Culture

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art

ROCKLAND — The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its 2016 exhibition schedule at the art center's new campus at 21…

A preserve of Maine Coast Heritage Trust

ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Heritage Trust invites students in grades third-twelfth to submit an original poster design for Aldermere Farm's…

Maine Band Directors Association Concert Band Festival

SCARBOROUGH — On Thursday, March 31, the Camden Hills Regional High School Band, under the 

Maine Farmland Trust Gallery


BELFAST — From April 4 through May 30, Maine Farmland Trust Gallery is exhibiting black and white photographs, paintings, mixed media…

A freighter, Iceland, a paint brush and a GoPro

ROCKLAND - On Tuesday, March 29, at the Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Annile Skaar and Jonathan Laurence presented a travelog of their out-of-the-ordinary trip to Iceland aboard a freighter.…

CAMDEN — Visit the Camden Public Library during National Library Week 2016 and celebrate the life of the library and the life of the…

Costume parties, spring bashes, Open Mic at Rock City, pet theater and a documentary on salmon!

 We’re bashing in the new month of April this weekend with multiple costume dance parties and wild shows, both human and animal-inspired. Happy spring peeps!

The Rockland Historical Society

ROCKLAND – The Rockland Historical Society has completed the purchase of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay's birthplace. A generous donation from the Roxanne Quimby Foundation…

BELFAST — The Penobscot Bay Singers are proud to announce their annual Spring concert in conjunction with the Mount View Chamber Singers.…

ROCKLAND — When The Blackboard Deli closed last year, many wondered what would take its place. Hops and Chops, at 77 Park Street in Rockland, is the full-service butcher shop and beer/wine shop…

ROCKLAND — The winner of Trekkers' 11th annual Trekkapalooza event on March 25 was Fading Dawn. Winning the title of "Bus Band 2016,"…

Cast appears on Chris Wolf Show Wednesday

CAMDEN – Mark the date. A great family event will take place at the Strom Auditorium at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, April 1, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 2, at 3 p.m. That’s…

April 1 at U-Maine Hutchinson Center

BELFAST — In recent years, the Midcoast has seen a number of events and conferences dedicated to uplifting those in the arts and creative economy and on April 1, Archipelago, retail side of the…

Hail To The Rad Kids

CAMDEN — When former Camden Hills Regional High School student Thatcher Chamberlin was 17, he developed an open source online program that would let anyone make a raised relief map of the earth’s…

Live music — where it’s happening these days

CAMDEN — Acoustic musicians from the Midcoast gathered for a couple of hours of music and fun March 25 at K2 Music in Reny’s Plaza, playing selection after selection to the delight of those…

LIVE AT THE STROM THEATER

CAMDEN — The Camden-Rockport Middle School is proud to present an exciting musical event, The Little Mermaid JR, a Disney production. The…

First scoop Feb. 19, 2007, last slice Dec. 20, 2015.

ROCKLAND — For eight years, Thorndike Creamery at 385 Main St. in downtown Rockland grew a loyal following. Pizza aficionados generally agreed it was some of the best pizza around. The…

Trekkapalooza: battle of the bands, story slam, party band, drag show and Maine Maple Sunday Sunday

We’ve got sunny skies and a high-energy weekend on tap with a battle of the bands, a story slam, a party band, a drag show and free maple ice cream!

Each Thursday at 4 p.m. we will be having a poetry reading!

ROCKPORT – The library will host a poetry reading every Thursday during April in honor of National Poetry Month.

Here is a…

Canadian Filmmakers Featured in Belfast Library's Free Films

BELFAST — The films being shown in April's Friday Night Flicks series at the Belfast Library are all made by, and often feature, Canadian…

Friends of the Thomaston Public Library

THOMASTON — The Thomaston Public Library is pleased to announce that the Directors of the Maine Community Foundation approved a grant of $…

On March 7, Maine Lobstermen Association members and staff boarded a bus to make the two-hour trip south to Seafood Expo Northeast taking…

BELFAST—They’re probably the most fragile, impractical canvas to ever work on, but Ukranian artist Lesia Sochor can render tiny worlds on an egg, just by using three tools.

Sochor…

Farnsworth [Collective] 2016 BASH: April Fools Circus features Kenya band: Just a Band

ROCKLAND—Something wicked this way comes. Wicked cool that is.

