Calendar of Events

Green Zone Training (Virtual)
2025-10-27 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom meeting
The Green Zone Military Cultural Awareness Training Program familiarizes staff and faculty with military life and how it can translate to a student’s post-service (or mid-service) education experience. This program was developed by student veterans and M.A.S.H. staff to share information about the unique experiences and challenges of student veterans and service members, as well as the resources available for their support.

The 2-hour session is led by student veterans with support from M.A.S.H. staff. Facilitators present an informational slideshow and lead interactive scenarios and discussion. Upon completing the training, participants can display the Green Zone symbol physically or digitally, identifying them as military-friendly (similar to the LGBTQ+ Safe Zone Project decal).

Employer On-Campus Visits: Renewal by Andersen
2025-10-28 11:00 - 14:00 | McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success, 35 Bedford Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Network with local employers without having to leave campus! Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. on the first floor of the McGoldrick Center on the Portland campus, various employers will be on campus to talk about their work and answer any questions.

Rusty Rocket's Last Blast!
2025-10-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Rusty Rocket’s Last Blast
Join Rusty Rocket and his band of rocket rookies as they explore the solar system. Fly across Saturn’s rings, soar along a Martian canyon; delve deep into the solar interior!

University of Southern Maine Field Hockey at Plymouth State University
2025-10-28 16:00 - 19:00 | Plymouth, NH, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 03264, United States
University of Southern Maine Field Hockey at Plymouth State University
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

The Don Nicoll Memorial Lecture Series Inaugural Event
2025-10-28 16:30 - 18:30 | McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success, 35 Bedford Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
The Don Nicoll Memorial Lecture Series Inaugural Event
Public Service in Challenging Times
In today’s increasingly complex world, what is public service? What is its role and value in Maine? When divisiveness dominates the headlines, how are communities meeting the moment to address shared challenges?
Join us at the USM Muskie School of Public Service Don Nicoll Memorial Lecture Series for our inaugural panel of Maine community leaders, who will address these questions and share their insights in the context of their work to end homelessness in Maine.
Dr. Richard Maiman will provide an introduction to Don and his life’s work. Panelists Terry Sutton is the board president of Preble Street and Charles ‘Wick’ Johnson is the chair of Augusta Homelessness Task Force. They have both dedicated much of their careers to public service and community building in Maine. Jennifer Hutchins will moderate the discussion. Jennifer is Executive Director of the Maine Association of Nonprofits, the state’s leading organization for Maine’s charitable nonprofit sector with more than 1,200 members from all 16 counties.
This series is in honor of Don Nicoll, a long-time advisor to Maine state government and other public institutions, including the University of Maine System and former U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie. Don also served both as Chair and member of the Muskie School Board of Visitors.
Program:
4:30 – 5:00 pm Reception
5:00 – 5:30 pm Introductions and remarks from Dr. Richard Maiman
5:30 – 6:30 pm Panel discussion & Q&A
This event will be live-streamed for those wishing to join at a distance. Please register to receive a link prior to the event.

A Monster Calls
2025-10-29 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-30 19:00 - 21:30 | Russell Hall, 24 University Way, Gorham, ME, 04038, United States
October 24-November 2, 2025
Based on the novel by Patrick Ness and inspired by an original idea by Siobhan Dowd
Devised by Sally Cookson, Adam Peck and the Company
Directed by Rachel Price Cooper
Connor has been having nightmares. Or rather, THE nightmare. It jolts him awake every night seven minutes after midnight ever since his mother got sick. Tonight, Connor wakes up to a different nightmare. The ancient Yew Tree in his yard has come to life and demands to be heard. This monster informs Connor that he will tell him three stories, one a night, and all true. After that, Connor must tell his. A Monster Calls is a stunning spectacle that reckons with loss, grief, and the stories we tell to make sense of the unimaginable.
Show length: 2h 20m with intermission
Best for grades 5 & up
Content advisory: Contains sensitive themes of terminal illness, the loss of a parent, and bullying

University of Southern Maine Men's Soccer at Plymouth State University
2025-10-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Plymouth, NH, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 03264, United States
University of Southern Maine Men’s Soccer at Plymouth State University
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

University of Southern Maine Women's Soccer vs Plymouth State University
2025-10-29 18:00 - 20:00 | New Hampshire
University of Southern Maine Women’s Soccer vs Plymouth State University
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

