Programs and Events: Community - Sponsored

Hours - 10-5:00pm seven days a week

Located behind Mountain Side Grocers, the complex is operated through a joint partnership between the Town of Carrabassett Valley and Carrabassett Valley Academy. Other features include trampolines with harnesses, an indoor rock climbing wall, a multi-purpose court with a running track and a fully equipped exercise/weight room, which encompasses our entire upstairs.

Exercise/Weight room-Adult Day Pass: $7.00, Youth Day Pass: $4.00,

Multi-purpose court- Adult Day Pass: $4.00 Youth Day Passes: $3.00.

Once a month, all of the dens and family members gather for a pack meeting under the direction of a Cubmaster and pack committee. The committee includes parents of boys in the pack and members of the chartered organization.

Pack Meetings are for all Cub Scouts and their families. They are held on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 6pm at the West Farmington Elks Lodge on School Street. The first Pack Meeting will be on October 4th. At these meetings the Cubs will receive any advancements or awards that they may have earned.

The Resource Depot offers many resources including paper, envelopes, plexi-glass, fabric, leather, boxes, Popsicle sticks, wood turnings, dowels, plastic tubes, buttons, shoe laces, cardboard tubes, yarn, colorful plastic shapes, foam, telephone wire, egg cartons, containers, magazines and much more at low cost. Great for teachers, parents, and children.

Weight room, gym for basketball and volleyball, recreation room, various programs offered.

Hippach Field:

Tennis courts with lights, basketball, baseball field, volleyball, playground equipment, wading pool, horseshoe pits, and a stream with ice skating in the winter. Located on Intervale Road across from Gifford’s Ice Cream.

"Someplace" Teen Center:

Located in the community building, a space for teens to come and utilize the gymnasium, recreation room, community lounge, computer lab, gaming chamber, weight room, and more.

Municipally owned ballfield

Session II (July 16-20, 2007)- for Students grades 7 through 12

Tuesday - Friday -- Each day you will participate in the 4 art forms that you selected on Monday.

Creative Dance -- Two ways to dance and move! Space Dance: Using your imagination and your own special ways of moving--hopping, running, skipping, twisting, sliding, swirling--you’ll discover how to create an imaginary space through movement. Time Dance: Learn choreography, and dance to rhythms that give time to music.

Graphic Writing-- Let time and space come together on the page as you write an original story or adapt a story you know. You will then create collages and drawings to make the dialogues and scenes of your graphic novel come to life.

Theater and Fables-- We will explore the elements of time and space with fables, masks, puppets, and our own imaginations. We will enter the animal kingdom and discover the viewpoints of our furry and feathered friends. Next with masks we will investigate the creative possibilities of our everyday lives. And finally our puppets will take us into intergalactic regions yet to be discovered. Theater games, improvisation, and more!

Soundscapes to Beatscapes -- You’ll learn how to combine time and space to write your own musical compositions and create beats to fit them. We will use traditional instruments, tone chimes, Boomwhackers, found objects and your own invented instruments to create unique works of art. No previous musical experience necessary.

Outdoor Art -- We’ll collect the materials of nature, like leaves, grass, twigs, feathers, stones, earth, and water and combine them with art materials to create outdoor collages and sculptures. Explore the patterns of nature and learn how to create balance in the space where you place your art piece. Discover how your sculpture changes with time and the wind, rain, and sun of its space.

Session II - Workshop Choices

On the attached registration form, you will choose 4 of the these workshops. Each day, Monday through Friday, you will participate in 75-minute sessions in your 4 selected

workshops.

Psychedelic Shakespeare -- Unrequited love, difficult parental relations, revenge--just as relevant today as when Shakespeare wrote 400 years ago. Explore collisions of time and space through the plays of the Bard. With shifts of time and space, we will reinterpret and act out the plays and themes that Shakespeare made popular. Warring families could be rival high schools, and ambitious thanes might be modern politicians.

Theatrical Time Travel -- Become time travelers and discover how space and time have affected the creation of theater throughout history. Begin in prehistoric times, move on to the Golden Age of Greece, then to Medieval England, and next to the Globe Theatre. In each era we will investigate the form of theater which reflected the lives of the people of that time through costumes, props, scripts, and your creativity. Finally we will imagine the theater of the future.

Reality Your Way -- Watercolors -- Experimenting with a variety of professional quality watercolor papers and materials, you’ll transform the “what is” to “what it can be” by distorting or transforming the everyday into several mini paintings and a larger painting from your own artistic reality of time and space.

