Campus Currents: Collins Center for the Arts
Saturday night’s gala opening of the Collins Center for the Arts featured ’60s crooner Neil Sedaka in a concert that brought most of the attendees down memory lane.
Sedaka, best known for “Breaking Up is Hard to …
Throughout the Collins Center for the Arts, there are people hard at work putting the finishing touches on the venue’s renovations. LED lights are being placed throughout the glass façade. Fluffy, green sod is being put …
Portland artist Joe Kievitt usually works with abstract ink and watercolor. Now he is the featured, commissioned mosaic artist in the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts. For the past eight days he and three others have been tiling the distinct architectural space that will house the campus Verve Café and his mosaic.
The Decemberists visited the Collins Center for the Arts on Friday, providing one of the most electrifying concerts in recent memory.
As the economy worsens, organizations like the Penobscot Theater, the University of Maine Museum of Art and the 113-year-old Bangor Symphony Orchestra are adapting to survive the recession.
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