The Wrap: Soul food, seafood and autographs
A new soul food take-out business opens in Portland, and Portland Wine Week returns.
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Martin Beavers didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life until he moved to Maine four years ago to be closer to his father. He worked a lot of different jobs for a while, but eventually landed at The Lunch Box in Lewiston, where he cooked the same soul food his mother used to make for him when he was growing up in the Bronx.
Martin Beavers cooking at Fork Food Lab in Portland.
Photo courtesy of Fork Food Lab
Take a garden stroll to the sound of music at Thompson’s Point
Classical Uprising returns with a sound installation and a plea for mindfulness.
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Classical Uprising, which formed last year in a merger between the Oratorio Chorale and Portland Bach Experience, will host a series of open-air sound installations at Thompson’s Point South Garden over three weekends in April and May. The free, interactive sound experience, “Thanks in Variations,” is designed to give people a chance to engage with art and reflect on the past year.
Emily Isaacson
Carl D. Walsh/Staff Photographer
The installation features professional and amateur singers from Maine and consists of 32 separately recorded voices played back through 14 speakers placed throughout the garden. Audience members will walk along a path as the music plays. “Thanks in Variations” is based on Johannes Ockeghem’s 15th-century work, “Deo gratias (Give Thanks),” updated for a modern experience, Artistic Direc
Classical Uprising presents Spring 2021 Season
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PORTLAND Out of the ashes, music rises. The future of classical music is here, and it’s in Portland, Maine.
In a moment when arts organizations across the globe are struggling, Emily Isaacson, 2018 Maine Artist of the Year, is using the pandemic to radically rethink live performance, classical music, and community arts. The result, Classical Uprising, is a performing arts organization that operates as a service agency.
“The pandemic has put a spotlight on the loneliness of modern existence,” says Isaacson. “We’ve lost the richness of community life and the meaningful social support that comes with it. The best art taps into our shared human experiences and shared emotions, so as we envision and build a post-COVID society, let’s employ music to restore our communities and live performances to feel alive again.”