Location: Evergreen CemeteryJoin the Director of Portland Cemeteries, Michael Ciamata, on a winter walk through Evergreen like you have never seen it before. We will be meeting at the main entrance by the green out building (not the entrance with the church).
Free Talk
Location: Back Cove Parking Lot
What happens to water after it rains? How does it effect our bay? Why has there been so much construction over the past couple of years? Come have your questions asked and answered by Will Everitt of Friends of Casco Bay!
Free Talk
Location: East End Community Garden (across from East End School on North Street)
Learn about food waste in Southern Maine as we lead up to Thanksgiving. Talk hosted by Annika Schmidt of Garbage to Garden.
Free Talk
Meet at the main entrance on Vaughan Street.
Get in the spooky mood this Halloween season in the Western Cemetery to hear about the history and future of this beautiful park, hosted by Michael Ciamaga, Director of Cemeteries in Portland.
Free Admission.
Back by popular demand!
Join us at Deering Oaks Park to learn the history of the Black Hawk Statue and how it found Portland to be its home. What is a Black Hawk? Why is it so important that we saw one? Find out at this Third Thursday Talk, hosted by Doug Hitchcox of Maine Audubon. Meet at the Black Hawk Statue near the corner of Deering and Park Avenue.
Jeff Ryan’s new book, This Land Was Saved for You and Me, traces the path from Frederick Law Olmsted’s first wanderings in Yosemite in 1864 to the signing of The Wilderness Act a century later. Along the way, we meet well-known advocates for America’s lands and waters, but importantly, we also meet many lesser-known people who gave their all to protect forests and wilderness areas before they would be gone forever. This Land will make its Maine debut at our event and books will be available for purchase and signing.
During the talk, Jeff will ask “What made Olmsted, Olmsted?" and explore the idea that Olmsted’s varied career and artist’s eye led him to develop a sensibility about maintaining landscapes while minimizing manmade structures.
Native Mainer Jeff Ryan is an outdoor author, adventurer, photographer, and historian. He has written several books and documentary films about his outdoor exploits, his fascination with hiking trails, and the people who made America's public lands possible.
Location: Amethyst Park
Join us for our final celebration of the season to look towards the Future of Parks. Food Trucks, lawn games, live music and fun as we have a picnic at Amethyst Park by Ocean Gateway. It will be focused on the future of the parks and what Portland Harbor Common Park is and what it might become - Portland’s Newest Park.
4:00 - Food Trucks Open
Maiz’s La Fritanga food truck, Vagabond and Wing!
5:00 - Live Music
The The Ideal Maine Social Aid and Sanctuary Band is a street band styled in the tradition of the New Orleans second line and the Honk! activist festival. This community band welcomes performers of all levels and maintains a rotating lineup of dozens of musicians ranging from beginners to professionals, aged 17 to 70.
(Find them on social media: https://www.instagram.com/idealmaineband/ )
6:00 - A Meeting in Central Park play
Frank Reilly, President of Friends of Lincoln Park (FoLP), initiated Portland parks’ participation in “Olmsted200” and wrote a 20 minute play of an imaginary interview of a 73 year old FLO in 1895 Central Park, which was the first park he designed. It is meant to introduce the audience to Olmsted in an entertaining and humorous manner.
Starring:
Daniel Noel, AE/SAG-Afra member and Portland Stage Affiliate Artist since 1998 appearing in dozens of workshops and MaineStage at PSC “A Christmas Carol”, Papermaker, Drawer Boy. On Broadway-The Human Comedy, BAM New Wave Festival, New York Shakespeare Festival, Live From The Public, Lincoln Center Institute, Seattle Rep, Stonington Opera and continues to work in New England Independent films & video/audio production. He has worked in opera, commercials, TV, print, audio book, radio, cabaret, etc.
Jared Mongeau (he/him) is a Portland-based actor, physical comedian, and musician who began his career in the circus, touring with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey as a clown, before graduating the MFA program at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California. Locally he appeared with Portland Stage, Good Theater, Mad Horse Theatre Co., Portland Theater Festival, Camden Shakespeare Festival, Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble, The Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, and presented his award-winning original work at PortFringe.
Free Admission
Free Admission.
Learn about the complex and ever changing history of one of Maine’s most curious parks from Nan Cumming, local expert. Meet at Riverton Trolley Park at 5:00pm sharp to begin the walk. Please dress appropriately for standing outside in weather.
Join us at Congress Square Park on Olmsted’s Birthday to help kick off the “Olmsted 200 Portland” Summer at Congress Square Park.
Join for dessert food trucks and a movie about the most influential Park Architect in America’s history. Movie showing will begin at 7:30. Seating will be available. Come help celebrate his 200th birthday, and learn about who he was and about our summer full of events across Portland and our parks.
6:30pm - Event begins and food trucks open
7:00pm - Speaker Stephen Mohr will present "Olmsted, his family, and Maine"
7:30pm - showing of "Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America"
Come for the sweet treats and party and stay for the movie to celebrate his birthday and learn more about all the events that are going to be happening around Portland over the summer.
