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BFA in Creative Writing Senior Reading
2025-05-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | UMF Emery Community Arts Center
Join us in the Emery Center at 7 p.m. to celebrate with BFA candidates from the spring 2025 Senior Seminar in Creative Writing as they present work from their capstone portfolios. Location: Emery Community Arts Center. FREE. Open to the Public. Sponsored by: The UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Contact: Gretchen Legler, 207-500-3251, gretchen.legler@maine.edu.

Student Teaching Portfolio Presentations and Pinning Ceremony
2025-05-02 13:00 - 17:00 | North Dining Hall, UMF Olsen Student Center
UMF student teachers present their portfolios demonstrating their knowledge and skills to meet the Common Core/InTASC Teaching Standards. At the end of each day there will be a short ceremony presenting each student teacher with a pin of achievement. 428, 4/29, and 5/2. Location: North Dining Halls, A, B and C. FREE. Open to the Public. Sponsored by: UMF Field Services. Contact: Noel Wilson, 207-778-7171, noel.wilson@maine.edu.

Fiddlehead Festival
2025-05-03 10:00 - 15:00 | UMF campus
Mark your calendars for the annual Maine Fiddlehead Festival on Saturday, May 3, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on the University of Maine at Farmington campus. This year’s festival is the 12th celebration of local food organized cooperatively by UMF faculty, students, staff and local community members, with the generous support of local area businesses. Attendance is free and open to the public. Expect to find spring greens, fresh dug parsnips, seedlings, the last of the overwintered root crops, farm raised herbs and teas and specialty food products galore from farmers and artisan food vendors. In addition there will be Tent Talks on gardening and local food, UMF Community Garden activities, music and lots of fun! Location: UMF campus. FREE. Open to the public. Sponsored by UMF and the Farmington community. Contact: Mark Pires, edward.pires@maine.edu.

UMF 2025 Commencement
2025-05-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Dearborn Gymnasium, 163 High St, Farmington, ME, United States
Due to the weather forecast for Saturday, we will be moving indoors and holding three separate ceremonies in Dearborn Gymnasium to accommodate all students, faculty, families and loved ones. By organizing the ceremonies in this format, we can accommodate all family members without excluding anyone from the ceremony. No tickets will be necessary for guests. This change allows us to comfortably welcome all who wish to attend while ensuring a meaningful experience for graduates and their supporters.
The master’s degree ceremony begins at 9:00 a.m.
The first undergraduate ceremony begins at 11:00 a.m.
Majors for Ceremony 1:Early Childhood EducationEarly Childhood Special EducationElementary EducationMiddle and Secondary EducationSchool Health EducationSecondary EducationSpecial EducationWorld Languages K-12Health Promotion and WellnessProfessional StudiesRehabilitation and Human Services
The second undergraduate ceremony begins at 2:00 p.m.

Majors for Ceremony 2:Actuarial ScienceArt and DesignBachelor of General StudiesBiologyBusiness AdministrationComputer ScienceCreative WritingEarth and Environmental SciencesEnglishGeography and Environmental PlanningHistoryInterdisciplinary StudiesMathematicsOutdoor Recreation Business AdministrationPolitical SciencePsychology