Altered Space--Altered Time -- Take a book and alter it to create a space to collect perceptions from others. Use paint, collage, drawing, and assemblage to design a cover and page in your own book. Then pass your book on – round robin style – for others to leave their perceptions – their mark of time and space. Take your book home at the end of the week as a glimpse back to your time in this space.

Electronica or Kickin’ It Old School -- Become a record producer! Create beats, grooves, sound creations using Audacity or Macintosh I-Life suite software. Then record your music using digital audio software. Collaborate with others or work on your own to create and warp time and space. No previous experience necessary.

Unidentified Moving Objects -- Without movement, time would not exist. Space is empty nothingness until objects and living beings inhabit it and move through it. We will examine our own sense of time by experimenting with the speed and rhythm of our movement. At the same time, we will also explore how we fill space with body movement and placement, the creation of physical shapes, and the relationships among dancers. From our discoveries, we will craft original dances that help us see how time and space blend.

Registration Form

To receive the Foothills Summer Arts registration form and brochure, please contact Director Anne Geller Foothills Arts Center, 108 Orchard St., Farmington, ME 04938 (207) 778-0448; info@foothillsarts.org; www.foothillsarts.org.

Sliding & reduced fees

For families who cannot afford the full fee, we can arrange a reduced fee. On the registration form, you can indicate how much you can pay. Please enclose a note explaining your request for reduced fee.

Contact for more information.

One on one instruction is also available in various media, including sewing. In its first years since conception, the center has held classes in watercolor, rustic trellis making, matt cutting, pottery, book-making, mosaic, pottery, sculpture, bead weaving, paste paper, paper mache, throwing, hand building, casting, and jewelry-making.

Municipally owned ballfield

Livermore residents - $60 for 1st child, $30 for each additional child

All other Franklin County residents- $100 for 1st child; $60 for each additional children. Fee includes breakfast and lunch. Additional fee for trips.

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and the adults who love them. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.

Music Together classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. By emphasizing actual music experiences rather than concepts about music, Music Together introduces children to the pleasures of making music instead of passively receiving it from CDs or TV.

Central to the Music Together approach is that young children learn best from the powerful role model of parents/caregivers who are actively making music. The program brings families together by providing a rich musical environment in the classroom and by facilitating family participation in spontaneous musical activity at home within the context of daily life.

Music Together is committed to helping families, caregivers, and early childhood professionals rediscover the pleasure and educational value of informal music experiences. All our teachers have successfully completed Music Together’s training program. Music Together applies the latest research in early childhood music development to the program. A curriculum pioneer since 1987.

Music Together of Western Central Maine begins its classes in September, January and April. Please call Sara Condit Dean at 778-0469 for reservations and more information.

Programs at Titcomb get children outdoors to enjoy winter and the fun of skiing and snowboarding!

Down Hill ski programs include Alpine Snow Kids for Grades K-3, SAD 9, beginner to advance skill levels. For further infomation call 778-7385. Saturday Ski School for ages 6 and up, beginner to advance skill levels; Buddy Werner Recreational Racing for ages 12 and under, beginner to advance skill levels; F.A.S.T.-Farmington Area Ski Team for Grades 5-8, intermediate to advance, middle school level competitions. This is an after school program meeting three to five days a week including some Saturday races. For further information call 778-9031.

Cross-country Skiing Programs include: Beginner to advance lessons with Bill Koch for Grades k-8 on Wednesdays (optional Monday lessons for Grades 4-8) from 3:45-5:00.

F.A.S.T.-Farmington Area Ski Team for Grades 5-8 offering intermediate to advance lessons, middle school level competitions.

Alpine Snowboard Programs include beginner to intermediate lessons with Nana Webber for Grades 3-6 on Wednesdays 3:45-5:00 p.m.

The Saturday SB School offers beginner to advance lessons for ages 8 & up 10:00 or 11:15 am.

Full-Day (Weekends and Holidays) Adult ticket $22; Young Adult (13-17) $20; Junior (6-12) $18

Every Friday Student Night 6-9 p.m. $9 ticket, $8 rental.

Rentals: Adult Full-Day, $18; Half-Day $13; Junior Full-Day, $15 Half-Day $10.

