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Showing posts with label Rockport Public Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rockport Public Library. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2025

Learn How to Attract More Butterflies and Hummingbirds to Your Garden


ROCKPORT, Maine - 
The Rockport Public Library announces a new horticulture series in partnership with Merryspring Nature Center. In monthly talks from March through May, Merryspring Nature Center Program Director John Fromer (and Maine Master Gardener Volunteer) will offer free gardening classes at the Rockport Library covering a variety of topics and culminating in a special tour on Merryspring’s flower gardens in mid-June.

The series will kick off on Wednesday, Mar. 5, at 1 p.m. in the library’s

Copper Animal Sculptures at Rockport Library

The attached image of G. Bion Richards' copper rooster is provided with permission to use.

Rockport, Maine - 
Rockport resident G. Bion Richards will be exhibiting his copper sculptures of birds and salt water fish in the Marine Room of the Rockport Public Library during the months of March and April. All the copper work is made by hand with an anvil and a ball peen hammer, lots of pounding, and lots of heat. Richards says, "Winter is my favorite time for my work with crisp Maine air and a snowbank to cool the red hot copper.” Richards explains that the pieces were inspired by working on farms, attending the Windsor Fair, and observing Great Blue Heron and schools of ocean fish. 

FMI: rockportlibrary.net.

Monday, April 22, 2019

Rockport Public Library Run/Walk 5k (June 23rd at 9:00am)

Rockport Public Library Run/Walk 5k
Sunday, June 23rd at 9:00am
Starts at the Rockport Opera House

Rockport, Maine - All funds raised from this event go to support the construction of the new Rockport Public Library. More than just a building that holds books, the new Rockport Public Library will be the community’s gathering and learning center. It will offer access to technology, digital resources, and meeting spaces, as well as print and electronic books. We anticipate opening the doors of our new home to the community in the late summer of 2020.

Our 5k (3.1 mile) Run/Walk starts in beautiful Rockport village and travels along the coast offering fantastic ocean views. The race starts at the Rockport Opera House, takes you down Beauchamp Point, and ends at Rockport Harbor Marine Park, where water and snacks will be provided. The harbor is a short walk from the start of the race. This event is open to runners and walkers of all ages and skills. Strollers are allowed, but be mindful of traffic as most of the race does not have a sidewalk.

Race day registration starts at 8:00am at the Rockport Opera House, and the race starts at 9:00am. If you have registered in advance, please allow yourself enough time to sign in and to get your bib number.

The 5K race is open to all, and registration costs $25 on race day or $20 in advance. You can sign up in advance at the library or online at https://runsignup.com/Race/ME/Rockport/RockportPublicLibraryRunWalk5k. Advance registration ends on Friday, June 21st.

If you have any questions please contact the Library at 236-3642 or rpl@rockport.lib.me.us.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

"Knitting for Victory in WWI" with Holly Korda at the Rockport Public Library

Rockport, Maine - "Knitting for Victory in WWI: How the Red Cross Mobilized the Nation to Knit and Helped Win the War ” with Holly Korda Tuesday, May 2nd at 3:00pm at the Rockport Public Library

This program was originally scheduled in February and was canceled due to weather

In the summer of 1917, following the U.S. entry into World War I in April, the American Red Cross put out an urgent call for volunteers in every state who came to knit more than 15 million pounds of wool into socks, sweaters, hats, and bandages for our soldiers and allies overseas. In less than two years, membership swelled from 200,000 to over 30 million nationwide. Women, men, and the nation's school children knit and purled more than 24 million articles for the war effort in the most successful mobilization of community resources in the United States.

Join Holly Korda on Tuesday, May 2nd, at 3:00pm at the Rockport Public Library while she explores the amazing efforts of the Knitting Brigades of WWI, and learn how knitting helped unify the nation and win the war.

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Children's Events at the Rockport Public Library February Break

Children's Events at the Rockport Public Library February Break
February 16th        Maine Student Book Award posters - Tuesday February 16th from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. Have a favorite book from this year's crop of Maine Student Book Awards? Come on in and make a poster for an alternate cover for the book! Or draw your favorite moments from the book in comic form!

February 17th        Paperbag puppets! - Wednesday February 17th from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. Craft time! We will have all the supplies you need to make some puppets. Yarn! Buttons! Glue! Oh MY!

February 18th        Maine Student Book Award Booktalk – Thursday February 18th from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. Children's librarian Ben will be giving a book talk in the Young Adult room about Maine Student Book Award books, past and present. All are welcome!

February 19th        Scavenger Hunt - Friday February 19th from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. Yeah, that's right. SCAVENGER HUNT. We'll have clues set up, testing your knowledge of the library and of the books in the library!

