• Poetry Reading and Conversation: Nathan Kernan and Vincent Katz

    Join author Nathan Kernan and poet Vincent Katz for a poetry reading and a conversation on poetry, art, and creative life, presented with the Maine Publishers and Writers Alliance. Centered on Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, this program explores the work and world of the New York School poet, whose writing...

  • The 2026 Bernard Osher Lecture: “Women Laughing” film screening and discussion Featuring Heather Cox Richardson and Liza Donnelly

    Hannaford Hall — Abromson Community Education Center 88 Bedford St, Portland, Maine, United States

    What happens when humor becomes a tool for history and resistance? Join historian Heather Cox Richardson and writer/cartoonist Liza Donnelly for a screening of Donnelly’s new documentary, Women Laughing. The film brings together a witty crew of New Yorker women cartoonists to discuss their passion and creative process as they draw together, and share a...

  • 2026 Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture Chitra Ganesh: Rainbow Bodies

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    Join us for a lecture and conversation with artist Chitra Ganesh, alongside Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, PhD, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum of Art (PMA). Across a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings,...