This activity is not sponsored, endorsed, funded or otherwise affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick. Use of the facility does not imply agreement with or responsibility for the opinions or activities of this organization.    

Please don’t contact UUCB for tickets or information about this event

Contact Midcoast Literacy   https://www.midcoastliteracy.org/

Annual Author-to-Author Fundraiser

A special fundraising evening with Maine authors to support literacy education

Midcoast Literacy’s Author-to-Author series brings Maine writers together for conversations about craft and the power of words. All proceeds from Author-to-Author ticket sales go to support Midcoast Literacy’s work in the community. 

Author-to-Author April 2024:  Phuc Tran & Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Saturday, April 27th, at 7:00pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick
1 Middle Street; Brunswick, ME

 Tickets are $35.00 and  can be purchased by calling  207-443-6384 

or online at

https://www.midcoastliteracy.org/index.php/about-us/author-to-author-fundraiser/event-tickets

Maine writer Phuc Tran and Maine poet Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, who have been friends for over 20 years, will share the stage at Midcoast Literacy’s second annual Author-to-Author fundraiser. The evening will feature the two authors and friends reading from their work and in conversation about their inspirations and influences.

A reception and meet-and-greet with the authors will follow, and copies of the two authors’ books will be available for purchase.

Phuc Tran is a writer, tattooer, and classicist. His memoir Sigh, Gone won the 2020 New England Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Memoir. He has been a high school Latin teacher and tattooer for over twenty years, for which he has won no awards. His 2012 TEDx talk “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” was featured on NPR’s TED Radio Hour. He has a children’s book series in collaboration with bestselling illustrator Pete Oswald entitled Cranky.

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc’s first collection of poems, Death of a Ventriloquist won the 2011 Vassar Miller Prize and was featured by Poets & Writers, and his second, Deke Dangle Dive,was published by Cavan Kerry Press in 2021. His poems have appeared in magazines including the New Republic, Tin House, Narrative Magazine, Poetry Northwest,and Orion. He has helped lead community arts organizations including The Telling Room, SPACE Gallery, and Hewnoaks. Fay-LeBlanc is the current Executive Director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

All proceeds from tickets to the April 27th Author-to-Author event will support Midcoast Literacy’s free literacy programming for people of all ages in Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and northern Cumberland Counties.

Author-to-Author Contact Information
207-443-6384
 

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W Bristol

B Williams

Joanne Allen

REMOTE MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Rev. Amos

This activity is not sponsored, endorsed, funded or otherwise affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick. Use of the facility does not imply agreement with or responsibility for the opinions or activities of this organization.    

Please don’t contact UUCB for tickets or information about this concert 

Contact the Brunswick Rotary Club   https://www.brunswickmainerotary.org/ 

The Vertical Victory Project will entertain you with wonderful music and tell you how during World War II, the famed aircraft’s usual payload with several thousand pounds of bombs changed. Under special circumstances the B-17 doubled as a cargo plane for “G.I. pianos.” Also known as “Victory Verticals,” the instruments were parachuted to awaiting troops in what the advertisement terms “far places of the world — England, Australia, New Guinea, and elsewhere.”

Intended to lift troop morale, the 40-inch-tall Victory Verticals were identified by their military colors (olive drab, blue and gray), absence of front legs (deemed too delicate for the battlefield), and durable shipping crates. About 2,500 of the verticals were transported to every theater of war, including Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and the South Pacific. They were played by a dance band in the Philippines, a special service unit in Alaska, and by performers from Bob Hope to violinist Isaac Stern as they toured on behalf of the United Service Organizations (USO).

Some pianos were air-dropped to the front line troops and some pianos were actually installed while submarines were being built.

The Brunswick Rotary Club is hosting a program on May 4 & 5 called “The Vertical Victory Project” and it will be presented by Dr. Garik Pederson, concert pianist, who has done extensive research on the program. He’s presented this beautiful program across the country and will be featured in an upcoming PBS special.

The concert will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Pleasant St on Saturday, May 4 at 7:30pm and Sunday, May 5 at 2pm.

 General Admission tickets are $40 and Veteran tickets are $30.

click on this link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-victory-vertical-project-presented-by-garik-pedersen-pianist-tickets-865109444637?aff=oddtdtcreator

See information about the live stream and recorded service. 

