Brunswick Downtown Association

Friday Fun with Friends
2026-02-20 10:30 - 12:30, 2026-02-13 10:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | The Mix, 163 Park Row, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Join us in the studio on Friday mornings from 10:30-12:30 to share creative time. All materials will be provided. Reserve your spot today!
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Brunswick Talks: Dare to Try Something New!
2026-02-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant Street, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Join us on Thursday, February 19th, at The Curtis Memorial Library, for the pilot event of our storytelling series Brunswick Talks! Attendees will hear four Brunswick community members’ stories of a time when they “dared to try something new.”
Register Here!
Speakers

Michaela McVetty
Founder of Routine and Co-Founder of Sisters Gourmet Deli

Mark Stephens
Baseball Historian

Carolyn Eklund
Tedford Housing Board President

Kelly McElligott
Curtis Memorial Library’s Manager of Adult Services and Technology

Slam Tilt Records + Games – Weekly Pinball Tournament!
2026-02-18 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-02-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Slam Tilt Records + Games, 94 Maine Street - Basement, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Join us Wednesday nights to play in our weekly tournament series at Slam Tilt Records + Games located at 94 Maine Street Basement, Brunswick ME. All ages. All levels of experience welcome. Bring a friend and fling some sling. Check in by 7:15, we start at 7:30. $1-5 entry fee. All games run on quarters and are between .50-$1 per play. Please reach out with any questions!

Wednesday Night Bingo
2026-02-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Social Goose Bar, 94 Maine St, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Social Goose hosts a free Bingo Night that’s fun for the whole family. 3 rounds of Bingo with a prize for each round’s winner.
Held Wednesday nights 6p – 8p

Orange Ball Tennis for Kids (Ages 8-11) at Maine Pines
2026-02-18 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-02-16 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-02-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Maine Pines Racquet and Fitness, 120 Harpswell Road, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Orange Ball Tennis for Kids at Maine Pines! Take your child’s tennis game to the next level! Our Orange Ball program is designed for growing players, using 60′ courts and orange balls to help kids build skills with confidence. Kids will learn and improve tennis skills and strategies, develop footwork patters and coordination, practice in game-based drills that keep learning exciting, and have fun from the very start while playing tennis! This meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-6pm. This program blends learning and fun, giving players the tools to grow their game while enjoying every step of the journey. It is perfect for kids who are ready to learn, rally, move and compete with confidence! Call 729-8433 to register!

Warm Up Wednesdays
2026-02-18 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-02-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Downtown Brunswick, 124 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
A new winter pop-up series from the BDA in collaboration with local businesses. Each week, a different Brunswick storefront hosts an outdoor s’mores station packed with all the essentials. Swing by, grab a stick, and enjoy free s’mores while supporting local shops.
How It Works

New host business every Wednesday
Drop in anytime from 4 to 6 PM
All treats provided by the BDA
Free, family friendly, and open to all

February Pop-Ups:
2/4 – Noble Kitchen & Bar
2/11 – Senter Place
2/18 – Bay View Gallery
2/25 – Richard’s Restaurant
March Pop-Ups
3/4 – The Abbey
3/11 – Cool As A Moose
3/18 – Portland Pie
3/25 – Tontine Mall
Made Possible by Our Sponsors and Supporters:

Tuesday Workshop!
2026-02-17 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-02-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Root Rind & Petal, 318 BATH RD, BRUNSWICK, ME, 04011-2651, United States
Drop in Workshop Tuesdays at 6PM!
We cover Astrology, Archetypes, Aromatherapy, Sound and Crystal HealingTools! $35 Call ahead to snag a spot! 207-680-5509

First Parish Church Open Sanctuary
2026-02-17 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-02-10 15:00 - 18:00 | First Parish Church, 207 Maine St, B
Looking for solitude in a crazy world? Stop by First Parish Church anytime Mondays 3-6pm. Let our sanctuary be YOUR sanctuary. Enjoy the peace, the solitude to pray or just sit quietly. Bring a friend or by yourself. Just be. Breathe. Learn more at firstparish.net/news-events/

Business Owners' Meeting
2026-02-17 08:30 - 09:30 | BDA Office, 124 Maine Sreet Suite 107, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Join us on Monday, February 17th at 8:30 AM in the BDA office for our first Business Owners’ Meeting of the year for an update from the town on what to expect in 2026!

