BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.6//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Davis Brook Stack Art Installation Ceremony X-WR-CALDESC:Bangor Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Davis Brook Stack Art Installation Ceremony DESCRIPTION:There’s a new sculpture on the Bangor Waterfront called Living Water” by Mi’kmaq artist Steven Francis Hooke. The art sculp ture is a six-foot Wabanaki-style canoe\, affixed to the Davis Brook Sta ck. \; \;\n\n\n\nMembers of the public\, including the media\, a re invited to an installation ceremony on Friday\, June 2nd \;at 3:3 0 pm\, on site at the Davis Brook stack located on the waterfront. \ ; \;The ceremony will feature remarks from the artist\, Council Chai r Richard Fournier\, Director of Economic Development Anne Krieg\, and C ommission on Cultural Development Chair Aubrae Filipiak.\n\n\n\nThe cont ractor responsible for building the Davis Brook Stack\, S.E. MacMillan\, donated $10\,000 to the City to transform the structure into a piece of sculptural public art. \; The City’s Commission on Cultural Devel opment sought proposals from artists for an art installation on the stac k that would highlight the Penobscot River\, New England’s second larg est river system. They were particularly interested in proposals that wo uld emphasize the river’s cultural significance for indigenous peoples and also its historical significance to the growth and development of B angor. \;\n\n\n\nArtist Steven Francis Hooke’s proposal and design was selected from a number of submissions and recommended by the Commis sion for final approval by the City Council. It features a traditional W abanaki-style canoe with its nose pointed upstream\, which Hooke said re presents the unwritten future. \;\n\n\n\nHooke\, the grandson of acc laimed Mi’kmaq artist Carmen Hooke\, is a member of the Mi’kmaq trib e of the Wabanaki Confederation. \; \;He shared that\, growing u p in Bangor\, the river “meant an incredible amount to me. \;  \;It would be an honor to be able to represent this significance with an art piece on these very shores.”\n\n\n\nPlease join us to celebrate t he installation of this beautiful sculpture and to recognize gifted arti st\, Steven Francis Hooke.\n\n\n\nThe Davis Brook stack is part of the r ecently completed 3.8-million-gallon sewage overflow tank project called the Davis Brook Combined Sewer Overflow Storage Tank project. URL;VALUE=URI:https://downtownbangor.com/events/davis-brook-stack-art-in stallation-ceremony/ UID:urn:uuid:41e8d6c6-42e6-440e-ad6c-716651bb282b STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260824T054206Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T153000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR