- April 21, 2025
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Monday Matinee: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic, Knuckles and Tailsreunite to battle Shadow, a mysterious new enemy with powers unlike anythingthey've faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, they seekout an unlikely alliance to stop Shadow and protect the planet. Rated PG. Bringpillows and blankets for extra coziness! Popcorn will be served.
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Earth Day Cookie Decorating
Show your love for the Earth by decorating a cookie. VolunTeens have put together cookie kits to decorate for Earth Day. The enormous heart cookies will be decorated with an earth and a heart. Must Sign up at the front desk or call 725-1727. The first twenty people to fill the spots are in. All ages welcome.
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- April 22, 2025
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Drop-In Activities
- Finger painting
- Collage
- Keva planks
- Ink stamping
- DIY stickers
While supplies last. Designed for ages 7 and up, but open to everyone with adult supervision.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Movie: Moana 2
After receiving an unexpected callfrom her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceaniaand into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she'sever faced. Running Time: 1 hour 40 minutes. Rated PG for action/peril. Recommendedages 6 and up, but all are welcome. Bring pillows and blankets for extracoziness! Popcorn will be served.
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Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust: CREA Speaker Series
Voices from the Androscoggin: The Pejepscot Falls and Humanity's Changing Relationship to Nature
Waterfalls such as the Androscoggin River's Pejepscot Falls sit at the physical center of Maine communities for a reason. These churning waters have attracted humans for thousands of years to the resources that could be gleaned from the energy found within them. This energy took different forms, and people employed nets, canoes, and dams to secure survival in Maine's challenging environment. Join us for this talk by environmental historian Zach Bennett, Department of History at Norwich University, as we explore stories from the Androscoggin. By tracing the different ways Wabanakis, colonists, industrialists, and 21st century environmentalists have used the Androscoggin's waters, this presentation will show how decisions made at Pejepscot drove wider environmental change and provide an important perspective on humanity's present and future relationship to the natural world.
Thank you to Bath Savings Trust for sponsoring this speaker series!
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- April 23, 2025
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Preschool Storytime
At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.
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The Topsham Sharing Table
FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last.
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Drop-In Activities
- Candy necklaces
- Emoji bookmarks
- Lego mosaics
- Twister game
While supplies last. Designed for ages 7 and up, but open to everyone with adult supervision.
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Justice League Crafters
Join patrons stitching for good. TPL teens and adults are knitting orange neckwarmers for Midcoast Humane Society’s adoptable dogs. The idea is to make them visible and keep them warm. If you’re not a knitter or crocheter or interested in learning, feel free to bring a cozy craft to work on and TPL will have some crafting options available too.
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Lego Club
Build something to fit our theme, or create your own ideas!
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- April 24, 2025
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Poetry Reading: Katherine Hagopian Berry
Join us for a reading from Katherine Hagopian Berry
Katherine Hagopian Berry has appeared in the Café Review, SWWIM, and Feral among other places. Her first collection, Mast Year, was published in 2020 and she has two collections, Landtrust (Nature Culture Publishing) and Orbit (Toad Hall Editions) forthcoming in 2022. She is a poetry reader for the Maine Review.
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Drop-In Activities
- Paper houses
- Paper airplanes
- Air dry clay
- Hook & ring tabletop game
While supplies last. Designed for ages 7 and up, but open to everyone with adult supervision.
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Poetry Reading: Mike Bove and Samaa Abdurraqib
Mike Bove is the author of four books of poetry: Soundtrack to Your Next Panic Attack (Aldrich Press, 2024), EYE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), House Museum (Moon Pie Press, 2021), and Big Little City (Moon Pie Press, 2018). His work has appeared in the U.S., U.K., and Canada in publications including Rattle, Chestnut Review, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, and the anthologies Wait: Poems From The Pandemic and Writing The Land. In 2021, he was winner of the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest and a finalist for a Maine Literary Award in 2023. In 2024, he served as writer-in-residence at Acadia National Park. He is Editor of Hole in the Head Review, a biannual poetry journal.
