Word. Art. is an exhibit of visual art that contains words, letters, or book forms. Artists will include Stu Kestenbaum, Susan Webster, Robert Shetterly, and Josh Krugman. There will be a reading at 6 pm by Josh Krugman.
Free event
Short stories, in the hands of a master, can be revelatory and joyful, piercing and mysterious. The concentrated power of a great short story is incomparable, serving as inspiration for iconic movies ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Brokeback Mountain. Join us to hear two masters of the form talk about the challenging craft of making a literary impact in a handful of pages.
Free event
Got a story about the Blue Hill area? Let’s preserve it! Word is collaborating with Maine Sound + Story, an effort to preserve the history, memory, and stories of Maine through sound, images, and oral history. Blue Hill Peninsula residents can sign up for 15-20-minute interviews with Galen Koch, an audio producer, educator, and sound artist who co-founded MS+S.
Free event, registration required
Join Chef Afton from The Reader's Kitchen as she reads aloud from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and teaches kids and their caregivers how to make fruit skewers inspired by the story. Ideal for children ages 2 to 5, but all are welcome.
Free event
Four experienced DMs will be at the Blue Hill Public Library to share their expertise being Dungeon Masters for the beloved game Dungeons and Dragons. Erich Bensheimer, Nick Berry, Brittany Courtot, and Tim Peper, will teach participants different aspects of DMing and host a brief activity for participants to practice some of the new skills they’ve learned, along with resources available to take home.
Free event, pre-registration required
Word’s popular Poetry Crawl returns! Join us on an easy walk around Blue Hill village to hear a sequence of readings by five remarkable poets at four local venues. Poets include Dawn Potter, Nyamuon “Moon” Nguany Machar, Maya Stein, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, and Stuart Kestenbaum.
Free event
Rose Valland, curator of the Jeu de Paume art museum in Paris during the WWII German occupation, is credited with infiltrating Nazi leadership to save more than 60,000 artworks stolen from Jewish owners. Last year, award-winning journalist Michelle Young published the definitive account of this unlikely heroine in The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of World War II Resistance Hero Rose Valland.
Free event
Caroline Bicks, the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine, became the first scholar granted access to Stephen King’s private archive of manuscript drafts and other materials. Bicks’ book, Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King, describes what she learned about the creation of classic works from The Shining to Carrie. She will discuss her findings with Laura Miller, Slate.com books and culture columnist.
Free event
Monson, Maine, USA is a hybrid dance, poetry, and theater work featuring Gretchen Berg, Teresa Carson, Gwyneth Jones, and Dawn Potter. Anchored by the poem “Monson, Maine, USA” and set to music by Frigg, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and Maria Kalaniemi and Eero Grundström, the performance is at times comic, at times heartrending. It is a portrait of people and landscape, exploring how both change and solidify over time.
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