Beflast Free Library

Maine Linux Users Group Meeting
2022-07-23 16:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Abbott Room
Linux (also known as “GNU/Linux”) is an operating system somewhat like Microsoft Windows, but is free of charge and has all of the source code available so it can be modified to meet your needs. A new group, The Linux Users of Maine will be meeting from 4:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. in the Abbot Room of the Library to talk about Linux and “Free” (as in Freedom) Software, Hardware and Culture. While the meeting is free of cost, we ask that you register at the website (http://linuxusers.me) so we may know how many people are attending.

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

Genealogy group meeting
2022-07-20 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.

Antarctic Whale Science: How Do Humpbacks Find Their Food? With Professor Mike Coffin
2022-07-19 18:30 - 20:00 | 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.

Teen Summer Reading Program: Paint & Sip
2022-07-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Gazebo at Steamboat Landing

Dialogue Series led by Michael Shell
2022-07-18 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-07-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Abbott Room
Michael Shell will host this series, which meets twice in July: July 11 and July 18, 7pm -8:30

For More information email Michael Shell at wellnesscoach@gmail.com

Bar Harbor Music Festival in the Gammans Room
2022-07-17 16:00 - 18:30 | Gammans Room
THE ARDELIA TRIO
JANEY CHOI, Violinist
CLARA YANG, Cellist
JIHEA HONG-PARK, Pianist
Music by Mozart, Sophia Serghi,
Frank Bridge, and Smetana
For more information

The Bar Harbor Music Festival at Belfast

Storytime
2022-07-15 10:00 - 11:00
All ages storytime! Check for location for each date.

Teen Summer Reading Program: Picnic @ Beach Treasure Hunt
2022-07-13 15:00 - 16:30 | Gazebo at Steamboat Landing
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Three Poets Under a Full Buck Moon: Millikin, Sander, Spitfire
2022-07-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
Midcoast poets, Karin Spitfire, Ellen Sander, and Claire Millikin will read from their recently published books The Body in Late Stage Capitalism; Aquifer; and Dolls and Transitional Objects. Confronting time and place in the 21st century, these poems give a passionate and loving look at how we live now – how capitalism and travel shape us, how we save what we can of what we love, and how the lost dolls of childhood return as figures of enlightenment and redemption.

Children's Take & Make: Ocean Picture Frame
2022-07-12 09:30 - 18:00 | Children’s Floor

Teen Take & Make: Shell Windchime
2022-07-12 09:30 - 18:00 | Children’s Floor

Belfast Free Library Summer Reading Program: Jennifer Armstrong – Anything is Possible!
2022-07-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Gazebo at Steamboat Landing

Bar Harbor Music Festival in the Gammans Room
2022-07-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Gammans Room
ANTONIO GALERA LOPEZ, PIANIST
All-Spanish Music Program
For more information:

The Bar Harbor Music Festival at Belfast
