Kick off the holiday season with the magical glow of our annual Copper Beech Tree Lighting.
Festivities begin at 6 p.m., with the tree lighting at 6:30 p.m. Classical Uprising presents excerpts and sing-along carols from their family-friendly concert series, Sing We Noël,
For more info please visit www.classicaluprising.org Promo code for 15% off tickets: PMASWN25
The Telling Room will recite nature and seasonally inspired poems to welcome the spirit of the season.
Enjoy exclusive store discounts, self-serve gift-wrapping stations, and festive treats. Gather with friends, family and neighbors as we celebrate the season together both outside under the sparkling branches and indoors by the warmth of art.
The Telling Room Young Emerging Authors program is a free, paid, 15 month-long writing and publishing program. Every spring, we select four Maine writers to write, edit, and publish their own books.
Anna Grey Bergstrom is a sophomore in high school and homeschooled at the affectionately named (and possibly fabricated) Ellis Bell Academy. She loves making art, collecting ephemera, listening to people’s different accents, and is currently trying to learn how to pick locks — just for the fun of it. Her book is a mix of poems and short stories: the kind of book she’s always wanted to read. It explores what it’s like to grow up with chronic illness—sometimes funny, sometimes heavy, always real. She hopes this book finds those who need it.
Len Harrison is a junior at the Waynflete School in Portland, Maine. A lifelong coastal Mainer, Len recently discovered their love for the mountains of Vermont at a semester away program called The Mountain School. Their forthcoming book of poetry will revolve around their experience there, with themes of climate justice, reciprocity, bravery, love, and self-discovery. When not writing, they can be found working on Waynflete Performing Arts' costume crew, reading science fiction novels, or exploring the Maine woods.
Lily Jessen is a junior who does hybrid high school, including classes at Stanford Online High School. She is a long-time participant in Telling Room programs, the winner of their 2024 Statewide Writing Contest, and, most of all, a lover of storytelling, whether it be through the medium of writing or theater. She is so excited that these passions can combine in her forthcoming book, which will explore, through the framework of a Shakespeare play, the struggles women experience to have their own identity and agency outside of the stories told about them. The collection of poetry will discuss love, anger, and gender from the perspectives of five Shakespearean women and the actress playing them.