Community Calendar

🧠✨ Summon your wits and rally your fellowship… Trivia Night approaches! Do you have what it takes to win the battle? Topics include board games, movies, music and so much more!

🏆 1st & 2nd Place Prizes!
📅 Sunday, July 27th
🕰️ 5PM
💰 $10 per team | max 4 people

☕ Come early for snacks and sips. Stay late for the bragging rights.

Game night, every Sunday in Surry. We play new & old board games, card games, dice games, word games, tile games, team games... bring your favorites! Everyone welcome.

$2/person goes to the community center.

Foraging wild mushrooms for food and medicine is a great past time but carries the risk of becoming sick from eating the wrong mushrooms or preparing them improperly. New England is seeing an increase in poisoning cases as a result of the significant increase in novices seeking and eating mushrooms without being fully aware of the risk.

This talk will review the common poisonous mushrooms sometimes confused with edibles as well as the range of toxins in New England mushrooms. Guidelines for foragers will be presented; the goal is ensuring safety while eating wonderful wild mushrooms.

Greg Marley is a wild mushroom expert teaching foraging skills across New England. He has consulted with Poison Centers across New England for more than 2 decades as an identification and content expert.

This workshop is for those who have an iOS mobile device, or are considering getting one, and want to learn more about the basic functions. It will support attendees in getting connected, identifying common apps, and building confidence in using their device safely.

This class will take place in the Computer Lab (2nd floor) at the Auburn Public Library. Registration is required; register using the form on our website or contact the Reference Desk at 207-333-6640, ext. 4.

Every Tuesday and Wednesday through August, Maine Seacoast Mission welcomes the public to enjoy its new high- and low-ropes challenge course! Located at the Mission Downeast Campus at 6 Weald Bethel Lane in Cherryfield, the course will be open from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on August 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, and 27. This event is free and open to all ages.

For all ages, individuals and families can experience the course with the Mission's trained and experienced staff. Featuring high and low elements, the Mission’s outdoor course offers a combination of horizontal challenges and vertical challenges using wood beams, poles, ropes, and cables. The Mission’s challenge course serves the organization’s education and community engagement programs as well as service tour volunteers in the Mission’s Housing Improvement program.

“When an adult or child tries our challenge course, it is more than an opportunity to have fun in a safe environment” says Downeast Director Jenny Jones, “Participants also get to test their own perceived limits and work collaboratively with the folks who are also enjoying the course and staff who operate the course.”

Helmets, harnesses, and ropes are provided by the Mission as well as course-trained staff. Closed-toe shoes are required to participate. Crocs footwear is not allowed. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

Please direct questions to Community Engagement Coordinator Kaysie Logan at klogan@seacoastmission.org or call (207) 546-4466.

UNE Psychology Professor Julie Peterson will lead a conversation focused on The Hidden Psychology of Connection: Understanding the Invisible Forces that Guide How we Give, Receive and Avoid Intimacy in Relationships. UNE's Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences is launching a series of Science Cafes, featuring brief and engaging presentations geared towards the public, folllowed by an open discussion with participants in which the public can dive deep with our experts on the implications of our research.

Wednesday, August 20th from 10AM-5PM. Part of the Plein Air Art Festival (Visit https://artascope.org/artascope-plein-air-art-festival for the full festival schedule).

Learn how to utilize color harmonies to create mood in your plein air paintings with artist Catherine Bickford.

Mystery is one of the most important aspects of any painting and color is often the easiest way to create it. Color can translate your areas of interest to the viewer directly. It is common to make the mistake of painting right over the best color compositions in an effort to "finish" the painting. In this class we will slow down, stay loose, and use color with intention and to create dramatic results.

Color mixing is an enjoyable process and a skill that requires practice. In this class we will learn how to use six basic colors (Cadmium Red, Quinacidrone Magenta, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Yellow Light, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue and Titanium White) to create almost any color.

The focus will be on learning complementary and harmonious color schemes. Mystery is the most important aspect of any painting and color is often the easiest waya to create it. Color can translate your areas of interest to the viewer directly and we often paint right over the best color compositions. In this class we will slow down and use color with more intention and to more dramatic result.

Please bring your materials, as well as your easel set up for painting outside. If you do not have the materials shown under the description at our Eventbrite URL for this workshop, just bring what you have. If you prefer to work with oil, that is fine, too. I personally work with an acrylic ground and oil on top.

