OUR EVENTS

Maine Maritime Academy: A Night of Annual Fun(d)
Apr
4

Maine Maritime Academy: A Night of Annual Fun(d)

Boogie & Bites 2025

Step back in time for the ultimate disco experience with Maine Maritime Academy and the Motor Booty Affair! Join us for an evening of great food, great fun, and great music!

April 4, 2025 | 5:45 – 10:00 pm
Brick South | Thompson’s Point | Portland, ME

All proceeds will benefit the Maine Maritime Academy Annual Fund Scholarships.

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Maker's Market
Apr
6

Maker's Market

Join us to support local farms, artisans, artist, movers and shakers at the best curated Market in Portland.

From 10AM-3PM select Sundays, swing down to Thompson's Point and support your favorite local small businesses with a bloody mary or mimosa in hand.

Entry, free!

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Mineral, Gem, & Jewelry Show
Apr
19

Mineral, Gem, & Jewelry Show

The Largest Mineral, Gem and Jewelry Show in Southern Maine

Explore exhibits from more than 50 dealers across 180 tables full of mineral specimens, fossils, gems, beads, jewelry, crafting supplies, healing crystals, and much more! View dazzling fluorescent minerals under ultraviolet light in a walk-in enclosure. Collectors, crafters, students, rock hounds – there’s something special for everyone.

Entry is CASH ONLY

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Mineral, Gem, & Jewelry Show
Apr
20

Mineral, Gem, & Jewelry Show

The Largest Mineral, Gem and Jewelry Show in Southern Maine

Explore exhibits from more than 50 dealers across 180 tables full of mineral specimens, fossils, gems, beads, jewelry, crafting supplies, healing crystals, and much more! View dazzling fluorescent minerals under ultraviolet light in a walk-in enclosure. Collectors, crafters, students, rock hounds – there’s something special for everyone.

Entry is CASH ONLY

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Maker's Market
May
11

Maker's Market

Join us to support local farms, artisans, artist, movers and shakers at the best curated Market in Portland.

From 10AM-3PM select Sundays, swing down to Thompson's Point and support your favorite local small businesses with a bloody mary or mimosa in hand.

Entry, free!

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State Theatre Concert Series: TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE with special guests JJ Grey & Mofro and Dumpstaphunk
Jul
18

State Theatre Concert Series: TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE with special guests JJ Grey & Mofro and Dumpstaphunk

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Trombone Shorty has announced a number of key upcoming performances, as well as summer 2025 tour dates with his band Orleans Avenue. Trombone Shorty will be performing at The Super Bowl (FOX) on February 8 in his hometown of New Orleans, playing “America The Beautiful” with Lauren Daigle during the pre-game show. He is also performing at the CBS National Christmas Tree Lighting at the White House, which will broadcast on December 20, and performed last night at the Kennedy Center Honors, to celebrate recipient Arturo Sandoval, which will air on December 22 at 8:30PM ET on CBS / Paramount Plus.

Trombone Shorty also recently earned a fresh GRAMMY Nomination, for his appearance on Live At The 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival by New Breed Brass Band, the New Orleans ensemble led by his nephew, Jenard Andrews (Best Regional Roots Music Album). Trombone Shorty is a GRAMMY-winner and now a four-time nominee: he earned a nomination in the same category last year for his work on New Breed Brass Band’s debut album, Made In New Orleans, which he produced and recorded at his Buckjump studio.

Today he has also announced a summer tour with JJ Grey & Mofro and Dumpstaphunk, stopping at major venues across the country in June and July including LA’s The Greek Theater (June 8), Chicago’s Salt Shed (July 12) and more. Tickets go on sale this Friday, 12/13 (10AM Local). The summer tour is in addition to the recently announced second annual Shorty Gras Tour in March 2025 with Tank and the Bangas. Fresh off a busy year of performances and a planned cultural exchange trip to Cuba, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will deliver their signature high-energy performances over a three-week run of shows, bringing New Orleans’ famous Mardi Gras party to the East Coast, South and Midwest.

The upcoming appearances and tour announcement arrives amid a packed year for the New Orleans icon and musical ambassador. From January 16-20, he will embark on the fourth Getting Funky in Havana cultural exchange trip to Cuba, alongside Orleans Avenue, young musicians from the Trombone Shorty Foundation, renowned Afro-Cuban star Cimafunk, George Clinton, Taj Mahal, Grace Potter, Yola and Robert Randolph. The cultural exchange will feature performances and collaborations between artists from New Orleans and Cuba, highlighting the deep-rooted musical connections between the two regions.

Over the past year, Trombone Shorty headed tours with Big Boi and headlined historic venues like the Hollywood Bowl. He also appeared at the White House’s Juneteenth Celebration, played a headline set with Lil Wayne at the Roots Picnic, made a special appearance at Madison Square Garden for the Soulshine benefit concert to aid recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and once again closed out the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a tradition he has led for over a decade.