On Friday, April 1, the Farnsworth Art Museum's [Collective] membership group will host its fifth annual BASH. This year's BASH…

On Eating and Loving Food

Back in the good old days, Friday night meant the end of the school week and a date with a boyfriend, or a night out with friends. The words Friday night always evoked some degree of excitement.…

UNION — The Vose Library, 392 Common Road, announces upcoming events at the library this April. These programs are free and open to the public. For more information, call Vose Library at 785-4733…

HOPE — Hope Library is delighted to announce that during April, local artist Jamie Wiggin will display her paintings at the Library. Jamie…

Health watch: Talks and more around Knox and Waldo counties

Pen Bay Medical Center and Waldo County General Hospital offer educational events, and which are usually free of charge unless materials are needed. Here is the latest listing by date with each…

Writer, director, producer Willard Carroll on his short film of all the locations in Peyton Place

CAMDEN — It was a book that hit close to home for many Camden residents. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Grace Metalious’ novel Peyton Place. Steeped in…

UNION — The name started as a joke, something Gary Harriman’s friend and business partner, Kevin Davis, came up with. “As we assembled different pieces of wood together to make something new…

ROCKLAND BUSINESS GIVES BACK

ROCKPORT — The Pen Bay Healthcare Foundation is pleased to announce a gift of $1,000 from Rock Harbor Pub & Brewery. The gift is…

CAMDEN — For the second year in a row, The Hartstone Inn in Camden is offering evenings of dining and donating events at the Inn to benefit…

Kinectic Energy Alive’s fourth big show is all about finding the balance to be yourself

CAMDEN—Local choreographer-director Kea Tesseyman and her Kinetic Energy Alive dance Company have been working for months on their fourth major show "Grit & Grace: Just Be You!" to be held at…

2016 Maine Drama Festival

ROCKPORT – Last weekend, 18 schools competed for the state championship, and the honor of representing Maine at the New England Drama…

UNION — Starting April 14, Union's Vose Library will offer a free book delivery service to town residents who hold a Vose Library patron…

WATERFALL ARTS

BELFAST — Work for the Keen Observation open call show at Waterfall Arts must be submitted Tuesday, March 29 through Friday, April 1 from…

ROCKLAND — The Center for Maine Contemporary Art will continue to accept online submissions for the 2016 CMCA Biennial Exhibition until…

PenBayPilot.com bringing your community to you

On Monday, March 21, 2016, our guest on The Chris Wolf Show will be Brian Hill, chef/owner of Francines Bistro…

CAMDEN — The Camden Public Library will offer its popular Maritime Month speaker series again this April.

The library will…

WALDOBORO — Medomak Arts is pleased to announce the start of new programs at The Space @ No. 9. Located at 9 Friendship Street, The Space…

Michael Moore film, Malt & Monotype, funny songwriters, St. Paddy’s redux and one hairy road trip

Spring still hasn’t made up its mind, but if we do get another monster storm, it looks like it’s on the tail end of the weekend, so here are some things you can venture out to see — plus the hair…

Transformations

Luna and I started our lives together 12 years ago. Her breeder lived in a small town not too far east of Buffalo, N.Y. When she was six weeks old I drove over to get her.

I sat in the yard…

Submission extended to March 25

ROCKLAND — Asymmetrick Arts and Black Hole are pleased to confirm Lorraine DeLaney (Colby Musuem…

TENANTS HARBOR — The Jackson Memorial Library will feature the works of Spruce Head artist Laurie Webber from April 4 through May 31. The…

CAMDEN — The cover story of the April/May 2016 fine Cooking Magazine highlights Waffles for Dinner, Waffles Beyond Breakfast. It includes a…

Filming in the Midcoast and Islesboro the month of March

Josh Gerritsen, a professional photographer and director of a new Midcoast-based movie, Island Zero, is excited to be working in Maine on his first movie. That his mother, best-selling…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day...

ROCKLAND — When most of us are winding down for the evening, Atlantic Baking Co.’s head bread baker, Lynn Butman, is just getting to work. Arriving at 8 p.m., she works until 3 a.m. making breads…

UNION — The call is out for donations to Union's increasingly popular Vose Library Stash Sale, to be held Saturday, April 30 at the library…

SEARSPORT — A bottle filled with colored seabird guano (droppings) from Penobscot Marine Museum's collection is currently on display in the…

The Lady Knox Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will be holding their monthly meeting Saturday, March 19, at 10 a.m…