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8 Days: Cosmic Americana, Thought Provoking Hip Hop, Achy Folk and Steampunk...
THURSDAY, Oct. 20 Agricultural Gems of Maine | The Portland Farmer’s Market is taking over the tiny kitchen at the Jewel Box and offering up some wonderfully fresh local fruits, veggies, meats and...
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8 Days: Halloween Parties, Kat Wright, GRiZ and a Cinematic Harpist
THURSDAY, Oct. 27 The OLS Masquerade Jam | What happens when you mix the elegance of a masquerade ball with the rough and tumble, down home, feel good vibes of an old fashioned jam session around the...
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8 Days: Election Distractions, a TED Event, Revolutionary Dance Parties and...
THURSDAY, Nov. 3 Artist Lecture: Saya Woolfak | Fall down the rabbit hole of Saya Woolfalk’s newest exhibition, her “virtual chimeric space.” Gazing into her renditions of the Empathics, a...
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8 Days: A Science Cafe, Steve Vai, SPACE Gallery Madness, Ani DeFranco and...
THURSDAY, Nov. 10 A Jewelry Party With Live Music | Portland’s Metal Collective, a group of metalsmiths, blacksmiths and goldsmiths will combine two art forms that aren’t usually paired together:...
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8 Days: A Moby Dick Marathon, a Thanksgiving Race, the Season of Light and...
THURSDAY, Nov. 17 Moby Dick Marathon | Drop in anytime you want during the next 4 days, to hear a spirited reading of Herman Melville's literary masterpiece, Moby Dick. Curators, artists, women,...
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8 Days: Cheap Comedy, Stunning Animation, Beatles Night and the Led Zeppelin...
THURSDAY, Nov. 24 Full Body Blitz | Prep your system for a deluge of hearty holiday food by putting your body to work first! The instructors at the yoga and dance studio Hustle and Flow aim to empower...
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8 Days: Cozy Concerts, Holiday Soirées, Fundraising Fun and a Racial Justice...
THURSDAY, Dec. 1 Impersonating a Body | Étaín Boutique has collaborated with Dispatch Magazine to bring an all-inclusive, body positive, lingerie fashion show to Congress St. Gone are the days where...
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8 Days: A Sandglass Theatre, a Dubstep Bash, a Christmas Circus and the...
THURSDAY, Dec. 8 Reverb Holiday Bash | The local non-profit Reverb is offering up a fun opportunity to “go green.” They’re making it so “helping the environment” is incredibly easy for you- all you...
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8 Days: A Winter Solstice party, a Spose concert and the Nutcracker Burlesque...
THURSDAY, Dec. 15 CREAM ME A RIVER | Rarely in human history has there been less of a need for writers to originate new writing. The morass of man-made content is so vast that screenshots, retweets, or...
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8 Days: Hot meals, trap houses, and mammal touching
THURSDAY 22 TO REST OR NOT TO REST | The rock band the Restless Atlantic, from Portland, play a style of emotive post-hardcore that squashes together several iterations of the experience of the young...
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8 Days a Week: Rituals, Other Realms, and Meditations
THURSDAY 29 YEAH BUB | The Maine comedian Bob Marley is a big fan of indefatigability. The dude presently holds the Guinness World Record for longest consecutive hours performing stand-up comedy (40...
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8 Days A Week: Civil Rights films, Dance Parties, and Figure Drawings
THURSDAY 5 ARM YOURSELF WITH KNOWLEDGE | In 1962, the civil rights leader Robert F. Williams was a prominent civil rights leader, advocating for armed black self-defense in a movement that helped build...
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8 Days: Empowering Meet-Ups, Knowledge Tests, a Cyber-Party and an Acorn Tasting
THURSDAY, 12 CANDID CONVERSATION | How do you feel about the contentious designation of a big chunk of Maine’s northern wood region as the North Woods National Monument? You’re living in Portland,...
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8 Days a Week: Anti-Inaugurations, Counter-Inaugurations, and...
THURSDAY 19 SEE OR DON'T SEE | Set to tour her debut album — aptly titled Have you SEEN This Woman? — the jazz-cabaret singer VIVA plays a sayonara set at Sonny's tonight. A beam of light on the...
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8 Days: History Lessons, Musical Mayhem, Shaman Journeys and Straight Up...
THURSDAY 26 HISTORY LESSON | The Portland Public Library doesn’t want you to forget history. Like other educational organizations in the city, the folks there have been hosting some important...
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8 Days a Week: Playing Rough, Standing Up, and Fighting the Fight
THURSDAY 2 BITTER SILVER | There's a silver lining to this moment in history, albeit thin, and it's this. If you're a person who's feeling stressed, unsafe, or in despair, conditions are actually...
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8 Days a Week: LSD Lessons, Ladies' Health Rallies, and Letter-Writing Parties
THURSDAY 9 MADCAP THEATER | The actor and writer Brent Askari has spent the last several years carving out a status as one of the best character actors in Portland — truly, if only there were awards...
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8 Days: Hellish Concerts, Strange Dates, and a World-Building Workshop
THURSDAY, 16 SPICE OF LIFE | Take my advice and unplug from current events. Turn your phone off (heck, why not leave it at home for once?). Link up with your favorite human, and attend this variety...
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8 Days: Metal Maelstroms, a Beatles Orchestra, Brewery Comedy, and Nostalgic...
THURSDAY, 23 EASILY AMUSED | Janoah Bailin’s not a clown, but he’s got the skill set of one. Dip into the library for a surefire way to make your afternoon a little less dull, as Janoah will be...
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8 Days a Week: Resistance Summits, Shakespeare Parties, and New Mainer...
THURSDAY 2 WATER WARS | While the winter air here in Maine begins to thicken, the contested site of Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota remains at a stark chill. Protesters were cleared...
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