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Saturday, June 05, 2010 – Monday, September 06, 2010

Winslow Homer Exhibition at the Museum of Art
In honor of the centennial of Winslow Homer's death, this exhibition will showcase the Museum's collection of Homer watercolors and oils on canvas. Featuring approximately 20 works, it will be the first time since 1988 that all of these works will be on view in the Charles Shipman Payson building. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the second floor of the museum. For more information, contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.

Thursday, June 24, 2010 – Sunday, September 12, 2010

Paper Works Exhibition at the Museum of Art
This exhibit, titled ''American Moderns: Masterworks on Paper from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1910-1960'' will showcase more than 100 works on paper from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., by nationally recognized artists such as Edward Hopper, John Marin, and Rockwell Kent. This is the first in-depth examination and presentation of the Atheneum's American modernist works on paper. This is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see paintings by Edward Hopper depicting scenes of Maine in the state. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the first floor of the museum. For more information, log on to http://www.portlandmuseum.org/Content/4603.shtml or contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.

Monday, June 28, 2010 – Friday, August 27, 2010

Summer Day Camp and Preschool
This summer day camp at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, just off Route 1 in Falmouth, is for children ages 2 to 11, and features one and two week weekday sessions with different nature-related themes, as well as hikes, stories, songs, movement, group games, natural crafts, and more. Children explore and learn in forests, meadows, salt marshes, and ponds. Session times and prices vary. Scholarships are available. For more information or to register, call 781-2330, ext. 209.

Saturday, July 24, 2010 – Sunday, October 17, 2010

Anna Hepler Exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art
Contemporary Maine artist Anna Hepler will construct a monumental installation inside the Museum's Great Hall. Made from a nest-like mesh of salvaged and sewn sheet plastic, this exhibit will take advantage of the Museum's expansive entry space. A second exhibition of Hepler's work, on view in the fourth floor gallery, will feature a series of cyanotype prints (or blue prints) made from digital photographs of small sculptures and, like her large installations, these works are defined by light. This will be Hepler's first solo exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland. For more information, contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.

Monday, August 02, 2010 – Monday, August 02, 2010

Lake Region NAMI
The first Monday of each month the Lake Region NAMI Group meets at the Raymond Public Safety Bldg. This is on Rt. 302 and the northwest end of Main Street or Rt 121, Raymond. Time is 7 to 8:30 pm. Support is available for those dealing with a family member coping with mental illness. Come join us. For information call Eileen @ 655-4193

Tuesday, August 03, 2010 – Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Grief Support Meeting
Windham – Monthly Grief Support Meetings for 2010 VNA Home Health & Hospice is offering monthly open grief support meetings in Windham on the first Tuesday of the month from 6:00 – 7:30 PM beginning June 1, 2010 and ending December 7, 2010. When: First Tuesday of the month from 6:00 – 7:30 PM Where: North Windham Union Church 723 Roosevelt Trail, Rt. 302, Windham, ME For more information call Linda Hopkins, Bereavement Support Coordinator for VNA Home Health & Hospice at 400-8714 or e-mail Linda at hopkinsl@vnahomehealth.org This group is sponsored by the North Windham Union Church UCC Mission Committee.

Monday, August 16, 2010 – Friday, August 20, 2010

Summer Day Camp
This camp, for ages 6 to 12, features nature exploration, play, and learning through hands-on and minds-on activities in small groups to increase children's awareness of and connection to nature at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, just off Route 1 in Falmouth. Weekday sessions are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 781-2330 for more information.

Thursday, August 19, 2010 – Thursday, August 19, 2010

Electronic Data Risk: Records, Privacy, Liability
Saint Joseph’s College will present a daylong workshop titled Electronic Data Risk: Records, Privacy, Liability and Investigations on Thursday, August 19. The program is ideal for certified public accountants, certified financial planners, attorneys, banking and finance professionals, human resources executives, insurance brokers and other professionals who need to meet CPE or CLE requirements for licensure. Benjamin Wright, an attorney practicing computer security and e-commercial law in Dallas, will present the workshop. Topics include e-discovery in lawsuits and investigations; e-record retention policy; data privacy; electronic investigations, online banking risks for small- and mid-sized enterprises; and electronic contracts and warnings. Wright has delivered more than 600 presentations on the law of e-commerce, records management, privacy and computer security. He has been quoted in publications around the globe, from the Wall Street Journal to the Sydney Morning Herald. Wright is the author of several information technology law books, including Business Law & Computer Security. The workshop runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Viola George Auditorium in Alfond Hall at the Standish campus. The workshop offers eight hours of CPE/CLE, which includes one hour of ethics. The cost is $279 and includes lunch. Visit http://online.sjcme.edu/edr or call 800-752-4723 for more information.

