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  • From Individual Precarity to Collective Resilience: The Revolutionary Ecological and Social Implications of Local Microfactories, Community Fablabs, Personal Fabrication, and Fabcities

    The Good Life Center 372 Harborside Rd, Harborside, ME, United States

    In this talk by Lonnie Gamble, we'll see how the Nearings’ use economy has evolved into the maker movement and Fabcities. Fabcities are cities that produce everything they make using a circular economy. Atoms cycle locally while ideas, designs and best practices flow globally and open source. Suggested Donation: $10

  • ART TALK by Midcoast Painter Sam Cady on Midcoast Painter Cicely Aikman

    Bartlett Woods Retirement Community 20 Bartlett Drive, Rockland, ME, United States

    Bartlett Woods Retirement Community welcomes renowned Maine painter Sam Cady to speak about legendary Maine painter Cicely Aikman on Monday, July 13th, from 10-11am. The free ART TALK coincides with the current exhibition “CHICKADEES, ALLIGATORS AND STONEHENGE,” featuring the work of Cicely Aikman, along with Janice Kasper and Dirk McDonnell. Located at 20 Bartlett Drive...

    Free

  • Jonathan Lowder’s Truckhouse, 1776-1779: History and Archaeology of a Revolutionary War Trading Post, with Chip Lagerbom

    Belfast Free Library 106 High Street, Belfast, ME, United States

    The series of programs, "Revolutionary Belfast" continues at the Belfast Free Library continues with this talk with author and AP U.S. History teacher Charles H. "Chip" Lagerbom. In this illustrated presentation Lagerbom will describe the discovery and history of Jonathan Lowder's Truckhouse which was built along the banks of Penobscot River near present-day Veazie. he...

  • Preserving Other Voices: The Ashley Bryan Papers at the University of Pennsylvania

    Jesup Memorial Library 34 Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor, ME, United States

    On Thursday, July 16th at 5:30pm, the Jesup Memorial Library will host the 6th Annual Ashley Bryan Honorary Lecture with Lynne Farrington from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, where the Ashley Bryan Papers are housed. For this lecture, the Ashley Bryan Papers will serve as a case study for exploring the role that curators play...

    Free

  • Designing Plastic Out of the Ocean Economy feat. Abby Barrows (Schoodic Institute’s Summer Lecture Series)

    Schoodic Institute 9 Atterbury Cir, Winter Harbor, ME, United States

    Join us in person at Schoodic Institute or online via Zoom on Tuesday, July 21 at 7:00pm for Designing Plastic Out of the Ocean Economy, featuring Abby Barrows, Principal Investigator for the Global Microplastics Initiative with Adventure Scientists and marine scientist, researcher, and oyster farmer. After years documenting microplastic pollution worldwide, marine researcher Abigail Barrows...

    Free

  • Lecture with Jerry Magnifico: “Lost Architectural Gems of Old Castine”

    Castine Historical Society 17 School St, Castine, ME, United States

    Lecture: "Lost Architectural Gems of Old Castine", Thursday, July 23, 6-7:30 pm at Emerson Hall, 67 Court Street, Castine This talk with historian, Jerry Magnifico, will be a photographic journey back to 19th and early 20th century Castine, featuring a series of once cherished homes and landmark buildings that have since disappeared from the landscape....

  • Author Talk with Children’s Author/Illustrator Will Hillenbrand

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Award-winning author and illustrator Will Hillenbrand will shares insights and inspiration from his decades of creating stories for children in this special presentation that is a joint program with the Southwest Harbor Public Library as part of the occasional series Reading with Wings. Copies of his new book Light as a Feather: Fifteen Phenomenal North...

    Free

  • The Designed Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth: Farnsworth Museum Art Lecture

    Northeast Harbor Library 1 Joy Rd, Northeast Harbor, ME, United States

    In connection with the current exhibition and new book By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth, a collaboration between the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Colby College Museum of Art, and the Brandywine Museum of Art, the director of the Farnsworth’s Wyeth Study Center, Dr. William L. Coleman shares new discoveries about the often overlooked...

    Free

  • Lecture/Demo with Andy Akiho, steel pan

    Skidompha Public Library 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United States

    A free and informal talk with musical demonstration featuring composer and steel pannist Andy Akiho. Event photo by Da Ping Luo

    Free

  • Trees of Acadia: The Past, Present, and Future of Park Forests feat. Catherine Schmitt and Panel (Schoodic Institute’s Summer Lecture Series)

    Schoodic Institute 9 Atterbury Cir, Winter Harbor, ME, United States

    Join us in person at Schoodic Institute or online via Zoom on Tuesday, August 11 at 7:00pm for Trees of Acadia: The Past, Present, and Future of Park Forests feat. Catherine Schmitt and Panel, featuring author and Science Communication Specialist Catherine Schmitt with Matthew Duveneck (forest ecologist and Schoodic Institute Second Century Stewardship Fellow), Kate...

    Free

  • Lecture/Demo with Karen Ouzounian, cello

    Rutherford Public Library 2000 State Route 129, South Bristol, ME, United States

    A free and informal talk with musical demonstration featuring composer and cellist Karen Ouzounian. Event photo by Ebru Yildiz

    Free

  • 17th Annual Deborah Pulliam Lecture with Carl Little

    Delano Auditorium Pleasant Street, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME, United States

    The 17th Annual Pulliam Lecture with curator of Francis Hamabe’s Maine: A Life in Art, Carl Little will explore Hamabe’s life and career in Downeast Maine and his connections to Castine. This event will take place at the Delano Auditorium at Maine Maritime Academy. Please RSVP at castinehistoricalsociety.org. This event will be livestreamed on our...

    Free