Upcoming Events at Stone Broke Bread & Books
347 Water St, Gardiner, ME 207.203.0224
Calendar
November 2025: 10% of All Book Sales go to Farm2Neighbor for Nov/Dec!
November 3, Monday, 5:30 - 7pm: Direct Action Village Meeting & Community Potluck. Find & share resources, strategies, and community. Bring a dish to share if you can (we’ve got dishes/napkins/drinks & crusty bread)! Call to Action and Mutual Aid. Co-sponsored by The Good Life Center.
November 7, Friday, 5:30 - 7:30pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a Tarot reading (sign-up sheet available in-store, email, call, Instagram to get on the list)! Every 1st Friday.
November 8, Saturday, 6 – 7pm: Author Reading for Tannery Bay (FC2, #OwnVoices) with Steven Dunn, Katie Jean Shinkle, & poet guests Meghan Sterling (Gardiner Poet Laureate) and Julia Bouwsma (ME State Poet Laureate). Book signing, Q&A, refreshments – the works!
November 14, Friday, 5 - 6pm: Open-No-Mic Poetry Nite! Co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance. Bring new work to share or come to support local poets! (2nd Friday)
November 15, Saturday, 6 - 8pm: Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a four-part documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time. Part 2: Aloha ‘Aina - Kanaka Maoli poet and activist Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio immerses us in the concept of aloha ‘āina—a love for and of the land embodied by her poetry, her family, and the movement at the foot of Mauna Kea—as she fights to protect the sacred mountain from the construction of a thirty-meter telescope.
*The event is FREE but registration is required for limited seating -- Please reach out via email (thefinefolks@stonebrokebreadandbooks), Instagram, Phone: 207-203-0224, or come in and sign up!
November 21st, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Come check out David Lawlor's intriguing rhythm interpretations on Jazz Guitar. Coffee/Tea available, browse books, look at great art, meet with friends or new folks, enjoy a nice evening! (Every 3rd Friday)
November 28, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Poetry Salon with Josh & Gus. Come have a conversation about poetry, writing, reading, and process. Theme: Joy (Every 4th Friday of the month).
November 29, Saturday, ALL DAY! Join us for Shop Local Saturday on our Three-Year-Anniversary!!! We’ll have live music, samples, free giveaways, and 10% off all sales!!! (Remember 10% of all book proceeds for the month of Nov & Dec go to Farm2Neighbor, too!! Buy with purpose, buy with heart, buy with sense).
December 2025: 10% of All Book Sales go to Farm2Neighbor all month! We will be open 7 days a week for ALL of December!!!
December 1, Monday, 5:30 - 7pm: Direct Action Village Meeting & Community Potluck. Find & share resources, strategies, and community. Bring a dish to share if you can (we’ve got dishes/napkins/drinks & crusty bread)! Call to Action and Mutual Aid. Co-sponsored by The Good Life Center.
December 5, 5 - 8pm: Late Nite Art featuring the rock show poster art ‘Been There, Done That’ from the Rollson collection. Live Music! Gallery appropriate snacks available. And 5:30 - 7:30pm: Flash Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb! Come in for a one question/one card Tarot reading ($5. donation appreciated)!
December 12, Friday, 5 - 6pm: Open-No-Mic Poetry Nite! Co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance. Bring new work to share or come to support local poets! (2nd Friday)
December 19th, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Come check out David Lawlor's intriguing rhythm interpretations on Jazz Guitar. Coffee/Tea available, browse books, look at great art (‘Been There, Done That’ from the Rollson collection), meet with friends or new folks, enjoy a nice evening!
December 20, Saturday, 6 - 8pm: Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a four-part documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time. Part 3: The Last Ice Age - For storyteller Andri Snær Magnason, climate change is like a black hole: so big, it’s larger than language. Retracing his grandparents’ annual spring journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier to witness the loss of Europe’s largest ice cap with his son, Andri searches for the stories that can help us understand our ecological crisis.
*The event is FREE but registration is required for limited seating -- Please reach out via email (thefinefolks@stonebrokebreadandbooks), Instagram, Phone: 207-203-0224, or come in and sign up!
