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REGION This past year has been challenging. We have been quarantining, masking, “pivoting,” rising up, breaking down, and just trying to keep it together.
To mark the events of this moment, the annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival will break out of its usual format to celebrate the University of Maine at Augusta’s (UMA) 2020-2021 academic theme of “Outbreak,” a topic inclusive of viral outbreaks, outbreaks of social justice, and outbreaks of creativity. Annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival presents a hybrid event of visual and literary arts on April 30, to join this virtual event: https://maine.zoom.us/j/84500105702
AUGUSTA This past year has been challenging. We have been quarantining, masking, “pivoting,” rising up, breaking down, and just trying to keep it together.
To mark the events of this moment, the annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival will break out of its usual format to celebrate the University of Maine at Augusta’s (UMA) 2020-2021 academic theme of “Outbreak,” a topic inclusive of viral outbreaks, outbreaks of social justice, and outbreaks of creativity.
The Plunkett Festival will partner with the UMA Danforth Gallery to provide a virtual multifaceted literary and arts event on April 30, 2021. Additional details on the Danforth Gallery Exhibition are available at https://www.uma.edu/news/the-outbreak-project-exhibition-april-6-30-2021/
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UMA to host in-person art exhibition around ‘Outbreak’ theme The Outbreak Project at UMA is scheduled to open Tuesday and run through April 30, featuring 14 artists.
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Patricia Brace rehearses inside her performance space Wednesday at The Charles Danforth Gallery at the University of Maine at Augusta.
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AUGUSTA As they walk into The Charles Danforth Gallery at the University of Maine at Augusta, visitors are greeted by a large, wooden box resembling a room.
The box is 12 feet wide, 8 feet tall and enclosed on all sides but one, where a performer or visitor can enter Patricia Brace’s artwork during the gallery’s exhibition, “The Outbreak Project at UMA,” premiering Tuesday.
Hybrid 2021 Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival presents visual, literary arts Sat, 04/03/2021 - 1:00pm
Baron Wormser. (Photo courtesy University of Maine at Augusta)
“This past year has been challenging,” said the University of Maine in Augusta, in a news release. “We have been quarantining, masking, ‘pivoting,’ rising up, breaking down, and just trying to keep it together.”
To mark the events of this moment, the annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival will break out of its usual format, Friday, April 30, to celebrate the University of Maine at Augusta’s (UMA) 2020-2021 academic theme of “Outbreak,” a topic inclusive of viral outbreaks, outbreaks of social justice, and outbreaks of creativity.