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Journey to Health
Journey to Health
Your Mindset & Your Health - Belfast with Reverend Duncan Newcomber, PhD The words you choose when speaking to yourself matter more than you think. A positive mindset awakens inner strength, energy and motivation. Thinking positively can even help you overcome life’s challenges. Join Reverend Duncan Newcomer, PhD at this workshop where he will discuss […]
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Come Boating Winter Adventure Series
Come Boating Winter Adventure Series
The Belfast Free Library is is co- hosting three evening programs about adventures on the water with Come Boating! The first is a film presentation of The Boys of '36. The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the […]
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Hour of Code
Hour of Code
Every Wednesday on the Children's Floor. Hour of Code is an international movement supporting young people to learn computer programming. During the hour of code you are invited to come play fun computer games that also teach fundamentals of coding languages. Librarians will be on hand to assist and troubleshoot. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) […]
Belfast Garden Club Winter Lecture Series: Rescheduled to Feb. 1
Belfast Garden Club Winter Lecture Series: Rescheduled to Feb. 1
It's Snowamazing ... the Wild Side of Winter Snow with Mike Shannon Snow ... you've got to love it! It' worth a second look! Jim Vickery in his book Winter Sign reminds us that winter is a mistress to reckon with . . . it hunts us with its cold and haunts us with its […]
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STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)
STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)
STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) Special guest Chris Dorman, Maine State Library STEM Specialist. Meet robots Ozobot, Dot & Dash. Plus Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Little Bits. Weekly program February 6 – April 21. See individual program dates for details. Ages 8+
Book Discussion Group: Classic Works of Literature and Their Modern Retellings
Book Discussion Group: Classic Works of Literature and Their Modern Retellings
“Classic Works of Literature and Their Modern Retellings.” We will read a classic work one month, followed by its modern adaptation the next month. January 9 - Hamlet by William Shakespeare February 6 - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski March 6 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte April 3 - The Flight […]
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Poet Laureate Office Hours
Poet Laureate Office Hours
The Poet Is In! Belfast Poet Laureate Tom Moore will be available in the third floor conference room for all of your inquiries and interests!
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Knit2Together!
Knit2Together!
Knitters of all experience levels are welcome to join us the second and forth Wednesdays of the month , from 4-5:30 pm in the Abbott Room. This drop-in event is a chance for knitters- and crocheters too- of all ages and experience levels to chat, get tips, and learn from each other while working on […]
Hour of Code
Hour of Code
Every Wednesday on the Children's Floor. Hour of Code is an international movement supporting young people to learn computer programming. During the hour of code you are invited to come play fun computer games that also teach fundamentals of coding languages. Librarians will be on hand to assist and troubleshoot. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) […]
Maine Student Book Award Book Group: Masterminds
Maine Student Book Award Book Group: Masterminds
Book Discussion: Masterminds by Gordon Korman Serenity, New Mexico, seems perfect until the kids who live there discover that trying to cross the town line is paralyzing. The town factory is not really manufacturing traffic cones. What else are the town officials (and their own parents!) not telling their children? The first book in […]
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STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)
STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)
STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) February 13 & 27 - Little Bits Hands-on fun with Little Bits, easy-to-use electronic building blocks for creating inventions large and small. Weekly program February 6 – April 21. See individual program dates for details. Ages 8+
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Poet Laureate Office Hours
Poet Laureate Office Hours
The Poet Is In! Belfast Poet Laureate Tom Moore will be available in the third floor conference room for all of your inquiries and interests!
Tuesday February 14, 6:30
Tuesday February 14, 6:30
Saving Walden’s World -- an screening of footage from Cuba, Slovenia and Belfast By Jim Merkel Saving Walden’s World is a documentary film, in progress, that is being directed by Jim Merkel of East Belfast. This intimate screening of compelling footage from Cuba, Slovenia and right here is Belfast will provide a taste of the […]
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Hour of Code
Hour of Code
Every Wednesday on the Children's Floor. Hour of Code is an international movement supporting young people to learn computer programming. During the hour of code you are invited to come play fun computer games that also teach fundamentals of coding languages. Librarians will be on hand to assist and troubleshoot. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) […]
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Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition Program
Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition Program
“Regenerative Community through Nature Connection: a Hands-On Workshop" Join Trevanna and Trevanion Grenfell of Northwood Natural Learning for an evening of community-building: Make natural milkweed cordage, share hopes and fears, and experience the unique mentoring model that Northwood weaves through its programs to help inspire and deepen people of all ages' relationships with our community […]
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Poet Laureate Office Hours
Poet Laureate Office Hours
The Poet Is In! Belfast Poet Laureate Tom Moore will be available in the third floor conference room for all of your inquiries and interests!
