Franco Center

Name: Franco Center
Address: Franco Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston, ME, 04240, US
Telephone: +12076892000
Price range: $
Rating: 4.6

For Tickets and Event Information, call the center at (207) 689-2000 or email boxoffice@francocenter
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Our mission: We strive to honor and preserve our Franco American heritage, and welcome our neighbors from diverse cultures through high-quality live performances, celebrations, and education. We boast two magnificent and unique halls that are also used by numerous individuals, families and organizations for various events, including weddings, receptions, family gatherings, breakfasts, luncheons an

d banquets, corporate meetings, seminars, training sessions, and celebrations of all kinds. Founded in the year 2000, Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's (Riverfront is our building's name) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization governed by a 15-member volunteer Board of Directors and operated by a handful of dedicated staff members and countless volunteers.

07/24/2024

Sign up for our escape room! Learn local history while having fun acting as detectives. To book your Escape Room adventure visit https://www.bookeo.com/franco THANKS!Business owners please support us here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/24/2024

Our Sights & Sounds of Christmas is scheduled for December! Make sure you visit our site at www.francocenter.org to see our event calendar. And please support us! Business owners please support us here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/24/2024

10:30am Thursday, July 25. Come in for French conversation with others who also speak French. Learn from each other. FREE. No need to pre-register.

07/24/2024

THIS MORNING! 10am to 11am. WEDNESDAY JULY 24. One hour of line dancing! It's great exercise and Jake makes learning new steps fun! $5 at the door. No need to register. Everyone is welcome.

07/23/2024

We need MANY volunteers to monitor our parking lot during L-A Balloon Festival weekend. Volunteers will collect parking fees, assist drivers in finding spaces, etc. Early morning volunteers will set up the canopy, table, chairs, etc. Closing volunteers will take down the tent and put everything away inside Franco's main office, lock door, and close parking lot gates. SIGN UP with this access code: 081624. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084EACAD2DAAF9CF8-balloon/153424401 #/

Please review the available shifts and click on the button to sign up for a shift or shifts when you are available. If you can work more than one shift that would be a great help! Ask a friend to join you! Remember to bring a hat, sunscreen, raincoat. You might like to have a folding chair, also. Thank you!

07/23/2024

Great family activity! Sign up for our escape room! Learn local history while having fun acting as detectives. To book your Escape Room adventure visit https://www.bookeo.com/franco THANKS!Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/23/2024

Line dancing! 10am to 11am Wednesday, July 24. No need to register. $5 at the door. Everyone is welcome!

07/23/2024

The Franco Center has two performance spaces. This is Heritage Hall where an international children's festival was held a few years ago. Contact us about having YOUR event at the Franco Center. Call 207-333-3251. Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/22/2024

Our Best of Broadway show is coming along! It kicks off our 25th season! Two shows: Sept. 6 and Sept. 7. The Sept. 7 show has a VIP reception before the show. You won't want to miss it. Tickets are on sale https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=236929

07/22/2024

There are clues throughout our history displays as part of our Escape Room! To book your Escape Room adventure visit https://www.bookeo.com/franco THANKS!Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/22/2024

Do you know the importance of St-Jean-Baptiste Day to the French-Canadian immigrants who moved to Lewiston's Little Canada? We do and we share this information in our history displays. Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/21/2024

Beat summer boredom! Sign up for our escape room! Learn local history while having fun acting as detectives. To book your Escape Room adventure visit https://www.bookeo.com/franco THANKS!Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/21/2024

We get asked if we have a bar that is open at events: yes! A full bar with the most excellent bartenders! If you're holding your event at the Franco Center, ask us about it. Call 207-333-3251 for more information. Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/20/2024

Sign up for our escape room! Learn local history while having fun acting as detectives. To book your Escape Room adventure visit https://www.bookeo.com/franco THANKS!Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/20/2024

Have your event catered at the Franco Center! Call 207-333-3251 for more details. Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/19/2024

BROADWAY favorites! Our Best of Broadway show is coming along! It kicks off our 25th season! Two shows: Sept. 6 and Sept. 7. The Sept. 7 show has a VIP reception before the show. You won't want to miss it. Tickets are on sale https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=236929

07/19/2024

By supporting the Franco Center, you keep the doors open to an important venue for musicians who make their living by performing in front of live audiences. Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/18/2024

Show your appreciation for the arts! Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/17/2024

Norm Saucier and Rita Dube just finished a meeting with the board and staff to discuss a hopeful future at the Franco Center.

