Bangor Agricultural fair

A Community Supported Agricultural Fair will be held 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 540 Essex St. The church is accessible from the Stillwater Avenue end of Essex Street.

Participants are:

. Jo Barrett and Dennis King, King Hill Farm, Penobscot.

. Carly DelSignore, Tide Mill Organic Farm, Edmunds.

. Ryan Parker, Parker Produce, Winterport.

. Sarah and Garin Smith, Grassland Farm, Skowhegan.

. Mark and Linda McBrine, Vine and Branch Farm, Bangor.

. Stephanie Sosinski, Black Bear Food Guild, Orono.

. Jason Hartford, Green Ledges Farm, Parkman.

. Paul Volckhausen, Happy Town Farm, Orland.

. Laura Millay, Union Supported Agriculture, and Food AND Medicine, Bangor.

For information, call Melissa White Pillsbury of Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association at 568-4142, or visit www.mofga.org.

Talk by Camden photographer

The Eastern Maine Camera Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, at the Bangor Parks and Recreation building, 647 Main St.

John Longmaid will be the guest speaker. His topic will be “Aspects of the Photographic Image.” Since his return to photography, Longmaid’s goal is to create pictures that allow the viewer to experience, through the image, the actual moment the photograph was captured.

Longmaid lives in Camden and travels the Maine coast and elsewhere looking for those images.

The meeting is open to the public.

Physical disabilities group

BANGOR – The Physical Disabilities Support Group will not meet on its usual day, Feb. 7.

The group will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Alpha One, 1048 Union St., for a program on “Caring for the Caregiver” by Amy Cotton.

Jazz Festival

The Bangor High School Music Department will host its first Jazz Invitational Festival on Thursday, Feb. 14.

Jazz bands from Dexter High School, Doughty Middle School, Cohen Middle School and Bangor High School will spend the afternoon working with professional jazz educators, improving and refining their performance skills, before demonstrating what they have learned during an evening concert 7 p.m. at Peakes Auditorium.

The concert will feature the Queen City Big Band. The event is free and open to the public.

Brewer

Talk on worker centers

Saru Jayaraman and Fekkak Mamdouh, nationally recognized founders of Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, will speak at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, at the Worker Center of Eastern Maine, EMLC Solidarity Center, 20 Ivers St.

ROC-NY has become a model for worker centers nationwide, and Jayaraman and Mamdouh will talk about how to organize a successful worker center.

ROC-NY is dedicated to winning improved conditions for restaurant workers and raising public recognition of restaurant workers’ contributions to the city.

Jayaraman and Mamdouh received the Union Square Award and were named Immigrant Leaders by Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion. Jayaraman was listed as one of the 11 most influential people in the restaurant industry by New York Magazine.

Seating is limited. Those who wish to attend should contact Food AND Medicine by e-mail at jack@foodandmedicine.org, or call 989-4141 to reserve a spot.

Castine

Talk on cruise in France

The Maine Maritime Academy Alumni Association will host a lecture given by Tom Norton, class of 1971, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, on campus in Delano Auditorium, Leavitt Hall. Norton’s lecture will focus on his experiences of cruising the canals of France aboard his luxury self-powered barge. The lecture is presented free of charge and the public is invited to attend.

After sailing as an engineer on freighters and tankers, Norton specialized in ship construction, conversion and repair. He served as marine operations vice president for American Hawaii Cruises for several years, and retired to Maine where he works as a project manager for Pendleton Yacht Yard in Islesboro. He and his wife, Gayle, an author, antiquarian and gourmet cook, divide the year between France and their winter home on Islesboro. They live aboard their barge, L’Escapade, in Europe the remainder of the year.

Orono

Art by engineers

The University of Maine Engineering Art Club will hold its fourth annual artist awards ceremony 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, in the engineering and science building to celebrate the artistry and creativity of engineering students, faculty and other science- and engineering-related artists in the community.

The exhibit will be in place through Friday, Feb. 29. It features artwork of all types. Previous years have seen everything from a cardboard chair to precision-machined aluminum mazes. This year, one of the anticipated art creations is a 6-foot pepper grinder fit for the likes of Paul Bunyan.

“Engineering is a creative profession. Every day brings new problems to the designer’s desk, the solutions of which must often be original creations,” said engineering graduate student Edwin Nagy, who co-founded the exhibit and awards ceremony in 2005 with Will Manion, instructor of civil environmental engineering. “Students in engineering and the sciences need to be rewarded for their creative abilities, not just their skills at crunching numbers through formulae.”

ART by Engineers is intended to encourage students in engineering to explore their creative sides. The Feb. 7 ceremony will offer refreshments and a cash bar. Winners will be awarded cash prizes.

Several exhibit sponsors will judge entries in various categories. New categories are Most Daring and Sustainable Art, and Best Use of Recycled Materials. Other categories include Environmentally Inspired, Use of Whimsy, and Art by a Woman in Engineering.

The event is sponsored by the College of Engineering and faculty, University of Maine Foundation, Woodard and Curran Inc., CDM engineers, PenBay Media, University of Maine Bookstore, SEA Consulting, and the UM Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology.

Information on the show and photographs from previous years may be seen at www.engineering.umaine.edu/art.