Beflast Free Library

Kids & Teen End of Summer Reading Celebration
2022-07-26 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Belfast Boathouse

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

Bar Harbor Music Festival in the Gammans Room
2022-07-31 16:00 - 18:30 | Gammans Room
ALLISON KIGER, FLUTIST AND FRIENDS
“French Charm and Jazz”
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The Bar Harbor Music Festival at Belfast

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

Memorial Poetry Reading for Karie Friedman
2022-09-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Abbott Room
The Belfast Free Library and the Office of the Belfast Poet Laureate present a Memorial Poetry Reading featuring poems by Montville poet, Karie Friedman (1940-2017) . The event celebrates the life and influence of this poet who died suddenly five years ago.
Karie Friedman was a remarkable writer and friend who influenced many local poets. She received an MFA from New England College and was for many years the Assistant Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics. A native of Los Angeles and a longtime summer resident of Maine, she moved to Montville in 2005. In 2008 she established the poetry critique group, “The Poets Table,” which met in members’ homes and in the basement of the Belfast Historical Museum.
Karie’s last public appearance was at a poetry reading at The Playhouse titled “Departures, Gazpacho, and Queen Anne’s Lace” on September 3, 2017. To the shock of many in the local poetry community, she died two weeks later. After her death, a group of her friends helped publish her manuscript, “Add Water, Add Fire.”
The public is invited to join us for this celebration of poetry and the life of Karie Friedman. The following former members of “The Poets Table” will be sharing memories and reading some of Karie’s poems as well as their own: Belfast Poet Laureate Judy Kaber, Jackie Ascrizzi, Sharon Bray, Shirley Glubka, Betsy Headly, Leslie Moore, and Rhoda Neshama Waller. Some recent books by these poets will be for sale. There will also be a chance to donate to a fund to support local poetry in Karie’s name.

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, 2022-10-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room

Storytime
2022-09-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-09-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-10-14 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-10-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Abbott Room

Gallery Talk & Reception- Rita Swidrowski
2022-09-29 15:00 - 16:30 | Abbott Room
Locally Grown: Illustrations & Reflections from the Sketch Journals of Rita Swidrowski
Locally Grown, an exhibit of watercolor and ink illustrations with text by Rita Swidrowski, will be on display in the Kramer Gallery of the Belfast Free Library September 7th through October 7th.
At the gallery talk and reception on September 29th, Rita will share more of what she learned in a slide presentation.

Take and Make for Children and Teens
2022-10-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Children’s Floor
Take and Make
