Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Dec. 29-Jan.4

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December 28, 2016
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Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Dec. 29-Jan.4

“New Year’s Eve L/A,” Gendron Franco Center, Lewiston

Dec. 29-30, Thursday-Friday, 2-4pm, “Winter Vacation Maker Days,” not enough to do during vacation week? Dec. 29th: Felt Snow Gnomes, Dec. 30th: High Bounce Glue Globs, children under the age of 8 should bring a grown-up helper, free, Waterville Public Library, 73 Elm St, Waterville. FMI: 207-872-5433, www.watervillelibrary.org.
Dec. 29-31, Thursday-Saturday, 10am-5pm/Thurs. and Fri. 10am-3pm/Sat, “A Usable Past: American Folk Art,” brings together paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by self-trained artists working in the eastern part of what is now the United States during the long nineteenth century. Produced and originally circulated outside the elite sphere of fine art, these objects emerged from vernacular traditions that favored decorative aesthetics over mimesis. In the twentieth century, artists, scholars, and collectors came to believe that artworks like these expressed such supposedly quintessential American values as industriousness and ingenuity, and that they also served as native precursors to Modernism. A Usable Past features highlights of the Museum’s extensive holdings of folk art of the United States supplemented by loans from distinguished New England collections. The exhibition includes many artworks from the American Heritage collection of Edith and Ellerton Jetté–one of the earliest collections to enter the Colby College Museum of Art, free, Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville. FMI: 207-859-5600, www.colby.edu.
Dec. 29-31, Thursday-Saturday, 10am-5pm, “Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia,” Very little is known in America about contemporary Saudi art and artists. This project includes a significant exhibition of leading and emerging Saudi artists, along with lectures, visiting artists and other programming that sparks timely cross-cultural dialogue. One of a series of related exhibitions presented nationwide, “Phantom Punch” introduces artists who create small, topical, funny, culturally resonant and technically savvy work, free, Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-786-6158, www.bates.edu.
Dec. 31, Saturday, 11am, “Noon Year’s Eve Party,” Is staying up until midnight too hard? Join us as we celebrate the New Year at noon! We’ll do a countdown, make some noise, and have a lot of fun! Aimed at families, but everyone is welcome, free, Winslow Public Library, 136 Halifax St, Winslow. FMI: 207-872-1978, www.winslow-me.gov/departments/library.
Dec. 31, Saturday, 7pm/doors open, 7:30-8:30pm/buffet served, “New Year’s Eve L/A,” The doors and bar open for this fun and elegant evening at 7 p.m. Prepared by our professional staff, a delicious buffet dinner will be served from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. After dinner, guests will dance to the music of “Every Other Sunday”, one of Maine’s hottest dance bands. Just before midnight, all guests will be invited to the Performance Hall for the Times Square Countdown to 2017 on the big screen, with our own “balloon drop” and champagne toast at midnight. Included in your New Year’s L/A ticket is your chance to win the grand prize drawing worth over $1,000! Reserved seating is limited. Overnight parking available, if needed, $50/reserved seating, Gendron Franco Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-783-1585, www.francocenter.org.
Dec. 31, Saturday, 9pm-1am, “New Year’s Eve Dance with Matt and the Barnburners,” pizza, munchies and a great time will be provided! Safe rides home available for a small donation, you must have a ticket, or have called in advance to reserve your ticket to enter this event, $15, Farmington Elks Lodge, 120 School St, Farmington. FMI: 207-778-1414, www.sunjournal.com.
Jan. 2, Monday, 6:30pm, “Bird Conservation,” the subject at the Stanton Bird Club of Lewiston will present Pete McKinely, lead Ecologist of the Wilderness Society, topic will be bird conservation, free, University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn College, 51 Westminster St, Lewiston. FMI: 1-888-363-0007, www.stantonbirdclub.org.

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