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Foreign Film Night at the Rockport Public Library

June 9th              Foreign Film Night at the Rockport Public Library, 6:00pm. This month’s film will be Traitors directed by Sean Gullette. Malika, leader of Traitors, an all-female punk rock band, has a strong vision of the world, her hometown of Tangier, and her place in it. When she needs money to save her family from eviction and to realize her dreams for the band, Malika agrees to a fast cash proposition: a smuggling run over the mountains for a dangerous drug dealer. But her companion on the road is Amal, a burnt-out young drug mule who Malika decides to free from her enslavement to the dangerous drug dealers. The challenge will put Malika's rebel ethos to the test, and to survive she will have to call on all her instincts and nerve.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

April Vacation Week Events at the Rockport Public Library:

Rockport, Maine - The Rockport Public Library has announced events taken place during school vacation.

Tuesday, April 21 - Crafts! We'll have all kinds of materials to make all kinds of crafts! 1:00 to 3:00 PM in the children's room.

Wednesday, April 22 - Draw your Favorite Book Cover! Find your favorite book! Grab a sheet of paper! Draw your own version of it! We'll post your original works around the library and on Facebook for all to see. 1:00 to 3:00 PM in the children's room.

Thursday, April 23 - The Lego Movie will be playing and our Lego collection will be out! Build houses! Build robots! Build whatever you want to! 1:00 to 3:00 PM in the children's room.

Friday, April 24 - Art Corner for Everyone! Bring your sketchbook! Our "how to draw" books will be out and we'll have paper and drawing supplies if you need it. We'll draw comics. We'll create stories. 1:00 to 3:00 PM in the children's room.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Foreign Film Night at the Rockport Public Library‏, Other Library News

Rockport, Maine - Foreign Film Night at the Rockport Public Library Tuesday April 14th, 6:00pm. This month’s film will be 2 Autumns, 3 Winters directed by Sebastien Betbeder. Over the course of two autumns and three winters, Arman, Amélie and Benjamin share the incidental moments, unexpected accidents, unconventional love stories and unforgettable memories that will define who they are.

Ukelele Instruction! April 17th, 2:30 at the Rockport Public Library.‏
Ukelele Instruction!

April 17th, 2:30 at the Rockport Public Library.


Music teacher Celia Jones, will lead a workshop for children and parents to learn the basics of the ukelele. Ukelele's will be available to share, and if you have one from home, please bring it!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Notice: Rockport Public Library Annual Easter Egg Hunt from 10:00 to 11:30 AM

NOTICE:
Annual Easter Egg Hunt from 10:00 to 11:30 AM the Easter bunny visits the Rockport Opera House! We're not expecting the snow to have melted by then, so an indoor, warm, Easter egg hunt it is. Don't forget about Easter crafts at the library!

Rockport Public Library Celebrates National Poetry Month

Rockport, Maine - Poetry Reading April 2nd & 30th at 4:00. Members the Poets Corner, the poetry group that meets twice monthly at the Rockport Public Library will be reading poems from their new Chapbook. Members of the group include George Chappell, Jim Ostheimer, Jon Potter, Bill Eberle, Trina French, Eileen Hugo and Paul McFarland.

Carol Bachofner Poetry Reading April 8th at 6:00pm. Maine poet, Carol Bachofner writes poems that appeal to the idea that we are all connected, to each other and to nature. She writes with a strong sense of place through narrative.

Stephanie Marshall Poetry Reading April 9th at 4:00pm. Stephanie Marshall is a Mainer whose writing is influenced by a childhood spent roaming the potato fields of Aroostook County. Come and listen to Stephanie read some of her poetry as part of our celebration for Poetry Month.

 Poetry Reading with Jessica Eaton & Jessica Loudermilk April 16th at 4:00pm. Eaton and Loudermilk are members of the Togus Writers group, a weekly workshop, at the VA hospital in Augusta. They recently won first place awards for their poetry at the 10th annual Maine Veterans Creative Arts Festival at Togus in Augusta.

Poetry Reading with Carolyn Locke April 23rd at 4:00pm, the author of Always This Falling and Not One Thing: Following Matsuo Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior, grew up in Hudson, New Hampshire where she spent many hours roaming the woods and fields, and taking her favorite books to her treetop retreat where she read and day dreamed about traveling.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Author Talk with Denise Park Parsons

Rockport, Maine - Denise Park Parsons will talk about her book Touchstone: A Life unseen at The Rockport Public Library March 14th, 2:00 pm.


