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:Mary and Molly: Film Screening and Panel X-WR-CALDESC:Bangor Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240425T053000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240425T053000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mary and Molly: Film Screening and Panel DESCRIPTION:Bangor Public Library is pleased to host a screening of this animated film based on the 2016 play by Donna Loring\, noted Penobscot Nation Tribal Elder\, activist\, and author\, Donna. (27 minutes)\n\nThe film follows Mary\, a young African-American woman living in Bangor\, M aine. She finds a letter from her mother that tells of her Penobscot Ind ian heritage and the decision that her parents made many years ago to br ing her up with only the knowledge of her African-American heritage. Aft er opening the letter on her 21st Birthday\, Mary goes to the Bangor Pub lic Library and learns of Molly Molasses\, her Penobscot Ancestor\, and connects with her Penobscot ancestry for the first time. The film tackle s Black and Brown issues of race\, heritage\, and the choosing of identi ty.\n\nDirected by Donna Loring and David Camlin with casting and dialog direction by Margo Lukens\, the film features the creative work of indi genous creators and collaborators. Original artwork was created by Penob scot visual artists Shannon Sockalexis and Ann Pollard-Ranco and Mali Ob omsawin‘s (Odanak Abenaki) music scores the film.\n\nFollowing the scr eening\, Donna Loring will moderate a panel conversation centering aroun d the film itself\, native issues of sovereignty\, and child welfare\; i n addition to the panelist's perspectives and reactions to the film's th emes\, and characters\, an audience Q&\;A will follow.\n\nSPEEDWELL C ontemporary is pleased to present the animated film adaptation of ‘Mar y and Molly’ a 20-minute long animated film based on the 2016 play of the same title by noted Penobscot Nation Tribal Elder\, activist\, autho r\, Donna Loring.\n\nThis project was made possible with the support of grants from the Maine Community Foundation\, the OAK Foundation\, the Gl ickman Lauder Foundation\, and the Maine Humanities Council.\n\nPlease n ote: This film contains offensive language and references sexual assault . It may not be suitable for children.\n\nThe Panelists\n\nDonna Loring is an elder/ former Council member of the Penobscot Indian Nation. She w as the Nation’s Representative to the Maine State Legislature for twel ve years. Donna authored “An Act to Require Teaching Maine Native Amer ican History and Culture in Maine’s Schools” Governor King signed th e Act into law on June 14th 2001. The law is changing the way Maine view s it’s history. She hosts her own radio show\, Wabanaki Windows at WER U Community Radio in Orland. In May of 2008 Donna’s book titled “In The Shadow of the Eagle A Tribal Representative in Maine” was publishe d. In 2010 Donna wrote her first Play: The Glooskape Chronicles: creatio n and the Venetian Basket.\n\nIn 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor ate in Humane Letters from the University of Maine Orono. In 2021 she wa s given the Courage is Contagious Award by the University of Maine Law S chool. In 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters f rom Thomas College Waterville Maine. She was appointed to the University of Maine System Board of Trustees to fill the first Wabanaki Permanent Seat by Wabanaki Chiefs and Governor Janet Mills 2022.\n\nMargo Lukens\ , Vocal talent casting/director\n\nMargo Lukens retired recently from 31 years as an English professor at the University of Maine\, specializing in literature of Anglo-American colonization and Indigenous literatures \, with particular interest in Native American and First Nations drama. Since 2003\, along with her late colleague playwright William S. Yellow Robe\, Jr.\, Margo worked with UMaine students and Wabanaki community m embers producing and directing plays by Indigenous playwrights\, includi ng LeAnne Howe &\; Roxy Gordon (Indian Radio Days)\, Donna Loring (Th e Glooskape Chronicles and Mary &\; Molly)\, Tomson Highway (The Rez Sisters)\, and William Yellow Robe (The Independence of Eddie Rose\, Bet ter-n-Indins\, A Stray Dog\, Rez Politics\, etc.).\n\nIn 2015-2016 she s erved as consultant with Penobscot Nation writers and language carriers who created the script of Transformer Tales for production by the Dramat ic Academy of Penobscot Theatre in 2016\; in 2024 she was dramaturg for the script’s full production as My Story Is Gluskabe in PTC’s 50th s eason. As an actor/director she has worked with Penobscot Theatre Compa ny\, Maine Shakespeare Festival\, Northern Lights Theatre\, Ten Bucks Th eatre\, Orono High School\, Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine\, The Penobscot (Nation) Players\, Seven Eagles Productions\, Threadbare Theat re Workshop\, and was a founding member of Orono Community Theatre. Dur ing the pandemic\, she directed Wabanaki REACH volunteers and citizens o f Wabanaki nations in an entirely Zoom-based film production of Indian R adio Days.\n\nIn September 2023 she portrayed State Rep. Bonnie Post in Where the River Widens\, a play about the Maine Indian Land Claims\, dev ised by members of Wabanaki REACH and Threadbare Theatre and performed a t Indian Island on the banks of the Penobscot River. A co-author of “S till They Remember Me\,” a bilingual book of traditional Penobscot sto ries (University of Massachusetts Press 2021)\, she is presently at work on publishing volume 2 of Penobscot stories and creating a digital Waba naki Resources Portal. She currently serves on the board of Penobscot T heatre Company. URL;VALUE=URI:https://downtownbangor.com/events/mary-and-molly-film-scre ening-and-panel/ UID:urn:uuid:7f467d46-a1f4-4c5c-bebb-135f1b6b7597 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260501T050104Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T190000 LOCATION:Bangor Public Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR