Aquarela – Showings at Frontier at 3:00 and 7:00 PM
Directed by Viktor Kossakovsky
Genre: Documentary
1hr 30mins
Rated PG

AQUARELA takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Captured at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is AQUARELA’s main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities in startling cinematic clarity. The film will be shown in theaters at 48 frames-per-second, double the typical 24 frames-per-second, as projectors with the ability to project at 96-frames-per-second are extremely rare today, but when the time comes that the capacity is there, AQUARELA will be one of the first films to be shown at that speed.

Did you know that Topsham has a ‘heath,’ related to the moors found in Great Britain?

Sept 24, 6:00 pm at the Topsham Public Library

Master Naturalist Fred Cichocki will describe the ecology of the 12-acre heath located at Cathance Rive Nature Preserve in Topsham and other sphagnum moss wetlands. Enhance your fall excursion to Topsham’s Heath by learning about this unique ecosystem.

Please join the Topsham Conservation Commission as we present Nat Wheelwright and the Naturalist’s Notebook at the Topsham Library
Tuesday, May 7^th
6-7:30 pmWhat do you notice throughout the year? Hearing the first peeper in the spring, watching the arrival of monarch butterflies in the summer? Seeing the first snowfall in winter – or noting the last one in the spring? This list, sometimes called phenology or the timing of natural events, is often observed by each of us.  Have you ever wondered how to record this information or whether it is useful?

Nat Wheelwright, Emeritus Professor of Natural Sciences at Bowdoin College, wants to encourage more people to notice the world around them. To this end, he devised The Naturalist’s Notebook (Storey Publishing, 2017), which he co-authored with Bernd Heinrich, Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Vermont and award-winning nature writer and artist. Gulf of Maine Books will be on hand to sell The Naturalist’s Notebook; all royalties from the sales of this book go to conservation and environmental education activities.

Come celebrate this book at the Topsham Library any time from 6-7:30.  Learn tips on how to become a naturalist no matter what your background.  Explore tools such as the Naturalist’s Notebook, the creation of your own journal or list of phenology, or the utilization of an online resource such as iNaturalist.  Light refreshments will be served.

25 Foreside Rd. Topsham, ME

46th ALBERT REED & THELMA WALKER MARITIME SYMPOSIUM
“CHANGING  ENVIRONMENTS”
SATURDAY, APRIL 6,  2019, 9AM-6PM
Maine Maritime Museum, Bath ME

Mariners and those who depend on the sea cause and respond to cultural, economic, and ecological changes. This symposium takes an interdisciplinary look at the issue of changing environments through a variety of lenses. These lenses include changing visual and cultural interpretations of the sea, Maine’s changing roles in international trade, the changing role of literary figures in marine conservation, and the ways that climate change impacts fisheries.

The “Liquid, Mystic Theme” in American Art: Shifting Perceptions of the Sea

Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Art History, City University of New York

From Guangzhou to Augusta: The Influence of the Delano Family of Maine on the Changing Environment of the Early-U.S. Sino Trade

Thomas H. Cox, Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University

Creating a Hurricane? The Double Life of Marcus Mote’s Shipwreck at Sea, 1883

Julia Stephens May, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Fish Tale: A Hemingway Marlin in Maine

Susan F. Beegel, Former Editor of The Hemingway Review

The Future of Fishing in a Rapidly Warming Gulf of Maine

Marissa McMahan, Senior Fisheries Scientist, Manomet
Anne Hayden, Program Manager, Sustainable Economies Program, Manomet

9:00 am – 6:00 pm april 6, 2019 closing reception — cash bar advance registration required    visit www.mainemaritimemuseum.org

Are you interested in working on policy issues? Are you curious about government, or politics? Do you have a strong conviction about education, or the environment?

Join fellow students from Bates and Colby with these shared interests for “Policy Day” on Friday, March 1. We’ll travel to the State House in (transport provided) Augusta and meet alums from all 3 schools. You’ll learn what lobbyists and policy analysts do, what legislators do, and what a career in the executive branch can look like.

We’ll leave campus around 12:45 PM, and be back before 6. In between, you’ll get to listen to and ask questions of people pursuing public policy careers in a variety of ways.

Space is limited so you must rsvp here to sign up:

https://bowdoin.wufoo.com/forms/q1euo03o0ylc2on/