The Gatherings

Every Wednesday
Artists, age 18+, of any skill level are encouraged to attend, and may use any media. These 2-hour uninstructed sessions are every Wednesday, 10-Noon. Bring a mask. Cost is $17.
We are always looking for new models. Experience is not necessary, but models are expected to hold a pose for up to 20 minutes. All shapes, ages and sizes are welcome. Models are paid $60 per class.
If you are interested in attending Life Drawing as a participant or model, you can call Greg at 207-374-7224 or email gregory.payne@mac.com

Every Wednesday
This is a friendly way to challenge your vocabulary and build your listening skills. All levels are invited. ¡Bienvenidos! $2/person goes to the community center.
Contact: Sharon Minogue 757-515-0409 al_bustan@yahoo.com

Every 1st and 3rd Thursday
A for-fun ukulele get-together! Using the big screen to pull up songs, we'll sing and strum some tunes. This will not be a "class", but ukes are easy to play together at different skill levels, so beginners are definitely welcome.
$2/person goes to The Gatherings. 

FMI Contact Elizabeth Young: 
elizabethgimpel@gmail.com
207-610-2963

Tango practice for those with some experience. RSVP required. If interested contact Tim Allen at tallen@panax.com. By donation.

Every 1st Friday
This popular monthly community potluck has returned to The Gatherings, every First Friday of the month at 6pm. Bring a dish or drink to share while spending time with your neighbors, make new friends, catch up with old ones, and fill up on a variety of home cooked dishes. We look forward to seeing you and trying out some of your favorite recipes! Donations to the community center are welcome.

For more information contact Flo: flo.l.reed@gmail.com 

Every Sunday
We play awesome modern board games, card games, dice games, tile games, team games... bring your favorites! Everyone welcome.
$2/person goes to the community center.
Contact: Joe Greely
shallop1621@gmail.com
207-460-0515

Every Wednesday
Artists, age 18+, of any skill level are encouraged to attend, and may use any media. These 2-hour uninstructed sessions are every Wednesday, 10-Noon. Bring a mask. Cost is $17.
We are always looking for new models. Experience is not necessary, but models are expected to hold a pose for up to 20 minutes. All shapes, ages and sizes are welcome. Models are paid $60 per class.
If you are interested in attending Life Drawing as a participant or model, you can call Greg at 207-374-7224 or email gregory.payne@mac.com

Every Wednesday
This is a friendly way to challenge your vocabulary and build your listening skills. All levels are invited. ¡Bienvenidos! $2/person goes to the community center.
Contact: Sharon Minogue 757-515-0409 al_bustan@yahoo.com

Tango practice for those with some experience. RSVP required. If interested contact Tim Allen at tallen@panax.com. By donation.

Every Sunday
We play awesome modern board games, card games, dice games, tile games, team games... bring your favorites! Everyone welcome.
$2/person goes to the community center.
Contact: Joe Greely
shallop1621@gmail.com
207-460-0515

Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth who meet to discuss different spiritual topics each month.

Every Wednesday
Artists, age 18+, of any skill level are encouraged to attend, and may use any media. These 2-hour uninstructed sessions are every Wednesday, 10-Noon. Bring a mask. Cost is $17.
We are always looking for new models. Experience is not necessary, but models are expected to hold a pose for up to 20 minutes. All shapes, ages and sizes are welcome. Models are paid $60 per class.
If you are interested in attending Life Drawing as a participant or model, you can call Greg at 207-374-7224 or email gregory.payne@mac.com

Every Wednesday
This is a friendly way to challenge your vocabulary and build your listening skills. All levels are invited. ¡Bienvenidos! $2/person goes to the community center.
Contact: Sharon Minogue 757-515-0409 al_bustan@yahoo.com

Every 1st and 3rd Thursday
A for-fun ukulele get-together! Using the big screen to pull up songs, we'll sing and strum some tunes. This will not be a "class", but ukes are easy to play together at different skill levels, so beginners are definitely welcome.
$2/person goes to The Gatherings. 

FMI Contact: Elizabeth Young
207.610.2963
elizabethgimpel@gmail.com

Tango practice for those with some experience. RSVP required. If interested contact Tim Allen at tallen@panax.com. By donation.