In Touchstone, Denise Park Parsons tells the story of her daughter’s life with Aicardi syndrome, which becomes the lens through which the reader views the author’s life over thirty years. The book tells how Park Parsons encountered the “three Ds”—death, disability, and divorce—and remained on her feet. It is a candid, revelatory look into one woman’s struggle to advocate for Emma in an indifferent educational system and an often confounded medical system. In the process, Denise and her husband started a newsletter in 1983 for parents of Aicardi syndrome children. That newsletter has matured into a global network that is a testament to what empowered parents can accomplish for their children and families.

How do you accomplish all that and maintain a loving, vibrant family life? Park Parsons succeeds, and she will succeed also in making you cry with her, flinch at the seemingly insurmountable difficulties, and rejoice at the delight nestled within adversity. And through it all you will be rooting for her and for Emma, who became the touchstone by which her mother measures what is valuable and good in life.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Foreign Film Night January 13th 6:00pm at the Rockport Public Library

Rockport, Maine - This month’s film is Asterix at the Olympic Games directed by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann

Astérix and Obélix compete at the Olympics in order to help their friend Lovesix marry Princess Irina. Brutus also tries to win the game with his own team and get rid of his father Julius Caesar. This month’s film is co-sponsored by the Rockport Public Library’s French Conversation Group.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Learn to Make Snowshoes at the Rockport Public Library‏

December 10 at 6:30 Rockport Public Library

Learn to Make Snowshoes with Master Traditional Snowshoe Maker Brian J. Theriault

Rockport, Maine - With over 20 years’ experience as a Master Traditional Snowshoe Maker, Brian J. Theriault knows his craft inside out. In a bold attempt to keep the art of snowshoe making alive, he has released a comprehensive guide that anyone can follow. From cutting down the right tree to weaving the resulting wood and finally enjoying the end product – snowshoe making is now within the grasp of the average person.

Brian J. Theriault will join us for the evening on Wednesday December 10th at 6:30 to talk about the ins and outs of making snowshoes.

Friday, October 17, 2014

Halloween Party at the Rockport Public Library‏

Rockport, Maine - On October 31st, The Rockport Public Library invites you to join them in a new tradition, our Library Halloween Party! There will be Halloween Happenings beginning at 4:00 and the library is staying open until 6:30! Come join them for a fun filled evening of thrills and chills at the Library. There will be refreshments, a haunted book-talk station and face-painting. In the children’s room they will be making Spooktacular treat bags, Boooo-marks and painting pumpkins. We can’t wait to see everyone’s costumes and have a scary good time.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Rockport Public Library Presents 100 years of Beech Nut.

A talk with Meg Barclay on Beech Nut its history, and the history of its architecture.

Wednesday May 14th at 6:30pm

At the Rockport Public Library

Rockport, Maine - On Wednesday, May 14, local architect Meg Barclay will give a talk on Beech Nut, the historic stone hut atop Beech Hill Preserve in Rockport. To celebrate its centennial, Meg will discuss the history of the hut, the surrounding preserve, and the unique architectural style that makes this stone hut a landmark of the midcoast. The talk, at the library, will begin at 6:30 PM.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Read Across America Day with the Rockport Public Library and Rockport Dance Conservatory

Rockport, Maine - The Rockport Public Library and Rockport Dance Conservatory are pleased to offer a special program on March 1st, celebrating Read Across America Day! The hour-long program, "Seuss is Loose,"  brings to life the loveable mischief of The Cat in the Hat along with magical dance movement appropriate for children.

The National Education Association sponsors Read Across America Day as a way to celebrate reading and works to create lifelong readers, working with schools, libraries and organizations across the country.

Since 1997 Rockport Dance Conservatory has been supporting the community with special programs, school workshops, and education.  "Seuss is Loose" will also be featured as part of RDC’s 6th Spring Showcase in May.
The program begins promptly at 3:30 at the Rockport Public Library. Join us for a wonderful afternoon of reading and dance!

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Elizabeth Peavey At Rockport Opera House


Elizabeth Peavey’s Acclaimed One-Person Show at the Rockport Opera House November 3

Celebrated Maine author Elizabeth Peavey has been touring her hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show, “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother,” to venues across the state. The Camden Public Library and the Rockport Public Library will collaborate to co-host a matinee performance of “My Mother’s Clothes” on Saturday, November 3, at 2:00 pm at the Rockport Opera house. Tickets are $10 and will benefit the libraries. Tickets are available at both libraries and at the performance, cash or check only. The performance is the first in what is hoped will be an annual literary and theatrical collaboration for the neighboring libraries.

“My Mother’s Clothes” is performed in a series of connected monologues by Peavey as she confronts the loss of a parent. Losing your final parent is difficult enough, and presents an additional challenge: What are you supposed to do with all your family’s STUFF? For months, she avoided wading through her mother’s things. But when her mom’s condo sells, she’s forced to reckon with its contents. As she does, objects surface, triggering memories from her childhood. Possessions she once thought would be easy to chuck -- the Polynesian hors d’oeuvre platter, the outdated coat from Bernie’s Fashions, the milk glass and tea cups -- suddenly take on epic stature, forcing the question: How do we know when to let go?

