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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We got NYC folk-punk singer-songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis returns to SPACE tonight for a solo set. They say he's a mash-up of Sonic Youth, Pete Seeger, and R. Crumb. (They're onto something.) space538.org/event/jeffre...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨, a documentary by Brittany Shyne, is an exploration of Black generational farms in the American South, revealing the significance of owning land. 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at Sundance. We’re screening it next Sunday, February 22, at 7 pm 🎞️ space538.org/event/seeds

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

For added doses of ease, comfort, and joy, you can also get fee-free SPACE tickets through our IRL Box Office — cash only, please! We’ve also got SPACE GIFT CARDS for sale, for use toward tickets and/or bar concessions, or throw down for a half-price GIFT MEMBERSHIP FOR TEACHERS.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Hark! The SPACE Pop-Up Shop returns for another holiday swirl! Our staff has lovingly curated a trove of books, records, prints, cards, clothes, kids stuff, tapes, movie posters, framed art works, and more. It’s a broad set of works from artists, most of ‘em Mainers. Come poke around. It’s good.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Tonight we’re screening Videoheaven, the documentary film by Alex Ross Perry about the incredible impact that the era of video rental stores had on American culture. It’s at 7 pm! Tickets: space538.org/event/videoh...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions Reader: reader.space538.org The Kindling Fund: www.thekindlingfund.org 🎶 Hajjah Nur Asiah Djamil & Orkes Gambus Nur El Balad - Menuntut Ilmu (Gambus Music from Indonesia) via Radio is a Foreign Country

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events/ Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions/ SPACE Reader: space538.org/reader-index/ 2026 Kindling Fund Application: space538.org/reader/annou... 🎶 from Debbie Does Dallas (via Radio is a Foreign Country)

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events/ Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions/ 1/2 Price Gift Memberships for Teachers program: space538.org/reader/space... 🎶 Andalusian Nights - Radio Algeria (Sublime Frequencies) via Radio is a Foreign Country

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Freedom of art is non-negotiable. SPACE joins 275+ leaders and 150+ institutions demanding courage over censorship. Stand with us ➡️ collective-courage.com

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions Sonic Visions Fund: space538.org/reader/sonic-visions-2025 🎶: TARPA PAWARI - PREM PAWAR & DJ GOLU DHARANGAON (INDIA)

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Our friend Assasi did up the SPACE logo in Arabic for us. We love it! You can catch Assasi — raised in Syria, based in Biddeford, Maine — Friday for Hakawati, a night of traditional Syrian storytelling, Middle Eastern music and Arabic hip hop, with a band. Tickets here space538.org/event/assasi...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The artist Julia Arredondo, who is great, lent some words and wisdom about SPACE for our spring campaign. space538.org/support/ Julia’s show “Just Passing Through” is up through June 21! space538.org/exhibition/j...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions Become a member: space538.org/support _ 🎶 平安座ジントーヨー(HenzaJintoyo) Seiji Tokuhiga Group from Deep Japan: Okinawan Records from the American Era

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions Become a member: space538.org/support 🎶 Ciwit Ciwitan - Aseng Suarsih (Sunda Kliningan) (Indonesia) from Radio Is a Foreign Country

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Tonight, we’ve got investigative journalist Mariah Blake in town to talk about her deep reporting on forever chemicals and the chemical industry’s great efforts to hide their dangers from the public. @mariahblake.bsky.social discusses her They Poisoned the World, with @ayanaeliza.bsky.social

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We’re screening Vulcanizadora on May 16th. The film is a NYT Critic’s Pick has been called “spasmodically funny” and “raw and moving,” and our era’s Old Joy. space538.org/event/vulcan...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions Become a member: space538.org/support 🎵: The Danny Fisher-Lochhead Large Ensemble - “String” from World of Difference (2025)

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It’s April Break, and any young kids you know are looking for something to do! FYI, they get in for FREE at this kids show, today at 4:30. space538.org/event/luanas...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This man (below) is talking about this! space538.org/event/rough-...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

And finally, sidebody are known for their electric high-energy performances, four part harmonies, and unique DIY pop-art-rock sound, and have been compared to Talking Heads, the B-52s, and The Raincoats. sidebody is Hava Horowitz, Lena Warnke, Martha Schnee and Cara Giaimo.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Laura Poppick is a Portland-based science and environmental journalist whose stories have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, and elsewhere. Her debut book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time, is coming out July 2025.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Brandon Keim is a science journalist specializing in nature and animals. His latest book, Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World, is about animal personhood and our relationships to wild animals and to nature.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Here’s a who’s who for tonight: Part field guide, part travelogue, part cabinet of curiosities, Cara Giaimo (and Joshua Foer’s) Atlas Obscura: Wild Life is the definitive traveler’s guide to the world’s most fascinating, unusual, and least-understood flora and fauna.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Join us tonight as we host a panel and book release party for environmental journalists Cara Giaimo, Brandon Keim, and Laura Poppick — plus a set from art-pop band sidebody! 7 pm at SPACE space538.org/event/poppic...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions Become a member: space538.org/support 🎼: Ockeghem 5:47

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Mainers, this is your chance to see the Singaporean grindcore band Wormrot. They’ve reunited their original lineup and play Maine — on Thursday night — for the first time ever in their 18-year history. Low-ticket alert, 7:30 show start. It’s gonna be nuts.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions Support: space538.org/support Newsletter signup: space538.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... Slideshow music: “I Stole the Right to Live” by Michael Hurley

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Looking for something special tonight? We’re hosting a conversation between NYT bestselling author Ada Calhoun and Maine writer Caitlin Shetterly. Ada’s novel Crush is a New Yorker, TIME, Harper’s Bazaar, Bustle, Lit Hub, AARP, Bloomberg, and Vulture Most Anticipated Book of 2025.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E Events: space538.org/events/ Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions/ Kindling Fund grantees: space538.org/kindling-fund/ Music is “Sequel to Head Will Explode” by amiright?

