Groups, events, and special occasions happening at Gibbs!
D&D Group (mostly teens & juniors): Every Monday, 4-6pm, maximum six participants.
Children’s Storytime: Every Tuesday 10-11am
Art Exhibit / Featured Artist: March through April 2024, Gibbs is pleased to feature Wanderings, original photography by Rachel Oakes.
Music Together® returns to Gibbs Library! One Saturday a month from February through July, Music Together–a FREE family music & movement class–will be held in the Bryant Room at 10am.
(February 10th, March 9th, April 13th, May 11th, June 15th, & July 13th.)
Fiber Arts Community Thursdays: Fiber Arts returns to Gibbs! The group will meet the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month. All meetings will take place from 10am-12pm. Curious? Beginners welcome! This is meant as a gathering for those interested in fiber arts. Share what you’re working on, what you want to work on, and all the connecting threads of good community & good conversation (or gentle quiet while you work on your projects). Access to hot water for tea or other warm beverages available.
Gibbs Writing Group: Join local writers as they discuss their work, create new work through generative activity, and share a safe and encouraging environment for creative writing. All genres (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction–memoir/essay) welcome. Begins February 15th, 10-11:30am, and then every first and third Thursday monthly.
National Poetry Month Reading Event:
Gibbs Library is pleased to present a National Poetry Month event Saturday, April 20th, at 3pm in the Bryant Room. Celebrated and award-winning Maine poets Jefferson Navicky and Dawn Potter will read their poems and discuss their craft. A brief Q&A and book signing will follow the reading. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
- Jefferson Navicky is the author of four books, most recently the novel-in-prose-poems, Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands (2023), as well as Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose (2021), which won the 2022 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. He is the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection.
- Dawn Potter’s most recent book is the poetry collection Accidental Hymn. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, she has also won a Maine Literary Award in nonfiction. Her poems and essays appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Sewanee Review, Threepenny Review, and many other journals. Dawn directs poetry and teaching programs at Monson Arts and lives in Portland, Maine.
Art Class with Karen Jelenfy: Artist Karen Jelenfy leads a workshop on abstract landscape painting on Saturday, May 18th, from 10:30am-1:30pm. This is a free class with all materials provided, but registration is necessary. To register, email Delphine at runedoggy@gmail.com. There will be snacks, but do bring a sack lunch! Everyone is welcome!
