WATERVILLE — The Maine Film Center (MFC) announces the dates of the 25th annual Maine International Film Festival (MIFF), which will be held July 8-17 in Waterville at…
Culture
‘If you are in need of some inspiration or maybe a smile or two’
WASHINGTON — The Gibbs Library presents the 17th Annual Student Art Exhibit featuring the work of the student artists from Prescott Memorial Elementary School. Art teacher Anthony Lufkin has…
“As winter winds down, we all need some inspiration, great food, and good conversation,” said Veggies to Table, in a news release.
Veggies to Table’s Virtual Supper Club speaker series…
STONINGTON – Opera House Arts is pleased to welcome Karen Montanaro, world renowned mimedancer and award-winning choreographer, to the historic Stonington Opera House stage Saturday,…
ROCKPORT — Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School is accepting applications to two upcoming programs: Envision Chamber Music Workshop and the Young Stars of Maine Prize Program.
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Hope and Power of Change
ROCKLAND — Youth artists from Oceanside High School worked with Arts in Action (AiA) community mural program to create a vibrant floor painting for the Coastal Recovery Community Center (CRCC)…
Winter StoryWalk for children in downtown Searsport
SEARSPORT—What do you get when you combine an illustrated children’s book with a simple walk around a neighborhood?
StoryWalk, a literacy project created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier,…
ROCKPORT — Bay Chamber Music School’s student musicians were recently welcomed back to Union Hall for the first time since January 2019. The music school held eight recitals over five days,…
ORONO — The Maine Climate and Agriculture Network is offering a three-webinar series about climate change and agriculture on March 22, March 28 and April 14. Each webinar will…
The kids are all right this weekend. Even though Weekend Spotlight is for adults, primarily, there are a couple of teen-centered events that will appeal to all ages. And here’s a great way to…
UNION — The Town of Union is holding a “Submit Your Photo” open to residents, employees of the Town of Union, and Union-based businesses to use on the front cover of its annual report, website,…
Despite a rocky start in high school, she has thrived at BCOPE in Belfast
BELFAST—Mia Fay, a junior at Belfast Community Outreach Program in Education (BCOPE) in Belfast, is headed for big things this spring, representing Maine at the…
CAMDEN—"Finding Our Voices" will return in March with a multi-media exhibit at the Camden Public Library. Patrisha McLean began her movement to combat domestic violence…
CAMDEN— The Camden Public Library is excited to announce that plans are underway for the Summer Harbor Arts & Books Fair to be held on the weekend of July 9 to 10.…
ROCKLAND — Various films and live shows have been added to the Strand Theatre’s lineup for March. The upcoming events and film showings are listed below.
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BELFAST — Stockton Springs artist Anne Spencer will be the March Guest Artist at Local Color Gallery.
Spencer moved to Maine in 1972. While working as an occupational therapist at EMMC in…
a boy loses a white mitten in the snow...
SEARSPORT — To bring a smile to people’s faces and get them excited about stories, Carver Memorial Library and local businesses are partnering to present a winter-themed StoryWalk® for families to…
For anyone who has a passion for social justice
In May 2001, the nation learned that 14 of a group of 26 Mexican men migrating to the U.S. for work had suffered hideous deaths in a part of the Arizona desert known as the Devil’s Highway. …
Belfast makes a weekend out of ice sculptures and ice bars around town
BELFAST—The streets of downtown Belfast were alive on Saturday with hundreds of people walking around to take photos of ice sculptures, watch live ice carving demonstrations, and have a chill sip…
BELFAST — The Colonial Theatre graciously welcomes renowned comedian Ian Stuart and The Maine Comedy All-Stars to the Dreamland stage for a 7 p.m. performance on Saturday, March 12.
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BELFAST — Two hundred original works by Waldo County's next generation of artists will be on display throughout the month of March. In addition to "taking over" both galleries at Waterfall Arts, this…
WALDOBORO — The Waldo Theatre on 916 Main Street will host two screenings of Alfred HItchcock’s Vertigo on Wednesday, March 9 at 2 p.m. and Friday, March 11 at 7 p.m.
