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SUMMARY:On Exhibit: The Fourth Annual Accordion Book Art Show
DESCRIPTION:The library’s own Amy Hand has organized the 4th Annual Accordion Book Art Show\, on exhibit in the Picker Room Gallery during the month of May*. \n\n\n\nA variety of handmade accordion books are on display along the walls and in the glass case\, with multiple contributing artists from across the state and country! \n\n\n\nCome see the wonderful array of accordion books\, from large to tiny\, eye-catching to minimal\, and created with a variety of techniques\, materials\, and themes. \n\n\n\n*The Picker Room hosts meetings and library events and is not always open for viewing. Please call ahead or check our website calendar to see what’s happening daily.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/on-exhibit-the-fourth-annual-accordion-book-art-show/
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SUMMARY:"The Buzz On Native Plants" Film and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library\, Native Gardens of Blue Hill\, and Wild Ones Midcoast Maine join together to present a film screening of The Buzz on Native Plants on Thursday\, May 1\, at 6:00 p.m. (SIX o’clock!) in person in the Picker Room. \n\n\n\nThe film explores the relationship between native plants and pollinators and how they can benefit local ecosystems in our ever changing climate. The goal of the film is to raise awareness about the importance of biodiverse native ecosystems in our ever changing climate. The film will be followed by a lively panel discussion of local experts\, including Cathy Rees\, who appears in the movie. All are welcome and light refreshments will be provided! \n\n\n\n\nPanelist Bios\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCathy Rees studied environmental design and ecology and has worked in parks\, forests and in the landscaping business for most of her life. She is the Executive Director and co-founder of Native Gardens of Blue Hill\, founded 2016\, and is the Author of Winterland: Create a Beautiful Garden for Every Season. She is a featured public speaker and has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and has contributed to radio programs and podcasts as well as the movie\, The Buzz On Native Plants. \n\n\n\nDr. Roger Rittmaster is a retired endocrinologist and an avid nature photographer\, focusing on plants\, insects and underwater photography.  He moved to Maine fourteen years ago to pursue his hobbies (nature photography\, land conservation\, woodworking and tennis).  He loves to travel\, especially to exotic places where he can photograph uncommon species.  Shortly after moving to Maine\, he authored the book\, Butterflies Up Close: A Guide to Butterfly Photography.  Roger is a Maine Master Naturalist\, former Maine Entomological Society Vice-President\, former Chair of the Camden Conservation Commission and former Member of the Board of Coastal Mountains Land Trust.  \n\n\n\nLouisa Crane studied Environmental Studies at Wellesley College\, where she worked for Wellesley’s Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative for two years following graduation. She is now a Program Development Specialist at Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District\, where she helps local residents\, landowners\, farmers\, schools\, municipalities\, contractors\, land trusts and other land managers learn about and implement conservation practices. She enjoys sharing her excitement about native plants with others—as well as educating people about the problems caused by invasive plants. She grew up in Warren\, Maine and feels lucky to be doing this work in a place with which she feels so connected. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Thomas is a restoration ecologist with a master’s in ecological restoration and native rangeland management\, she’s worked on properties a few square feet to 25\,000 acres\, preserving and enhancing biodiversity for wildlife. She is the Co-Founder of Wild Ones Midcoast Maine\, technical advisor to the Camden Garden Club’s first native plant garden\, Founder of the Camden Native Plant Sale & Celebration\, and owner of Keystone Native Habitat & Landscape. Her former property has been featured on PBS TV and YouTube. She is a public speaker\, and is an advisor to the Curtis Island Lighthouse Foundation for island ecology. She considers it a privilege and honor to live and play in the wilds of Midcoast Maine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is put on in partnership with Camden Public Library\, Wild Ones Midcoast Maine\, and Native Gardens of Blue Hill.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/the-buzz-about-native-plants-film-and-panel-discussion/