JJ Grey & Mofro

From his early days playing cover music behind chicken wire at a west side Jacksonville juke joint while still working at a lumberyard, to playing sold-out shows at some of the largest venues and music festivals in the world, JJ Grey has always delivered his soul-honest truths. Since his first album, ‘Blackwater’, back in 2001, Grey has been releasing deeply moving, masterfully written, funkified rock and front porch Southern soul music.

Now, with ‘Olustee’ – his tenth album and first in eight years, and the first he has self-produced – Grey is back, singing his personal stories with universal themes of redemption, rebirth, hard luck, and inner peace. With his music, Grey also celebrates good times with friends, oftentimes mixing the carnal with the cerebral in the very same song. Fueled by his vividly detailed, timeless original songs spun from his life experiences, Grey’s gritty baritone drips with honest passion and testifies with a preacher’s foot-pounding fervor.

With ‘Olustee’, JJ Grey has once again pushed the boundaries of his own creative musical, lyrical and vocal talents, delivering an instant classic. Many of the songs are steeped in the mythical Southern stories of his ancestral Florida home and filled with people from JJ’s life. The songs are told through the eyes of a poet and sung with pure, unvarnished soul. Grey’s message is simple and strong – respect the natural world and always try to live in the moment. And never forget the importance of having a good time!

Dumpstaphunk

Dumpstaphunk stands out amongst New Orleans’ best, cementing themselves as one of the funkiest bands to ever arise from the Crescent City. Born on the Jazz & Heritage Festival stage, and descended from Neville and Meters family bloodlines, these soldiers of funk ignite a deep, gritty groove that dares listeners not to move. Their performances combine ingenious musicianship through complex funk, rock, and jazz arrangements accompanied by soulful melodies and Big Easy traditions. 

The band released their 4th studio album Where Do We Go From Here on April 23, 2021 featuring Marcus King, Trombone Shorty and Chali 2Na on double bronze vinyl, CD and all digital platforms. Dumpstaphunk culled material from many different sources over the past few years, creating during downtime and rare off tour cycle stop-gaps at various studios in New Orleans: some songs were born on-the-spot in the studio, others as a drum beat or a groove at sound-check. A few were simply covers that were already in the band’s live repertoire. The songwriting was largely collaborative, with all band-members contributing their own respective stylistic nuances.  

For the past 17 years, Dumpstaphunk has earned its reputation as the most well-regarded next-generation New Orleans live powerhouse, the type of band whose live shows attract sit-ins from legends like Carlos Santana, Bob Weir and Trombone Shorty. Alongside Tony Hall, Nick Daniels, Alex Wasily, Ashlin Parker and drummer Deven Trusclair, cousins Ivan and Ian Neville have built upon their family’s iconic NOLA legacy as they’ve transformed Dumpstaphunk into the city’s pre-eminent 21st-century funk-fusion export. As a result, recent career highlights include supporting Dave Matthews Band at Madison Square Garden in NYC (2022), Trombone Shorty’s Voodoo Threaudown with Tank and the Bangas, Big Freedia and The Soul Rebels (2022), Allman Family Revival Tour (2022), supporting the Rolling Stones on their home turf at the Superdome in New Orleans (2019), and touring with George Clinton & The Parliament Funkadelic for his farewell tour (2019).

Dueling baselines from Tony Hall and Nick Daniels III set off one of the dirtiest rhythm sections on the planet, while Ivan Neville lights up the Hammond B3 keys and cousin Ian Neville’s funky guitar riffs send the groove into overdrive. Dumpstaphunk tosses around lead vocals and four-part harmonies the way Sly & the Family Stone did, but with three studio albums under their belt, Dumpstaphunk stands on the merit of their own material.

Dumpstaphunk has performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival every year since 2001 and continues to tour all over the world. They have performed on hundreds of festival stages like Jam Cruise, Dead & Company’s Playing in the Sand, Lockn Festival, NYC’s Summerstage, Byron Bay Bluesfest and more – and you never know who may appear as a guest on stage with the band on any given night. Guest appearances have included Santana, Bob Weir, Dave Matthews, John Oates, Lucas Nelson, Deen Ween, Blackbyrd McKnight, Jerry Harrison, Marcus King and Nicki Bluhm. 

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World Oddities Expo
Mar
29

World Oddities Expo

The World Oddities Expo is a traveling oddities festival- a peculiar paradise where weird thrives! We pride ourselves on being an all inclusive artisan and small business fueled mega-convention. We feature artists, vendors, performers, educators, and guest speakers to create a macabre and magical experience for all!

