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NEW GROUPS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

NEW! THE GATHERINGS COOKOUT: GRILL & GAMES!

Sunday July 13th, 12-3pm

Stop by for a community cookout with games! See old neighbors and get to know new ones with this annual summer gathering. Bring a small dish or drink to share!

Cost: By donation

FMI Contact:
Flo Reed
flo@surrygatherings.org

BIG YARD SALE
Saturday July 19th, 8am-12pm

Support four Surry non-profits by perusing and purchasing items donated to The Gatherings all year.

FMI Contact:
Alice Slater
alicekslater@gmail.com
207.385.7694

NEW! MAGIC FOOD BUS
Thursdays from 2:30pm-3:15pm

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!

Cost: FREE

FMI Contact:
Anna Wind
awind@healthypeninsula.org
207.374.3257

WOMEN’S SONG CIRCLE
Wednesdays, 7pm-8:30pm

Are you interested in building a sacred community through singing Earth-based and women-affirming songs and chants? If that is a YES, then here’s the info you want. We enjoy a scent-free and peaceful environment built on trust, kindness, and respect for ourselves, one another, and the Earth. You are welcome to join us regardless of your experience with singing for we believe everyone’s voice matters and adds value!

Cost: $2/person

FMI Contact:
Stacie Jacques
staciejacques73@gmail.com

CALENDAR

	July 2025
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1 🔒 5:30pm Ellas & Fellas 🔒 5:30pm Ellas & Fellas 07/01/2025 (1 week ago) 5:30 pm - 7:10 pm Add event to Google Calendar 🔒 5:30pm The Gatherings Board Meeting 🔒 5:30pm The Gatherings Board Meeting 07/01/2025 (1 week ago) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Add event to Google Calendar 💃 7:15pm Contra Dance & Band Practice 💃 7:15pm Contra Dance & Band Practice 07/01/2025 (1 week ago) 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm 1st & 3rd Tuesdays Come dance & play mid-week with us! This is a casual contra dance get-together, where you can have fun dancing for a couple of hours, and help one another with flourishes, plus sharing other contra dancing tips. This is an easy space to learn and experiment and ask questions! It also helps out our local beginner callers, where they will practice calling dances, doing walkthroughs etc. Both new & experienced dancers will enjoy the practice evenings. Want to play contra dance music? Bring your instruments, the open band welcomes all abilities! $2/person goes to the community center. FMI contact Alice at 385-7694 or alicekslater@gmail.com or follow Surry Contra Dance on Facebook / Instagram This practice dance is part of the Surry Contra Dance series. Join us every 2nd Saturday of the month for the full contra experience! Full details here. Add event to Google Calendar • • •	2 🎨 10am Life Drawing 🎨 10am Life Drawing 07/02/2025 (1 week ago) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 07/02/2025 (1 week ago) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 07/02/2025 (1 week ago) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Are you interested in building a sacred community with us through singing Earth-based and women-affirming songs and chants? If that is a YES, then here's the info you want. We meet every Wednesday evening at The Gatherings community space in Surry to sing familiar and new songs around a nature based altar from 7-8:30 p.m. Young women and girls are encouraged to join us, too, as long as they are old enough to be present in the circle. We enjoy a scent-free and peaceful environment built on trust, kindness, and respect for ourselves, one another, and the Earth. You are welcome to join us regardless of your experience with singing for we believe everyone's voice matters and adds value! Cost: $2/person FMI Contact Stacie Jacques staciejacques73@gmail.com or Eileen Mielenhausen 207.441.2785 eileen.mielenhausen@gmail.com. Add event to Google Calendar • • •	3 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 07/03/2025 (6 days ago) 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🪕 5.30pm Ukulele Jam 🪕 5.30pm Ukulele Jam 07/03/2025 (6 days ago) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar • •	4 🎒 8am Surry Backpack Program 🎒 8am Surry Backpack Program 07/04/2025 (6 days ago) 8:00 am - 10:00 am If you would like to volunteer, please contact Joan at 207-667-0325 Add event to Google Calendar 🥣 6pm Food With Friends Potluck 🥣 6pm Food With Friends Potluck 07/04/2025 (5 days ago) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 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 207-266-6864 Add event to Google Calendar 🔒 7pm Adults D&D 🔒 7pm Adults D&D 07/04/2025 (5 days ago) 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Closed Group. FMI Contact: David DiLena dave@unionriverbookandtoy.com Add event to Google Calendar • • •	5 🕉️ 9am Community Yoga 🕉️ 9am Community Yoga 07/05/2025 (4 days ago) 9:00 am - 10:00 am Every Saturday at 9am If regular yoga