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SUMMARY:*EVENT FULL* Book Talk: "Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner" with Author Natalie Dykstra
DESCRIPTION:We have reached seating capacity for the May 3 “Chasing Beauty” event with Natalie Dykstra. The waitlist is also full. \n\n\n\nSeating is reserved for those who have already pre-registered. Thank you for understanding!  \n\n\n\nCamden Public Library warmly welcomes award-winning author Natalie Dykstra\, for a book talk on her latest title\, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. There will be book sales\, thanks to Arctic Tern Books in Rockland\, and a signing session with the author to follow. This event will take place in the library’s beautiful and historic Reading Room. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have received confirmation of your registration\, please note: \n\n\n\n\nFor the event\, enter the library from the Atlantic Avenue entrance and take the stairs or the elevator to the third floor Reading Room. The other entrance to the Reading Room will be locked. Names will be checked upon entry to the Reading Room to ensure those who are pre-registered get first serve on seats. \n\n\n\nARRIVE EARLY! This event is very full\, and there is a long waitlist. Those on the waitlist will likely show up hoping for a seat. At 1:45 PM we will stop checking names of those who have registered. To ensure your seat\, arrive well before then! Otherwise\, your seat may be taken by someone on the waitlist.\n\n\n\n\nIf you received notice that you are on the waitlist\, or if you have not pre-registered: \n\n\n\n\nWe will be seating those who are on the registration list (not the waitlist) until 1:45 PM. At that point\, seating will be first-come\, first-serve. If you are on the waitlist and determined to join us\, we recommend not arriving too early\, as waitlisted folks will not be seated any earlier than 1:45 p.m. Those on the waitlist are asked to wait downstairs until 1:45\, so as not to overcrowd the room while we seat folks on the registration list.\n\n\n\nAfter 1:45 p.m.\, seating and standing room is first-come\, first-serve. As someone on the waitlist\, you may still be able to get a seat\, but it is not guaranteed. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNatalie Dykstra delivers the definitive biographical portrait of the ambitious and innovative—and until now misunderstood—woman behind one of America’s most important art collections. With access to all archival holdings at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—including thousands of digitized and newly accessible letters and other unpublished records—as well as original sources in Paris\, Venice\, and more\, Dykstra brings Isabella to life as never before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn incredible achievement of storytelling and scholarship\, Chasing Beauty illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of living memoir—as the place where Isabella “put herself on display . . . her taste\, her passions\, her sorrow\, her nerve\, her capacious curiosity\, her relationships.” \n\n\n\nA tribute to the transformative power of art and the indomitable spirit of Isabella Stewart Gardner\, Chasing Beauty stands as an inspiring tale of beauty and loss\, resilience and self-invention\, and the enduring legacy of a visionary creator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“[An] exquisitely detailed and perceptive biography.” — New York Times Book Review \n\n\n\n“Sympathetic\, impeccably researched.” — Wall Street Journal \n\n\n\n“[A] thrilling new biography.” — Town & Country \n\n\n\n“Marshalling vivid facts\, fluent insights\, and narrative radiance\, Dykstra fully captures Gardner’s dynamism\, intrepidity\, creativity\, and singular achievements.” — Booklist\, *starred* review \n\n\n\n“An elegant depiction of a larger-than-life trailblazer.” — Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNatalie Dykstra is the author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life. Her work on Isabella Stewart Gardner has won a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an inaugural Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship sponsored by the Biographers International Organization (BIO). Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a finalist for the 19th Annual Marfield Prize for arts writing.  Dykstra\, emerita professor of English at Hope College in Michigan\, lives with her husband in Waltham\, MA.  