Saturday, September 18, 2010 – Sunday, December 12, 2010

John Haberle Exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art
John Haberle is considered one of the most accomplished American trompe l'oeil, or ''fool the eye'' painters and this exhibition will feature approximately 20 paintings and drawings from the New Britain Museum of American Art. Alluding to the moral and political issues of the time, Haberle's paintings juxtaposes newspaper clippings, tickets, and money with objects such as a pocket watch, playing cards, and rosary beads. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the second floor of the museum. For more information, contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.

Thursday, September 30, 2010 – Sunday, December 05, 2010

''Group f/64'' Photography Exhibit
This exhibition, titled ''Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64'', focuses on the small group of 1930s California photographers who called themselves ''Group f/64.'' They challenged the painterly, soft-focus Pictorialist style of the day and this exhibit includes images by photographers in this group such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Willard Van Dyke, as well as images by such Pictorialists such as Anne Brigman, William Dassonville, Johan Hagemeyer, William Mortensen, and Karl Struss. With more than 100 works by 16 artists, this exhibit offers a feast for the eyes while illustrating both sides of a high-stakes debate. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the first floor of the museum. For more information, log on to http://www.portlandmuseum.org/Content/4573.shtml or contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.

Thursday, December 16, 2010 – Sunday, March 20, 2011

Painting Exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art
This is the first major survey of paintings by the MacArthur award-winning artist Rackstraw Downes. Featuring more than 30 works, many of them multiple-part canvases, the exhibition features his minutely detailed paintings of exterior and interior panoramic scenes of the American land and urbanscape from 1972 to 2008. The exhibition traces the artist's career through major examples of his work that were painted in Maine, Texas, New Jersey, and New York, including two haunting depictions of the untenanted interior spaces in the World Trade Center in 1998. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the first floor of the museum. For more information, contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.

General Listings

Windham Food Pantry
The Windham Food Pantry/Clothes Closet will be open for donations Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The pantry is open from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. for clients only. For general assistance, the hours are Tuesday - Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. by appointment only. For more information, call Madeline at 892-1931.

Maine Wildlife Park
Maine Wildlife Park on Route 26 is Gray is preparing to open to for the season on April 15. Enjoy the animals, nature trails, a game warden museum and more. Visit www.mainewildlifepark.com or www.mefishwildlife.com.

Windham Public Library
The book group at the library, 217 Windham Center Road, meets the last Tuesday of each month at 6:15 p.m. Come share stories and activities with children at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Mondays. “Books and Babies” begins at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays. Library teas are held approximately every six weeks on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m. Next tea date is August 11. All ages are welcome. Space is limited. Call Barbara at 892-1908 or visit www.windham.lib.me.us.

Raymond Village Library Story Times
There are three different story times at the Raymond Village Library, 3 Meadow Road. Mondays at 10 a.m. babies from birth to 18 months old are invited to sing, hear stories and do finger-plays. Mondays at 11 a.m. is for preschoolers, ages 3 to 5. On Wednesdays, toddlers, ages 18 to 36 months, are invited to two separate sessions at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Call 655-4283.

Raymond Village Library Hours
The Raymond Village Library, 3 Meadow Road, is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. There is also an outreach program to get books to people who cannot get to the library. Call 655-4283.

Gray Public Library
The library, located at 5 Hancock St. in Gray, is open on Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Book groups meet during the third Thursday of every month at 2 p.m. or the third Wednesday of every month at 6:45 p.m. A knitting group meets on Tuesday afternoons from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Bring a project to work on. Call 657-4110.

Ricker Memorial Library
The Ricker Memorial Library, 1211 Maine St. in Poland, is open Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays they are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Marine Corps League
The Marine Corps League is holding its statewide membership drive. The League preserves the traditions and promotes the interests of the United States Marine Corps and invites all active duty, retired, honorably discharged Marines and Navy Corpsmen that served with FMF to join. For membership details, call 354-6479.

Gray-New Gloucester Optimist Club
Join the Optimist Club to serve kids in the local community at 6:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month at Androscoggin Bank, Route 100 in Gray. Call Diane at 428-4238.

 
 

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