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SUMMARY:Closed in Honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library will be closed on Monday\, October 13 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We will reopen with normal hours on Tuesday\, October 14. The National Museum of the American Indian has great resources about unlearning Columbus Day myths and celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day.Learn more at americanindian.si.edu/nk360Two Maine organizations doing great work in the Native community are Wabanaki Reach at wabanakireach.org and Wabanaki Alliance at wabanakialliance.com; both websites have articles and educational resources.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/closed-in-honor-of-indigenous-peoples-day/
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SUMMARY:Tai Chi and Qigong
DESCRIPTION:Please note: On Thursdays in Summer\, meet on the Upper Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nEnjoy the many benefits of tai chi and qigong through the exploration of movements and principles. These beginning classes are beneficial for people of all levels of fitness—developing awareness\, relaxation\, energy\, flexibility\, strength\, balance\, and pleasure in the open air. \n\n\n\nTai Chi meets in the Amphitheatre. On Thursdays in the summer\, we meet on the Upper Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nAnna Dembska is a certified teacher of Yang Family tai chi. She studies tai chi and qigong with Mike Shunney in Rockland and Zhong Xuechao (Master Bing) from Wudang Mountain\, China. She has also studied Yang Family tai chi with Grandmaster Yang Jun and San Shou two-person play with Dr. Jay Dunbar and Kathleen Cusick. Anna is a singer\, composer\, and voice teacher by profession\, and her tai chi teaching is informed by its many similarities with vocal technique\, which she has been practicing and teaching for many years. \n\n\n\nClasses are by donation\, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the Camden Public Library. For more information contact Anna at camdentaiji@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n(Emailing Anna is strongly encouraged so that you can be contacted in case the class is canceled and to confirm if the class will happen in the Amphitheatre or on the Upper Lawn.)
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/tai-chi-and-qigong-in-the-amphitheatre-2-2023-06-26-2023-06-26/2025-10-13/
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SUMMARY:FREE Needlepoint Workshop Series - Sign up now! Sponsored by Pine Tree Chapter of American Needlepoint Guild
DESCRIPTION:The Pine Tree Chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild is sponsoring a series of FREE needlepoint workshops. These are cumulative workshops and it is recommended that you start at the first meeting and attend as many as you can. You will leave at the end with a completed coaster! \n\n\n\nThis series takes place on the second Mondays from June to October\, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. in the Picker Room at Camden Public Library. \n\n\n\nYou must sign up ahead of time so that we can provide you with materials. Please email jasan13@aol.com to register! \n\n\n\nYou do not need to be a member of the Pine Tree Chapter or the American Needlepoint Guild. Everyone is welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule of Workshops\n\n\n\n\nJune 9: Let’s Learn to Stitch!\n\n\n\nJuly 14: What Do I Need in My Needlepoint Bag?\n\n\n\nAugust 11: Let’s Make a Coaster!\n\n\n\nSeptember 8: Tips and Tricks for Your Project\n\n\n\nOctober 13: Finishing My Coaster!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe American Needlepoint Guild (ANG) is an educational\, non-profit organization whose main purpose is education and cultural development through participation in and encouragement of interest in the art of needlepoint. The Guild was formed in 1972 and has over 10\,200 members. The Pine Tree Chapter was formed in 1986 by stitchers who wished to learn more about needlepoint.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/free-needlepoint-workshop-series-sign-up-now-sponsored-by-pine-tree-chapter-of-american-needlepoint-guild/2025-10-13/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Book Donations Open at the Blue Door Book Shed
DESCRIPTION:We welcome donations of materials that can be added to our collection or sold to support our programs\, including: \n\n\n\n\nHardcover\, paperback\, and audio books\n\n\n\nCDs and DVDs in cases\n\n\n\nPuzzles bagged inside boxes\n\n\n\n\nDue to space and sorting limitations\, we can only accept 2 bags or boxes at a time. \n\n\n\nAll items must be in good or better condition. Items in poor / unsellable condition\, or for which there is no market\, create a financial burden for the Library and extra work for volunteers. \n\n\n\n\nPlease do NOT bring: \n\n\n\n\nBooks with mold or mildew\, musty smell\, water damage\, missing dust jackets\, stained or torn covers\, broken spines\, writing inside\, or other physical damage;\n\n\n\nTextbooks\, condensed books\, self-published books\, encyclopedias\, journals\, or magazines;\n\n\n\nCassette or VHS tapes;\n\n\n\nContemporary fiction more than 10 years old;\n\n\n\nMedical\, health\, computer\, technology\, or reference books more than 2 years old.\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations may be brought in boxes or bags to the blue door book shed located in the Meadow Parking Lot on Atlantic Avenue on Tuesdays from 9am – 12pm. Please do not leave donations at any other time – the weather will get to them before our volunteers do. \n\n\n\nWe rely on volunteers who generously give their time to accept\, sort\, and pack your donations. Due to their time and our space limitations\, we can only accept 2 bags or boxes at a time. Please be prepared to wait for a few minutes while a volunteer accepts your donation. \n\n\n\nIf you have a donation larger than 2 bags/boxes or are unable to come on a Tuesday morning\, please call the Library at (207) 236-3440. A staff member will collect and forward your information to a volunteer who will contact you to make alternative arrangements. \n\n\n\nPlease do not bring donations directly to the Library – there is no storage available at this time. \n\n\n\nThank you for your support of the Camden Public Library!
