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October 2018
Washington Street Gallery presents ‘Through Her Lens: Women Photographers Of Mid-Coast Maine, 1895-1925’
For the month of October, Eastport Arts Center’s Washington Street Gallery will feature 'Through Her Lens: Women Photographers Of Mid-Coast Maine, 1895-1925,' an exhibition loaned by the Penobscot Marine Museum. Since photography’s inception in 1839, women have been involved in the making of images. Constance Fox Talbot experimented with photography even as her husband William Fox Talbot was perfecting his process, the calotype, which generated the world’s first photographic negative in 1841. A handful of women began opening daguerreotype studios in Europe and the United States in the early 1840s, and were among the first professionals in this technical field at a time when most women either didn’t work outside the home, or were employed as domestic servants, schoolteachers, nurses, or laborers in the textile industry.
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Zen Meditation
The Zen DownEast Sangha meets Tuesday evenings at the Downeast Massage Therapy building at 848 U.S. Rte 1, Pembroke, Maine. Meetings always include Zen meditation and Zen liturgy You are invited to attend all or any portion of the activities—whatever works for your schedule and inclination. We sit 25-minute periods, and do a few minutes of walking meditation between periods. The sitting starts formally at 6:30 pm and ends at 7:30 pm, though you are free to leave at any time. We also offer drop-in classes on the writings of Zen Master Eihei Dogen from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm which you are warmly invited to join at any time. If you are new to Zen DownEast, please arrive fifteen minutes early for a brief orientation.
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Advanced Embroidery
Hannah O'Hare Bennett is offering a series of Embroidery and Card Weaving Classes at StudioWorks on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:00 pm from October 9-November 6. The second workshop in the series is Advanced Embroidery - After you’ve learned the basics, you can add fun new stitches to your repertoire. In this class we’ll learn spiderweb, picot, French knot, Bullion, and a fun layered stitch whose official name I don’t know. If you’re already a skilled embroiderer, you can skip the first class and take this one without it.
Find out more »Bait Hives and Honeybee Research
Dr. Thomas Seeley’s research has focused on understanding the phenomenon of swarm intelligence (SI), which is the solving of cognitive problems by a group of individuals who pool their knowledge and process it through social interactions. SI is a rapidly developing topic that has been investigated mainly in social insects like honey bees. Currently his research is determining how honey bee colonies living in the wild are able to survive without being treated with pesticides for controlling Varroa mites.
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KinderArts presents Tiny Yogis
The Eastport Arts Center’s KinderArts program will offer Tiny Yogis sessions on Thursdays, September 20 and 27, October 4 and 11, from 9:30-10:15 am. Instructor Caroline DiLio will teach yoga through music, dance and storybooks, and young participants will even learn meditation.
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Autumn Hike: Wabassus Mountain
With cooler weather, the crunch of leaves, and no bugs (yay!), autumn is the best time of year for hiking. On October 18th, join DLLT Education and Outreach Manager Colin Brown for a trip up to the highest peak in the Downeast Lakes Community Forest – a gradual, 500 foot climb on Wabassus Mountain. To view a trail map, click here! Take in partial views of the region’s many lakes, and catch a glimpse of the beautiful fall colors. Interested hikers will meet at the DLLT office in Grand Lake Stream at 2 pm to carpool out to the trail head. For more information, please contact DLLT at (207) 796-2100, or email info@downeastlakes.org.
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S’mores Day at The Ganong Nature Park
Join us for National S’mores Day around an open fire on October 18th at Ganong Nature Park! With five different varieties of s’mores to choose from, there is sure to be something for everyone. Admission includes 2 s’mores of your choice along with a treat bag for each kid. 7:00pm - 8:30pm. Cost $4/child.
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Managing Your Human Resources
Join us at the Ganong Nature park as we discuss how to Achieve organizational goals while creating a workplace environment where people feel engaged and inspired and other significant leadership challenges. The topics to be addressed include: self-awareness, communication, influence, and constructive responses to conflict.
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UMaine Big Band Jazz Ensemble in Concert
Students and faculty from the University of Maine at Orono’s School of Performing Arts will visit Eastport on Friday, October 19 to work with local students and give a concert. During the day, UMaine jazz faculty Dan Barrett and Philip Edelman, along with their talented students, will give a combination presentation/performance at EAC for instrumental students from Calais High School, Machias High School, Washington Academy and Shead High School.
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Saturday Art Classes with Chantal Vincent
Ages 5+, October 6 - November 24, 9:30am - 11:30am Join us for a fun art class every Saturday morning for eight weeks. These art classes will focus on pottery, painting, drawing and more, and will draw inspiration from the natural world.
