Skidompha Ukulele Group
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesAll experience levels welcome! Call the library for more info: 563-5513
Free
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“A Wrinkle in Time” Extravaganza!
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesMark your calendars! Saturday March 17th from 10am to 12pm is our “A Wrinkle in Time” Extravaganza with science, technology and art activities for the whole family. Ever wanted to build a nebula in a…
Free
“A Wrinkle in Time” Movie Field Trip
External Library EventSkidompha has chartered a shuttle mission to bring students to the matinee showing of “A Wrinkle in Time” at the Thomaston Cinema, and safely back to Earth again. Students under 11 must be accompanied by…
$10
Sweet Reads Book Club
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesLike to read? Love to bake? This book club will meet monthly, and will involve a short piece of fiction and bring-along baking. March book selection TBD. Please email development@skidompha.org to sign up!
Free
Toddler Time
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 2 – 5, and their caregivers.
Free
Self Serve – Book Babies
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 0 – 3, and their caregivers. Mr. Mark is at a conference this week. Check back next week for our regular program!
Free
Film: Mama Mia!
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA. On the Greek island of Kalokairi, 20-year-old…
Free
Skidompha Ukulele Group
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesAll experience levels welcome! Call the library for more info: 563-5513
Free
Family Film: Matilda
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson Based on the book by Roald Dahl, this film is about a young genius named Matilda, who uses telekinesis to deal with her parents, who do not value…
Free
Toddler Time
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 2 – 5, and their caregivers.
Free
Book Babies
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 0 – 3, and their caregivers.
Free
Drop in Paper Marbling with Erica Qualey
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesJoin local artist Erica Qualey, and Children’s Librarian Mark Ferrero for an afternoon of paper marbling. Using a variety of techniques and colors we will show you to transform paper into incredibly vibrant marbleized works…
Free
Film: Rushmore
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams Directed by Wes Anderson, this film centers around an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman in his film debut), his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill…
Free
Skidompha Ukulele Group
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesAll experience levels welcome! Call the library for more info: 563-5513
Free
Toddler Time
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 2 to 5, and their caregivers. Sponsored by Riverside Butcher
Free
Book Babies
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 0 to 3, and their caregivers.
Free
Genealogy: Gleaning from Census Records: US, CAN, UK, & IRE
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesThis session presented by Kathleen Maclachlan will emphasize the detailed information that careful research can uncover in census documents. Discussion will include alternatives to casually importing “hints” to your family tree, techniques for finding missing…
Free
FILM: Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter Written and directed by Baz Luhrmann, Strictly Ballroom tells the story of an Australian ballroom dancer, Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio), and his struggle to establish his personal style…
Free
Skidompha Ukulele Group
Carpenter Room 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesAll experience levels welcome! Call the library for more info: 563-5513
Resilient Girls Book Club
Carpenter Room 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesA Book Club for 4th and 5th grade girls and their parents. Girls face many challenges that can thwart their ability to develop a strong, honest voice expressing who they are. Girls Leadership (see girlsleadership.org)…
Free
Toddler Time
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 2 to 5, and their caregivers. Sponsored by Riverside Butcher
Free
Book Babies
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 0 to 3, and their caregivers.
Free
Chats with Champions: The trouble with the Browntail Moth starts with the caterpillar
On Thursday, April 12 at 10 a.m., Skidompha Library and Chats with Champions welcomes South Bristol expert on pest control, Bob Emmons, who will speak about the Browntail Moth and its hazards to humans. The Browntail Moth…
FREE
FILM: Everything is Illuminated (2005)
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the…
Free
Chess Championship and Game Night!!
Library – Atrium 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesLincoln Academy’s best will go pawn-to-pawn with Skidompha’s champion, Friday, April 13th from 3pm to 5pm. To celebrate, we’re turning the whole event into a game afternoon. Come to watch the masters, and take in…
Free
Skidompha Ukulele Group
Carpenter Room 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesAll experience levels welcome! Call the library for more info: 563-5513
Free
“The Taming of the Shrew” Auditions
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesRiver Company is looking for local players interested in auditioning for a summer production of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” at Skidompha Library. Auditions will be held “workshop style” from 5pm to…
FAMILY FILM: Trolls (2016)
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel An unlikely pair of Trolls must embark on an adventure that takes them far beyond the only world they’ve ever known.
Free
“The Taming of the Shrew” Auditions
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesRiver Company is looking for local players interested in auditioning for a summer production of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” at Skidompha Library. Auditions will be held “workshop style” from 5pm to…
Cancelled this week! Toddler Time
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 2 to 5, and their caregivers. Sponsored by Riverside Butcher
Free
Cancelled this week! Book Babies
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 0 to 3, and their caregivers.
Free
Chats with Champions: Memoir workshop authors to read their accounts of love, childhood, aging, and more
The Skidompha Chats with Champions Committee has invited writers who participated in the “From Memory to Memoir” workshops held in 2017 by Barbara Burt on April 19 at 10 a.m. in the library’s Porter Meeting…
FREE
FILM: The Meaning of Life (1983)
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle Life’s questions are “answered” in a series of outrageous vignettes. This is Monty Python at their funniest.
Free
Skidompha Ukulele Group
Carpenter Room 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesAll experience levels welcome! Call the library for more info: 563-5513
Toddler Time
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 2 to 5, and their caregivers. Sponsored by Riverside Butcher
Free
Book Babies
Library – Kids Area 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStories, songs, and movements for children ages 0 to 3, and their caregivers.
Free
Genealogy: Family Bible Records – Finding, Using, Preserving
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesThis presentation by Kathleen Maclachlan focuses on how to search for family Bible records online and in other repositories and how to use those records in your family history research. Resource sheets will be distributed…
Free
FILM: Wonder Woman (2017)
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers…
Free
Skidompha Ukulele Group
Carpenter Room 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesAll experience levels welcome! Call the library for more info: 563-5513
FAMILY FILM: Coco (2017)
Porter Hall 184 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME, United StatesStars: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
Free