Samaa Abdurraqib, PhD: Samaa's poetry can be found in Cider Press Review, december magazine, and Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora.She’s the editor of From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast (2023). She has been supported by residencies at Hewnoaks, Hillholm, and Monson Arts. Her chapbook, Towards a Retreat will be published by Diode Editions in 2025. Samaa is a certified Maine Master Naturalist and is the Executive Director of Maine Humanities Council.
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- April 25, 2025
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BIG TRUCK DAY!
Come see some BIG vehicles upclose! All ages are welcome; event will take place rain or shine. Our parking lot will be full of BIG vehicles,so please park at the rec field (30 Foreside Road)!
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Model Train Event
The Maine 3 Railers O-Gauge ModelRailroad Club will be setting up a running model railroad display in our bigmeeting room! Come watch the trains and see how they work, and talk to clubmembers!
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- April 26, 2025
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Teen Saturdays
Join VolunTeens and Teen Advisory Board Members to assist with Teen Room projects.
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Saturday Matinee: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A charming thief and a bandof unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic,but their adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrongpeople. Rated PG-13. Popcorn will be served.
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- April 28, 2025
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Poetry Reading: Cammy Thomas and Bob Carr
Join John Gillespie in celebrating Poetry Month. Various Maine poets will read and discuss their works. Bring your own lunch. Coffee and tea provided. This week's poets are Cammy Thomas & Bob Carr.
Cammy Thomas is an American poet. Her first book, Cathedral of Wish, received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America.[1] A fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation helped her complete her second, Inscriptions. Her third collection, Tremors, appeared in 2021. All are published by Four Way Books. Two of her poems, under the title Far Past War, were set to music by her sister, composer Augusta Read Thomas.[2] The premiere of this choral work was performed by the Cathedral Choral Society at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in March, 2022.
Robert Carr is a Pushcart and Best of The Net nominated poet whose work has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Cortland Review, Crab Orchard Review, Lana Turner, Maine Review, Massachusetts Review, Rattle, Shenandoah, Sonora Review, Tar River Poetry, and other publications. He is a 2022 Monson Arts resident; co-editor for the 2019 Ghana Literary Group anthology, Bodies and Scars; and a member of Writing the Land, an initiative pairing poets and land trusts in order to promote preservation.
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Poetry Reading: Rosa Lane
ROSA LANE is the author of Tiller North and Roots and Reckonings. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Cutthroat, Folio, New South, Nimrod, Ploughshares, RHINO Poetry, the Tishman Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. As a poet and architect, she splits her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her wife.
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- April 29, 2025
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Poetry Lunch and Learn
Join John Gillespie in celebrating Poetry Month. Each Tuesday, various Maine poets will read and discuss their works. Bring your own lunch. Coffee and tea provided. This week's poet is Annaliese Jakimides.
Annaliese Jakimides' prose and poetry have been published in many journals and magazines, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Utne Reader, Decor Maine, and GQ, as well as in anthologies such as Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family; This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women; Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot; The Essential Hip Mama, About Face, and A Dangerous New World. Cited in national competitions, most recently as a finalist for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, her work has also been broadcast on NPR and MPBN. She has been a finalist twice in both poetry and nonfiction for the Maine Literary Awards. Along with Troy Casa, she is the cofounder of the Belfast Poetry Festival in Belfast, Maine.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Reception and Poetry Walk
Join us for our final poetry month program. We will be holding a reception and poetry walk featuring poetry from Mt. Ararat students.
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- April 30, 2025
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Preschool Storytime
At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.
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The Topsham Sharing Table
FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last.