Location: SailMaine - Eastern Promenade / Amethyst Park
Wanting to reach the art community of Portland, SailMaine organizes a call for art to paint on SailMaine’s old sails for our boats. "Windward Exhibition," encourages viewers and artists to question how we interact with each other and the natural environment. The sails are paraded around Casco Bay on August 13th and can be seen from all points on the Eastern Promenade ad SailMaine. This will be the third year of painted sails on Casco Bay, and we expect to have more artists and painted sails involved than our previous two years!
Friends of Lincoln Park Salute Frederick Law Olmsted's 200 Birthday with Music. Free Admission, donations appreciated.
Showing: 6:00—7:30pm Blues Prophets
Meet at the bath house by the East End Beach
Sign up HERE
Friends of Lincoln Park Salute Frederick Law Olmsted's 200 Birthday with Music. Free Admission, donations appreciated.
Showing: 6:00—7:30pm Lincoln Park Troubadours
Meet in the parking lot across from Hannaford
sign up HERE
Friends of Lincoln Park Salute Frederick Law Olmsted's 200 Birthday with Music. Free Admission, donations appreciated.
Showing: 6:00—7:30pm Katie Daggett & Ed DesJardins
CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
Free Admission.
The Big Tree Talk is back! City Arborist Jeff Tarling will be taking us on a city wide tour of the oldest and most historical trees in the City of Portland.
The group will meet at the City’s Parks, Recreation, and Facilities office, 212 Canco Road. You will have the option to ride in the van (until all seats are filled) or drive your own vehicle.
Friends of Lincoln Park Salute Frederick Law Olmsted's 200 Birthday with Music. Free Admission, donations appreciated.
Showing: 6:00—7:30pm The Renovators
Free Admission
Explore Fort Gorges in a whole new way for a scavenger hunt. Paddle or ride out to the iconic island to participate in a whole new view of the fort. Don’t forget to bring a flashlight to search in dark corners! Rain Date July 11th at 10:30am at Eastern Prom
Free Admission
Ever wonder about the story behind the Black Hawk statue in Deering Oaks? Join Eric Topper of Maine Audubon as he tells us about this unique piece of Portland history and the habitat around that made it possible.
We will meet at 4:00 at the Deering Oaks Park’s Southern entrance closest to King Middle School.
Meet at the Back Cove parking lot across the street from Hannaford.
Sign up here!
Battery Steele Brewing, 1 Industrial Way in Portland
Come celebrate the first ever Mountain Biking Skills Track coming to Portland!
The Portland Parks Conservancy is working with the City of Portland to create the City’s first mountain biking skills park within Riverton Trolley Park. This party will help raise the remaining funds needed for the project.
Battery Steele Brewing will be debuting a limited edition “Trolley Trax IPA” to support the project. Guests will be able to learn more about the new trails, win raffle prizes, and tour the site of the new skills park area just across the street. Free Admission.
Hosted by Portland Parks Conservancy, Battery Steele Brewing, and the Greater Portland chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Association
CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
Free Admission
Wondering what to plant and how to plant it? Join Rowen Gorman of Cultivating Community as we discuss community gardening and what plants you should consider for your own back yards in Southern Maine.
We will be meeting at the Common Share Garden on the Eastern Prom on May 19th at 4:00pm.
Start at the Castle Parking Lot in Deering Oaks
Bring your bikes for this riding tour around Portland!
Olmsted, Sr. was a pioneer in developing integrated stormwater solutions. Please join the Portland Society for Architecture, with Ferguson Waterworks and Acorn Engineering, on a fun bike ride touring contemporary stormwater infrastructure throughout Bayside on Wednesday, 5/18 at 5PM.
We'll see first hand the opportunities, successes (and sometimes not) of green infrastructure projects developed throughout one of the fastest growing neighborhoods of the city. Meet at 5P in the Deering Oaks/Castle parking lot. Space is limited!
Pizza + pints to follow at Coals (courtesy of Ferguson)
Sign up here: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/eventllr=qnfi55cab&oeidk=a07ej6m69f5cf50fca1
Event Location: Deering Oaks Park
The Tweed Ride is a global tradition in which people dress up in old-fashioned cycling clothing and take a leisurely bicycle ride together. The Portland Tweed Ride group is proud to host a special Frederick Law Olmsted edition of the ride on May 15. We will pedal slowly around to several Olmsted parks, including a photo op in Deering Oaks, and end with lemonade and croquet on the lawn. All ages and abilities are welcome, including families. This is a social ride, not a race, and no one will be "dropped". Tweed or other old-fashioned costumes encouraged but not required. Be creative! There is no charge and no registration; just show up!
Join our virtual Silent Auction this spring as we look towards summer adventures in and around Portland Maine. Auction is open to all individuals.
Join us for our Earth (Satur)Day Event! We will meet under Tukey's Bridge at the end of Marginal Way. There are two small parking lots to park at and roadside parking. We will be removing invasive plants and trash along the water on the Eastern Prom Trail.
Free Admission. Meet at PATHS woods. Meet at 4:00pm sharp to begin the walk. Please dress appropriately for standing outside in weather. We will have some spare snowshoes should you not have your own for the walk. If there is not snow, we will walk through the park.
