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Lasercut Screenprinting
Explore how digital tools can be part of hands-on making. In this short workshop, participants will use the Fab Lab’s laser cutter and the xTool screenprinting jig to create simple designs and turn them into screens for printing. We’ll walk through the process of engraving an image or text onto a pre-coated screen, then use it to print on paper or fabric.
Participants will leave with a one-of-a-kind print—and a look at how the Fab Lab’s tools can open new possibilities for creative work.
All levels welcome; all materials provided. Participants may bring something to print on.
Blood Drive
Hello & Happy Holidays from all of us here at Penobscot Fire Department! Thank you so much for your lifesaving work of giving blood. Our Penobscot Day drive was very successful, collecting 40% over our goal with 35 units, and 15% first time donors. The Red Cross was impressed and surprised at the high turnout (we weren't, though - we know how amazing our town is!) We are proud to announce the launch of the Penobscot Blood Drive coming up in 6 weeks, on Saturday, January 10th 2026 from 9 am - 2 pm! While there's still plenty of time to register, and we have about 28 slots available, slots are filling quickly - so please register soon. Walk-ins are on a space available basis only. Contact us if you have questions! Stay warm in the storm!
The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of us will need blood in our lifetime.
Thank you for supporting the American Red Cross blood program!
Download the Red Cross Blood Donor App on the App Store, Google Play or text BLOODAPP to 90999. Schedule appointments, view your blood type and results of your mini-physical, and track your donations.
Blood Program Leader Name: Joshua Jones
Blood Program Leader Phone Number: 2073264296
Screenprinting with Natural Dyes
Get to know the essentials of screenprinting on fabric and learn tips for using natural dyes and inks! Topics like layering, mordanting, and creating your own inks and dyes will be discussed as we explore the printing process.
All levels welcome; all materials provided.
Multimedia Cyanotype Printing
Discover how light, shadow, and digital tools can come together in this playful cyanotype workshop. Participants will use laser-cut shapes and found objects to create one-of-a-kind blueprints on fabric and paper. After arranging materials on light-sensitive surfaces, we’ll expose them to sunlight or UV light and rinse in water to reveal the final image.
This session blends traditional photographic printing with the precision of digital fabrication—offering a chance to experiment and take home place-based prints. This process yields unique results and provides opportunities to imagine through making while collaborating with elements of nature and everyday objects.
No experience necessary; all materials provided.
Family Friendly | This workshop is open to all ages. Children are welcome to participate with the supervision of an adult—a great opportunity to make and learn together.
Zines! Artist Books & Self-Publishing
Have you ever wanted to make and publish your own book or zine but never knew how? This is the workshop for you! Bring drawings, poems, writings, photos, or collages, and leave with a one-of-a-kind artist book, or make a bunch of copies of a zine for everyone you know! Attendees will learn basic bookbinding, papercraft, and zine techniques.
All levels welcome; all materials provided.
INTRODUCTION TO STITCHING TECHNIQUES ON LASER-CUT LEATHER
Interested in making your very own functional leathercraft? We will have a variety of projects prepared for you to assemble together. Get to know the basics of stitching your very own leather project. We will discuss the relevant software and leathercraft methodologies in this short primer.
All levels welcome; all materials provided.
CUSTOM MUG MAKING WITH A DISUBLIMATION PRESS
Learn how images can be transferred onto everyday objects using heat and pressure. In this short workshop, participants will use the Fab Lab’s mug press and dye-sublimation printer to create custom ceramic mugs. Choose from prepared designs or bring a simple image of your own to personalize your piece. Leave with a finished mug—and a look at how digital printing tools can turn ideas into useful objects.
All levels welcome; all materials provided.
Family Friendly | This workshop is open to all ages. Children are welcome to participate with the supervision of an adult—a great opportunity to make and learn together.
New Years Eve Party
The Walk-in Cafe is free and open to all ages. It is about a bit of food and conversation. It is a place where the community comes together.
