May 16 Thursday
Join in the fun and register your team for a 2024 News & Brews Trivia night!
Team check-in starts at 5:30pm. Trivia starts at 6:00pm!
*Note that we can’t accept teams with more than 5 players.
Click HERE to see the full 2024 News & Brews schedule!
May 22 Wednesday
Gillian Burnes will discuss the book Soft Features with host Bill Nemitz on Wednesday, May 22nd at 7:00 PM.
Click HERE to join the virtual meeting
Do you love books? Are you interested in hearing from the author and looking behind the curtain at what the author was thinking while writing? Perhaps have the author respond to a question or two that has been on your mind about a particular scene or character. Look no further than the Maine Public Book Club!
Click HERE to join the book club and receive information about book club news & events!
May 30 Thursday
May 08 Wednesday
We are inviting all ages to come to the Lewiston Public Library and create your own artwork inspired by Where Are You From? by author Yamile Saied Méndez for the 4th annual Lewiston/Auburn Community Read.
The Community Read initiative is in partnership with the Lewiston and Auburn Public Schools and the City of Lewiston.
This initiative would not be possible this year without the support and sponsorship from The Friends of the Lewiston Public Library.
We are celebrating art since this year’s community read is a picture book. We are inviting all ages to come to the Lewiston Public Library and create your own artwork inspired by Where Are You From? by author Yamile Saied Méndez.
All artwork will then be displayed at the Community Art Exhibition in Callahan Hall on Saturday, May 11th at 11am.
Come and see your artwork among many others from both cities along with art displays from each of the Lewiston Public Elementary schools.
To participate, visit Callahan Hall during the open hours listed below to create your own watercolor painting or clay sculpture.
• Monday, May 6th and Tuesday, May 7th3:00PM – 6:30PM • Wednesday, May 8th and Thursday, May 9th 9:30AM – 1:30PM
Along with your artwork submission, indicate where you are from on the world map and add your chosen piece of yarn to the loom where we will be creating our very own Lewiston/Auburn woven tapestry.
This program is free and open to the public. There is no registration and all art supplies will be provided.
To learn more about the initiative and related programs at the Lewiston Public Library, visit https://lplonline.org/events/2024-la-read/ or contact the Children's Department at 207-513-3133 or LPLKids@lewistonmaine.gov
If you are in or around Portland, Maine in May stop by Richard Boyd Art Gallery to see a great annual exhibition of original oil paintings. Relax while viewing a selection of paintings in a variety of styles including traditional realism and impressionism, created en plein air and in studio settings.
The exhibit is comprised of a select offering of paintings including exquisitely detailed maritime paintings and rich pointillist style landscape paintings, by established and nationally renowned artists’ CR Bryant, Patricia Chandler, Carrin Culotta, Kevin Daley, and HM Saffer II.
Although each artist has their own style and approach to using the medium they are joined by a passion – painting with oils. The exhibit is open free of charge from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily from May 2nd through May 30th, 2024.
For more information about the exhibit contact the gallery by phone (207)-712-1097, email mailto:info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website www.richardboydartgallery.com .
For exhibit updates follow the gallery on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery and on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/richardboydartgallery9327 .
Image of Steamer Vashon at Three Tree Point Puget Sound a 30" x 40" oil on canvas maritime painting by CR Bryant.
Weekly Farmers Market in Waterville Maine. We have 20 plus vendors selling fresh, seasonal vegetables, baked goods, cheese, eggs, meat, maple syrup, seedlings/plants, herbs, and crafts! Music most weeks too and the Children's Discovery Museum comes most weeks with activities for kids.
Discover Girl Scout summer camps! Families and girls in grades 4-8 are invited to join us for an event filled with fun activities and a sneak peek into camp life. From mastering outdoor skills to exploring crafts and STEM, get a taste of the excitement that awaits at our overnight camps.
Let this event kick-off your summer of adventure, friendship, and fun! Open to both Girl Scouts and non-members alike, no experience necessary. Don’t miss out on the chance to make this summer unforgettable!
Can’t join us? No problem! Visit our website to explore our camp offerings and ignite your summer adventure: https://bit.ly/gsmecamp.
Calling all Pre-K* to 3rd grade families!
You're invited to see what Girl Scouts has to offer—and have some fun with our Pollinator and Friends! Girl Scouts can be themselves, have fun with friends, and change the world—all in an inclusive and safe environment.
During the event, we will:• Provide two FREE hands-on activities to sample our program pillars (STEM, Outdoors, Entrepreneurship, and Life Skills)• Discuss ways to participate, including: o Join as an individually registered Girl Scout. o Join an existing troop in your community. o Starting a new troop—we'll help you succeed!• Answer your questions and provide details on how to get started.
*Girls entering kindergarten in the fall of 2024 can join starting April 1st.
Wednesday, May 8, 5:30 PM. Planting for Climate Resilience. Together with our Friends of Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, we are very excited to be hosting members of the Wild Seed Project. In addition to helping to sustain vital pollinators, birds, and other wildlife, native plantings offer countless other benefits that are indispensable in the age of climate change. When created and maintained with ecologically attuned landscaping practices, they can minimize flooding and storm water runoff, shade and cool cities, survive droughts, and facilitate carbon storage more effectively than the landscapes dominated by turf and mulch that blanket so many of our communities. Andrea Berry from the Wild Seed Project will talk about the actions you can take to make your corner of the world more biodiverse and resilient to the effects of climate change. Andrea joined Wild Seed Project as the organization’s Executive Director in 2021. She also serves on the Board of Directors at Momentum Conservation and Resources for Organizing and Social Change. Copies of the publication "Planting for Climate Resilience" will be available for sale. The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is located at 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit our website at www.graveslibrary.org.
Local author Martha Tod Dudman will discuss her latest novel, Sunrise and the Real World (2023), at the Ellsworth Public Library on May 8 at 5:30 PM. This is a free and open-to-the-public event. Books will be available for purchase and signing, cash or check only. Please register: 207.667.6363 or info@ellsworthlibrary.net.
As May marks Mental Health Awareness Month, this event serves as an opportunity to not only highlight current works of literature that are set in Maine but also to engage in meaningful conversations about mental health and well-being within our community.
Sunrise and the Real World is a twisty, character-driven coming-of-age mystery partially set at Sunrise Academy, a camp for troubled teenagers in the 1980s. Lorraine, the protagonist of this story and camp staff member quickly finds herself absorbed in a world very distant from the idyllic lobsters-and-lighthouses fairy tale she had always associated with Maine. Years later, disheartened and battered by life, Lorraine is unexpectedly drawn back to that world to confront the person she was, the choices she made, and the bitter ghosts that still haunt her.
Seated and walking meditation, followed by a short teaching, sharing the wisdom of ancient and contemporary Zen Masters.