Come Boating! Winter Adventure Series: The Building of the Dory Rose
Come Boating! Winter Adventure Series: The Building of the Dory Rose
Renowned Maine boat designer and builder Art Paine presents The Building of the dory Rose. A very special boat Art designed and helped his daughter build in the chicken yard of their home on Mount Desert. This boat was borrowed for an ocean voyage by a man who had a 42-year long quest to row […]
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Hour of Code
Hour of Code
Every Wednesday on the Children's Floor. Hour of Code is an international movement supporting young people to learn computer programming. During the hour of code you are invited to come play fun computer games that also teach fundamentals of coding languages. Librarians will be on hand to assist and troubleshoot. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) […]
Knit2Together!
Knit2Together!
Knitters of all experience levels are welcome to join us the second and forth Wednesdays of the month , from 4-5:30 pm in the Abbott Room. This drop-in event is a chance for knitters- and crocheters too- of all ages and experience levels to chat, get tips, and learn from each other while working on […]
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L.C. Bates Museum: Bugs!
L.C. Bates Museum: Bugs!
BUGS, BUGS, BUGS! Learn about the wonderful variety of insects through models, specimens, pictures and slides. Practice “being a bug”. Explore mimicry, adaptation, camouflage, and metamorphosis.
Art and Religion of the Minoans: Europe’s First Civilization
Art and Religion of the Minoans: Europe’s First Civilization
Rescheduled from February 7th: Join Roger Dell on February 7th at 6:30 pm for an introduction to the aesthetic achievements and ritual practices of the Minoans, a prosperous, seafaring, matriarchal, culture that thrived 3500 years ago on the Greek Islands of Crete and Santorini. Many scholars believe this highly-advanced society, which suddenly disappeared, to be […]
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STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)
STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)
STEAM Kids (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) February 13 & 27 - Little Bits Hands-on fun with Little Bits, easy-to-use electronic building blocks for creating inventions large and small. Weekly program February 6 – April 21. See individual program dates for details. Ages 8+
Book Discussion: Strangers in Their Own Land
Book Discussion: Strangers in Their Own Land
The Belfast Free Library will host a community book discussion on the book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild. The discussion will take place Monday February 27 at 6:00, and will be co-facilitated by Ridgley Fuller and Cloe Chunn. All are invited to join the […]
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Poet Laureate Office Hours
Poet Laureate Office Hours
The Poet Is In! Belfast Poet Laureate Tom Moore will be available in the third floor conference room for all of your inquiries and interests!
Belfast Garden Club Winter Lecture Series
Belfast Garden Club Winter Lecture Series
The Revolutionary Nature of Early 18th Century English Gardens Learn about their influence on Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Henry Knox’s vision for Montpelier in Thomaston. Anne Perkins of Headacre Farm in Owls Head will describe how that vision is being brought to life today to create uniquely historical fruit and vegetable gardens
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cloudLibrary Training
cloudLibrary Training
The Download Library is moving to the cloudLibrary on March 1, 2017! The Belfast Free Library is offering three hands on sessions on how to download the new app and navigate cloudLibrary. Bring your device if you have one. More Information
Midcoast Exploration of Consciousness Meeting
Midcoast Exploration of Consciousness Meeting
The topic tonight is neuroaesthetics (island number 3 in our four island sequence), but to start us off, Tom Foster will give us a brief lecture on the role of sound in human survival, which relates to music and the brain on the one hand and information and consciousness on the other. We will also […]
Everyone Needs a Wild Child: Outdoor Series for Families
Everyone Needs a Wild Child: Outdoor Series for Families
Wild Child is a hands on interactive series developed to get kids and families outdoors! With the right tools and knowledge anyone can get out and have a safe and enjoyable experience. The programs are free and open to all. The series will be presented by outdoor educator and Maine Guide Nancy Zane. March 1: […]
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cloudLibrary Training
cloudLibrary Training
The Download Library is moving to the cloudLibrary on March 1, 2017! The Belfast Free Library is offering three hands on sessions on how to download the new app and navigate cloudLibrary. Bring your device if you have one. More Information
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