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/book-donations-at-the-blue-door-book-shed-2-2026-10-06/2025-10-14/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Walsh History Center Hour - On Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a question about the history of Camden\, your ancestors that may have lived in the area\, or the house you live in now? Ken Gross and the Walsh History Center team are happy to try to help find you an answer! To request a link to participate\, or simply ask a question\, email: kgross@librarycamden.org  \n\n\n\nPlease let us know a bit about what you are interested in discussing so that we can have our resources ready.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/walsh-history-center-hour-on-zoom-2/2025-10-14/
LOCATION:Camden Public Library\, 55 Main Street\, Camden\, ME\, 04843\, United States
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SUMMARY:Leer y Charlar
DESCRIPTION:Leer y Charlar is a Spanish language reading and conversation group. Members chat about each other’s lives in Spanish\, and then discuss the “article of the day” from an online Spanish language newspaper distributed prior to the meeting.  \n\n\n\nMeetings on the second Tuesday of the month will meet on Zoom only. On fourth Tuesdays\, meetings will be hybrid and take place in the Picker Room as well as on Zoom. \n\n\n\nFor more information and to receive a Zoom link to participate\, contact the group organizer Lynne Taylor at leerycharlar@gmail.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDid you know? Leer y Charlar has been going on for 9 years!
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/leer-y-charlar-2-2023-12-26/2025-10-14/
LOCATION:Camden Public Library\, 55 Main Street\, Camden\, ME\, 04843\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Growing Up in the Woodstock Generation" - in Song with Marc Black
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of music and memories of the Woodstock Generation with Marc Black\, NY Blues Hall of Fame inductee. Marc will be your guide for a trip through memorable and colorful decades\, joyfully woven together in song. This two-person show is a multi-media and multi-dimensional presentation in song\, storytelling and plenty of laughter.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis powerful show focuses on the intersection of popular music and American culture. It’s all about coming together\, joyously riding on the wings of some great songs.  Songs that will remind you what it was like to come of age in that colorful time that we all recognize as the Woodstock Generation.  So many ups and downs\,  excitement and heartbreak.  Spiritual quests and long hair everywhere. \n\n\n\nThe evening also features personal stories by Marc who’s high school band hit the top 40 while touring with the Doors\, Neil Diamond and Van Morrison… as well as a sparkling multi-media presentation by Susan Black.  All the songs will be performed by Marc on his treasured guitar of 50 years\, Claudette.  
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/growing-up-in-the-woodstock-generation-in-song-with-marc-black/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Book Time for Babies with Miss Amy
DESCRIPTION:Join Miss Amy on Wednesdays at 10 am for stories and songs for your little ones! Wednesday story times are themed for babies. \n\n\n\nOn Thursdays & Fridays at 10 am\, join Miss Amy for preschool- and early elementary-themed stories & book extension crafts. Story times are indoors unless otherwise noted.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/book-time-for-babies-with-miss-amy/2025-10-15/
LOCATION:Camden Public Library\, 55 Main Street\, Camden\, ME\, 04843\, United States
CATEGORIES:Kids' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Free CareerCenter Services
DESCRIPTION:The library offers an opportunity for the public to have FREE one-on-one career help. A representative from the Maine Department of Labor’s CareerCenter will have open “office hours” every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month\, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at a table on the ground floor of the library. \n\n\n\nThese services are available for ANYONE and at no cost! Get help with: \n\n\n\n\nJob search\n\n\n\nResume and interviewing\n\n\n\nLocating a registered apprenticeship\n\n\n\nTraining and education assistance\n\n\n\nFederal bonding information\n\n\n\nVeteran’s services and job search assistance\n\n\n\n\nThis is a FREE service for members of the community who are seeking assistance with job and career-related matters.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/free-careercenter-services/2025-10-15/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Art & Journaling
DESCRIPTION:Every Wednesday\, Amy Hand facilitates creative art and journaling projects for adults through emails and Zoom. On second Wednesdays\, meetings are held in-person in the Picker Room as well as on Zoom. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in receiving the project ideas or would like to receive a link to participate in the Zoom meeting\, contact: alhand@librarycamden.org
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/art-journaling/2025-10-15/
LOCATION:Camden Public Library\, 55 Main Street\, Camden\, ME\, 04843\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Tai Chi and Qigong
DESCRIPTION:Please note: On Thursdays in Summer\, meet on the Upper Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nEnjoy the many benefits of tai chi and qigong through the exploration of movements and principles. These beginning classes are beneficial for people of all levels of fitness—developing awareness\, relaxation\, energy\, flexibility\, strength\, balance\, and pleasure in the open air. \n\n\n\nTai Chi meets in the Amphitheatre. On Thursdays in the summer\, we meet on the Upper Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nAnna Dembska is a certified teacher of Yang Family tai chi. She studies tai chi and qigong with Mike Shunney in Rockland and Zhong Xuechao (Master Bing) from Wudang Mountain\, China. She has also studied Yang Family tai chi with Grandmaster Yang Jun and San Shou two-person play with Dr. Jay Dunbar and Kathleen Cusick. Anna is a singer\, composer\, and voice teacher by profession\, and her tai chi teaching is informed by its many similarities with vocal technique\, which she has been practicing and teaching for many years. \n\n\n\nClasses are by donation\, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the Camden Public Library. For more information contact Anna at camdentaiji@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n(Emailing Anna is strongly encouraged so that you can be contacted in case the class is canceled and to confirm if the class will happen in the Amphitheatre or on the Upper Lawn.)