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/chasing-beauty-natalie-dykstra/
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Morning Book Club: All the Broken Places
DESCRIPTION:The Tuesday Morning Book Club meets in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library on the FIRST Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. \n\n\n\nFor the month of May\, the group will be reading All the Broken Places by John Boyne. If you would like to join a book club session or would like more information\, please email Nora Curry at ncurry@librarycamden.org. New members are always welcome! \n\n\n\nClick here for the full book list for each month in 2025. \n\n\n\nSummary of All the Broken Places by John Boyne: 1946. Three years after an event which tore their lives apart\, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris. Nearly eighty years later\, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her\, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However\, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/tuesday-morning-book-club-all-the-broken-places/
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SUMMARY:Camden Talks Climate: "Camden’s Forests as a Lens on Maine's Changing Climate" with Professor Ivan J. Fernandez
DESCRIPTION:CamdenCAN and the Camden Public Library\, as part of its continuing Camden Talks Climate series\, welcome Professor Emeritus Ivan J. Fernandez for his presentation “Camden’s Forests as a Lens on Maine’s Changing Climate” on Tuesday\, May 6\, at 6:30 PM in the Picker Room as well as on Zoom. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCamden is blessed to share a border with a well-forested state park. While we’re sure you knew about the park\, do you also know that\, in addition to being a treasured natural resource\, our state park also provides solutions to many of the challenges presented by a warming world? \n\n\n\nUMaine Professor Emeritus Ivan Fernandez will explore how climate change affects forests\, including the ways in which forest management responds to those changes\, and how forests contribute to climate solutions. \n\n\n\nHe’ll also consider relevant findings from the 2024 Maine Climate Council’s Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (STS) and briefly discuss the 2024 quadrennial update of the Maine Climate Action Plan—Maine Won’t Wait 2.0—including its seven overarching strategies for Maine action on greenhouse gas mitigation\, climate adaptation\, and building resilience in our communities and ecosystems. \n\n\n\nThis program is hybrid and will take place in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library as well as on Zoom. Register here to watch virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_680b9kzuSL-Z1wWPBwW7aQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIvan J. Fernandez is Professor Emeritus and Climate Research Scientist in the School of Forest Resources\, Climate Change Institute\, and School of Food and Agriculture at the University of Maine\, and Director of the Maine Climate Science Information Exchange. He has served on various U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board committees in Washington DC since 2000 and has led Maine’s Climate Future assessments in 2009\, 2015\, and 2020. In 2019 he was appointed to the Maine Climate Council\, serves as co-Chair of its Scientific and Technical Subcommittee\, and is a member of its Natural Working Lands working group. \n\n\n\n\nAmong other awards\, Fernandez was made a Distinguished Maine Professor in 2007\, CASE/Carnegie in Washington DC named him Professor of the Year for Maine in 2008\, he was named a fellow in the Soil Science Society of America in 2010 and was the 2018 President’s Public Service Achievement Award recipient at the University of Maine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is put on in partnership with CamdenCAN (ClimateActionNow)\, a citizen-led organization committed to reducing Camden’s contribution to climate change through local action\, education\, advocacy\, and resources. CamdenCAN helps our community take advantage of climate solutions with actionable steps. Learn more at camdencan.org.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-talks-climate-camdens-forests-as-a-lens-on-maines-changing-climate-with-professor-ivan-j-fernandez/
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SUMMARY:"The Murmur of Everything Moving" Author Talk with Maureen Stanton
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library welcomes award-winning writer Maureen Stanton for a book talk and Q & A session featuring her recently published memoir\, The Murmur of Everything Moving\, on Thursday\, May 8\, 2025\, at 6:30 p.m. in the Picker Room. All are welcome and light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for The Murmur of Everything Moving\n\n\n\n“Like all the great memoirs\, The Murmur of Everything Moving\, plumbs far deeper than its immediate subject\, in this case the act of caring for and tending to one’s dying lover; with spare\, lyrical\, and wonderfully evocative prose\, Maureen Stanton lays bare here the myriad forms of love required of us when things get hard. This viscerally moving memoir is a love song and a tribute\, a hymn of praise for each sacred moment given us. It is also heartbreakingly beautiful\, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.” \n\n\n\n​ ~ Andre Dubus III\, author of Ghost Dogs\, Such Kindness\, House of Sand and Fog\, and Townie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise For Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood\n\n\n\n\n“A blazingly important memoir about the possibility of change.” ~ People Magazine “Best New Books” pick \n\n\n\n“Powerful and Probing . . . a compellingly honest coming-of-age memoir.” ~ Kirkus \n\n\n\n“Sharp\, candid\, and deeply felt.” ~ Boston Globe \n\n\n\n“Well-told\, insightful.” ~ BookPage \n\n\n\n“Memorable and beautiful.” ~ Shelf Awareness \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaureen Stanton is the author of The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir (CSU Press\, 2025)\, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence\, forthcoming in March 2025; Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2019)\, winner of the Maine Literary Award\, and winner of a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction for Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets\, Antiques\, and Collecting (Penguin\, 2012). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHer essays and creative nonfiction have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies\, including in The New York Times\, Fourth Genre\, Creative Nonfiction\, New England Review\, Florida Review\, River Teeth\, Sport Literate\, Crab Orchard Review\, The Sun and many others.  \n\n\n\nShe’s received an Iowa Review prize\, The Sewanee Review\, Pushcart Prizes\, the American Literary Review nonfiction award\, the Thomas J. Hruska award in nonfiction from Passages North\, the Penelope Niven Nonfiction Award from Salem College Center for Women Writers\, a Mary Roberts Rinehart Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Maine Arts Commission\, the MacDowell Colony\, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Maureen teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/the-murmur-of-everything-moving-author-talk-with-maureen-stanton/
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SUMMARY:Camden Climate Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Join others concerned about our climate future in small\, facilitated conversation circles. Camden Climate Conversations takes place on second and fourth Tuesdays\, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in the Picker Room at Camden Public Library. \n\n\n\nThis is informal\, designed to help us get to know one another and find ways to talk about the climate crisis. There will be resources for guided discussion\, including podcasts\, articles\, and books\, as decided by each group. The goal is to help one another explore living in this remarkable period. Making connections about climate is a powerful way to build resilience. Free and open to all! \n\n\n\nCamdenCAN is a citizen-led organization committed to reducing Camden’s climate change through local action\, education\, advocacy\, and resources.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-climate-conversations/2025-05-13/
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SUMMARY:Reading Room Closed to Normal Use During Event
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URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/in-the-reading-room-a-feast-of-poetry-and-song-in-lead-up-to-the-camden-festival-of-poetry/
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SUMMARY:In the Reading Room: A Feast of Poetry and Song (Camden Festival of Poetry)
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library is delighted to welcome a line-up of accomplished poets and performers to the beautiful Reading Room for an evening of poetry and music on Tuesday\, May 13 at 6:00 (yes\, SIX o’clock!) p.m. This event will kick off the 3rd Annual Camden Festival of Poetry. \n\n\n\nPoets & Performers\n\n\n\n\nSandra Lynn Hutchison has published three books: Chinese Brushstrokes (a memoir)\, The Art of Nesting (poetry)\, and A Tale of Love (a translation). She has been the recipient of various literary awards and recognitions\, including the Emily Dickinson Poetry Award and a Jane Kenyon Poetry Fellowship. Her most recent chapbook The Beautiful Foolishness of Things was a finalist in the 2022 Poet’s Corner chapbook contest.   \n\n\n\n\n\nKristen Lindquist lives in Camden and Monhegan Island. Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Her first poetry collection\, Transportation\, was a finalist for a Maine Literary Award. Her other books include Tourists in the Known World and Island: Haiku\, which received a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America. \n\n\n\n\n\nApril Messier is currently working on her master’s thesis\, a manuscript of original poetry and poetics. Her work explores the relationship between lineage and identity as well as the healing capacities of language and the natural world. She gathers inspiration from her deep connection to this land that her ancestors have stewarded for many generations\, and which she herself has farmed for over a decade. April lives with her partner Eric and two dogs in Belfast\, Maine. \n\n\n\n\n\nCarl Little is the author of Blanket of the Night: Poems (Deerbrook Editions\, 2024). His poetry has appeared in The Café Review\, Maine Arts Journal and Maine Sunday Telegram\, among other publications\, as well as in several anthologies edited by Wesley McNair. In 2021 the Rabkin Foundation awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award for his art writing. Little lives on Mount Desert Island. \n\n\n\n\n\nBen Rooney is a farmer and carpenter. He loves geeking out on nature\, outdoor recreating and all things that ferment.  Artistic expression is something he strayed away from during adolescence.  Only recently has writing poetry and music come back into practice\, after a 10-year hiatus.  \n\n\n\n\n\nMark S. Burrows\, who will M.C. the event\, is an award-winning poet\, translator\, and scholar\, as well as co-founder of the Camden Festival of Poetry. Together with Jon Sweeney\, he has published three books of meditative poems inspired by Meister Eckhart’s writings\, most recently Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light which was awarded the Gold Medal by the Nautilus Book Awards in 2024. His translations of German poetry include\, most recently\, the first full-length translation of the German-Jewish poet Hilde Domin’s poems\, The Wandering Radiance: Selected Poems of Hilde Domin (2023) and a new translation of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus (2024). He also recently published You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke (2024)\, cowritten with Stephanie Dowrick. He lives and writes in Camden\, ME. \n\n\n\n\nVisit www.camdenfestivalofpoetry.org to learn more about the 2025 Camden Festival of Poetry and register to attend!