classes are a bit out of your price range, you have trouble finding the motivation to practice alone, or you have been curious to try out yoga for the first time, Community Yoga is for you! These casual classes happen in person every Saturday morning at 9am. The class is usually a more relaxing Yin Yoga. Classes are in-person and streamed online through glo.com, which features dozens of different teachers and yoga styles! After class, for those who want to, there will be time to ask questions about poses, help each other out, or share tips and stretches we've been enjoying. These classes are very casual and are open to all ages and abilities (beginners welcome). There are mats, blocks and straps available, no special clothes are required (comfy recommended) and there is a separate unattended playroom for children if needed, but kids who can focus on the class are welcome to stretch with us too! $2/person For more information contact Hazel: hazeleez@yahoo.com 207-460-6219 Add event to Google Calendar 🎤️ 1pm Poetry Open Mic 🎤️ 1pm Poetry Open Mic 07/05/2025 (4 days ago) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm All are welcome to attend our Poetry Open mic every 1st Saturday of the month from 1-3pm! Please come enjoy these readings, and bring some favorites to share, whether that's poems you've written yourself or ones written by others. $2/person goes to The Gatherings. Contact Maya for more info at jacquesmaya12@gmail.com or 207-460-8339 Add event to Google Calendar • •
6 🔮 10am Tarot Circle 🔮 10am Tarot Circle 07/06/2025 (3 days ago) 10:00 am - 11:30 am Join Liz Jezorski for an Introduction to the Tarot. In this class, you will gain the essential knowledge of the structure and symbolism of the tarot to help deepen and demystify your readings. This class is great for beginners with insight for more advanced readers as well. Liz is a professional astrologer, tarot reader and the author of the Grateful Dead Tarot. You can find her at wildembodiment.com This monthly circle offers informal space to explore and discuss Tarot and Oracle cards. Come to share readings, explore different decks, and connect with others. All levels welcome. Bring your decks and books! Donations accepted for the Gatherings. Cost: By donation. Contact: Liz wildembodimentmaine@gmail.com 2077357713 Add event to Google Calendar 🎵 1pm Shape Note Singing 🎵 1pm Shape Note Singing 07/06/2025 (3 days ago) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Shape note singing is a system originally devised to teach sight-reading and singing in harmony to folks with no musical background. From its beginnings in colonial America, it now has an international following. Non-performance singing, in four parts, for the joy of the activity alone is a beautiful example of community-based art. No experience or talent is required. We sing for one another; everyone is welcome.Our afternoon of Shape-note singing would include a brief history and description of the music and then simply singing from The Sacred Harp, the tune book most commonly used for this. We will bring loaner books. Cost: $2/person FMI Contact: Maine Shape Note Singing Community Alan Cohen biopestman@gmail.com (202) 669-6363 or Stephen Chace perniciousanemia115@gmail.com (207) 610-2357 Add event to Google Calendar 🎲 6:30pm Board Game Night 🎲 6:30pm Board Game Night 07/06/2025 (3 days ago) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar • • •	7	8 🔒5:30pm Ellas & Fellas 🔒5:30pm Ellas & Fellas 07/08/2025 (1 day ago) 5:30 pm - 7:45 pm Add event to Google Calendar 💬 7pm Peninsula Area Men's Group 💬 7pm Peninsula Area Men's Group 07/08/2025 (1 day ago) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Come and sit with us! This monthly group is an opportunity for adult men to join together in community and share space as we process things big and small. This group is focused on building a network of strength through connection. Our space will be used for open sharing and active listening; we encourage you to share as deeply as you feel comfortable. The group maintains a strict commitment to confidentiality. The goal is that through conversation and sharing we create a strong network which supports our exploration of fatherhood, friendship, leadership and community. Contact: Peter Hile peter.hile@gmail.com 402-770-4614 Add event to Google Calendar • •	9 🎨 10am Life Drawing 🎨 10am Life Drawing 07/09/2025 (10 hours ago) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 07/09/2025 (3 hours ago) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 07/09/2025 (1 hour ago) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Are you interested in building a sacred community with us through singing Earth-based and women-affirming songs and chants? If that is a YES, then here's the info you want. We meet every Wednesday evening at The Gatherings community space in Surry to sing familiar and new songs around a nature based altar from 