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/tai-chi-and-qigong-in-the-amphitheatre-2-2023-06-26-2023-06-26/2025-10-16/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Creative Art Afternoons
DESCRIPTION:Ages 5-12 \n\n\n\nSign up to join Miss Amy for hands-on creative art projects just right for kids who love to create! We’ve made paper bag snowflakes\, sculptures\, group mandalas\, agamographs\, valentines\, Tie-dye t-shirts\, watercolor paintings and more. \n\n\n\nSept. 3rd – Animal Transfer PaintingsSept. 10th – Paper SpinnersSept. 17th – at the Art Walk (5-7pm) in front of Page Gallery \n\n\n\nSept. 24th – LIBRARY CLOSED \n\n\n\nPlease call or email the library at 207-236-3440 or info@librarycamden.org to sign up so we have enough supplies prepped. This program takes place in the Picker Room at the library.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/creative-art-afternoons-2/2025-10-16/
CATEGORIES:Kids' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Mid-Coast Audubon: Coyotes: America's SongDog - with Geri Vistein
DESCRIPTION:The Mid-Coast Audubon‘s series of nature talks in partnership with the Camden Public Library continues on Thursday\, October 16 at 6:30 PM in the Picker Room with a presentation from biologist Geri Vistein about coyotes. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Dave Conlin\n\n\n\nGeri Vistein will take us on a journey to discover who this important and resilient carnivore is\, in a way you have never heard before. This presentation is all about us as well\, since we share the landscape and our lives with Coyote. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVistein will touch upon Anthropology\, Archaeology\, Prehistoric and Modern History\, Native American life\, poetry\, Human Psychology\, Human Belief Systems\, European World Views\, Wildlife Science and Ecology\, Animal Husbandry\, and much more. \n\n\n\nThis presentation gives our community members a chance to come together and share your own stories\, ask questions you have been wanting to ask\, and share a dialogue that helps us all to understand better our very deep rooted relationships with all life\, including our fellow humans. Come hear the Song Dogs Sing! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeri Vistein is a Conservation Biologist whose focus is carnivores and their vital role in maintaining the biodiversity of our planet. She educates on carnivore ecology\, complex cultures and history\, and how humans can coexist with coyotes. Working mostly in Maine\, Geri also focuses on outreach to farmers to improve relationships between coyotes and agricultural systems. Vistein is the Founder of Coyote Center for Carnivore Ecology and Coexistence. To learn more about Coyotes\, go to Geri Vistein’s educational website at www.CoyoteLivesinMaine.org.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/midcoast-audubon-coyotes-americas-songdog/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Explorations Read-Aloud: "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
DESCRIPTION:Every Friday\, at 11:00 am\, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page\, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian\, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction. \n\n\n\nFor October 17\, Coté will read aloud from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. \n\n\n\nIn this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life\, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. \n\n\n\nAs she readies her house for friends and neighbors\, she is flooded with remembrances of the past – the passionate loves of her carefree youth\, her practical choice of husband\, and the approach and retreat of war. And\, met with the realities of the present\, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there\, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old. \n\n\n\nFrom the introspective Clarissa to the lover who never fully recovered from her rejection to a war-ravaged stranger in the park\, the characters and scope of Mrs. Dalloway reshape our sense of ordinary life and reshaped English literature as we know it. \n\n\n\n Mrs. Dalloway is commonly thought to be a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Both novels use the stream of consciousness technique to follow the thoughts of two characters\, one older and one younger\, during one day in a bustling city. \n\n\n\nIn October 2005\, Mrs Dalloway was included on TIME Magazine‘s list of the 100 best English-language novels written since its first issue in 1923. \n\n\n\nClick the links to find the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest?Contact Joseph at friday-explorations@usa.net