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/in-the-reading-room-a-feast-of-poetry-and-song-in-lead-up-to-the-camden-festival-of-poetry/
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SUMMARY:"An Introduction to Green Burial" with Jean Matlack\, Midcoast Maine Green Burial
DESCRIPTION:Camden Public Library welcomes Jean Matlack\, a member of the nonprofit Midcoast Maine Green Burial (MMGB) for a presentation on Thursday\, May 15\, at 6:30 p.m. in the Picker Room. \n\n\n\nMMGB is a local\, grass-roots volunteer organization formed to promote the creation of a green burial cemetery in Knox\, Waldo or Lincoln County\, Maine. All are welcome and light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe Green Burial Council\, a national educational and certifying organization\, defines Green Burial as “a way of caring for the dead with minimal environmental impact that aids in the conservation of natural resources\, the reduction of carbon emissions\, the protection of worker health\, and the restoration and protection of habitat.” It also offers a healing way for the loved ones of those who have died to move through this challenging time of loss. \n\n\n\nJean Matlack will present about the basics of green burial. After the presentation\, there will also be an opportunity to speak privately with a member of Midcoast Maine Green Burial. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJean Matlack is a retired psychologist living in the Camden/Rockport area since 2005 and has been concerned about environmental matters for many years. When she learned that green burial offers an earth-friendly way to car for our dead\, she became an advocate. Jean found many others who were of like mind\, and in May 2023 founded Midcoast Maine Green Burial to educate and advocate for green burial. Their vision is to manifest a green burial ground in Knox\, Lincoln\, or Waldo county.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/an-introduction-to-green-burial-with-jean-matlack/
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SUMMARY:Reading Room Closed to Normal Use During Event
DESCRIPTION:The Reading Room will be closed to normal use on Friday\, May 16\, from approximately 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for an event as a part of the Camden Festival of Poetry and associated set-up and clean-up. For more information about this event and to register to attend\, please visit www.camdenfestivalofpoetry.org/events. Thank you for your understanding! \n\n\n\nCamden Public Library is pleased to be an institutional partner for the Camden Festival of Poetry.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/reading-room-closed-to-normal-use-during-event-2/
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SUMMARY:"PoeTREE – An Arbor Day Celebration" Join Us For Tree Planting and Poetry Readings!
