BANGOR — A Public Humanities Day will take place Friday and Saturday, Jan. 23-24, in downtown Bangor. The schedule is:
Friday, Jan. 23, Coe Space, 48 Columbia St.
• Kick-Off Event: Humanities-themed PechaKucha. Doors open at p.m., show starts 6:30 p.m., Suggested donation, $6. Refreshments provided by Izzy’s Catering and State Street Wine Cellar
Anticipated speakers and tentative topics include Chuck Donnelly, Acadia School of Music, “Building Bridges and Community with Traditional Music;” Michael Grillo, art department, University of Maine, “Inside Viewers: Paintings of Place for Local Inhabitants;” Greg Howard English department, University of Maine, “Fiction and Image;” Pauleena MacDougall, Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine, “The Airline Road;” Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News, “Digital Postcards from Maine;” Josh Roiland, CMJ and honors, University of Maine, “On Literary Journalism;” Jane Smith, modern languages and classics, University of Maine, “Languages and the Humanities;” Kate Webber, Maine Humanities Council, “Three Decades of the Public Humanities in Maine.”
Saturday, Jan. 24
• Bangor Children’s Choir Winter Concert, 11-11:45 a.m., Maine Discovery Museum.
• Brown bag lunch and discussion of the “Future of the Book in the Digital Age” with Michael Alpert, University of Maine Press; Deb Rollins, Fogler Library, University of Maine; Joshua Bodwell, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance; Barbara McDade, Bangor Public Library, noon-12:45 p.m. Bangor Public Library.
• University of Maine Museum of Art tour with Director George Kinghorn, 1-1:45 p.m.; artist Brenton Hamilton lecture on “The Historic Photographic Processes in Dan Estabrook’s Art,” 2-2:45 p.m., at the museum, 40 Harlow St.
• Bangor Public Library Philosophy Tea, 3-3:45 p.m. at the library. University of Maine philosophy professor Kirsten Jacobson and her student club will discuss the relationship between knowledge and wonder. To download a short reading to spark conversation, visit http://umaine.edu/umhc/files/2014/12/Cobb-Ecology-of-Imagination-Ch-2.pdf.
• Bangor Public Library, Film and Discussion, 4-4:45 p.m. “An Oral Historian’s Work” with David Weiss, founder of Northeast Historic Film, Bucksport.
A free bus will depart from UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts at 10:30 a.m. and will return to UMaine from Bangor Public Library at 5 p.m. thanks to funds from the Division of Student Life.
For information about the Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day, contact Pauleena MacDougall, Maine Folklife Center, 581-1848, or Pauleena.MacDougall@umit.maine.edu
For information about the University of Maine Humanities Center, contact: Liam Riordan, director, 581-1913 or riordan@umit.maine.edu.