ROCKLAND

Aha! moments at PechaKucha Night

What has roller skates, artists, a farmer, a sailor, a furniture maker and a graffiti-inspired nutrition educator? The PechaKucha Night of Midcoast Maine, set for 7 p.m. Friday at the auditorium at 24 Lincoln St.

An evening of lightning-fast presentations, visual storytelling and aha! moments is planned. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $5 at the door, and people are encouraged to arrive early to get a seat.

To find out more, email pechakuchamidcoast@gmail.com.

SCARBOROUGH

Volunteer Opportunities Fair scheduled

Piper Shores Lifecare Retirement Community will host its annual Volunteer Opportunities Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Founders Room at 15 Piper Road.

The event is free and open to the public and will feature 30 local nonprofit organizations that promote wellness through emotional, social, spiritual, financial, physical, intellectual, occupational and environmental support services.

For more details, call Anne Brennan at 510-5211 or go to www.pipershores.org.

CAPE ELIZABETH

Library services forum set for seniors

The South Portland/Cape Elizabeth TRIAD will sponsor a Senior Forum from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday at the Cape Elizabeth Town Hall, 320 Ocean House Road.

The meeting will focus on library news and services offered at the South Portland and Cape Elizabeth libraries.

All senior citizens are invited to attend the free event. Parking is at the rear of the building.

Light refreshments will be provided.

For more details, call David Galvan, 767-3323, ext. 208, or Robert Libby, 799-5511, ext. 7422.

BATH

Bird-watching adventures on tap

The public is invited to attend a series of free bird-watching adventures sponsored by five conservation organizations in the midcoast during April and May.

The first of seven sessions, planned for 8 a.m. Saturday, features a walk through the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust’s Sewall Woods Preserve led by Merrymeeting Audubon’s Ted Allen.

Participants will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the CVS in Bath to carpool. The group will hike along Whiskeag Creek to look for migrating waterfowl including Canada geese, black ducks, mallards, blue- and green-winged teal and common mergansers.

For more information, call Ted Allen, 729-8661.

WATERBORO

Dance will benefit historical society

The Waterborough Historical Society will host a performance by the classic rock dance band Spectrum from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday at the Grange Hall, 31 West Road.

Tickets are $15, the event is BYOB and no one under 21 will be admitted. Setup and snacks will be available.

Tickets can be purchased at Woodsome’s Feeds & Needs, Main Street, East Waterboro; Merrill’s Country Store, Route 5, North Waterboro; and Woody’s Sports Grille, West Road, South Waterboro.

The performance will benefit the Waterborough Historical Society. For more details, call 247-5878.

PORTLAND

Science Café to demonstrate ‘Cool Tools’

“Cool Tools” will be the topic of the monthly Science Café, to be held Thursday at the Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square.

For this session, organizers from the Maine Tool Library will demonstrate a few of the tools available to borrow.

The inventory at the MTL includes a wide range of kitchen tools such as dehydrators, cider presses and canning supplies, power and hand tools including drills, saws, compressors and a pressure washer, and garden tools such as rakes, spades, blowers and hedge trimmers.

Light refreshments will be served.

The cafés are free and open to the public.

For more details, call Samantha Soucy at 871-1700, ext. 708.

Gardening tips to be shared

The Longfellow Garden Club will host speaker Kerry Ann Mendez for a talk on “Small Space Gardening” at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Woodfords Congregational Church.

Mendez is an author, garden designer and owner of Perennially Yours of Kennebunk.

Cost is $5.

For more details, call Deborah Gray at 433-0427.

Travel lecture on China

The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association invites the public to attend its April travel lecture, “Rising China,” by speaker Dale Johnson. The talk is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday at Catherine McAuley High School Auditorium on Stevens Avenue.

Parking is on-site and refreshments will be served. The association can be reached at 773-8396.

KENNEBUNKPORT

Playtime, cribbage at library

Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is offering a number of weekly programs at 18 Maine St.

