Beflast Free Library

Antarctic Whale Science: How Do Humpbacks Find Their Food? With Professor Mike Coffin
2022-07-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Abbott Room
Scientists tagging humpback whale near Neko Harbor, Antarctica.
Humpback whales feed mainly on krill and small fish, but how these 25,000 – 30,000 kg baleen cetaceans find sufficient food for sustenance without echolocation remains a mystery. An ongoing, multi-year, science-industry collaboration is attempting to solve this conundrum by testing the hypothesis that an engimatic organ beneath the lower jaw of humpbacks senses chemicals associated with plankton consumption by krill. This presentation focuses on the inaugural collaborative expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula in March 2019, including a 30-minute film encompassing both scientific and tourism activities.
Marine geophysicist Mike Coffin investigates interactions between the oceanic environment and the solid Earth. After growing up in Bangor, he was educated Dartmouth College (AB) and Columbia University (MA, MPhil, PhD). Ever since, he has pursued an international career that reflects the boundless nature of the global ocean. He has worked in Australia (1985-1989; 2011-present), the US (1990-2001), Japan (2001-2007), and the UK (2008-2010). He has also held visiting positions in the US (1982, 2002, 2016-present), Norway (1992, 1996), Australia (2000), and France (2001). Mike has led or participated in 37 blue-water research expeditions, focused mainly in the Southern, Pacific, and Indian oceans.

Belfast Free Library Summer Reading Program: Family Fun Fest on the Harbor
2022-07-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Gazebo at Steamboat Landing

Kids & Teen End of Summer Reading Celebration
2022-07-26 15:30 - 16:30 | Belfast Boathouse

Storytime
2022-07-29 10:00 - 11:00
All ages storytime! Check for location for each date.

Storytime
2022-08-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-08-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-08-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Abbott Room
Storytimes from the Belfast Free Library

Kids & Teen Take & Make: Diamond Art
2022-08-09 09:30 - 18:00
Pick up Diamond Art supplies on the children’s floor, for kids & teens!

LEGO Club
2022-08-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room
Join us for LEGO Club!

Me & Martha Concert
2022-08-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Abbott Room
Native Belfast resident Martha Hills and her husband Donald DePoy, touring as Me & Martha, will perform a free concert in the Abbott Room at the library on Wednesday, August 24th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.
Martha and Don first began performing together in Belfast in 2003. In 2022, they were awarded top Wedding Band by Virginia Living Magazine. They are members of America’s Old-Time Country Music Hall of Fame and host Mountain Music, a weekly broadcast television show that reaches over 1.3 million households in eight states, including Maine. As part of the Mountain Music series, they have collected more than a hundred living histories for the American Folk Life Collection of the Library of Congress.
The concert is free and open to the public. Bring the entire family to hear Me & Martha’s entertaining, often funny, and surely educational presentation of an authentic uniquely American music. Doors open at 6:30 pm, concert starts at 7:00 pm.

Storytime
2022-09-06 10:00 - 11:00 | City Park Playground

Learn to play the ukulele with Ando
2022-09-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Abbott Room
Join us for a free beginner’s ukulele lesson with Ando Anderson on Friday September 9th from 4-5:30 in the Abbott Room. Please bring a ukulele if you have one. Anderson will have copies of his new book, “Playing the Uke with Ando “available to purchase at the program.
Local musician and music teacher, Ando Anderson learned to play the ukulele as a child in the backseat of the family car on a seven hour drive. Since then Anderson has played guitar, upright bass, and uke in assorted bands and groups, mostly in Mississippi and Maine. Currently he teaches music to preschoolers and offers private lessons to all ages
Lately, Anderson’s ukulele classes and ukulele groups are keeping him very busy. As a music teacher he’s thrilled to see the ukulele’s growing popularity stating, “Lots of beginning players, young and old, are experiencing the joys and challenges of playing this happy fun instrument. I’ve written this book [“Playing the Uke with Ando”] to encourage anyone and everyone to try out the ukulele!”

Children's and Teen Take and Make
2022-09-13 | Children’s Floor
Children’s and Teen Take and Make

LEGO Club
2022-09-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room

Storytime
2022-09-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Abbott Room