The show premiered to a series of sell-out houses at the St. Lawrence Performing Arts Center in Portland last fall. It traveled to Sugarloaf in February, where it was received by another packed house. In April, Peavey gave two performances at the Chocolate Church Art Center in Bath (her hometown), followed by another sellout at the Magic Lantern in Bridgton, as a benefit for the Bridgton Library.

“The piece is peppered with humor,” said Bob Keyes in the Portland Press Herald, “but does not gloss over the difficult aspects of the mother-daughter relationship or the emotional turmoil that Peavey experienced following her death.”

Elizabeth Peavey is the author of Glorious Slow Going: Maine Stories of Art, Adventure and Friendship, which was a finalist in the 2012 Maine Literary Awards; Outta My Way: An Odd Life Lived Loudly; and of Maine & Me, which was awarded the Maine Literary Award for Best Maine-themed Book. Her writing has been featured in Down East magazine since 1993. Her monthly humor column, “Outta My Yard,” can be found at thebollard.com. She teaches public speaking at the University of Southern Maine and has also taught creative nonfiction at the University of Maine at Farmington. She is a frequent guest lecturer and speaker at schools, libraries and associations across the state.

For more information visit the libraries’ websites or call 236-3440 for the Camden Public Library or the Rockport Public Library at 236-3642.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

ArtLab StoryLab: A Collaboration between CMCA and Rockport Public Library

Rockport, Maine - The Center for Maine Contemporary Art and the Rockport Public Library are pleased to present a new collaborative program for children, ArtLab StoryLab. This program meets at CMCA for three Tuesdays in October beginning October 16 at 3:30 until 4:30 and continues on October 23 and 30. Liza Walsh, the children’s librarian at Rockport Public Library will read a fairy tale, both the traditional and contemporary version to show the variations involved in storytelling. After the story, Marcie Jan Bronstein, artist and ArtLab instructor, will lead children in a dynamic art project that stems from the tale.

This program is free but requires advance registration. Space is limited to ten students and reservations can be made by calling the library at 236-3642 or emailing lwalsh@rockport.lib.me.us.

Children who attend this program from Camden Rockport Elementary School can take the bus directly to the CMCA.

ArtLab is supported in part by the Davis Foundation, Camden National Bank, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, an individual donors.

Rockport Public Library is located at 1 Limerock Street in Rockport. Call the library at 236-3642 for more information or visit our website at www.rockport.lib.me.us to see a full program descriptions and a calendar of events.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Middle School Summer Reads Party at the Rockport Public Library

Rockport, Maine - On August 15, from 3:30 until 4:30, the Rockport Public Library will host a celebration of the books chosen for Camden Rockport Middle School Summer Reads program. Fifth and sixth grade students and their families are invited to attend this program. The fifth graders will discuss Hoot by Carl Hiaasen and the sixth graders will discuss their book choice, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick. Snacks and beverages will be provided. The seventh and eighth grade students are invited to discuss their books at the Camden Public Library during this same time.

Michelle Gabrielson, the CRMS literacy coach and Kathy Foss, the middle school Media Specialist coordinate this program each year. Kathy Foss will be at this event to discuss the books and celebrate summer reading.

Rockport Public Library is located at 1 Limerock Street in Rockport. Call the library at 236-3642 for more information or visit our website at www.rockport.lib.me.us to see a full program descriptions and a calendar of events.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Songbirds Music Program at Rockport Public Library‏

Rockport, Maine - Rockport Public Library is pleased to present a special “Songbirds” story time with Trish Jonason on Tuesday, July 31 from 10:30 until 11:30.

Songbirds is a child/family music class for children ages 0-5. Celebrate each child’s innate interest and ability to sing, drum, shake and dance! Songbirds engages young children in music while helping to develop motor, language and social skills. The group is open to parents, grandparents and caregivers.

Trish Jonason is a board-certified music therapist and owner of Coastal Music Therapy. Trish earned her Bachelor's of Music in Music Therapy from Anna Maria College and completed her clinical internship at Lutheran General Hospital in the Chicago area. Trish has experience working with hospitalized children and adults, as well as children and adults with multiple disabilities, chronic illness, traumatic brain injury, stroke, mental illness and Autism. Trish has worked as a music therapist, teacher and child case manger in the Midcoast area since 2006, familiarizing herself with local providers and schools. Trish is married and has a young son. Trish is a professional member of the American Music Therapy Association.

For more information call Rockport Public Library at 236-3642 or visit our website at www.rockport.lib.me.us