A Maine tradition since 2003, the Camp Sunshine Pumpkin Festival transforms the streets of Freeport and L.L. Bean Campus into a sea of orange. Join us as we light nearly 10,000 jack-o-lanterns around Freeport.

As always we have quite the schedule of activities and family fun planned – including live music, children’s activities, a costume parade, and family pumpkin carving (no purchase necessary).

Join STRIVE for their 14th annual live and silent auction! This year’s event is taking place Wednesday, October 24th from 5:30-9pm at the Italian Heritage Center in Portland

Proceeds support young adults 11-24 with cognitive + intellectual disabilities as they embark on new adventures through the programs + services of STRIVE.

passivhausMAINE’s Annual Fall Forum brings a variety of speakers presenting projects from Maine and afar. The 2018 forum will focus on DERS – EnerPHit and Schools and Academic Institutions bringing to the fore the compelling stories of institutions that have embraced both the sustainability and resilience of passive house structures while underscoring the long-term cost savings.

Since 1990, Junior Achievement of Maine’s Business Hall of Fame has honored the state’s most distinguished businessmen and women for their outstanding contributions to free enterprise and the promise of a better, stronger society. At the fourth annual event in the North, three exceptional business leaders will be welcomed as laureates into the Junior Achievement of Maine Business Hall of Fame.

National Geographic Live speakers share their journeys of exploration from being on assignment around the world. Illustrated with award-winning photography and video, each evening concludes with a speaker-led audience Q&A session.

Mark Synnott is a man ever on the brink of new discovery. A big wall rockclimber of the highest order, he’s made legendary first ascents of some of the world’s tallest, most forbidding walls, from Baffin Island to Pakistan. Today, he uses his skills to break scientific ground, reaching incredibly inaccessible environments in search of rare species. It’s all in the spirit of adventure and exploration in order to educate about these sites of strange, remote beauty.

Join us in celebrating the life-changing impact a wish can have on a child and their family. Formerly known as Chips ‘n’ Dips, Wish Night raises enough funds to help grant more than 22 wishes to Maine children with critical illnesses. The sparkling evening will include live music by the Time Pilots, dancing, hors d’oeurves, drinks, mystery box draw, and an exciting auction benefiting Make-A-Wish Maine.

The Public Theatre is pleased to present the return of Susan Poulin in her latest and funniest new show, Makin’ Whoopie – Ida LeClair’s Guide to Love & Marriage! playing Nov 9. 10 and 11th.