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.

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!

Which Stitch? is a community group where participants bring their current fiber and needle projects to work and converse with each other. Participants are welcome to use ArtWaves' supply of materials to knit, crochet, sew, mend, embroider, weave, felt, cross stitch, and so much more! Beginning instruction can be provided and the occasional special guest will introduce new techniques and demo their work.

This ongoing group maintains an email list for people interested in receiving regular updates and information. If you would like to be included, please email office@artwavesmdi.org.

Which Stitch? is a drop-in group, no registration is required. It is free for ArtWaves Members and a $5 suggested donation for non-members

Celebrating its 5th year, Sounds by the Sea began in 2021 to foster community and enjoyment of live music in our cherished park. This free, family-oriented six-week summer concert series occurs on Mondays at 6:00 pm, starting after Independence Day. Concerts rotate between the Bandstand and the Picnic Shelter, made possible by the generous support of local business sponsors.

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!

Color as Expression: Beyond Realism

Begins Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 10 AM – 1 PM | $280
Designed for artists looking to loosen up and explore the passionate potential of color, this course channels Matisse’s love of vivid, sometimes unexpected color combinations. Students will practice using brushwork and color relationships to express mood and personality in everyday subjects, moving beyond realism to discover a more personal, expressive style.

This course is designed for painters at all levels, from beginners looking to build confidence to more experienced artists eager to deepen their practice. All classes take place at Nadra Clark Gallery, 256 US-1, Scarborough, Maine.

Join the Lewiston Public Library for Baby Storytime in-person in the Children’s Department weekly on Tuesdays* from 10:15am to 11:15am.
*(The Library will be closed on Tuesday, November 11th in observance of Veterans Day.)

Recommended for children ages 0 – 3 years old and their caregivers.

Enjoy an interactive storytime with your baby that includes early literacy fun with books, songs, rhymes and body movement. Play and social time immediately follow the program.

This program is free, open to the public, and no registration is required. Siblings are always welcome.

Please stay home if you or your child are sick and not feeling well.

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

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

Ring in the New Year with Winter Harbor Music Community Opera offering 2 performances at their 4th annual New Year’s Eve Celebration, featuring Johann Strauss II’s sparkling comic opera, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) with the Downeast Chamber Orchestra. The story takes place at a Viennese New Year’s party where Dr. Falke has plotted a comical revenge. Many years earlier Gabriel von Eisenstein had abandoned Falke at a costume party, drunk in a Bat costume, to be the laughingstock of the evening. Now at the eccentric prince Orlofsky’s New Year’s party, Dr. Falke will take his revenge by orchestrating Eisenstein into similarly embarrassing situations. The action of Act II at Orlofsky’s ball will take place in the house where audience members will interact with the characters of the opera. Dress attire is encouraged but not required and attendees will be able to sing with the chorus.
Performers include Andy Boggs as Alfred, Brenna McFarland as Rosalinda, Isabel Silva as Adele, Theodore Dumas as Blind, Joshua Gurwitz as Eisenstein, Deiran Manning as Frank, Henry Horstmann as Falke, Cassandra Petrie as Orlofsky, Roland Dube as Frosch, Sonia Berghoff as Ida, and many more local artists.
The production will be directed by Winter Harbor Music Festival’s Executive Director Deiran Manning. Since the inception of the WHMF Community Opera program, Deiran has produced, directed and coached 5 operas in the region, including a fully socially distanced outdoor production of La Serva Padrona in August of 2020. His directing draws on experience working with noted directors such as Atlanta Opera Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun and noted directors Candace Evans and Garnett Bruce. His experience as a vocal coach, singer and director gives him a unique perspective into the inner workings of opera.
The Downeast Chamber Orchestra will be conducted by Michael Haigler. Mr. Haigler is a conductor of operatic, orchestral, and choral music, as well as a pianist, organist, published author and composer, and teacher. He holds a Magna cum Laude performance degree from the Eastman School of Music where he studied conducting with David Effron and Donald Hunsberger and is an alumnus of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the International Fine Arts Institute in Moscow.
He currently serves as Music Director at Christ Church in Oyster Bay, Long Island, home to the Christ Church Festival Orchestra with which he has conducted requiems by Mozart, Fauré, Brahms, and Rutter, and symphonies such as Mendelssohn’s Italian, Beethoven’s Ninth, and Mahler’s Resurrection (complete). Mr. Haigler also holds positions as Artistic Director of the Hudson Valley Chorale, Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master at the Bronx Opera, and co-director of Pianos on the Point, a new summer workshop in Vermont.
Don’t forget to toast to the New Year, enjoy the annual paper mache lobster drop and celebrate with the performers.

🎆 Ring in 2026 at House in the Woods! 🇺🇸✨
Join us as we celebrate 250 Years of Freedom and welcome the New Year surrounded by friends, laughter, and purpose!

Are you looking for a fun, adult-only, alcohol-free way to spend New Year’s Eve? This is your chance to be part of our FIRST-EVER New Year’s Eve Celebration at House in the Woods Military & Family Retreat in Lee, Maine!

🔥 Bonfire & Fireworks Show at 5 p.m.
🎶 Live Entertainment & Music
🍽️ Great Food & Refreshing Mocktails
🎲 Games, Prizes & Fun Activities
💙 Meaningful Connections with Fellow Patriots

📅 Wednesday, December 31, 2025 | 5 p.m. – 1 a.m.
📍 House in the Woods, 217 Skunk Hill Rd, Lee, ME
🎟️ Open to Veterans, Military Families, and Supporters

Let’s come together to honor our nation’s Semiquincentennial (1776–2026) and celebrate new beginnings—250 years of freedom, unity, and hope.

🔥 Let’s make it a night to remember… TOGETHER WE HEAL.