Community Calendar

In the midst of a tornado there is a still, peaceful center. Spend four days with Khenmo Drolma at Pilgrim Lodge discovering how to return home to your inherent peaceful heart/mind. Khenmo will offer classic meditation and mindfulness training in a beautiful lakeside setting. You will learn skills to navigate the chaos of life while dwelling in calmness, replete with resilience and authentic joy. This is the home that nourishes you and brings great benefit in all your relationships.

You will learn:

Calm abiding meditation
Exercises to decrease reactivity
Techniques to increase gratitude and compassion

Third Thursdays
In person drawing game nights at ArtWaves MDI!
Stuck in a rut?
Don't have any ideas for new work?
Want to try out new styles without commitment?
Just want to get out of the house???
Roll the dice!
Spin the wheel!
Pick a card!!
Let the game choose your topics, compete against yourself, and enjoy the company of your community!
BYOSnacks!
Free to attend, or you can donate at registration if you'd like to support ArtWaves.

A pur-fect combination... Tarot Card Readings and kitties. For those who want more than just a pet... professional readings will be provided by Healing with Hannah. Come enjoy a night with a mystical vibe.
Space is limited to 10 people.

If you're a community member eager to keep on learning as the years go by, check out the Belfast Senior College’s fall semester schedule. With eighteen courses to choose from, there's something for everyone, from hands-on learning, to discussions and lectures. There's no tests, no homework and opportunities to interact with other learners. Registration opens on Tuesday, September 2, and classes start on September 22. Belfast Senior College (BSC) welcomes all who are ages 50 and over to become a member to enjoy this community of learners.

An amazing and sustainable material to work with, tin is filled with color, patterns and imagery that’s just perfect for making into moons, hearts, hands, eyes, clouds, feathers and other ancient symbols of protection and good fortune.

In this class you will be presented with hundreds of pieces of tin that have been pre-cut into a variety of shapes and you'll have the opportunity to create your own in order to begin building your very own protective wall talisman.

Students will each make one talisman and leave the class with all the knowledge they would need to work with tin on their own.

Celebrate the changing seasons with a weekend ride through crisp air, quiet trails, and early autumn color. As summer fades and fall takes hold, you'll explore remote gravel bike trails by day and gather fireside by night. With a mix of skill-building sessions, scenic group rides, and seasonal lodge comforts, this weekend is all about slowing down and connecting with the land.

In this 4-hour mini workshop, we will build confidence in sculpting through hot torch safety and use and a variety of mark making techniques including surface manipulation, stringer drawing, and bit work. We will also explore sculpture punties/blow punties as the finishing touch to bring your sculptural ideas to life! Blow hose included in cost of class!

Participants must have completed Glassblowing 1 & 2 at Waterfall Arts or the equivalent to register for this workshop.

Instructor: Jessica See received her BS in glass art from Illinois State University and continued on to teach and work in glass studios in North Carolina and Oklahoma. Having fallen in love with the dichotomy of fluid molten glass and rigid cold glass, her work consists mostly of soft sculptural forms with a playful and often cartoony twist.

Join us at the Nature Center for a morning avian photoshoot. Professional photographer L’aura Bradford will provide tips for bird photography, including: lens choice, camera settings, composition, photographing birds in flight, perches, feeder setup, and ethics of backyard bird photography. Throughout the class, we’ll emphasize responsible practices for photographing birds at home and in the field. Please bring whatever camera you have (yes, cell phone cameras too). Group size is limited, pre-registration is required.

Bring your camera, your curiosity, and a love for feathered visitors!

NOTE: These are individual events and you must register for each date you want to attend.

Instructor: L’aura Lee Bradford is a wildlife and landscape photographer. She is also a Registered Maine Guide leading photo tours and workshops that help people connect with nature through the lens – whether capturing morning mist over Acadia or the soulful gaze of a moose at dusk. With over a decade of experience, L’aura brings a deep knowledge of both photography and Maine’s wild places to every outing.

She’s a passionate advocate for ethical photography, always putting the wellbeing of wildlife first. Her tours emphasize fieldcraft and thoughtful composition, taking people to beautiful places while helping them create images that reflect both the place and the experience of being there.

In this beginner’s class, participants will learn all of the techniques used in making a full sized, copper foiled stained glass panel, but in a smaller context. Participants choose one of 6 introductory projects. Steps include pattern cutting, glass selection and cutting, grinding, foiling, soldering, and finishing with patina and wax. Please bring a packed lunch.

About the Instructors: Dave and Lisa Roy have been stained glass artisans for over 20 years. For 10 years, they owned and operated a full service stained glass studio in Bucksport. Their work can be seen in hospitals, churches, and many private residences across the world. You can see more of their work at www.stubborncowglass.com

Time to make some art and spend time with kitties! This event is open to ages 6 and older - supplies will be provided to work on various cat themed projects, or bring one from home you'd like to finish up. Be inspired by a room full of cats while you have fun getting creative...