven Pane performs Franz Liszt's 1838 piano transcription of BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 "PASTORAL." Dr. Pane has performed at universities and in major halls throughout the country including the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Aaron Davis Hall in New…
Find out more »Steven Pane, BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL” (Franz Liszt piano transcription)
World-class pianist and UMF Professor Dr. Steven Pane performs Franz Liszt's 1838 piano transcription of BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 "PASTORAL." Dr. Pane has performed at universities and in major halls throughout the country including the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Aaron Davis Hall in New…
Find out more »Philharmonia Boston Orchestra Conducted by Jinwook Park, BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL” and Symphony No. 5 (with Introduction by Steven Pane)
The 32-piece Philharmonia Boston Orchestra (conducted by Jinwook Park) visits Farmington to perform the entirety of BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL," as well as Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Dr. Steven Pane (Professor of Music at UMF) will provide an introductory lecture.
Find out more »The New Commons Film Series: IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN
Enter the world and creative processes of Ludwig van Beethoven through this comprehensive 2009 documentary directed by Phil Grabsky! This film follows Beethoven through his notable compositions (and features dozens of performances by top musicians) while exploring the historical and social context in which they were…
Find out more »Improvisations on the Pastoral with Dan Beachy-Quick, Steven Pane, and Kristen Case
Join Dan Beachy-Quick (Professor of English at Colorado State University), Dr. Steven Pane (Professor Music at UMF), and Kristen Case (Associate Professor English at UMF) for an examination of the pastoral, an artistic mode utilized in BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PASTORAL" that focuses on the…
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