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            Annual Sangai Asia Celebration, Bates College

May 12, Thursday, 12:00-2:00pm, Author Visit:  The Foremost Good Fortune with Susan Conley, this author visits to discus her new book which describes how, after relocating with her husband and two young sons from Portland, Maine to Bejing, China in 2008, she and her family set about acclimating to a vastly new culture only to be confronted with Susan’s diagnosis of breast cancer, the book is winning rave reviews and was selected by Oprah magazine as a Top 10 Read for February 2011, bring a lunch if you like or order out at the Library Café, drinks and dessert provided, free, Auburn Public Library, Auburn.  FMI:  207-333-6640, http://www.auburnpubliclibrary.org/.

 

May 13, Friday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Fish Chowder Luncheon, luncheon includes chowder, biscuits, pickles and homemade desserts, $6, Winthrop Congregational Church, Main Street, Winthrop.  FMI:  207-377-2063, http://www.winthropmaine.org.

 

May 13, Friday, 7:30pm, Annual Sangai Asia Celebration, Bates student organization Sangai Asia celebrates the end of another academic year with food and fireworks display over Lake Andrews, appetizers provided by Chopsticks, free, Florence Kelgwin Amphitheater, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston.  FMI:  207-786-6255, http://home.bates.edu.

 

May 13, Friday, 7:30pm, Piano Series #6 with Igor Lovchinsky, acclaimed for the elegance and rapturous beauty of his music making this artist has performed at many word famous concert halls, $16/adults, $14/seniors, free/students 21 and under, Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston.  FMI:  207-783-1585,http://www.francoamericanheritage.org.

 

May 13-15, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm Friday and Saturday, 2:00pm Sunday, “Visiting Mr. Green,” Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive, what starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a moving drama as they get to know each other, see website for ticket details, Opera House, 93 Main Street, Waterville.  FMI:  207-873-7000,http://www.operahouse.org/.

 

May 14-15, Saturday-Sunday, 7:00pm-Saturday, 2:oopm-Sunday, “Adventures of Peter Rabbit,” presented in readers’ theater style, with dramatic staging and minimal costuming, $7/adult, $5/students and seniors, Johnson Hall, 280 Water Street, Gardiner.  FMI:  207-582-7144, http://johnsonhall.org.

 

May 16, Monday, 8:15pm, Cindy Bullens, her new CD, “Howling Trains and Barking Dogs,” was released June 29, 2010, the album is a Bullens-ized collection of co-written songs Cindy wrote in Nashville in early and mid 90’s with such luminaries as Radney Foster, Bill Lloyd, Wendy Waldman and Al Anderson, plus a couple of newly penned originals, $15, Slates Restaurant, 169 Water Street, Hallowell.  FMI:  207-622-9575, http://www.slatesrestaurant.com.

 

 

 

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