Freeport Speech

03/31/2025

It’s time! Tickets now available to see Dr. Ann McKee with Carol Leary at on April 24th!

Ann McKee, MD, is a neurologist and neuropathologist who focuses on Alzheimer’s disease and the consequences of repetitive traumatic brain injury, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Dr. McKee is the chief neuropathologist at the VA Boston, and Director of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Boston University CTE Center Her groundbreaking work on the long-term effects of repetitive head impacts, concussion and blast injury in contact sports athletes and military veterans revolutionized scientific thought regarding head trauma. Through the BU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, she created the UNITE brain bank, the world’s largest repository of brains from individuals exposed to traumatic brain injuries.

This will be an incredible and intimate event held right here in Freeport.

Please head to our website to click the link for your tickets!

01/28/2025

A few fun facts about Calvin Mackenzie:

Calvin is a graduate of Bowdoin College and received his PhD from Harvard University.

The federal government has frequently tapped his expertise in presidential transitions and appointments.

He has served as senior advisor to both the Presidential Appointee Initiative and the National Commission on Public Service and as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.

He has authored and edited more than a dozen books, including coauthoring The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s, a book that was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History.

Join Freeport Speech for our February event :
Amy Walter in Conversation with Cal Mackenzie: Beyond the 2024 Election - Understanding the New World

When: Thursday, February 27, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30 PM (Doors will open at 6:30 PM for pre-event live music)

01/23/2025

Our 2025 season is starting! We welcome “Amy Walter in conversation with Cal McKenzie: Beyond the 2024 Election - Understanding the New World”

February 27, 2025 7 pm
Tickets available now - link in bio!

Amy Walter is an American political analyst who is the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. A contributor to the PBS NewsHour, she provides weekly political analysis for the popular “Politics Monday” segment and is a featured contributor for their Election and Convention special coverage events. She is also a regular Sunday panelist on NBC’s Meet the Press and CNN’s Inside Politics and appears frequently on Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel.

10/31/2024

NOVEMBER 13, 2024: Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Barton Seaver!!! 🌍🐠🎏♥️ —- beloved authors, speakers, stewards and protectors!

Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer and professor at Bowdoin College.

Barton Seaver is an author, speaker and chef aiming to restore our relationship with the ocean, the land and each other through sustainable eating.

Tickets now live in our bio and on our website!
Nov 13, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Meetinghouse Arts




Listen to Ayana’s recent interview on

10/18/2024

Thank you Freeport and all those who attended the hearfelt and engaging conversation with and Clayton Spencer! It was a pleasure be part of the audience as Deval reminisced and shared thoughts on “servant leadership”, humility, and representing citizens through grassroots approaches. The humor and charisma on stage was engaging! We look forward to seeing everyone at our 2024 season finale on 11/13 with and Barton Seaver!

10/04/2024

Did you know…. Clayton Spencer was the eighth president of Bates College? She had previously served as the vice president for institutional policy at Harvard University from 2005 to 2012.

Clayton will facilitate our upcoming conversation with Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, sharing what his extraordinary journey has taught him about the leadership we need to thrive in the coming decades.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deval-patrick-in-conversation-with-clayton-spencer-tickets-1008925281677

October 17th, Freeport Performing Arts Center

10/02/2024

Wonderful spotlight from Maine Public on our upcoming event !

Don't miss the next great event from Freeport Speech !

When: Thursday, October 17, 7:00 to 8:30 pm (Doors will open at 6:30 pm for pre-event live music by Shana Graff and her ensemble, Shaina's Strings)
Where: Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook Street in Freeport

Today, leaders in both business and government are facing crises of increasing complexity. Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who served in office during the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, grew up on the South Side of Chicago, attended Milton Academy, Harvard College and Harvard Law School on scholarship, and has served in leadership positions in both the private and the public sectors. He will take to the Freeport Speech stage to share what his journey has taught him about the leadership we need to thrive in the coming decades.

Maine Public is very pleased to be a media sponsor of this experience.

Learn more about the discount available to Maine Public members here: https://www.mainepublic.org/freeport-speech-presents-a-timely-look-at-leadership-with-former-massachusetts-governor-deval-patrick
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10/01/2024

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW! Two weeks until we welcome Deval Patrick and Clayton Spencer to Freeport!

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in a conversation with retired Bates College President, Clayton Spencer, will share with us what his extraordinary journey has taught him about the leadership we need to thrive in the coming decades.

Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Freeport Performing Arts Center

02/16/2024

Tickets available! March 21,2024! Prof. Alan Lightman— host of PBS Miniseries “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science” will be kicking off our 2024 season with an evening melding the spiritual and the scientific in search of truth.

Tickets $20 🎫

Book signing post event; books offered by Sherman’s Maine Coast Bookshop. 📚

01/22/2024

🎤 Alan Lightman | March 21, 2024
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Best-selling author of Einstein’s Dreams, physicist, MIT professor and social entrepreneur, Dr. Lightman will explore the questions raised in his book Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine: How do complex human experiences, such as feeling connected to nature, feeling part of things larger than ourselves, falling in love, the appreciation of beauty, arise from the material atoms and molecules of our brains? It will be an evening melding the spiritual and the scientific in search of truth.