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Join us for a special Storytime and book signing with Martha White, granddaughter of E. B. White , as we read form the newly published book "The Duck Can't Sleep." The event is free and all ages are welcome. Book giveaway: one per family. Light refreshments will be provided. Based on a poem originally published...
Friday, September 11 at 5:30 in the Riverview Room of the Ellsworth Public Library. Join the Conversation and Celebration with Moe Claire, author of the Pyke Island Mysteries. a contemporary Downeast Maine crime-suspense series, on the release of the fourth book A Blind Spider.
On Tuesday October 6th, 6:30 pm the Belfast Free Library presents a book launch and dramatic reading for Carolyn Locke’s release, “Between Ray and Eva: A Memoir in Poetry.” Local author Carolyn Locke and her children, Alison and Jeffrey Locke, will do a dramatic reading from this moving memoir inspired by ten months of daily...
A live reading, art viewing and panel discussion celebrating the ways creative ideas echo across mediums. We commissioned three authors to write a short piece inspired by this year’s Maine Lit Fest theme - “responding to the moment” - then commissioned three artists to reinterpret their work visually, for publication in a limited-run reWorks zine!...
Word, Blue Hill’s literary arts festival, is October 22-25, featuring short-story writers Ben Shattuck and Kelly Link, “Art Thief” biographer Michelle Young, poetry, art, dance, children’s programming, recording of your local histories. Register for workshops in fiction, poetry, historical writing, screenwriting, blogging, dungeon mastering for teens. Information: www.wordfestival.org or 207-374-5632.
Wallace Shawn’s “Aunt Dan and Lemon,” directed by Belfast’s Zafra Whitcomb, follows a young woman, Lemon, and her charismatic mentor, Aunt Dan, whose stories of glamour, comfort, and admiration for powerful men slowly reveal how ordinary people come to accept cruelty and hand their allegiance to strongmen. Written forty years ago, it feels like it...
A good story can reach people in ways arguments can’t. Theater lets us sit with hard questions together and then talk about them, and it brings people into the room who might never come to a meeting. Wallace Shawn’s “Aunt Dan and Lemon,” directed by Belfast’s Zafra Whitcomb, follows a young woman, Lemon, and her...
You are invited to join Camden Public Library's Tuesday Morning Book Club! The book club meets in the Picker Room on the first Tuesday of each month at 10:00 AM. For the next meeting on Tuesday, November 3, the book club will discuss "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy. If you would like to join...
Come share your poetry in a supportive environment! The Camden Public Library Poets’ Corner meets the second and fourth Tuesday of every month from 10:00 am to 11:30 am in the Picker Room. The group is a chapter of the long running program at the Rockport and Thomaston public libraries. At each session, participants share...
You’re invited to join us for a book discussion of 1776 by David McCullough, with Camden Public Library's director Kristy Kilfoyle! The discussion will take place on Thursday, November 19 at 6:30 PM. Participants will receive a free copy of this landmark book! Registration is required. Register for this event on the Camden Public Library...