Saturday lesson rentals - $10

Nordic/Cross Country rentals: Adult Full-Day, $15, Half-Day, $10; Junior Full-Day, $11 Half-Day $8; Young Adult Half-Day $9

Check web site for many more scheduled activities and events. Private ski lessons at $20 an hour, $5 for each additional person.

Wednesday and Friday include night skiing 3:00-8:00 p.m.

The program is open from 3-5pm Monday – Friday. A monthly calendar is given to parents indicating some of the daily activities that are planned. The program is closed on MSAD #9 half-days or no school days and these days are indicated on the calendar. Mondays and Fridays are gym activities, Tuesday and Thursdays are pool activities, and Wednesdays are arts and crafts.

The program is designed for children ages 5-12. When there is a small group, the children participate in activities together regardless of age. When there is a large group, older participants are offered alternative activities.

Pay per Semester option: $150 for non-members and $100 for members.

Paperwork must be completed prior to participation and the fees must be paid as well. Weekly registration and payment is encouraged. Most parents register Monday for the week. Some pay in advance for the entire month/semester when they know which days of the week their child will be attending. There is no set number of days for participation. If your child will begin attendance during the spring semester, we have a reduced registration fee if you are able to pay in advance for the entire semester. This does not require that your child attend everyday. It simply alleviates the need for the parent to pay per day/week every Monday.

The program is open from 3-5pm Monday – Friday.

Aerobics: circuit, dance, kick boxing, step and step varieties, yoga, and pilates.

Aquatics: adult/child learn to swim, LifeGuard certifications, family swim, infant and preschool swim program, Mills swim program, MS/Arthritis water aerobics, MSAD #9 swim program, senior water aerobics, and Special Olympics/special needs swim.

Children’s Programs: adventure camp, after school program, birthday party program, childcare (M-F 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.), school vacation camp, and summer daze camp.

Fitness/Wellness: Cardiac Rehab 3 Program, Diabetes exercise/education, Heart Time Program (for people ages 55 and up), muscle conditioning/toning classes, personal exercise plans, resistance training, senior strength and balance, strength and conditioning clinics, women on weights (WOW), and youth fitness club.

Other: project graduation, school field trips, sports leagues, tennis lessons, and ropes course (high and low).

Equipment: climbing wall, elliptical trainers, indoor recreation equipment, weight equipment, four court field house, indoor track, Gravitron, lockers and showers, swimming pool, and more equipment.

All of the staff are CPR, First Aid, and AED certified.

Public - Individual: $198/year; Couple: $297/year; Family: $396/year

UMF Employees & Alumni - Individual: $132/year; Couple: $197/year; Family: $264/year

UMF full-time & Part-time students - Individual: N/A; Couple: $24/semester Family: $44/semester

UMF Students - Individual: $20; Couple: $44 Family: $68

Summer ***

Heartime Program - Individual: $28/semester; Couple: N/A; Family: N/A

Heartime Program Individual: $75/semester Couple: NA Family: N/A

Plus

Couple Membership: Head of household and spouse or significant other or head of houseshold and one dependant child.

Family Membership: Head of household, spouse or significant other or head of houseshold and dependant children.

*** UMF full-time or part-time who, during summer months, not taking classes at UMF.

Guest fees:

Individual - Single Day $ 7; Weekend * $12 Week ** $20

Couple - Single Day $12; Weekend $22 Week $30

Family - Single Day $15; Weekend $28 Week $35

Guest of FRC Member - Single Day $4; Weekend - N/A; Week N/A

Guest of UMF Student - Single Day $2; Weekend $5; Week $10

Grandchild of Member - Single Day $2; Weekend $5; Week $10

* Weekend is Friday thru Sunday; ** Week is 5 to 7 days.

**** Children under age 14 must be supervised by an adult at all times.

An annual membership allows members to use all of the facilities and equipment.

Pool Hours:

Monday – Thursday, 6:00 a.m.- 9:30 p.m.

Friday, 6:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

"The Growing Years" - a series of newsletters mailed to parents of children from birth to five years old. Free of charge.

"Personal Consultation" - individual or group meetings and printed information on personal budgeting, nutrition, home-based business, gardening, and many other subjects. Source for water and soil testing.

Kineowatha Park is a 62 acre park with volley ball courts, tennis courts, basketball courts, public beach, recreation hall with video games, ping pong tables, air hockey, etc. Snack bar. Skateboard park. Skating in winter. Buildings available for class reunions, family picnics, etc.

Municipally owned ballfield