In this…
Better hunker down Friday night because it looks like we’re going to get hit with a dumpload of snow (fourth weekend in a row) but the rest of the weekend looks clear and that’s great news for the…
ROCKLAND — A simulcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss will be presented at the Strand Theatre on Saturday, March 12 at 1:00 p.m., with an Encore presentation on…
presented in a multimedia hall with performance stage, sound system, and large-scale projection screen
The 17th Annual Belfast Poetry Festival seeks teams of poets, performers, and artists, as well as individual artists and poets willing to be paired with someone of the festival’s choosing, for its…
Have you ever wanted to visit Iceland? Have you often heard about their reputation for sustainability and wanted to learn more? Through a partnership with Dave Oakes, of the Center for Ecological…
ROCKLAND — Fire up the wood stove, break out the board games, and crank up the radio as Strand On The Air, the Strand Theatre’s original radio variety show,…
With school vacation right around the corner, the fun stuff is happening mostly out of town this weekend (with the exception of a vinyl jam in Rockland), so brace yourself for the pain at the pump…
the pandemic, the climate crisis, migration and corruption
"If Europe wants to be a global champion in dealing with climate change, leaders...have to explain to their publics why the current status quo is not defensible." Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe.…
‘I want others to feel the peacefulness, the beauty, and the excitement that nature offers’
The Rockport Public Library is featuring the works by local watercolor artist Jaeohk Cho Keenan.
“Stop in and head downstairs to our art wall to view her exhibit, which is titled, Rhythm…
In his recent book, The Age of Unpeace, Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations asks, "What do Russian trolling, American blockades, Iranian Piracy, and Turkish…
Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller, an expert on European security policy and strategy, will be a featured speaker at the 35th annual Camden Conference, Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad, to be held…
The Universities of Maine and New Hampshire Cooperative Extension programs have joined forces to help produce farmers start or improve their Farm Food Safety Planning with Jumpstart to Farm Food…
BELFAST — This winter, the Belfast Garden Club Evening Lecture Series co-sponsored by the All of Belfast Climate Dialogues, a project of the Belfast Free Library, will focus on the effects of the…
BELFAST — The Arts in the Park Planning Committee is happy to announce that they have selected Dot Hutchins as the 2022 Artist of the Year.
Dot hails from Vassalboro and has…
Dramatic Comedy runs indoors March 10-20 at Basil Burwell Community Theater
BELFAST — The Belfast Maskers next production, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Dale Wasserman, will be directed by Artistic Director Meg Nickerson.
Based on the 1962 novel by…
inventive artist and creative thinker
Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School announces that pianist Michelle Cann is the recipient of the 2022 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award. The $25,000 award recognizes a pianist under the age of…
Art and our Natural Environment
LIBERTY — Liberty Graphics, environmentally conscious T-shirt printers, is currently accepting art submissions to it's 25th annual $1,000 art scholarship contest.
All high school seniors…
Twenty-four U.S. counties are named Lincoln, according to e-Reference Desk; 16 are named after the 16th President Abraham Lincoln. Maine is one of seven not named after the “Great Emancipator.”…
Opinion
The film “Rock Around the Clock” debuted 67 years ago, which means that more than three generations since have thrown a hero up the pop charts, to steal a line from Paul Simon. In those early…
Paleoecologist Robert Gastaldo and what fossils say “deep time” and Maine’s distant past
Paleoecologist Robert Gastaldo will lead a presentation titled “Back to the Beginnings: The Devonian Plants of Baxter State Park” in an online webinar hosted by Merryspring Nature Center on …
ROCKPORT — Join the Rockport Public Library in a colorful community art project as they make, share, and display 2,022 pipe cleaner flowers throughout the community. Stop by the Library to pick up…
From ice carving to 1920s burlesque
I don’t know whether post-holiday fatigue was going on in the last couple of weeks in January but it was like tumbleweeds in the Midcoast. Then this weekend is like —shazam— let’s see how many…
Each month Waterfall Arts will host the outdoor firepits with a theme
BELFAST—Anyone who has ever cozied up to a blazing campfire with s’mores anticipating a story will surely enjoy Waterfall Arts’ latest offering: monthly Fireside Chats, “meant to ignite…
WALDOBORO — The Waldo Theatre, located at 916 Main Street in Waldoboro, will host a Community Theatre 2022 Season Meeting and Open House at the newly renovated theater Tuesday, February 15 from 5:…
On Wednesday, February 23, the Midcoast Conservancy will host a “Starry Night Cinema” outdoor movie experience at the Barn at Hidden Valley Nature Center. The event will…
HOPE— The Hope Library will host two well-known local poets for a reading on Zoom on the evening of Thursday, February 24 at 7 p.m.
Kristen Lindquist of Camden and Elizabeth Tibbetts of…
FRIENDSHIP — Salt Pond Studio is hosting a 4 session intensive workshop with featured artist Bjorn Runquist entitled “Composition, Value, and Color”. The workshop will consist of four sessions and…
