{"id":3465,"date":"2018-01-10T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3465"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:55:57","slug":"2018-bangor-humanities-day","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/event\/2018-bangor-humanities-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Bangor Humanities Day*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bangor Humanities Day kicks-off on Friday evening (Feb. 2nd<\/strong>) at 6pm with a\u00a0Humanities Powered by PechaKucha<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0event at COESPACE. Presentations topics will include making a living as an author, medical ethics, the Maine Multi-Cultural Center, Peter Archambault (an artist from Madawaska), wedding perfection hysteria, and bacteriophage.<\/p>\n

For the big day (Saturday Feb. 3rd<\/strong>) there are three all day events:<\/p>\n

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  1. A\u00a0student\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>art show<\/em><\/strong> (6-8pm Friday and 10am-2pm Saturday) at\u00a0COESPACE<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. A downtown cultural scavenger hunt\u00a0with prizes<\/strong><\/em> given out at 6pm at\u00a091르적 Museum of Art. Locations include all of our host partners as well as the Rock and Art Shop. (See map<\/a> below.)<\/li>\n
  3. A StoryWalk\u00ae* of\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Kunu’s Basket<\/strong>: a story from Indian Island<\/em><\/a>, a children’s book by local author Lee DeCora Francis that can be found in the windows of 15 downtown businesses. The title page is at the UMMA, and the first pages are at Bagel Central, wraps up to Fork and Spoon, and ends at Epic Sports.\u00a0(See map<\/a> below.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Scheduled programming for the 2018 Bangor Humanities Day kicks starts at\u00a011am<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Maine Discovery\u00a0Museum<\/a>\u00a0where the\u00a0Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestra<\/a>\u00a0will be performing a concert and then holding a petting zoo, where young ones interested in checking out the instruments can do so with the help of BSYO members.<\/p>\n

    \"Bangor<\/p>\n

    Our co-sponsor\u00a0Bangor Public Library<\/a>\u00a0is hosting the following three programmed activities in the early afternoon:<\/p>\n