Maine Humanities Council

January 17, 2012

Mountains Beyond Mountains: the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

Series: Making a Difference: How Love and Duty Change Lives

Location and Time: Henry D. Moore Library, Steuben, 4:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Contact: Jeanne Benedict, 207-546-7301

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and additional funding from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

For more information about the series

January 18, 2012

Kehinde by Buchi Emeccheta

Series: Opening Windows: Women’s Stories from Different Cultures

Location and Time: South Thomaston Public Library, South Thomaston (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Contact: Tina Branco, 207-354-2453

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and additional funding from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

For more information about the series

Portland Ovations

Warriors Don’t Cry

January 18, 2012

Location and Time: Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus, 10:00 a.m.

Contact: Portland Ovations

Warriors Don’t Cry is a one-woman play based on the searing civil rights memoir of the same name by Dr. Melba Patillo Beals. Warriors recounts the story of the fifteen-year-old Melba Pattillo who endures violence and discrimination as she and eight other African American students integrate Little Rock, Arkansas’ Central High School in 1957. The memoir by Dr. Beals received the American Library Association Award 1995 Nonfiction Book of the Year and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Directed by Richard C. Aven, and performed by Almeria Campbell, Warriors Don’t Cry is an emotional, powerful, and riveting experience not to be missed.

January 19, 2012

Murder at the Nightwood Bar by Katherine Forrest

Series: Refreshing the Whodunit

Location and Time: Orono Public Library, Orono, 3:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Contact: Judith Hakola, 207-581-3812

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and additional funding from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

For more information about the series

January 20, 2012

Center for Global Humanities

Local and Global: Notes from the Frontlines of the Climate Fight with Bill McKibben

Location and Time: Westbrook Performing Arts Center, Westbrook Middle School, 6:00 p.m.

For more information: Visit the Center for Global Humanities website

The Center for Global Humanities is a public forum dedicated to the study of human destiny in the 21st century. CGH offers seminars and lectures by leading scholars from around the world who are doing innovative scholarship. Because the Center believes in the vital necessity of a humanities culture to civic and democratic life, it works closely with the local community to encourage reading, discussion, and debate.

The Maine Humanities Council is working with UNE’s Center for Global
Humanities to help more Maine communities benefit from some of the
speakers that the Center is bringing to Maine. We are using Bill
McKibben’s upcoming talk in Westbrook this Friday to pilot a program
involving live streams of the talk combined with facilitated discussions
at 5 libraries. Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the
environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a
founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org.

For more information visit the Center for Global Humanities website.

January 23, 2012

Site: York

Series: Home

This Session: Where is Home? The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant

Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say

Contact: Julia Walkling 207-773-5051

New Books, New Readers is a humanities-based book discussion program for adults who are new readers or who are working to improve their reading. NBNR is supported in part by grants from Jane’s Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Sam L. Cohen Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, and Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

January 24, 2012

The Tree by John Fowles

Series: Entering Nature: Contemporary Views of the Human Self in the Natural World

Location and Time: Long Lake Public Library, St. Agatha, 6:00 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Contact: Jackie Ayotte, 207-543-9395

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and additional funding from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

For more information about the series

January 24, 2012

A Maine Hamlet by Lura Beam

Series: The Mirror of Maine: The Maine Community in Myth and Reality

Location and Time: Albion Public Library, Albion, 6:30 p.m. (the program is free, pre-registration required)

Let’s Talk About It is a free, library-based, facilitated book discussion program for adults who want to talk about what they’ve read, presented in collaboration with the Maine State Library with major support from the Betterment Fund and additional funding from the Maine Charity Foundation at the Maine Community Foundation.

For more information about the series

January 26, 2012

Site: Madawaska

Series: History

This Session: Going West Dakota Dugout by Ann Turner

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Contact: Julia Walkling 207-773-5051

New Books, New Readers is a humanities-based book discussion program for adults who are new readers or who are working to improve their reading. NBNR is supported in part by grants from Jane’s Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Sam L. Cohen Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, and Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

January 26, 2012

Site: Van Buren

Series: Caught Between Cultures

This Session: Getting to Work A Day’s Work by Eve Bunting

Hannah Is My Name: A Young Immigrant’s Story by Belle Yang

Coolies by Yin

Contact: Julia Walkling 207-773-5051

New Books, New Readers is a humanities-based book discussion program for adults who are new readers or who are working to improve their reading. NBNR is supported in part by grants from Jane’s Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Sam L. Cohen Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, and Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.