SUNDAY READINGS, Part Three (Longfellow Days)
2026-02-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union, Bowdoin College, S Campus Drive, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Our rescheduled readings from 2025 Tribute to Poets –
More than 120 Maine poets have participated in Longfellow Days’ Sunday Readings. Today we remember three who departed in 2024: Sally Cowperthwaite reads poetry by her late father Steve Cowperthwaite. James Brasfield reads work by his classmate and friend Rob Farnsworth. Maryli Tiemann reads poetry by her mentor Ruth Bookey and introduces Nicole Chvatal, reading her own work.
Reader#1
Sarah Cooperwaithe reads works by her father, Steven Cooperwaithe
Steve was a pioneer of sorts, making the old ways cool again. A poet and author, he found solace and expression through his writing. At the urging of his fantastic poetry peers, he published his work, Boulders, Birch, and Woodsmoke: A Maine Melody (2014), which highlighted his boyhood growing up on a farm in rural Maine, his early experiences as a school teacher on a remote island, and his home on Parker Pond. He was a masterful storyteller, dotting his tales with rich characters and beautiful landscapes.
Reader #2:
James Brasfield reads works by his classmate Rob Farnsworth
Rob Farnsworth (1954-2024) was a poet and teacher who made his home in Maine since 1983. His last collection of poetry was Rumored Islands. He served as poetry editor of The American Scholar for seven years and spent a summer as resident poet at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Rob first taught at Colby College and then at Bates from 1990 until his retirement in 2018. An energetic and generous teacher, he won the excellence in teaching award at Bates twice. Through his work with the Maine Humanities Council, Rob brought poetry to libraries, schools, jails, and hospitals. He spent his final years in Greene, at his home on the Androscoggin River.
James Brasfield was born in Savannah, Georgia, and graduated with Rob from Columbia’s M.F.A. program in 1979. Brasfield is the author of three books of poetry from Louisiana State University Press, most recently Cove, in 2023. Twice a Senior Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine, he’s received grants for poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His translation of The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha, published by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Press, won the 2000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Retired from teaching English at Penn State University, he lives in Belfast with his wife, the writer Charlotte Holmes.
Reader #3
Maryli Tiemann reads works by Ruth Bookey
Ruth Bookey and her family fled to the United States from Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. She began writing poetry inspired by her poet husband Ted and poetry groups that met at their home. Together Ruth and Ted translated works of the German poet Erich Kästner. Her poetry books include Life Class and I Still Feel the Swirl.
Maryli Tiemann is an educator and writer of essays and poems as well as reflections for area UU church services. She helped to create Longfellow Days, and with the support and talents of Maine’s poets and fans of poetry, has continued to shepherd it over 22 years.
Reader #4 Nicole Chvatal reads her own work
Nicole Chvatal writes property deeds and other witty things and lives in Bath, Maine. Her work has appeared in Popshot Quarterly, SWWIM Daily, Quarter After Eight, LEON Literary Review, The Portland Press Herald and Deep Overstock Magazine. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Longfellow Days Website

Interfaith Service: One Way to Embody Resilience (Longfellow Days)
2026-02-15 10:00 - 11:00 | Unitarian Universalist Church Brunswick, 1 Middle St, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Our annual interfaith Longfellow Days service explores how discovering and using your voice purposefully is one way of embodying resilience. Come for the poetry, the music, the community, and the opportunity to make connections. Service led by Rev. Dr. Kharma Amos, Minister.
Visit the Bible Longfellow signed and donated to his church in 1878.

Rev. Dr. Kharma Amos is an ordained minister with over 20 years of professional experience in pastoral ministry and denominational leadership. Rev. Amos holds plural ministerial standing in the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) where she was granted full fellowship in 2024, as well as the Metropolitan Community Churches where she was originally ordained in 2002. She is a preacher, activist, writer, singer, educator, fundraiser, and administrator with a passion for engaging others who are committed to spiritual growth, inclusive community, and social justice.

Longfellow Days Website

Spaghetti Supper
2026-02-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Brunswick United Methodist Church, 320 Church St, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Our monthly spaghetti supper offers community and spaghetti (meat or veggie sauce), salad, garlic bread, and BUMC’s famous pies. Donation only. A portion of the proceeds goes to MCHPP. We hope you will join us regularly.

Chamberlain House Program (Longfellow Days)
2026-02-14 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-02-14 11:00 - 12:00 | 226 Maine Street, 226 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Gemma Cannon, author of Voices of the Night, will share the love story of Henry and his first wife, Mary. This talk in the parlor is paired with a visit to the original “Longfellow Room” where they lived. Chamberlain Museum site manager, Janice Smith, will be on hand to give brief tours of the Chamberlain family spaces. Tours are strictly limited to 15 people each.
Registration is Required: Email: outreach@pejepscot.org with Subject: “LD Tour” Please give preferred time, registrant name(s), and a phone number.
Co-Sponsored with Pejepscot History Center.

