View the new Lewiston museum exhibit commemorating the mass shootings

LEWISTON — On Tuesday, Oct. 21, 5-7 p.m., a public opening reception will be held at Maine MILL for a new installation commemorating the mass shootings in the city two years ago.

The installation, titled “Familiar Faces,” is created by artist Ian Trask in the museum’s memorial room timed for the two-year commemoration incorporating bowling balls and pool balls that were left at the sites of the Oct. 25, 2023 mass shootings. 

According to organizers, the objects “bore witness to the tragedy, and by way of their abandonment in the panic of the moment now carry the dark shadows of that trauma. Transformed through a combination of drilling, suspending, shattering, repairing, and painting, these material remains transcend their past and are now the silent occupants of a sacred space for reverence, remembrance, and healing.”

 Maine MILL is at 35 Canal St. For more information on the installation or on Maine MILL, go to mainemill.org.

Hear Trinity Commons Orchestra perform a world premiere in Lewiston

LEWISTON — The inaugural concert by Trinity Commons Chamber Orchestra will take place at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at Trinity Episcopal Church at 247 Bates St.

The orchestra will perform the world premiere of “Fernweh — Longing for a Distant Land” by Heather Hastings. Hastings is a rising female composer who resides, performs and teaches in southern Maine.

The orchestra will also perform works by Butterworth, Elgar and Johann Strauss.

Following the orchestra’s performances, Mainely Flutes, a flute choir based in Gardiner, will perform.

Admission is free; donations are welcomed to support Trinity Commons.

Check out who everyone’s talking about: Nora Brown

BATH — Banjo player extraordinaire Nora Brown is coming to the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Friday night, Oct. 17.

According to promotors, “Brown is on everyone’s tongues right now, from Robert Plant, who has raved about her in a recent MOJO Magazine interview to Ken Burns, who included her music in his new PBS documentary series on the American Revolution, and from attendees of their spring performance at the Kennedy Center, which included her written and spoken protest, to fans who discovered her at the Newport Folk Fest.”

Brown plays traditional Appalachian music with a focus on banjo playing from Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Introduced to traditional music by chance as a 6-year-old, the multi-instrumentalist has won a host of awards for her playing, is a two-time NPR Tiny Desk Concert performer and the list goes on.

Then, on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. Maine’s own Schooner Fare will perform.

“Schooner Fare is regarded as the premier performing group of original and traditional songs,” according to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Schooner Fare has won unanimous critical praise for their harmonies and stage presence. Their energetic concerts are laced with a Maine brand of universal humor, while they perform on six-string guitars, 12-string guitars and banjos.

The Chocolate Church Arts Center is at 804 Washington St. For tickets and more information, go to chocolatechurcharts.org.

Make a Halloween-themed spooky terrarium at the library

LEWISTON — On Wednesday, Oct. 22, the Lewiston Public Library will host a craft night for adults. The free public program will teach how to make spooky terrariums.

All supplies will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring a fun container to use, as well as anything they’d like to add to their terrarium.

The free, public program will take place from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Jeanne Couture Room, on the first floor of the Lewiston Public Library. No registration is required. This program is recommended for ages 18 and up.
 
The library is located at 200 Lisbon St. at the corner of Pine and Lisbon street.  

Go on a musical adventure in Denmark … in more ways than one

DENMARK — On Friday, Oct. 17, Dharma Down will take listeners on a “musical adventure,” according to organizers, when it performs its genre-bending blend of modern jazz and Middle Eastern music at the Denmark Arts Center.

The ensemble is made up of some of New England’s top musicians, drawing on influences from East European and Middle Eastern music.

Then on Saturday, Oct. 18,  the center will present — for those 21 and over — the Red Hot & Ladylike Burlesque 21+ Show. Performing in New York City last fall, organizers say the Broadway-style burlesque show will offer up “excitement, wild energy, and nonstop fun … leaving some things to the imagination.”

For tickets to either show and for more information, go to  denmarkarts.org. The center is at 50 West Main St.

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