The Kennebec Valley Art Association invites artists to submit artwork to Art2015, the 20th annual juried show at the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell. Art2015 is open to all Maine artists and to any…
Culture
The Performing arts class at Boothbay Region High School will be performing the classic radio play, “The Lone Ranger” on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. in the auditorium.
The script is from an…
Winter Cabaret is sketch comedy at its best — the funny, frantic, slightly bawdy sort you've come to love from The Theater Project. This group, acting, improvising and laughing together for over a…
Portland Stage Company and Maine College of Art (MECA) have recently announced a new partnership to offer a Theater Arts Track during MECA’s three-week residential Pre-College Program…
‘Round Town
Here's the plan. Pick the coldest day of the year so far, pack up the camera gear and waddle off into the great unknown. Which I did.
Remember, Mitch, in this marvelous age of the digital, “…
At the Theaters
The Harbor Theatre
“Into the Woods” is a musical fantasy directed by Rob Marshall, (Chicago) and adapted to the screen by James Lapine from his and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award–winning…
The Southport Memorial Library welcomes Maria Doelp and Deidre Amplo as their Artists of the Month for January and February.
Surrounded by unlimited artistic and visual opportunities, Maria…
A team of scientists from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and the New England Aquarium will gather at the popular new District Hall, 75 Northern Ave. in Boston’s Innovation District on…
The 9th annual Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival, a juried fine arts and fine crafts show is currently accepting applications from artists, fine craft artists, and demo artisans who would like to…
Entries for the juried 10th annual Maine Photography Show (MPS) are still being accepted, but not for much longer. The deadline is midnight on Friday, Jan. 23.
This…
Vox Nova Chamber Choir, a Midcoast-based ensemble dedicated to the creative exploration of modern and contemporary vocal music, will present two concerts of contemporary choral music, "Agnus Dei:…
The Public Theater will present The 24 Hour Plays: A Bennington Alumni Tribute to Nicky Martin, on Monday, Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. The benefit will bring Bennington College alumn, including Emmy, Tony…
Art Exhibition
Bruce Babb will showcase his collection of marquetry works in an exhibit, “The Beauty of Wood,” at the Pemaquid Watershed Association (PWA) office gallery in Damariscotta through February.
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After almost 11 months of opening up the ceiling and replacing walls and floor to expose and enhance the beauty of the building they bought last March, Alison Evans and…
Everyone has a story. And Peter Southwick believes that he can find something interesting, and worth sharing, about anyone.
Southwick…
Movie Review
I wish.
That's how many of our personal fairy tales begin. With one short phrase.
It happens that way for the characters created by the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, but for them,…
Art Exhibition
The Harlow Gallery in Hallowell is kicking off the new year with John Carnes’ expressive watercolors, Matt Demers’ graffiti inspired mixed media pieces and Scott Minzy’s graphic linocut prints.…
Start the new year with an art class that encourages your hidden talent to emerge and sets you on a path to journey creatively into 2015!
Starting and finishing a 12 by 12-inch painting…
Kathryn Miles is the Literary Luncheon author scheduled for the Friday, Jan. 9 event. The event, which begins at 11:45 a.m., will be held at the Boothbay Harbor Town Office, 11 Howard Street.…
Lincoln County Community Theater (LCCT), the resident theater company at Damaricotta’s Lincoln Theater, continues its series of semi-staged concert performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas…
The Harbor Theatre
“The Theory of Everything,” based on the memoir “Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” by Jane Wilde Hawking, stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity…
The Hadacol Bouncers will warm a winter's evening when they perform in concert at the Phippsburg Congregational Church on Friday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. The concert will…
Singer-songwriter Tim Rice takes the stage in DRA's Round Top Coffee House on Friday, Jan. 9.
A Maine native, Rice has been writing and playing songs for over 40 years.
Rice’s eloquent…
Resurgence Dance Company’s “We Are Rebels” will premiere at the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Jan. 17 and 18 at 7 p.m. This full length, contemporary ballet features electronic beats, anime…
The 2015 annual Haiti Benefit Dinner will be prepared this year by Damariscotta River Grill chef/owners Rick Hirsch and Jean Kerrigan.