Gemma Cannon, a graduate from Holy Cross College and Columbia University School of Social Work, received the Nautilus Book Award in the category of Death & Dying/Grief & Loss for Voices of the Night.
In her award-winning book, she combines wisdom from Longfellow with lessons from her social work clients. They taught her that, whether homeless in Times Square or a world-class poet and writer, we’re not always fortunate, and we all need inner strength and hope to survive a crisis.
She lives with her family near Longfellow’s boyhood home in Portland, Maine, “the beautiful city by the sea.”

Longfellow Days Website

Coffee Cuppings and Tea Tastings at Tern
2026-02-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Tern, 141 Maine St, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Every Saturday at 10:00 AM, we will host a coffee cupping or tea tasting. Follow our Instagram (@terncoffee) or check out the sandwich board in front of the store to see which one it will be that week! We love getting input from the community to better help us choose what to add to our lineup, as well as dial in our current offerings.

Interpreting A Poem (Longfellow Days)
2026-02-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Pejepscot History Center, 159 Park Row, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Once again Karin Dillman will provide a fresh, inviting approach to interpreting poems. Participants will discuss poems by Denise Levertov and Anthony Hecht. Refreshments will be available.
Co-Sponsored with Pejepscot History Center.
Advance Registration is Required: To reserve a space, please send an email with subject “Interpreting Three Poems” to outreach@pejepscot.org. Please include name(s) of registrants and phone number for primary contact. (limit 20 participants)

Longfellow Days Website

Bluegrass Jam
2026-02-11 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-09 18:00 - 20:00 | First Parish Church, 207 Maine St, B
Recurring open Bluegrass Jam
1st and 3rd Monday
6 to 8 pm
First Parish Church

Red Ball Kids Tennis (Ages 4-7) Maine Pines
2026-02-11 17:15 - 2026-02-12 18:00, 2026-02-09 17:15 - 2026-02-10 18:00 | Maine Pines Racquet and Fitness, 120 Harpswell Road, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Tennis Fun for Kids! Get your child moving, learning, and having a blast on the court! Our Maine Pines kids’ tennis program uses USTA-approved red ball equipment—perfectly sized for young players to build confidence while learning the game.
Kids will develop hand-eye coordination, learn proper tennis footwork, build the basic skills and strategies of tennis, and play in a game-based format that keeps it fun and engaging.
We meet on Mondays and/or Wednesdays from 5:15 – 6:00 PM.
Whether your child is brand-new to tennis or continuing to play, this program is the perfect way to spark a lifelong love of the game. Come join the Maine Pines fun—we will see you on the court!

Karin Tilberg: Loving the North Woods-25 Years of Conservation in Maine
2026-02-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Brunswick United Methodist Church, 320 Church St, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Midcoast Senior College presents its free speaker series, Winter Wisdom, sponsored by The Highlands of Topsham. A look at the challenges that led to conservation successes during a remarkable period of activity from 1990 to 2015. During this time of forest ownership changes, Maine went from about 5% of some form of conservation, to 20% being conserved in some manner. The forces that brought forth this change and the stories of conserving Maine’s North Woods will be described. Karin Tilberg was Staff Attorney and Director of Advocacy for Maine Audubon Society, became Maine Director and then interim Director for Northern Forest, served as Deputy Commissioner of Maine Department of Conservation and worked as a Senior Policy Advisor to Governor John E. Baldacci. Most recently, Tilberg was president and CEO of Forest Society of Maine, retiring in 2024.

Music at the Mill Series: Borromeo String Quartet
2026-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Dutchman’s, 14 Maine St, Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Join the Bowdoin International Music Festival for a concert at Dutchman’s in Brunswick, featuring the Borromeo String Quartet. The event includes a wine and beer social hour, chamber music performances, and a gourmet pizza reception.
Gourmet pizza, craft beer, and wine are included with your ticket purchase. Doors and bar open at 6:00 PM and music begins at 7:00 PM, with pizza to follow.
Borromeo String Quartet
Nicholas Kitchen, Kristopher Tong, violin • Melissa Reardon, viola • Yeesun Kim, cello
JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2, Hob. III:32
I. Moderato
II. Capriccio. Adagio — Cantabile
III. Menuetto. Allegretto — Trio
IV. Fuga a quattro soggetti. Allegro
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105
I. Adagio ma non troppo — Allegro appassionato
II. Molto vivace
III. Lento e molto cantabile
IV. Allegro non tanto
Tickets at: https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/mill or call 207-373-1400. Limited seating, order soon!