Join us for a New Year's Eve celebration, an early start to welcoming in 2026.
Candlelight Christmas Eve Service
All are welcome to a candlelight Christmas Eve service at the Trinitarian Congregational Parish of Castine. Rev. Robert Vagt will lead worship at 5 p.m., in person at the Main Street Church, and by live-stream on our YouTube channel. Please visit www.tcpoc.org for our live-stream link.
Winter Solstice Gathering
Please join us as we honor this beautiful Earth feast of the Winter Solstice – sol sticere – sun stands still. Joseph Campbell wrote “Movement is time, but stillness is eternity.” The sun’s pausing in its journey today opens up, according to the ancient ones, a liminal space, a thin veil when spirit and matter interconnect intimately. Let us come together and open ourselves to this mystical possibility offered to us by our beloved Mother Earth.
The lessening of light and the increase of darkness are necessary ingredients for the Earth’s nourishment. They enable the fallow process to happen. How is this mirrored in our own lives? Come and reflect, sing, light candles, share conversation and share a nibble of bread, apple and honey!
All are welcome. Your presence is a blessing to us.
Christmas Services
First Congregational Church of Blue Hill Christmas Services
December 21st at 10:00 a.m.: Christmas Pageant followed by Potluck Christmas Brunch
December 21st at 5:00 p.m.: Blue Christmas/Longest Night Service downstairs in Fisher Hall
December 24th at 7:00 p.m. : Christmas Eve Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols
Located at 22 Tenney Hill in Blue Hill. FMI call 374-2891 or check out our websiteFirst Congregational Church of Blue Hill
Kongero- Swedish Folk'apella Concert
Experience the rich a capella harmonies and storytelling of Sweden’s Kongero in this intimate evening concert at Bagaduce Music. Followed by a pop up Scandi Dance with Bagaduce Spelmanslag!
About Bagaduce Music: Bagaduce Music is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working in community to expand Maine’s musical coastline. From Blue Hill to Belfast, Freeport to Steuben, Bagaduce Music offers classes, ensembles, concerts, dances, and musical experiences in folk, bluegrass, jazz, community singing, and more. Tuition assistance is available, and all ages and abilities are welcome.
Tickets: www.bagaducemusic.org
Kongero- Swedish Folk'apella Vocal Workshop
Join members of Kongero for a hands-on vocal workshop exploring Swedish folk singing and harmony. Open to all levels.
About Bagaduce Music: Bagaduce Music is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working in community to expand Maine’s musical coastline. From Blue Hill to Belfast, Freeport to Steuben, Bagaduce Music offers classes, ensembles, concerts, dances, and musical experiences in folk, bluegrass, jazz, community singing, and more. Tuition assistance is available, and all ages and abilities are welcome.
Tickets:www.bagaducemusic.org
Tickets are available online, and at the door (only when capacity allows).
Saturday Matinee
All are welcome to the library for a movie matinee on Saturday, December 20 at 2:30 p.m in the Howard Room. The library will be showing Todd Haynes' Carol(2015). Popcorn, tea, and coffee will be available for movie-viewing accompaniment.
"An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York."- IMDB. Based on Patricia Highsmith's classic The Price of Salt. Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes, rated R for a scene of sexuality/nudity and brief language. (Beware: it's also a Christmas movie.)
This program is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Library, and is free and open to all. If you have any questions, contact Olivia at oliviaz@bhpl.net or call the library at 374-5515.
Teen Anime Club
Teens ages 12+ are invited to join Teen Services Librarian Kendall Chapman at the Blue Hill Public Library on Friday, November 21 from 3:30 - 5:00 pm for the monthly Teen Anime Club! Each meeting the group will select an anime show or movie to watch, participate in an anime themed activity, and socialize. This program is free- For more information contact Kendall at kendall.chapman@bhpl.net or call 374-5515.
Beginner’s Contra Dance
This new Beginners Contra Dance series is a small, casual contra dance, suitable for newbies and experienced dancers alike! Dance or join in the open band with any instrument. $5 suggested, no charge for musicians. Chem-free event!