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PBSO Music for Children Program and Downeast Theatre present: BRUNDIBÁR
Following the success of "Peter and the Wolf" in 2014 and "Hansel and Gretel" in 2016, the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra (PBSO) is ready to present its third Music for Children project: "Brundibár!" Well-known Czechoslovakian Jewish composer Hans Krása wrote this prize-winning opera for children in 1938—early in the Nazi period of control in Czechoslovakia. During World War II, Nazis established a “City for the Jews” (Theresienstadt, or ‘Terezin,’ concentration camp) to convince the Red Cross that the camps were acceptable places. In this “City” the opera was performed 55 times by an all-child cast accompanied by musicians playing instruments they had been able to smuggle into the camp. Despite continuous changes in the cast due to ongoing deportations, "Brundibár" was a great source of hope and pride for residents of the camp.
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Book Folding Workshop
Open to beginners and experienced folders. Please bring a pencil and a ruler. These can make great Christmas gifts.
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Ales for Trails Dinner in Support of the Ganong Nature Park
Join us on October 22nd at The Five Kings Restaurant and Picaroons Brewhouse in St. Stephen and enjoy a night out, amazing food and help support a wonderful community asset! All proceeds go to maintenance and upkeep of the trail system at the Ganong Nature Park. Cost is $50 per ticket (includes a $25 charitable tax receipt). There will be two seating times, at 5:30pm and 8:00pm.
Find out more »Zen Meditation
The Zen DownEast Sangha meets Tuesday evenings at the Downeast Massage Therapy building at 848 U.S. Rte 1, Pembroke, Maine. Meetings always include Zen meditation and Zen liturgy You are invited to attend all or any portion of the activities—whatever works for your schedule and inclination. We sit 25-minute periods, and do a few minutes of walking meditation between periods. The sitting starts formally at 6:30 pm and ends at 7:30 pm, though you are free to leave at any time. We also offer drop-in classes on the writings of Zen Master Eihei Dogen from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm which you are warmly invited to join at any time. If you are new to Zen DownEast, please arrive fifteen minutes early for a brief orientation.
Find out more »KinderArts presents Tiny Yogis
The Eastport Arts Center’s KinderArts program will offer Tiny Yogis sessions on Thursdays, September 20 and 27, October 4 and 11, from 9:30-10:15 am. Instructor Caroline DiLio will teach yoga through music, dance and storybooks, and young participants will even learn meditation.
Find out more »Albertine in Five Times by Michael Tremblay
New Moon Theatre, under the auspices of the St. Andrews Arts Council, will present three performances of Michel Tremblay’s brilliant play — Albertine in Five Times this fall. The six-woman show will play to audiences in St. Andrews at the W. C. O’Neill Theatre Arena at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 25, 26 and 27. Men and women everywhere are affected by aging, especially now with Baby Boomers being in the majority. Albertine in Five Times hits on this theme as Albertine advances through five decades of her life. It also reaffirms the sexual harassment issues that some women experience and have been highlighted in the Me Too Movement in recent years.
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Opening Reception: Cumulus La Mutatio: An Ecology by Emilie Grace Lavoie
Cumulus La Mutatio – En Ecology is an exhibition of ceramic sculpture by artist Emilie Grace Lavoie. Lavoie’s sculptures emanate from her growing awareness of environmental discord and the long term effect humans have on life on earth. The large-scale sculptures present an imposing presence for the viewer and offer an intense and confrontational experience with the subject. Lavoie embarks on an in-depth exploration of our connectivity to the natural world, the fact that we share certain biological processes and genomes, for example. The exhibition will be shown from October 26-November 17.
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Wallflowers by Colin Hugh Smith
Colin Hugh Smith has worked as a full time artist, writer and designer for over 30 years. As an artist, solo exhibitions have taken place at Gallery 78 in Fredericton, the former Seacoast and Sunbury Shores Galleries in St. Andrews, the old ABEC in Saint John and the Saint John Arts Centre. His work has also appeared at Saint John’s Imperial Theatre, the New Brunswick Museum, the New Brunswick Festival of the Arts, the University of New Brunswick’s Student Voices show, and ARTgallery ‘Rat in Queenstown as well as in solo and group exhibitions at Cobalt Gallery, the Klausen Gallery, the Fundy Art Gallery, all of Saint John, as well as the Kensington Gallery in Calgary. This exhibition will be shown from October 26-November 17, 2018. "Flowers and rooms are my passions and my paintings are love letters. In my Impressionist painterly style I try to capture the fleeting mood of a summer’s day and how garden or wild flowers, particularly when carelessly and loosely arranged, create a sense of style and beauty when brought inside." – Colin Hugh Smith.
Find out more »Albertine in Five Times by Michael Tremblay
New Moon Theatre, under the auspices of the St. Andrews Arts Council, will present three performances of Michel Tremblay’s brilliant play — Albertine in Five Times this fall. The six-woman show will play to audiences in St. Andrews at the W. C. O’Neill Theatre Arena at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 25, 26 and 27. Men and women everywhere are affected by aging, especially now with Baby Boomers being in the majority. Albertine in Five Times hits on this theme as Albertine advances through five decades of her life. It also reaffirms the sexual harassment issues that some women experience and have been highlighted in the Me Too Movement in recent years.
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