Sunday, July 31

3-5 PM: Opening event at Beech Hill Farms of the College of the Atlantic; "Gone Fishing" installations, Japanese fish printing, book signings, costumes and refreshments. Free to the Public

Book signings:
Author Nan Lincoln, feature writer and arts editor for the Bar Harbor Times , has recast her first book into a children's book, Cecily's Summer , about nurturing a baby harbor seal separated from it's mother by a speeding pleasure craft.

Adam Gustavson, full-time artist and educator, is a graduate of Rowan University, The Illustration   Academy, and The School of Visual Arts MFA program in New York.   He has illustrated numerous books for children including Where the Big Fish Are by Jonathan London; Bad Dog Dodger by Barbara Abercrombie; and The A+ Custodian by Louise Borden . He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Books available at Port in the Storm Bookstore in Somesville.

Monday, August 1

ALTERED BOOK WORKSHOP

9:30 - 12:30 -- Altered Book and Bookbinding Workshop -- learn the basics to get you started on this art form and see the results of a 6-month round robin of altered books using "Gone Fishing" as the theme. $35, Harbor House (in SWHbr). (Children over 11 welcome with an adult plus $25 fee). Limited to 10. Materials list available, some additional materials provided. jennie_cline@comcast.net

Tuesday, August 2

Wednesday, August 3

ALTERED BOOK WORKSHOP

9:30 - 12:30 -- Altered Book and Bookbinding Workshop -- learn the basics to get you started on this art form and see the results of a 6-month round robin of altered books using "Gone Fishing" as the theme. $35, Harbor House (in SWHbr). (Children over 11 welcome with an adult plus $25 fee). Limited to 10. Materials list available, some additional materials provided. jennie_cline@comcast.net

Thursday, August 4

Searching for a Line Panel Southwest Harbor Library 7 PM.
Panelists include: Barbara Andrus, sculptor; Peter Lord, Founder and Director of The Island Astronomy Institute, Joseph Silvio, MD Psychiatrist and avid fisherman; Candace Stover, author and poet. Free to the Public.

Friday, August 5

10:00 a.m. Fly Tying Demonstration - Harbor House, SWHarbor
Dr. Joseph Silvio

Saturday, August 6

8:00 p.m. dessert & stargazing

Manter/Bohorquez residence

RSVP 1-917-216-8102 or nmanter@aol.com

Peter Lord, astronomer
www.IslandAstro.com

Fishing for meaning in a Sea of Stars.

Celtic and Babylonian civilizations revered the intersection of heaven and earth, leaving us Stonehenge and the hours, minutes, and seconds of our lives. Aztec priests recorded the shifting intersections of stars and planets on the horizon, discovering cycles they could predict. The moon and sun established the ebb and flow of life in Egypt, while Mars guided Roman’s on their voyages of conquest.

Building on such  legacies, Greek philosophers described the founding of the universe as the act of setting two circles in perfect endless motion. Two circles describing the endless spiral of the sun's movement in the sky painted on the horizon by each sunset and sunrise.  The circle of the different and the circle of the same offer a glimpse into the minds of our ancestors as they looked to the horizon. Where reason first pulled meaning from mystery, as the tides of time gently lapped against the shores of earth.

Please check this schedule frequently. As details are firmed up it will be updated.