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

More info and tickets here space538.org/event/foret-...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The story is long and thoughtful, with passages on with passages on SPACE’s Sonic Visions grant, and the “ennui…joie de vivre…and tristesse” of Acadian music.

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Forêt Endormie’s Acadia: A Word Disappeared from the Map premieres tonight(!) at SPACE! Here’s the local paper’s feature on bandleader Jordan Guerette and the project, an original song cycle built on the words of Acadian poets and their musical traditions. www.pressherald.com/2025/01/31/a...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

T H I S W E E K A T S P A C E 👁️ ___ Events: space538.org/events Exhibitions: space538.org/exhibitions Reader: space538.org/reader-index 🎶 “Tango” by Traxman

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Maine Palestine Film Collective is a group of Maine-based artists, curators, arts workers and allies using cinema as a catalyst for collective liberation in Palestine and beyond. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How to Move a Tree is a collaborative, process-oriented publication project by Picnic Collective (@ashatamirisa.bsky.social & Carolina González Valencia) that documents a group of Maine-based artists manifesting instructional "how-to" scores in their chosen medium. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

SICK is an independent, thoughtful magazine by chronically ill & disabled people, founded & edited by Olivia Spring and designed by Kaiya Waerea. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Refectory, a collab between Elise Schloff and Meera Chauhan, stages an areligious, ecological, and queer intervention through a culinary performance series and zine project that reconfigure feminine monastic culinary traditions for contemporary rural Maine communities. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In the film Dar Marjana, Portland-based Moroccan filmmaker Lamia Lazrak documents her mother Kenza’s difficult decision to leave her family restaurant, housed for the past four decades in a 200-year-old, multi-generational home in the medina of Marrakech, Morocco. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Penny Pool Gallery is a conceptual gallery space founded by Striped Canary (Stephen B. Nguyen and Wade Kavanaugh) and Bee Daniel. Inspired by the “leave a penny, take a penny” trays at cash registers, the gallery fosters a chain of artistic support. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Maine Correctional Center Pottery Class is a weekly hand-building clay class with women at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, Maine, that Daisy Hutt has taught since March of 2024. The artist was informed by the MCC that the program no longer has funding. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

INVADERS is a poetic documentary film by Morgan Hulquist following a group of citizen scientists as they spend their free time scouring Maine’s coastline for marine invasive species. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In Meeting Halls: Inspiring Maine’s Collective Future, visual artists Michelle Hauser and Sally Eckhoff will co-create four pop-up exhibitions to be held in historic meeting halls during open-house events. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The project by Kate Greene titled Night Sky Lifelines: Witnessing Resilience by Studying Darkness investigates Dark Sky sanctuaries in Maine, regions of global ecological significance, through exhibitions and discussions of large-scale lumen prints and field recordings. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

POSER is a mini-event series and publication by Candice Gosta highlighting the contributions of Black punk musicians, both past and present. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

REAL PLACES MAINE is a research project by smudge studio (Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse) toward the creation of site-responsive, large poster-murals to be installed on the exteriors of abandoned buildings at several locations across Maine. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Dear Darling is a collaborative mail art project by @annikaearley.bsky.social that provides joy, levity, and tenderness through an exchange of letters and artwork. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Transmissions is a project by Travis Clough that makes quilts for trans people. In Maine, it will commission three trans quilters to make quilts for three trans recipients. space538.org/artist/kindl...

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Wilder Gardens will be an outdoor sculpture garden created by Indigenous ceramicist Tehani Baldecchi located on one of Portland’s public trails. The gallery will consist of 20+ life-sized sculptures of a variety of Maine's mushrooms. space538.org/artist/kindl...

a ceramic chanterelle mushroom "sprouts" from the forest floor

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Here they are: Guide to Starting a DIY Cassette Tape Label zine is an independently produced publication by artist and indie publisher Julia Arredondo. space538.org/artist/kindl...

artist Julia Arredondo's hand holds open one of her zines to its interior pages, with small indecipherable text and photos

a zine by Julia Arredondo depicts a photo of a desert mountain range, a graphical banner reading "Stay Freaky" and a small word bubble with a musical notation inside it

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SPACE Gallery @spacegallery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🌲💛 Big congrats to the 2025 Kindling Fund grantees! We're jazzed to award 12 Project Grants and 4 R&D Grants in this year’s cycle, totaling $65K in grantmaking. Grantees were juried from a pool of 111 submissions, the most-ever in the Kindling Fund's 11-year history! space538.org/reader/annou...

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