FARMINGTON — From the innovative Emery Community Arts Center to the

parking area behind the University’s psychology building, the

University of Maine at Farmington will showcase the creative arts

throughout campus with its sixth annual arts night events.

Arts night will present visual and performing arts events by UMF

students and faculty at venues around campus over the course of three

afternoons and evenings from Monday, April 29 to Wednesday, May 1.

Among the featured events this year will be the sixth annual Pixel

Hunter Festival — a screening of the best student video and animation

projects. Past entries from this time-based media exhibition have

appeared at the Maine International Film Festival and the Portland

Biennial.

Phil Carlsen, composer, conductor, musician and UMF professor of

music, will jump start the next day’s events with his newly-composed

piece for automobile orchestra. The “Car-Car Can-Can” will line up

more than 24 cars for a “song-and-dance routine for automobile chorus

line.” This is the fifth installment in Carlsen’s series of traffic

jam sessions.

UMF ARTS Night(S) events include:

MONDAY, APRIL 29

4:30 p.m. The Splendid Drunken Twenties Salon

A 1920s-style salon celebrates what novelist Carl Van Vechten called

“The Splendid Drunken Twenties” with readings of works by 1920s

authors, music of the 1920s, and surrealist games.

Performance Space and surrounding area, Emery Community Arts Center

7 p.m. Pixel Hunter Video and Animation Festival

A screening of the best UMF student video and animation projects

Performance Space, Emery Community Arts Center

TUESDAY, APRIL 30

4-9:30 p.m. Performances from SPVI Project 3 and THE 278 Commedia

dell’arte classes:

Performance Space and surrounding area, Emery Community Arts Center

Faeries of Midsummer: Spectacle and Concept — A runway presentation

of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” faeries with costume and makeup

designed by Patrick Rizzo of Brockton, Mass.; and Jade Wells of

Pittsfield.

Fighting Students: Part 1 — A choreographed comedic stage fight by

Ahnna-Balai Beane of Anson; Austin Hayes of Gorham; and Cassidy Small

of North Monmouth.

Fighting Students: Part 2 — A second choreographed stage fight with

surprise elements.

The Audition: The Beginning of the End — An audition piece performed

by Sarah Nadeau of New Portland.

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? — A performance by Matthew Buckley of

Gouldsboro, based on T.S. Eliot’s poem.

The Fall of the Empire — A performance of contemporary composer

Frederic Rzewski’s “The Fall of the Empire.” Percussion performance by

David Carr and Gustavo Aguilar.

Alumni Theatre

Stations: Connections Through Solitude — Nathan Vallette of

Farmington creates a participatory music performance.

5 p.m. “CAR-CAR CAN-CAN”

For the fifth year in an arts night celebration, the return of Phil

Carlsen’s automobile orchestra

Parking lot behind UMF psychology building

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1

1-2:30 p.m. Student Artists Talks on Senior Art Exhibit “Amalgamate”

UMF Art Gallery and Flex Space in the Emery Community Arts Center

4 p.m. Film and New Media

Performance Space, Emery Community Arts Center

Phenom-anon — An installation of light, sound and photography by

Brian Parise of Rye, N.H.

Different — A short film by Richard Russell of Rumford.

The Record — A short film adaptation by Kyle Morison of Sidney, of a

play dealing with suicide and depression as captured by the lens of

video blogging.

Whispers — A sound installation by Kaitlinn Paquin of Nobleboro.

5:30-6:30 p.m. Adult Education: The Power of Possibility

A service-learning collaboration among Franklin County Adult

Education, Somerset County Jail, students enrolled in Professor Gaelyn

Aguilar’s ANT 250S: Ethnography course, Professor John Messier and

student researcher Marina Giovannini, of Columbia, Conn.

Performance Space,

All “ARTS Night(S)” events are sponsored by the UMF Department of

Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry and the Emery Community Arts

Center. They are free and open to the public.