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Sew for "Dress A Girl"

Free

with NACE Staff, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Sep 9, 2025 at 10 am
3 additional sessions through Oct 28, 2025

Every girl deserves at least one dress. Since October 2009, "Dress A Girl Around The World" has reached over 81 countries with a recorded number of over one million dresses delivered to girls in need around the world. Recently, we spoke with the Maine DAG Ambassador, Jane, who is in need of help with sewing menstral pads and dresses for girls in need.

We will be holding 9 sewing dates for those who are interested in volunteering their time to sew. You can stay the whole time or for a few hours; any help is appreciated. If there are more requests for sewing days, we will update that information on our website and social media. Feel free to bring a lunch with you; the sewing room at NACE has a refrigerator you can keep your food/drinks in.

We do ask volunteers to please register for the days they wish to come in and sew to be sure the sewing room and supplies are all ready.

Knitting - 6 Weeks

$72

with Victoria Vaughn, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Oct 14, 2025 at 5 pm
2 additional sessions through Jan 27, 2026

 Join us for a fun, no pressure knitting experience! This 6-week knitting class is great for not only beginners, but for anyone who may be a little rusty. You'll learn how to cast on, master the basic and purl stitches, learn some tips and tricks on repairing mistakes, and learn how to read a pattern! Vicky is a passionate knitter and always makes classes fun for her students. 


Cant make a full session? Student drop-ins are welcome! Drop-In fee is $13 per class.

No class: 11/25, 12/13, 12/20, 2/17

Knitting - Drop In

$13

with Victoria Vaughn, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Oct 14, 2025 at 5 pm
2 additional sessions through Oct 28, 2025

 Join us for a fun, no pressure knitting experience! This knitting class is great for not only beginners, but for anyone who may be a little rusty. You'll learn how to cast on, master the basic and purl stitches, learn some tips and tricks on repairing mistakes, and learn how to read a pattern! Vicky is a passionate knitter and always makes classes fun for her students. 


No class: 11/25, 12/13, 12/20, 2/17

Cold Reading and Scene Study Workshop

$59

with Gregory Athans, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Oct 15, 2025 at 6 pm
Are you interested in acting or looking to strengthen your public speaking skills? Join NACE instructor and theatre actor Gregory Athans, in this 6-week workshop where you will have the opportunity to explore and express your creative talents. This course is designed for beginners who are interested in the craft of acting, but also beneficial to participants who have never attempted acting or done plays. The process will be informative, enriching and most importantly: fun.

Together we will embrace and cultivate the creative exploration of theatre where everyone can refine their talent and learn skills and techniques to reach their individual potential. Using the words of the playwright; along with instinct, motivation, emotion and other performance skills, participants will, through their own authenticity, develop a character and gain the confidence to be a great performer.

Each week, you’ll be paired with a partner and assigned a scene from a script. Beginning with cold readings and analysis, the scenes will be rehearsed and workshopped, culminating in a casual performance for your classmates at the following week’s class where the process will then begin again with a new partner and scene.

No prior experience is necessary-just a willingness to explore, take risks, and most importantly have FUN.

NACE is offering a special discount for high school students ages 15 - 17 who are interested in taking the class. Class cost for students ages 15 - 17 is $39. Contact us today to register.

* Please note that parents must sign a permission slip in order for students to participate in the class.

Learn to Play the Ukulele!

$79

with Duncan Perry, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Oct 15, 2025 at 6 pm
2 additional sessions through Feb 4, 2026

Your Journey Begins Here! 
The ukulele has never been more popular, and you don't even have to know how to read music! On the uke you can knock out folk music, rock, blues, jazz, pop, and country tunes old and new -- even classical music.

Join instructor Duncan Perry on ZOOM, who has taught more than 700 students of all ages, and who will introduce you to essential chords and playing techniques using commonly known songs. Oh, and there are lots of laughs along the way. And, learning to play an instrument is good for your brain! You will need a playable ukulele and an electronic tuner or a tuner app. And when folks hear you play this happy instrument, well, they just have to smile! What are you waiting for? Grab a uke and get ready for a musical adventure, then spread the joy! 

If you don’t own a ukulele, download the buying and care guide provided by the instructor below;

A Ukulele Buying and Care Guide

FANCY FOLD FALL CARDS - NEW

$25

with Faith Garnett, Wells-Ogunquit Adult Community Education

Calendar Oct 16, 2025 at 10 am

In this class, you will make a Halloween waterfall card, a harvest box card and a Thanksgiving easel card.  All materials and instructions will be provided.

INSTRUCTOR: FAITH GARNETT has been teaching card making for more than 10 years and sells her cards on line and at craft fairs

 

Gel Plate Printmaking For Beginners

$70 Originally: $25

with Pam Clark, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Oct 16, 2025 at 11:30 am

Gel Plate Printing is a dynamic and fun way to express yourself through creating monoprints on a soft, pliable gel plate.  Each one-of-a-kind print is as individual as the person creating it and requires no prior art skills to do. In class you will learn what gel plate printing is, how to do it using several different techniques, and be provided with the materials needed to create a variety of prints. 

This class is so much fun & expected to fill up fast so sign up early!

Minimum: 4   |   Maximum: 8

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Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People on ZOOM

$69 Originally: $25

with Craig Coffmen, Noble Adult & Community Education

Calendar Oct 18, 2025 at 9 am

In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to give you years of musical enjoyment. Learn to play piano the way professionals do-using chords. Since this class is being held online with ZOOM, you will be able to sit at your piano or keyboard at home and take this course with no pressure at all. And since this course includes an online book and online follow up video lessons, you will be able to continue your practice and study on your own. An optional periodic online question and answer session is also included. A recording of the class is included as well. The course is partly lecture/demonstration and partly hands on instruction.

Topics include:
• How chords work in a song
• How to get more out of sheet music by reading less of it
• How to form the three main types of chords
• How to handle different keys and time signatures
• How to avoid “counting”
• How to simplify over 12,000 complex chords

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