May 18 Saturday
The Lewiston Public Library will be offering drop-in Preschool Playdates on Thursdays from 3-5pm and from 10:30am-12:30pm on Saturdays in the Children’s program room.
Drop-in and join us for Preschool Playdates! Preschoolers and their families are invited to stop in during our Preschool Playdates to engage in imaginative play and build friendships. A variety of toys, games, and crafts, including a play tent with felt campfire, will be available during all sessions. The programs will take place in the Children’s Program Room on the 3rd floor.
The programs are free and there is no registration required. All families with children between the ages of 2-6 are welcome to attend. Siblings are also welcome.
The Lewiston Public Library is located downtown at 200 Lisbon Street at the corner of Pine Street. For more information on children’s programming contact the Children’s Department at 513-3133 or LPLKids@lewistonmaine.gov.
Join Kathie Pratt and work in clay to create a nature-themed bas relief that you’ll be able to complete and take home that day.
Artists create a bas-relief by sculpting onto a 2-D plane to create and accentuate figures and objects, producing a 3-D appearance. We’ll be using polymer clay and baking it off, then painting it. Then, students will be shaping them around glass jars to make a decorative container.
Class size is limited & registration is required.
K-12 Wiscasset public schools' art students get to showcase their art work alongside their art teachers' paintings in the historic Maine Art Gallery, which itself was once a school. The students' work offers both abstract and representational interpretations from their surroundings and life experience in Maine with exciting results, often bold in color and design. A show not to be missed
Maine artist Russ Cox presents new works that pull you in close, and then pull you even deeper.
Cox’s oil paintings evoke the sensory feeling associated with place, nature and experience. Works evolve from a process of applying layer upon layer with multiple glazes to create movement, translucency and depth. These works are deeply meditative, becoming more complex as they unfold.
Join us as we celebrate Russ Cox’s new works and step deeper into his visionary world.
A full catalog of works available. We are happy to arrange private showings and studio tours. All are welcome.
The Legacy of Mentors Art Exhibit opens at the Maine Art Gallery with a reception on May 4 from 5-7 pm and continues on Thursdays-Sundays from 11am-4pm until June 9th. Free and open to the public, the two-floor gallery showcases artists as mentors to their students and represents the founding members of the gallery with their students' work from the 50's and 60's. The first floor gallery exhibits juried current members' work describing their own mentors' influence in their paintings. For more details go to www,maineartgallerywiscasset.org.
The Benton Alewife Festival is a free community event celebrating the annual return of the alewives to the Sebasticook River. This event includes live music with the Oystermen, free food including hot dogs, samples of smoked alewives, arts & craft projects, face painting, demonstrations and information from the Kennebec-Messalonskee Trails group, Sebasticook Regional Land Trust, Ken Hamilton Living History, the Benton Historical Society, the St. Joseph Nature Sanctuary, Maine Rivers, commercial alewive harvesters, local beekeeper, wood carver, Forest Rangers from the Maine Forest Service, and much more! This event will take place rain or shine!
SpringFest is a free, activity and entertainment-packed celebration in South Portland's Mill Creek Park that's perfect for the young and young at heart—For The Love of Community!
FREE Non-Stop Entertainment • Tons of kids activities • Massive cornhole tournament • Mike Rich graffiti mural project • Daniel Freedman's No Bad Art Project • Dee Dee's legendary gnome hat decoration station! • Touch-A-Truck • local organizations • Live music all day, featuring Don Campbell, the Hadacol Bouncers, Owen Howes and the Evening Call, The Flukes, and KindKids • Plus the Ocean Street pay-as-you-go Food Truck Takeover.
SpringFest 2024 starts Friday, May 17, at 6 PM at the Redbank neighborhood community center. The big event starts at 11 AM on Saturday, May 18, in and around Mill Creek Park. Everyone is welcome to contribute their vision and voice to SpringFest. For The Love of Community!
Huzzah! is the annual wargaming convention hosted by the Maine Historical Wargamers Association.
Huzzah goes Hollywood! Lights, camera, action!.. Hollywood has produced a lot of movies depicting memorable battles, historic dramas, science fiction epics, and great fantasy storytelling. And it’s not just movies. Television shows, streaming shows, old movie serials….even radio dramas all combine to make for some great tabletop gaming ideas. Become a gladiator (I am Spartacus!) like Kirk Douglas or Command the Russians at Borodino (War and Peace). Defend Little Round Top (Gettysburg) or defend a crossroads in the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge). Explore Dwarf mines (You shall not pass!) or command a mighty starship (Khan!!!!!!). The opportunities are only limited by your imagination.
Game Masters will be asked to indicate on submission whether their game is a themed game. All themed games will compete for best of convention and our new HUZZAH trophy. We will of course still award prizes for best of each session.
Started in 2010, Huzzah! has continued to grow, thanks to a terrific group of dedicated and interesting people from Maine, and across New England (and even a few from beyond!). We could not have had such fun without the support of the game masters, players, vendors, and clubs throughout the region.
Love beachcombing? Come explore the shore below the Historical Society and learn about the intertidal zone while making artwork using the shells, driftwood, sea glass, and beachstones you find. Whether you prefer elegant or whimsical designs, you can make images using only your camera phone. Jenn will answer your questions about the animals, plants, and history of the Bar Harbor waterfront, demonstrate simple photo-editing apps to use on your phone, help you share your work on social media, and print out one of your photos to take home. This is a low-tech class that anyone can enjoy. The class is best suited for people 14 and older, and able to climb down a small hill to the beach. Be prepared to walk at the edge of the surf in the low tide.