BELFAST — This quilt, made by Susan Woehler of Belfast, could be warming your bed.
It will be raffled off on December 19 to benefit The Game Loft, Belfast's downtown youth center.…
Culture
History lecture series
CAMDEN — Author Jim Witherell will visit the Camden Public Library on Tuesday evening, Oct. 7, to talk about Ed Muskie and about his new biography, Ed Muskie: Made in Maine. The talk is…
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum
Three-year-old Barrett “Bear” Hisler of Newcastle likes trains so much, when the steam train at Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum in Alna left Sheepscot Station with him on it…
Thursday, Oct. 2
Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen, longtime favorites at the Camden Library Coffeehouse, return to Camden for a single performance at the Coffeehouse at 7 p.m. Admission is $…
Thomaston Library
The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library Presents
FRIDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES
Friday Night at the Thomaston Academy - 6:30 p.m.
New winter hours.
OCTOBER 2014 films that…
Transformations - Poetry
The tiny lonely boat sits resting in the harbor
as silent hours pass by on the shore.
A summer has taken leave and the waves have become quiet
as the buoys relax effortlessly in…
Good thing we had a couple of sleepy weekends awhile back because this weekend is off the rails with high-energy things to do, including the 10th anniversary of the Camden International Film…
Aviation scene commissioned for hangar at Belfast Airport
BELFAST - It's hard to imagine David Hurley being intimidated by a request to paint a mural.
In downtown Belfast, his depictions of cats poised in windowsills and…
SOUTH THOMASTON — On Saturday, Sept. 13 The Kelpie Gallery in the Weskeag Village of South Thomaston presented Wet Paint on the 'Weskeag!, a fundraiser for the Georges River Land Trust.…
WALDOBORO — Tickets are on sale now at the Waldoboro Public Library for a chance to win a $500 Amazon.com gift card.
Tickets are $20 each and only 200 tickets will be sold. The drawing will…
‘Dark Season’ touches on the ‘in between places’ of the autumnal equinox
Last we heard from that poetry-writing swashbuckling pirate John Bullock, a part-time mate on the Appledore, he was trying to impress a lass in a…
CAMDEN — Fine Art photographers Ralph Hassenpflug and Kathryn Oliver will be exhibiting their work at Zoot Cafe, 31 Elm St. in Camden during the month of October.
For…
The art of his Time Diptychs is in the combination of the two drawings
ROCKLAND — During the last Rockland Art Walk, Dowling Walsh Gallery was packed, as it usually is. But, something odd was happening. People weren’t just sipping wine and stopping to pause at a…
Seafaring Series 2014
SEAFARING SERIES happens every Thursdays at 7 p.m.,…
ROCKLAND — Join local author and illustrator Debby Atwell, starting Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. for a six-week memoir workshop at the Rockland Public Library.
Following Christopher Vogler's…
ROCKPORT — After three nights of auditions, the cast of this year's CHRHS fall musical: Cinderella has been announced.
Cinderella - Bethany Vix
Her Fairy Godmother - Molly Mann…
CALENDAR of Events for Camden Public Library, September 25 through October 9
Thursday, Sept. 25
"Butterfly Tea" potluck, 5:30 p.m. at the Camden Public Library. Celebrate…
Sept. 19-21
UNITY — It’s here. Ayuh, it is. Although the trees may not be showing it just yet, a sure sign that autumn is not too far away is the arrival of the Common Ground Country Fair weekend, Friday,…
CAMDEN — The Camden Public Library's annual October book sale coincides with the annual Harbor Arts & Books festival. The book sale, one of the most important fundraising events for the…
Camden Conference
CAMDEN — The Camden Conference free Community Events Discussion Series returns this year with a four-part monthly series that will offer participants an opportunity to investigate Russia's people…
Pilot Distractions
Whenever a movie made in Maine cycles through Netflix such as Pet Sematary, I’m on high cringe alert, waiting the character to butcher the word “ayuh.” A debate apparently rages on…
Cold nights; warm days. That’s what we’ve got now, love it or leave it. Wait, we can’t leave it; you’ve got NO CHOICE but to love it. That shift is being felt in the music, scenes and events in…
ROCKLAND — Children, and those young at heart, will explore fall and Halloween themes in the ongoing drawing classes led by Catinka Knoth at Rockland Public Library. The "Let's Draw Together!"…
ROCKLAND — Catinka Knoth offers drawing October's autumn themes, with a focus on drawing in color, 11 a.m. Mondays, in October, (no class Columbus Day 10/13), in the Community Room of the Rockland…
BELFAST — The classical music trio 240 Strings will perform a free concert at the Belfast Free Library on Sunday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the…
ROCKLAND — For the month of September the Good Tern Co-Op Cafe Gallery will feature the low relief polymer clay work of Dee Obuchon. Dee Obuchon is a Midcoast native who studied fine art at The…
Transformations
Abdul, a man of slender means but rich in street smarts and good manners, was my family's manservant and my constant companion in Karachi. I was 4. To travel on his arms or hold his hand was to…
Food That Works: Real Meals that Survive the 9 to 5
ROCKLAND — Beginning on September 15 and running through October 15, Midcoast writer and health advocate Malia Dell of Rockland, is running a Kickstarter fundraising campaign for her upcoming…
It’s time for a bit of a breather, don’t you think? All summer it has been go, go, go and we need at least one calm weekend to catch our breath. Here’s the weekend you’ve been waiting for to just…
Camden Police...