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/explorations-read-aloud-mrs-dalloway-by-virginia-woolf/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Saturday Storytime with Miss Stefanie
DESCRIPTION:Saturday storytime with Miss Stefanie is back! \n\n\n\n1st & 3rd Saturdays at 10 am. \n\n\n\nJoin us for stories\, crafts & activities around a theme. \n\n\n\nSeptember 5th – BEANS! \n\n\n\nSeptember 19th – No Saturday Storytime \n\n\n\nSeptember 26th – Teddy Bear Picnic! (1pm)
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/saturday-storytime-with-miss-stefanie/2025-10-18/
CATEGORIES:Kids' Calendar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T163000
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SUMMARY:"History Matters" with Dorie McCullough Lawson
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library continues its Millay Society Author Series in the historic Reading Room on Saturday\, October 18\, 3:00 p.m. Enjoy wine\, cheese and other refreshments during this conversation with Dorie McCullough Lawson about History Matters. This event is free for Millay Society members and is open to the public with a suggested donation of $15. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHistory Matters brings together selected essays by beloved historian David McCullough\, some published here for the first time\, written at different points over the course of his long career but all focused on the subject of his lifelong passion: the importance of history in understanding our present and future. Edited by McCullough’s daughter\, Dorie McCullough Lawson\, and his longtime researcher\, Michael Hill\, History Matters is a tribute to a master historian and offers fresh insights into McCullough’s enduring interests and writing life.  \n\n\n\nDorie McCullough Lawson is David McCullough’s daughter and worked with him for nearly three decades. She is the author of three previous books\, including Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children. \n\n\n\n\nBooks will be available for sale by Left Bank Books. Pre-ordering: Books will be available for advance purchase by calling Left Bank Books at 207-338-9009. Please have a credit card handy when you call. Your books will be brought to the event and set aside for you. Millay members receive a 20% discount on books! Be sure to let the salesperson know you are a member of the Millay Society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration for this event is required and seating is limited!\n\n\n\nFill out my LGL Form!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Millay Society\n\n\n\nBenefits of Millay Society membership include invitations to special literary events like this one. Members’ consistent contributions also enable the Library’s growth and community responsiveness. Additionally\, member support helps ensure the Library’s continued place as a key cultural and intellectual center in Midcoast Maine. \n\n\n\n\nLearn more about joining the Millay Society
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/historymatters/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Tai Chi and Qigong
DESCRIPTION:Please note: On Thursdays in Summer\, meet on the Upper Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nEnjoy the many benefits of tai chi and qigong through the exploration of movements and principles. These beginning classes are beneficial for people of all levels of fitness—developing awareness\, relaxation\, energy\, flexibility\, strength\, balance\, and pleasure in the open air. \n\n\n\nTai Chi meets in the Amphitheatre. On Thursdays in the summer\, we meet on the Upper Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nAnna Dembska is a certified teacher of Yang Family tai chi. She studies tai chi and qigong with Mike Shunney in Rockland and Zhong Xuechao (Master Bing) from Wudang Mountain\, China. She has also studied Yang Family tai chi with Grandmaster Yang Jun and San Shou two-person play with Dr. Jay Dunbar and Kathleen Cusick. Anna is a singer\, composer\, and voice teacher by profession\, and her tai chi teaching is informed by its many similarities with vocal technique\, which she has been practicing and teaching for many years. \n\n\n\nClasses are by donation\, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the Camden Public Library. For more information contact Anna at camdentaiji@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n(Emailing Anna is strongly encouraged so that you can be contacted in case the class is canceled and to confirm if the class will happen in the Amphitheatre or on the Upper Lawn.)
