Come to the Damariscotta River Grill for dinner and the opening reception of the art of Sarah Fisher, Daisy Greene and Mary Winkes on Wednesday, April 7. To celebrate the artists, the Grill is…
Culture
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
Stages have been dark for months around the state of Maine, and Boothbay Harbor’s Opera House has been no different. This April the historic performance hall brings back live performances with…
DaPonte String Quartet
In the beautiful, secluded and relaxed lakeside setting of historic Camp Kieve’…
The Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath will exhibit four Maine artists in its gallery in a show titled “A…
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust
With warmer temperatures on the way and more time spent outdoors, it is important to think about protecting yourself against ticks! On Thursday, April 1 at 6 p.m., Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (…
The Chocolate Church Arts Center (CCAC) in Bath…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta is holding a special sale on music CDs, from Monday, March 22 through Saturday, April 3. Every CD will be on sale at half price; there’s…
The DaPonte String Quartet is performing a six-part series of online concerts. Part one and two: Beethoven String Quartet No 5 …
The Second World War had a dramatic impact on the everyday lives of individuals across the country, and while far from the fighting, the residents of Maine’s remote offshore islands…
March is National Reading Month as well as Women’s History Month, and the two are tied together in a book by George Thornton Edwards. Music and Musicians of Maine details the role of music,…
The Pemaquid Group of Artists (PGA) announces a call for new members for the Pemaquid Art Gallery in Lighthouse Park, Bristol, for the 2021 season.
This will be the Pemaquid Gallery’s 93rd…
What do you do when the partisan divide of the evening TV news finds its way into the day-to-day flow of our lives? There are two choices: Escape or tackle it head on. What if you could do both at…
The Waldo is raising the curtain on live theatre production, making sure it’s a safe, fun, and rewarding…
Camden Conference
The Camden Conference and Belfast Free Library will present “Frozen Obsession” Monday, March 15 at 6 p.m. before it airs on PBS later this year.
This film documents the 18-day, 2,000-mile…
Heartwood Theater Summer Camp registration is open for students graduating grades 5-12. Students may choose from two camps – Shakespeare/Acting (two weeks) and Broadway Music (three weeks) or…
Been seeing lots of unusual finches this winter? Mid-Coast Audubon and Camden Public Library will host a free online Zoom presentation about our northern finch winter visitors on Thursday, March…
On Thursday, March 25, the Farnsworth Art Museum will present an online lecture by writer, art historian, and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson entitled “Empress of the Environment: Louise Nevelson at a…
Merry Barn
The Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat in Edgecomb is thrilled to open its doors again for its Summer Writing Adventures. After this long and difficult year, we can hardly wait to welcome the creativity…
Lincoln Theater
In just over a week, the doors to the historic Lincoln Theater will reopen. While the Theater has instituted several new processes and procedures for this time of Covid-19, its new ticketing…
In response to demand, Coastal Rivers naturalist Sarah Gladu will offer a repeat of her online program about attracting Eastern bluebirds on Thursday, March 18 from 5 to 6 p.m.
With its…
Kate Novack, an Emmy-nominated writer-director-producer of documentaries, wrote and directed “Hysterical Girl,” a short film nominated for Best Short by the International Documentary Association.…
The DaPonte String Quartet will present a six-part series of online concerts March through June. Part one: “Beethoven - String Quartet No. 5 in A Major,” is now available at onstage.daponte.org.…
Medieval historian and Boothbay Harbor resident Lee Swanson has just published “Her Perilous Game,” the second historical fiction novel in the “No Man is Her Master” series, and the thrilling…
Author Lara Tupper always starts with place when beginning a new novel or short story. Coming up in real life, the place will be Print: A Book Store in Portland, virtually on Zoom on March 25 at 7…
Skidompha Library’s Chats with Champions will feature author Kay Tobler Liss at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 25.
