With technology part of daily life, parents and teachers often must try to keep kids’ attention on the real world instead of the digital one. Some ways were…
Lectures and Conferences
Why does it seem that kids can’t keep their attention off their phones? Psychologist Jonathan Haidt presents a theory in his book “The Anxious Generation” (2024), the subject of part two of a…
Generation Z (born between 1995 and mid 2010s) is more depressed, more anxious and more suicidal than past generations, according to a lecture Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library and other…
River Arts
River Arts is pleased to announce David Peloquin will host a talk and open discussion titled, "Musings on the Creative Spectacle" at River Arts, 36 Elm St. in Damariscotta, Sunday, March 30 at…
Coastal Senior College
Coastal Senior College (CSC), serving Midcoast Maine from Wiscasset to Camden, has opened registration for its 13 spring courses set to begin the week of April 8.
Two of CSC’s Zoom-…
“Ratified,” a feature documentary that chronicles the 100-year fight for constitutional gender equality, will be screening on Sunday, March 23 at 12:30 p.m. at Damariscotta’s historic Lincoln…
Talking Art in Maine - Lincoln Theater
Damariscotta’s Historic Lincoln Theater is pleased to welcome its next guest in the “Talking Art in Maine” series, an exciting opportunity for art enthusiasts and community members to engage…
Lincoln Theater
Damariscotta’s historic Lincoln Theater is pleased to welcome our next guest in the “Talking Art in Maine” series, an exciting opportunity for art enthusiasts and community members to engage…
According to Footbridge Brewery co-owner Dan Pangburn, brewing is nothing but science. So, it's natural his business hosts one of the area’s liveliest science-based lecture series in…
Boothbay Region Clean Water Initiative
Boothbay Region Clean Drinking Water Initiative is bringing back the Forests to Faucets Lecture Series, Tuesday, March 11 at 5:30 p.m. at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens' Bosarge Education…
Lincoln Theater
The Lincoln Theater and sponsor Stepping Stone Housing are pleased to bring a screening of the powerful documentary “Building Hope: Ending Homelessness in Maine” to Damariscotta. The film,…
Beat the winter blues with the Boothbay Region Art Foundation (BRAF)! This season, BRAF is offering a variety of exciting exhibits and workshops to keep you engaged and creative.
"Wintering…
“Interact with the person. Don't interact with the dog,” Jim Kutsch advised a packed audience during…
Attention writers, storytellers, and tall tale spinners! We invite you to join us at the Merry Barn for a special finale of The Sounding Board on Thursday, Nov. 14 with author Cynthia Reeves…
Peter McHarg MacQueen (1863-1924) was well-known in his time. He was a pastor, a special agent and a globe-trotting journalist. He climbed mountains, befriended presidents, and spent extended time…
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
This online event is one of many ways the Finding Our Voices CEO and Founder is breaking the silence during October, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Patrisha McLean,…
Wiscasset Garden Club
The Garden Club of Wiscasset’s October program will be held on Thursday, Oct. 3rd at 6 p.m. There will be light refreshments before the meeting and a business meeting will follow the talk.
…Veteran documentary filmmaker AJ Schnack’s newest project explores the first use of Final Four voting in Alaska, a combination of Ranked Choice Voting and Open Primaries, in a look at how it…
Maine Art Gallery
The last exhibition of the season at the Maine Art Gallery, “Nocturne,” drew a large crowd to the opening Sept. 14. As one observer said, “It’s fascinating to see how artists handle light in the…
“Sing Sing” - (R; 1 hour, 47 minutes) - Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
Maine author Kay Tobler Liss will give a talk and reading about her new novel, “Coming Home,” at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library at 4 Oak St., on…
“Twisters” - (PG-13; 2 hours, 2 minutes) - From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series. A former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a…
Lincoln Theater
When it comes to news, how do we know what to believe anymore? On Thursday, Sept. 26 at 6:30 p.m. the Lincoln Theater will present the local…
Lincoln Theater is pleased to announce the return of the beloved program "Talking Art in Maine." While the focus of the program remains the same as season’s past, welcoming notable Artists…
SOUTHPORT MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The Southport Memorial Library is pleased to host speaker Ken Nomiyama on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Nomiyama is a Japanese American who was born during WWII at Tule Lake, California, one…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS) concluded its 2024 Café Sci lectures on Tuesday, Aug.6 at the Opera House of Boothbay Harbor with Catherine Mitchell, Ph.D. and senior research…
The next Ocean on Tap event, ‘Another World: A Travelogue of the Galapagos Islands,’ will take place…
Boothbay Region Historical Society
For the second straight year, Boothbay Region Historical Society is fortunate enough to partner with Harbor Theater, bringing you special historical programming in their wonderful cinema setting…
Ramunas Stepanauskas, Ph.D., senior research scientist and director of the Single Cell Genomics Center (SCGC) at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS), delivered the third lecture in the…
Y Arts presents: “Once on This Island JR” - (approx. running time: 1 hour) - Through almost non-stop song and dance, this full hearted musical tells the story of Ti Moune, a…
Chats with Champions is proud to present Ruth Monsell on Thursday, Aug. 1, at 10…
Nicole Poulton is a senior research scientist and the director of the Center for Aquatic Cytometry at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS). On Tuesday, July 23, before an audience of about…
Anyone interested in learning more about the health of Damariscotta Lake and what Midcoast Conservancy is doing to protect it is invited to join Damariscotta Lake Watershed Manager Patricia…
“Run Lola Run” - (R; 1 hour, 20 minutes) - In this visually and conceptually impressive film, two-bit Berlin criminal Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) delivers some smuggled loot for his boss,…
Diane Lechleitner’s poems and short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines. “Faron Goss,” a debut novel by Diane Lechleitner, is a Gold Winner of the Foreword Indies Award…
Few people are as uniquely positioned to tell the story of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences’ (BLOS) first 50 years as Dr. Barney Balch, and on July 16, to a crowd of about 160 at the Opera…
“Janet Planet” - (PG-13; 1 hour, 53 minutes) - In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the…
Niesa Ryder, executive director of Squirrel Island Historical Society, has a unique perspective on her island community. She has known it since her infancy, spending summers there in her family's…
Boothbay Region Historical Society
People have long been fascinated with Queen…
St. Giles Episcopal Church in Jefferson will present a talk Sunday, July 14 by a leading expert on Baxter State Park and how it was acquired by Percival P. Baxter, who donated the property to the…
Harbor Theater
Join us at Harbor Theater on Sunday, July 14 at 10:30 a.m. for a lovely, meditative immersion into the sights, sounds, tastes, and people of Norway through Margreth Olin’s film “Songs of Earth,”…
Former CIA Director John Brennan will address the challenges and opportunities facing the United States on Monday, July 29 from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Church in Newcastle. Michael Putzel,…
Southport Memorial Library
Barbara Ross is the author of 12 Maine Clambake mysteries and six novellas. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and have won the Maine Literary…
A lively crowd turned out last Saturday for the opening of two concurrent shows at the Maine Art Gallery (MAG): the plein air exhibition Paint it! Wiscasset, and Drawn to Maine: Contemporary…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
While the historic Boothbay Harbor Opera House calendar includes many ticketed concerts and events with internationally renowned artists, it also offers a variety of free community programming…
