Adult

Are you an aspiring writer seeking community and support as you work on your projects whether they are short stories, creative nonfiction, or even a novel? 

Do you wish you could gather once a month with fellow writers seeking feedback and moral support?

Consider joining MML’s new Writing Group facilitated by Courtney Kleftis, Adult Services Librarian. Please contact Courtney if you’re interested OR have questions: ckleftis@yarmouthlibrary.org. The group will be capped at 15 people in order to ensure the culture is intimate and everyone feels they have opportunities to discuss and share their own writing.

What?

• An intimate writing group (15 people) that gathers once a month for writing workshops, readings, guest presentations on topics ranging from outlining and drafting to editing and publishing. 
• A day-long writing retreat on a Saturday (TBD) held twice a year.

When?

• First Fridays from 4-5pm.
• The first meeting will be on Friday, November 3, 2023

Where?

• Trustees’ Room on the 3rd floor of MML

Oct. 10 @ 7 pm, Camden Conference Event: Bollywood: An Introduction.

In collaboration with the Camden Conference, MML welcomes Jon Cavallero, Associate Professor and Chair of Rhetoric, Film and Screen Studies at Bates College to the library to give a talk on the world’s largest film industry: Bollywood. Why do Bollywood films have such tremendous global reach? What makes them popular at home and abroad? Attendees will learn about the history of Bollywood but also about the specific style of Bollywood films as well as the scope of those films as an international industry.

For more information, check out the Camden Conference’s website.

We are once again teaming-up with The Yarmouth History Center to bring you selections from Kinonik’s collection of 16mm films. Though this time, the movies will be screened here at the library! This series of films will run through April, with a different film featured each month. Keep an eye on the lookout for each date and time!

Oct. 11 @ 7 pm, The Haunting

Our first selection is 1963’s The Haunting which was adapted from Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and has been called one of the scariest films ever made by a wide variety of people including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and many, many film critics. The film has a G rating but still manages to generate frights sixty years later. A true masterpiece!

This 2 hour in-person program will be an interactive experience to engage in the story of particular events in the history of 400 years of colonization of Wabanaki people by Europeans in this territory we now called the state of Maine. This highly engaging experience will increase our awareness and understanding of colonization, and what it means for current descendants and future generations so that we can reflect on what story we are writing for our grandchildren.

Registration is required for this program. Email ckleftis@yarmouthlibrary.org to reserve your seat.

There will be two opportunities to attend this program:

Tuesday, October 17th, 5:30 – 7:30pm, at the Merrill Memorial Library

Thursday, October 19th, 10am – 12pm, at the Yarmouth History Center, 118 East Elm Street

This program is facilitated by Wabanaki REACH (www.wabanakireach.org) and being organized by YCARE (www.ycarequity.org)

Sponsoring organizations include: First Parish, First UU, Merrill Memorial Library, Royal River Conservation Trust St. Bart’s, and Yarmouth Historical Society

On November 15 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, the Casco Bay Writers invite you to Lewis Hall (3rd floor) to celebrate the release of their newly published anthology: WRITE-REWRITE.

As well as a celebration of the book’s release, this event is also a gesture of gratitude for the use of the Merrill Memorial Library as the meetup location for their writers’ group over the past few years. During the event several members will share snippets from the anthology, which will be available for purchase. Proceeds will be donated to the library.

Refreshments will be provided.

We hope you can attend!