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/tai-chi-and-qigong-in-the-amphitheatre-2-2023-06-26-2023-06-26/2025-10-20/
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SUMMARY:Book Donations Open at the Blue Door Book Shed
DESCRIPTION:We welcome donations of materials that can be added to our collection or sold to support our programs\, including: \n\n\n\n\nHardcover\, paperback\, and audio books\n\n\n\nCDs and DVDs in cases\n\n\n\nPuzzles bagged inside boxes\n\n\n\n\nDue to space and sorting limitations\, we can only accept 2 bags or boxes at a time. \n\n\n\nAll items must be in good or better condition. Items in poor / unsellable condition\, or for which there is no market\, create a financial burden for the Library and extra work for volunteers. \n\n\n\n\nPlease do NOT bring: \n\n\n\n\nBooks with mold or mildew\, musty smell\, water damage\, missing dust jackets\, stained or torn covers\, broken spines\, writing inside\, or other physical damage;\n\n\n\nTextbooks\, condensed books\, self-published books\, encyclopedias\, journals\, or magazines;\n\n\n\nCassette or VHS tapes;\n\n\n\nContemporary fiction more than 10 years old;\n\n\n\nMedical\, health\, computer\, technology\, or reference books more than 2 years old.\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations may be brought in boxes or bags to the blue door book shed located in the Meadow Parking Lot on Atlantic Avenue on Tuesdays from 9am – 12pm. Please do not leave donations at any other time – the weather will get to them before our volunteers do. \n\n\n\nWe rely on volunteers who generously give their time to accept\, sort\, and pack your donations. Due to their time and our space limitations\, we can only accept 2 bags or boxes at a time. Please be prepared to wait for a few minutes while a volunteer accepts your donation. \n\n\n\nIf you have a donation larger than 2 bags/boxes or are unable to come on a Tuesday morning\, please call the Library at (207) 236-3440. A staff member will collect and forward your information to a volunteer who will contact you to make alternative arrangements. \n\n\n\nPlease do not bring donations directly to the Library – there is no storage available at this time. \n\n\n\nThank you for your support of the Camden Public Library!
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/book-donations-at-the-blue-door-book-shed-2-2026-10-06/2025-10-21/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Walsh History Center Hour - On Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a question about the history of Camden\, your ancestors that may have lived in the area\, or the house you live in now? Ken Gross and the Walsh History Center team are happy to try to help find you an answer! To request a link to participate\, or simply ask a question\, email: kgross@librarycamden.org  \n\n\n\nPlease let us know a bit about what you are interested in discussing so that we can have our resources ready.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/walsh-history-center-hour-on-zoom-2/2025-10-21/
LOCATION:Camden Public Library\, 55 Main Street\, Camden\, ME\, 04843\, United States
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SUMMARY:Camden Philosophical Society: David Hume & Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:At its next gathering\, on Tuesday\, Oct. 21\, the Camden Philosophical Society will discuss ideas put forward by 18th Century empirical philosopher David Hume — and ways in which those ideas remain relevant to today’s world of intense dispute over what constitutes truth. We’ll also consider how Hume’s thinking may relate to artificial intelligence (AI)\, a topic of discussion by the Society earlier this year. \n\n\n\nThe October 21 session will\, as usual\, be a hybrid gathering from 3:30-5:30 pm EDT on the third Tuesday of the month. All are welcome to participate\, in-person at the Picker Room of the Camden Public Library or by Zoom. That goes for visitors\, as well as year-rounders in Maine\, and friends of the society wherever you may be. \n\n\n\nIf you wish to participate via Zoom\, please email saramiller@usa.net. You will receive a Zoom invitation on the day of the meeting. Click on the “Join Zoom Meeting” link in that invitation at the time of the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBest known in his lifetime for his History of England\, Hume is now associated with philosophical skepticism\, empiricism and\, as stated clearly only in writings published after his death\, atheism. He maintained that all “matters of fact” come to be known by humans through their “experience” of the physical world. Only pure mathematics and other conceptual forms of knowledge based exclusively on “relations of ideas” can be known “a priori” by humans\, through reasoning alone. \n\n\n\nSkeptical of any human capacity to know cause and effect with certainty\, Hume argued instead that beliefs and less firm convictions about the way the world works are based on assessments of probability. Hume saw this empirical nature of human learning as directly comparable to the way in which non-human animals learn about and function in the world. \n\n\n\nHume’s empirical approach to human acquisition of knowledge\, as opposed to the “pure reason” espoused by Emanuel Kant and others around that time\, is seen by some thinkers today as providing parallels with AI\, which learns from absorbing large bodies of often contradictory data. Contemporary philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett\, who spent his latter years in Down East Maine\, has been compared to Hume in this regard\, Dennett having been an avowed admirer of Hume’s thought. \n\n\n\nOur readings for the Oct. 21 discussion start with selected portions of Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding\, now his best-known mature work. The Oxford World’s Classics version of Hume’s Enquiry can be found here\, for reading online or for download: https://fitelson.org/confirmation/hume_enquiry.pdf  The paragraph numbers below apply to this version\, and may or may not work with other versions. \n\n\n\nStart with the first 1.5 pages of the Introduction. Then as follows:* Section II (2) (Of the Origin of Ideas)\, paragraphs 1-7 and also 9. Covers his basic concept of the difference between sensory experience (sensations) and ideas\, and his notion that ideas come only from sensory experience. (roughly 3 pages)* Section IV (4) (Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding)\, Part 1\, paras 4-12. (5 pages). Also\, Section IV\, Part 2\, paras 20 and 23) (1 page each) Assumptions about cause and effect as regards matters of fact are based entirely on experience\, not a priori reasoning.