BELFAST — Landscape Impressions, an exhibit of encaustic and oil paintings by Belfast resident Karen K. Kulberg, will be on display in the Kramer Gallery of the Belfast Free Library for…
Culture
Using oil and encaustic to explore colors and textures of nature
Hey! How did that Dodge Viper get in here?
OWLS HEAD – The weather could not have been more perfect and a lot of tops were down at the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s All American Cruise-in…
ROCKLAND — Portrait and landscape artist Winslow Myers will show a broad selection of his recent paintings at the Yellow Barn, across the street from the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, in…
SOUTH THOMASTON – Bree Burns owns and operates McLoon’s Lobster Shack at 315 Island Road, at the end of Spruce Head Island — easy to find…
ISLESBORO — State Street Traditional Jazz Band will perform authentic New Orleans-style jazz, Saturday, July 13, at 7 p.m., at the Up-Island Church, in Islesboro.
Since 1989, the Band has…
celebrating the ordinary with humor, whimsy, and reverence
WASHINGTON — Gibbs Library, in Washington Village, will feature the work of Union therapist Linda Shepard, from Thursday, July 11, through Tuesday, September 3.
The…
Do you remember how much you loved having stories read to you when you were a child? Do you have fond memories of being lost in the pages of your favorite picture book…
ROCKLAND — Beginning Monday, August 5, the Rockland Public Library will have a new weekly schedule, opening one hour later in the morning.
This change in hours will allow staff to provide…
BELFAST — Dance on over to the Belfast Free Library if you want to check out a few new books about dancing — fiction or non-fiction — with animals or people, dancing to fiddle tunes or drums or…
BELFAST — Poet Anna M. Warrock of Somerville, Massachusetts has been announced as the judge of the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest, a statewide competition happening this…
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library display cases are now featuring an exhibit by the Ashwood Waldorf School of Rockport. In one case is the students’ collection of postcards from worldwide…
Union Fairgrounds: Saturday, Aug. 17 through Saturday, Aug. 24
UNION — If you have talent, the 2019 Union Fair invites you to participate in its annual Talent Show.
Categories are age 16 and under, and 17 and older, with a first place prize of $500, a…
The Jazz in June Festival, held in Camden June 14-16 at multiple venues throughout town, was a big hit, and Photographer John Steele captured much of it with his camera. johnsteelephotography.com…
community service program to help individuals who have gotten into trouble
WALDOBORO — Tony Gallace is currently restoring the Otis Benner Farm & Forgery located in Waldoboro on Route 1 between the Medomak Veterinary Office and Harvest Moon Pizza. Recently the…
BELFAST — The Belfast Maskers will hold auditions for Dearly Departed, a comedy written by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones, on Saturday, July 27, at 10 a.m., and Sunday, July 28, at 2 p.…
SEARSPORT — Carver Memorial Library is now offering home delivery. The program is open to residents of Searsport who are unable to visit the library in person because of lack of mobility…
Powerhouse band blends krautrock, prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk with Sudanese pop
ROCKLAND—On Saturday, July 6, the Points North Institute will host the annual CIFF Summer Preview Party at the Bicknell Building in Rockland, featuring a band worth…
Belfast, St. George, South Bristol, Boothbay Harbor
MIDCOAST — DaPonte String Quartet has decided to revisit its roots this summer and go back to its rural beginnings.
In 1995, when the DaPonte String Quartet came to Maine on a joint grant…
Three-day sale at Midcoast Recreation Center
ROCKPORT — This summer marks the 50th year of the Friends of Rockport Public Library’s annual book sale. Since 1969, Friends have collected, sorted, and sold countless donated books of all genres…
Now that it is feeling like the start of real summer, June is almost over! And we all know well the festivals and big events that come to the Midcoast, but with 24 agricultural fairs, art and…
ROCKLAND — One live show, one High Definition broadcast, and five films have been added to the Strand Theatre’s lineup.
LIVE SHOWS:
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CAMDEN — Music and yoga in the ampthitheatre, lectures in the Picker Center, story times, walking tours, movies, books sales, and art in the park all take over the Camden Public Library grounds in…
Made a pit stop in Hope on his U.S. tour to teach a workshop
HOPE — First, listen to the sweet and haunting ukulele rendition of “Where The Rainbow Ends” in the embedded video. Next, you’ll be asking yourself: “Who is that?”
Remco Houtman-…
Belfast Summer Nights concert series
BELFAST — Belfast Summer Nights, the weekly Thursday night outdoor music series, presents a holiday edition, Thursday, July 4, from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., at Steamboat Landing Park in Belfast for…
listed on National Register as ‘Singhi Double Cottage’
ROCKLAND — The birthplace of Edna St. Vincent Millay has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and Millay House Rockland will begin the final phase of its restoration, so that…
‘Beer shares’ are the latest trend in breweries carving out unique niche
BELFAST—A new brewery has quietly opened in Belfast, but unlike most hyper-local rural breweries, Frosty Bottom Brewing is choosing to operate not as a public tasting room, but as a “brew share,”…
After months of preparation, the Water Street Kitchen and Bar, formerly Le Garage, in Wiscasset, is set to debut Thursday, June 27.
