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ORONO Two Maine music therapists and a Maine-based theater producer and director will present the results of their pandemic-related workshops at 7 p.m. on April 16 and April 23 on Zoom.
The presentations will be made as part of the Jack Pine Project, a community arts endeavor organized by the Maine Folklife Center, Maine Studies Program and Hutchinson Center at the University of Maine.
Both of the talks are free and open to the public.
The April 16 talk will feature music therapists Carla Tanguay and Kate Beever, who conducted separate workshops that taught non-musicians how to express their thoughts and feelings about the COVID-19 pandemic through songs. Both will present the songs created during their workshops and talk about the process involved, as well as what their students said about the project.
Two Maine music therapists and a Maine-based theater producer and director will present the results of their pandemic-related workshops on April 16 and April 23 as part of the Jack Pine Project, a community arts project organized by the Maine Folklife Center, Maine Studies Program and Hutchinson Center at the University of Maine.
Both of the talks, offered at 7 p.m. via Zoom, are free and open to the public. For more information and to register, visit the Jack Pine Project website or email folklife@maine.edu.
The first talk on April 16 will feature music therapists Carla Tanguay and Kate Beever, who conducted separate workshops that taught nonmusicians how to express their thoughts and feelings about the COVID-19 pandemic through songs. Both will present the songs created during their workshops and talk about the process involved, as well as what their students said about the project.
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Two Maine music therapists along with a Maine-based theatre producer and director will present the results of their pandemic-related workshops. The talks are part of the Jack Pine Project, a community arts project organized by the Maine Folklife Center, Maine Studies Program and Fred Hutchinson Center at the University of Maine.
The first talk, presented by Zoom on Friday, April 16th at 7:00 pm, will feature music therapists Carla Tanguay and Kate Beever, who conducted separate workshops that taught non-musicians how to express their thoughts and feelings about the Covid pandemic through songs. Both will present the songs created during their workshops and talk about the process involved, as well as what their students said about the project.
LISA KRISTOFF
Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services Sarah Sherman. Courtesy photo
Sarah Sherman is well-known for her commitment to preserving the experiences of veterans. She wrote “Southport: The War Years, An Island Remembers” in 1996, “Heroes Among Us: A History of Boothbay Region s Veterans During the Second World War” in 1999 and “Looking Back: A History of Boothbay Region’s Veterans during the Korean and Vietnam Wars,” Volumes I and II, in 2016.
Sherman was hired in 2018 as director of strategic partnerships for the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services and, for the last two years, she has worked with Kennebec County Sheriff and Marine Corps veteran Ken Mason and Programs Director Jess Quinn and later Programs Director Valerie Grant to facilitate a weekly, one-hour writing group for veterans incarcerated at Kennebec County Jail. Sherman also credited her affiliations with the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services, and ac