* Section V (5) (Skeptical Solution of These Doubts)\, Parts 1 and 2\, paras 1-14. How “custom or habit” forms a sense of knowledge. (7 pages)* Section VI (6)-Entire section. The operation of probability in determining belief.  (2 pages) .*Section IX (9) (Of the Reason of Animals) Paras 1-2. On how animals learn from experience just as humans do. (1 page)*Section XII (12) Paras 1-4 and 21-23 (Definition and defense of skepticism\, and critique of radical skepticism). (2 pages) \n\n\n\nThen read this discussion of Hume and Dennett in the context of AI. https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/unveiling-the-connection-between-david-hume-and-ai-how-their-ideas-shape-the-future-1364243 Or those who prefer videos can try this on the same topic: https://www.yeschat.ai/blog-Did-David-Hume-Predict-the-Rise-of-Artificial-Intelligence-Find-Out-How-His-Ideas-Connect-to-Dani-10345 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSome further\, optional readings that may be of interest are: \n\n\n\nHume’s “Wisdom in the Age of AI.” https://www.econlib.org/david-humes-wisdom-in-the-age-of-ai-from-18th-century-probability-to-modern-uncertainty/ \n\n\n\nA book of essays on Hume and Contemporary Philosophy  https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-4438-4131-3-sample.pdf  \n\n\n\nHume’s Treatise of Human Nature\, a precursor to the Enquiry on Human Understanding (See above). The treatise goes harder on skepticism and is said to include his thinking on the transient nature of the self https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS414/David%20Hume_%20A%20Treatise%20of%20Human%20Nature_%20Volume%201_%20Texts.pdf \n\n\n\nThose interested in pursuing further Hume’s division of knowledge into “relations of ideas” — that is mathematics and other “concepts and truths that are known purely through reason” – and “matters of fact” that “rely on sensory experience and empirical evidence” might want to check this out: https://philosophy.institute/western-philosophy/humes-empirical-framework-fact-vs-ideas/  \n\n\n\nAn overview of Hume’s thinking: https://medium.com/@adolfoguinart/david-hume-enlightenment-thinker-and-architect-of-modern-thought-5be2bd7d8c1b 
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-philosophical-society-david-hume-artificial-intelligence/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Tinker Tuesdays with Miss Amy
DESCRIPTION:Tinker Tuesdays are back! Join Miss Amy on the first and third Tuesday of each month from 4-5 PM for exciting\, hands-on STEM projects for elementary school-age kids. There is limited space for these programs so please call the library or email Miss Amy at alhand@librarycamden.org to sign up and make sure we’ll have supplies ready to go! \n\n\n\nThis month we’ll do some origami and an index card challenge.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/tinker-tuesdays-are-back/2025-10-21/
CATEGORIES:Kids' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Coffeehouse Concert: Lyle de Vitry
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library’s Coffeehouse Concert series continues with a free performance from Lyle de Vitry on October 21\, at 6:30 PM in the Picker Room. Tea\, coffee\, and cookies will be served. \n\n\n\nThe Asheville-based songwriter’s carefully crafted melodies and poetry are imaginative and thought provoking as he explores themes of nature\, love\, memory\, and the passing of time. At the heart of his creative practice\, he investigates the intimate relationships between sound and our emotional experience.  \n\n\n\nWith his intricate\, ambient fingerpicking guitar style and suede-soft baritone voice\, de Vitry mesmerizes audiences into meditative serenity. Immersed in rich and nuanced harmonic composition\, listeners are gently drawn into the here and now. Effortlessly moving between unity and dissonance\, voice and instrumentation\, rhythm and melody\, de Vitry seamlessly integrates the comfort of folk music with the spine-shivering emotional release and intentionality of classical compositions. In so doing\, he manages to create a sound as dynamic and honest as the ocean’s eternally flowing tides or the planet’s ever-changing seasons.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLyle de Vitry is an acclaimed songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In 2023\, he was selected as one of ten finalists in the internationally recognized Telluride Troubadours contest and was named runner-up in the NewSong LEAF Singer-Songwriter Competition. \n\n\n\nHe recently completed the prestigious Residency at 821 hosted by Lamplight AVL in Asheville\, NC\, and is currently developing an instrumental album\, set to be recorded in the summer of 2024. His debut album\, Door Within a Dream\, is set to be released in August 2024.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/coffeehouse-concert-lyle-de-vitry/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Book Time for Babies with Miss Amy
