Mar 20 Wednesday
Join fellow trivia players for a night of science trivia created especially for the Maine Science Festival by Maine Public’s News & Brews Squad! This is a don't-miss night of fun!
*Note that we can’t accept teams with more than 5 players.
Click HERE to see the full 2024 News & Brews schedule!
Join us at Print: A Bookstore for a book launch event with the author and many of the individuals featured in Where Maine Reads.
About the Project:
Where Maine Reads is a large-format book of photographic portraits and personal essays that capture the joy, wonder and benefits of reading, especially in those special places where Mainers of all ages —some famous, some not—like to read, such as porches, bars, boats, hammocks, and yes, even bathtubs.
The brainchild of freelance photographer and graphic artist Buddy Doyle of Gardiner, Where Maine Reads features 50 Mainers representing a diverse range of ages, professions, geography, race, and culture. Some contributors to the book are "famous," many are nationally known Maine writers, and most are ordinary people — teachers, firefighters, high school and college students, librarians, business leaders, and shop owners.
Click HERE for more information about Where Maine Reads
Mar 21 Thursday
Megan Gilliss will discuss the book Lungfish with host Bill Nemitz on Thursday, March 21st at 7:00 PM.
Click HERE to join the virtual meeting
Do you love books? Are you interested in hearing from the author and looking behind the curtain at what the author was thinking while writing? Perhaps have the author respond to a question or two that has been on your mind about a particular scene or character. Look no further than the Maine Public Book Club!
Click HERE to join the book club and receive information about book club news & events!
Mar 23 Saturday
Launched in 2015, the Maine Science Festival is a celebration of science with workshops, forums, talks, presentations, exhibits, films, and hands-on activities. With more than 70+ activities and events over five days, there is guaranteed to be something of interest for everyone!
For more details, updates, and information, visit the festival’s website at mainesciencefestival.org.
Future Driven: A Youth Climate Story
Saturday, March 23rd | 2:45 pm to 3:45 pm
Meeting Room C, Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main Street, Bangor
Maine Public will be showcasing many of the entries that were submitted to our Future Driven: A Youth Climate Story Challenge at this year’s festival. Future Driven: A Youth Climate Story provided an opportunity for high school students in Maine to tell climate stories in their communities. Join us at 2:45pm for the awards ceremony for the student finalists.
Mar 28 Thursday
Told through the voices of local residents and community leaders, Resilience is a story of economic perseverance in three Maine communities. While there are always obstacles, working together, Maine people have always exhibited tremendous strength and determination when weathering a storm- staying true to the vision and values that have defined Maine’s communities for hundreds of years.
This film was commissioned by the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development and produced by Blaze Partners and Timber + Frame.
Doors open at 6:00 pm, the film starts at 7:00 pm, and a panel discussion immediately follows.
Resilience will also be airing on Maine Public Television on Thursday, March 28 at 9:00 pm and Saturday, March 30 at 2:00 pm.
Join in the fun and register your team for a 2024 News & Brews Trivia night!
Team check-in starts at 5:30pm. Trivia starts at 6:00pm!
Mar 19 Tuesday
The Running With Scissors (RWS) EMERGE Artist in Residence program elevates and supports artists who are in the emerging phase of their creative careers in either printmaking or clay by providing 24/7 access to the RWS studios as well as the respective department’s tools, equipment, and community.
RWS will host one to two artists per session, or up to four artists per year, working in either print or clay. The program offers two sessions each year:- Session 1 starts September 1, 2024 and concludes January 31, 2025.- Session 2 starts March 1, 2025 and concludes July 31, 2025.
Applications open March 1, 2024 and close on April 30, 2024. Info sessions will be held in person at 250 Anderson Street in Portland, ME on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 from 11AM - 12PM and Thursday, March 21 from 6-7PM. A virtual option will be made available to those who cannot attend in person.
Decisions are made by a small panel of local professional artists with knowledge in print or clay. Notifications will be made in late May 2024 and a public announcement will be made in early June 2024. Go to our website to learn more and apply.
SPRING IS IN THE AIR AT THE FARM! Volunteers Needed!Growing to Give is a not for profit, organic farm growing vegetables to give to those most in need in our community. This spring, volunteers will help us start seedlings, plant them in the gardens, and some help repair greenhouses on our Fix-It Team. We have many opportunities for volunteers ages 3-93 -- individuals, families, and groups. For more information, please check out our website at https://growingtogive.farm/ or send an email to volunteer@growingtogive.farm. Come meet members of your community while helping members of your community! See if volunteering at GROWING TO GIVE could be just the right fit for you, located at 30 East Coxon Road, Brunswick ME 04011.
Libby Library is happy to have the Pine Point Quilters displaying their work here at the library.
This language enrichment program is geared for children 3-6 years old and will include stories, songs, movement activities, STEM activities and more!