W Bristol

This activity is not sponsored, endorsed, funded or otherwise affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick. Use of the facility does not imply agreement with or responsibility for the opinions or activities of this organization.    

Please don’t contact UUCB for tickets or information about this concert 

Contact the Brunswick Rotary Club   https://www.brunswickmainerotary.org/ 

The Vertical Victory Project will entertain you with wonderful music and tell you how during World War II, the famed aircraft’s usual payload with several thousand pounds of bombs changed. Under special circumstances the B-17 doubled as a cargo plane for “G.I. pianos.” Also known as “Victory Verticals,” the instruments were parachuted to awaiting troops in what the advertisement terms “far places of the world — England, Australia, New Guinea, and elsewhere.”

Intended to lift troop morale, the 40-inch-tall Victory Verticals were identified by their military colors (olive drab, blue and gray), absence of front legs (deemed too delicate for the battlefield), and durable shipping crates. About 2,500 of the verticals were transported to every theater of war, including Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and the South Pacific. They were played by a dance band in the Philippines, a special service unit in Alaska, and by performers from Bob Hope to violinist Isaac Stern as they toured on behalf of the United Service Organizations (USO).

Some pianos were air-dropped to the front line troops and some pianos were actually installed while submarines were being built.

The Brunswick Rotary Club is hosting a program on May 4 & 5 called “The Vertical Victory Project” and it will be presented by Dr. Garik Pederson, concert pianist, who has done extensive research on the program. He’s presented this beautiful program across the country and will be featured in an upcoming PBS special.

The concert will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Pleasant St on Saturday, May 4 at 7:30pm and Sunday, May 5 at 2pm.

 General Admission tickets are $40 and Veteran tickets are $30.

click on this link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-victory-vertical-project-presented-by-garik-pedersen-pianist-tickets-865109444637?aff=oddtdtcreator
  

R Wells

Cathey Cyrus & Nancy Kurtz

meeting at Curtis Memorial Library, 2nd floor conference room.

Uker Group 
C Martin

This activity is not sponsored, endorsed, funded or otherwise affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick. Use of the facility does not imply agreement with or responsibility for the opinions or activities of this organization.    

Please don’t contact UUCB for tickets or information about this event

Comedy for A Cause!
Featuring Social Media Sensation Chip Leighton
One night only: Friday, May 10, 7:30pm
UUCB Hall, 1 Middle Street, Brunswick

Tickets start at $50 with all proceeds benefiting Maine Council of Churches

BUY TICKETS HERE

He’s got over a million followers on Facebook, TikTok and Instagram and he’s from right here in Maine (Cape Elizabeth to be exact)!  Chip Leighton is famous for his hilarious commentary on parenting and marriage, including funny texts and driving quotes from teenagers, and things he needs to apologize to his wife for.  He’s also the author of the upcoming book, “What Time Is Noon? Funniest texts from teenagers.” Maybe you saw the: recent article in the Portland Press Herald about him.

For one night only, Friday, May 10, Chip will be doing a benefit performance for the Maine Council of Churches.  The house only seats 225 and tickets are selling fast–so get yours NOW!

Ticket holders will have the chance to submit their own examples of funny texts from teens (or parents) for possible use during an audience participation segment of the show!

All proceeds from this show go to benefit the Maine Council of Churches.

D Fisher

J Caswell

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W Bristol

B Williams

G Lewis-McLaren

D Damour
Contract will be filled in later and more details later
 

This activity is not sponsored, endorsed, funded or otherwise affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick. Use of the facility does not imply agreement with or responsibility for the opinions or activities of this organization.    

Please don’t contact UUCB for tickets or information about this event.  

EVENT INFORMATION: 

Spring Benefit Concert- May 17th, 6:30 pm

  A benefitconcert for Tedford Housing featuring 3 of Maine’s best singer/songwriters, JudCaswell, Giff Jamison, and Nancy Sferra will be held on May 17th, 2024, 6:30pm, at the Brunswick Unitarian Universalist Church. 
 
