Bridgton Public Library

Online Workshops from UMaine Extension

UMaine Extension/4-H Workshops

3/9/2021- Cooking with the Harvest: Using Frozen Fruit in Baking and Preserving: UMaine Extension Food & Nutrition staff are offering two webinars in March to help you prepare for the upcoming food preservation season. We are halfway through winter, so it’s time to begin using your precious cache of frozen berries or canned vegetables. On March 9, we’ll share tips for using your home frozen fruit in cooking and baking. On March 23, discover creative uses for home canned goods in your cooking.
3/10/2021- Winter Gardening Series: Ornamental Garden Design. Join us for a presentation on how you can take a sustainable approach to ornamental garden design with ideas and tips for siting an ornamental garden, plant selection, plant arrangement and sourcing materials!
3/11/2021- Compost Webinar Series: Organic Certification Process for Compost Usage
3/23/2021- Compost Webinar Series: Is Carcass Composting the Right Decision?
3/23/2021- Cooking with the Harvest: Home Canned Goods in Cooking
3/24/2021- Winter Gardening Series: Protecting Fruit Trees from Insects and Diseases. Join us for a discussion of pest management practices for your home fruit trees and steps you can take to thwart insects and diseases in the home orchard!
3/30/2021- Compost Webinar Series: Composting Hemp Residual
3/31/2021- KIDS-Flying Peeps Virtual Workshop (Oxford 4-H, register by 3/19/2021).
Have you ever wanted to watch a fluffy marshmallow critter go flying through the air? Well now is your chance. Grades K-5 are welcome to join Oxford County 4-H for a Virtual Peep Launching Party. We will be building popsicle stick catapults and sending Peeps for a ride.

Wednesday, March 31st at 4:30 pm via Zoom

Materials will be mailed to you. Please register by March 19th.

Harrison Library will be sharing a story following the activity.

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Donation requested, the BPL will donate on your behalf, just bring in or email a copy of your registration form!

MWPA Workshops in March

03/02/202103/02/2021adminAdult Programs / Creative Resources / FYI / Youth Programs

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Workshops

3/2/2021- Explore the Moment (Poetry): This moment, this contemporary life is one of both restlessness and stillness. The notion of uncertainty is omnipresent. In this workshop, we will make and read poems that explore both the goings-on outside and, perhaps more importantly, our internality, now: connections, disconnections, hopes, and suspicions. This is a workshop that uses the muse of now, the muse of the present to look both forward and behind.
3/4/2021- Sharpen Your Vision (Fiction): While fiction writers face many common craft and storytelling challenges, because their goals and focuses are different, there is no formula or maxim on which they can all rely. Instead, to arm themselves for the enduring challenges of revision, writers must learn to see their work both for what it is and what it could be.
3/6/2021- Thoughts, Flashbacks, & Commentary (Fiction): Fiction writers, especially novelists, often focus on writing scenes, which function to move a story forward. But what about the other elements of narrative—summary, exposition, interiority, and commentary—the ones that add depth and nuance and increase reader engagement with characters and situations? Think of Mrs. Dalloway without interior monologue, or The Great Gatsby if Jay Gatsby’s backstory was simply plunked in the first chapter. This class will focus on how to effectively deploy these narrative elements.
3/20/2021: Legal Essentials for Writers: Writers often have questions about navigating the legal aspects of being a creative. In this talk, attorney (and former MWPA board member) Jeff Joyce will delve into the essentials every writer should know. There will also be ample time for Q&A.
3/27/2021- The Sweet Spot (YA & Middle Grade): Using examples from a variety of novels, the first two hours of the workshop will focus on four essential elements of young adult fiction:
–       great beginnings that hook readers from page one

–       a confident narrative voice

–       dialogue that sounds true to readers

–       action that creates an emotion-driven, fast-moving plot

Participants will explore these elements and discuss what clangs and what rings true when writing fiction for young adults.

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We have a membership and can offer you reduced rates on your workshop, just give us a call and we will get you started!