University of Southern Maine Women's Volleyball at Thomas College
2025-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Waterville, ME, Waterville, Maine, United States
University of Southern Maine Women’s Volleyball at Thomas College
Streaming Video: https://www.whou.live/thomas-college-volleyball

Employer On-Campus Visits: Farm Credit East
2025-10-30 11:00 - 14:00 | McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success, 35 Bedford Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Out There: The Quest For Extrasolar Worlds
2025-10-30 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-10-31 15:30 - 16:30 | New Hampshire
Out There: The Quest for Extrasolar Worlds
We are able to explore more and more of the Universe. What we have found so far has surpassed even our wildest expectations – there are planets everywhere!

Creepy & Curious Collections: A Pop-Up Exhibition
2025-10-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Osher Map Library — Glickman Family Library, 314 Forest Ave, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Please join us for our annual ‘Creepy & Curious Collections Pop-up Exhibit’

The Osher Map Library
Thursday, October 30, 2025
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The Reading Room will be full of creepy and curious items from the collection. With Eerie Entertainment in the Cohen Classroom, giving you the chance to create your own Origami Bat and Macrame Skeletons!
Light refreshments will be provided, this event is FREE and open to all! Exhibition

University of Southern Maine Women's Ice Hockey vs University of New England
2025-10-31 16:00 - 19:00 | New Hampshire
University of Southern Maine Women’s Ice Hockey vs University of New England
L 1-2
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

CANCELED -Out There: The Quest For Extrasolar Worlds
2025-10-31 19:00 - 20:00 | New Hampshire

Curtain Up!
2025-10-31 19:00 - 20:15 | Arts Lab — Crewe Center for the Arts, 111 Bedford St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Take your seat and raise the curtain on a celebration of American Musical Theater! Curtain Up! features iconic showstoppers spanning over a century of Broadway brilliance—from the golden age to contemporary classics.
Enjoy unforgettable hits from legendary composers, including Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and more.
Choreography by Vanessa Beyland
Musical Direction by Ed Reichert

Tickets go on-sale September 5th.
Tickets available through PortTIX, the official box office for the Osher School of Music.
PHONE 207-842-0800
ONLINE www.porttix.com
IN-PERSON 400 Congress St Suite A, Portland, ME 04101

Event Details
Parking
Due to limited resources, parking is not free on our Portland and Gorham campuses. You must purchase a parking permit or paid parking session to park on campus. We recommend reserving your parking in advance at https://events.parkengage.com/usm.
For easy access to the Crewe Center for the Arts, choose either Parking Garage 1 (attached to the Abromson Community Education Center), Lot P1 (off of Bedford St. by Luther Bonney) or Lot P6 (off of Exeter St. or Deering Ave by the former Maine Law building).
Disability Access and Accommodations
If you have questions about disability access or need to request disability accommodations (e.g. sign language interpreters, materials in electronic format, etc.), please contact Hanna Flewelling at (207) 780-5256 or hanna.flewelling@maine.edu. Requests should be made as soon as possible to allow sufficient time for the accommodation process.

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University of Southern Maine Men's Ice Hockey at Salve Regina
2025-10-31 19:30 - 22:30 | Middletown, RI – Howard Rink, Middletown, Rhode Island, United States
University of Southern Maine Men’s Ice Hockey at Salve Regina
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

University of Southern Maine Men's Cross Country vs Little East Conference Championships - Hosted by Keene State College
2025-11-01 10:00 - 13:00 | Keene, NH, Keene, New Hampshire, United States
University of Southern Maine Men’s Cross Country vs Little East Conference Championships – Hosted by Keene State College
Streaming Video: https://www.flocollege.com/live/221345

University of Southern Maine Women's Volleyball at Vermont State University Castleton
2025-11-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Castleton, VT, Castleton, Vermont, United States
University of Southern Maine Women’s Volleyball at Vermont State University Castleton
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

University of Southern Maine Women's Cross Country vs Little East Conference Championships - Hosted by Keene State College
2025-11-01 11:00 - 14:00 | Keene, NH, Keene, New Hampshire, United States
University of Southern Maine Women’s Cross Country vs Little East Conference Championships – Hosted by Keene State College
4th out of 7
Streaming Video: https://www.flocollege.com/live/221345

University of Southern Maine Field Hockey vs Keene State - Note time change
2025-11-01 12:00 - 15:00 | New Hampshire
University of Southern Maine Field Hockey vs Keene State – Note time change
L 1-3
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