Kay Tobler Liss’ first novel, “The Last Resort,” follows Paul, a lawyer who…
VentiCordi Chamber Music returns to the Lincoln Theater, Sunday, March 7 at 1 p.m. to perform a live-streamed concert. Please join VentiCordi’s Artistic Directors, oboist Kathleen McNerney and…
Book review
Reincarnation. Some believe, some don’t. In Carol Parker’s debut novel, “The Fish Dress,” the influence of a past life, or lives, can explain a lot about what’s influencing us in our current…
Lincoln Theater in downtown Damariscotta will reopen on Friday, March 19 at 7 p.m. with the award-winning film “Nomadland.”
The Theater has come a long way since shutting down last March…
Join us for a virtual concert broadcast live from inside the historic Waldo Theatre Thursday, March 11 at 7 p.m. featuring The Gawlers, a fun-loving, folk-singing, fiddle-playing family from Maine…
Goose River Press
Goose River Press seeks selections of fine poetry, essays, and short stories (3,000 words or fewer—double‐spaced) for its annual anthology. The book will be beautifully produced with a full-color…
“I had to bring a bottle of brandy, two oranges, and a white towel (to the voodoo ceremony). We went into a slum area of Trinidad where guys were drumming. The men who came to get me from my hotel…
Planning a festival of the size and caliber of Boothbay Harbor’s Windjammer Days (WJD) during these COVID-19 times is challenging, but the Friends of Windjammer Days continue moving plans forward…
The Boothbay Planning Board tabled a request Feb. 17 by Karen’s Hideway for a change of use. Co-owner Garry Blackman requested a change of use from a mobile takeout business to a year round eatery…
Healthy Lincoln County and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office are working together to provide local restaurants, bars, and stores with Alcohol Seller/Server training on Wednesday, Feb. 24 from 9…
River Company has a new Zoom production up on their YouTube channel, Anton Chekhov’s “Boor,” written in 1888.
The one-act play, which is 28 minutes long, explores themes of emotions and…
Healthy Kids
As the pandemic continues, families continue to face immense stress. It is important, now more than ever, to speak up or act if you are concerned for a child. Healthy Kids is offering through Zoom…
The prospects for a colorful yarn exhibit, or yarn bombing, on Wiscasset’s made over Main Street have unraveled. Selectmen Feb. 16 were mixed on the concept and some said it might work, not on…
Our Western Book Club and Film Series continues next week with “Shane” the 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer and adapted to the big screen in 1953. “Shane” tells the story of a weary…
The Waldo Theatre, which has been closed since 2014 and under renovations and with new board leadership for the past three years, needed…
More than 200 high school and college students from around the world have signed up for the Feb. 20-21 Camden Conference, “The Geopolitics of the Arctic: A Region in Peril,” taking advantage of…
In its first major sale of 2021, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries will present an irresistible array of fresh-to-the-market items that will attract all types of potential buyers. Titled “…
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts was recently awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support a three-week artist residency organized by members of a national…
Mid-Coast Audubon and Camden Public Library will host a free online Zoom pictorial overview of the 2020 Maine Audubon trip to Costa Rica on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 6 p.m.…
Maine State Music Theatre
Cherie Scott, a Mumbai-native who now calls Maine her new home and the creator of Mumbai to Maine – Maine’s first Indian-inspired culinary brand, will share her cultural roots and nostalgic…
Chocolate Church Arts Center
The Chocolate Church Arts Center will welcome the Bowdoinham Guild of Artisans, with a gallery exhibit opening on Friday, Feb. 26. In its 17th year, the Guild is a collective of artists promoting…
Hope truly does spring eternal, even during a pandemic. Here is a short list of some of the state’s summer events whose organizers have boldly announced 2021 dates. Hopefully more will be added…
A virtual art show featuring the works of five Midcoast artists who have attended New Ventures Maine classes and workshops will be hosted during the month of…
Pastoral paintings – at some point, whenever I’m visiting in one – I slowly become aware of this slight smile on my face and then the right side tilt of my head as I begin dreaming of where in the…
Are you a choral music fan and are wondering what to do this winter and spring? Sheepscot Chorus and St. Cecilia Chamber Choir will be offering virtual sessions every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. from…
Owls Head Transportation Museum
Presented by the Owls Head Transportation Museum, this 2,000-square foot exhibition will illustrate the electrifying evolution of tourism and transportation history that defined the State of Maine…