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Film Screening
What better way to start 2015 than by joining others in the Midcoast for an optimistic and entertaining film about climate change that features visionary citizens like “the wind farmer” and “the…
After a brief holiday hiatus, the Boothbay Pickers will return to Mama D’s Café Mercantile on Wednesday, Jan. 7.
The acoustic music is most often by Noel Arrington, left, and Gabe Tonon,…
Artist Sarah Greenier is teaching two eight-week oil and acrylic painting classes starting Sunday, Jan. 11 and Tuesday, Jan. 13, from 9 a.m. to noon at her studio in Bath.
Classes are geared…
Down East Singers will begin its spring semester at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, at the Nativity Lutheran Church, 179 Old County Road, Rockport, with registration and voice-placement checks for new…
Organizers for the eighth Hot Chocolate Jubilee are recruiting acts and chorus members for the 2015 production of this popular community variety show, which is a fundraiser for the Chocolate…
Last week Sony Pictures pulled the plug on the national release of the latest film teaming up Seth Rogen and James Franco, “The Interview.”
It was bad enough for Sony Pictures' when its…
Start the new year with "Calendar Girls" (2003, 2 hrs. 12 min.) at Skidompha Library’s “Movies Just For Us” on Monday, Jan. 5. This winner of the 2003 British Comedy Awards stars Helen Mirren and…
The January exhibit at Rising Tide Community Market is the photography of Ida Chapman, the official photographer for the Damariscotta Farmer's Market.
This colorful exhibit features her…
Historian and local attorney Chip Griffin will describe the legacy of the fiercely independent Scots Irish people, who were among the first settlers…
Members of the Y Arts Alumni will come together for a one night only concert, Friday, Jan. 9, to support the program they grew up in.
Performing alumni include Courtney Chaney, Sophia Thayer…
John Michael Thomas Seizter will be the January “Artist of the Month” at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library. His exhibit will be on display Jan. 2-30.
Seizter is an award winning artist…
In keeping with the Owl's Head Transportation Museum’s newest exhibition, “Faster: The Quest for Speed,” a special winter education lecture series will focus on various incarnations…
The Poet’s Corner
Fred
Tuxedo cat
Sleeps sleeps sleeps
Once younger than I now
Older.
Fred
Tuxedo cat
3 a.m. pulls chain above bed
Light turns on I let him…
An open mic and community sing-along will be held on New Year's Day (Jan. 1), from noon to 3 p.m. at Savory Maine.
Musician Sylvia Tavares is organizing this free event. Last…
The Harbor Theatre
"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” brings the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves to an epic conclusion.
Having…
Free Round Dance open house events will be held Mondays, Jan. 5 and 12 at 6:30 p.m. and free Square Dance open house events will be held Tuesdays, Jan. 13 and 20 at 6:30 p.m. at Woodside…
Lincoln Theater recreated, live on stage, The Lux Radio Theater version of The Miracle on 34th Street on Dec. 20.
If you missed the production, you can still listen to the show online here…
Maine's ski resorts have plenty of events to choose from to ring in 2015.
New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, is just a week away. If a getaway appeals to you, here's what Sugarloaf, Sunday River and…
Artist Barbara Ernst Prey has produced a striking new series of digital prints of her most iconic and important works, to be issued in limited edition this holiday season.
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The Harbor Theatre
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” is the epic final installment of J. R. R. Tolkien's “The Hobbit” trilogy. Having reclaimed their homeland from the dragon…
‘Twas a jolly time at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor Dec. 17 when the Y Arts youth groups performed their holiday show.
Approximately 55 children, directed and choreographed by…
Lincoln Theater in downtown Damariscotta announces the return of Eric Lugosch, with Stephen Bennett, for its second annual Holiday Guitar night on Saturday, Dec. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
National…
McSeagull’s manager Alyssa Allen and co-worker Jeff Stoddard presented checks to local charities on Dec. 16 at the Boothbay Region Elementary School.
A total of $5,790 was raised from the…
The boys from the south who ran the Lighthouse Lobster Shack at the Heritage Village in Wiscasset are at it again.
Robert Harris and…
River Arts in Damariscotta will hold its opening reception for the “Celebrating Color” exhibition on Friday, Dec. 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. The show includes 90 artworks by artists from…
