Matt Norwood, Darling Marine Center Tue, 02/23/2021 - 8:15am
On Tuesday, March 2 at 7 p.m., the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center and Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust will host a panel discussion with Ian Cheney, director of the 2020 documentary, “The Long Coast.” Cheney will be joined by DMC Director Heather Leslie, Coastal Rivers Director of Education & Citizen Science Sara Gladu, and others from the community for a short discussion of the film and its insights into the changing environment and culture along the Maine coast.
“The Long Coast” is a series of lyrical portraits that illuminates the stories of Maine residents whose lives and livelihoods are inextricably connected to the ocean. It is an atmospheric film that shows the beauty, intimacy and uncertainty that coastal dwellers face when they root their lives in the ocean, particularly as human actions from overfishing, to aquaculture, to warming seas confront Maine and its people with pro
Screening, panel discussion of The Long Coast with Darling Center, Coastal Rivers
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I negotiated a price and they took the Sterling apartment off the market. They were impressed by my Google Drive folder, ready with all my documents. (
Always be prepared
, Mom once said, with her tax returns sticking out of her purse, after another open house we’d gone to “for fun.”) The next week, I signed the papers in an oversized conference room, six feet apart from everyone else.
My welcome was warm. On move-in day, a neighbor introduced herself. She secured her floral face mask and shuffled through my new kitchen, pointing out the renovations. I asked how long she’d been living in the building. Proudly, she replied, “Over thirty years.” There was also the man with his partner down the hall “I’m a Vassar alum, too!” who received my light fixtures when I missed the delivery. There was the co-owner of the coffee shop across the street; she makes my iced oat milk maple latté as soon as I wave through the window. And there was the born-again Christian next
Playwright Aleshea Harris Awarded 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize
The Hermitage Artist Retreat (Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO), in collaboration with the Greenfield Foundation, has selected OBIE-winning playwright Aleshea Harris as the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, given this year in the artistic discipline of theater. Harris will receive a six-week residency at the Hermitage and a $30,000 commission for a new work, which will have its first public presentation in Sarasota in 2023 in collaboration with the Hermitage’s presenting partner, Asolo Repertory Theatre (Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director).
The Hermitage’s Artistic Director Andy Sandberg notes that Harris was selected by a distinguished jury that included jury chair Mandy Greenfield1, a member of the Hermitage Curatorial Council and the Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival (Massachussetts); Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival