Community Calendar

Portland--Come Light The World!
Have you ever bought a goat from a vending machine? How about warm clothing for a child, groceries for a family, or job training for the underemployed?

This year Portland will have that chance. From November 20 to December 10 visitors at The Maine Mall can purchase essential items like from The Light the World Giving Machine to help those in need in Maine and throughout the world.

The nonprofits featured in the South Portland Giving Machines include: Catholic Charities; Furniture Friends; Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine; Ronald McDonald House Charities Maine and Through These Doors.

Join us for a chance to put your best illustrated foot forward this winter! You can also wear your custom-designed sneakers during the Falmouth Memorial Library's Ugly Sweater Road Race on Saturday December 6. Celebrated Maine artist Eamon White is known for emblazoning sports shoes with imagery meaningful to the wearer, including a line of footwear designed for the New England Patriots! Join Eamon as he shares his passion for creating one-of-a-kind custom footwear and discusses the digital techniques behind his powerful imagery. Workshop participants will follow Eamon's technique using paint markers on a pair of their own white or light-colored shoes. You won't want to miss this second program in the Illustration Institute Great Slate of Programming series!

This workshop is designed for children in middle and high school, but all ages are welcome. Registration is required; space is limited. Please bring a pair of your own shoes or sneakers, we will provide the paint markers. Register at https://falmouth.librarycalendar.com/event/IIWhite

About Eamon White
Eamon White is a Portland, Maine based artist and graduate of Merrimack College with a degree in digital design. Inspired and taught in painting by his grandmother since childhood, art has become a way for Eamon to encourage people to think about what is happening in our world and highlight social issues in a way aimed at inspiring unity and togetherness. Eamon’s art takes many forms including graphic design and customized hand painted shoes and athletic footwear for major NFL, MBL and NBA teams including the Boston Celtics, New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox! In addition to being an artist, Eamon enjoys his work as an educator, coach, and youth advocate in his home state. Learn more about Eamon White at his website https://www.bigeimages.com/.

Add a little spice to your game! A fun event for the whole family. Bring your favorite game to share with others, or use one of the many games, or decks of cards we have in the Lounge. A night for gamers to gather and mingle while spending some quality time with our adoptable kitties.

Mattie Rose Templeton is inspired by the natural world, and through art she explores our connection to nature, including the undeniable fragility that is found there. Her goal is to produce art that moves the viewer beyond the piece itself, and into a place of storytelling. “Art has always been a way to record history through visual storytelling,” she says.

Using an “old-fashioned” ink well, with variously sized nibs, Mattie Rose works with texture and line, often avoiding the use of color, because she finds the contrast of black and white more dramatic. She adds a conceptual quality to her art with geometric shapes and patterns layered into an otherwise realistic piece.

Mattie Rose will be at the Wendell Gilley Museum in person to share her storytelling as the museum’s People-Nature-Art presenter for December on Tuesday, Dec. 2. There will be a 6 p.m. artist’s reception followed by her presentation at 7 p.m. which will happen in person and simultaneously livecast. Both in-person and online attendance is free, but registration is required at www.wendellgilleymuseum.org/calendar.

Mattie Rose is a self-taught artist whose work is now carried in more than 75 stores in New England and beyond. She was born and raised in rural Maine, and lived off the grid with her parents and three siblings. She credits this lifestyle as the foundation of the blooming of her vivid imagination.

Now she can often be found sitting in front of a big window, pen in hand, looking out at the beautiful mountains of Grafton Notch from her own off-grid home. She has published a children’s book in collaboration with the Appalachian Mountain Club and is working on a second one. During the summer she participates in many multi-day art fairs in Maine and New Hampshire; year-round she makes art, is a mom to two young children, and works the land around her home.

People-Nature-Art is a free monthly series that brings artists, writers, carvers, and creative types of all kinds to the Gilley to explore how nature and art interact in their work, and how their art impacts their own approach to nature. It is sponsored by our friends at Bar Harbor Bank & Trust.

Zack Klyver, Marine Mammal Scientist, Educator, and Conservationist. Advisor and Consultant, Blue Green Future. President, FLUKES: International Whale Tours will present Cashes Ledge; The Yellowstone of the North Atlantic. In July 2024, Conservation Law Foundation submitted nomination papers to NOAA to create a Cashes Ledge National Marine Sanctuary. The proposed sanctuary is 766 square miles in size with 194 miles being completed protected. It would encompass the underwater mountain range, ledges, ridges, and surrounding deep water basins. This massive range of ledges creates upwellings of cold nutrient-rich water that fuel an explosion of plankton, that feed herring, squid, and mackerel, who in turn are prey for tuna, sharks, seabirds, and a high diversity of marine mammals. Cashes holds the deepest and densest kelp forest on the Eastern Seaboard and an environment abounding in fish including a red-colored cod and exceptional benthic life. Research and Whale tours have observed Basking sharks, ocean sunfish, finback whales, 51 species of birds, a large Leatherback Sea Turtle and an exuberant pod of nearly 100 Common Bottlenose dolphins.

Join us on Wednesday, December 3, at SPACE Gallery in Portland for the FINAL performance of MIO’s 2025 “Broken Clock” tour! This show features the PREMIERE of MIO’s NEW film, a theater performance, and dialogue with the performers.
Doors open at 6:30. Performance at 7:00pm.

“Broken Clock” is an original play about incarceration, gun violence, grief, family, trust, and time. “Broken Clock” takes place at the moment the clock breaks, where the separation between audience and performer dissolves, and we are here to meet ourselves and each other on a deeper level. Through film, theater, reflection, and dialogue, “Broken Clock” brings us together for challenging conversation and action. What are you dreaming for?

Ticket Fee: $10-25 suggested donation FREE community tickets available
Reserve in advance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1923298751339

Join us for the Chamber's largest fundraiser!

Donate a basket of at least $50 in value to be raffled off to the lucky winner. Or buy tickets for a chance to win!

Winners chosen at random and do not need to be present to win.

November 11 - December 13

Tuesday-Friday 9-4:30pm

with two Saturdays Dec. 6 and 13, 10-1pm

Tickets

$1 each, 3/$2, or 10/$5

drawing held on Dec. 13

Join us in practicing gratitude this holiday season! Show kindness and gratitude in big and small ways in the community to be entered into a drawing for a Falmouth Memorial Library bookbag! Here's how it works: Pick up a Gratitude Challenge booklet at the library. Fill out your name and phone number, and use the inspiration ideas in the middle to show gratitude around your community. Return the booklet to the Falmouth Memorial Library by December 30. We will draw a winner on January 2 and contact them to pick up a free library bookbag!

Join the Lewiston Public Library for Baby Sensory Playtime in the Children’s Department every Thursday* morning from 10am to 12pm, starting September 5th, 2024.
*(The Library will be closed on Thursday, 11/27 in observance of Thanksgiving & on Thursday, 12/25 in observance of Christmas)

Drop-in and join us for Baby Sensory Playtime! Babies and their caregivers will have the opportunity to interact with a variety of sensory toys and socialize with other families with young children.

Playtime with sensory toys contributes to a baby’s cognitive development, fine motor skills, social and emotional development, creativity, and language development.

Recommended for babies ages birth-18 months and their caregivers. Siblings are always welcome. This program is free, open to the public and no registration is required.

The Lewiston Public Library is located downtown at 200 Lisbon Street at the corner of Pine Street and Lisbon St.

More information on Children’s programs is available by contacting the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3133 or LPLKids@lewistonmaine.gov.

A weekly gathering of friends, coffee, and games, for patrons 55 and up. Don't forget to ask for your FREE cup of drip coffee or tea. A part of our Community Thursday programming.