Upcoming Events at Stone Broke Bread & Books
347 Water St, Gardiner, ME 207.203.0224
Calendar
September:
September 11, Wednesday, 5 — 6:30 pm: Gardiner Main Street presents The Mix, a face-to-face networking event. Build community, learn about events and happenings, and enjoy delicious refreshments and entertainment!
September 13, 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)
September 14, Saturday, 4 - 6pm: Sourdough 101 with baker Josh Rollson, an intro to Sourdough Culture — from fermentation understanding to taking starter home with you to care for. Inquire/sign up at the shop or online for more info.
September 15, Sunday, Noon – 2pm: LGBTQIA+ ‘Zine Building Series, a 6 month safe-space meeting geared toward teens, facilitated by ‘zine writers to teach this DIY process, and then share. Community via expression (after Sept, every 2nd Sun through Feb). Free/All materials supplied. Facilitator/Theme: Rachael M/ DIY 'cut & paste'. Refreshments/Snacks served.
September 20, 21, & 22nd (Fri/Sat/Sun, 9am - 6pm): Come visit the bookseller at MOFGA’s Common Ground Fair in Unity, ME at the Social & Political Action Tent at The Good Life Center table.
September 27, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading (sign-up sheet available)! Every 4th Friday of the month.
October:
October 5th & 6th, Saturday/Sunday: In celebration of Maine Craft Weekend, we will be hosting the Tourmaline Moose Ceramics Pop Up! Maine artisan, musician, and ceramicist Dan Usher will be showing lovely pottery pieces and maybe playing guitar (if we can convince him!). Noon-6pm Sat, noon-4pm Sun. Refreshments served
October Saturdays, 5/12/19/26, 4 - 6pm: Sourdough 102 with baker Josh Rollson, a 4-part hands-on Bread Baking Class. From starter (and a conversation about starter culture) to shaping, fermenting, and baking. Participants go home with their own starter and hearth loaf they helped to shape/bake.
October 11, 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 of every month)
October 13, Sunday, Noon – 2pm: LGBTQIA+ ‘Zine Building Series, a 6 month safe-space meeting geared toward teens, facilitated by ‘zine writers to teach this DIY process, and then share. Community via expression (after Sept, every 2nd Sun through Feb). Free/All materials supplied. Facilitator/Theme: Isabella Rotman from This Might Hurt Studios/ Self-Publishing. Refreshments/Snacks served. Gratefully co-sponsored by OUT Maine and Hallowell Pride Alliance. Grant provided by Healthy Communities of the Capital Area.
October 18-20 (Fri-Sun): Fire Sale!!! We're offering a 3-day weekend of selected USED BOOKS we think you will dig. All proceeds go back into our programming projects.
October 20, Sunday, 3 - 4pm: Author reading with Bread Baker & Poet Jonathan Stevens to celebrate his new book, The Hungry Ghost Bread Book. He'll be bringing his bread, maybe his guitar, and certainly his sense of humor.
October 25, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading (sign-up sheet available)! Every 4th Friday of the month.
November:
November 1, Friday, 6 - 8pm: Art Opening Reception with printmaker Jaime Wing. Large and small scale prints on linen, paper, to alter your sensibilities. Come and meet the artist! Refreshments served.
November 8, 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 of every month).
November 9, Saturday, 5 - 6pm: Reading with Maine Author Amy Safford, celebrating her new book Goode Vibrations of the Wresting Place. A metaphysical mystery novel with roots in Maine's history of land appropriation, this reading will surely be an eye-opening and exciting one! Refreshments available.
November 10, Sunday, Noon – 2pm: LGBTQIA+ ‘Zine Building Series, a 6 month safe-space meeting geared toward teens, facilitated by ‘zine writers to teach this DIY process, and then share. Community via expression (after Sept, every 2nd Sun through Feb). Free/All materials supplied. Facilitator/Theme: Jillian Impastato/ Past & Present. Refreshments/Snacks served. Gratefully co-sponsored by Healthy Communities of the Capital Area and Hallowell Pride Alliance.
November 22, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading (sign-up sheet available)! Every 4th Friday of the month.
November 30, Saturday: Shop Local Saturday!!! AND OUR 2-year ANNIVERSARY!! Many treats, books, breads, and festivities await you. We thank and welcome you to our community-building space. Live Music and refreshments served.
December:
December 6, Friday, 5 - 8pm: Late Nite Art! Works by printmaker Jaime Wing! Refreshments, entertainment, the works!
December 8, Sunday, Noon – 2pm: LGBTQIA+ ‘Zine Building Series, a 6 month safe-space meeting geared toward teens, facilitated by ‘zine writers to teach this DIY process, and then share. Community via expression (after Sept, every 2nd Sun through Feb). Free/All materials supplied. Refreshments/Snacks served. Gratefully co-sponsored by Healthy Communities of the Capital Area and Hallowell Pride Alliance.
December 13, 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 of every month)
December 21, Saturday: Winter Solstice!! Come celebrate the shortest night of the year! Special treats and entertainment.
December 27, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading (sign-up sheet available)! 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!
September 11, Wednesday, 5 — 6:30 pm: Gardiner Main Street presents The Mix, a face-to-face networking event. Build community, learn about events and happenings, and enjoy delicious refreshments and entertainment!
September 13, 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)
September 14, Saturday, 4 - 6pm: Sourdough 101 with baker Josh Rollson, an intro to Sourdough Culture — from fermentation understanding to taking starter home with you to care for. Inquire/sign up at the shop or online for more info.
September 15, Sunday, Noon – 2pm: LGBTQIA+ ‘Zine Building Series, a 6 month safe-space meeting geared toward teens, facilitated by ‘zine writers to teach this DIY process, and then share. Community via expression (after Sept, every 2nd Sun through Feb). Free/All materials supplied. Facilitator/Theme: Rachael M/ DIY 'cut & paste'. Refreshments/Snacks served.
September 20, 21, & 22nd (Fri/Sat/Sun, 9am - 6pm): Come visit the bookseller at MOFGA’s Common Ground Fair in Unity, ME at the Social & Political Action Tent at The Good Life Center table.
September 27, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading (sign-up sheet available)! Every 4th Friday of the month.
October:
October 5th & 6th, Saturday/Sunday: In celebration of Maine Craft Weekend, we will be hosting the Tourmaline Moose Ceramics Pop Up! Maine artisan, musician, and ceramicist Dan Usher will be showing lovely pottery pieces and maybe playing guitar (if we can convince him!). Noon-6pm Sat, noon-4pm Sun. Refreshments served
October Saturdays, 5/12/19/26, 4 - 6pm: Sourdough 102 with baker Josh Rollson, a 4-part hands-on Bread Baking Class. From starter (and a conversation about starter culture) to shaping, fermenting, and baking. Participants go home with their own starter and hearth loaf they helped to shape/bake.
October 11, 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 of every month)
October 13, Sunday, Noon – 2pm: LGBTQIA+ ‘Zine Building Series, a 6 month safe-space meeting geared toward teens, facilitated by ‘zine writers to teach this DIY process, and then share. Community via expression (after Sept, every 2nd Sun through Feb). Free/All materials supplied. Facilitator/Theme: Isabella Rotman from This Might Hurt Studios/ Self-Publishing. Refreshments/Snacks served. Gratefully co-sponsored by OUT Maine and Hallowell Pride Alliance. Grant provided by Healthy Communities of the Capital Area.
October 18-20 (Fri-Sun): Fire Sale!!! We're offering a 3-day weekend of selected USED BOOKS we think you will dig. All proceeds go back into our programming projects.
October 20, Sunday, 3 - 4pm: Author reading with Bread Baker & Poet Jonathan Stevens to celebrate his new book, The Hungry Ghost Bread Book. He'll be bringing his bread, maybe his guitar, and certainly his sense of humor.
October 25, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading (sign-up sheet available)! Every 4th Friday of the month.
November:
November 1, Friday, 6 - 8pm: Art Opening Reception with printmaker Jaime Wing. Large and small scale prints on linen, paper, to alter your sensibilities. Come and meet the artist! Refreshments served.
November 8, 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 of every month).
November 9, Saturday, 5 - 6pm: Reading with Maine Author Amy Safford, celebrating her new book Goode Vibrations of the Wresting Place. A metaphysical mystery novel with roots in Maine's history of land appropriation, this reading will surely be an eye-opening and exciting one! Refreshments available.
November 10, Sunday, Noon – 2pm: LGBTQIA+ ‘Zine Building Series, a 6 month safe-space meeting geared toward teens, facilitated by ‘zine writers to teach this DIY process, and then share. Community via expression (after Sept, every 2nd Sun through Feb). Free/All materials supplied. Facilitator/Theme: Jillian Impastato/ Past & Present. Refreshments/Snacks served. Gratefully co-sponsored by Healthy Communities of the Capital Area and Hallowell Pride Alliance.
November 22, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading (sign-up sheet available)! Every 4th Friday of the month.
November 30, Saturday: Shop Local Saturday!!! AND OUR 2-year ANNIVERSARY!! Many treats, books, breads, and festivities await you. We thank and welcome you to our community-building space. Live Music and refreshments served.
December:
December 6, Friday, 5 - 8pm: Late Nite Art! Works by printmaker Jaime Wing! Refreshments, entertainment, the works!
December 8, Sunday, Noon – 2pm: LGBTQIA+ ‘Zine Building Series, a 6 month safe-space meeting geared toward teens, facilitated by ‘zine writers to teach this DIY process, and then share. Community via expression (after Sept, every 2nd Sun through Feb). Free/All materials supplied. Refreshments/Snacks served. Gratefully co-sponsored by Healthy Communities of the Capital Area and Hallowell Pride Alliance.
December 13, 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 of every month)
December 21, Saturday: Winter Solstice!! Come celebrate the shortest night of the year! Special treats and entertainment.
December 27, Friday, 5 - 7pm: Astro Tarot with Andrea Webb of Every Light Wellness (Manchester, ME). Come in for a reading (sign-up sheet available)! 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!