December 26, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Poetry Salon with Josh, Gus and Special Guest: Julia Bouwsma. Come have a conversation about poetry, writing, reading, and process. Theme: Light (Every 4th Friday of the month).
January 2026:
January 2nd, Friday, 5:30 - 7:30pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a Tarot reading (sign-up sheet available in-store, email, call, Instagram to get on the list)! Every 1st Friday.
January 5th, Friday, 5:30 - 7pm: Direct Action Village Meeting & Community Potluck. Find & share resources, strategies, and community. Bring a dish to share if you can (we’ve got dishes/napkins/drinks & crusty bread)! Call to Action and Mutual Aid. Co-sponsored by The Good Life Center.
January 9th, Friday, 5 - 6pm: Open-No-Mic Poetry Nite! Co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance. Bring new work to share or come to support local poets! (2nd Friday)
Friday, January 16th, 5 - 7pm: Come check out David Lawlor's intriguing rhythm interpretations on Jazz Guitar. Coffee/Tea available, browse books, look at great art (‘Been There, Done That’ from the Rollson collection), meet with friends or new folks, enjoy a nice evening!
Saturday, January 17, Saturday, 6 - 8pm: Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a four-part documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time. Part 4: Taste of the Land - Since fleeing Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime, award-winning documentary filmmaker Kalyanee Mam has spent much of her life searching for a rooted connection to place. Tenderly documenting the people and landscapes of Cambodia threatened by industrialization and development, she awakens an ancestral memory of the taste of the land that lies within her.
*The event is FREE but registration is required for limited seating -- Please reach out via email (thefinefolks@stonebrokebreadandbooks), Instagram, Phone: 207-203-0224, or come in and sign up!
January 26, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Poetry Salon with Josh, Gus and Special Guest: Samaa Abdurraqib. Come have a conversation about poetry, writing, reading, and process. Theme: TBD (Every 4th Friday of the month).
We're open to author readings/oral storytellers, poetry and writing workshops, seed swap/saving/growing workshops, subversive cross-stitch/yarn bombing or alternative textile arts, 'zine/artbook binding/making, political, art, and philosophical lectures, foraging/fermenting/food making classes, renewable energy and climate change talks. We're a Queer and BIPOC safe space. Please let us know if you want to schedule an event!
November 3, Monday, 5:30 - 7pm: Direct Action Village Meeting & Community Potluck. Find & share resources, strategies, and community. Bring a dish to share if you can (we’ve got dishes/napkins/drinks & crusty bread)! Call to Action and Mutual Aid. Co-sponsored by The Good Life Center.
November 7, Friday, 5:30 - 7:30pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a Tarot reading (sign-up sheet available in-store, email, call, Instagram to get on the list)! Every 1st Friday.
November 8, Saturday, 6 – 7pm: Author Reading for Tannery Bay (FC2, #OwnVoices) with Steven Dunn, Katie Jean Shinkle, & poet guests Meghan Sterling (Gardiner Poet Laureate) and Julia Bouwsma (ME State Poet Laureate). Book signing, Q&A, refreshments – the works!
November 14, Friday, 5 - 6pm: Open-No-Mic Poetry Nite! Co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance. Bring new work to share or come to support local poets! (2nd Friday)
November 15, Saturday, 6 - 8pm: Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a four-part documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time. Part 2: Aloha ‘Aina - Kanaka Maoli poet and activist Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio immerses us in the concept of aloha ‘āina—a love for and of the land embodied by her poetry, her family, and the movement at the foot of Mauna Kea—as she fights to protect the sacred mountain from the construction of a thirty-meter telescope.
*The event is FREE but registration is required for limited seating -- Please reach out via email (thefinefolks@stonebrokebreadandbooks), Instagram, Phone: 207-203-0224, or come in and sign up!
November 21st, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Come check out David Lawlor's intriguing rhythm interpretations on Jazz Guitar. Coffee/Tea available, browse books, look at great art, meet with friends or new folks, enjoy a nice evening! (Every 3rd Friday)
November 28, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Poetry Salon with Josh & Gus. Come have a conversation about poetry, writing, reading, and process. Theme: Joy (Every 4th Friday of the month).
