FARMINGTON – Tumbledown Arts will hold a series of public informational town meetings in November. The first meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, in North Dining Hall of Olson Student Center at the University of Maine at Farmington.

Other meetings will be held Nov. 10 in the Community House in Phillips and Nov. 17 at Kingfield Elementary School. All meetings will be held at 6:30 p.m.

The meetings are free and open to anyone involved or interested in the culture of the area encompassed by SADs 9 and 58.

Those interested or involved with traditional arts, occupational arts, fine arts, local history including quilters, actors, bird carvers, basket makers, artists, performers, contra dancers, poets, crafts folk, theater groups, singers, fiddlers or anyone interested in our local heritage and cultural treasures are welcome to attend.

Tumbledown Arts is seeking to create a directory containing information on the area’s cultural treasures. The organization seeks to explore how artists and businesses can help support one another; how to use the Internet to post and update the directory; and to see if a self-sustaining group could emerge to become a force in mobilizing the community for greater support of the arts.

Tumbledown Arts-Discovery Research Project consists of members from the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Maine at Farmington, local businesses, and community members. The project is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission.

More information may be obtained by calling Elaine Eadler at 778-7515.