DESCRIPTION:Join Miss Amy on Wednesdays at 10 am for stories and songs for your little ones! Wednesday story times are themed for babies. \n\n\n\nOn Thursdays & Fridays at 10 am\, join Miss Amy for preschool- and early elementary-themed stories & book extension crafts. Story times are indoors unless otherwise noted.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/book-time-for-babies-with-miss-amy/2025-10-22/
LOCATION:Camden Public Library\, 55 Main Street\, Camden\, ME\, 04843\, United States
CATEGORIES:Kids' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Art & Journaling
DESCRIPTION:Every Wednesday\, Amy Hand facilitates creative art and journaling projects for adults through emails and Zoom. On second Wednesdays\, meetings are held in-person in the Picker Room as well as on Zoom. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in receiving the project ideas or would like to receive a link to participate in the Zoom meeting\, contact: alhand@librarycamden.org
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/art-journaling/2025-10-22/
LOCATION:Camden Public Library\, 55 Main Street\, Camden\, ME\, 04843\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Camden Nursing Circle
DESCRIPTION:Expectant and nursing parents are encouraged to join a community nursing circle in the Children’s Room of the Camden Library every 4th Wednesday from 4:30p to 5:30pm. The group welcomes families of all stripes and nurslings of all ages. Come with your nursing-related questions\, concerns or curiosities\, or come simply to commune.  \n\n\n\nThe gathering will be facilitated by Lulu Churchill (CLC) with input about library resources from children’s librarian Amy Hand. Lulu Churchill completed her certification in Lactation Management through the Center for Breastfeeding at the Healthy Children Project. She is the mother of two little ones and lives in Camden. \n\n\n\nFor questions\, email: natureshandmaine@gmail.com \n\n\n\nYou can also CLICK HERE to find the Midcoast Nursing Circle’s Facebook Page.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-nursing-circle/2025-10-22/
LOCATION:Camden Public Library\, 55 Main Street\, Camden\, ME\, 04843\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tai Chi and Qigong
DESCRIPTION:Please note: On Thursdays in Summer\, meet on the Upper Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nEnjoy the many benefits of tai chi and qigong through the exploration of movements and principles. These beginning classes are beneficial for people of all levels of fitness—developing awareness\, relaxation\, energy\, flexibility\, strength\, balance\, and pleasure in the open air. \n\n\n\nTai Chi meets in the Amphitheatre. On Thursdays in the summer\, we meet on the Upper Lawn. \n\n\n\n\nAnna Dembska is a certified teacher of Yang Family tai chi. She studies tai chi and qigong with Mike Shunney in Rockland and Zhong Xuechao (Master Bing) from Wudang Mountain\, China. She has also studied Yang Family tai chi with Grandmaster Yang Jun and San Shou two-person play with Dr. Jay Dunbar and Kathleen Cusick. Anna is a singer\, composer\, and voice teacher by profession\, and her tai chi teaching is informed by its many similarities with vocal technique\, which she has been practicing and teaching for many years. \n\n\n\nClasses are by donation\, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the Camden Public Library. For more information contact Anna at camdentaiji@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n(Emailing Anna is strongly encouraged so that you can be contacted in case the class is canceled and to confirm if the class will happen in the Amphitheatre or on the Upper Lawn.)
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/tai-chi-and-qigong-in-the-amphitheatre-2-2023-06-26-2023-06-26/2025-10-23/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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SUMMARY:Creative Art Afternoons
DESCRIPTION:Ages 5-12 \n\n\n\nSign up to join Miss Amy for hands-on creative art projects just right for kids who love to create! We’ve made paper bag snowflakes\, sculptures\, group mandalas\, agamographs\, valentines\, Tie-dye t-shirts\, watercolor paintings and more. \n\n\n\nSept. 3rd – Animal Transfer PaintingsSept. 10th – Paper SpinnersSept. 17th – at the Art Walk (5-7pm) in front of Page Gallery \n\n\n\nSept. 24th – LIBRARY CLOSED \n\n\n\nPlease call or email the library at 207-236-3440 or info@librarycamden.org to sign up so we have enough supplies prepped. This program takes place in the Picker Room at the library.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/creative-art-afternoons-2/2025-10-23/
CATEGORIES:Kids' Calendar
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SUMMARY:"Silenced Whispers" with Afarin Bellisario (Camden Conference Community Event)
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library\, as a part of the Camden Conference Community Events Series\, welcomes author Afarin Bellisario for a discussion on Iran’s past and present\, through the lens of her novel Silenced Whispers. \n\n\n\nThis event will take place on Thursday\, October 23 at 6:30 PM in person at the Camden Public Library\, in anticipation of the 39th Annual Camden Conference\, “Today’s Middle East: Power\, Politics\, & Players.” Refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nSilenced Whispers transports readers to the enchanting world of Iran at the turn of the 20th century as the country transforms into a modern nation. It celebrates the courage of a young woman to resist oppression and colonial aggression\, and provides insight into how that time seeded conflicts in modern Iran and the Middle East. The book is the winner of Independent Publishers of New England’s silver medal for genre fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Afarin Bellisario\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfarin Bellisario has led a distinguished career in technology and business\, with leadership roles at major firms and MIT\, and continues to advise startups and teach internationally on innovation