THINGS TO DO ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND THIS WEEK
And in the near future.
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THINGS TO DO
It’s our weekly round-up, and we may have missed some things, so apologies! If you have something you’d like in here, please let me know.
Also, you may have to click through to see everything. There are so many things that this email is a bit long for a lot of inboxes.
We hope you have some great adventures this week!
To check out our news stories from the past week. Click on the archive section and you’ll see them in chronological order.
MDI HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS CHICAGO
The MDI High School Drama department presents Chicago!
For just two weekends, MDI High School Drama presents CHICAGO at the Higgins-Demas Theater at the high school. If you’re looking for some live performance fix and great talent, head on over and then check out A.C.T. next month.
Performances are at:
Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 7 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, November 22-23, 7 p.m.
Sunday, November 17, 2 p.m.
Saturday, November 23, 2 p.m.
Tickets are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for students and seniors.
You can purchase your tickets in advance on:
Tuesday, November 12 • 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 13 • 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 14 • 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 20 • 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 21 • 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
For more information, visit the drama department’s website here.
ARTWAVES CLASSES AND EVENTS
ArtWaves often has classes, a variety every week. For the updated selection, check out its website here
JESUP EVENTS
For a full list of Jesup Memorial Library events, click through to its calendar here.
EVENTS AT THE GILLEY
For a full list of Gilley events, click here.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE SCHEDULE
The calendar is here.
MDI YMCA
Events are here and the gym schedule is here. You can peruse its website for other schedules.
NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY
A list of events are here.
CRITERION SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Blue Star Memorial Marker Veterans Day Ceremony
BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Garden Club (BHGC) is holding its annual Blue Star Memorial Marker Ceremony on Veterans Day, November 11, 2024, at 11 a.m., Route 3, Bar Harbor. The public is invited to honor America’s veterans for their patriotism and pay tribute to our service men and women.
Please join the BHGC at the Blue Star Memorial Marker to offer hope and healing through the remembrance of our living and fallen heroes. The program includes special readings, remarks from local veterans and an opportunity to share your personal memories. The BHGC’s Blue Star Memorial Marker was originally erected in 1972 as a tribute and an expression of thanks, respect and remembrance, to all men and women who had served, were serving, or would serve in the armed forces of the United States.
Garden Clubs nationwide believe in a living memorial, preferring to help beautify and preserve the country these men and women had fought for, rather than build stone monuments in their honor. Since World War I, a Blue Star Banner displayed in the window of a home told others that a family member was serving in the Armed Forces. Based on this legacy, the Blue Star Memorial Program began in 1944 with the planting of Dogwood trees as a living memorial to Veterans of World War II.
The Bar Harbor Garden Club is a member of the Garden Club Federation of Maine, New England Garden Clubs, and National Garden Clubs.
DANCING AT ARTWAVES
LINE DANCING AT ART WAVES
No partner? No problem!
Learn new dance steps while having fun in a group setting. This class is appropriate for all levels. Please carry in a dedicated pair of dance shoes (clean, non-marking soles); no outdoor shoes are allowed into the studio. Your instructor: David Lamon is an experienced teacher and choreographer who has studied and taught a wide variety of dance forms and movement techniques. Whether he is teaching jazz, modern, improv, or ballroom, David’s classes are fun, engaging, and demonstrate a thoughtful attention to the foundations of each dance. Whatever the form, David believes that dance is a doorway to the synchronistic creativity of being in the moment.
11 Nov 2024, 4:00 PM 5:00 PM (EST)
18 Nov 2024, 4:00 PM 5:00 PM (EST)
BALL DANCING AT ART WAVES
This class will focus primarily on Rhumba and Salsa patterns for social dance settings at the beginner/intermediate levels.
We’ll cover basics and more complex dance patterns and partnering skills. Focus is on having fun and feeling more confident on the dance floor. Must register with a partner. Please carry in a dedicated pair of dance shoes (clean, non-marking soles); no outdoor shoes are allowed into the studio to protect the floor. Our instructor: David Lamon is an experienced teacher and choreographer who has studied and taught a wide variety of dance forms and movement techniques. Whether he is teaching jazz, modern, improv, or ballroom, David’s classes are fun, engaging, and demonstrate a thoughtful attention to the foundations of each dance. Whatever the form, David believes that dance is a doorway to the synchronistic creativity of being in the moment.
11 Nov 2024, 6:00 PM 7:00 PM (EST)
18 Nov 2024, 6:00 PM 7:00 PM (EST)
LEGO CLUB!
Divine Play Yoga at the Neighborhood House
Mon/Wed; 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Cost: $15/class
with Mike Bouscaren
Dear Yogis,
You’ll recall that our flow yoga classes progressively tease out more body aliveness and mental acuity in you. And they’re fun!
For one hour you alone as do others around you, return to the grounded center that is the unburdened original self. Freer in every way.
You’ll walk away feeling more open, calmer, and sharp. And mightily prepared for whatever the day throws at you.