Tickets are $35 and areavailable for purchase online.
https://app.promotix.com/events/details/Tedford-Spring-Benefit-Concert-tickets

All proceeds benefit Tedford Housing’s programs and services, 
 
 

Membership

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W Bristol

T Rumpf

Jennifer Butterworth

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W Bristol

This activity is not sponsored, endorsed, funded or otherwise affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick. Use of the facility does not imply agreement with or responsibility for the opinions or activities of this organization.    

Please don’t contact UUCB for tickets or information about this concert 

Contact the Daponte  https://dapontequartet.org/

Schumann & Brahms Piano Quartets

Sunday May 26 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

TICKETS  $30 

https://dapontequartet.org/tickets/ 

Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 47 

& Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 

with guest pianist, Randall Hodgkinson.

 “The finest performance I have ever heard of this very difficult piece.It was as if he was reading my mind…” Aaron Copland on hearing pianist Randall Hodgkinson performing his Piano Fantasy in Jordan Hall, Boston. While a student at the New England Conservatory Hodgkinson became grand prize winner of the International American Music Competition sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has performed with orchestras in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Boston, Cleveland and abroad in Italy and Iceland, and also numerous recital programs spanning the repertoire from J.S.Bach to Donald Martino.  A frequent guest of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, he also performs the four-hand and two-piano repertoire with his wife, Leslie Amper. Festival appearances include Ravinia, Barge music,Chestnut Hill Concerts in Madison Connecticut, Seattle Chamber Music Festival,and Chamber Music Northwest (Portland, OR). Solo recordings on the Ongaku, New World, and Albany labels  have garnered much critical acclaim. Mr. Hodgkinson is on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music and Wellesley College and is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner™. 

Cathey Cyrus & Nancy Kurtz

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W Bristol

This activity is not sponsored, endorsed, funded or otherwise affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick. Use of the facility does not imply agreement with or responsibility for the opinions or activities of this organization.     

Please don’t contact UUCB for tickets or information about this event.

St Mary Schola presents

 1685 – Annus Mirabilis

Sunday, June 2, 2024, 4pm at
Unitarian Universalist Church,
Brunswick, ME

 Featuring works of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti

James Kennerley, guest conductor 

EVENT INFORMATION:  

 To Purchase Tickets 

https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=smsch

or for more information 

 https://stmaryschola.org/

Rev. Amos

REMOTE MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

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W Bristol

B Williams

meeting at Curtis Memorial Library, 2nd floor conference room.

Last Hoorah & Ha-Ha!
Featuring our Staff and YOU!
Sat, June 15

Open Mic, Snacks, 50/50

How do I sign up to share my talent?

You can sign up the night of the event.  Doors open at 5:40 pm, and signups will begin immediately.  Showtime starts at 6:00 pm.  We will (more or less) use the order in which you sign up, with some priority for younger performers who may need to leave early.

Want to Sing?  Will Bristol can Support you.

We welcome singers of all sorts (solos, duets, ensembles). You can sing a cappella, accompany yourself or Will can provide piano accompaniment.  If you would like accompaniment, please contact Will at  and provide sheet music in your desired key.

What is a 50/50 Raffle?

A 50/50 Raffle is the easiest raffle ever.  You purchase tickets for chance to win 50% of the raffle proceeds.  If we raise $100, you will $50; if we raise $300, you win $150.

Performers of ALL Ages Welcome

Tickets Price:  Pay What You Can

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W Bristol

T Rumpf

Jennifer Butterworth

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W Bristol

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W Bristol

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B Williams

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Jennifer Butterworth

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B Williams

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Jennifer Butterworth

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Hold until July 1

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B Williams

Hold until July 1

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Jennifer Butterworth

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L Durrell

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L Durrell

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a concert followed by a reception and meet & greet with the singers andtheir director.

(F Barnes)

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B Williams

Hold until July 1

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Jennifer Butterworth

Hold until July 1

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REMOTE MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

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B Williams

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Jennifer Butterworth

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World AIDSDay.  We are contemplating doing a program with panels from the NAMESproject AIDS Memorial Quilt … and for now I just want to hold the date.

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B Williams

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Jennifer Butterworth

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B Williams

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Jennifer Butterworth

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B Williams

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Jennifer Butterworth

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B Williams

Concert For A Cause 24-25 Season

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Jennifer Butterworth

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