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Dec 07 Sunday
Here’s a fun way to support the station and have some serious fun in the process!
Join Maine Public for a Paint and Sip Night at Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland on Sunday, December 7 at 6:00 pm.
Tickets are $45 per person and include all art supplies and a free Rising Tide drink ticket. You'll walk away with your very own masterpiece by the end of the night!
Dec 05 Friday
Maine Public is pleased to be a media sponsor of Choral Art’s Christmas at the Cathedral. Join Richard Russell and Choral Art Singers as they perform holiday pieces by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Gruber and Williams. The performance will be held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland on December 5 through 7.
Maine Public members are eligible for 15% off tickets, please use the code MainePublic15.
Dec 02 Tuesday
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.
Join us for a reading and signing from New York Times bestselling author Julia Spencer-Fleming! In Spencer-Fleming's latest novel, At Midnight Comes the Cry, as Christmas approaches, five people will discover their suspicions hang on a single twisting thread, leading to the forbidding High Peaks of the Adirondacks. As the December days shorten and the nights grow long, a disparate group of would-be heroes need to unwind a murderous plot before time runs out.
Dec 03 Wednesday
The Rockport Public Library Poets’ Corner will host a celebration of the second volume of the Midcoast Poetry Journal on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 6 p.m. in the lower level of the Rockport Public Library. The new volume is a collection of poems by nearly fifty Midcoast poets. The public is invited to enjoy readings by the contributing poets followed by an open mic.
Copies of the journal will be available for purchase at the event (just in time for the holidays)! More information about the Journal and to find details about other poetry happenings in the midcoast, visit midcoastpoetrycalendar.com.
An evening online with writers reading from Littoral Books' newest fiction anthology Positivity Bias: Maine Writers, Defiantly Happy Endings. Join the discussion about the diversity of views on the nature of positive outcomes and what a happy ending means.
Dec 06 Saturday
Saturday, December 6, 9:30 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. “Kittybunkport” Christmas with Author Scott Rothman, Reading of “Kittybunkport” by best-selling author Scott Rothman. Books will be available for sale and signing. Space is limited for each time slot. To register, please call 207-967-2778. Free storytime event!
Saturday, December 6, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Kittyland! Kitty-themed fun, face painting, adopt a plush kitty, kitty ear headbands, cocoa to go, pull a whisker, photos with kitty and more! Tickets are 4 for $20. Buy your tickets and choose which activities to do. Every dollar raised goes to the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library, 18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport. For further information, please call 967-2778 or visit www.graveslibrary.org.
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Dec 08 Monday
Free and open to the public. There will be a reception at 5 P.M. with good food and drinks.
Anthony Walton is an acclaimed poet and essayist, as well as the editor and author of several books, including Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, which he co-wrote with NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Mississippi: An American Journey. In addition, Walton’s poems and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the Oxford American magazine.
For this lecture, Walton will build off the ideas in his latest book, The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation.
Walton is a professor and writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College.
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