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Second Friday ArtWalks – starting May 11
Hosted by Five Rivers Art Alliance every second Friday of the month, May through October, from 5-8 pm, over 55 local Maine artists will be displaying their work at studios, galleries, and at pop up venues throughout Downtown Brunswick including Fort Andross, 98 Maine Street, the Captain Daniel Stone Inn and at the Inn at Brunswick Station. Spend a great evening Downtown, enjoying live music, beautiful artwork, as well as fabulous shopping, and restaurants. Volunteers Needed. FMI call 798-6964 or email 5raateam@gmail.com.
This day long event is fun for everyone! There will be an art contest featuring local art work celebrating animals, an auction of animal art, prizes, k-9 demonstration, agility demonstration, dog toenail clippings, an animal communicator, basic obedience lesions, micro-chipping, photos with your pet, games, hot dogs, slush puppies, a bake sale, face painting much more!
MAY 17 Pre-Conference Event 6:15PM The conference kicks off the previous evening, May 17 at 6:15 p.m. with a free reception and screening of the 60 minute national award-winning film, The Greenest Building. Following the film, dessert is included in the Question and Answer conversation with producer and film maker, Jane Turville, from Portland, Oregon. A $5 donation is suggested. Location: Roberts Learning Center, Lincoln Auditorium, UMF campus.
Now in its fifth year, the First Time Campers program will offer 44 lucky families a free weekend of camping this summer at one of 11 Maine state park campgrounds, according to Park Manager Fritz Appleby of Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal. Appleby is organizing the popular program for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL), under the Maine Department of Conservation.
Herard’s piece was created from industrial objects found around the state of Maine. She will be entering her senior year at University of Maine at Augusta in the fall of 2012. Herard says, “After having taken classes ranging from photography to print making, I enrolled in the 2011 summer welding class with Robert Katz. The moment I cut that first piece of metal with the acetylene torch I found my place and love in the art world.” Ebb and Flow’s curves and kinetic mass are meant to represent the passing of life-altering moments.
The Volunteer Fair at Thornton Oaks Wednesday, May 9 4:00-6:00 PM Join us as representatives from 18 local nonprofits, such as People Plus, Cathance River Education Alliance, Tri-County Literacy, Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers and Brunswick Downtown Association, will be on hand to answer your questions and share information about their agencies and volunteer opportunities.
A regional 1-day Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event will be held on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at the Augusta Public Works Complex located at 55 North Street in Augusta. The following communities are participating: Augusta, Belgrade, Fayette, Gardiner, Hallowell, Manchester, Monmouth, Readfield, Wayne, and Winthrop. Kennebec Valley Council of Governments is assisting with project coordination. Residents of these communities need to register with their individual town. Pre-registration is required.
Are you curious what a national park in the North Woods could mean for Maine? How Maine’s new mining law could affect our North Woods? How this year’s legislature has changed planning and management for the North Woods? “Thoreau’s North Woods: Opportunities, Threats, & the Beauty of the Place” offers an opportunity to discuss these issues, and connect with Maine’s North Woods through stunning photography, on Tuesday, May 22 4:30-6:00 p.m. at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, 3 Wade Street in Augusta.
Brunswick will hold its Annual Clean Sweep initiative Saturday from 8 am to noon. The Brunswick Downtown Association, working together with the Department of Public Works, Brunswick Parks & Recreation, other civic organizations and volunteers will give Maine Street a fresh face for spring. Volunteers are needed to help with sidewalk sweeping and weeding. No registration is necessary. Just show up that morning, check in at the BDA table in front of Senter Place on Maine Street to receive your work assignment and a free long sleeve t-shirt (while quantities and sizes last). FMI email info@brunswickdowntown.org.
BDA Celebratory Breakfast – May 24
Mistress Mary will come dressed in a long white linen shift, the basic undergarment of colonial women. Master Adam will help her dress layer by layer, in an authentic reproduction of a c.1760’s gown. Our genteel audience will watch as she is laced into stays and helped into petticoats. They will learn about sacque-backs and mantuas, stomachers, pocket hoops and more, and that a ‘bumroll’ much be tied on in just the right place, lest it produce a “very undesirable silhouette”!
In spite of this week’s hold-overs from April’s showers, rain or shine, this Saturday we’ll celebrate Mayfair with Maypole dancing to music by Sharon Pyne and Friends, downtown sidewalk sales, a Big Tent sale, and Bath’s annual Citywide Yard Sale! 34+ residents and organizations will be holding yard sales that morning, with non-profits at City Park on Washington Street or their rain location in the Elks Club on Lambert Street, and residents’ sales at locations throughout the city. Main Street Bath will hold a tag sale at the visitors center with proceeds going to help fund the flower baskets on downtown Bath lampposts this summer.
Historic Johnson Hall, the oldest operating theater in Maine, will be opening it’s doors for the public to explore. Board members and the Executive Director will guide visitors through the three-story structure, entertaining with stories of bygone days, illuminating current arts programming, and inspiring with the vision of future restoration. The tours will encourage visitors to imagine what the restoration of the entire building with a 360-seat theater can do for the region, by increasing opportunities for arts programs, big-name entertainers, expanded children’s arts education, small conferences, and more. When theaters are renovated, audience members seek restaurants and shops, businesses appreciate activities for their employees, and economic development follows.
It’s hard to believe that May is here already–it seems like just last week we were gearing up for the school year and creating new curriculum for our themed project, ‘Searching for Maine, Searching for Me.’ Now we have our new anthology in hand and are racing to make our annual Big Night event the most engaging, creative party you’ve been to this year. We hope you’ll all find time to join us this Friday night at USM to celebrate what has been an amazing year of programs with over 2,000 of Maine’s most creative kids. We have a great lineup of interactive projects and a dynamic stage show in store, so bring your kids, your parents, your siblings and your friends to celebrate with us. See you all there!
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife reminds everyone that they have until May 14th to apply for a Moose Permit! This year’s lottery will take place at the Oquossoc Marina in Rangeley, Maine on June 23rd. Maine plans to award 3,725 permits this year. The winners will be announced first in Oquossoc, and then the entire list will be published.
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