Make room for Portland’s Kiss Kiss Portland creators Lucy & Coco to take over the midcoast dance scene on November 9th at the Waldoboro Inn! Come in leather, come in lace, come as you are…

$10 at the door.

Join Clio Berta as she celebrates the release of her album, Wild Cherry Doubler! Joined by Allison Redding, Amelia Macdougall Fleming and Shannon Webb, plus sweet and sour treats by Giant Daughter ♡

Doors at 5pm.

Suggested $10 donation at door.

Jake McKelvie plays live at Ida’s Wine Bar to celebrate the release of his new album, A New Kind of Hat!

Suggested $10 donation at door.

DJ Cowboy Hellbender plays at Ida’s!

Suggested $5 donation at door.

Live music in the carriage house with Mirabelle Skipworth and Julia Norah!

Suggested $10 donation at door.

Join Sheepskin as they celebrate their album release with Dead Gowns and The Clearwater Swimmers at Ida’s Wine Bar!

Suggested $10 donation at door.

Alida plays at Ida’s Wine Bar!

Suggested $10 donation at door.

Uproot Pizza posts up in our garden!

An extended evening of strange sonic happenings by rural weirdos. Performances by Florida Ghost, Night Hag and Virusse with a woodsy soundscape by Water Through Stone.

$10, pay what you can!

Jud Caswell and The Mermaids play at Ida’s wine bar!

Suggested $10 donation at door.

Based in Portland, Maine, Ripe for Repair hosts mostly-monthly hangs to fix broken things, build community, and learn from each other. On August 24th, they’re coming to Ida’s to host an afternoon of fixing, repairing and mending! On board with us this time are two people with small appliance repair skills, three sewists, and a bicycle mechanic!

Hosted by artist Allison Cekala. Model provided. No experience needed. Light instruction offered if requested. Limited art materials provided or bring your own.

Suggested $15 at door.

Petite Aceae: Exploring Softwood Cellulose Nanofiber The workshop will be an opportunity to work with Softwood Cellulose Nanofiber (CNF). This softwood pulp is ground down to a nano-size particle, suspended in water to make a slurry, then dries and binds into an incredibly light material. By exploring different ways of working with the material, each participant will end up with a small work that can be hung. It will be in process when they leave, and will change wildly as it dries. Artist examples will be brought in to inspire. Perfect for people of all creative skills and skill levels, with no prior experience necessary.

Hosted and facilitated by Augusta Sparks.

In this workshop we’ll work with themes of light and dark, shadows and ghosts, and collaborations with the unknown, as you learn how to make prints on fabric using the power of the sun and the magic of cyanotypes. The workshop is taught in 2 sessions, each 3 hours long. You can take just the 1st session, where you’ll make a collection of prints, or take both, and use your prints to make a small quilt! We’ll spend the first half finding inspiration in our surroundings, collecting shapes that call to us in the form of leaves, sticks, flowers, or feathers. We'll delight in the beauty of everyday and ordinary, as we contemplate the shapes of familiar objects and keepsakes from around our home. Expect to make between 5 and 7 prints on fabric. Once we make our prints, we’ll use that fabric to make a small quilt/wall hanging, adding stitches as another layer of meaning. Along the way we’ll explore elements of composition, design, and embracing mistakes, all while learning the basics of quilt making. Kits will be provided and include treated fabric to make prints, quilt batting, and backing fabric. If you’re taking both sessions, you may want to bring your favorite fabric scissors or your own sewing machine, but both will be on hand if you don’t have them. No previous experience needed.

Hosted and facilitated by Katherine Ferrier.

Join Isabelle Maschal O'Donnell and learn to needle felt sweet fruits and veggies! Learn how to create three dimensional forms with needle felting and make a small fruit or vegetable of your choosing! You will learn the basics of needle felting including how to create flat and round shapes, as well as how to add color and detail. All materials included! Please bring a reference photo of your fruit or vegetable.

Chico States Band plays live music at Ida’s!

Suggested $10 donation at door.

Live music at Ida’s Wine Bar with Jes and John Andrews!

Suggested $10 donation at door.

Through guiding many years of mending and sewing courses I have come to believe that these circles are first a space to remember. We have been lead into forced forgetting to allow us to keep mindlessly consuming. So, while you may have never held a sewing needle in your hand I believe there is a piece of you that knows how to work with this tool to create acts of care and I would like to sit next to you to remember. I invite you to come and sit on the floor, bring something soft in need of repair and stitch in a circle together. While this is a mending workshop that will include technical hand sewing demonstrations it will also be a time to intimately connect with our garments and each other through the act of stitching.

Hosted and facilitated by Hadley Clark.

Bonnie plays at Ida’s Wine Bar!

Suggested $10 donation at door.

1 Divided by Infinity is a fashion performance by Camilla Carper exploring the infinitesimal, the alternate side of Infinity. In mathematics, infinitesimal numbers are a theoretical concept proposing that a quantity can be divided endlessly, no matter how small, it can be made into even smaller fractions. Carper is an interdisciplinary artist who often lives in a dressing performance, where an established set of rules directs how they wear clothing for a duration of time. This summer they have embarked upon the impossible task of wearing as Little Clothing as Possible in their dressing performance of the same title. In this 3 months performance, Carper is designing, constructing, and wearing garments that cover the smallest area of the body that they are comfortable exposing in the social settings they encounter. 1 Divided by Infinity is a group performance taking place within the solo performance as Little Clothing as Possible. It establishes a world within a world where nothingness is impossible, 0 is unreasonable, and a striptease can last forever. A psychedelic hyperreal zooming inward exposing the vast plurality within every singular 1. 

Come to Ida’s Wine Bar during Art Walk to experience the magic of Tintype Photography! Aidan Higginbotham from Nashville will be offering Tintype Photographs inside the Carriage House for anyone who would like to partake. Walk-ins available, $100.

Stay tuned for a special food pop up!

Camilla Carper is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. They hold an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art and a BFA in Fashion from Parsons School of Design. Their practice uses clothing to establish performance structures that examine the boundaries of consciousness, communication, and gender. Their work takes many forms including but not limited to sculpture, fashion, social practice, performance, writing, video, sound, and installation. Carper's work sits uncomfortably in both the fashion industry and art industry as it proposes new venues of display and models for social exchange. 

In this two hour workshop we will explore how the plants love us and how we can love them too. We will cover methods of connecting to flowers to understand and participate in their magical and healing qualities. The workshop will include botanical observation, deep listening, drawing or writing, and essence making. Participants will leave in love with a flower and more deeply connected to themselves and the world around them.

Hosted and facilitated by Bri Bowman.

This event is sliding scale, with tickets ranging from $5 to $15. Please come prepared to pay at the door with cash, check or venmo!

Getting a literary agent can seem daunting. I had no experience and I had three offers for agents. It just takes research and having at least some of your book completed. In this workshop we'll go over the best websites for researching the kind of agents who are interested in the genre in which you are writing. Then, we'll tackle the dreaded pitch letter – the opener that will make an agent take your letter seriously and read the first five pages of whatever it is you are submitting. Bring a laptop or pen and paper to write your first draft.

Hosted and facilitated by Rebecca Cooney.