Divine Play yoga invites you to shine, to be your best, to transform into a Beacon of Joy. It works!
Two Hands Together,
Mike Bouscaren
Register: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=19801383
Monday events via the Bar Harbor Chamber:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
TWO SHOES LINE DANCING!
AUTHOR EVENT
If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the 500-year-old Scottish sport of curling, or are simply a fan of historical fiction and Scotland, you won’t want to miss this event. On Tuesday, November 12 at 5:30 p.m., the Southwest Harbor Public Library will host a talk and book signing with Maine author David Florig discussing his new novel, The Shattered Curling Stone.
Tuesday events via the Chamber:
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Tween Trivia Night in Southwest Harbor
GUIDED MEDITATION
Wednesday events via the Chamber:
None listed.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14
"Piping Plover & Least Tern Project"
Please join the BHGC Monthly Meeting on November 14, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. featuring "Piping Plover & Least Tern Project" by Laura Zitske, Maine Audubon, at Birch Bay Retirement Village, 25 Village Inn Road, Bar Harbor.
The speaker program will be held first followed by the business meeting and refreshments.
The speaker, Laura Zitske, a wildlife biologist and Director of the Piping Plover and Least Tern project, has been working with Maine Audubon, to ensure that endangered birds, wildlife and people can share our beautiful coast and its beaches. Understand how to share the beach with Piping Plovers to help them survive rough weather, loss of habitats, and human and pet disturbances.
Please enter through the main entrance of Birch Bay Retirement Village. Note that resident parking is allocated in the first row of spaces closest to the Inn. We request that you park only in visitor spaces and not park in the resident section.
We look forward to you joining Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 1:00 pm for an lively and engaging discussion and how you can help protect Piping Plovers and Least Terns that nest on our beaches in coastal Maine.
We look forward to you joining the program! Please contact Barbara Amstutz at amstutzbarbara53@gmail.com to register.
PUPPETS, POETRY, AND PLAY!
FIGURE DRAWING AT ARTWAVES
ROB REID LIVE
Thursday events via the Chamber:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15
ARE YOU READY FOR A COOK OFF FOR THE BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY?
TOWN HILL—207 Beer Week is coming and Atlantic Brewing Midtown is getting in on the fun bringing back our Italian Cook Off! November 15 at 5 p.m. submit your Italian classics to a panel of judges at Atlantic Brewing Midtown to win bragging rights and glory while supporting the Bar Harbor Food Pantry!
Free entry with a donation to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry! The Food Pantry's November shout out list highlights household items and personal care products, but shelf stable food items, and especially things like coffee, tea, condiments, and snack-foods are welcome!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
5-6: Check in + Aperitivos
6-7: Mangia!
7: Judges announce their winners and the people's choice winner!
As part of 207 Beer Week, special edition Maine Brewers' Guild glassware are available, proceeds from glassware goes to the Guild.
Email allie@atlanticbrewing.com to sign up your dish and with any questions!
Stuffed Animal Sleepover Story Time
Drop off on Friday, November 15!
Pick up your stuffed animal and hear about its adventures on Saturday, November 16 at 10:30 a.m.!
Wouldn’t it be fun to spend the night in the library? Stuffed animals are invited to a sleepover. Kids and parents can drop off a stuffed animal at any time on Friday before we close at 5. The stuffed animals will spend the night in the library and then we’ll all get back together on Saturday morning at 10:30 to see pictures from the sleepover, read a story, and make something fun.
Parents, if you’re child would like to bring a stuffed animal to participate in this event, please ask them to choose their second or third favorite, since it will be staying overnight in the library. Kids who aren’t ready to leave a toy overnight are still welcome to participate. We have a number of stuffed animals here who will be up for adoption.
If you have any questions about this program, please contact Abby (amorrow@jesuplibrary.org).
DO YOU HAVE A PLAN?
FUN FRIDAY!
Friday events via the Chamber:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16
November Story Time N’ Climb at Volta with Ms. Chrissy
PRAYER SHAWL MISSION GROUP
Welcoming all knitters and would be knitters…and crocheters! The Welcome and Care Team at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church UCC is hosting a weekly Prayer Shawl Mission Group every Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church UCC. The intention of the group is to create a sense of community and a flow of Prayer Shawls for distribution to those in need of comfort due to illness, loneliness, or loss. Supplies and instruction will be provided to those with skills for knitting and/or crocheting and for those with a desire to learn.
There are no costs to the participants.
For more information contact Pat by calling (203) 770-0063 or email: pgdizazzo@yahoo.com.
Saturday events via the Chamber:
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Flies & Lies
BAR HARBOR—Downeast Trout Unlimited is excited to announce the “Flies & Lies” fly-tying group.
Flies & Lies is open to anyone interested in the art of fly tying and the sport of fly fishing. This group will share information about fly-tying techniques and provide teaching opportunities for the fly-tying community. The group will meet on Sundays twice per month from October to April to promote fly fishing and conservation.
Location: 96 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, Machias Savings Bank, Community Room.