7-8:30 p.m. Young women and girls are encouraged to join us, too, as long as they are old enough to be present in the circle. We enjoy a scent-free and peaceful environment built on trust, kindness, and respect for ourselves, one another, and the Earth. You are welcome to join us regardless of your experience with singing for we believe everyone's voice matters and adds value! Cost: $2/person FMI Contact Stacie Jacques staciejacques73@gmail.com or Eileen Mielenhausen 207.441.2785 eileen.mielenhausen@gmail.com. Add event to Google Calendar • • •	10 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 07/10/2025 (18 hours from now) 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🎵 6:30pm Open Kirtan 🎵 6:30pm Open Kirtan 07/10/2025 (22 hours from now) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 2nd & 4th Thursdays Open-format Kirtan where everyone is welcome to come and sing, and perhaps bring some chants to share, whether that's in English, Sanscrit, or other languages. Feel free to bring instruments too... percussive, stringed, etc! Kirtan is a non-denominational singing practice that means different things to different people, most enjoy it as a form of connection - whether that's to a higher power, to the earth, to others, or to themselves. $2/person FMI contact Alice at alicekslater@gmail.com (mailto:alicekslater@gmail.com) or 385-7694 Add event to Google Calendar • •	11 🎒 8am Surry Backpack Program 🎒 8am Surry Backpack Program 07/11/2025 (1 day from now) 8:00 am - 10:00 am If you would like to volunteer, please contact Joan at 207-667-0325 Add event to Google Calendar 🔒 7pm Adults D&D 🔒 7pm Adults D&D 07/11/2025 (2 days from now) 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Closed Group. FMI Contact: David DiLena dave@unionriverbookandtoy.com Add event to Google Calendar • •	12 🕉️ 9am Community Yoga 🕉️ 9am Community Yoga 07/12/2025 (3 days from now) 9:00 am - 10:00 am Every Saturday at 9am If regular yoga classes are a bit out of your price range, you have trouble finding the motivation to practice alone, or you have been curious to try out yoga for the first time, Community Yoga is for you! These casual classes happen in person every Saturday morning at 9am. The class is usually a more relaxing Yin Yoga. Classes are in-person and streamed online through glo.com, which features dozens of different teachers and yoga styles! After class, for those who want to, there will be time to ask questions about poses, help each other out, or share tips and stretches we've been enjoying. These classes are very casual and are open to all ages and abilities (beginners welcome). There are mats, blocks and straps available, no special clothes are required (comfy recommended) and there is a separate unattended playroom for children if needed, but kids who can focus on the class are welcome to stretch with us too! $2/person For more information contact Hazel: hazeleez@yahoo.com 207-460-6219 Add event to Google Calendar 💕 10:30am Grief Circle 💕 10:30am Grief Circle 07/12/2025 (3 days from now) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm We all encounter grief and loss on a daily basis and it often piles up. A grief circle is a place to share and witness one another’s grief through simple ritual. Gathering in this manner often eases the strain of carrying undigested grief all alone. Facilitated by Marianne Reis and Annick McIntosh. Registration is encouraged but not required by emailing growgathergiveproject@protonmail.com Cost to attend: sliding $2-10 Contact: Marianne Reis 4mreis@gmail.com 612-839-4493 Add event to Google Calendar 🎤 3pm Open Mic 🎤 3pm Open Mic 07/12/2025 (3 days from now) 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm A public event open to acoustic music and readings. Listeners welcome! $2/person FMI: Lynn Wiles lwiles@ottcmail.com 607-592-9266 Add event to Google Calendar • • •
13 ♨️ 12pm The Gatherings Summer Party ♨️ 12pm The Gatherings Summer Party 07/13/2025 (4 days from now) 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Grill & Games! Join us for our annual summer community cookout and potluck. Everyone is encouraged to bring side dishes, desserts, beverages and grillables. Camp chairs are encouraged too. Free lawn games will be available! By donation. FMI Contact: Quint Bixby chair@surrygatherings.org Add event to Google Calendar 🎲 6:30pm Board Game Night 🎲 6:30pm Board Game Night 07/13/2025 (4 days from now) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar • •	14	15 🔒 5:30pm Ellas & Fellas 🔒 5:30pm Ellas & Fellas 07/15/2025 (6 days from now) 5:30 pm - 7:10 pm Add event to Google Calendar 💃 7:15pm Contra Dance & Band Practice 💃 7:15pm Contra Dance & Band Practice 07/15/2025 (6 days from now) 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm 1st & 3rd Tuesdays Come dance & play mid-week with us! This is a casual contra dance get-together, where you can have fun dancing for a couple of hours, and