November 29, Saturday, ALL DAY! Join us for Shop Local Saturday on our Three-Year-Anniversary!!! We’ll have live music, samples, free giveaways, and 10% off all sales!!! (Remember 10% of all book proceeds for the month of Nov & Dec go to Farm2Neighbor, too!! Buy with purpose, buy with heart, buy with sense).
December 2025: 10% of All Book Sales go to Farm2Neighbor all month! We will be open 7 days a week for ALL of December!!!
December 1, Monday, 5:30 - 7pm: Direct Action Village Meeting & Community Potluck. Find & share resources, strategies, and community. Bring a dish to share if you can (we’ve got dishes/napkins/drinks & crusty bread)! Call to Action and Mutual Aid. Co-sponsored by The Good Life Center.
December 5, 5 - 8pm: Late Nite Art featuring the rock show poster art ‘Been There, Done That’ from the Rollson collection. Live Music! Gallery appropriate snacks available. And 5:30 - 7:30pm: Flash Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb! Come in for a one question/one card Tarot reading ($5. donation appreciated)!
December 12, Friday, 5 - 6pm: Open-No-Mic Poetry Nite! Co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance. Bring new work to share or come to support local poets! (2nd Friday)
December 19th, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Come check out David Lawlor's intriguing rhythm interpretations on Jazz Guitar. Coffee/Tea available, browse books, look at great art (‘Been There, Done That’ from the Rollson collection), meet with friends or new folks, enjoy a nice evening!
December 20, Saturday, 6 - 8pm: Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a four-part documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time. Part 3: The Last Ice Age - For storyteller Andri Snær Magnason, climate change is like a black hole: so big, it’s larger than language. Retracing his grandparents’ annual spring journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier to witness the loss of Europe’s largest ice cap with his son, Andri searches for the stories that can help us understand our ecological crisis.
*The event is FREE but registration is required for limited seating -- Please reach out via email (thefinefolks@stonebrokebreadandbooks), Instagram, Phone: 207-203-0224, or come in and sign up!
December 26, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Poetry Salon with Josh, Gus and Special Guest: Julia Bouwsma. Come have a conversation about poetry, writing, reading, and process. Theme: Light (Every 4th Friday of the month).
January 2026:
January 2nd, Friday, 5:30 - 7:30pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a Tarot reading (sign-up sheet available in-store, email, call, Instagram to get on the list)! Every 1st Friday.
January 5th, Friday, 5:30 - 7pm: Direct Action Village Meeting & Community Potluck. Find & share resources, strategies, and community. Bring a dish to share if you can (we’ve got dishes/napkins/drinks & crusty bread)! Call to Action and Mutual Aid. Co-sponsored by The Good Life Center.
January 9th, Friday, 5 - 6pm: Open-No-Mic Poetry Nite! Co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance. Bring new work to share or come to support local poets! (2nd Friday)
Friday, January 16th, 5 - 7pm: Come check out David Lawlor's intriguing rhythm interpretations on Jazz Guitar. Coffee/Tea available, browse books, look at great art (‘Been There, Done That’ from the Rollson collection), meet with friends or new folks, enjoy a nice evening!
Saturday, January 17, Saturday, 6 - 8pm: Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a four-part documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time. Part 4: Taste of the Land - Since fleeing Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime, award-winning documentary filmmaker Kalyanee Mam has spent much of her life searching for a rooted connection to place. Tenderly documenting the people and landscapes of Cambodia threatened by industrialization and development, she awakens an ancestral memory of the taste of the land that lies within her.
*The event is FREE but registration is required for limited seating -- Please reach out via email (thefinefolks@stonebrokebreadandbooks), Instagram, Phone: 207-203-0224, or come in and sign up!
January 26, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Poetry Salon with Josh, Gus and Special Guest: Samaa Abdurraqib. Come have a conversation about poetry, writing, reading, and process. Theme: TBD (Every 4th Friday of the month).
We're open to author readings/oral storytellers, poetry and writing workshops, seed swap/saving/growing workshops, subversive cross-stitch/yarn bombing or alternative textile arts, 'zine/artbook binding/making, political, art, and philosophical lectures, foraging/fermenting/food making classes, renewable energy and climate change talks. We're a Queer and BIPOC safe space. Please let us know if you want to schedule an event!