FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington announces the following upcoming events. All event are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.

* Visual and Performing Arts: Farmington ReSounding is set for 3 p.m. Saturday at UMF’s Merrill Hall (Room 223, Nordica Auditorium).

Students in the UMF course Third Ear: Multiplicities in Sound will create momentary live installations along with local poets and writers. Listener-engagement will be encouraged, with the hope of incorporating a larger understanding of how a community of individuals hears itself.

For more information, email pane@maine.edu, call 778-7288, or visit umf.maine.libguides. com/SonitusForum.

* Visual &and Performing Arts: James Joyce, The Sound of Bloom’s Sirens: A Performative Reading will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday at UMF’s Emery Community Arts Center.

“Sirens’ is the music chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses and is set in the concert room, saloon and restaurant of the Ormond hotel and bar in Dublin on 4 p.m. on June 16, 1904. “The Sound of Bloom’s Sirens” is a performative reading where actors, musicians and audience members treat Joyce’s text as a musical score and render the soundscape he depicted in the words of the chapter. To provide context for the performative reading, the evening will begin with a talk on Joyce, Ulysses, and music and sound in “Sirens.

For more information, email pane@maine.edu, call 778-7288, or visit umf.maine.libguides.com/SonitusForum.

* A movie “The Dream Factory Farmington Premiere,” is set for 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, Lincoln Auditorium, UMF Roberts Learning Center.

A ski and snowboard adventure film by Teton Gravity Research. Admission includes a free early-season lift ticket redeemable at Sugarloaf or Sunday River. Hosted by UMF Ski & Outing Club.

For more information, email ebreiden@maine.edu, call 778-7385, or visit sugarloaf.com/ EventsActivities/index.htm.

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