Dozier Bell’s Works at Colby
Mar. 24, Thursday, 7:30pm, Alexander Chee, author of “Edinburgh” I a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and was a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book Of the Year and a Booksense 76 selection, part of the UMF Visiting Writers Series, free, Olsen Student Center, 111 South Street, Farmington. FMI: 207-778-7454, http://www.umf.maine.edu.
Mar. 24, Thursday, 7:30pm, Shoebox Tour 2011, some of the most amazing juggling you will ever see, gold medal jugglers’ Jay Gilligan and Wes Peden team up to present a show full of unique, funny, experimental and contemporary juggling, $11, Oddfellow Theater, Route 117, Buckfield. FMI: 207-336-3306, http://www.oddfellow.com.
Mar. 25, Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, “Most Happy: A Story of Anne Boleyn,” professional actors currently appearing in the play “Humble Boy” present an informal reading of a new full-length play by George Tynan Crowley, free, Auburn Public Library, 46 Spring Street, Auburn. FMI: 207-333-6640, http://www.auburnpubliclibrary.org.
Mar. 25, Friday, 7:00, “Sleeping Beauty,” National Marionette Theatre production, $7/adults, $5/kids and seniors, Lewiston Middle School, 75 Central Avenue, Lewiston. FMI: 207-782-7228, http://www.laarts.org.
Mar. 26, Saturday, 7:30pm, Maine Music Society Production, features the Androscoggin Chorale in a performance of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, titled “My Favorite Bach,” see site for ticket details, Franco American Heritage Center, 221 Lisbon Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-782-7228, http://www.francoamericanheritage.org.
Mar. 27, Sunday, 9:00am-3:00pm, Maine Maple Sunday, meals served: crepes and bacon, baked beans, hot dogs, coleslaw, door prize drawing of a quart of maple syrup to four winners, farm tours, $5/adult’s meal, $2/kid’s meal, Maple Valley Farms, 1304 Franklin Road, Jay. FMI: 207-645-9549, http://www.mainemapleproducers.com.
Mar. 29, Tuesday, 4:40pm, Paintings of Dozier Bell, the images in Dozier Bell’s paintings is a world very far removed from any sun-filled pastoral idyll. In them, we are introduced to a world of shadows. They are astonishing and visually delicate, free, Olin 1, Colby, 4000 Mayflower Hill, Waterville. FMI: 207-859-4000, http://www.colby.edu.