07/17/2024

This afternoon Escape room visitors! They escaped in 38:55! Book your time online at https://bookeo.com/franco

07/17/2024

Have you heard about our escape room? Participants are given a clue list to get started and some of the clues are found within the more than 30 history displays we have set up. They learn local history while having fun acting as detectives. Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate To book your Escape Room adventure visit https://www.bookeo.com/franco THANKS!

07/17/2024

We have items from Maine Heritage Weavers on display in one of our history displays. You can learn a lot at the Franco Center. Business owners please support our heritage programs such as the Escape Room here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

07/17/2024

DANCE LESSONS this morning at 10am Wednesday July 17. Everyone is welcome. $5 at the door. No need to register. Come by yourself and make friends!

07/16/2024

You know we will be dancing to the kind of music that makes you want to move your feet! 10am Wednesday July 17. No need to register. $5 at the door. It’s air conditioned in Heritage Hall.

07/16/2024

Support the Franco Center so we can continue to bring popular tribute bands to our venue. Business owners click here: https://envelopechallenge.org/francocenter/challenge/ and patrons here: https://www.francocenter.org/donate

Address

Franco Center, 46 Cedar Street
Lewiston, ME
04240

Telephone

+12076892000

Website

http://www.francocenter.org/

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Line dancing!

You know we will be dancing to the kind of music that makes you want to move your feet! 10am Wednesday July 17. No need to register. $5 at the door. It’s air conditioned in Heritage Hall.

Player piano test

Oh it’s working.

This is the Sacred Heart of Mary window at the Franco Center in animation. Just need to add her voice. Any suggested software? We'd like each of the saints in our stained-glass windows to tell visitors a little bit about themselves.

We would love for the saints in our stained-glass windows to become animated and talk. We tested an animation program on Bonne Sainte Anne. Now to get her to talk ...

Cleaning up Lincoln Street Alley. Eventually a walkway to parking garage?

Impromptu concert

We played an orchestral piece so our international tour group could hear for themselves our wonderful acoustics.

Great group of students today from Gray-New Gloucester!

Line dancing

Come line dance with us! Mondays 6:30pm to 7:30pm or Wednesdays from 10am to 11am!

@Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers show April 12, 2024

345 students from Geiger Elementary School came to the Franco Center this morning for a puppet show. Here they are arriving and starting to fill the seats.

Mr.Magic at the Franco Center

218 local schoolchildren enjoyed a magic show. Look at them dancing in their seats!

Mr. Magic presented the best magic show ever at the Franco Center today for more than 200 local school children. Thank you to the Lewiston Auburn Children's Foundation for their support. Today’s shown was presented to students from McMahon and Connors schools. They were screaming and laughing for an hour! The show was outstanding.

On stage now Returning at 2pm Sunday March 10 with Mark Miller and Arlo West

Dance Lessons

Family Traditions is a popular country song and this morning’s group of 30 dancers are enjoying the lesson.

Jake is putting special stage props up. Tickets are available online at www.francocenter.org/shows for this Mediterranean dance performance at 1pm Saturday February 10 by Imari & the Sahara Desert Dancers.

Dance lessons

Dance lessons at the Franco Center

Dance lessons from 10am to 11am Wednesday Feb. 7 (tomorrow!) at the Franco Center. You do not have to be a member of a club. You do not have to speak French. These dance lessons are open to the general public. $5 at the door. You do not need to sign up in advance. Drop ins are welcome.

Line dancing at the Franco

Dance lessons this morning! Mark your calendar for more dance lessons on February 7, 14, and 28! At 10am. $5 at the door.

Cupid Shuffle

Line dance lessons featuring Cupid Shuffle

Bean Supper at the Franco 11-18-23

Thank you WMTW-TV 8 for reporting on the Franco Center's second bean supper this year which was Saturday, Nov. 18. Look for information about upcoming bean suppers in February and March 2024. We are very happy that the community can come together in our facility. Visit our site at www.francocenter.org/shows to see what's coming up.