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The moon has inspired humanity scientifically, philosophically, mathematically and poetically. This new planetarium program takes us to see the moon up close! We explore its terrain, understand its origin and learn how it has influenced us throughout human history.

The moon has inspired humanity scientifically, philosophically, mathematically and poetically. This new planetarium program takes us to see the moon up close! We explore its terrain, understand its origin and learn how it has influenced us throughout human history.

Join us the weekend of Oct 3rd at the Rockland Strand Theatre for three community screenings of CIFF 2025 festival favorites!

Friday, Oct 3rd 7:00PM

Come See Me in the Good Light

Dir. Ryan White

CIFF 2025’s opening night film, Come See Me in the Good Light, follows Maine-born spoken word poet Andrea Gibson and their partner, poet Megan Falley. Following Andrea’s terminal ovarian cancer diagnosis, these lovers take turns being one another’s strength, meeting fear and vulnerability with humor and tenderness.

Saturday, Oct 4th 5:00PM

Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong

Dir. Kaitlyn Schwalje & Alex Wolf Lewis

Winner of this year’s Fowlie Award, Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong follows the dedicated, motley crew that works day and night to keep Portland’s wastewater treatment plant running. Comedy and catastrophe meet as the team battle aging infrastructure, funding shortfalls, public apathy, PFAS “forever chemicals,” and an unending stream of putrid odors – in a valiant effort to keep the city regular.

Sunday, Oct 5th 5:00PM

Remaining Native

Dir. Paige Bethmann

Ku Stevens is a 17-year-old Native American runner training for his dream of becoming an elite collegiate athlete. As he comes of age, the memory of his great-grandfather’s 50-mile escape from an Indian boarding school connects past, present, and future, transforming Ku’s passion for running into a communal process of remembrance and healing.

BAAM at The Gem Presents The Anvil Orchestra performing a live improvisational score to The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari on Saturday, October 3rd at 7:00 pm.

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. 1920. Directed by Robert Wien

The classic German Expressionist horror film, newly scored by The Anvil Orchestra. If there ever was a film for Halloween (or any time one wants to leave the rational world far, far behind), this is it. The Anvil Orchestra’s score is atmospheric, layered with a creepy other-worldly feel that matches the extreme visuals. Performances of this film have garnered rave reviews. From the Roger Ebert Film Festival: “This is the best score you have ever done.”

Roger Clark Miller studied composition at California Institute of the Arts and piano at the University of Michigan. In 1979, he moved to Boston and co-formed Mission of Burma. Since 1980 he has released over 50 albums, ranging from the aggressive avant-punk of Burma to piano-based music of Maximum Electric Piano, The Binary System and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. His chamber music has been performed at the New England Conservatory, Tufts University, and other venues. Miller is also a conceptual/sound artist. His first art installation in this direction, “Transmuting the Prosaic”, was at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Brattleboro, VT from March 15 – October 12, 2020. He is also a visual artist utilizing Max Ernst’s Frottage technique, and has been in numerous shows.

Terry Donahue grew up in Connecticut and has long been fascinated by “found sound”. This curiosity has led him to be an integral part of Boston’s percussion scene as a founding member of the Concussion Ensemble, Alloy Orchestra, Zero Zero, and Arcade Ambo. He plucks his 4-string in country music in a country setting in his country home in Bennington, VT.

Talented musicians, composers, and arrangers, Miller and Donahue have performed individually and collectively in celebrated music and art festivals as well as preeminent cultural institutions around the globe. These include SNF Nostos Festival in Athens, Greece; IDFA in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Lincoln Center (NYC); Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Italy); The Academy of Motion Pictures (Los Angeles); The Louvre (France); The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (S.F.); MASS MoCA (Massachusetts); National Gallery of the Arts (Washington DC); The Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boston, MA); New England Conservatory of Music (Boston, MA); The Telluride Film Festival (Colorado); and All Tomorrow’s Parties (international), among others.

Social Hour at 6:00 pm

Show at 7:00 pm

“Pay What You Can Tickets” benefit BAAM.

The moon has inspired humanity scientifically, philosophically, mathematically and poetically. This new planetarium program takes us to see the moon up close! We explore its terrain, understand its origin and learn how it has influenced us throughout human history.

Join us the weekend of Oct 3rd at the Rockland Strand Theatre for three community screenings of CIFF 2025 festival favorites!