CAMDEN — It's been a good early week for crime solving in the Midcoast, what with Rockport police nabbing an alleged pharmacy robber and now Camden police recovering a stolen gold rooster…
The Everyman Repertory Theatre presents: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the Camden Opera House
CAMDEN—The poster is hard to miss. Depicting a pair or old-school piped undies, the kind boys wore in middle-school, the poster has been plastered around various parts of the Midcoast. The poster…
BELFAST — Bridge, a free afterschool art club at Waterfall Arts, is available to Belfast sixth graders for the second year. The club will meet on Wednesdays from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p…
Camden International Film Festival
CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has released the lineup for its Points North Documentary Forum. Now in its sixth year, the Forum has quickly become the largest…
CAMDEN—The second annual Mini Maker Faire was held in the Camden Amphitheatre on Sept. 6. Hundreds of people of all ages attended to see more than 20 exhibitors strut their stuff. From robot…
Watch two scenic films
LINCOLNVILLE — Josh Gerritsen will present a free program on drones and aerial photography on Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Lincolnville Community Library.
…
Sail, Power and Steam Museum
ROCKLAND — The Sail, Power and Steam has announced a series of drawing classes with noted naval architect, Chuck Paine.
Paine has spent much of his life (so far) designing yachts with lines…
Thursday, Sept. 11
"Micronesia," an illustrated history and slide talk by Paul Marshall, at the Camden Public Library, 7 p.m. Marshall spent five years in Micronesia as an educational…
ROCKPORT — Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School is offering several new group classes this fall, including a musical exploration class for young children, guitar workshops, a jazz combo, and a…
CAMDEN — You know what’s a refreshing change to see? Kids getting their hands on technology that doesn’t involve a cellphone, iPad or a videogame.
This year’s Midcoast Mini Maker Faire had…
ROCKPORT — The Everyman Repertory Theatre will host a question and answer session with the cast and crew of its latest main stage production, the Maine premiere of the comedy Vanya and…
WALDOBORO — The Waldoboro Public Library wrapped up its Bikes for Books reading incentive program August 16.
Winning bikes and helmets were Anya Osborne, Genevieve Cowan, Phebe Fortier,…
WASHINGTON — The Gibbs Library has announced the opening of the photographic exhibit by Washington native, Cheryl Mank-Swift. The exhibit opens on Thursday, Sept. 11, and closes Tuesday…
ROCKLAND — Rabbi Natan Margalit will be at Adas Yoshuron Synagogue in Rockland on Thursday, Sept. 11…
The coolest arts, entertainment, venues and things to do this weekend
Some cuh-razy events are coming to the Midcoast this weekend and it won’t be easy to choose which ones to go to.
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CAMDEN — Lesia Sochor will begin a new five-week session of intermediate watercolor classes at Merryspring on Thursday, Sept. 18.
A graduate of The Philadelphia College of Art, Sochor is a…
Transformations - Poetry
These pieces were written at Kathrin Seitz's one-day writing workshop, Writing From Place/Gathering Images. The class gathered at the beautiful Split Rock Cove artist’s retreat in South…
Camden International Film Festival
CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced its slate of feature and short films for the tenth festival taking place September 25–…
Midcoast Actors’ Studio
BELFAST — Midcoast Actors' Studio has announced its cast for the upcoming 'Neil Simon's Plaza Suite.'
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the…
CAMDEN — The Midcoast Mini Maker Faire is on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Camden Amphitheatre.
“We're looking forward to tons of fun and interesting things to see and do…