help one another with flourishes, plus sharing other contra dancing tips. This is an easy space to learn and experiment and ask questions! It also helps out our local beginner callers, where they will practice calling dances, doing walkthroughs etc. Both new & experienced dancers will enjoy the practice evenings. Want to play contra dance music? Bring your instruments, the open band welcomes all abilities! $2/person goes to the community center. FMI contact Alice at 385-7694 or alicekslater@gmail.com or follow Surry Contra Dance on Facebook / Instagram This practice dance is part of the Surry Contra Dance series. Join us every 2nd Saturday of the month for the full contra experience! Full details here. Add event to Google Calendar • •	16 🎨 10am Life Drawing 🎨 10am Life Drawing 07/16/2025 (7 days from now) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 07/16/2025 (7 days from now) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 07/16/2025 (7 days from now) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Are you interested in building a sacred community with us through singing Earth-based and women-affirming songs and chants? If that is a YES, then here's the info you want. We meet every Wednesday evening at The Gatherings community space in Surry to sing familiar and new songs around a nature based altar from 7-8:30 p.m. Young women and girls are encouraged to join us, too, as long as they are old enough to be present in the circle. We enjoy a scent-free and peaceful environment built on trust, kindness, and respect for ourselves, one another, and the Earth. You are welcome to join us regardless of your experience with singing for we believe everyone's voice matters and adds value! Cost: $2/person FMI Contact Stacie Jacques staciejacques73@gmail.com or Eileen Mielenhausen 207.441.2785 eileen.mielenhausen@gmail.com. Add event to Google Calendar • • •	17 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 07/17/2025 (1 week from now) 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🪕 5:30pm Ukulele Jam 🪕 5:30pm Ukulele Jam 07/17/2025 (1 week from now) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar • •	18 🎒 8am Surry Backpack Program 🎒 8am Surry Backpack Program 07/18/2025 (1 week from now) 8:00 am - 10:00 am If you would like to volunteer, please contact Joan at 207-667-0325 Add event to Google Calendar •	19 💲 8am Big Surry Yard Sale! 💲 8am Big Surry Yard Sale! 07/19/2025 (1 week from now) 8:00 am - 12:00 pm The Gatherings is one of four Surry non-profits hosting simultaneous yard sales in town. Last year thousands of people came through Surry to browse through oodles of yard sale items, stock up on baked goods, buy raffle tickets, and raise lots of money for Surry's non-profits! Our vendors will also be bringing more neat items to peruse. We are seeking: ⭐️ BAKED GOODS (donations of muffins, cookies, pies, cakes etc) ⭐️ ITEM DONATIONS (nice, clean, fully working items) Contact Alice Slater at alicekslater@gmail.com or 207.385.7694 with questions about: ➡️ Making baked goods for the bake sale (drop off at The Gatherings community center, 1208 Surry Rd) on Friday the 18th between 3-6pm ➡️ Dropping off item donations on our porch any time - please donate only nice clean items and no old technology (such as tube TVs!) and no big items (furniture etc) until nearer the time ➡️ Helping with set-up (Fri 3-6pm) or clean-up (Sat 12pm), we would be so grateful! Thanks for your support - we look forward to seeing you here at The Gatherings, 1208 Surry Rd, on July 19th! Add event to Google Calendar •
20 🎲 6:30pm Board Game Night 🎲 6:30pm Board Game Night 07/20/2025 (2 weeks from now) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar •	21	22 🔒5:30pm Ellas & Fellas 🔒5:30pm Ellas & Fellas 07/22/2025 (2 weeks from now) 5:30 pm - 7:45 pm Add event to Google Calendar •	23 🎨 10am Life Drawing 🎨 10am Life Drawing 07/23/2025 (2 weeks from now) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 07/23/2025 (2 weeks from now) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 07/23/2025 (2 weeks from now) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Are you interested in building a sacred community with us through singing Earth-based and women-affirming songs and chants? If that is a YES, then here's the info you want. We meet every Wednesday evening at The Gatherings community space in Surry to sing familiar and new songs around a nature based altar from 7-8:30 p.m. Young women and girls are encouraged to join us, too, as long as they are old enough to be present in the circle. We enjoy a scent-free and peaceful environment built on trust, kindness, and respect for ourselves, one another, and the Earth. You are welcome to join us regardless of your experience with singing for we believe everyone's voice matters and adds value! Cost: $2/person FMI Contact Stacie Jacques staciejacques73@gmail.com or Eileen Mielenhausen 207.441.2785 