Join the MakerSpace team for a hands-on class focused on a different artist each week. Children ages 2-5 & their caregivers will experiment with the mediums and styles of well-known and emerging artists.
Join Theatre for Tots, a special early childhood theatre experience for children ages 2-4 and their caregivers to gain confidence imagining and pretending together. Weekly. Included with Admission.
Join Theatre for Tots, a special early childhood theatre experience for children ages 2-4 and their caregivers to gain confidence imagining and pretending together. Weekly. Included with Admission.
June is Pride month, and CMTM is excited to celebrate with you in MakerSpace, the Theatre, and our community at Portland's Celebrate Pride event!
Celebrate PRIDE and all the colors of the rainbow in MakerSpace this June. Everyone is welcome to explore and engage in rainbow-inspired projects specially designed for young Makers.
Celebrate the beginning of the 2024-2025 theatre season with ten short plays written by individuals under the age of 17 and performed by members of the CMTM acting company. Join us for an inspiring showcase of emerging voices and imaginative storytelling and an announcement of the 2024-2025 theatre season!
Celebrate PRIDE and all the colors of the rainbow in MakerSpace this June. Everyone is welcome to explore and engage in rainbow-inspired projects specially designed for young Makers.
Come celebrate World Ocean Day! The ocean is home to over a million species of plants and animals. It houses some of the smallest living things, like phytoplankton and algae, which produce much of the world’s oxygen. It is also home to the biggest animal, the blue whale!
Join our friends from the City of Portland Water Resources to celebrate World Ocean Day and Clean Water Week by using a hands-on watershed model to see how water from your street connects the ocean where fishes eat.
Join environmental and aquaculture scientist Gretchen Grebe for a sensory exploration of seaweed. Discover what seaweed lives in Casco Bay, why it is important to animals and humans, and how we can keep it growing!
Come celebrate World Ocean Day! The ocean is home to over a million species of plants and animals. It houses some of the smallest living things, like phytoplankton and algae, which produce much of the world’s oxygen. It is also home to the biggest animal, the blue whale!
Let’s use discarded and damaged books to tell a new story! Choose a page and find the words or phrases that are meaningful to you. Decorate your page with markers to cover or "block out" the remaining text, revealing your poem. Come explore this fun form of found poetry.
Join Lindz and their best-stuffed friend Teddy from Queer Kid Stuff and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community with songs and stories! We’re going back in time to talk about the roots of pride with our kid-friendly historical retelling of Stonewall and the creation of our beloved Rainbow Flag. We’ll sing LGBTQ+-themed original songs and covers along the way as we learn about LGBTQ+ history!
Join Lindz and their best-stuffed friend Teddy from Queer Kid Stuff and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community with songs and stories! We’re going back in time to talk about the roots of pride with our kid-friendly historical retelling of Stonewall and the creation of our beloved Rainbow Flag. We’ll sing LGBTQ+-themed original songs and covers along the way as we learn about LGBTQ+ history!
Let’s use discarded and damaged books to tell a new story! Choose a page and find the words or phrases that are meaningful to you. Decorate your page with markers to cover or "block out" the remaining text, revealing your poem. Come explore this fun form of found poetry.
Join Theatre for Tots, a special early childhood theatre experience for children ages 2-4 and their caregivers to gain confidence imagining and pretending together. Weekly. Included with Admission.
Read a Story to a Therapy Dog!
Whether you are meeting a dog for the first time or own a dog yourself, all are welcome to greet our friendly, four-legged therapy dog friends. Come hang out, read a book, sing a song, or explore dog training with a certified therapy dog and its caregiver. Therapy dogs will be visiting with a trained adult in the 3rd floor IDEXX STEM Learning Hub and would love to say "hi" to you if you wish.
Included with Admission.
Location: IDEXX STEM Learning Hub, 3rd Floor
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Celebrate Children's Book Week at CMTM with a special book cover art activity! Have you ever dreamed of creating your own book cover or do you have a new story idea? Visit with CMTM team members in the IDEXX STEM Learning Hub to design your cover and discuss your story concepts. Join this fun activity and bring your book ideas to life!
Celebrate Children's Book Week at CMTM with an engaging storytime suitable for all ages. Listen, move around, and have fun!
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Join the MakerSpace team for a hands-on class focused on a different artist each week. Children ages 2-5 & their caregivers will experiment with the mediums and styles of well-known and emerging artists.
Celebrate Children's Book Week at CMTM with an engaging storytime suitable for all ages.
