• BENEFITS
Winter Beach Ball, refreshments, dancing and music by The Tony Boffa Band; benefits Eastern Maine Medical Center’s CancerCare of Maine; Bangor Civic Center. $30. 973-5055. 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday.
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YOUth Can Build: LEGO House Buildathon, LEGO building contest benefitting Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland; registration recommended. $20 per builder (waived for teams who have raised funds), Maine Mall, South Portland. 772-2151. 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
International Fire and Police Winter Games, benefits Special Olympics and Shriners Hospital Burn Center; Sunday River Ski Resort, Newry. www.ifpwg.com. All day Sunday.
Frozen Four Miler Road Race, benefits Send a Kid to Camp for the Old Orchard Beach Recreation Department and the Boys and Girls Club Alumni Association Scholarship; Jimmy the Greek’s, Old Orchard Beach. $15 to $19. www.baystateevents.com. 10 a.m. (registration), 12:30 p.m. (race) Sunday.
• SPECIAL EVENTS
TODAY
Karen Montanaro, award-winning dancer/choreographer, performs at the opening of photographer Arthur Fink’s exhibit of dance images, The Danforth, Portland. www.arthurfinkphoto.com. 5 to 8 p.m.
SATURDAY
Northeast Horsemen’s Conference and Trade Show, vendors, speakers and more, Augusta Civic Center. www.nhcts.com. $20 to $30 in advance; $30 to $45 for the conference at the door; $6 for the trade show (free for children under age 12) at the door. www.nhcts.com. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Open house, instrument demonstrations, music, mini-lessons, refreshments and more, Portland Conservatory of Music. Free. 775-3356. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
SUNDAY
Great Northeast Radio Rally, workshops and more for audio producers and aspiring audio producers of all ages, University of Southern Maine (Wishcamper Center), Portland. Free; registration recommended. bluntradio.org. 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Audio Slam, audio producers enter four minutes of produced audio, which are played and judged live, Space, Portland. Free. bluntradio.org. 7 p.m.
MONDAY
MLK March for Justice, parade commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Preble Street Resource Center to Portland City Hall. Free. www.portlandMLK.net. 2 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day events with reception, workshops, performances and a read-in, Bates College, Lewiston. Free. 786-6400. Various times.
Children’s Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., with authors Rohan Henry and Charlotte Agell, games, crafts and refreshments; for children ages 5 and older. Bowdoin College (Moulton Union), Brunswick. Free. www.bowdoin.edu. 10 a.m.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day events, Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, Portland. Free with museum admission: $9; children ages 18 months and under admitted free. 828-1234. Reading of “Martin’s Big Words,” book about the life of MLK, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.; “Kids on the Block,” troupe of educational puppets, 2 p.m.
TUESDAY
Knitting Night, knit (or not) while listening to a performance by fiddler Hope Hoffman and her band, Free Grange Music Studio, Bowdoinham. Free. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.
• FAIRS/FESTIVALS
Psychic and Crystal Fair, psychic readers, chair massage, aura photography and more, Leapin’ Lizards, Freeport. www.leapinlizards.biz. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
• BOOKS/AUTHORS
TODAY
Kate Brown, author of “A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland,” talks about plutonium cities, Bates College (Pettengill Hall), Lewiston. Free. www.bates.edu. 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
Kerry Emanuel, author of “Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes,” presents “Uncertainty, Modeling and Climate Change,” Bates College (Carnegie Science Building), Lewiston. Free. www.bates.edu. 4 p.m.
Mitchell Thomashow, author of “Bringing the Biosphere Home,” and Cindy Thomashow present a slide show, “Is China’s Future Green?”, Rockport Opera House. Free. www.camdenconference.org. 6:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
James Richardson, “Standing on Two Feet,” book signing, Borders Books and Music, South Portland. Noon.
Steff Deschenes, “The Ice Cream Theory,” book signing, Bull Moose Music, Scarborough. www.bullmoose.com. 2 to 4 p.m.
Neil Rolde, “O. Murray Carr,” book signing, Maine Coast Book Shop and Cafe, Damariscotta. 563-3207. Noon.
Book launch party with Maurissa Guibord, author of “Warped,” Scarborough Public Library. Free. www.library.scarborough.me. 2 to 4 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Geoffrey Wolff, “The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum,” author talk and book signing, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath. $5. www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org. Noon.
“Colonial Asia Coming Unglued (August 1842 to February 1942): 100 Years in 100 Minutes,” authors Mac Deford and Tom DeMarco present a program about colonial Asia, The Grand, Ellsworth. $5/donation. www.camdenconference.org. 7 p.m.
Poetry reading, Carolyn Gelland reads the work of her husband, Ken Frost; Farmington Public Library. www.farmington.lib.me.us. 7 p.m.
• PARTICIPANT DANCE
Ballroom dancing, Maplewood Dance Center, Portland. 878-0584. 7 to 11 p.m. Friday and Wednesday; 7:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday.
Contradance, Town Hall, Bowdoinham. $9. 666-3090. 8 to 11 p.m. (beginner’s lesson at 7:30 p.m.) Saturday.
Contradance, Mayo Street Arts, Portland. $5. www.mayostreetarts.org. 7 p.m. Tuesday.
• FILMS
TODAY
Sagadahoc Preservation’s Dreamland Theater, film series, Winter Street Center, Bath. $5/donation. 443-2174. “South Pacific” (1958), 7 p.m.
Film and Discussion Series, Rockland Public Library. Free. 594-0310. “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: The Hero’s Adventure” (1988), 6:30 p.m.
Random Movie Night, series in the Teen Lounge, Portland Public Library. www.portlandlibrary.com. 3:30 to 6 p.m. Through Jan. 28.
FRIDAY
“The American Astronaut,” 2001 black-and-white sci-fi/Western musical, The Oak and the Ax, Biddeford. Free. theoakandtheax.blogspot.com. 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Teens Through Time, film series with teen-cenric viewpoint, Portland Public Library. Free. “Gidget” (1959), 4:30 p.m.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, traveling tour of independent and experimental films, Space, Portland. $7. www.space538.org. 7:30 p.m.
• PRO SPORTS
Portland Pirates, AHL hockey team, Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland. $11-$17. 828-4665. www.portlandpirates.com. Vs. Hartford, 7 p.m. Friday; Vs. Worcester, 7 p.m. Saturday.
Maine Red Claws, NBA Development League basketball team, Portland Exposition Building. $10 to $30. 210-6655. Vs. Erie, 8 p.m. Friday.
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