These dances are generally 1st, 3rd & 5th Thursdays of the month at the Surry Grange, 1229 Surry Rd. See calendar at surrycontra.org or follow on FB / IG
This dance is part of the Surry Contra Dance series. Join us every 2nd Saturday of the month for the full contra experience!
Author Event
The Blue Hill Library and Blue Hill Books are cosponsoring an author talk with local author and retired commercial fisherman William 'Bill' Gerencer for his new book Working Waterfront: A Fish Tale on Thursday, December 18 at 7PM in the library's Howard Room.
Bill Gerencer is a 45 year veteran of the New England Working Waterfront. He worked as a sternman, commercial fisherman, fishmonger, and oyster farmer. Bill also served on the New England Fisheries Management Council Groundfish Advisory Panel, the Office of Sustainable Fisheries Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel, the Trawl Survey Advisory Panel and as a director of the Portland Fish Exchange. He is currently retired and employed part-time at an oyster farm, works as a seafood consultant, and author.
This program is free and open to all, and will be held in the library's Howard Room. Copies of the book will be available for purchase from Blue Hill Books. For more information, please call the library at 374-5515 or email Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net.
Knitting Group
Knitters are invited to come sit by the library fireplace to work on and share projects with fellow knitters.The Knitting Group will meet every Thursday evening at 6 pm. Anyone is welcome to join this free event. Coffee and tea will be available to purchase.
Blue Hill Chess Enthusiasts
The Blue Hill Chess Enthusiasts meet each Thursday evening for pick-up games of chess. All experience levels are welcome to drop in for friendly games any time between 5:00 and 8:00 PM.
Interested players can also join the Blue Hill Peninsula Chess Nuts group on lichess.org to play online games any time.
Snowflakes! Paper Cutting & Silk Painting
Kids ages 8 and up are invited to a workshop on snowflakes on Wednesday, December 17 from 3 - 4:30pm. Artist Heléna Melone will teach participants how to make two fun snowflake projects.
Learn how to create these patterns by cutting them from folded paper, and then to use dye resist and silk paints to make their beautiful designs on easy-to-use 9.5-inch silk frames. They make wonderful Holiday ornaments, are lovely in windows, and make wonderful gifts!
Spaces are limited and registration is required. To register, use the library's interactive calendar or call 374-5515. Please register each child who will be participating.
Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Library, this event is free and open to all. For more information, contact Claire at claire.malina@bhpl.net or call 374-5515.
Holiday Music
The Walk-in Cafe is free and open to all ages. It is about a bit of food and conversation. It is a place where the community comes together.
Join us for a Holiday celebration with music and carols!
Digital Cutter Workshop
Paper Sculptures and Pop-up Holiday Cards
We're excited to offer a Connectivity Hub Makerspace workshop in collaboration with Haystack Mountain School of Crafts!
Learn how to use a digital cutter for 3D paper crafts. Digital cutters are precision crafting tools used to cut, engrave, or score thin materials like paper, vinyl, and even some metals.
This session we'll be making pop-up holiday cards and festive paper sculptures.
All materials included. For ages 16+ or by instructor permission.
Sign up at bit.ly/festivecards, email gupham@su76.org, or call 656-6262.
Holiday Magic on the Brooklin Town Green
Join us for a heartwarming evening as we light up the Brooklin Town Green with the spirit of the season!
Immerse yourself in a cozy, enchanting atmosphere featuring:
Classic Christmas Carols
Warm Fire Barrels
A Starry Night Sky
Twinkling Candlelight
Delicious Hot Chocolate
...and plenty of JOY!
Gather your loved ones and create unforgettable memories with your community. This is the perfect way to embrace the festive cheer!
Christmas Hymn Sing
Sing a song of gladness and cheer, for the time of Christmas is here! Join us at Rockbound Chapel for the Christmas Hymn Sing.