The Yarmouth Arts Alliance is hosting its second annual“2 x 14 Love Show,” featuring several local artists and florists, from January 16 to April 6 at the Merrill Memorial Library Gallery on the second Floor. Participating florists will pair bouquets with artworks that inspire their arrangements and will be on display Saturday, February 10 at the art reception until Valentine's Day. The art reception will be on February 10, from 4pm to 6pm with light appetizers, desserts and drinks.Under the guidance and leadership of the Library Arts Committee, the second-floor gallery has grown into a two-room showing space with newly painted walls, gallery lights and a hanging system. The gallery has hosted art shows of local emerging and established artists for more than 20 years. The Yarmouth Arts Alliance is now managing the second-floor gallery in collaboration with library staff. Yarmouth Arts Alliance is grateful to the Library Arts Committee for all their work, and will continue the tradition of supporting local artists and bringing art and events to the community. Yarmouth Arts Alliance is a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports arts and cultural activities in the community.
This group is a lively and friendly group open to discussing all viewpoints and ideas. Meets on Tuesdays, at 10:00 a.m. in the Marine Room of the Rockport Library.
RICHARD WILSON: STORM OVER THE CITYJanuary 19 - May 3, 2024
Encompassing paintings, drawings, watercolor and prints, Richard Wilson’s exhibition Storm Over The City features selected works from 1978 to the present. Wilson offers glimpses into the human condition, with all its inherent challenges, vices and contradictions. There is a theatricality in the artist’s imagined environments—some are inhabited by a comedic cast of characters—while in other works sexually charged figures unite en masse.
Dark humor permeates a number of Wilson’s meticulously rendered graphite drawings. The artist depicts anthropomorphic creatures engaging in mischief and sometimes inflicting pain on the human subjects. For instance, in The Cauldron, a froglike woman-creature has turned a man upside down in a painful wrestling hold while in Success, horned devils are forcing people to tend a fire. In other works, like Dysfunctional Friends, Wilson’s subjects are consumed with their own self-inflicted buffoonery. Despite the desperate conditions facing Wilson’s uncanny characters, the collective absurdity of the scenes elicit a humorous response.
However, there is a sense of looming peril in Wilson’s recent paintings. Questions are posed such as: what is lurking beneath the expanse of blue waters in which two tiny figures swim in opposite directions? At what point does the outdoor adventure seeker realize that his canoe will soon crash over a rushing waterfall? These paintings convey the vulnerability of humans when facing the vastness, mystery and power of nature.
Image: Richard Wilson, Running Man, 1989, Gouache, Courtesy of the artist
LINDA PACKARD: POEMS I MEANT TO WRITEJanuary 19 - May 3, 2024
Maine-based artist Linda Packard has created a new body of abstract paintings for the Zillman Art Museum’s exhibition Poems I Meant to Write. The show features large-scale works that measure up to six feet—the artist’s largest paintings to date. While the works are non-objective, Packard states that she “remains strongly informed by her many years as a plein air landscape painter,” and that she, “continues to be drawn to the same organic shapes, rich textures, and earthy palette.”
Packard’s gestural movements around the canvases are intuitive, her brushstrokes varied and sensitive. The paintings highlight the physical properties of oil paint as rich surfaces emerge through a series of layers and revision. The artist also uses pigment sticks, charcoal, crayon pencils and graphite to diversify the texture and quality of her marks.
In line with the expressive spirit of earlier Abstract Expressionist painters, Packard’s works convey both energy and mood. By combining well-defined marks that seem to hover atop other thin, veil-like passages, she has created implied environments that give the illusion of deep space. Upstairs by the China Lamp, with its palette of crimson tones and glimmers of peachy-orange, has a fiery intensity; while vivid blues combine with grayed undertones to evoke atmospheric associations in When Hope Was Returned to Me.
This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, and a grant from the City of Bangor Commission on Cultural Development.
Image: Linda Packard, Upstairs By The China Lamp, 2023, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of the artist
Join the Lewiston Public Library for Baby Storytime in-person in the Children’s Department weekly on Tuesdays from 10:15am to 11:15am.
Recommended for children ages 0 – 24 months old and their caregivers.
Enjoy an interactive storytime with your baby that includes early literacy fun with books, songs, rhymes and body movement. Play and social time immediately follow the program. Siblings are always welcome. This program is free, open to the public, and no registration is required.
Please stay home if you or your child are sick and not feeling well.
More information on Storytime programs is available by contacting the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3133 or LPLKids@lewistonmaine.gov.
Join the Lewiston Public Library for Baby Storytime in-person in the Children’s Department weekly on Tuesdays starting September 6th from 10:15am to 11:15am.
Recommended for children ages 0 – 3 years old and their caregivers.
Enjoy an interactive storytime with your baby that includes early literacy fun with books, songs, rhymes and body movement. Play and social time immediately follow the program.
Siblings are always welcome. Please stay home if you or your child are sick and not feeling well.
This program is free, open to the public, and no registration is required.
For more information, contact the Children’s Department at 513-3133, LPLKids@lewistonmaine.gov