Upcoming Events at Stone Broke Bread & Books
347 Water St, Gardiner, ME 207.203.0224
Calendar
May:
May 3rd, Friday, 5 - 7pm: From This Might Hurt Studios, illustrator/author/educator Isabella Rotman offers a primer on Tarot and guided readings. Books and Decks for sale. Refreshments available.
May 4th, Saturday 4 - 6pm: Sourdough 101 with baker, Josh Rollson. Includes a crash course on Starter Culture (includes starter; how to keep/start/build), and fermentation ins and outs. Sign up online or in-store.
May 10th, Friday: Open-no-mic-poetry, bring work to share, support poets. Refreshments served. 5 - 6pm (2nd Friday of every month).
May 12th, Sunday: The People’s Poetry Workshop, co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance, facilitated by poet Katherine Hagopian Berry. Bring work to share, this week’s theme: Other Mothers. 2 – 4pm, with refreshments.
May 17th, Friday: Late Nite Art! Check out fiber artist Meryl Troop's work 5:00-8:00pm, with refreshments (then check out the downtown Gardiner ArtWalk, many great artists to see).
May 25th, Saturday: Full Moon Conversations with Kate from Open Sea Astrology. Connect with your intuition and the current lunar energies! PLEASE NOTE: Rescheduled for 2pm (Please RSVP for gifted materials, donations welcome).
May 31, Friday: Pre-Pride-Parade Party!!! Hallowell Pride Alliance gives so much to the community and co-sponsors so many great events with us, we want to give back. 10% of all sales will go to the HPA for more great LGBTQIA+ programming, education, and entertaining events! Thank you, HPA!
June:
June 1 & 2, Saturday & Sunday: Seedling Sale! Many lovely little seedlings need good homes. All organically grown, many from heirloom seed (all non-GMO, some with Indigenous Royalties). All Day, until the seedlings run out. I know we've got some Cherokee Purple Tomatoes (not so little, ready for the garden!), bell peppers, lemon cukes, many basils, other herbs, companion flowers, too!
June 9th, Sunday: The People’s Poetry Workshop, co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance, facilitated by poet Claire Millikin. Bring work to share, or be inspired to start something new, this week’s theme: American Sonnet. Both in form and theme, Dr. Millikin will investigate with us what it means to exist in this place at this time. 2 – 4pm, with refreshments. Please bring writing utensils/surface.
June 14th, Friday: Open-no-mic-poetry, bring work to share, support poets. Refreshments available. 5 - 6pm (2nd Friday of every month). Co-sponsored by Hallowell Pride Alliance.
June 30th, Sunday: The Great Race! 1 - 5pm. Check us out for movie-themed activities and treats to go along with the real Race: a film loop screening of Blake Edwards' production starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon, and a Pie Throwing Contest! Free bread to anyone who dresses up like a film character! New breads available along with cold drinks and community-oriented books!
July:
July 12th, Friday: Open-no-mic-poetry, bring work to share, support poets. Refreshments available. 5 - 6pm (2nd Friday of every month). Co-sponsored by Hallowell Pride Alliance.
July 14th, Sunday: The People’s Poetry Workshop, co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance, facilitated by poet and small publisher Josh Rollson. Bring work to share, or be inspired to start something new, this week’s theme: Writing to Read, When we write, do we write for the page or for the voice? This workshop focuses on how to write for a reading: work on some ways to achieve the reading you want or want to express. Styles, writing tips and practices, reading and sharing, all can lead to satisfying poetic experiences. 2 – 4pm, with refreshments. Please bring writing utensils/surface.
July 19th, Friday: Poetry reading from the Maine Womens Writer Collection, UNE 5-6pm, with refreshments. Join us for an evening of poetry sprung from research in the (MWWC). Beth Alison Jones will read from an in-progress series of poems inspired by the journals of Isabel Hoffses, a 19th century school teacher from Waldoboro, Maine. She suffered bouts of homelessness, poverty, and a debilitating mental illness. The poems explore a powerful and singular mental will that insists on its own freedom. The Civil War is the unmentioned backdrop. MWWC Archivist Jefferson Navicky will read poems inspired by his work at MWWC processing archival collections, assisting researchers, and communing with ghosts and other spirits that haunt the past’s detritus.
July 26th, Friday: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading 6-8pm (sign-up sheet available -- call or sign up in-store)! Every 4th Friday of the month.
August:
August 9th, Friday 5 - 6pm: Open-No-Mic Poetry Nite! Co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance. Bring new work to share or come to support poets! (2nd Friday of every month)
August 10th, Saturday 5 - 6pm: Poetry Reading with Claire Millikin, Judy Kaber, and Meghan Sterling. Proceeds from Claire Millikin’s new book Magicicada will go to Maine Inside Out (nonprofit organization creating youth theater for social change in schools, prisons, and in the community).
August 11th, Sunday 2 - 4pm: The People’s Poetry Workshop, co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance, facilitated by poets Meghan Sterling & Robert Carr. Bring writing surface/utensil (paper/pen), this week’s theme: TBD. Refreshments available. 10% of all purchases will be donated to the Hallowell Pride Alliance.
August 16th, Friday 5 - 8pm: Late Nite Art! Layered Perspectives by collage artist, Rachael M Rollson. Join us for refreshments (then check out the downtown Gardiner ArtWalk, many great artists to see).
August 17th, Saturday 5 - 6pm: A lovely early evening poetry reading with Robert Carr & David Meichen, exploring queer ecology and identity. Refreshments available.
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!
May 3rd, Friday, 5 - 7pm: From This Might Hurt Studios, illustrator/author/educator Isabella Rotman offers a primer on Tarot and guided readings. Books and Decks for sale. Refreshments available.
May 4th, Saturday 4 - 6pm: Sourdough 101 with baker, Josh Rollson. Includes a crash course on Starter Culture (includes starter; how to keep/start/build), and fermentation ins and outs. Sign up online or in-store.
May 10th, Friday: Open-no-mic-poetry, bring work to share, support poets. Refreshments served. 5 - 6pm (2nd Friday of every month).
May 12th, Sunday: The People’s Poetry Workshop, co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance, facilitated by poet Katherine Hagopian Berry. Bring work to share, this week’s theme: Other Mothers. 2 – 4pm, with refreshments.
May 17th, Friday: Late Nite Art! Check out fiber artist Meryl Troop's work 5:00-8:00pm, with refreshments (then check out the downtown Gardiner ArtWalk, many great artists to see).
May 25th, Saturday: Full Moon Conversations with Kate from Open Sea Astrology. Connect with your intuition and the current lunar energies! PLEASE NOTE: Rescheduled for 2pm (Please RSVP for gifted materials, donations welcome).
May 31, Friday: Pre-Pride-Parade Party!!! Hallowell Pride Alliance gives so much to the community and co-sponsors so many great events with us, we want to give back. 10% of all sales will go to the HPA for more great LGBTQIA+ programming, education, and entertaining events! Thank you, HPA!
June:
June 1 & 2, Saturday & Sunday: Seedling Sale! Many lovely little seedlings need good homes. All organically grown, many from heirloom seed (all non-GMO, some with Indigenous Royalties). All Day, until the seedlings run out. I know we've got some Cherokee Purple Tomatoes (not so little, ready for the garden!), bell peppers, lemon cukes, many basils, other herbs, companion flowers, too!
June 9th, Sunday: The People’s Poetry Workshop, co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance, facilitated by poet Claire Millikin. Bring work to share, or be inspired to start something new, this week’s theme: American Sonnet. Both in form and theme, Dr. Millikin will investigate with us what it means to exist in this place at this time. 2 – 4pm, with refreshments. Please bring writing utensils/surface.
June 14th, Friday: Open-no-mic-poetry, bring work to share, support poets. Refreshments available. 5 - 6pm (2nd Friday of every month). Co-sponsored by Hallowell Pride Alliance.
June 30th, Sunday: The Great Race! 1 - 5pm. Check us out for movie-themed activities and treats to go along with the real Race: a film loop screening of Blake Edwards' production starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon, and a Pie Throwing Contest! Free bread to anyone who dresses up like a film character! New breads available along with cold drinks and community-oriented books!
July:
July 12th, Friday: Open-no-mic-poetry, bring work to share, support poets. Refreshments available. 5 - 6pm (2nd Friday of every month). Co-sponsored by Hallowell Pride Alliance.
July 14th, Sunday: The People’s Poetry Workshop, co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance, facilitated by poet and small publisher Josh Rollson. Bring work to share, or be inspired to start something new, this week’s theme: Writing to Read, When we write, do we write for the page or for the voice? This workshop focuses on how to write for a reading: work on some ways to achieve the reading you want or want to express. Styles, writing tips and practices, reading and sharing, all can lead to satisfying poetic experiences. 2 – 4pm, with refreshments. Please bring writing utensils/surface.
July 19th, Friday: Poetry reading from the Maine Womens Writer Collection, UNE 5-6pm, with refreshments. Join us for an evening of poetry sprung from research in the (MWWC). Beth Alison Jones will read from an in-progress series of poems inspired by the journals of Isabel Hoffses, a 19th century school teacher from Waldoboro, Maine. She suffered bouts of homelessness, poverty, and a debilitating mental illness. The poems explore a powerful and singular mental will that insists on its own freedom. The Civil War is the unmentioned backdrop. MWWC Archivist Jefferson Navicky will read poems inspired by his work at MWWC processing archival collections, assisting researchers, and communing with ghosts and other spirits that haunt the past’s detritus.
July 26th, Friday: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading 6-8pm (sign-up sheet available -- call or sign up in-store)! Every 4th Friday of the month.
August:
August 9th, Friday 5 - 6pm: Open-No-Mic Poetry Nite! Co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance. Bring new work to share or come to support poets! (2nd Friday of every month)
August 10th, Saturday 5 - 6pm: Poetry Reading with Claire Millikin, Judy Kaber, and Meghan Sterling. Proceeds from Claire Millikin’s new book Magicicada will go to Maine Inside Out (nonprofit organization creating youth theater for social change in schools, prisons, and in the community).
August 11th, Sunday 2 - 4pm: The People’s Poetry Workshop, co-sponsored with Hallowell Pride Alliance, facilitated by poets Meghan Sterling & Robert Carr. Bring writing surface/utensil (paper/pen), this week’s theme: TBD. Refreshments available. 10% of all purchases will be donated to the Hallowell Pride Alliance.
August 16th, Friday 5 - 8pm: Late Nite Art! Layered Perspectives by collage artist, Rachael M Rollson. Join us for refreshments (then check out the downtown Gardiner ArtWalk, many great artists to see).
August 17th, Saturday 5 - 6pm: A lovely early evening poetry reading with Robert Carr & David Meichen, exploring queer ecology and identity. Refreshments available.
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!