Melting the Ice: Poems of Warmth & Wonder: an open poetry reading

Abbott Room

Belfast Poet Laureate Judy Kaber invites local poets to join us for an afternoon open reading to start the new year off on a delightful note. Winter can be a time of struggle with cold weather and icy roads, but it can also be a time of joy when we gather together with friends and […]

Take and Make for Children and Teen

Thanks to the Anonimo Foundation and the Belfast Free Library Youth Services, you can begin to pick up a FREE wooden puzzle on Tuesday, January 10 while supplies last.

Charting a Course for Global Trade with Cipperly Good

Abbott Room

Cipperly Good, Maritime History Curator, Penobscot Marine Museum will give a presentation titled: Charting a Course for Global Trade. In the Nineteenth Century American global trade a disproportionate amount of foreign goods traveled on Maine-built and/or Maine-captained sailing cargo vessels.  Using annotated nautical charts owned by Mid-coast Maine captains, this illustrated talk will show the […]

LEGO Club

Abbott Room

    LEGO Club

Teen Horror Play Reading Group

Abbott Room

If you love plays and reading plays, then come to this horror play reading group. This group is for 11-17 year olds and all levels of reading, acting, and participation are welcome! There will be donut holes, a short acting warm-up and then a scary play reading. Scene work may happen!! It is going to […]

Library Closed

Library CLOSED for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Belfast Garden Club Program

Abbott Room

Planting for Pollinators with Katherine Garland, University of Maine Extension In this program, University of Maine Extension horticulture professional Kate Garland will offer tips for promoting pollinators, which play a key role in the health of our gardens and our ecosystems. She’ll discuss best landscape management practices, as well as ways to provide food, habitat, […]

Come Boating! Winter Adventure Series 2023

Virtual Program on Zoom

Zoom Presentation: Register for the zoom link here Around Newfoundland in a Small Boat - Cod and Puffins, Fjords and Fishermen with Jonathan Fulford A long time environmental activist and experienced sailor, Jonathan Fulford sailed this past summer from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, around Newfoundland, and back to Belfast, a 3800 nm adventure.  This trip was an opportunity to share […]