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…
Culture
The list mentioned in The Wave’s ‘Key To A Killer Happy Hour’
Pen Bay Pilot has worked tirelessly to assemble every notable Happy Hour offering in the Midcoast (and yes, it was hard work doing all of that sampling) into a guide that is easily accessible for…
MIDCOAST — Midcoast Music Together's fall session of classes will start this month, with classes for children 0-5 and their family being offered in Rockland, Rockport, and Belfast.
In…
Sights and sounds of the Windjammer Festival
CAMDEN — The talent was diverse and entertaining, and the fireworks were stupendous Friday evening, Aug. 29, as Camden’s Windjammer Festival got fully underway at the harbor. Throughout the day,…
The Collective was behind this pop culture phenomenon
ROCKLAND—The Farnsworth Art Museum’s group The Collective has been shaking up the Museum’s buttoned down, traditional image in recent years with edgy art environments, but last Saturday night,…
CAMDEN —Tuzkeez means "wall hanging" in Kazakh. There will be an exhibit of handmade tuzkeez in the Picker Room of the Camden Public Library during the month of September, thanks to the generosity…
Friday Night Flicks
BELFAST — In September, the Belfast Free Library’s film series, Friday Night Flicks, will remember Robin with showings of four of his performances. While his major hits such as Mrs. Doubtfire…
ROCKPORT — The Everyman Repertory Theatre presents its latest main stage production — a Maine premiere — the comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the Camden…
CAMDEN — Wood crates, and the bags of seaweed that will keep them floating during Saturday's lobster crate race, have arrived on the town landing, the talent show stage has been built in Harbor…
ROCKPORT - The 35th season of Down East Singers will begin 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Nativity Lutheran Church, 179 Old County Road. Registration starts at 6:15 p.m. New singers will…
CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), considered among the top 12 documentary film festivals in the world, turns ten next month (September 25 to 28) and is currently seeking…
THOMASTON — The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library Presents Friday Night film series, 7 p.m.
September Films: Bacall and Bogart
SEPT. 5 To Have…
SOUTH THOMASTON — The Kelpie Gallery in South Thomaston held its grand opening Saturday, July 19…
Eclectic, mystic, inspiring music, poetry and dance
CAMDEM: On Wednesday, Aug 27, and Thursday, Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m., Leap Dance Theater will present, “Sky Hunter,” an inspiring performance featuring the poetry of the great Sufi mystic Rumi. The…
PechaKucha presenter Margaret Rizzio collects antique ephemera as an art form
Welcome to our ongoing feature Behind the Slides, where we meet up with an artist who recently presented at a local PechaKucha night and find out the…
Farnsworth Museum
ROCKLAND — Tuesday, Sept. 2, through Thursday, Sept. 4, the Farnsworth Art Museum will host a three-day beginner workshop on rug hooking. The program, led by Gabrielle Wicklow will take place…
CAMDEN — Over the last 50 years, who knows how many budding artists have used their time sequestered on a Hurricane Island Outward Bound School course during solo to truly look around and…
ROCKPORT — Sunday afternoon, Aug. 24, at 1:30 p.m., the Belfast Bay Fiddlers will present the final concert of the summer series at the Rockville Community Chapel. This concert is free to the…
NORTHPORT — Inside Stephen J. Hemenway’s converted garage in Northport, it feels like one has entered a time warp back to the 1800s. It’s an old western parlor room complete with antique couches,…
Transformations - Poetry
Jewel Hanley is a Maine native who loves to travel and write. Now that she has recently retired from business, she is doing both with passion. Currently she is working on revising a mystery novel…
Features award-winning artists The Mallett Brothers Band, Waylon Speed and next ‘Temp Tales’ episode
CAMDEN — To complete the high-energy, jam-packed summer the Midcoast has seen this summer, Necessary Music Productions is hosting a blow-out show at The Camden Opera House this week, featuring…
SPRUCE HEAD — Third Annual Workshop Gallery Exhibition will be open Saturday, Aug. 16 through Saturday…
The kick-off party leads into the weekend’s nautical events
BELFAST—Belfast is for boating enthusiasts this weekend for their annual Harborfest and The Belfast Rotary Club is sponsoring the Boatbuilder’s Challenge on Saturday, so the night before, Marshall…
Premiers at Flagship Cinema on Friday
THOMASTON — Producer and star Bill McLean, a lifelong resident of Poland and Auburn had a pivotal chat one day with his 18-year-old son, Ben, about a very serious subject — zombies.
“My son…
‘Camp Sunburn’ encourages camp attire, sunblock and a kid-like attitude
ROCKLAND—Hot Pink Flannel, the madcap party planners of the Midcoast, are throwing their final public party of the summer at Rock City Cafe Saturday, Aug. 16, and sunscreen is required. The theme…
Tourist Tracks: Who’s Visiting the Area?
