FARMINGTON -- The University of Maine at Farmington's Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the Ministry of Experimental Arts will present a series of arts events during their Winter Arts Week, Sunday through Dec. 14.

The events:

• UMF Community Orchestra; 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 7, UMF Nordica Auditorium.

This concert will feature the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Dvorak Ninth Symphony, "The New World." Trond Saeverud will conduct and perform as soloist in the violin concerto. Tickets are available at the door the night of the performance and are priced at $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and are free to UMF students with university I.D.

• Showings of Video/Music and Selected Shorts; 6-8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 9, Room M220 UMF Merrill Hall; free.

This presentation will feature a video/music installation by Sean Chase and Matthew Hernandez, and "Selected Shorts from UMF Media Makers," a short program of highlights from recent accomplishments in video at UMF.

• Original Student Plays; 8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 9, UMF Nordica Auditorium; free.

Two new original UMF student plays will be presented immediately following the video showings. The first play "Well, There's a Train, There's Got to be a Murder," by Benjamin Gray is about an author who creates characters who turn out to have their own motives, a murderer who has a crush on the author's muse and an incompetent detective who is to solve the case. In the second play, "Exercises," Angela Hooper explores a complicated love affair gone awry. In the words of the author, there are "miscommunications, unrequited love, and an affection hidden beneath the sheets" in "a tale of two lovers who find themselves at a breaking point."

• Original Student Musical Compositions; 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 10, UMF Nordica Auditorium; free

A concert featuring new works of UMF student composers will include "Kaspar's Suite Day Dream" for flute, clarinet, bass trombone, violin, viola, cello, electric guitar, electric bass, and surround sound effects by Nathaniel Burns; "Dunce" for flute, clarinet, bass trombone, xylorimba, violin, viola and cello by Elliot Lyons; "For Tesla" for violin, cello and laptop by Seth Fogg; "Two Movements for Piano" by Joshua Case; and "Ex Unus Nota" by Andrew Thompson, also for solo piano.

• Jetfighter and Electro-Acoustic Music; 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 11, Piazza-fourth floor conference room in UMF Merrill Hall; free.

Jetfighter, an experimental rock group and electro-acoustic musicians Patrick Howell and Vincent Leonetti will perform with Joanna Wilbur on tap dance/music.

• Sole Expression and Electro-Acoustic Music; 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 11, UMF Nordica Auditorium; free.

A musical program featuring a capella group Sole Expression and electro-acoustic and improvisatory performances by Ashlee Page, Andrew Bellmore and David Kerchner.

• UMF Community Chorus; 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 13 and 3 p.m., Sunday Dec. 14, Farmington's Old South Church.

Two performances will be featured by the UMF Community Chorus, conducted by Bruce McInnes. These performances will include Vivaldi's "Gloria" and Marc Antoine Charpentier's "Messe de Minuit pour No‘l." This concert is open to the public. Tickets are available at the door the night of the performance and are priced at $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and are free to UMF students with University I.D.

• UMF Student Art Exhibit; 12-4 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 9 through Sunday, Dec. 14, UMF Art Gallery

Throughout the week, the UMF Art Gallery will host a student exhibit by members of Katrazyna Randall's Contemporary Theory and Practice class. Curated by Kristen Bisson, the show includes works by Emily Baer, Timothy Berry, Kristen Bisson, Joshua Demello, Meagaan Irish, Logan Leland, William Mosenfelder, Giselle Scherle, Matthew St. John, Elliott Vogel and Joanna Wilbur. Additional student art will also be exhibited throughout Merrill Hall, curated by Sarah Levensalor.

For more information about these events, call 778-7072.