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Spoon Carving 101

$19

with Walter Selens, Massabesic Adult and Community Education

Calendar Mar 11, 2026 at 2 pm
1 additional session on Mar 25, 2026

Get an introduction to wood carving, and make your own spoon. Bring: spoon carving knife. Materials fee payable to instructor: $5

Will run

Night Club Dance

$100

with Sergei Slussky, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Mar 11, 2026 at 5 pm, runs for 6 weeks

Night Club dancing is contagious: once you start, you might never want to stop. Dance develops balance and coordination, physical, mental, emotional, and social abilities. Come to exercise & meet new friends. In this class, we will go over: West Coast Swing, Night Club 2-Step, Kizomba. This class is open to all skill levels.

Farmhouse Painted & Distressed Wood Sign Workshop

$25

with Catherine Scanlon, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Mar 11, 2026 at 5:30 pm, runs for 1 week

Create your own custom farmhouse-style wood sign in this fun and hands-on workshop! Start with a 4” x wood board customized to fit your word or phrase, up to 24” and paint, distress, and finish it for a beautiful rustic look. Using a personalized stencil cut on the Cricut just for you, you’ll add your own chosen word, name, or phrase to make your sign truly one of a kind. No experience needed — we’ll guide you through each step, from prepping the wood to applying the stencil and achieving the perfect distressed finish. By the end of class, you’ll take home a ready-to-hang custom sign that’s perfect for your home or as a handmade gift! A $25 materials fee is due to the instructor on night of class. All materials provided in the $25 materials fee.

Latin Dance

$100

with Sergei Slussky, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Mar 11, 2026 at 6 pm, runs for 6 weeks

Latin dancing is contagious: once you start, you might never want to stop. Dance develops balance and coordination, physical, mental, emotional, and social abilities. Come to exercise & meet new friends. In this class, we will go over: Tango, Cha-Cha, and Rumba. This class is open to all skill levels.

Make Your Own Elderberry Syrup!

$45

with Kayla Day, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Mar 11, 2026 at 6 pm

Help your immune system during these cold Maine months by learning how to make your very own Elderberry Syrup! Elderberry is a great way to help in preventing (or lessen symptoms and duration) of colds and flus. Many store bought remedies can be expensive and loaded with sugar. Join Kayla in this one-night class where she will show you how to create your own batch at home! You’ll learn how to boil down the elderberries to create roughly 2 cups of your own syrup you can take home. The cost of the class includes the ingredients from Kayla, but if you would like to make another batch at home you can purchase extra ingredients for $20.

Materials to bring to class:
• 8oz of Honey ( Local honey is best )
• Cooking utensils including a spoon or whisk to use for stirring. 
• A pot that can hold roughly 5 cups for a single batch before it gets rendered down
• Cheese Cloth or Fine Mesh Strainer
• Mason Jars or Container to put the syrup in

Minimum number of students = 4    Maximum number of students = 8

Middle Eastern Belly Dance Mixed Level Drills & Thrills: Choreography

$75

with Josephina Gasca, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Mar 11, 2026 at 6 pm, runs for 5 weeks

Authentic Belly Dance, or raks sharqi, is an ancient form of dance. Raks sharqi means “dance of the east” in Arabic. Belly dance celebrates every body type and every stage of life. The dance is proud and powerful and soft and sinewy with elegant and isolating movements emanating from the core. It’s the Pilates of dance. And so much fun! This is a great refresher class for experienced dancers and suitable for dancers new to belly dance. Please wear comfortable clothing, similar to what you might wear to a yoga class that will allow for free movement and the ability to see your movement. Hip scarves make it even more fun. You can dance barefoot or in a pair of comfortable dance shoes in the studio. Zills (finger cymbals) will be used in class. Check in with the instructor before you purchase any. As an added bonus, you will also have access to a video library with instruction, drills, and ongoing choreography during the length of the session. *This class meets on the following Wednesdays: 3/11, 3/25, 4/8, 4/22, 5/13 (5 sessions total).

Poetry for the Rest of Us

$65

with Nathan Leland, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Mar 11, 2026 at 6 pm, runs for 6 weeks

In this six-week course, we will try to make poetry seem less intimidating by learning a little bit about where it comes from and what makes it tick, but mostly by using a proven peer-critique discussion format to help us all become better writers, whether you're looking to tighten your songwriting, memorialize an important person or event, or just become a more thoughtful participant in language.

ONE SHEET WONDERS

$25

with Faith Garnett, Wells-Ogunquit Adult Community Education

Calendar Mar 12, 2026 at 10 am

If you are a regular visitor to Pinterest, I am sure you have seen “one sheet wonders”. Dimensions for how to cut the 12 x 12 sheet of card stock are illustrated, but have you wondered how you put together the cards once the card stock is cut? Instructions for how to make ten cards from one sheet of decorated card stock will be given and materials to make three of those cards will be provided. You will go home with the remainder of the cut-up sheet to fi nish making the other seven cards. INSTRUCTOR: Faith Garnett has been teaching card making for more than 10 years and sells her cards online and at craft fairs.





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