DESCRIPTION:“The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.” —Dylan Thomas \n\n\n\nLove trees? Love poetry? Please join us for this PoeTREE appreciation event in Camden!  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Camden Conservation Commission and Camden Public Library invite the public to celebrate our trees on Tuesday\, May 20\, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. outside the Library! Camden\, with its tree lined streets and canopied neighborhoods\, has been a proud Tree City USA community since 1996. \n\n\n\nEveryone is welcome to convene at 1:00 p.m. on the corner of Atlantic Ave and Rt. 1 across from the big library steps\, where we’ll kick off with a tree planting\, followed by a brief program of Arbor Day-themed inspiration. Whether you’re curious about how to participate in Camden’s Street Tree program\, in the mood for tree-themed poetry (read aloud by a host of lovely folks)\, or just happen to wander into Harbor Park–you are welcome to join us. \n\n\n\nGot the poetry bug and want to participate? We have a limited number of open spots remaining for anyone interested in writing and/or reading publicly. Please email Sam Sharff at samanthaleec@gmail.com with questions. \n\n\n\nThis is a joint program of the Camden Conservation Commission and the Camden Public Library\, and is part of The Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree City USA Program. We hope you will join us! \n\n\n\nNote: if it’s raining\, we’ll move inside the library to the Jean Picker Room.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/poetree-an-arbor-day-celebration-with-tree-planting-and-poetry-readings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T153000
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SUMMARY:Camden Philosophical Society: Techno Feudalism
DESCRIPTION:Camden Philosophical Society at its gathering on Tuesday\, May 20\, will discuss chapters from contemporary global public intellectual Yanis Varoufakis’s latest work\, Techno Feudalism. These chapters pull together threads from several topics discussed by the society over this past winter\, including alternatives to capitalism\, promises and dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and human relationships to each other and to the Earth.  \n\n\n\nThe May 20 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 sarahmiller@usa.net. You will receive a Zoom invitation on the morning of the meeting. Click on the “Join Zoom Meeting” link in that invitation at the time of the event. \n\n\n\nVaroufakis is a socialist politician\, an economics professor\,  former finance minister of Greece\, and currently secretary-general of the pan-European Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25).  In Techno Feudalism\, What Killed Capitalism\, heargues that capitalism has effectively collapsed and has been replaced not by Marxist socialism but by a new and powerful form of feudalism\, which he calls techno feudalism.  \n\n\n\nHe asserts that cloud rent has  overtaken profit as the driving economic force\, and humans have become “cloud serfs\,” providing unpaid labor to self-reproducing algorithms\, labor in the form of our online writings\, photos\, videos\, and movements recorded by cell phones. ”The true revolution cloud capital has inflicted on humanity is the conversion of billions of us into willing cloud serfs volunteering to labour for nothing to reproduce cloud capital for the benefit of its owners\,” Varoufakis writes. \n\n\n\nOur discussion of Techno Feudalism will focus upon Chapter 3\, “Cloud Capital\,” which is addressed to Varoufakis’s father; and Chapter 5\, “What’s in a Word.”  A PDF can be downloaded here: https://dn721607.ca.archive.org/0/items/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism-2023-yanis-varoufakis/Varoufakis%2C%20Yanis%20-%20Technofeudalism%20-%20What%20Killed%20Capitalism%20%282023%29%20Yanis%20Varoufakis.pdf 
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/camden-philosophical-society-techno-feudalism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T183000
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SUMMARY:"Live Birds and Deadly Forces" with Michael Good and Sandra Neily
DESCRIPTION:A BIRDING GUIDE & NATURALIST (who’s not a novelist)andA NORTHWOODS MYSTERY AUTHOR (who’s not a birder) \n\n\n\nWhat could they have in common? Their knowledge of…Live Birds and Deadly Forces! \n\n\n\nDon’t miss this unique program that brings together birding\, mystery writing\, and the Maine outdoors on Thursday\, May 22\, at 6:30 p.m. in the Picker Room! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEssentially\, Michael Good and Sandra Neily are optimists who are and have been Maine Guides. They believe that the more people know about our outdoor assets and the risks they face\, the more they’ll support various solutions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“During his Downeast Nature Tours Michael educates out in the field\, offering birding and wildlife tours. After decades working in the conservation field\, Sandy now crafts stories that are “seductive field trips into Maine’s woods\, waters\, and wildlife habitat.” \n\n\n\nTheir presentation\, “Live Birds and Deadly Forces\,” offers up Good’s short PowerPoint of birds and habitat at risk\, a reading from Neily’s last novel\, and plenty of time for comments and questions. There will be a giveaway for TWO of Neily’s novels and a chance to purchase books as well. \n\n\n\n“We’ll share out some Maine Outdoor Lottery tickets … as long as they last\,” Good said. “This fund supports wildlife and we’ll bring along a handout of ways people can help in large and small ways.” \n\n\n\n\nYankee Magazine chose Michael Good as a Best Birdwatching Guide\, writing\, “Biologist and Maine Guide Michael Good is simply batty about birds\, and he shares his knowledge with avian addicts and newcomers alike. Whether you’re pining to see warblers\, falcons\, eagles\, and hawks or seeking to add a Nelson’s sharptailed sparrow to your life list\, Good’s your man.” \n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Sandra Neily is a national award-winner from the Mystery Writers of America and a Maine Literary Award finalist. Michael Good reviewed her “Deadly Turn” novel as “nonstop suspense. Powerful human relationships intermingle with accurate descriptions of forests\, ponds\, rivers and streams; birds and the people who care about them become symbols of strength and resilience.\, Neily captures Maine’s northern forest with fierce love and inspired storytelling.”