For more information: https://www.umf.maine.edu/commencement-2025/

Theatre: Samuel Beckett's Endgame
2025-05-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Emery Community Art Center, 16 Main St, Farmington, ME, United States
Emery Community Arts Center presents Endgame and Act Without Words I by Samuel Beckett. Endgame, which premiered in London in 1957 alongside Act Without Words I, is written by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Written in a macabre post-apocalyptic world, the tragicomedy explores the absurdity of aging, mundanity, and family. Will the suffering end for these characters, or will it go on forever? A profound and eerie masterpiece from Beckett, the author of Waiting for Godot and Happy Days. Endgame features community members Austin Frederick, Frederick Liebfried, Jenn Beloin, and Tim Davis as well as Tim Berry in Act Without Words I and it is directed by Gavin Pickering. Attend and learn why “nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
Directed by Gavin Pickering. Performances are May 16th at 7pm and May 17th and 18th at 2pm. Location: Emery Community Arts Center. Admission: $15 Adults/ $10 Students/Seniors. Open to the Public. Sponsored by the Emery Community Arts Center. Contact: Gavin Pickering, 207-778-7038, gavin.pickering@maine.edu.
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Theatre: Samuel Beckett's Endgame
2025-05-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Emery Community Art Center, 16 Main St, Farmington, ME, United States
Emery Community Arts Center presents Endgame and Act Without Words I by Samuel Beckett. Endgame, which premiered in London in 1957 alongside Act Without Words I, is written by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Written in a macabre post-apocalyptic world, the tragicomedy explores the absurdity of aging, mundanity, and family. Will the suffering end for these characters, or will it go on forever? A profound and eerie masterpiece from Beckett, the author of Waiting for Godot and Happy Days. Endgame features community members Austin Frederick, Frederick Liebfried, Jenn Beloin, and Tim Davis as well as Tim Berry in Act Without Words I and it is directed by Gavin Pickering. Attend and learn why “nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
Directed by Gavin Pickering. Performances are May 16th at 7pm and May 17th and 18th at 2pm. Location: Emery Community Arts Center. Admission: $15 Adults/ $10 Students/Seniors. Open to the Public. Sponsored by the Emery Community Arts Center. Contact: Gavin Pickering, 207-778-7038, gavin.pickering@maine.edu.

Event Submission Test
2025-06-10 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-07-08 08:00 - 17:00 | The Landing, UMF Olsen Student Center
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Art Exhibit: "The Art Among Us 3"
2025-06-20 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-21 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-25 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-26 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-27 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-06-28 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-02 12:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-03 12:00 - 18:00 and 10 more dates | UMF Emery Community Arts Center Gallery
“The Art Among Us 3” features the work of 40 local artists who are members of the Gold LEAF Institute, the senior college at the University of Maine at Farmington. The exhibit includes a wide variety of work in acrylics, fiber, prints, sketches, photos, wood, glasswork, mosaics and more. The exhibition will be on view in the Emery Community Arts Center gallery from June 20-August 21, 2025, Summer Gallery Hours: Wed. – Sat.,12pm – 6 p.m. FREE and Open to the Public. Sponsored by Gold LEAF Institute and Emery Community Arts Center. Contact: Ann Bartges 207-778-7461, ann.bartges@maine.edu, https://wpsites.maine.edu/emerycommunityartscenter/2025/05/21/the-art-among-us-3/

Opening Reception: "The Art Among Us 3"
2025-06-20 17:00 - 19:00 | UMF Emery Community Arts Center Gallery

Rosario Friday Event Test
2025-06-24 10:00 - 11:00 | ME
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"The Van Gogh Shogh"
2025-07-20 16:00 - 20:00 | Emery Community Art Center, 16 Main St, Farmington, ME, United States
The UMF Emery Community Art Center is presenting “The Van Gogh Shogh,” where solo performer and clown, Donna Oblongata, uses the lens of Vincent Van Gogh’s life and legacy to ask urgent questions about the nature of art, success, reproduction, and the potential meaning(lessness) of a creative life.
The show takes place Sunday, July 20, at 4 p.m.
Open to the public. Admission is free, but bring cash
Show is interactive and recommended for ages 12+
About Donna Oblongata
Donna Oblongata is a critically-acclaimed performer, social practice artist, and award-winning writer. Her work has been described as, “big, bold, and endlessly impressive” – Baltimore City Paper, and “balancing on the thrilling precipice of pleasure and danger” – New Orleans Box Office. She has performed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Ars Nova (NY), and shared the stage with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Slava’s Snow Show. As a writer, she has received a MacDowell Fellowship and won awards for her short fiction.
The Emery Community Arts Center is located on Academy St. (between Main St. and High St.) in downtown Farmington. For more information contact Ann Bartges, director of UMF Emery Community Arts Center at ann.bartges@maine.edu or 207-778-7461.
