Lectures and Conferences

A scene from "Ratified" playing at the Lincoln Theater March 23. Courtesy of Ratify Film

“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…

Talking Art in Maine - Lincoln Theater
John Moore exhibition at Locks Gallery.

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…

Lincoln Theater
John Moore's art at Locks Gallery. Courtesy of 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…

Ocean on Tap held a trivia night Feb. 20 at Footbridge Brewery to celebrate their one-year anniversary. Leah Campbell photo

According to Footbridge Brewery co-owner Dan Pangburn, brewing is nothing but science. So, it's natural his…

Lincoln Theater
Photo courtesy of Kane-Lewis Productions

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…

Lincoln Theater
Portuguese trades. Courtesy of Rick Miller and Elliot Rappaport

Christine Covert, “Addie’s Farm," - courtesy of BRAF

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…

Jim Kutsch, former president of Seeing Eye Inc., and his dog, Easton, talk history of the first guide dog school in North America. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register

“Interact with the person. Don't interact with the dog,” Jim Kutsch advised a packed audience during…

Panel discussion members: Lisa DeSisto, Jo Easton, Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm and Matt Storin. Courtesy of the Camden Conference

Merry Barn founder Stephanie McSherry sits outside the creative space at 417 River Road, Edgecomb. Courtesy image

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…

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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
Patrisha McLean, Founder and CEO of Finding Our Voices. Mary Kamradt photo

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
GCW member Linda Biden

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
"Third Shift" - Stephanie Pruzansky's mixed media, oil and wax. Courtesy of the venue

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…

"Didi" opens at the Lincoln Theater on Friday, Sept. 27. Courtesy of the venue

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…

“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…

Maine artist David Estey
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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Kay Hardy Campbell

Kay Hardy Campbell will be the featured author at The Sounding Board, on Thursday, June 6, at the…

Southport Memorial Library
Leah Chyten

”Soul of the Mountain” is Leah Chyten's third novel. The Southport Memorial Library welcome Leah Chyten for an author talk at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, May 14. 

Finding Our Voices online
 
Michelle Horton's “Dear Sister” documents how blindness to domestic abuse led to her sister’s wrongful incarceration for killing…

Ocean on Tap, a new informal, ocean-centric speaker series has its second installment tonight, March 21, at 6 p.m. at Footbridge Brewery in Boothbay Harbor. Dr. Sarah Douglas, a postdoctoral…

Harbor Theater

Recent severe storm damage to our towns’ infrastructure and many residences has brought home to our communities the urgent topic of climate change and rising sea levels. We invite everyone to join…

Kathryn Miles

The author of a chronicle of the murder of a Unity College student and her girlfriend hiking the Appalachian Trail is joining the online discussion of the book with the Finding Our Voices book…

Lincoln Theater

On the evening of Monday, Feb. 12 the Lincoln Theater doors open for a free event. The Theater is partnering with Healthy Lincoln County and Better Life Partners to offer a…

Waldo Theatre

The Waldo Theatre is presenting a unique, day-long program on Sunday, March 3. "Now More Than Ever: Embracing Our Selves” will focus on the diverse experiences of living in female bodies and the…

J.B. Smith’s introduction to the Carpenter’s Boat Shop was low key. “The Shop built the dories that we’ve used at Hog Island Audubon since way back when,” he recalls. …

Beginning on Saturday, Jan. 13, Community Literacy Events return to the Merry Barn, celebrating the power of story and…

Skidompha Public Library

Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day by joining Skidompha Library and Leigh Anne Keichline for free in-person and virtual discussions of some of Dr. King's works. 

These…

Merry Barn

Midcoast writers interested in reading their work for an audience are welcome to submit a work-in-progress of any genre, up to 750 words, to

Emily Schmall, award-winning New York Times correspondent and co-author of the Times' recent groundbreaking series, Daughters of India, will be a featured speaker at the 2024…