Dinosaurs at Dusk
2025-11-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Dinosaurs at Dusk
A whirlwind time travel adventure back to the epoch of the dinosaurs! A larger than life extravaganza rife with roaring monsters from the ancient age: bounding, stomping, flying, hunting, and foraging frenetically above us

CANCELLED University of Southern Maine Women's Volleyball vs Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts - at VTSU Castleton
2025-11-01 13:00 - 15:00 | Castleton, VT, Castleton, Vermont, United States
CANCELLED University of Southern Maine Women’s Volleyball vs Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts – at VTSU Castleton
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

Le petit rassemblement des artistes Franco-Américain: A celebration of modern expression
2025-11-01 13:00 - 16:00 | LA Arts, 168 Lisbon St, Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
The Franco-American Collection at the University of Southern Maine invites you to join us at LA Arts, 168 Lisbon Street in Lewiston on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. for a half day event featuring a panel discussion of Franco-American creatives led by Charles Gargiulo, Abby Paige, Robert Perreault and Susan Poulin. To begin the event, Dr. Paul Buck from the University of Maine Fort Kent will present a talk on borders and boundaries. The event is free and open to the public, thanks to our generous sponsors, Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch, Schooner Estates, TV5MONDE, and the Quebec Delegation in Boston.
Dr. Buck’s presentation will open the event at 1 pm. Following the presentation there will be time for a Q&A as well as a break to mingle and enjoy refreshments. At 2:30 p.m., the panelists will present about their creative processes and how their Franco-American identity and heritage informs their craft, and about crossing cultural, linguistic and other borders and boundaries in their writing.
Paul Buck is a Professor of History and Education at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. He has a doctorate in U.S. and Canadian history from the University of Maine, which he completed in 2008. Paul is proficient in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Wolof. He has either studied or taught over the course of four academic years in French Canada (Québec City), Russia (Voronezh), and Senegal (Dakar). Paul enjoys participating in his adopted community of St. Agatha, particularly in local organizations that promote and celebrate the French language and the Acadian and Franco-American culture of the St. John Valley.

Paul will speak about different perspectives of Maine statehood and of Maine culture as seen through the prism of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which definitively established the boundary between British North America and the United States. Paul will explore the treaty and its impact on the singular Acadian and Francophone community of the St. John Valley, which found itself split into two countries. Paul will give historical context as well, most certainly commencing with the long-standing Maliseet and Mi’kmaq communities of the region, along with Scots-Irish and, by the 1820s, of Maine Yankee residents.

Our panelists are:

Charles Gargiulo is the author of Legends of Little Canada, a memoir told through the voice of his 13 year old self in the 1960’s as he watched an urban renewal plan destroy his world by forcibly displacing his family and friends from their poor but tight-knit French-Canadian neighborhood in Lowell. The book gives witness to the final days of the community around Moody Street that Jack Kerouac recalled in many of his Lowell stories. His writing has appeared in Resonance, Merrimack Valley Magazine, the Lowell Review, the New Lowell Offering and the book compilation “Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell.” Following the destruction of Lowell’s Little Canada, Charlie grew up in public housing. After serving in the military, he graduated summa cum laude from University of Massachusetts Lowell. He became a legendary community and human rights activist and stopped forced displacement efforts like Little Canada from happening to others. In 2019, he was honored by the International Institute as one of the 100 most important figures in Lowell history who has worked on behalf of the city’s immigrant population. About his book, Legends of Little Canada, Kevin Ring, the publisher of Beat Scene Magazine, says: “I can put my hand on this old heart of mine and safely say Kerouac himself would have laughed and cried and absolutely loved this book.”

Abby Paige is a writer and theater artist whose work often explores the influence of French-Canadian culture in northern New England and the shifting borders between places, languages, and identities. Her book Piecework / Travail à la pièce, published by the University of Maine Press in 2025, collects in a single bilingual volume her two solo shows, Piecework: When We Were French and Les filles du QUOI?. Abby is Drama and Book Review Editor for the Franco-American literary journal Résonance, and her poems and other writing have appeared in publications in Canada and the U.S., including the 2020 Best Canadian Poetry Anthology. She currently lives in Vermont, where she was born and raised.

