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Serving Midcoast,
Downeast & Central Maine
A Voice of Many Voices
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A discussion space to share, listen and support each other while acknowledging differing experiences, facilitated by Downeast Restorative Justice. Upcoming topics: JULY 9: Grief; how does our culture make space or not for grief? How do we process grief in community? AUG 13: Affordability; in what ways is our community affordable, or not? Are there...
Maine's Still Reading features 50 new portraits by photographer Buddy Doyle, capturing Mainers of all backgrounds curled up with their latest read in Adirondack chairs by the water, porch hammocks and armchairs in front of the fire. Each portrait includes original reflections from the readers themselves, sharing not just where they read, but why these...
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...
A free performance by internationally-touring singer/songwriter Caroline Cotter. Cotter’s sunlit songs honor the countless ways of being human. With her honeyed voice and disarmingly honest lyrics, Cotter sings about connection, nostalgia, gratitude, loss and wanderlust. Under the Radar magazine says her music, “brings forth an abiding sense of warmth and welcome, offering an uplifting reminder...
A discussion space to share, listen and support each other while acknowledging differing experiences, facilitated by Downeast Restorative Justice. Upcoming topics: JULY 9: Grief; how does our culture make space or not for grief? How do we process grief in community? AUG 13: Affordability; in what ways is our community affordable, or not? Are there...
Pianist, composer, and Berklee professor Laszlo Gardony will perform a free-to-attend jazz performance featuring original compositions and reimagined standards. Gardony is a winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and has been celebrated in a number of publications including the New York Times and DownBeat Magazine's "Best of the Year" list. Registration is required:...
Mike Coffin, PhD. will present the evidence and likely causes of Earth’s five mass extinction events over its ~4.5 billion year history, and share the measurements that suggest a sixth may now be underway. Registration is required: https://nehlibrary.libcal.com/event/16634348 After growing up in Bangor, Mike Coffin was educated at Dartmouth College (AB) and Columbia University (MA,...
A discussion space to share, listen and support each other while acknowledging differing experiences, facilitated by Downeast Restorative Justice. Upcoming topics: JULY 9: Grief; how does our culture make space or not for grief? How do we process grief in community? AUG 13: Affordability; in what ways is our community affordable, or not? Are there...
A free performance by contemporary classical pianist Danny Holt. Holt explores intersection of classical music with rock, pop, and jazz in an eclectic program of works he's selected specifically for the library's vintage Mason & Hamlin piano.
In 2003, eight young Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all its inhabitants – a personal expression...
Experience the wonder of collaborative art making! Come create large-scale tape murals all over the library walls with Leah Smith and Michael Townsend from Tape Art, a 37 year international community arts project. Using low-adhesive blue tape, you’ll contribute to a temporary installation with the library interior as a canvas. All materials provided. This multi-generational...
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!...