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The Big Question | Discussion Project | Maine Speaks | Special Programs

 

The Big Question

• What if…?
  Jump-starting our multi-year engagement with Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism
  January 18-February 3, 2022 | Registration opens December 18, 2021

 

Discussion Projects

• Buck Memorial Library
  Reading: Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism
  Tuesdays | 6:30 pm |  12/7, 1/4, 2/1
• West Paris Public Library
  Reading: Re-imagining the American Family
  Thursdays | 6:00 pm | 12/2, 12/16
• Zadoc Long Free Library
  Reading: The First Blade of Sweetgrass; Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You; It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity; Honey I Love and Other Poems; The Proudest Blue
  Mondays | 6:00 pm | 12/13, 1/10, 12/14, 3/14
• Curtis Memorial Library 
  Reading: selections from The Golden Collection (The Mountain Top and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf )
  Tuesdays | 6:30 pm | 12/14, 1/11, 2/8

 

Maine Speaks

• Darren Ranco | Wabanaki Climate Justice & Adaptation
  Biddeford Cultural and Heritage Center
  Thursday | December 2, 2021 | 7:00 pm
• Marpheen Chann | The Empathy Effect
  Stonington Public Library
  Monday | December 6, 2021 | 5:00 pm
• Meadow Dibble | The Diseased Ship: A Cautionary Tale About Our Nation’s Twin Plagues
  Northeast Harbor Library
  Wednesday | January 12, 2022 | 5:00 pm
• Jo Radner | Wit and Wisdom: Homegrown Humor in 19th Century New England
  Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society
  Wednesday | January 26, 2022 | 7:00 pm
• Carol Dana | Atlohkewe: Tell me a story
  Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library
  Thursday | March 22, 2022 | 7:00 pm