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Lindz Amer (they/them) makes queer stuff for kids and families. They started on this wild and winding career path when they created Queer Kid Stuff—an award-winning original LGBTQ+ educational webseries for all ages—that has reached millions of families. They perform at libraries, schools, and theaters all over the world spreading queer joy and working on numerous projects that bring queer and trans representation into mainstream children's media. In 2019, they gave a viral TED Talk on the importance of talking to kids about gender and sexuality.
Minquansis Sapiel is a Passamaquoddy TribaI member, mother of three daughters and has a Masters in Social Work. Her daughter also illustrated the children’s book she wrote Little People of the Dawn. She grew up on the Sipayik Reservation and moved off to go to college at the University of Maine. She also has her Captain’s license and offers whale watching tours.
Samara Cole Doyon is presenting the new release Next Level: from the award-winning team behind Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon and Coretta Scott King Award Honoree Kaylani Juanita, comes a song of gratitude for those who see the world in a different way. Samara Cole Doyon (Portland, ME) is both a second-generation Haitian American and a proud Mainer, with half of the roots of her family tree reaching generations deep into the soil of the Pine Tree State. She is a freelance writer, teacher, wife, and mother. She has been a regular contributor at Black Girl In Maine Media and has been featured in the “Deep Water” poetry column of the Portland Press Herald.
Lindz Amer (they/them) makes queer stuff for kids and families. They started on this wild and winding career path when they created Queer Kid Stuff—an award-winning original LGBTQ+ educational webseries for all ages—that has reached millions of families. They perform at libraries, schools, and theaters all over the world spreading queer joy and working on numerous projects that bring queer and trans representation into mainstream children's media. In 2019, they gave a viral TED Talk on the importance of talking to kids about gender and sexuality.
Minquansis Sapiel is a Passamaquoddy TribaI member, mother of three daughters and has a Masters in Social Work. Her daughter also illustrated the children’s book she wrote Little People of the Dawn. She grew up on the Sipayik Reservation and moved off to go to college at the University of Maine. She also has her Captain’s license and offers whale watching tours.
Samara Cole Doyon is presenting the new release Next Level: from the award-winning team behind Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon and Coretta Scott King Award Honoree Kaylani Juanita, comes a song of gratitude for those who see the world in a different way. Samara Cole Doyon (Portland, ME) is both a second-generation Haitian American and a proud Mainer, with half of the roots of her family tree reaching generations deep into the soil of the Pine Tree State. She is a freelance writer, teacher, wife, and mother. She has been a regular contributor at Black Girl In Maine Media and has been featured in the “Deep Water” poetry column of the Portland Press Herald.
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Celebrate Book Week in CMTM's Maddy’s Theatre through the magic of storytelling. Three beloved local authors will be sharing their latest children's books, featuring heartwarming tales of inclusion and inspiring journeys of self-discovery. Meet the authors and listen as they bring their newly released children's books to life. Don't miss this opportunity to join a welcoming community of readers and dreamers.
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Meet Lisa Wentzell, author of A Dog and His Boy, The Adventures of Spillway and Scotty. Lisa Wentzell will read her children's book about a boy named Scotty and his life-sized stuffed dog named Spillway. This heartwarming story is told from Spillway's point of view and explores themes of acceptance, empathy, inclusion, and friendship.
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Celebrate Children's Book Week at CMTM with an engaging storytime suitable for all ages. Listen, move around, and have fun!
Celebrate Children's Book Week at CMTM with a special book cover art activity! Have you ever dreamed of creating your own book cover or do you have a new story idea? Visit with CMTM team members in the IDEXX STEM Learning Hub to design your cover and discuss your story concepts. Join this fun activity and bring your book ideas to life!
Join Theatre for Tots, a special early childhood theatre experience for children ages 2-4 and their caregivers to gain confidence imagining and pretending together. Weekly. Included with Admission.
Celebrate the joy of books in MakerSpace during Children's Book Week at CMTM! We're diving into bookmaking, from accordion and comic books to charming tiny books. Plus, each session offers a selection of free choice materials for your creations. Don't miss this chance to explore, create, and take home your very own book!
Dive into the world of stories with daily pop-up storytimes, meet real children's book authors during our special guest appearances on Thursday and Sunday, and explore the artistry behind the books with our Art for Tots sessions highlighting illustrators' work. Plus, unleash your creativity in our MakerSpace with a week-long Make-Your-Own-Book takeover. It's a celebration of reading and creativity you won't want to miss!
Join the MakerSpace team for a hands-on class focused on a different artist each week. Children ages 2-5 & their caregivers will experiment with the mediums and styles of well-known and emerging artists.
There are so many kinds of maps all around us! Maps help us find our way home, discover treasure, and explore new places. Have you ever wanted to create your own world or capture a real place on paper? Whether it’s another planet, a magical Maine island, or an animal’s underground home, maps can help us travel to real & imaginary destinations.
