Beflast Free Library

Genealogy Group Meeting: Show & Tell
2019-11-20 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Abbott Room
This month’s meeting will be our annual show & tell event! Bring your family heirlooms, photographs, documents, artifacts, or anything else you’d like to share and discuss with the group.
All are welcome! Light refreshments will be served.

Let's Talk About It Book Discussion
2019-11-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
Re-imagining the American Family
The Belfast Free Library has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer “Let’s Talk About It”, a free reading and discussion group with copies of books available through the library. This program is provided by the Maine Humanities Council’s Maine Center for the Book in cooperation with the Maine State Library.
What the Living Do by Marie Howe will be our book for this discussion

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Belfast Garden Club Program
2019-11-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Abbott Room
Reducing Wildlife Damage for Homeowners Along the Coast of Maine
with Maynard L. Stanley Jr., Critter Catcher Wildlife Control

French - Intermediate Level for Teens & Adults
2019-11-18 17:15 - 18:00
Intermediate level French for teens and adults
Mondays 5:15—6:00 p.m.
November 18 & 25 December 2, 9 & 16
Language, grammar, and conversation for speakers with some prior knowledge of French looking to improve their skills.
Class taught by native speaker Nancy Durand-Lanson. Topics to include:
Use of the masculine and feminine
Numbers, time, days of the week, months of the year
Adjectives— rules and exceptions
Avoir & être
Verbs & tenses
And more
Class size is limited. Please register in advance.
For more information and to register contact the library at 207-338-3884 ext. 24
All library programs are free and open to the public

The Changing Media Landscape: A 21st Century Student Perspective
2019-11-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
Camden Conference presents Belfast Area High School students discussing
“The Changing Media Landscape: A 21st Century Student Perspective”
A panel of five Belfast Area High School juniors and seniors will discuss where and how they get news, what sources they like and how they distinguish real from questionable stories.
The panel will be moderated by Matt Storin, president of Camden Conference and past editor of the Boston Globe.
This presentation is hosted by the Belfast Free Library and offered as a free community event in in anticipation of the 33rd Annual Camden Conference – “The Media Revolution: Changing the World”, February 21-23, 2020.
For more information about this program, please call the library 338-3884 ext 10 or visit camdenconference.org

LIBRARY CLOSED FOR VETERANS DAY
2019-11-11 09:30 - 20:00

Teen DIY String Art
2019-11-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Third Floor
Come get creative and make your own string art! All materials provided, free and open to the public.

Citizen's Climate Lobby
2019-11-07 18:00 - 20:00
A SOLUTION TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS: Volunteers from Maine will be going to Washington, D.C. to lobby our representatives. Come for a slide show presentation “The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, (HR 763)” by Steve Ouillette and Paul Robie and learn how you can help. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.
Sponsored by the Belfast Area Chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby.

City of Belfast Climate Crisis Committee
2019-11-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Abbott Room
Belfast’s Climate Crisis Committee will hold its second public meeting to report on some of the things the Committee, the City of Belfast and others are already doing about the climate crisis, what they are planning to do, and how you can help.

Let’s Talk About It Book Discussion
2019-10-29 18:30 - 20:00
Re-imagining the American Family

The Belfast Free Library has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer “Let’s Talk About It”, a free reading and discussion group with copies of books available through the library. This program is provided by the Maine Humanities Council’s Maine Center for the Book in cooperation with the Maine State Library.

Can’t we talk about something more PLEASANT? by Roz Chast will be our book to discuss at this meeting.
Click here for more information

Let’s Talk About It Book Discussion
2019-10-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
Re-imagining the American Family
The Belfast Free Library has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer “Let’s Talk About It”, a free reading and discussion group with copies of books available through the library. This program is provided by the Maine Humanities Council’s Maine Center for the Book in cooperation with the Maine State Library.

Can’t we talk about something more PLEASANT? by Roz Chast , will be our book for this discussion.
Click here for more information

An Allagash Haunting -- Live Radio Classic
2019-10-25 18:30 - 20:30
Author Tim Caverly presents — An Allagash Haunting-A Radio Classic
A damping cloak of darkness approaches and brings a new meaning to the old saying “in the eye of the storm…Canoe with Olivia as she’s paddles in the worst storm ever…Through a radio broadcast, hear snapping campfires, ghostly music and the call of a loon while over 120 pictures display across screen. Viewers will experience New England’s wild river in a whole new way as they go with the flow and as some say, ‘back into time.’

Teen Movie Matinee- Beetlejuice (PG)
2019-10-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Abbott Room
Come watch this Halloween favorite, Beetlejuice! There will be scary good snacks to enjoy. Free and open to the public.

Camden Conference Community Event
2019-10-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
“How Global Media are Fixing the Representation of Women in the News” with Marie Tessier
Marie Tessier is a women’s engagement evangelist moderating comment to the Opinion pages of NYTimes and contributing to the TakingNote blog. Her ambition is to bring women to equal participation in news comments by the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment.
Tessier works at the intersection of democracy, news and interactive media as moderator of reader comment to the Opinion pages of NYTimes.com, where she is an authority on including women’s voices. She is writing a book for MIT Press, “Suffragist: Women, the Web and the Future of Democracy,” 2019. She was a women’s engagement strategist with the Coral Project, a collaborative software development project of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Knight-Mozilla OpenNewshttp://nytimes.com/ that is now owned and operated by Vox Media.
This presentation is hosted by the Belfast Free Library and offered as a free community event in in anticipation of the 33rd Annual Camden Conference – “The Media Revolution: Changing the World”, February 21, 22, 23, 2020.
The mission of the Camden Conference is to foster informed discourse on world issues. For more information, please visit www.camdenconference.org or call 207-236-1034.

The 15th Annual Belfast Poetry Festival Day Two
2019-10-19 10:00 - 21:00
The first-ever Harbor/Poetry/Walk will take place on the Belfast waterfront on Saturday, October 19 from 10 am to 11:30. Ten poets and Belfast historian Megan Pinette will lead the procession along the Harbor Walk from the Armistice Bridge (the “little bridge”) to the Boathouse, with stops at the former sardine cannery, the Puddle Dock, City Landing, Heritage Park, Chicken Hill, Steamship Wharf, and a few places in between.
Poets include Carol Bachofner, Linda Buckmaster, Kathleen Ellis, Elizabeth Garber, Judy Kaber, Kristen Lindquist, Leslie Moore, Tom Moore, and Karin Spitfire. In case of rain, the event will be held at the Belfast Free Library with a slideshow of old photos and the reading.
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Belfast will be Festival Headquarters on Saturday starting with a zine fair (and more!) from 11 am to 3 pm, featuring Maine zines, comics, bookmaking, paper arts, interactive installation and more.
A Ploughman’s Lunch follows from 12-1 pm with a rousing performance by the Belfast Bay Fiddlers. Lunch will be $5 admittance.
From 1:30 to 3:00 pm, there will be an Open Mic poetry reading right next door at the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free Library. Any poet can sign up and read one poem; signup starts at 1:00. The listening public is invited to witness this diverse, engaging event.
The big show is at the Troy A. Howard Middle School at 6:30 pm, showcasing the months-long collaborations of poets with visual artists and performers, interspersed with readings from the winners of the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest.