and commercialization. \n\n\n\nAs a writer\, she describes herself as “a bridge between East and West\, past and future.” Drawing on her experiences living through the Iranian Revolution and her career in American innovation\, she writes about the tensions and transformations that occur when tradition meets modernity. \n\n\n\n“I grew up in a family with its feet in the past and its head in the future. My grandmothers were taught rudimentary reading and writing at home\, but my father and uncles were university graduates and part of Iran’s emerging technocratic elite. I’ve come a very long way even from that: whereas one of my great grandfathers had 25 wives and concubines\, I have a PhD from MIT. \n\n\n\nToday\, with the benefit of hindsight\, I trace the roots of the Iranian conflict to the early twentieth century\, when Iran was introduced to modern technologies such as the telephone and electricity\, along with Western ideas of individuality. In a traditional society\, you must conform to family rules in order to be protected. In a modern society\, you are protected by laws and the state. You can survive outside your tribe. But you lose the intangibles: love and comfort\, and the thread that connects you to the past.” – Afarin Bellisario \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented in anticipation of the 39th Annual Camden Conference\, “Today’s Middle East: Power\, Politics\, & Players” taking place live from the Camden Opera House from February 20 – 22\, 2026.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/ccce-book-talk-silenced-whispers-with-afarin-bellisario/
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SUMMARY:Explorations Read-Aloud: "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett
DESCRIPTION:Every Friday\, at 11:00 am\, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page\, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian\, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction. \n\n\n\nFor October 24\, Coté will read aloud from Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon. \n\n\n\nThe Maltese Falcon is the archetypal ‘hard-boiled’ detective story\, rich in intriguing characters\, dark exciting action and featuring the greatest of all cool\, tough private eyes\, Sam Spade. \n\n\n\nWritten in 1930\, the novel has a timeless quality that makes it fresh and exciting for each new generation of readers.  \n\n\n\nSam Spade is hired by the alluring Miss Wonderley to track down her sister\, who has eloped with ne-er do well Floyd Thursby. \n\n\n\nBut when Spade’s partner Miles Archer is murdered while on Thursby’s trail\, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the mythical jewel-encrusted Falcon\, a treasure worth killing for before the Fat Man\, and how far can he trust the seductive Miss Wonderley? \n\n\n\nDashiell Hammett’s noir classic is written in sharp\, terse prose that gives a cinematic vividness to the characters and their milieu. \n\n\n\nClick the links to find the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest?Contact Joseph at friday-explorations@usa.net
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/explorations-read-aloud-the-maltese-falcon-by-dashiell-hammett/
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SUMMARY:Exhibit Reception: Knox County Camera Club Revisited — Historical Photos by John Felton
DESCRIPTION:The public is invited to the exhibit’s closing reception on Saturday\, October 25\, 2:00 – 4:00 PM. in the Picker Room! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the month of October Camden Public Library is hosting a historical photo exhibit in the Picker Room\, Knox County Camera Club Revisited: Historical Photos by John Felton\, curated by John Felton’s granddaughter Mary Kay Felton. \n\n\n\nThe Knox County Camera Club was active from the 1930s to 1978. They hosted annual photo exhibitions at the Farnsworth and members participated in juried shows throughout Maine and Massachusetts. Local photographer John Felton was a 40+ year member. In the tradition of area photographers of the time\, like Carroll Thayer Berry and Kosti Ruohomaa\, Felton’s images captured local people\, day to day life\, and scenery in and around Camden\, Rockport\, and midcoast Maine. \n\n\n\nJohn W. E. Felton\n\n\n\nIn 2019\, the Felton family loaned the negatives of the Felton Photo Collection to the Walsh History Center. The Walsh Center digitized close to a hundred of his 40+ year collection to date. John Felton’s granddaughter\, Mary Kay Felton\, organized the exhibition as an opportunity for people to see Camera Club exhibition photos not seen in the last 50-80+ years and to make the public aware of the Felton Collection in Camden Public Library’s Walsh History Center. John Felton would be proud to know that his great granddaughter\, affectionately known as “Miss Amy” Hand\, is CPL’s beloved childrens’ librarian.  \n\n\n\nMary Kay Felton hopes residents with a long history in Camden or Rockport can help identify people featured in the collection of seventeen 16 x 20 black and white photos. An additional seven photos capture images of Camera Club members in Berry’s studio\, at shows\, and on outings. Many of the members have been identified\, but Felton hopes exhibit goers can identify the remaining Camera Club members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n If you’re able to identify the subject of any photo\, Felton encourages you to write the photo number\, the name of the person you can identify\, and your name and contact information on a slip of paper and drop it in the container provided in the Picker room this October.  \n\n\n\nFor more information about the exhibit\, contact Mary Kay Felton at feltonmk@gmail.com.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/exhibit-reception-knox-county-camera-club-revisited-historical-photos-by-john-felton/
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