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/live-birds-and-deadly-forces-with-michael-good-and-sandra-neily/
CATEGORIES:Adults' Calendar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250525T120000
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SUMMARY:Join the Trustees of Camden Public Library in Harbor Park
DESCRIPTION:The Trustees of the Camden Public Library invite you to join us in Harbor Park on Sunday\, May 25th\, from 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. if you would like more information about our support of a YES vote on Article 7. We will also have some activities for children\, so bring the kids along!
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/join-the-trustees-of-camden-public-library-in-harbor-park/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250527T180000
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SUMMARY:Kray Van Kirk - Free Concert in the Amphitheatre to kick off our summer music series!
DESCRIPTION:The Camden Public Library’s concert series returns on Tuesday\, May 27\, at 6:00 (Six O’Clock!) p.m. with singer-songwriter Kray Van Kirk. \n\n\n\nUPDATE: It is gorgeous out today\, so this concert will take place OUTSIDE in the Amphitheatre! Bring your own seating/blanket or use one of our chairs. Picnic dinners and dogs welcome. See you at 6 PM! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll are invited to this free evening of folk Americana on 6 & 12-string guitar concerning heroes and hope…so that absolutely everyone\, of every identity and history\, can know that they are not alone but have a verse in the shouted poetry of dawn. \n\n\n\nA fine finger-style guitarist with a precise baritone\, Kray Van Kirk has a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska\, but he set science aside to write songs\, tell stories and summon heroes. \n\n\n\n“We are driven by myth and the seasons of the heart\,” he says\, “and the stories are all true. There is a dark cave inside each of us\, and monsters of all kinds lurk there\, all the more lethal for being hidden. The quest is to journey inside\, render the monsters powerless\, find whatever it is that burns at the core of your soul and bring it back into the light. In a world divided it is critical to write songs and tell stories that show absolutely everyone they get to be the hero. Nobody is left behind.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen he reached Scotland and the Fringe Festival\, the Daily Fringe Review wrote\, “The evening’s act was Kray Van Kirk\, whose 12-string guitar and soaring vocals were spellbinding; the Alaskan singer-songwriter\, in his Edinburgh debut\, was not the reason I arrived early\, but was certainly why I stayed late.” \n\n\n\nOf this charming\, Quixotic and eclectic performer\, the Borderline Folk Club in New York wrote that Van Kirk was “what every singer-songwriter should aspire to.”
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/free-concert-kray-van-kirk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T000000
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SUMMARY:On Exhibit: "Northern Silence" Photography by Zach Hand
DESCRIPTION:Explore the vast beauty of northern British Columbia during the exhibit “Northern Silence” by photographer Zach Hand this June* in the Picker Room Gallery. \n\n\n\nThe public is invited to a Closing Reception on Saturday\, June 28\, 2:00 – 4:00 PM in the Picker Room for a last chance to view the exhibit and meet Zach. \n\n\n\nAbout “Northern Silence”\n\n\n\n“Northern British Columbia is an extremely vast landscape. One that carries its peaceful state as far as the eye can see\, and as far as you can hear. This selection reminds me of each footstep taken and each mile flown. Each sunrise and sunset\, each sun flare and torrential downpour. It is a place that truly made me pause\, focusing both on what I was seeing and hearing.” \n\n\n\n\nZach Hand is a 26 year old Midcoast native. He grew up diving into all outdoor endeavors the area had to offer and began traveling more after graduating high school. Zach has an immense passion for capturing both raw places and those who find themselves experiencing them. Learn more about his work at www.hamediacreative.com. \n\n\n\n*The Picker Room hosts meetings and library events and is not always open for viewing. Please call ahead or check our website calendar to see what’s happening daily.
URL:https://www.librarycamden.org/event/on-exhibit-northern-silence-photography-by-zach-hand/
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