Community Calendar

Your hips hold more than just your body - they can hold stories, emotions, and energy. Happy Hips is a two-hour workshop designed to help you open, release, and reconnect through the sacred gateway of the hips. Through intentional movement, breath, and flow, you will explore both the strength and surrender found in this powerful part of the body.

This workshop is open to all levels. Expect flow poses to warm up + connect with your body, restorative poses for deeper release + targeted hip-opening stretches to release tension + increase mobility. You will end practice with breathwork + guided awareness to support emotional release and inner calm. Come as you are. Leave feeling lighter, more open, and deeply connected to yourself.

Join us at MOFGA for a celebration of apples and the fall harvest!

This family-friendly event includes guided orchard tours, apple cider pressing, fruit-tree focused workshops, apple art-making, butter churning, seed saving, and apple pie baking. Participants enjoy a display of hundreds of heritage apple varieties as well as free apple tastings, and can connect with our Apple Identification Team — apple experts who help identify “mystery” apples! Local farmers and businesses will be on-site selling hot food, baked goods, produce, herbal remedies, and more.

Alliance Française du Maine is screening "Ama Gloria" as part of the 2025 FESTIVAL CHAMPLAIN - Maine's only French-language film festival.

"Ama Gloria" (2023, France/Cape Verde)
By Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq with Louise Mauroy-Panzani, Ilça Moreno and Arnaud Rebotini
83 minutes

Overview: Cléo is six years old, has glasses and a dad - but has lost her mother to cancer. Fortunately, there is Gloria, her nanny, who loves her and whom Cléo adores. However, Gloria's mother has also died, and she must return to her native island of Santiago in Cape Verde to care for own children Cléo is shocked, and is only cheered up by the promise that she will be able to join Gloria in her village over the summer.

Titanic is an emotionally stirring and unforgettable voyage through the final days on this “ship of dreams.” The real stories of immigrants and the privileged class entwine through a lush musical experience that garnered five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and stole the hearts of audiences.

REALLY is a play about mourning, intimacy, and the conflict between goodness and greatness as seen through the lens of photography.

Some music is hauntingly beautiful, and some is just haunting…

From the eerie and unsettling to the downright bone chilling, experience a concert of spooky, ghostly, and thrilling tunes that will send shivers down your spine. Get ready to be bewitched by guest conductor Morihiko Nakahara and your PSO in this celebration of the spookiest time of year.

Featuring:

BACH orch. STOKOWSKI: Toccata and Fugue in D minor

JOHN WILLIAMS: Devil’s Dance from “The Witches of Eastwick”

CHARLES GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette (Theme from “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”)

BERNARD HERRMANN arr. CHRIS SIDDALL: Psycho Suite

JOHN WILLIAMS: Suite from “Jaws”

EDVARD GRIEG: In the Hall of the Mountain King from “Peer Gynt”

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre, op. 40

AKIRA IFUKUBE: Main Title from “Godzilla” (from the original 1954 film)

The Alliance Française du Maine is screening "Finalement" ("Finally") as the closing film for the 2025 Festival Champlain - the only French-language film festival in Maine.

"Finalement" ("Finally") (2024, France)
By Claude Lelouch with Kad Merad, Elsa Zylberstein, Sandrine Bonnaire and Michel Boujenah
127 minutes

The latest (and possibly last) film from the legendary director Claude Lelouch. A lawyer suffering from a condition that prevents him from lying takes an epic cross-country road trip in France. What ensues is a musical fantasy blending trumpet and piano.

A free chess club open to anyone over the age of 10. All levels of experience are welcome. We have boards, but feel free to bring your own.

Join us at our weekly Local Goods Market! Celebrate local food and community while supporting small businesses! Held every Thursday from 4–7pm, the Local Goods Market features hot food, beverages, baked goods, and specialty products from Fork Food Lab members and other Maine makers. The weekly event offers the community a chance to support local businesses, discover new favorites, and connect directly with the entrepreneurs shaping the future of Maine’s food economy. The market features free & easy parking and a great community. Shop small and be part of something big!

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen in South Portland, Maine that’s home to over 80 small businesses. Our mission is to support a just, diverse, and sustainable food economy by empowering food entrepreneurs with the space, resources, and community they need to thrive. Learn more at www.forkfoodlab.com

Come see our gifted faculty play music by Rachmaninov, faculty member John Mehrmann, Debussy, Schumann and more. Sixteen faculty members will perform. FREE, with donations to the Music School Scholarship Fund accepted at the door. For more information, go to https://tinyurl.com/bcfaulty.