EVENTS CALENDAR
APRIL
April 9
School Visit – Sumner Memorial High School, Sullivan. Closed event.
April 13
School Visit– Sanford High School.Closed event.
April 14
School Visit– Calais High School.Closed event.
April 14 Online Author Talk!
6 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
The Girl with the Duck Tattoo by Sarma Melngailis
This will be a fascinating discussion with the raw food-star chef and entrepreneur about extreme coercive control and financial abuse. Sarma is the subject of the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan that is riveting but also misleading and sensationalist, and being abused as a domestic abuse victim by the media which I can definitely relate to is one of the topics we will discuss!
Register here!
April 15
School Visit– Machias High School. Closed event.
April 16
School Visit – Woodland Jr./Sr. High School in Baileyville. Closed event.
April 22
Break the Silence Public Rally
1-3 p.m. at the Farmington Post Office
Community Conversation
4-5:30 at the Carrabassett Public Library
April 29 & 30
School Visit – John Bapst High School. Closed event.
MAY
Tuesday, May 5
6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Survivor Speaks Panel Discussion
Scarborough Public Library
Saturday, May 9
9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m.
FREE Online Webinar with Dr. Christine Cocchiola on strategies for moms dealing with coercive control and the weaponizing of courts and children.
Click to sign up here!
Tuesday, May 12 – Online Author Talk!
6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. EST
Beth Macy, author of the bestselling investigation of the opioid crisis
Dopesick, will join us to talk about the domestic violence weaving through her 2025 memoir of "home and family in a fractured America".
"In her new book Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization." – The New Yorker
JUNE
Four Tuesdays in June!
June 9, June 16, June 23, and June 30
1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Healing Together Through Memoir
Online writing workshop with Betsy Cornwell, NY Times best selling author of Ring of Salt.
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Friday, June 19
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Presentation at Parker Ridge Retirement Community
JULY
Entire month of July
Third Annual “Into the Light!” Yellow Festival Fundraiser
Friday and Saturday, July 10-11
Healing Together Retreat near Brooksville, Maine
Registration form coming soon!
Monday, July 20
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Presentation at Camden Yacht Club
Patrisha will talk about finding her voice at the age of 60 to start the Camden-based grassroots nonprofit Finding Our Voices, moving the needle on domestic abuse across Maine.
AUGUST
Saturday, August 1
5 p.m.
“Dance Into the Light!” Music Festival Fundraiser at Glendarragh Lavender Farm
SEPTEMBER
Monday, September 21
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Healing Retreat through Nature at Wells Preserve at Laudholm, Wells, Maine
Tuesday, September 22 – Online Author Talk!
6 p.m.
Hope by Rosie Batty
Rosie Batty is joining us from Australia!
When Rosie's son Luke was beaten to death by his father in 2014 at a public sports match, this national hero turned unimaginable personal pain into a stunning movement for change all across Australia. We will contrast and compare the domestic violence landscape in Australia to what I see in Maine, and the chief hurdles and pathways to change as well as personal healing, I recommend you read her 2024 memoir Hope and also her first, Rosie: A Mother's Story
OCTOBER
Thursday, October 1
5:30 p.m.
“Out at Six” documentary with post-screening survivor-led panel discussion at The Strand in Rockland
Saturday, October 3
2 p.m.
“Out at Six” documentary with post-screening survivor-led panel discussion
Maine Film Center, Waterville