eileen.mielenhausen@gmail.com. Add event to Google Calendar • • •	24 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 07/24/2025 (2 weeks from now) 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🎵 6:30pm Open Kirtan 🎵 6:30pm Open Kirtan 07/24/2025 (2 weeks from now) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 2nd & 4th Thursdays Open-format Kirtan where everyone is welcome to come and sing, and perhaps bring some chants to share, whether that's in English, Sanscrit, or other languages. Feel free to bring instruments too... percussive, stringed, etc! Kirtan is a non-denominational singing practice that means different things to different people, most enjoy it as a form of connection - whether that's to a higher power, to the earth, to others, or to themselves. $2/person FMI contact Alice at alicekslater@gmail.com (mailto:alicekslater@gmail.com) or 385-7694 Add event to Google Calendar • •	25 🎒 8am Surry Backpack Program 🎒 8am Surry Backpack Program 07/25/2025 (2 weeks from now) 8:00 am - 10:00 am If you would like to volunteer, please contact Joan at 207-667-0325 Add event to Google Calendar •	26 🕉️ 9am Community Yoga 🕉️ 9am Community Yoga 07/26/2025 (2 weeks from now) 9:00 am - 10:00 am Every Saturday at 9am If regular yoga classes are a bit out of your price range, you have trouble finding the motivation to practice alone, or you have been curious to try out yoga for the first time, Community Yoga is for you! These casual classes happen in person every Saturday morning at 9am. The class is usually a more relaxing Yin Yoga. Classes are in-person and streamed online through glo.com, which features dozens of different teachers and yoga styles! After class, for those who want to, there will be time to ask questions about poses, help each other out, or share tips and stretches we've been enjoying. These classes are very casual and are open to all ages and abilities (beginners welcome). There are mats, blocks and straps available, no special clothes are required (comfy recommended) and there is a separate unattended playroom for children if needed, but kids who can focus on the class are welcome to stretch with us too! $2/person For more information contact Hazel: hazeleez@yahoo.com 207-460-6219 Add event to Google Calendar 🔒 Private Event 🔒 Private Event 07/26/2025 (2 weeks from now) 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Baby Shower Add event to Google Calendar • •
27 🍄 11am Essential Tools For Mushroom Foraging 🍄 11am Essential Tools For Mushroom Foraging 07/27/2025 (3 weeks from now) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Join our immersive workshop to learn fundamental tools and techniques for successful mushroom foraging. Discover: - Key identification tools and gear - Sustainable foraging strategies - Guides specific to our location Perfect for beginners and experienced foragers alike! As always, we will share some mushroom teas together. Potential foraging walk after, weather permitting. Suggested donation $5 FMI Contact: Lena Ramsay lramsay@live.com 719.648.9289 Add event to Google Calendar 🎲 6:30pm Board Game Night 🎲 6:30pm Board Game Night 07/27/2025 (3 weeks from now) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar • •	28 📚 1:30pm Ellsworth Literature Club 📚 1:30pm Ellsworth Literature Club 07/28/2025 (3 weeks from now) 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm FMI Contact: Sherry Fletcher fletches@gmail.com 207.667.9475 Add event to Google Calendar •	29	30 🎨 10am Life Drawing 🎨 10am Life Drawing 07/30/2025 (3 weeks from now) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 🗨️ 5:30pm Spanish Conversation 07/30/2025 (3 weeks from now) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 🎼 7pm Women's Song Circle 07/30/2025 (3 weeks from now) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Are you interested in building a sacred community with us through singing Earth-based and women-affirming songs and chants? If that is a YES, then here's the info you want. We meet every Wednesday evening at The Gatherings community space in Surry to sing familiar and new songs around a nature based altar from 7-8:30 p.m. Young women and girls are encouraged to join us, too, as long as they are old enough to be present in the circle. We enjoy a scent-free and peaceful environment built on trust, kindness, and respect for ourselves, one another, and the Earth. You are welcome to join us regardless of your experience with singing for we believe everyone's voice matters and adds value! Cost: $2/person FMI Contact Stacie Jacques staciejacques73@gmail.com or Eileen Mielenhausen 207.441.2785 eileen.mielenhausen@gmail.com. Add event to Google Calendar • • •	31 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 🚌 2:30pm Magic Food Bus 07/31/2025 (3 weeks from now) 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm 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 Add event to Google Calendar •

