PLEASE NOTE: Twinkle’s Place is currently searching for its new location. Some offerings are available online. Check back soon as calendar items will resume when our new location opens 🙂
- Retreats, Workshops, Seminars, Panels, Salons, Concerts and more throughout the year in collaboration with TV for Your Soul, Melusine’s Haven, and other groups, organizations and individuals.
- Recurring Hygge events
- Seasonal gatherings and inspirational services
Twinkle Hosts:
- Mondays – Morning Mantras and Moment Meditations that provide a single thought/affirmation to use as a touchstone throughout that day and week. The mantra is placed in the format of a digital image that includes a beautiful photo, typically a landscape.
- Tuesdays – Contemplative Service Series, gathering in-person each Tuesday, (such as the one’s Twinkle hosted Historic Log Chapel in Rockwood). (7:00pm-7:45pm)
- Wednesdays – ArtSeek Workshops June through October.
- Sundays – Twinkle offers a spiritual/worship message on Sundays: live worship services and/or contemplative service replays. ((Currently these take place at the UU Church in Waterville, Maine two Sundays per month))
- Monthly – Women’s Minerva Potluck Gathering + Ritual (Register for this event here: TwinkleManning@gmail.com)
- Quarterly – Poetry Slam
- Twinkle hosts three Empowering Women Signature Television vents annually. When Twinkle’s Place finds its new location, she will begin hosting these monthly.
2024-2025 Events Calendar will resume in full when our new location is established! In the meantime, below are some of Twinkle’s upcoming engagements:
2024 Calendar Dates
January 14th – Worship Service – Waterville
January 28th – Worship Service – Waterville
February 11th – Worship Service – Waterville
February 25th – Worship Service – Waterville
March 10th – Worship Service – Waterville
March 31st – Worship Service – Waterville
April 14th – Worship Service – Waterville
April 28th – Worship Service – Waterville
May 5th – Worship Service – Waterville
May 12th – Worship Service – Waterville
June 9th – Worship Service – Waterville
June 13-16th – Gifts by the Lake Weekend Retreat + Empowering Women Salon Gathering
June 23th – Worship Service – Waterville
August – Melusine’s Haven Retreat on Kineo
December 19th – Blue Christmas in-person gathering – holding grief sacred during the holiday season.
December TBA- Blue Christmas online gathering – connecting wherever you are around the world – holding grief sacred during the holiday season.
Recurring Gatherings
- Coffeehouses with music, poetry, reflections, and more.
- This website is a resource for all of us who are drawn to the Mystical aspects of Life and Living. Tara Brach‘s weekly video class and meditation offers additional contemplative time.
2023 Dates
January 8th – – Worship Service – “Envisioning a Year”
January 11th – Contemplative Service
January 15th – Contemplative Service Replay
January 22nd – – “Operator’s Manual: Exploring the Matos Mantras”
January 25th – Contemplative Service
January 29th – Contemplative Service Replay
February 1st – Contemplative Poetry Service
February 5th – Contemplative Poetry Service Replay
February 9th – IRAS Webinar featuring philosopher Jeremy Lent with Rev. “Twinkle” Marie Manning as the respondent.
February 12th – – Worship Service – Cherishing (a Valentine’s Day sermon):
February 15th – Contemplative Service
February 19th – Contemplative Service Replay
February 26th- – “Roses in Winter”
March 1st – Contemplative Service
March 5th – Contemplative Service Replay
March 12th – Worship Service – “Sacred Rebels”
March 15th – Contemplative Service
March 19th – Contemplative Service Replay
March 26th – Worship Service – “Fold as You Go!”
March 29th – Empowering Women – Signature Event – New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
March 30th- Art Paint-n-Sip Mermaid style Event to benefit Melusine’s Haven – New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
April 2nd – Contemplative Service Replay
April 9th – Worship Service – “In Our Own Image”
April 12th – Contemplative Service
April 16th – Contemplative Service Replay
April 23rd – Worship Service – “Love the Land You’re With”
April 26th – Contemplative Service
April 30th – Contemplative Service Replay
May 7th – Worship Service – “Intentional Creativity”
May 14th – Mother’s Day – Worship Service – “Mothering Mothers”
May 17th – Contemplative Service
May 21st – Contemplative Service Replay
May 26-27 – Annual Women’s Memorial Day Weekend Retreat
May 31st – Contemplative Service
June 3rd – Gifts by the Lake Retreat – Moosehead Lake, Maine.
June 4th – Contemplative Service Replay
June 11th – Worship Service – “Flower Communion: June’s Calling”
June 14th – Contemplative Service
June 15th – Special Celebration – Book Launch Party
June 18th – Contemplative Service Replay
June 25th – Worship Service – “Our Favorite Things and Living Life as a Prayer”
June 28th – Contemplative Service
< <Summer 2023 – Open Sanctuary – The Church of Kineo (throughout summer)>>
During the Summer of 2023, Twinkle will be leading a Contemplative Service Series each Tuesday at the Historic Log Chapel in Rockwood, Maine throughout July and August. (7:00pm-7:45pm)
July 23rd – Worship Service – Rockwood’s Historic Log Chapel
July 28th – ArtSeek Workshop
July 30th – Worship Service – Rockwood’s Historic Log Chapel
August 9th – ArtSeek Workshop
September 3rd – Worship Service – Rockwood’s Historic Log Chapel
September 10th – Worship Service – Water Communion
September 24th – Worship Service – “Attitudes of Atonement”
October 8th – Worship Service – “Through lines – Part 1”
October 22nd – Worship Service – “Holy Hauntings”
November 12th – Worship Service – “Through lines – Part 2”
November 26th – Worship Service –
December 8th – Literary Holiday Party – Bangor, ME
December 9th – Second Annual Bangor Authors’ Book Fair and Literary Festival
December 10th – Worship Service –
December 16th – NAUA Worship Service Via Zoom – 1:00PM Eastern Time
December 17th – Worship Service –
December 19th – Blue Christmas in-person gathering – holding grief sacred during the holiday season.
December TBA- Blue Christmas online gathering – connecting wherever you are around the world – holding grief sacred during the holiday season.
PLEASE NOTE: For a glimpse at past events at Twinkle’s Place, CLICK HERE.
In 2021 we bid farewell to our Lancey Street retreat center. The location served us well for almost seven years.
It was time to move full-time to our Lake-side retreat locations. One in Rockwood and one in the heart of Kineo.