Check Mates! Chess in the Square
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesThe Check Mates! is a casual community chess club for everyone (all ages and experience levels)! Come for just a game or stay for as long as you like! We …
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Try Your Hand (Calligraphy Art Interaction)
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesDid you ever wish you could write in another language? Or have beautiful penmanship in your own? Here’s a chance to Try Your Hand at an international calligraphy event at …
Summer Swing Dance with Tom Whitehead’s Rites of Swing
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesThis group is lead by vocalist, guitarist and pianist, Tom Whitehead. The ensemble also features Michael Arciero on guitar, Kris Day on upright bass and Don Whitney on drums The …
The Maribor Uprisings: Interactive Film Screening
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesThe Maribor Uprisings takes up urgent questions raised by these events, and by uprisings elsewhere, from the Arab Spring, through Paris, to Black Lives Matter. What sparks such popular outrage? …
Contra Dance featuring Glen, Bethany & Dave, with Dugan Murphy!
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesPortland Intown Contra Dance is up to growing a lively community through weekly zesty, joyful, intergenerational contra dancing to live music. They insist no partner and no experience is needed to …
Mapping Your Portland
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesJoin the Portland Society for Architecture for a mapping exercise that provides citizens - by way of a blank map of Portland - the opportunity to express what they love, don’t love, …
Portland Civic Design Fest in Congress Square Park
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesSeptember 23rd is Code for America's National Day of Civic Hacking, when people around the country will gather to "hack" their cities in a positive way by working on creative …
Tracing Favorites: A Portrait of Portland
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesDrop in to Congress Square Park between 3-6pm Wednesday, September 27th to tell a story of one of your favorite people, experiences, belongings - your favorite anything! - and have your …
Bandaloop (Vertical Dance)
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesPortland Ovations goes beyond the proscenium with vertical dance pioneer Bandaloop. Seamlessly weaving together dynamic physicality, intricate choreography, and the art of climbing, Bandaloop turns the dance floor on its …
Hewnoaks Artist Colony Showcase
Congress Square Park Portland, ME, United StatesJoin us for our second annual Hewnoaks Showcase! Artists who have been in residence at the Hewnoaks Artist Colony on Kezar Lake will share recent work. Visual artists will display …