The Sweded Film Festival for Creative Re-Creations features low-budget remakes of popular films.
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Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine photographers offer their interpretations of life in abstract show
Nine photographers chose four images that reflect themselves for the Union of Maine Visual Artists’ virtual exhibition.
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Stephen King helps kids publish pandemic-inspired book
Stephen King’s foundation covered the $6,500 cost of publishing a 290-page manuscript by students participating in Farwell Elementary School’s Author Studies Program.
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Amanda Gorman, in a first, brings poetry to Super Bowl
“Poetry at the Super Bowl is a feat for art and our country, because it means we’re thinking imaginatively about human connection even when we feel siloed,” she said Sunday on Twitter.
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Oscar winner, ‘Sound of Music’ star Christopher Plummer dies
Christopher Plummer played Captain von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history.
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Maine poets to read in celebration of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s 129th birthday
The Farnsworth Art Museum will host a special event on Zoom that will open to the public titled: ‘Edna St. Vincent Millay: Balancing Grief & Renewal.’
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Harris’ historic election as vice president celebrated in cracked glass portrait
Vice President Kamala Harris’ barrier-breaking career has been memorialized in a portrait that depicts her face emerging from the cracks in a massive sheet of glass.
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Waterville Creates! launches new website to celebrate consolidated brand identity
The new website, launched Wednesday, allows patrons an overview of all events and performances happening across the organization’s three subdivisions.
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‘Ma Rainey,’ ‘Minari’ and Chadwick Boseman lead SAG nominations
Chadwick Boseman received 2 posthumous nominations for Screen Actors Guild Awards on Thursday, while the Korean American family drama “Minari” and Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” were among the nominees for best ensemble.
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Cinemagic closing its movie theaters until spring
The New Hampshire-based chain has locations in Saco, Westbrook and South Portland.