CELEBRATE WITH SPINDLEWORKS
2008 marks our 30th year. For three decades Spindleworks has offered a nurturing environment for artists with disabilities. We will celebrate this milestone through events and exhibits throughout the year. Please check back often for more information!

In the Whatnot Gallery:

AUGUST

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPINDLEWORKS!
When: August 4-31, 2008
Reception: Friday August 8th, 5-8pm
This month Spindleworks celebrates our 30th anniversary by creating a fantasy dinner party with plates, placemats, and other adornements for the perfect evening. While the inside is a hypothetcal scene for parties to come, outisde we will be celebrating our new garden, now complete, which has been a labor of love and community effort and generoisty over the past year. With plants and supplies donated from friends and businesses, and money raised from a bottle drive and generous supporters, this garden is well nourished and promises to mature into an eden that the Spindleworks artists and friends from the community can enjoy for years to come. Join us for a garden birthday party with refreshments and live music by the Lawn Ornaments, featuring Gary Lawless of Gulf of Maine Books

Around Town:


FLOCK
Where: The Fusion Gallery at Creative Trails, 369 Forest Ave, Portland
When: August 1-31, 2008
Reception: Friday August 1, 5-8pm
FLOCK is the culmination of the second annual collaboration between the artists of Spindleworks, Creative Trails, and Creative Works Systems. This summer the workshops with over 40 artists centered around creating a flock of birds, as we simulatneously created a new comunity of friends between the art programs. This is no Hitchcock flick! Come see the colorful flock of birds during the First Friday Artwalk in Portland.

Duets
Where: Dow Studio, 19 Dow Road, Deer Isle, Maine
When: August 10-September 6, 2008
Receptions:Sunday August 10th, Sunday August 24, 2-5pm
hours: Thursday -Sunday noon-five
We are thrilled to be part of the summer season at Dow Studio on Deer Isle. our friends Carole Ann Fer and Elle Weiske have come to visit Spindleworks several times and have picked a wonderful mix of work to show in their gallery for the summer. So if you are unble to make it as far south as Brunswick to visit Spindleworks,or even if you are, please stop by to see our work at Dow studio. Visit dowstudiodeerisle.com for more information about Carole Ann and Ellen and their gallery of beautiful work

SPINDLEWORKS INVASION!
SPINDLEWORKS ON THE RADIO!
Where: WBOR, 91.1 FM, the Bowdoin College Radio Station
When: Wednesdays 10:30-noon, July and August
Spindleworks volunteer extraodinaire Roby Moulton will be taking a few Spindleworks artists each week up to the Bowdoin College campus to the WBOR station for a Spindleworks Invasion of music and poetry and more. Tune in to the ecclectic mix each week this summer.

Ongoing:

SPINDLEWORKS BLOG: Spindleworks now has a blog! Find out what's happening at 7 Lincoln street at: http://spindleworkers.blogspot.com/2007/03/about-us.html

EVERYTHING IN SIGHT, the new documentary film about filmmaking at Spindleworks debued at Frontier Cafe and Cinema to a sold out crowd. We had a great review in the Portland Phoenix, and everyone has been asking when the next screening is! Stay tuned but if you cannot wait, please come by Spindleworks or Frontier where the DVD is on sale: $15 each or two for $25. All proceeds go towards Spindleworks programming including continued film projects. Stay tuned for more information on future screenings

VIDEO and SOUND projects are now accessible online.
Check out our latest videos on Youtube.com (search spindleworks)
Hear the latest sound experiments (check out 'The Sonic World of Nancy Scott')

THE ALMOST MAINE STREET NEWS is available by single issue ($3) and by quarterly subscription ($10/year). To start a subscription, please contact us at 207.725 8820 or spindleworks@gwi.net. The Almost Maine Street News is also available at Strange Maine in Portland, and Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago. Sponsor the Spindleworks Studio Program by subscribing and get our one of a kind zine in the mail by contacting us at 207.725 8820 or email us at info@spindleworks.org