ONGOING GROUPS

$2 Community Yoga Sat 9am. All are welcome to these affordable yoga classes. We stream teachers from glo.com using the big screen. $2/person.
Contra Dance Practice 1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 7:15pm. Share tips, build skills, dance. $2/person
Life Drawing Wednesdays 10am. Artists age 18+ sketch each week from live models using a variety of drawing media; from charcoal and pastels to colored pencils. These uninstructed sessions are open to the community and all skill levels are encouraged to attend. Masks required. $17/person.
Spanish Conversation Wednesdays 5:30pm. This is a group meeting for people wanting to practice their Spanish conversation – all levels are invited! $2/person.
Girl Scouts 2nd & 4th Thursdays 4:30pm. Surry Girl Scout Troop #823. For ages K – 5th grade. Meetings during the school year.
Ukulele Jam 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5:30pm. Easy-going ukulele group – beginners welcome! $2/person.
Surry Children’s Backpack Program Fridays 8am. A charity organization committed to weekend food security for Surry’s school aged children. New volunteers welcome.
Food with Friends every First Friday at 6pm! Community potluck. Bring a dish or drink to share while spending time with your neighbors and fill up on a variety of home cooked dishes. Donations to the community center are welcome.
Poetry Open Mic 1st Saturdays 1pm. Bring a poem to share written by yourself or someone else. $2/person.
Kirtan 2nd & 4th Thursdays 6:30pm (open format). Kirtan is an ancient Indian practice of call and response chanting. All are welcome to join this contemplative spiritual practice in the vein of meditation and yoga. By donation.
Sip ‘n Draw 4th Mondays 6pm. Artists aged 21+ of any ability are welcome to draw/paint from live models, plus enjoy some wine & cheese. $10-15/person
Board Game Night every Sunday at 6:30pm. We play modern board games, tile games, card games, dice games, word games, cooperative games… bring your favorites! $2/person.

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