Friday, Oct 3rd 7:00PM

Come See Me in the Good Light

Dir. Ryan White

CIFF 2025’s opening night film, Come See Me in the Good Light, follows Maine-born spoken word poet Andrea Gibson and their partner, poet Megan Falley. Following Andrea’s terminal ovarian cancer diagnosis, these lovers take turns being one another’s strength, meeting fear and vulnerability with humor and tenderness.

Saturday, Oct 4th 5:00PM

Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong

Dir. Kaitlyn Schwalje & Alex Wolf Lewis

Winner of this year’s Fowlie Award, Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong follows the dedicated, motley crew that works day and night to keep Portland’s wastewater treatment plant running. Comedy and catastrophe meet as the team battle aging infrastructure, funding shortfalls, public apathy, PFAS “forever chemicals,” and an unending stream of putrid odors – in a valiant effort to keep the city regular.

Sunday, Oct 5th 5:00PM

Remaining Native

Dir. Paige Bethmann

Ku Stevens is a 17-year-old Native American runner training for his dream of becoming an elite collegiate athlete. As he comes of age, the memory of his great-grandfather’s 50-mile escape from an Indian boarding school connects past, present, and future, transforming Ku’s passion for running into a communal process of remembrance and healing.

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Sound baths are vibrational healings with tones generated by crystal sound bowls that penetrate every part of your body, unblocked by material barriers. These sacred frequencies move freely throughout your body, to assist in releasing and tuning your body back to balance, allowing your physical and energetic bodies to naturally return to a state of harmony.
During a sound bath, I implement crystal singing bowls in synchrony with guided meditation, reanchoring processes, a vintage Burmese gong, an Ocean Drum and vocal toning. The tones and songs for each event are conducted uniquely and specific to an individual or group.

I am so grateful & honored to say that I have decades of experience working with clients as a Certified Reiki, Master NLP practitioner, Timeline Therapist and Registered Dental Hygienist. Now I am adding another healing modality to my foundation as a Certified Sound Healer. It's been an extraordinary journey and I look forward to serving you.

Join us the weekend of Oct 3rd at the Rockland Strand Theatre for three community screenings of CIFF 2025 festival favorites!

Friday, Oct 3rd 7:00PM

Come See Me in the Good Light

Dir. Ryan White

CIFF 2025’s opening night film, Come See Me in the Good Light, follows Maine-born spoken word poet Andrea Gibson and their partner, poet Megan Falley. Following Andrea’s terminal ovarian cancer diagnosis, these lovers take turns being one another’s strength, meeting fear and vulnerability with humor and tenderness.

Saturday, Oct 4th 5:00PM

Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong

Dir. Kaitlyn Schwalje & Alex Wolf Lewis

Winner of this year’s Fowlie Award, Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong follows the dedicated, motley crew that works day and night to keep Portland’s wastewater treatment plant running. Comedy and catastrophe meet as the team battle aging infrastructure, funding shortfalls, public apathy, PFAS “forever chemicals,” and an unending stream of putrid odors – in a valiant effort to keep the city regular.

Sunday, Oct 5th 5:00PM

Remaining Native

Dir. Paige Bethmann

Ku Stevens is a 17-year-old Native American runner training for his dream of becoming an elite collegiate athlete. As he comes of age, the memory of his great-grandfather’s 50-mile escape from an Indian boarding school connects past, present, and future, transforming Ku’s passion for running into a communal process of remembrance and healing.

dir. Kim A. Snyder
92 min.

As an unprecedented wave of book banning largely addressing race and LGBT issues is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy. Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder (Newtown, Us Kids, 2025 Oscar®-Nominated Death By Numbers) takes us to an unexpected front line where librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy, free access to information, and our First Amendment Rights.

As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities. In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories—triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of White Christian Nationalism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work—the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.

The film will be followed by a short panel discussion and audience Q&A. The panelists include:

Beth Anderson – President, Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL)
Kelley Blue – Director of Youth Services @ PPL and chair of the Maine Library Association’s (MLA) Youth Services Interest Group
Sonya Durney – Director of Educational Initiatives at the EveryLibrary Institute, Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of New England, and Past President of MLA
Sarah Moore – Executive Director @ PPL

Join us at Skidompha Public Library for the area premiere of THE LIBRARIANS, a story told through the personal experiences of librarians and the everyday citizens who join their ranks in defense of books and what they symbolize.

THE LIBRARIANS was directed and produced by Kim A. Snyder. The film explores an unprecedented wave of book banning in Texas, Florida, and beyond, where librarians, flanked by concerned community members and young readers, join forces fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.

The film premiered at Sundance in January 2025 and was shown at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX; Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC; and the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.

The film running time is 92 minutes and will be followed by a discussion.