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion evolving from modern life — far beyond physical, but cognitive. Emotional. Existential. This Sonic Yoga Nidra practice gently supports remembering: reconnecting with awareness and the sense of inner space that comes with it.

Peter Hile will guide a live Yoga Nidra journey — a practice of conscious rest that gently leads you into the space between waking and sleeping, where the body unwinds and awareness becomes simple again. Peter’s facilitation centers presence over performance, depth over theatrics, and the quiet remembering that peaceful stillness persists beyond experience.

As the Nidra unfolds, integral sound healing practitioner Sen Wilde weaves a live soundscape of crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, and layered instrumentation. Drawing on formal training in sound healing and nervous system regulation, Sen’s trauma-informed approach creates sonic containers that are spacious, immersive, and thoughtfully held. Together, this collaboration helps participants settle from surface overwhelm into a steadier, more regulated inner field.

You won’t be asked to move.
You won’t be guided to effort.
You won’t be urged to fix yourself.
You’ll lie down.
You’ll listen.
You’ll be guided back to awareness itself; invited to remember. 

Bring whatever helps you feel supported and warm: We recommend you bring your favorite blanket and any other props to help you feel comfortable, such as a mat, pillow or eye mask.

Rest is where we reconnect with ourselves, so that we can meaningfully and lovingly be present in the lives and communities which we are a part of. 

Third Saturday of each month from 7-8:30pm

All are welcome: please no pets or children under 12.

Cost: $25-50 Sliding Scale Donation

FMI about Yoga Nidra Contact:
Peter Hile
peter.hile@gmail.com

FMI about Immersive Soundscape Contact:
Sen Wilde
acadia.rising@gmail.com

Every Sunday
We play awesome modern board games, card games, dice games, tile games, team games... bring your favorites! Everyone welcome.
$2/person goes to the community center.
Contact: Joe Greely
shallop1621@gmail.com
207-460-0515

Every Wednesday
Artists, age 18+, of any skill level are encouraged to attend, and may use any media. These 2-hour uninstructed sessions are every Wednesday, 10-Noon. Bring a mask. Cost is $17.
We are always looking for new models. Experience is not necessary, but models are expected to hold a pose for up to 20 minutes. All shapes, ages and sizes are welcome. Models are paid $60 per class.
If you are interested in attending Life Drawing as a participant or model, you can call Greg at 207-374-7224 or email gregory.payne@mac.com

Every Wednesday
This is a friendly way to challenge your vocabulary and build your listening skills. All levels are invited. ¡Bienvenidos! $2/person goes to the community center.
Contact: Sharon Minogue 757-515-0409 al_bustan@yahoo.com

Healthy Peninsula’s Magic Food Bus is a seasonal traveling farm stand and mobile library that delivers free, fresh, local produce, books, and information about food security resources every week to every town on the Blue Hill Peninsula, Deer Isle, and Stonington.

The Magic Food Bus rolls from late June through the end of September and is free to everyone!Staffed primarily by volunteers, the Magic Food Bus has grown over the years in size, reach, and complementary activities. Originally conceived as a book mobile, the metaphorical ‘bus’ (really a cadre of volunteer vehicles), now serves up thousands of pounds of free, fresh vegetables to hundreds of people every growing season. 

While fresh produce is the main course, books remain on the menu—the Friends of the Blue Hill Public Library, as well as other community donors, offer free, interesting, fun, and informative summer reading material to Bus patrons of all ages. 

In Surry, the Magic Food Bus will be at The Gatherings at 2:30 every Thursday, from June 26 to the end of August, and at the Surry Elementary School for the month of September. 

FMI Contact: Healthy Peninsula 
Anna Wind 
awind@healthypeninsula.org 
207-374-3257

Tango practice for those with some experience. RSVP required. If interested contact Tim Allen at tallen@panax.com. By donation.

Every Sunday
We play awesome modern board games, card games, dice games, tile games, team games... bring your favorites! Everyone welcome.
$2/person goes to the community center.
Contact: Joe Greely
shallop1621@gmail.com
207-460-0515