Time: 5 – 8 p.m.
The meeting dates are:
Remaining 2024 Dates: November 17, December 15.
2025 Dates: January 5 and 19, February 2 and 16, March 2 and 16, April 6 and 20.
We look forward to seeing you and hearing your fishing stories from 2024.
Please bring everything you need to tie flies including your vice, tools, lamp, extension cord, and tying materials (furs, feathers, hooks, beads, thread, etc.)
For more information, including meeting dates and times, go to https://downeasttu.org/ or Downeast TU on Facebook.
Many thanks to Machias Savings Bank and Downeast Trout Unlimited for their generosity and support in providing this meeting space.
Sunday events via the Chamber:
FUTURE EVENTS:
HARVEST FESTIVAL AT THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL!
NORTHEAST HARBOR CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
WITHAM FAMILY HOTELS CHARITABLE CHRISTMAS
Join us for the 10th Annual Witham Family Hotels Charitable Christmas on Saturday, December 14, from 10 A.M. - 2 P.M.
Enjoy kids holiday crafts, hot cocoa and cookies, write letters to Santa (and receive a response before Christmas!) photo booth, and don't forget...to visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus and get a photo together!
NEW this year, Santa is also bringing a petting zoo full of friends and a pony!
The event is completely FREE, including all crafts, photos, food.
In exchange for attendance, we do ask that all able families bring a donation in lieu of entry fee. This can be either a new unwrapped toy for Maine Seacoast Mission’s Christmas Program (This local charity has been collecting gifts for in need families for over 100 years) or a gently used or new winter gloves, mittens, and boots for H.O.M.E. Inc who distributes warm clothing to folks in need in Hancock County (mens, womens, and childrens).
We hope you and your family will join us for some holiday fun for a great cause!
Sponsored by the Witham Family Hotels.
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA!
BAR HARBOR VILLAGE HOLIDAYS CELEBRATION
BAR HARBOR WINTER FARMERS AND MAKERS MARKET
ONGOING:
GET YOUR HERO ON!
BAR HARBOR FIRE DEPARTMENT
To check if Bar Harbor Fire Department is currently hiring, please go to the town’s jobs page.
But even if it isn’t, you can become a call member
Becoming a call force firefighter requires extensive training, hard work, and dedication to the community. We rely on call force firefighters to respond quickly to emergencies, to perform firefighting duties, and to provide assistance and support to career firefighters. To be a fall force firefighter is to have a chance to aid and serve the community, which is an extremely rewarding experience.
Get Your Knowledge On!
ASC Racial Justice Book Group
Are you interested in joining us? We are open to new members who want to share in the reading and the hard work that ensues as we examine the underpinnings of systemic racism and its effects on society and on each of us individually, in the ultimate hope that our studies can work toward change.
We have been meeting once a month on the second Tuesday of the month from 10:30- 12:15.
We started with the basic readings of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee. We then spent many months delving deeply into The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Since then, we’ve read some James Baldwin, Colon Whitehead, Zora Neale Hurston, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Clint Smith and many others. We look forward in the next few months to reading some James McBride and Bryan Stevenson. We also share articles of interest that deal with the issues we’re facing.
If the truly hard, but most meaningful, work we are doing to examine our society, culture and ourselves sounds like something that interests you, please contact me at rjbg2021@gmail.com or 207-664-9954.
Read more about the book group
GET YOUR VOLTA ON!
Volta, in Trenton, has a ton of things always going on. You can check that out here.
GET YOUR FITNESS, DANCE AND WELLNESS ON!
THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE!
The Neighborhood House has a slew of classes to help you get your fitness on. Descriptions are at its website.
MDI YMCA!
The MDI YMCA’s program guide is here.
DOWNEAST COMMUNITY DANCE
Downeast Community Dance
Free form dance, conscious or ecstatic, not facilitated. Come drop into your own joyful movement.
This is now held the first, third, and fifth Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. at ArtWaves Dance StudioFor more information, contact Susan at 288-8103 or cloudnine@gwi.net.
Location
Dance Studio at ArtWaves, 1345A State Highway 102, Bar Harbor
GET YOUR MUSIC ON!
THE FINBACK ALEHOUSE
The Finback has entertainment most nights. The schedule is posted every Tuesday.
THE NOR’EASTER
The Nor’Easter has music every Saturday night from 8-10 in the summer and 7-9 in the winter.
ONE OFF PUB
The One Off Pub often has music and is often open until midnight. The location? 119 Main Street.
HAVANA
Every Saturday night it’s open, at 6:30 p.m, you can come hear the maestro Bob Lombardi. Maestro isn’t something we put out there for everyone. Havana is on lower Main Street.
“Things To Do” is mostly curated by me looking for things happening in the upcoming week, which takes a lot of time and I truly do not know all that is going on.
If there’s something in Bar Harbor (or MDI or Trenton or Ellsworth) that you’d like me to mention, please let me know, because I’m definitely always missing some events every week.
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