• (Past Event) PMA Films: The Marching Band

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

    Directed by Emmanuel Courcol. 103 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. A world-famous orchestra conductor and a blue-collar cafeteria worker discover they are brothers who were separated at birth. Despite their differences, they develop a bond through their mutual love of music. A Cannes premiere and Audience Award Winner at Rendez-Vous with French...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) PMA Films: How to Divorce During the War

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

    Directed by Andrius Blaževičius. 108 minutes. Not Rated. In Lithuanian, English, Ukranian, and Russian with English subtitles. WINNER BEST DIRECTOR WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC - 2026 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Vilnius, 2022. High-flying executive Marija (Zygimante Elena Jakstaite) chooses the worst possible moment to inform her husband Vytas (Marius Repsys) she wants a divorce: just one day...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) [At Congress Square Park] PMA Films: “Eve Biddle Selects”: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (Free Screening)

    Directed by Robert Zemeckis. 104 minutes. Rated PG. In English. Screening for free in Congress Square Park! Screens as part of "Eve Biddle Selects: Beautiful People Doing Impossible Things," a companion to the exhibition "Eve Biddle: Wonderlands." Director Robert Zemeckis’ feature follow-up to the original Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit continued...

    Free
  • (Past Event) Curator tour of Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher

    Join Ramey Mize, the curator of Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher, for a special tour of the exhibition, where she will share insights into the artist’s breathtaking, lifelong printmaking practice and its intertwinement with some of his most iconic paintings. A rare look at the master painter's brief but brilliant turn to etching in the 1880s....

  • (Past Event) Curator tour of Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher

    Join Ramey Mize, the curator of Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher, for a special tour of the exhibition, where she will share insights into the artist’s breathtaking, lifelong printmaking practice and its intertwinement with some of his most iconic paintings. A rare look at the master painter's brief but brilliant turn to etching in the 1880s....

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: How to Divorce During the War

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

    Directed by Andrius Blaževičius. 108 minutes. Not Rated. In Lithuanian, English, Ukranian, and Russian with English subtitles. WINNER BEST DIRECTOR WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC - 2026 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Vilnius, 2022. High-flying executive Marija (Zygimante Elena Jakstaite) chooses the worst possible moment to inform her husband Vytas (Marius Repsys) she wants a divorce: just one day...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) PMA Films: The Marching Band

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

    Directed by Emmanuel Courcol. 103 minutes. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. A world-famous orchestra conductor and a blue-collar cafeteria worker discover they are brothers who were separated at birth. Despite their differences, they develop a bond through their mutual love of music. A Cannes premiere and Audience Award Winner at Rendez-Vous with French...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) Noontime Talk: Water and Art

    Dive into the world of water present in artworks throughout PMA galleries. Explore diverse works of art through the cultural, environmental, and symbolic relationships between people and water. With Kristin Schardt, Museum Educator.

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: The History of Concrete

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

    Directed by John Wilson. 101 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force,...

    $6
  • (Past Event) “Freaky Fridaze” Live Broadcast with WMPG

    Freaky Fridaze

    A rotating cast of WMPG DJ’s broadcast Freaky Fridaze live from the PMA from 5:00 p.m. - 7 p.m. This happy hour series takes your favorite community DJs out of the studio and into the wild, spinning records and soaking up the vibes with listeners and music lovers. Join us for a rotation of DJs...

    Free
  • (Past Event) PMA Films: The History of Concrete

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

    Directed by John Wilson. 101 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force,...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: “A Few Small Odysseys”: Stalker (1979)

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

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. 161 minutes. Not Rated. In Russian with English subtitles. One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide—the “Stalker” of the title—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) PMA Films: The History of Concrete

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

    Directed by John Wilson. 101 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force,...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) PMA Films: The History of Concrete

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

    Directed by John Wilson. 101 minutes. Not Rated. In English. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force,...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) PMA Films: “A Few Small Odysseys”: Stalker (1979)

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

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. 161 minutes. Not Rated. In Russian with English subtitles. One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide—the “Stalker” of the title—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) Coastal Imaginings: Artist Panel Discussion with Patricia Brace, Ethan Murrow, and Joshua Reiman

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

    Joshua Reiman, Vanished into Plein Air, 2015 Super 8 film still 9:09 min 3-Channel Super 8 to HD video & Super 16mm video, with voiceover by Lowry Burgess. In Search of the Miraculous - Jumping Ship, Dahlbreen Glacier, 2025 performance documentation, archival inkjet print, 16” x 24” x 2”, mounted aluminum inset frame photo credit: Jordi Plana Morales Ethan Murrow , Apicultural, 2025 graphite on paper 62"x62" Join three contemporary New England artists...

    Free; registration requested. Walk-ins welcome.
  • (Past Event) PMA Book Club

    OPEN TO MEMBERS ONLY Love art and books? Join the PMA Book Club—open to PMA members and meeting quarterly for in-person conversations that explore the connections between literature, creativity, and culture. No prior art knowledge needed. This October, Julia Keiser will lead our book club conversation surrounding "All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: The History of Concrete

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

    Directed by John Wilson. 101 minutes (followed by pre-recorded discussion). Not Rated. In English. This screening will be followed by a pre-recorded, 15-minute discussion between director John Wilson and Josh Safdie. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved...

    $7 – $10
  • (Past Event) PMA | AMP Grand Opening

    The free and publicly accessible pavilion will host rotating installations, performances, workshops, PMA Films screenings, and additional programming designed to open up Free Street, the Arts District, and Congress Square.  FREE AND OPEN TO ALL! 9 a.m.–11a.m.: Caroline's Cup serving coffee 11a.m.–3 p.m.: Food Truck TBD 12 p.m.–6 p.m.: Drop-In art Making: Make and take a monotype tree print...

  • (Past Event) Noontime Curator Talk: European Landscapes

    Join us in the galleries for a conversation about how artists at the end of the nineteenth century turned to fields, villages, and coastlines to explore the beauty of the natural world. With Andrew Eschelbacher, Deputy Director and Head of Art and Exhibitions

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

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

    Directed 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 competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Out at Six (Presented with Finding Our Voices)

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

    Directed by Livi Kessel. 55 minutes (followed by Survivor-Speaks discussion). Not Rated. In Hebrew with English subtitles. This screening will be followed by a panel discussion with domestic abuse survivors, coordinated by Finding Our Voices. Finding Our Voices is the grassroots nonprofit breaking the silence of domestic abuse around Maine, including in schools, and providing...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

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

    Directed 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 competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: “Makers at the Movies”: Mean Girls (2004)

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

    Directed by Mark Waters. 97 minutes. Rated PG-13. In English. This screening is part of our "Makers at the Movies" series! Attendees are invited to bring knitting, crochet, fiber arts, or drawing projects to work on during the film. The lights will remain partially on to accommodate making. Presented in partnership with Olde School Fiber...