The Bangor Area Children’s Choir will conduct auditions 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 540 Essex St. in Bangor.

All singers contacted for a callback will attend a group audition 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at that site.

No advance preparations are necessary, since each singer does the same audition, BACC artistic director Michele Hall explained.

In a reorganized format, BACC will feature a training Treble Choir for singers no younger than 9 as of May 1 and no older than 16 as of Oct. 1.

An advanced treble Youth Chorale will be composed of treble singers with at least two years’ experience in the Treble Choir, or at the discretion of the director.

Newcomers will join current members for the 2005-2006 season and rehearse 4-5 p.m. Tuesdays at All Souls Congregational Church in Bangor.

Because of the reorganization, Hall said, “this is a great year to audition,” since the choir “will be able to take more singers who have not had any experience singing in a chorus.”

More than 30 openings are available to join 20 returning singers for what Hall hopes will be a choir of 50-plus members.

For more information, call Hall, 947-2023, or e-mail mrshallb18@midmaine.com.

Vicky Blanchette has announced the Blacksmiths’ Round-up is 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at Leonard’s Mills, off Route 178 in Bradley.

Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children 2-12 and free for members.

There will be demonstrations by master blacksmiths. In addition, bean-hole beans, hot dogs, soda and more will be on sale, and members of the Model T Club of Maine will participate.

For more information, visit http://www.leonardsmills.com/Index/blacksmithroundup.htm.

The second annual Fair Trade Fest is 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Bangor Waterfront Park.

PICA (Peace through Interamerican Community Action) board president Katherine Kates said, “It’s really exciting that Bangor is leading the way in creating a fair trade marketplace.”

Supported by the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, the fair offers an array of sweatshop-free products, food, coffee, a Clean Clothes fashion show with celebrity models, educational exhibits and presentations, and music.

The event will feature fair trade vendors from across North America, as well as items from PICA’s Bangor-El Salvador Sister City Project. The event is free and open to the public.

President Karen Marsters and Friends of the Curran Homestead will celebrate the dedication of its new picket fence at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Homestead in Orrington.

The event recognizes the work of Eagle Scout candidate Michael Mower, who directed the project; contributions people have made to the Homestead in the past 15 years; and the progress made in accomplishing the organization’s mission.

Following the dedication ceremony, an informative tour of the property and light refreshments will be offered.

The first meeting of Women of the World, a group of international and American women, is at noon Monday, Sept. 12, at Church of Universal Fellowship, Main Street in Orono.

Women are asked to bring an international dish to share.

For more information, call Mireille Le Gal, 581-3423.

The latest “Let’s Talk About It” book discussion series at Calais Free Library is “The Mirror of Maine: The Maine Community in Myth and Reality.”

The series, including books such as “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo and “A Maine Hamlet” by Lura Beam, begins at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, at the library, and continues for five sessions through Monday, Dec. 5.

Minister, choir director, music teacher, historian and speaker Dr. Colin Windhorst will lead the discussions.

Librarian Marilyn Sotirelis invites you to visit the library, register for the series, and pick up the first book.

A call for entries has been issued for a juried photo show running from October through January at Boyd Place, 21 Boyd St., Bangor.

The entry fee is $10 for up to three photographs.

Entry forms should be delivered between Wednesday, Sept. 21, and Sunday, Sept. 25, to Boyd Place at Phillips-Strickland House in Bangor.

The digital or film photographs must be the entrant’s original work, framed and ready to hang, and appropriate for a family environment.

Judges are Wally Mason, director of the University of Maine Museum of Art; John Rohman, chairman of the Maine Arts Commission; and Alan Stubbs, assistant professor of art at the University of Maine in Orono.

For information, call Karen Higgins, 941-2837, or e-mail khiggins@pshouse.org.

Sorry, Milo Gazebo Committee!

The correct date for all those activities you have planned to raise money for a PA system I wrote about in Wednesday’s column is actually Friday, Sept. 9, not today!

Plan on going there for a free concert and your Three Rivers Kiwanis Chicken Barbecue next week!

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.