Since 1973, Manchester, N.H. native and lifelong resident Robert B. Perreault has worked in various capacities to promote Manchester’s history and New England Franco-American culture. His works of nonfiction and fiction, written in French, in English or in both languages, include seven books and more than 175 articles, essays, short stories, etc., published in the U.S., French Canada or France. He is the author of a French-language novel, L’Héritage (1983), whose setting is Manchester’s Franco-American community; Postcard History Series: Manchester (2005); and Franco-American Life and Culture in Manchester, New Hampshire: Vivre la Différence (2010). His most recent book featuring his original photos of Manchester from 1971 to 2005, entitled Images of Modern America: Manchester, was published in 2017 by Arcadia Publishing in Charleston, S.C. His eighth book, a forthcoming novel (11/7/25), is entitled Courtship in Purgatory. In addition to his writing, Perreault conducts sessions in conversational French in the Native Speaker Program at St. Anselm College and lectures on various topics related to local history and Franco-American history and culture with N.H. Humanities.

Selected by Portland Magazine as one of the “Ten Most Intriguing People in Maine,” award winning writer and performer Susan Poulin is the author of fourteen plays, seven of which feature her alter ego, Ida LeClair, “the funniest woman in Maine.” She writes the popular weekly Maine humor blog and podcast, Just Ask Ida, and is the author of Finding Your Inner Moose: Ida LeClair’s Guide to Living the Good Life and The Sweet Life: Ida LeClair’s Guide to Love and Marriage published by Islandport Press. As well as creating and touring her own work, Susan travels the country as an actor/improviser and facilitator for PowerPlay, a professional applied theatre company based at the University of New Hampshire. In May of 2019, during a joint session of the Maine State Legislature, Susan was inducted into the Franco-American Hall of Fame in honor of her body of work and promotion of Franco-American cultural identity. Check out her popular TED Talk about growing up Franco-American at TEDxPortsmouth.com. She continues to be a leader in bringing a female voice to New England storytelling and humor, and sharing the healing power of laughter with audiences statewide and beyond.

This event will be held at LA Arts’ downtown Lewiston venue on Lisbon Street. Parking is available on the street or in the Canal Street Garage, the Centerville Garage, or the Oak Street Garage. The event will be recorded, and those unable to join us in-person can do so via Zoom. Interested in joining on Zoom? Email Anna for more information!

For in-person attendance, registration is required. We ask that you RSVP one week ahead of the event!

For more information or to register for this event, contact the FAC archivist, Anna Faherty at anna.faherty@maine.edu or by phone (207) 753-6545. If you have questions about disability access or need to request disability accommodations (e.g. sign language interpreters, materials in electronic format, etc.), please contact Anna. Requests should be made as soon as possible to allow sufficient time for the accommodation process.

University of Southern Maine Wrestling at Bridgewater State University
2025-11-01 14:00 - 17:00 | Bridgewater, MA, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 02324, United States
University of Southern Maine Wrestling at Bridgewater State University
Streaming Video: https://mascac.tv/bridgewaterstate/

University of Southern Maine Men's Soccer vs Rhode Island College - Little East Conference Tournament Quarterfinal - No. 6 Rhode Island College at No. 3 Huskies
2025-11-01 15:00 - 17:00 | New Hampshire
University of Southern Maine Men’s Soccer vs Rhode Island College – Little East Conference Tournament Quarterfinal – No. 6 Rhode Island College at No. 3 Huskies
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

University of Southern Maine Women's Ice Hockey at Endicott College
2025-11-01 17:00 - 20:00 | Beverly, MA, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
University of Southern Maine Women’s Ice Hockey at Endicott College
Streaming Video: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/ecgulls/
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/endicott-college-womens-ice-hockey-vs-southern-maine-tickets-1755206823859?aff=oddtdtcreator

University of Southern Maine Men's Ice Hockey vs Saint Anselm College
2025-11-01 18:00 - 21:00 | New Hampshire
University of Southern Maine Men’s Ice Hockey vs Saint Anselm College
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo

University of Southern Maine Women's Soccer vs UMass Boston - Little East Conference Tournament Quarterfinal - No. 6 UMass Boston at No. 3 Huskies
2025-11-01 18:30 - 20:30 | New Hampshire
University of Southern Maine Women’s Soccer vs UMass Boston – Little East Conference Tournament Quarterfinal – No. 6 UMass Boston at No. 3 Huskies
Streaming Video: https://flosports.link/40b4Ijo