Meet at Artascope Studios in Yarmouth at 9:45AM

There will be a lunch break from 1pm-2pm. You can bring your own lunch or check out one of the local restaurants in Yarmouth.

Workshop fee: $149.

Wednesday, August 20th from 10AM-5PM. Part of the Plein Air Art Festival (Visit https://artascope.org/artascope-plein-air-art-festival for the full festival schedule).

Learn how to utilize color harmonies to create mood in your plein air paintings with artist Catherine Bickford.

Mystery is one of the most important aspects of any painting and color is often the easiest way to create it. Color can translate your areas of interest to the viewer directly. It is common to make the mistake of painting right over the best color compositions in an effort to "finish" the painting. In this class we will slow down, stay loose, and use color with intention and to create dramatic results.

Color mixing is an enjoyable process and a skill that requires practice. In this class we will learn how to use six basic colors (Cadmium Red, Quinacidrone Magenta, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Yellow Light, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue and Titanium White) to create almost any color.

The focus will be on learning complementary and harmonious color schemes. Mystery is the most important aspect of any painting and color is often the easiest waya to create it. Color can translate your areas of interest to the viewer directly and we often paint right over the best color compositions. In this class we will slow down and use color with more intention and to more dramatic result.

Please bring your materials, as well as your easel set up for painting outside. If you do not have the materials shown under the description at our Eventbrite URL for this workshop, just bring what you have. If you prefer to work with oil, that is fine, too. I personally work with an acrylic ground and oil on top.

Meet at Artascope Studios in Yarmouth at 9:45AM

There will be a lunch break from 1pm-2pm. You can bring your own lunch or check out one of the local restaurants in Yarmouth.

Workshop fee: $149.

Join Friends of Merrymeeting Bay (FOMB) for a special tour of well-known Six River Farm in Bowdoinham at 4:30 on August 20th. The tour, running about an hour will be followed by FOMB’s Annual Meeting and potluck supper.

Located along the shores of Merrymeeting Bay, Six River Farm grows about 22 acres of mixed organic vegetables on approximately 40 acres that owners Nate Drummond and Gabrielle Gosselin own and or manage. The farm operates in Kennebec alluvial soils on both sides of the Abbagadasset River and besides restaurant sales, brings a wide range of organic vegetables to area farmers markets, with the addition of organic berries, cut flowers and organic seedlings in season. At the farmers markets and their farm stand on Centers Point Road, they only sell what they grow and everything from the farm is certified organic by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardiners Association (MOFGA).

For years, FOMB held their annual meeting in January combined with a potluck supper and a presentation as part of their Winter Speaker Series. Then the pandemic hit and the group switched their winter programs to a Zoom format with annual Board elections via mail-in ballots. The Zoom-based speaker series continues to work well allowing participation of FOMB members and others from anywhere in the world and so the group decided has switched their annual meeting/potluck to outside in the summer.

Pre-registration is appreciated for this event but not required. The public is welcome to the farm tour, brief annual meeting and potluck supper, all to be held at 513 Browns Pt. Rd. in Bowdoinham. Pre-register with Ed Friedman at 666-3372.

The FOMB Summer Outside! Series is the warm weather counterpart to FOMB’s popular Winter Speaker Series. Events are usually free and are open to the public. Pre-registration is required unless otherwise noted. FOMB’s next outing will be the always popular Bird Walk with Will Broussard on August 24th from 7:00-9:00 am in Dresden The Bay is home to a wide variety of habitats and birds and is designated a Globally Important Bird Area by the American Bird Conservancy. Pre-register with Ed Friedman at 666-3372.

The full Summer Outside! Series is on the web at: www.friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org

For more information about FOMB’s programs call Ed Friedman at 666-3372.

Get ready to capture the breathtaking beauty of Maine through your camera lens! We are thrilled to welcome the talented naturalist and photographer Sandra Mitchell to Fields Pond for a hands-on workshop that will inspire your creativity and deepen your appreciation for Maine’s stunning natural wonders.
Sandra, a Registered Maine Guide and Maine Master Naturalist, will guide us on an immersive journey, blending photography with the fascinating natural history of some of Maine’s most captivating phenomena. Whether you’re a seasoned photographer or just starting out, this workshop is perfect for anyone who loves nature and wants to explore the outdoors in a new and exciting way.