SPACE Gallery

For added doses of ease, comfort, and joy, you can also get fee-free SPACE tickets through our IRL Box Office — cash only, please!

We’ve also got SPACE GIFT CARDS for sale, for use toward tickets and/or bar concessions, or throw down for a half-price GIFT MEMBERSHIP FOR TEACHERS.

Hark! The SPACE Pop-Up Shop returns for another holiday swirl! Our staff has lovingly curated a trove of books, records, prints, cards, clothes, kids stuff, tapes, movie posters, framed art works, and more.

It’s a broad set of works from artists, most of ‘em Mainers. Come poke around. It’s good.

Tonight we’re screening Videoheaven, the documentary film by Alex Ross Perry about the incredible impact that the era of video rental stores had on American culture.

It’s at 7 pm!

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🎶 Hajjah Nur Asiah Djamil & Orkes Gambus Nur El Balad - Menuntut Ilmu (Gambus Music from Indonesia) via Radio is a Foreign Country

YouTube video by Roochie Toochie & The Ragtime Shepherd Kings Roochie Toochie and the Ragtime Shepherd Kings - Chorus Jig

Roochie Toochie & the Ragtime Shepherd Kings make a dramatic return to Portland this Sunday night!

From Detroit, Nashville, and New Orleans, they’ve brought to life music from 90-100 years ago in a way that delights people aged 7-97. We can’t stop watching this one.

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🎶 from Debbie Does Dallas (via Radio is a Foreign Country)

We also consider Bob a big part of SPACE's own history. SPACE's founding and original staff had the good sense to bring Bob here on August 11 of 2003, a year after we opened. Were you there?

Bob Mould Solo Electric: Here We Go Crazy with J. Robbins – SPACE The legendary frontman for Hüsker Dü and Sugar returns to SPACE on a solo electric tour celebrating his new album, Here We Go Crazy, with…

Heads up, today’s the last day for Bob Mould tix at the advance rate! We’re honored to bring this legend back to SPACE Tuesday, Sep 16.

The show also brings J. Robbins, an indie music lifer and legend in his own right, from Jawbox, Government Issue, Burning Airlines.

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🎶 Andalusian Nights - Radio Algeria (Sublime Frequencies) via Radio is a Foreign Country

Freedom of art is non-negotiable.

SPACE joins 275+ leaders and 150+ institutions demanding courage over censorship.

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🎶: TARPA PAWARI - PREM PAWAR & DJ GOLU DHARANGAON (INDIA)

Our friend Assasi did up the SPACE logo in Arabic for us. We love it! You can catch Assasi — raised in Syria, based in Biddeford, Maine — Friday for Hakawati, a night of traditional Syrian storytelling, Middle Eastern music and Arabic hip hop, with a band.

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David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar at SPACE in Portland, Maine

Virtuosic legends this evening @spacegallery.bsky.social. Thrilling to hear, and be transported by, the friendship between David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar.

The artist Julia Arredondo, who is great, lent some words and wisdom about SPACE for our spring campaign.

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Julia’s show “Just Passing Through” is up through June 21!

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Music Is Too Important To Be Left To The Marketplace A Conversation with Liz Pelly

This was a very insightful conversation, and it took place at Portland's own @spacegallery.bsky.social. I get Harper's and I read her article on Perfect Fit Content, but this talk is wider in scope and I left excited about an economic re-imagining for music.

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Giving a talk and signing books at the @spacegallery.bsky.social in Portland, Maine tonight at 7, come join us! space538.org/event/passpo...

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🎶 平安座ジントーヨー(HenzaJintoyo) Seiji Tokuhiga Group from Deep Japan: Okinawan Records from the American Era

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🎶 Ciwit Ciwitan - Aseng Suarsih (Sunda Kliningan) (Indonesia) from Radio Is a Foreign Country

I love walking by the beautiful @krehmellick.bsky.social installation at @spacegallery.bsky.social nothing makes me feel less alone in the world 💙💙💙💙

Mariah Blake – They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals (in conversation with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson) – SPACE Print: A Bookstore and SPACE Gallery present an intimate, thoughtful conversation with investigative journalist Mariah Blake about her new book They Poisoned the World: Life…

Co-presented by @printbookstore.bsky.social

Join us at SPACE! Doors at 6:30. Tickets here:

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Tonight, we’ve got investigative journalist Mariah Blake in town to talk about her deep reporting on forever chemicals and the chemical industry’s great efforts to hide their dangers from the public.

@mariahblake.bsky.social discusses her They Poisoned the World, with @ayanaeliza.bsky.social

We’re screening Vulcanizadora on May 16th. The film is a NYT Critic’s Pick has been called “spasmodically funny” and “raw and moving,” and our era’s Old Joy.

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Attention Mainers! TOMORROW (May 4) at 5:30 — Kinonik, Points North Institute and @spacegallery.bsky.social present very rare screening of Nathaniel Dorsky’s 16mm masterpiece ARBORETUM CYCLE. Not to be missed!

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🎵: The Danny Fisher-Lochhead Large Ensemble - “String” from World of Difference (2025)

A week from tonight—Monday, 5/5, 7 pm
SPACE @spacegallery.bsky.social
538 Congress
Portland ME

@johncotter.bsky.social & Shanna Compton, The Color of Sound

We’ll be reading/talking about hearing & visualizing sound. John’s got a new story & I’ve got a fresh slideshow. Copies of our books too too.

Hey, Maine. There’s a thing that you should go to next Monday! With @shannacompton.bsky.social and @johncotter.bsky.social at @spacegallery.bsky.social ❤️

It’s April Break, and any young kids you know are looking for something to do!

FYI, they get in for FREE at this kids show, today at 4:30.

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This man (below) is talking about this!

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And finally, sidebody are known for their electric high-energy performances, four part harmonies, and unique DIY pop-art-rock sound, and have been compared to Talking Heads, the B-52s, and The Raincoats.

sidebody is Hava Horowitz, Lena Warnke, Martha Schnee and Cara Giaimo.

Laura Poppick is a Portland-based science and environmental journalist whose stories have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, and elsewhere. Her debut book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time, is coming out July 2025.