Halloween Storytelling at the Gazebo
2022-10-25 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Gazebo at Steamboat Landing
Halloween Storytelling

Storytime
2022-10-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-11-04 10:00 - 22:30 | Abbott Room

Learn to Make a Tote Bag with Jane Mclean
2022-11-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Abbott Room
Do you want to learn to make your own reusable fabric tote bag? Are you puzzled about adding a lining? Join sewist Jane Mclean in the Abbott Room as she demonstrates how to create lined and unlined bags from a variety of cost effective materials. She will show how to add pockets, box bottoms, closures, and a waterproof lining. Written instructions will be provided.

LEGO Club
2022-11-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room

Friends of the Library Book Sale
2022-11-05 10:30 - 13:00 | Library Lobby
Book donations will be accepted at the sale, up to 12 good quality books per person. The Friends are looking for current fiction, cooking, gardening and children’s books.

Poetry Reading "Duet" Kay Retzlaff and Susan Camp
2022-11-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
Monday November 7th at 6:30 pm Kay Retzlaff will give a poetry reading in the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free Library. The reading is in conjunction with the November exhibit in the Library’s Kramer Gallery of photographs by Susan Camp and poems by Retzlaff titled, “Duet”.
Duet, a collaboration between the poet Retzlaff and artist Camp, is also a beautiful book published in 2022.
The best way to describe Duet is to use a musical metaphor: artist and poet “riff” on one another’s work or are inspired by a theme raised by the other. Duet is a conversation between artists in different media to reach harmony. While poets often create poems in response to art, Duet is more jazz improv than reactionary. Both artist and poet came to the project to learn more about each other as artists, and to find points of complementarity.
As Susan Camp, a Winterport-based sculptor, says, “This project was a completely new way of working for me. Each of us brought our own descant of rural upbringing to the table and played with ways of intertwining the visual and literary notes.”
Kay Retzlaff, also based in Winterport, says, “The past two years of exile and house arrest caused by COVID-19 gave me a lot more time for writing. The two got together and Duet is the result.

Take and Make
2022-11-08 | City Park or Abbott Room

Belfast Garden Club Program: Your Food Landscape, Now and in the Future
2022-11-08 08:00 - 17:00
Food historian Robyn Metcalfe, who recently produced a documentary on Maine’s fishing industry, will shed light on the global food supply.
For more information visit belfastgardenclub.org
The one-hour public program, the final talk in the garden club’s 2022 series, will be streamed live at noon in the Abbott Room at the Belfast Free Library, 106 High Street. Those who wish to join from home, may register for the Zoom link here

Library Closed for Veterans' Day
2022-11-11

Maine Linux Users Group
2022-11-12 14:00 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
Visit https://linuxusers.me/ for more information and to pre- register.

Your Food Landscape, Now and in the Future with Robyn Metcalfe
2022-11-15 12:00 - 13:00
Food historian Robyn Metcalfe, who recently produced a documentary on Maine’s fishing industry, will shed light on the global food supply in a free Belfast Garden Club lecture.
The one-hour public program, the final talk in the garden club’s 2022 series, will be streamed live at noon in the Abbott Room. Those who wish to join from home, may register for the Zoom link here or on the programs page of belfastgardenclub.org.
In her talk, Metcalfe, who is director of the Nutrition Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, will explore the contours of the food system as it pertains to how we eat now and in the future. She will look at the ways recent changes may reshape the food system and particularly how individuals can play a role making the system more resilient.

Camden Conference Community Event
2022-11-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
“Global Supply Chains and Just in Time Production —what they are and how they influence International trade and relations” with Kristin Vekasi
The Camden Conference and Belfast Free Library will feature Professor Kristin Vekasi for an in-person talk, “Global Supply Chains and Just in Time Production —what they are and how they influence International trade and relations.”
Kristin Vekasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine. Her research focuses on trade and investment strategies in changing geopolitical environments, and the political risk management of supply chains.
For information on the 36th Annual Camden Conference: Global Trade and Politics: Managing Turbulence, February 17-19, 2023 please visit our website camdenconference.org
This event is free and open to all.

Genealogy group meeting
2022-11-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Abbott Room
Monthly meeting of the Wawenoc Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society.
All are welcome! These meetings are now in a hybrid format with the option to join in-person in the Abbott Room or to join online over Zoom. To receive the Zoom link or for more information, please email Sharon Pietryka at spietryka@belfastlibrary.org.

Peace and Social Justice Forum of Waldo County: Film on Climate Justice
2022-11-16 18:00 - 19:30
The Peace and Social Justice Forum/Waldo County will show the film ‘Our Shared Future: People and Nature and Local Solutions’ on November 16, 2022 at 6 pm in the Abbott Room . The film is of a panel discussion in celebration of Half-Earth Day, October 13, 2022 presented by the Smithsonian Institute and E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.
Biologist E.O.Wilson was the creator of the Half-Earth Project-a bold call to protect 1/2 of the Earth’s surface from human development. The panel is a heart-felt discussion begun by Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation Queen Quet, that includes a diverse group of women and men who are working on projects worldwide that are committed to this goal. “Our shared Future” is a forum to share information and insight that can help us reimagine the way we care for our planet,” explains Dr. Paula J. Erlich, President and CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and co-founder of the Half-Earth Project.
Join us, as we gather safely for this community viewing of an important positive forum with the message that “We have one Earth.” and what we can do to preserve it.
~Peace and Social Justice Forum/Waldo County fmi peace.and.justice.waldo@gmail.com
