Points of View Artists closes their 2023 season with Transitions, a group exhibit in diverse media that reflects the vibrant colors of our Maine autumn.  

Exhibit: Sept 5 – Oct 6.  

Reception: Friday, September 8; 5-7 pm.   

Gallery location and hours: 18 Pleasant Street; 9 am – 5 pm Monday through Friday.   

FMI: povartistsmaine.com;   207-373-9300

Led by Leah Titcomb, Certified Yoga Instructor, Master Reiki Practitioner and Founder of Forever Wild Yoga.
This weekly program is designed to limit stress, reduce fatigue, and promote healing for cancer patients and their caregivers, pre, post, or during treatment.
Walk-ins welcome.

What you can expect:
• A better sense of well being
• Stimulated immune system
• Help with building bone density
• Increased strength and flexibility

Movement Room at the Mid Coast Center for Community Health & Wellness
329 Maine Street-SOUTH ENTRANCE, Brunswick
For more information call (207) 373-6585 or visit midcoasthealth.com/wellness

Curious about Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program’s (MCHPP) Community Kitchen? Join us for our first ever Community Kitchen open house event to learn more about MCHPP’s work and the impact our Community Kitchen is making in the community! 

• Explore our 1-year impact
• Meet our renters
• Enjoy food and beverage tastings
• Remarks at 5:30 PM

We hope to see you there!

Contact Brie with any questions at bnicolaou@mchpp.org.

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH AUDITIONS

The Theater Project is holding auditions for their Young Company production of The Phantom Tollbooth by Susan Nanus adapted from the novel by Norton Juster, Directed by Julia Brown.

General Audition for the Young Company will include theatre games and reading from the script, no preparation required. The young company is geared toward the ages 13-18. Walk-ins are welcome, but advance notice is appreciated. Please contact Julia Brown juliabrown94@gmail.com for more information.

Please fill out this form if you are interested in auditioning.
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Shows Dates: December 8th- 17th: Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00pm & Sundays at 2:00pm.

Casting: All Roles Are Available

Description: The Theater Project is excited to present The Phantom Tollbooth! Here are Milo’s adventures in the Land of Wisdom, where he’s forced to think about many new things. Milo learns of the argument between King Azaz and his brother, the Mathemagician, whose disagreement over words and numbers has led to the banishment of Princesses Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason. Milo is dispatched to rescue the princesses from the Land of Ignorance. Armed with the knowledge and skills he picks up on his journey, Mile rescues the princesses. When he must return home, Milo bids farewell to his new friends, knowing his attitude toward learning will never be the same.

Join us at Flight Deck Brewing for yoga on the front lawn every Tuesday at 5:30 PM. Hosted by Nikki Yanok, yogis can expect an all levels class with a focus on strength, alignment, and intention. $10/class includes a 7oz draft pour.

Celebrate the release of American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life with author Jennifer Lunden, in conversation with Jane Brox. Praised by the Washington Post as “[a] rigorous cultural critique…compelling, detailed, and absorbing,” this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves Lunden’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America. Books will be available for sale and signing (cash/check only) courtesy of Gulf of Maine Books.

Jennifer Lunden is an author, poet, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and former therapist. She is the recipient of the 2019 Maine Arts Fellowship for literary arts and the 2016 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Nonfiction. Lunden, a dual citizen, has also been awarded three grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, one from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Monson Arts, Hewnoaks, and the Dora Maar House in the South of France.

Jane Brox’s fifth book, Silence, was selected as an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times Book Review and received the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction.  Her previous book, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2010 by Time magazine.  She is also the author of Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm; Five Thousand Days Like This One, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Here and Nowhere Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Brox has received the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and her essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies including Best American Essays, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, The Georgia Review and NewYorker.com.  She has been awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Maine Arts Commission. She lives in Brunswick, Maine.

Friends and colleagues of Evan Gershkovich ’14 are coming to the Bowdoin campus September 26 to keep the plight of the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter in the spotlight and highlight the ongoing struggle for press freedom in much of the world. Panelists include Linda Kinstler ’13, A. Leroy Greason Professor of English Brock Clarke, Paul Beckett, Washington Editor of The Wall Street Journal, with Henry Laurence, Professor of Government and Asian Studies, moderating the conversation and inviting the audience to participate with questi

ons and comments for the panel.

Colleagues, Friends of Evan Gershkovich ‘14 Coming to Bowdoin College Campus to Highlight Journalist’s Plight

7:30 p.m.–8:45 p.m. Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall and livestreamed at bowdoin.edu/live

Free and open to the public

(BRUNSWICK, MAINE)—Friends and colleagues of Evan Gershkovich, of the Bowdoin College Class of 2014, are coming to the Bowdoin campus September 26 to keep the plight of the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter in the spotlight and highlight the ongoing struggle for press freedom in much of the world.

Gershkovich, who was based in Moscow, was arrested by the Russian authorities five months ago while on assignment in the city of Yekaterinburg in the east of the country and charged with espionage, although no evidence has been presented. Today he remains behind bars in Moscow, in pretrial detention for at least another three months, in spite of repeated calls for his release from the White House, US lawmakers, the United Nations, international media organizations, and others.

A community conversation will be held on campus on September 26 to talk about Gershkovich, his work as a journalist, his life as a student, and the broader theme of the challenges facing independent journalism in places like Russia. The event is the brainchild of Gershkovich’s Bowdoin friends and fellow journalists Linda Kinstler ’13 and Nora Biette-Timmons ’14. The gathering, they said, will be a chance to bring Gershkovich’s friends, teachers, colleagues, and supporters from Bowdoin and beyond together to rally support for Evan, and to underscore the threats to journalists all over the world.

“Our friend and colleague Evan has been imprisoned in Moscow for five months, simply because he was doing his job,” said Kinstler. “We want to make sure that Evan comes home as soon as possible, and want him to know that we are thinking about him and keeping his case front of mind.”

The discussion panel, to be moderated by Professor of Government and Asian Studies Henry Laurence, will include A. Leroy Greason Professor of English Brock Clarke, who has fond memories of teaching Gershkovich in his creative writing class. “I thought the world of Evan when he was a student, and I think the world of him as a journalist, and a human being. I look forward to talking and hearing more about him on the twenty-sixth,” said Clarke.

The panel is also due to feature the WSJ’s Washington editor, Paul Beckett. “What happened to Evan,” said Beckett, “is indicative of the increasing risks faced by journalists around the world, and it’s critical we continue to highlight not only his case but also how this sort of assault on journalism ultimately impacts everyone. Press freedom is absolutely essential for a free society, and we’re grateful for all of Bowdoin’s support for Evan as well as the opportunity to bring this important discussion to campus.”

“Having so many people come together from different parts of Evan’s life to plan this event was very important to us, and we are so grateful to everyone who’s helped make it happen,” said Biette-Timmons.

The event will be held Tuesday, September 26, 7:30 p.m.–8:45 p.m., in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall, and will be livestreamed at bowdoin.edu/live. Check the Bowdoin Calendar for more details as the date approaches.