The Lobster Festival was not the only thing bringing visitors to the area recently.
Drew DeBoard, Will…
Lee Sharkey, whose list of books, literary activities, awards, and more, cover several pages, will be the Poetry Leader for the Lincoln Arts Festival 2014…
Whether seen on HBO’s “Treme” or live at one of their legendary Tuesday night gigs at New Orleans’ Maple Leaf, the Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band is a true New Orleans institution.
Formed…
CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has partnered with AJ+, the new digital platform from Al Jazeera Media Network that commissions original, innovative and…
CAMDEN — Mary Quinn Doyle, a Maine writer, photographer, and teacher volunteered to travel throughout Maine, visiting the 178 farms profiled in her composition. She wrote stories about each of the…
With their recent appearance at the United Nations, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars continue to rise like a phoenix out of the ashes of war and have inflamed the passions of fans across the globe…
Irish Page to Screen Series
BLEFAST — On Tuesday, Aug. 19 at 6:30 p.m. the Irish Page to Screen discussion series at the Belfast Free Library will meet to view and discuss John B. Keane’s play and film, The Field.…
CAMDEN — The Rolling Stock Company, a commedia dell'arte troupe following the style and formats of Italian traditional country theater, will perform Pantalone for Governor in the Camden…
CAMDEN — The speaker series on "Maine and the Civil War" at the Camden Public Library is proving to be very popular. The speakers in the coming week will include Maine State Archivist Dave Cheever…
Thursday, Aug. 14
Dana and Susan Robinson in a free concert in the Camden Amphitheater, 7 p.m, hosted by the Camden Public Library, featuring guitar playing, banjo frailing, fiddling, and…
The tents are up and the flags are out; this year, tribute to Herreshoff
ROCKLAND – No sooner did the Lobster Festival tents come down than preparations began for the 12th annual Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors Show, August 8-10.
The show is put on by the …
Pilot Distractions
Award-winning photographer Jeff Friesen has probably played with LEGOS a little too long; but in the end it has paid off. The Canadian dad and his 7-year-old daughter June, have playfully (and…
The Whitehall Inn’s tribute evening to Edna St. Vincent Millay
CAMDEN—Artists, poets and those romanced by the mid-summer nights that Maine has to offer will enjoy a special 1920s-themed night that The Whitehall Inn is hosting this evening, August 7 called An…
Penobscot Bay Pilot’s wayback machine
This one is too easy, but the real question is, what was Ingraham’s? Anyone recognize the store next to it? Memories anyone?
If you guessed the upper bridge in Belfast, Maine over the…
Fort Knox Pet Show Weekend brings Midcoast pet lovers together
PROSPECT — Who here has ever put a cat in a harness and walked it around? I’ve done it. I can officially check off that Crazy Cat Lady box on the next U.S. Census form. What about dressing up a…
Aritst in Residence
SEARSPORT — The week of August 10-16 at Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Camp and Create will host Mihoko Wakabayashi as Artist in Residence teaching SAORI Weaving and Traditional Japanese Arts…
SPRUCE HEAD — The third annual Workshop Gallery Art Exhibition will be open for visitors, August 16 through August 23, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Featuring artists include:
Christine Henehan…
LINCOLNVILLE — Stop by Lincolnville Fine Art Gallery in Lincolnville Beach this summer and view art by Downeast Maine resident Richard Kapral.
Kapral has been painting since the early…
PORT CLYDE — The ‘Barbara Ernst Prey: American Contemporary’ exhibit showcases the virtuosic hand of internationally acclaimed artist Barbara Ernst Prey who has painted powerful views of her…
‘We are not changing the world here tonight, gentlemen, we are putting something on the ballot’
ROCKPORT — Voting 3 to 2, the Rockport Select Board declined a request from the Library Committee to place a nonbinding referendum on the November ballot that would have asked Rockport citizens…
DAMARISCOTTA — In an election year twist, the Pemaquid Oyster Festival is inviting politicians running for local, statewide and national offices to join the popular Pemaquid Oyster Poetry Contest…
Who’s Who at Mountain View II
Barbara F. Dyer has done it again. Tucked away in her cozy Camden home, in the company of her large — and imperious — black cat, Shadow, the town’s official historian has been working over the…
BELFAST - Midcoast Actors' Studio will wrap up its comedic production of the musical Nunsense this weekend, with performances Friday and …
Singer/songwriter/musician Ben Taylor takes the stage at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor on August 7 accompanied by guitarist David Saw, an unnamed drummer, and a backup vocalist: British…
