Explore, entertain, educate, and change the world while you’re at it! Stories are us: our concepts of self, others, societies, myths, world events . . . everything is a story replaying in our minds. So grab the reins of the narration and learn to retell your self stories and our culture’s stories with inspiration and awareness! Explore with voice, gesture, writing, and self-reflection in this lively workshop run by Rivera Sun Cook, a nationally touring playwright/performer.

Explore with voice, gesture, writing, and self-reflection in this lively workshop that makes you a conscious and empowered storyteller in a time of great change. Use meditation, brainstorming, listening, group work, and storytelling to re-envision our stories. Work in a fun, supportive group environment to find expression and take risks. This workshop is for storytellers of all experiences and persuasions.

Through this renowned seminar, we offer the tools you need to address the ethical issues in your life —  whether they be at home or at work. Through fast-moving discussion and group exchanges, you'll learn how ethics is relevant to you and the challenges you face. You'll leave the room equipped with time-proven tools, the increased confidence to make thoughtful, timely decisions, and the language to explain your new decision-making process.

 Penobscot Marine Museum hosts Nor'easter Days, a series of arts and crafts classes for adults, led by locally-known experts. Create a bound journal with book artist Abbie Read. Capture your thoughts, poetry, musings, and art of the day the way Maine's Summer Folk did in years past.

Compositions is a design studio and gallery of fresh floral compositions, jewelry, gifts. They will demonstrate their talents in this workshop and show how you how to create wonderful fresh floral arrangements to enhance your home.

Bonsai is an art form that stems from ancient, oriental culture, originating in China and developed by the Japanese. In the thirteenthcentury, the Japanese collected and potted wild trees that had been dwarfed by nature. These naturally formed miniatures were some of the first bonsai. In this hands-on workshop each participant will receive a tree and learn how to prune and pot it — all materials will be supplied, but if you have small pruning shears, please bring them.

Dede Corvinus, a professional actor and director, and Barbara Wilson teach a 3-3½ hour acting workshop that is open to adults and high schoolers. The workshop will focus on "action" and "objective." We’ll guide students through a variety of acting exercises exploring theatrical response; in particular, the concept that words are there for actors to play action, rather than express emotion.

Award-winning poet Kathleen Ellis and participants in her annual poetry writing workshop invite the public to a reading that is the culmination of the group's week-long poetry workshop. Poet Kathleen Ellis is the author of five poetry collections and will read from her most recent collection, Narrow River to the North. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Maine, Orono, and her work has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies.

Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky will talk with renowned American photographer and 2011 Maine in America Award winner Paul Caponigro about his work and his life. Held in conjunction with the Farnsworth’s exhibition, "Paul Caponigro: The Hidden Presence of Places," organized by Komanecky, the conversation will explore issues of subject matter, technique, and the spiritual foundations of Caponigro’s art.

What is our relationship to place? How do our contemporary views affect how we see the land? What is a landscape? In this intensive class, students will use various drawing media plus collage to think about these questions. Topics include: pattern and texture; repetition and rhythm; fragmentation; scale and point of view. Artist Andrea Sulzer received an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art and teaches drawing at the University of Maine at Augusta and has worked as a mentor in Maine College of Art’s MFA program.