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Be Safe When Your Office Is Someone's Home

$35

with Alice Bean Andrenyak, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Apr 9, 2026 at 6 pm, runs for 1 week

This three-hour course is for anyone that goes into someone else’s home to do work, repairs, estimates, sales, nursing, or outside the home contractors. How can you be safe? Learn the basics to access the surroundings, stay safe and protect yourself without using a firearm. This is a Zoom class.

Medicare Basics-Understanding Your Options S2
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Medicare Basics-Understanding Your Options S2

$9

with Tim Harrigan, Wells-Ogunquit Adult Community Education

Calendar Apr 9, 2026 at 6 pm

Introduction to Medicare Basics - NEW!

Do you have questions about Medicare? This informative class will help you understand the basics of Medicare in relatable, easy-to-understand language. It will also help you better understand your options and provide you with the tools you will need to determine the plan best suited to your needs. There will be time after the workshop for questions and answers. 

INSTRUCTOR: Tim Harrigan a Senior Benefits Specialist

Paint Night - Early Bird

$15 Originally: $9

with Janis Peterson, Massabesic Adult and Community Education

Calendar Apr 9, 2026 at 6 pm

Join us for a fun paint night with Janis! Perfect for a fun night out with friends or colleagues.

$20 materials fee

Psychic-Mediumship Practice Circle

$25 Originally: $9

with Valerie Lofaso, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Apr 9, 2026 at 6 pm
2 additional sessions through Jun 11, 2026

Come practice and develop your psychic-mediumship skills in an open, safe, supportive environment. All levels of experience welcome and all types of intuitives and energy workers welcome. This group will be shaped by the attendees’ needs and wants for practice, so come prepared with what you would like to work on but also be open to exploring new things.

Please bring with you (if you have them): a Tarot or oracle card deck, a pendulum, dowsing rods, a small & meaningful personal object, etc. There will be a limited supply of extras for attendees.

Topics we may explore:

• Tarot/Oracle/Angel card reading
• Spiritual Readings
• Scrying
• Dowsing
• Pendulum work
• Energy work
 

Maximum: 20 Students

Acadian Arts Retreats: Asian Fusion Cooking

$695 Originally: $9

with Chris Toy, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Apr 10, 2026 at 8 am, runs for 1 week
1 additional session on Jun 5, 2026

Your instructor, Chris Toy is the author of 6 popular cookbooks, a private chef, and has taught Asian-fusion cooking for several Maine community education programs. Cooking students will learn how to prepare a variety of recipes from Asia, Europe, and the Americas incorporating traditional and local ingredients. Each meal will actively engage cooks with the tools, techniques, and stories behind the dishes being created. Please note: There is a $60 cancellation fee for this program.

*More about the retreat location: Escape to a Victorian Inn, the Harbor View House in Prospect Harbor on the coast of Maine, with an intimate group of artists, cooks and creatives! All meals are included in the workshop fee plus special activities to extend your learning from the day’s workshops, including a private house concert by Grammy-balloted sing-songwriter, storyteller, and author Gordan Ward. For more information about the workshop, call Mary at 207-632-2251. To book your stay at the inn call 207-963-9122 or visit https://harborviewhousellc.com/. **Lodgings not included in price.

*More about the retreat location: Step back to a time when President Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor, and their family escaped to their “beautiful little island” in the Canadian Maritimes, Campobello Island. We will be exclusive guests of the international park, staying in historic Victorian cottages. Workshop participants will explore and paint the same coastal scenery enjoyed by the summer residents at the turn of the 20th century. All meals are included in the workshop fee as well as specially planned optional evening activities designed to extend your learning from the day’s workshops. Register for the retreat then call Sherry Mitchell at 506-752-2922 to make room reservations. Acadian Arts Retreats participants will have exclusive overnight access to accommodations in the park. **Lodgings not included in price.

Acadian Arts Retreats: Watercolor Painting

$695 Originally: $9

with Mary Laury, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Apr 10, 2026 at 8 am, runs for 1 week
1 additional session on Jun 5, 2026

Your instructor, Mary Laury is an accomplished watercolorist and highly esteemed teacher. She encourages all her students to believe they can be successful. Painting is an exciting medium; it flows and moves and does beautiful things. If you have never painted in watercolors, we will start at the beginning. If you have painted before, you will pick up some new tips and tricks as well. We all learn together! Please note: There is a $60 cancellation fee for this program.

*More about the retreat location: Escape to a Victorian Inn, the Harbor View House in Prospect Harbor on the coast of Maine, with an intimate group of artists, cooks and creatives! All meals are included in the workshop fee plus special activities to extend your learning from the day’s workshops, including a private house concert by Grammy-balloted sing-songwriter, storyteller, and author Gordan Ward. For more information about the workshop, call Mary at 207-632-2251. To book your stay at the inn call 207-963-9122 or visit https://harborviewhousellc.com/. **Lodgings not included in price.

 

*More about the retreat location: Step back to a time when President Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor, and their family escaped to their “beautiful little island” in the Canadian Maritimes, Campobello Island. We will be exclusive guests of the international park, staying in historic Victorian cottages. Workshop participants will explore and paint the same coastal scenery enjoyed by the summer residents at the turn of the 20th century. All meals are included in the workshop fee as well as specially planned optional evening activities designed to extend your learning from the day’s workshops. Register for the retreat then call Sherry Mitchell at 506-752-2922 to make room reservations. Acadian Arts Retreats participants will have exclusive overnight access to accommodations in the park. **Lodgings not included in price.

Baby and Toddler Play Group

Free

with MACE Staff, Massabesic Adult and Community Education

Calendar Apr 10, 2026 at 10 am
2 additional sessions through Jun 12, 2026

Bring your little one to play, and meet other local parents! Find out more about resources available for families. 2nd Friday starting 1/9, 10:00 - 11:00 am

Museum Sketchbook: Farnsworth Art Museum

$25 Originally: $9

with Michael Branca, Merrymeeting Community & Adult Education

Calendar Apr 10, 2026 at 10 am, runs for 1 week

Bring a sketchbook and pencil and join us for an afternoon of drawing in one of Maine's fabulous museums. Forge an intimate connection with museum collections, while improving your own work by studying the techniques of the masters. Guidance and critical feedback are provided as needed. At the end of our visit, we will meet up to share our results with the group. Museum admission is included in fee. Participants will meet at the museum.





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