Past Events
Artist Talk: Rosie Schaap Drinking With Men
Rosie Schaap has always loved bars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at age fifteen she told commuters' fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among bar patrons can be.
Drinking... MORE
Friday05.24.2013
Music: Different Trains Works by Steve Reich, John Zorn and Beth Wiemann
Following last October's fantastic collaboration with Portland Chamber Music Festival, SPACE Gallery and PCMF are teaming up again to co-present another adventurous program of contemporary chamber music. The spring concert features a world premiere by Maine composer Beth Wiemann, titled Minor blasts, some flurries, as well as two iconic works by late 20th century heavyweights, John Zorn's Cat O'... MORE
Thursday05.23.2013
Workshop: Embroidery with Dee Clements
Come see Sophia Narrett's installation of embroidered paintings I Was Dreaming This and get inspiration to learn embroidery techniques. We will spend the first hour of the class learning embroidery stitches and techniques using an embroidery hoop, needle and thread to make a stitch sampler. The second and third hour of class will be devoted to developing a small embroidered illustration... MORE
Saturday05.18.2013
Film: Leviathan A film by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
A groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry, Leviathan was filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts—at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Melville’s inspiration for Moby Dick. Today New Bedford is the country’s largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbor every month.
Leviathan follows one such... MORE
Friday05.17.2013
Artist Talk: Pecha Kucha
Started in 2003 by Klein Dytham Architects, Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) Night is an opportunity for designers of all stripes to showcase their work. We welcome a broad mix of participants to present their designs, thoughts and ideas in a format of 20 slides x 20 seconds each. If you’re an architect, graphic designer, illustrator, painter, landscape designer, photographer or some other... MORE
Thursday05.16.2013
Film: The Institute A film by Spencer McCall
The Institute is a feature-length documentary that examines a San Francisco-based alternate reality game, where thousands of participants got more than they bargained for. Told from the players' perspectives, the film looks over the precipice at an emergent new art form where the real world and fiction narratives merge to create unforeseen and often unsettling consequences.
Followed by live... MORE
Wednesday05.15.2013
Artist Talk: The Maine Poetry Express
The Maine Poetry Express, an initiative of the Office of the Maine Poet Laureate, is a whistle-stop tour of community poetry readings conducted by Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair, who brings together Maine poets and townspeople for readings and discussions of poetry.
Conductor: Joshua Bodwell
Featured Poets: Wesley McNair, Betsy Sholl and Bruce Spang
Special Guests: To... MORE
Tuesday05.14.2013
Artist Talk: Literary Death Match
Literary Death Match, now in 47 cities worldwide, recently shot their TV pilot, and has been called "the most entertaining reading series ever" by the LA Times. The live show brings together four authors to read their most electric writing for six minutes or less before a panel of three all-star judges. After each pair of readers, the judges take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary... MORE
Friday05.10.2013
Workshop: Design Thinking is for Everyone
Treehouse Institute and Yona Belfort of Vital Innovation present “Design Thinking is for Everyone,” a two-hour workshop where participants will jump into design thinking to solve a real problem in Portland. Design Thinking is a set of principles, from mindset to process, that can be applied to solve complex problems. It combines empathy for the context of a problem, creativity... MORE
Tuesday05.07.2013
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