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- May 1, 2025
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Friends of the Topsham Public Library Meeting
Started in 1998, The Friends of the Topsham Public Library is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to supporting the Topsham Public Library. The Friends value the Topsham Public Library as a cultural, educational and recreational center and contribute time, effort, and resources to further develop the library’s potential as a dynamic force in our community. The Friends augment the library budget through fundraising to finance virtually all library programs and events. Annual membership, donations, and patronage of the annual book sale strengthens the Topsham Public Library and ensures the continued growth of Library services. All meetings are open to the public. New members are always welcome.
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- May 2, 2025
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Coffee Klatsch with Katherine
Join our director for a cup of joe on the first Friday of every month in our Crooker Gallery space. There is no set topic or subject, just general conversation over a warm beverage. Connect with fellow community members and socialize in a relaxed atmosphere.
Free coffee and tea provided!
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- May 3, 2025
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Teen Saturday Morning
Join VolunTeens and Teen Advisory Board Members to assist with Teen Room projects.
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- May 5, 2025
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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TPL Top Teen Advisory Board
Help Lindsey, the Teen Services Librarian, with collection development, Displays, Clubs, Programming, Make & Takes, and more. Snacks will be provided. First Monday of the month. Also, drop in times are an option if you can’t make the date. Arrange a time that works for you with Lindsey
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NEW! The Topsham Library Film Society
Join Dale, Emily, and Lynne, to share and enjoy all things film! In this inaugural session, we will be collectively deciding on a film to watch before the next meeting, so come make your opinions known. Then we will get together to discuss our thoughts on the movie at the following meeting! We will meet the first Monday of each month throughout the year, in the Highlands Community Room.
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Teen Manga Chat
Bring your current manga read to share with the group and create a manga inspired craft. What we're making will be announced. This group will meet on the first Monday of the month , grades 6-12 (middle/high schoolers). All snacks and crafting supplies will be provided.
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- May 6, 2025
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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- May 7, 2025
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Preschool Storytime
At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.
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The Topsham Sharing Table
FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last.
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- May 8, 2025
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Tween Reads
Do you like to read books? Do you like to eat pizza? Join Tween Reads! Tween Reads is a book discussion group for grades 6-8. We supply the books and the pizza, you bring your opinions! Tween Reads is held on the second Thursday of the month at 5 pm from October through May. Must be registered to attend.
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- May 9, 2025
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Popcorn Palooza Showtime: Harry Potter - Sorceror's Stone
Flicks, friends and free popcorn. Each month, teens select films to be shown on TPL’s big screen. Today's film is Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone . Rated PG. presented by the TPL Teen Advisory Board
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- May 10, 2025
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Great Books Discussion
Great Books meets once a month on the second Saturday. We are ALWAYS looking for new members! For more information email emma@topshamlibrary.org.
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- May 12, 2025
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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- May 13, 2025
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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- May 14, 2025
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Preschool Storytime
At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.
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Topsham Garden Club: Using Natives as a Buffer Zone for Water
Program TBD. Bring a sandwich for the social time after the program. Dessert & beverages provided by the club.
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The Topsham Sharing Table
FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last.
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Topsham History Discussion Group
Do you want to learn more about the history of your community and our part of Maine? All are welcome to join this discussion group and explore the background of Topsham. Participants are invited to bring questions, observations, and curiosity for group sharing with Dana Cary. Meetings are on the second Wednesday of every month.
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- May 15, 2025
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Maine Speaks: Elizabeth DeWolfe on Dangerous Temptations: Textile ‘Factory Girls’ in Fact and Fiction
This program is brought to you in partnership with the Maine HumanitiesCouncil. The 1849 “murder” of textile worker Berengera Caswell shattered thetranquility of life in Saco and Biddeford. In the wake of her death, authorspublished over a dozen tales set in Maine factory towns. These sensationalized,gothic stories were eagerly read cautionary tales that offered young women (andtheir nervous parents) guideposts to safety.
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- May 17, 2025
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Stitching Together
Join this knitting and crocheting group that meets monthly. Come and work on your latest project, share patterns, check out the library's knitting and crocheting resources. All abilities welcome!
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- May 19, 2025
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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- May 20, 2025
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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