After a couple of days of soft openings with family…
SEARSPORT — Carver Memorial Library celebrates the past while looking toward the future this July.
Paper Planets - Tuesday, July 2, 3 p.m. Make and decorate a planet or comet on a stick (…
Round Pond Summer Concert Series
ROUND POND VILLAGE — On Wednesday, July 3, at 7:30 p.m., Josie and Sophie Davis will perform music for two violins at the Round Pond Summer Concert Series.
The concert will feature music…
Belfast artist David Estey follows up his 2016 retrospective at Studio 53 with a solo exhibit of 25 recent paintings. The works are improvisational abstract images in a wide variety of sizes done…
Anyone know who made the vest?
CUSHING — Georges River Land Trust was recently gifted a unique art object from the Wolf family, a colorful vest designed by Bernard Langlais in 1976 for William “Billy” Wolf, the Wolf family…
‘it’s a school bus, it’s not a kitchen, but we’ve designed a kitchen in there’
ROCKPORT — The latest eatery to join the trend of food trucks appearing in the Midcoast is actually not a truck. It’s a converted school bus painted blue.
The Rockport Harbor Food Bus is…
BELFAST — The Belfast Free Library will now be offering two drop-in sessions per week for the public to use its new Makerspace – Monday mornings, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and Thursday afternoons,…
LIVE SHOWS:
Sunday, July 7 at 5 p.m: STRAND ON THE AIR: Summer Fun Special
Join the cast for Strand On The Air: Summer Fun Special…
reception and auction to follow
WALDOBORO — "Paint the Town," a Midcoast Maine plein-air event and fresh paint auction, is returning to Waldoboro on Saturday, August 3.
The annual one-day event, which provides artists…
For the 57th year, Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Days are upon us … and what a rockin’ good time those seven days, June…
Portray Belted Galloway cattle, Aldermere Farm scenery, Maine coastal scenes, or Erickson Fields Preserve
ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) seeks artists to submit pieces for the annual Art Show and Sale being held Saturday, August 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, August 11, from 11 a…
Display cases available to future exhibitions
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library display cases are now featuring the sketchbooks of local resident Ben Cooke.
Cooke is an Englishman raised on fantasy fiction and narrative history…
July 4th in the Park
BELFAST — Cold Comfort Theater in Belfast is welcoming singers, dancers, musicians, and actors to join and take part in their…
Chocolate Church Arts Center
The internationally renowned Django Festival All Stars will bring the driving, swinging sounds of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt to the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Tuesday, July 2 at 7:…
BELFAST — The Belfast Maskers announces the appointment of Meg Nickerson as their new artistic director.
Nickerson studied and graduated from The University of Maine at Portland/Gorham in…
Penobscot Marine Museum’s new photography collection finally digitized
SEARSPORT — It’s taken the staff of Penobscot Marine Museum nearly five years to painstakingly comb through thousands of photographs from the magazine National Fisherman, but now that…
crab, tern, moose – what wildlife do you find fascinating?
ROCKLAND — Participate in the 3rd annual Fins, Feathers, and Fur: Maine Coastal Wildlife Juried Art Show.
The juror for the July 27 judging and showing will be Kim Bernard, of Rockland.…
Free and low-cost events all weekend for music-loving locals and visitors
CAMDEN — Rockland has always had the North Atlantic Blues Festival and Belfast has its All Roads Music Festival; it’s about time Camden got into the action. This weekend, a number of local…
ROCKPORT — For almost 60 years, Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School has awarded cash prizes to aspiring young musicians from Maine to assist with their continued studies and advance their…
Meet Kaylee Ames of North Haven
NORTH HAVEN — What we used to call ‘shop class’ in my day (and yes, I took shop, not Home Ec) is now called Diversified Trades, and Kaylee Ames, 17, a junior at North Haven Community School, took…
Designed by Rockland artist
ROCKLAND — The producers of the 2019 Maine Boat & Home Show have unveiled the new poster design for the annual event, to be held on the Rockland waterfront August 9-11. A reflection of the…
CAMDEN- The Camden Conference is pleased to announce the election of its new president, Matt Storin. Matt has served the Conference as vice-president for two years and is well prepared to take the…
“Making marks with a brush and paint, describing my perception of natural forms, while also evoking inner landscapes – what a deep searching happiness it is.”
ROCKLAND — Landing Gallery, in Rockland, opens “WILD LIFE,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Sarah Faragher, May 24 – June 30.
Meet and talk with Faragher at the Artist’s Opening…
