Using Pressure Cookers:  Pressure Cookers aren’t the scary kitchen appliances they once were. Traditional style coolers and Insta-Pots can help you create a delicious meal in a short amount of time using fresh or frozen ingredients. Saturday, January 25, 11:30 – 1:30, East Forty Farm, 2361 Friendship Road, Waldoboro. FMI: eastfortyfarm.com.

Crafternoons:  woven friendship bracelets with Susan Merrill. Saturday, January 25, 1:00 – 3:00, at the Blue Hill Public Library. FMI: 374-5515 or bhpl.net.

Pies on Parade Scavenger Hunt Movie, general public is welcome too! Chicken Run: When a rooster, shot from a circus cannon, appears to fly onto a chicken farm, the chickens see him as their only hope to escape their evil owners who want to turn them into chicken pies! Saturday, January 25, 1:00, at the Camden Public Library. FMI: librarycamden.org.

Workshop: Creating Your Novel in 90 Minutes. Saturday, January 25, 2:00 – 5:00, Blue Hill Public Library. Register at 374-5515 or bhpl.net.

”Piano Lessons Revisited”  The classics played exquisitely by Janet Pearson. Saturday, January 25th, 2:00, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth. Admission is by donation to the Ellsworth Free Medical Clinic. Snow date  is January 26th at 2:00. FMI: plc465@aol.com.

Simply Books! Book Club: Bring along whatever book you are currently reading, and share it with the group. Meets at 2:00, on the fourth Saturday of the month, Camden Public Library, 55 Main St. FMI: 236-3440 or librarycamden.org.

Simply Books! Book Club. Fun and informal. Bring whatever book you are currently reading, and share it with the group. Meets fourth Saturday of the Month through May, 2:00 – 4:00, at the Camden Public Library. FMI: librarycamden.org.

Timbered Lake- folk/indie duo Crow Suncloud and Diana Ramsdell Newman-  in concert. Saturday, January 25th, 2:00, in the Common House at Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage,  25 Village Road in Belfast. Snow date: Saturday, February 1^st.  FMI: timberedlake.com or 568-1140.

Traditional Irish Music and Song Session: Come to play, come to sing, or come to listen! Saturdays, 2:00 – 5:00, at the Marsh River Coop at the corner of Routes 7 and 179 in Brooks. FMI: 323-5042.

The Maine Celtic Celebration hosts a Robert Burns Night, with Scotch tasting and supper. There’ll be live music, Burns poetry, and Scottish attire contests. Saturday, January 25th, 4:00 – 9:00, at the United Farmers Market, 18 Spring Street in Belfast. Tickets online and at Left Bank Books in Belfast. FMI: mainecelticcelebration.com.