A Play and Read session meets from 10 a.m. to noon each Tuesday for ages 1½ and older. The program offers unstructured play and social time for children and their caregivers in a warm, child-friendly space. Age-appropriate toys, coloring supplies and books will be available.

Storytime for all ages meets at 10 a.m. Fridays for stories, fingerplays, songs and crafts. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate.

A Cribbage Club meets at 1 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for all ages and all levels of play.

No registrations are required.

For more details, call 967-2778 or go to www.graveslibrary.org.

NEW GLOUCESTER

Historical society will meet

The next monthly meeting of the New Gloucester Historical Society will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at 34 Gloucester Hill Road.

The program will be the “1939 New Gloucester Pageant” and a historic house tour.

For more details, call Leonard L. Brooks at 926-3188.

SOUTH PORTLAND

Shred some documents

The South Portland Public Library will host a mobile shredder for the community to safely dispose of sensitive documents from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The service is free to the public.

Questions can be directed to the South Portland Public Library, 767-7660, or go to www.southportlandlibrary.com.

Discussion on Mideast unrest

The Association of Former Intelligence Officers will host guest speaker John Robb at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Community House, 8 Temple St.

Robb has extensive experience in counterterrorism and financial matters and knowledge of conflicts in the Middle East. He will discuss the Islamic State group itself and the effect the fall of Saudi Arabia might have on the world economy.

For details, call 967-4298.

WELLS

Talk on building garden beds

The talk “Building Raised Beds for Gardening” will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Wells Public Library, 1434 Post Road.

Master Gardener Jolene Staruch will teach how to build raised beds that will be used for future programs at the library.

For more details, email Kristi Bryant at kbryant@wellstown.org.

To register, call the library at 646-8181.

BRUNSWICK

Poetry, music at library

Curtis Memorial Library at 23 Pleasant St. will present an Ekphrastic Poetry Café and Art Exhibit in April as part of its monthlong celebration honoring National Poetry Month.

A poetry and music session from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday in the Collaboratory will feature performances by poets Paul Dostie and Gary Lawless and classical guitarist Brian Cullen.

Events are free and open to the public. No registration is required. For more details, call 725-5242.

FREEPORT

Outdoor writer will speak

Deirdre Fleming, award-winning outdoor reporter for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, will speak to the members of the Freeport Woman’s Club at 1 p.m. Friday in the meeting room of the Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive.

Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.

For more details, call 865-3363 or email nrc6@comcast.net.

SACO

Artifacts from old privies

Join Louise Richardson, research associate of Portsmouth, N.H.’s Strawbery Banke Museum, for the talk “Fabulous Finds From Portsmouth Privies” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Deering Room of Dyer Library at 371 Main St.

Richardson will talk about some of the surprising ceramic shard finds that have been discovered over several decades of archaeology.

For more details, call Zoe Thomas at 283-3861, ext. 115.

ALFRED

Shenna Bellows will speak

The York County Democratic Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the York County Government Building (Old County Jail) at 149 Jordan Springs Road on Route 4.

The guest speaker will be former U.S. Senate candidate Shenna Bellows, who will discuss ranked-choice voting.

There also will be an update on the Clean Election referendum.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

For more details, call Anne Langlois at 934-4434.

ARUNDEL

Town since 1915 topic of talk

Arundel Historical Society will present the lecture “Arundel: 1915 to the Present” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Mildred L. Day School on Limerick Road.

Donations are welcome and proceeds will benefit historical work.

FALMOUTH

Workshop on herbs

Betz Golon, a Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village herbalist and University of Maine Cooperative Extension master food preserver, will share her knowledge of herbs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the UMaine Extension office, 75 Clearwater Drive.

The “Herbal Seasonings” workshop is part of the yearlong “From Scratch: Your Maine Kitchen” series sponsored by University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County.

Cost is $40. Proceeds will benefit the extension’s Nutrition Program in Cumberland County.

Register at umaine.edu/cumberland/programs/from-scratch-your-maine-kitchen.

For more details, call 781-6099, 800-287-1471 (in Maine) or email extension.rlreception@maine.edu.