Events
Greenhorns hosts workshops in collaboration with our sister organization, Smithereen Farm, in Pembroke Maine.
- Greenhorns offers free and low-cost events for the benefit of the local and regional community. If you enjoy a free event, consider making a tax deductible donation to Greenhorns to support our programming.
- Many events require advance registration; please follow the registration link within the workshop description.
- Coming for an event and want to stay a while? You can book a tent platform via HipCamp!
- Refund policy: Due to our rural location and small event sizes workshop registrations are not refundable
Looking for food and agriculture events in Downeast Maine? Check out the Eat Downeast event calendar for fairs, festivals, workshops, meet-ups, demonstrations, plant sales, family-friendly events, and more.
Talk: Artist Amy Franceschini (Future Farmers)
May 30 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Greenhorns and Smithereen Farm present a talk by artist Amy Franceschini of Future Farmers.
This talk is in person in Pembroke, Maine, but there is an option to beam in virtually: LINK TBD
Amy Franceschini is an artist and designer whose work facilitates encounter, exchange and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the "certainties" of a given time or place where a work is situated. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between "humans" and "nature". Her projects reveal the history and currents of contradictions related to this divide by challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to "hunt" and "gather". Using this as a starting point, she creates relational objects that invoke action and inquiry; not only to imagine, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.
In 1995, Amy founded Futurefarmers as a collaborative platform to consider the social, political and environmental organization of space. Futurefarmers use various media to deconstruct systems to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics; food systems, public transportation, education... Through this disassembly they find new narratives and reconfigurations that form alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems. They have created temporary schools, books, bus tours, and large-scale exhibitions internationally.