Events
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PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love…
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PMA Films: Chronovisor
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice…
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Indigenous Peoples Day Open House
Jared Lank (Mi’kmaq, born 1991), Still from Bay of Herons, 2023, single-channel video with sound, 7 minutes and 15 seconds. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Museum purchase with exchange funds…
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PMA Films: Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild] (Free Screening)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil. 80 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Anishinaabemowin with English subtitles. Aanikoobijigan documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural…
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(SOLD OUT) Four-Day Course | PICTURING MAINE: The Wyeth Family in Historical Context | Session 2
An Immersive Art History Course at the Portland Museum of Art and offsite in Midcoast Maine Maine has captivated artists, writers, and promoters for over two centuries as an imagined…
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PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love…
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Museum Playdate: Love Lab Lantern Making Workshop
Museum Playdate is a monthly morning for young children and their caregivers to slow down, explore, and make things together. Free admission. No registration is required. Designed for children and…
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Third Thursday
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! Third Thursday at the PMA is Art for All, with free admission all day and evening and opportunities to connect through creativity, community,…
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The Art of Intaglio Printmaking: Live Demonstrations
Discover the printmaking process behind the exhibition Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher. Printmaker Winslow Trainum demonstrates the art of intaglio printmaking, inking an etched copper plate, wiping it by hand, and…
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Champlain Film Festival: Afrotōpia (with virtual filmmaker discussion)
Directed by David Mboussou. 128 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Ezekiel, a 25-year-old aspiring filmmaker, lives in the heart of the Congo Basin under…
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Champlain Film Festival: Colours of Time/La Venue de l’Avenir (followed by discussion)
Directed by Cédric Klapisch. 124 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. This screening will be followed by a discussion with Andrew Eschelbacher, PMA Deputy Director…
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Champlain Film Festival: Colours of Light/La Venue de l’Avenir (Special Student Screening)
Directed by Cédric Klapisch. 124 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four…
Events
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PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love…
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PMA Films: Chronovisor
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice…
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PMA Films: Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild] (Free Screening)
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil. 80 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Anishinaabemowin with English subtitles. Aanikoobijigan documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural…
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PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesDirected by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love…
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Champlain Film Festival: Afrotōpia (with virtual filmmaker discussion)
Directed by David Mboussou. 128 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Ezekiel, a 25-year-old aspiring filmmaker, lives in the heart of the Congo Basin under…
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Champlain Film Festival: Colours of Time/La Venue de l’Avenir (followed by discussion)
Directed by Cédric Klapisch. 124 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. This screening will be followed by a discussion with Andrew Eschelbacher, PMA Deputy Director…
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Champlain Film Festival: Colours of Light/La Venue de l’Avenir (Special Student Screening)
Directed by Cédric Klapisch. 124 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four…
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Champlain Film Festival: Promised Sky/Promis Le Ciel + Je ne lâcherai pas ta main
Directed by Erige Sehiri. 92 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Marie, an Ivorian pastor and former journalist, has lived in Tunisia for ten years. Her home becomes…
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Champlain Film Festival: Maria Chapdelaine (with virtual filmmaker discussion)
Directed by Sébastien Pilote. 158 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Maria Chapdelaine is a young sixteen-year-old girl who lives with her family on the…
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Champlain Film Festival: All Stirred Up!/Tous toqués!
Directed by Manon Briand. 90 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Sonia is an intractable Canadian Customs border agent who confiscates the contents of a car being driven…
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Champlain Film Festival: Once Upon My Mother/Ma Mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan
Directed by Ken Scott. 132 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Esther Perez is a Moroccan-Jewish immigrant and devoted mother of six. When her newborn son Roland is…
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Champlain Film Festival: Sisters and Neighbors/Nos Belles-Soeurs
Directed by Richard Syr. 135 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Germaine Lauzon, a housewife, wins a million trading stamps that she believes will give her access to…
Events
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Indigenous Peoples Day Open House
Jared Lank (Mi’kmaq, born 1991), Still from Bay of Herons, 2023, single-channel video with sound, 7 minutes and 15 seconds. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Museum purchase with exchange funds…
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(SOLD OUT) Four-Day Course | PICTURING MAINE: The Wyeth Family in Historical Context | Session 2
An Immersive Art History Course at the Portland Museum of Art and offsite in Midcoast Maine Maine has captivated artists, writers, and promoters for over two centuries as an imagined…
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Museum Playdate: Love Lab Lantern Making Workshop
Museum Playdate is a monthly morning for young children and their caregivers to slow down, explore, and make things together. Free admission. No registration is required. Designed for children and…
Free -
Third Thursday
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! Third Thursday at the PMA is Art for All, with free admission all day and evening and opportunities to connect through creativity, community,…
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The Art of Intaglio Printmaking: Live Demonstrations
Discover the printmaking process behind the exhibition Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher. Printmaker Winslow Trainum demonstrates the art of intaglio printmaking, inking an etched copper plate, wiping it by hand, and…
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Noontime Talk: The Haunted PMA Tour
Step inside the 19th-century McLellan House and beyond as PMA Educators share spine-tingling stories hidden in the museum’s walls. Using the powers of close observation and imagination, artworks and their…
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Noontime Talk: The Haunted PMA Tour
Step inside the 19th-century McLellan House and beyond as PMA Educators share spine-tingling stories hidden in the museum’s walls. Using the powers of close observation and imagination, artworks and their…
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Noontime Talk: Birding in the Galleries
In this ongoing series, self-described Maine “bird nerd” Will Valentine explores the PMA Collection to reveal how artists have captured the ways birds guide sailors, sustain farms, and shape Maine’s…
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Leadership Circles Reception and Preview of Sascha Braunig: Wrist Painter
Join Director’s Circle and Contemporaries Council members and special guests for light fare and drinks and be the first to view Sascha Braunig: Wrist Painter.
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Wrist Painter Members Lecture: Artist Sascha Braunig in Conversation
Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United StatesArtist Sascha Braunig in Conversation with Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art. Open to PMA Members only. Day’s Events: Friday, November 13, 2026 Members Opening Preview of…
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Wrist Painter: Sascha Braunig Opening Reception
Day’s Events: Friday, November 13, 2026 Members Opening Preview of Sascha Braunig: Wrist Painter 10 a.m. — 8:00 p.m. Members Lecture: Sascha Braunig in Conversation 6:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. Artist Sascha Braunig…
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Sascha Braunig: Wrist Painter After Party
PMA x SPACE Wrist Painter After-Party 8:00 p.m. | SPACE, 538 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101 Cash bar · Open to active PMA and/or SPACE members Toast the opening of Sascha…
