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Event Series Belle Creative Arts Center Hosting Pottery-Making Event to Benefit Local Food Charity

Belle Creative Arts Center Hosting Pottery-Making Event to Benefit Local Food Charity

Belle Creative Arts Center 87 High Street, Wilton, ME, United States

Vera Johnson invites you to a series of events to make bowls to hold warm soup in the coming winter. These workshops will be held at the Belle Creative Arts Center where she will teach you how to make pinch pots, one of the oldest and simplest forms of ceramics.   The pottery you make will be donated and sold at the Fall Harvest Soup fundraising event at Salt & Pepper and Sugar Too in Wilton in late October. This community effort is part of Empty Bowls, a grassroots movement by local artists and craftspeople in cities and towns around

$20

October Biz Fit: Celebrate World Smile Day

via ZOOM

Celebrate World Smile Day with the WBC 😊 What puts a smile on your face? Customers? Sourcing or creating wonderful products? Giving great service? How do you make your customers and clients smile? What do they most appreciate? What joy do you bring them? What is a great example of when you’ve turned a frown into a smile (yours or your customer’s)? Let’s share tips, suggestions, examples and make each other smile over a cup of morning coffee or tea. This is an informal space for women to connect, network and learn together about keeping their business, and themselves, fit!

Free

Get Ready for the Holidays- How to Manage Shipping Costs

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Are you looking for some assistance with navigating the wide array of options to creatively, safely, and cost effectively ship your product to customers? In our final shipping workshop, WBC consultant Cathy Roberts will discuss how to determine the actual costs of shipping products, crafting strong return policies, what percentage of shipping costs should be passed on to your customers and how to incorporate shipping costs directly into your prices. Register Today!

Free

Get Ready for the Holidays- How to Manage Shipping Costs

via ZOOM

Are you looking for some assistance with navigating the wide array of options to creatively, safely, and cost effectively ship your product to customers? In our final shipping workshop, WBC consultant Cathy Roberts will discuss how to determine the actual costs of shipping products, crafting strong return policies, what percentage of shipping costs should be passed on to your customers and how to incorporate shipping costs directly into your prices. Register Today!

Free

FocusME: Fall 2022 Cohort

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The CEI Women’s Business Center and the Portland SCORE Chapter are collaborating to host FocusME, a peer group for female entrepreneurs. FocusME is a facilitated peer group that provides a supportive network of other female business owners; a place to work on personal and professional growth, a sense of accountability, and an opportunity to learn from your peers' experiences and expertise. Please note that in order to ensure that the group is filled with businesses that are non-competitive and in similar stages of growth the WBC will make the final recommendation with regards to participation. We will contact you to

Free

November Biz Fit: What do Maine-Made Cheeses and Veterans Have in Common? Holly Aker!

Online via Zoom 30 Federal St, Brunswick, ME, United States

Holly Aker; President of the Maine Cheese Guild and Program Manager for VBOC; Veterans Business Outreach Center will join the Biz Fit conversation Friday November 4th. VBOC New England is hosted by the Center for Women & Enterprise. Come with your questions and enjoy the mash up of interesting conversation; Are you a veteran? Do you want to know how you can support veterans? Do you like cheese? Do you make cheese and are interested in growing your market? Do you yearn to connect with other women, entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs? Everyone is welcome. Let’s meet over a cup of morning coffee or tea.

Free

Western Maine Audubon presents: “Snowbirds: Following Our Winged Friends in Winter” by Dr. Sally Stockwell

UMF Preble Hall--Thomas Auditorium 173 High Street, Farmington, ME

Western Maine Audubon invites the general public to its second of three free fall talks of 2022. The talk, titled “Snowbirds: Following Our Winged Friends in Winter,” will be presented by Dr. Sally Stockwell, Director of Conservation at Maine Audubon. The Zoom talk will be at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 12th at Thomas Auditorium, Preble Hall, UMF—173 High Street, Farmington. There will be no ability to access this talk at the time of presentation except at the auditorium. Recordings of the talk will be available at https://western.maineaudubon.org/videos/ 2-3 weeks after the event. Are you a snowbird? Do you head

Free

Flower Arranging with Janet O’Neil

Trinity United Methodist Church 612 Farmington Falls Rd, Farmington, ME, United States

All are welcome, members and nonmembers alike. Join us as Janet explains floral artistry fundamentals and demonstrates techniques you can use to create your own beautiful arrangements. Be sure to enter your name to win one of her completed arrangements from the class! Light refreshments will be served.

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