Knit2Together
2024-07-03 16:00, 2024-07-10 16:00, 2024-07-17 16:00, 2024-07-24 16:00, 2024-07-31 16:00, 2024-08-07 16:00 (America/New_York) | Abbott Room
Knitters, crocheters, yarn enthusiasts of all experience levels are welcome to join us every Wednesday , from 4:00-5:30 pm in the Abbott Room.
This drop-in event is a chance for knitters- and crocheters too- of all ages and experience levels to chat, get tips, and learn from each other while working on their own projects. Library staff will have computers available to demonstrate how to use Ravelry.com and other websites to help find patterns and organize your work. Registration is not required. For more information please call 338-3884 ext.10
Contact bharrington@belfastlibrary.org to sign up to to join the knitting group.

Movies You May Have Missed Series: "The Farewell"
2024-07-16 14:00 - 16:00
This film series is presented by the Senior College of Belfast in partnership with the Belfast Free Library. Free and open to all.
The Farewell (2019) PG Comedy, drama, in English, Mandarin, Japanese and Italian, with subtitles. 100 min.
A headstrong Chinese-American woman (Awakafina) returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, as she struggles with her family’s decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness and as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
Many films were not shown in Belfast while the Colonial Theatre was closed. As a break from summer blockbusters, this series is a catch-up with what we might have missed.
Three comedy/dramas have been chosen from around the world: China, Bhutan, and “merrie olde” England.
Paul Sheridan will offer a short introduction and a discussion at the end of each movie. More information here.
Paul Sheridan helped run “Friday Night Films” at the Belfast Library for several years. This continues in that tradition. Paul has been a lifelong movie buff and has taught many courses on photography and film at Belfast Senior College.

Author Ret Talbot, "Chasing Shadows - Unravelling the Mysteries of the Great White Shark"
2024-07-16 18:30 - 20:00
Celebrate the paperback release of Chasing Shadows – Unravelling the Mysteries of the Great White Shark with science writer and Rockland-based author Ret Talbot. The book, written with shark biologist Greg Skomal, chronicles the return of the white shark to New England’s coast. At its heart, it is a conservation success story, but also one that challenges our idea of what it means to be prey–even if we’re only mistaken as such.
Scientific illustrator Karen Talbot, who created the illustrations and maps in the book, will be on hand to share her large painting of “Mueller,” the shark featured in chapter one of the book, and she will gladly add an original sketch of a white shark to the title page of any books purchased at the event.
Ret Talbot is an award-winning journalist with over two decades of experience covering stories from some of the more remote corners of the globe. From the glacial summits of the Andes to the reefs of Papua New Guinea, his assignments have taken him off the beaten track and put his readers face-to-face with stories of adventure, new ideas and innovative approaches to vexing environmental problems.

**POSTPONED**Genealogy group meeting: Field Trip to the Maine State Library
2024-07-17 09:00 - 13:00
**POSTPONED UNTIL THE FALL**
This month, the Wawenoc Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society will be taking a field trip to the Maine State Library, where we will receive a tour of their genealogy resources and then be able to spend some time doing independent research.
If you are interested in attending, please email Sharon Pietryka at spietryka@belfastlibrary.org.

Belfast Historical Society Program
2024-07-22 19:00 - 20:00
Helen B. Shute, Newspaper Woman, Photographer and Civic Leader
Megan Pinette, historical society president, will present the writing and photograph collections of Helen Shute now in the Belfast Museum archives. Helen’s newspaper career spanned 65 years, writing for a total of 16 newspapers from the early 1900s to the 1960s. Her news articles and extensive photograph collection illuminate Belfast history in the 20th century.

Me & Martha in Concert
2024-07-23 19:00 - 20:00

Movies You May Have Missed Series: "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom"
2024-07-30 14:00 - 16:00
This film series is presented by the Senior College of Belfast in partnership with the Belfast Free Library. Free and open to all.
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019) Age 12+ Drama, Family, in Dzongkha and English, with subtitles. 110 min.
An aspiring singer in Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia, but he shirks his duties and is sent to the most remote school in the world, a glacial Himalayan village, without electricity, textbooks, or even a blackboard, he then must face the daunting task of teaching the village children.
Paul Sheridan will offer a short introduction and a discussion at the end of each movie. More information here.
Paul Sheridan helped run “Friday Night Films” at the Belfast Library for several years. This continues in that tradition. Paul has been a lifelong movie buff and has taught many courses on photography and film at Belfast Senior College.

"Your Obt. Servant, William P. Parrott" a presentation by Willa Bywater
2024-08-06 18:30 - 20:00
Willa Bywater, former Belfast Historical Society intern and current Penobscot Marine Museum interpreter, will share their discovery of a journal from 1839 in the Maine Historical Society archives, and what it has to share about the Aroostook War, a comical yet surprisingly relevant period in Maine’s history.

John Millington Synge: a lecture by Michael Toner
2024-08-12 14:00 - 15:00
Michael Toner, Director of this summer’s production of “The Playboy of the Western World” will examine the life of John Millington Synge, his extensive musical and literary background, in relation to his great contributions to the founding of Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, as well as modern Irish drama.
Toner will discuss Synge’s plays in relation to his background and travels, and then focus specifically on his comic masterpiece, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, which has been translated into many languages, and which is about to be presented here at the Belfast Maskers’ Basil Burwell Theatre from August 28th to September 7th, 2024.
MICHAEL P. TONER has been a professional actor, director, dialect coach and adjutant college teacher for the past 52 years. He specializes in Irish theatre, and is presently directing John M. Synge’s classic Irish comedy, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, to be seen here at the Belfast Maskers’ Basil Burwell Theatre, from August 29th through September 8th .

Movies You May Have Missed Series: "The Lost King"
2024-08-13 14:00 - 16:00
This film series is presented by the Senior College of Belfast in partnership with the Belfast Free Library. Free and open to all.
The Lost King (2022) PG-13 Comedy, Drama, in English, with subtitles. 108 min. with Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan
A true story of the woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country’s most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England’s history, the remains of King Richard III are discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester.
Paul Sheridan will offer a short introduction and a discussion at the end of each movie. More information here.
Paul Sheridan helped run “Friday Night Films” at the Belfast Library for several years. This continues in that tradition. Paul has been a lifelong movie buff and has taught many courses on photography and film at Belfast Senior College.