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Limitless Wrestling: Bissell Brothers Bash
Mar
21

Limitless Wrestling: Bissell Brothers Bash

For the first time in 5 YEARS, Limitless Wrestling returns to Portland, Maine on Friday, March 21st for the first-ever BISSELL BROTHERS BASH!

WHEN: Friday, March 21st | Doors @ 6PM - Bell Time @ 7PM
WHERE: Brick South @ Thompson’s Point (8 Thompson's Point, Portland, ME)
PRESENTED BY: Bissell Brothers, Maine Vintage Toys

* Special Challenge Match *
“Acey Baby” Ace Romero vs. Dirty Dango

🩸 Fourth Generation Wrestling Star, ZILLA FATU returns to Limitless Wrestling
🍻 Special pre-party at Bissell Brothers Portland!

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Maker's Market
Mar
16

Maker's Market

Join us to support local farms, artisans, artist, movers and shakers at the best curated Market in Portland.

From 10AM-3PM select Sundays, swing down to Thompson's Point and support your favorite local small businesses with a bloody mary or mimosa in hand.

Entry, free!

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Maine Brewers' Cup
Mar
8

Maine Brewers' Cup

Join the Maine Brewers’ Guild and Thompson’s Point Saturday, March 8th from 10AM – 5PM for the annual Brewers’ Tournament! Your favorite local breweries will be lacing up their skates and hitting the ice for a full day of round-robin action under the historic Depot Pavilion at the Thompson’s Point Rink. Base Camp will be cooking up warm bites all day and beers will be pouring from each of the participating teams including:

Allagash Brewing:
Baxter Brewing
Orono Brewing
Oxbow Brewing
and Nonesuch River Brewing!

Spectator tickets are on sale now – get yours here!

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Summer Sunsets On The Point

Join us for Summer Sunsets at the Point from 4pm until sunset every Thursday this summer!2020 dates starts June 4th and ends September 10th.Food trucks, beer, wine, cocktails, lawn games, kids activities and good times at the end of the Point by Portland Trails Park, at the Depot.For more details or any questions please message us on our Facebook Summer Sunsets at the Point event page or contact us at neighbors@thompsonspointmaine.com. This is a weather pending event. Dogs allowed!Pay to park at Thompson’s Point is available. Bicycle parking is FREE! The Breeze and the Downeaster are a short walk away.

Other Past Vendors Include:
Skillful Home Recreation
Buoy Toss
Party Palooga
Sea Bags

Past food trucks include:
Mr. Tuna
Thainy Boda
Wicked Good
Greeks of Peaks
Mainely Meatballs
Mainely Hot Dogs
Mami
Fishin’ Ships
NOM BAI Street Kitchen
The Marshmallow Cart
The Saltbox Cafe
BP’s Shuck Shack
Farm To Coast Mobile Kitchen
Vantage Point Chowder
Alabama BBQ
Tacos Del Seoul
Maine Organic Cotton Candy Company
Crepe Elizabeth
Brulee Bike
Cafe Crepe

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Summer Concert Series

The State Theatre Summer Concert Series is a partnership between the State Theatre, the most active promoter in southern Maine, and Thompson’s Point. The State Theatre team operates three venues and produces and promotes over 250 concerts a year in Portland and throughout Maine. Since its grand reopening in October 2010, the historic State Theatre has hosted the finest in national talent from hot buzz bands to musical icons including Bon Iver, The Decemberists, Elvis Costello, My Morning Jacket, David Byrne. Gillian Welch, the Avett Brothers, Lord Huron, St. Vincent and more. In May 2013, the State Theatre announced its acquisition of Port City Music Hall, a 529-capacity, beautifully appointed and spacious room in the heart of the Arts District. Port City hosts the best in emerging and established artists such as Maggie Rogers, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Amie Mann, Jai Wolf, Frank Turner and many more. The State Theatre & Thompson’s Point began its summer concert series in 2015 on the banks of the Fore River and since then has hosted the best in national talent (and the best concert sunsets as well) including The Lumineers, Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile, Wilco, Alabama Shakes, The xx, The Head and The Heart, Lake Street Dive and more.

See all scheduled concerts at our events calendar or the State Theatre website.

 

The Rink at Thompsons Point

Enjoy your skating experience with up to 10,000 sq. ft. of ice surface and multiple heating areas to keep those skating and not skating, warm and toasty.

At the Rink you can rent your own skates, enjoy a drink in our Rink Side Beer Yurt or grab something to eat at one of the food trucks parked nearby. Enjoy special events and themed nights of ice skating fun using the calendar on our website or through our Facebook page for events coming up.

There’s fun for the little ones, too! The Polar Bear Skate Pond is a beginners rink and is available to children under the age of 12 to provide them with space and tools needed to learn how to skate. We also offer youth skating lessons offered for six weeks every Saturday morning.

For more information such as hours of operation, pricing and booking private events, please visit our website.