Art show
BANGOR — Artist Larry Lussier’s work will be on display 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, During July and August, at the Hammond Street Senior Center.
A portion of proceeds from sales of the art will benefit the center.
‘Mainers in the Titanic’
SEARSPORT — Searsport Middle and Elementary School students are taking a leap into the icy waters of the Atlantic for their debut performance of “Mainers on the Titanic.” The play has been adapted for the stage from the book with the same title by local author Mac Smith. Mainers with connections to the maritime disaster will be brought to life through monologues and short scenes.
Each individual has a story to tell about his or her personal experiences aboard the Titanic. Jumping from the doomed vessel, pulling survivors from the ocean to safety and clinging to life on an overturned lifeboat are just a few of the many tales that happened to Mainers traveling on the maiden voyage of the ill fated ocean liner.
Cast members are Oceana Pacholski-Proctor as Helen Candee, Brookelyn Knowles as Madeleine Astor, Jesse Reynolds as John Astor and Charles Hays, Josh Wilson as William Thompson Sloper, Cheyenne Hebert as Eva Shorey, Jacob Mellor as Andrew Latimer, Braeden MacArthur as Henry Sleeper Harper, Abby Brown as Margaret Burns, Caleb McIntire as Douglas Spedden, Briana Fairbrother as Daisy Spedden, Kaylee Henderson as Dr. Alice Leader, Mylee Henderson as Nellie Leader and Margaret Hays, Shea-Lynn Richards as Emily Borie Ryerson (summered on Mount Desert Island), Kayden Smith as Grace Scott Bowen, Destiny Hebert as Jack Thayer, Mykenzie Tripp as Edward Kent.
Performances will be held at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 31-Aug. 1, and 2 p.m Sunday, Aug, 2, in the Searsport Middle-High School Cafetorium, 24 Mortland Road. Tickets are $5. For information, email Jessica Fuller at jfuller@rsu20.org.
Artist-in-residence
SEARSPORT — You don’t have to wait until winter to visit with Santa. He visits
every August and again during Fiber College of Maine in September. Santa, also known as
Steve Schruers will be artist-in-residence at Aug. 2-8 at Searsport Shores Ocean Campground.
Schruers has created Santa Coins that are given to children with enough courage to approach Santa. He also created coins for Mrs. Claus and the elves.
Schruers said has practiced a “tradition of giving” since he was a child and continues to make
wishes come true for individuals and charities. He described his life as a hodgepodge of
experiences, farmer, cowboy, canoe guide and nuclear engineer are just a few occupations.
During his week as artist in residence Schruers will teaching macrame, cartooning and chainmail making.
The most popular type of macrame today, he said, is Survival Bracelets.
Schruers will have a knot sampler project and resource books available. If a student would like to try more complex knots, time for that will be available.
The event is sponsored by Fiber College of Maine. For information visit campocean.com
or call 548-6059.
Fiber College of Maine
SEARSPORT — Fiber College of Maine 2015 will take place Wednesday through Sunday, Sept. 9-13, at Searsport Shores Ocean Park and Campground, 216 West Main St.
The event will feature Somalian Bantu women of Lewiston-Auburn making African market baskets and Pamela Outdusis Cunningham of the Penobscot Turtle clan teaching the making of a spirit basket.
The five-day event will offers student nearly 70 textile and fiber classes varying in length from two hours to two days, including sewing, knitting, weaving, embroidery, tatting, dyeing, surface design, felting, rug hooking, sock cranking, book binding, chainmail, amigurumi and paper mache.
Also offered will be a Grow your Business track with classes that teach product photography, blogging and managing social media for outreach and sales.
A new feature of the event will be the Friday Fiber Fiesta and Makers’ Market 5:30-8 p.m. The Shopper’s Boulevard will be open late and the park will be filled with the sounds of steel drums, food vendors and unique shopping opportunities.
There will be a book signing and directors’ screening of the documentary “Do it Your Way!,” a film about quilts and connections between hearts, homes and histories of women from two very different worlds.
Admission is free Friday evening.
Vendor table space will be available to artists and suppliers at a cost of $10.
Another new feature will be rolling workshops in ceramics, sock cranking, chain maille and mentored fiber dyeing. No registration is needed, walk-in and pay by the hour for make-it and take-it lessons from accomplished instructors.
A few of the notable names scheduled to be at Fiber College 2015 are antique quilt expert Bonnie Dwyer, mixed media artist Sally Savage, weaving instructor Daryl Lancaster, and knitting artist Katharine Cobey.
The Wednesday night dinner will be a Somali Bantu Cultural Celebration serving wood fired breads and other traditional Somali Bantu specialties, with both meat and vegetarian dishes on the menu. Attendees will experience the music and beautiful fashions of the Somali Bantu community who now make their home in Maine.
For information, contact Astrig Tanguay, director, Fiber College of Maine, at 548-6059 or director@fibercollege.org, or go to fibercollege.org.