Save Our Summits Hike

Save Our Summits Hike
Parkman Mountain Carriage Road Trailhead Mount Desert

Hike to one of Acadia’s iconic summits AND help Acadia National Park’s efforts to restore native vegetation! Acadia National Park, in collaboration with Friends of Acadia and Schoodic Institute, invites tenacious hikers to bring bags of soil to the summits of Penobscot and Sargent Mountains to be used for plant restoration. You’ll get to choose...

Free

Haystack Campus Tour

Haystack Campus Tour
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 89 Haystack School Drive, Deer Isle

Join us for a guided walking tour of the Haystack campus! Tour admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, and pre-registration is required: https://www.haystack-mtn.org/visit Tour participants will need to navigate uneven terrain and many stairs. Out of respect for workshop participants, the tours do not enter studios or other buildings. For safety, the...

$5

By Land or By Sea: A day of Activities at Steamboat Landing and the Boathouse

Belfast Boathouse 34 Commercial Street, Belfast

As part of the "Revolutionary Belfast" series of events to commemorate America’s 250th Anniversary, the Belfast Free Library invites everyone to join us for a day of Revolutionary-era activities for all on Steamboat Landing and in the Boathouse on the waterfront in Belfast. Scheduled Activities: By Land – Belfast Flying Shoes will lead dance of...

Janey ‘n’ Friends Morning Concert with Popovers -Mozart, Brahms, Wolf, and Walker for Strings and Piano

St. Saviour's Episcopal Church 41 Mt Desert St, Bar Harbor

10:30am concert - ticket price includes a hot popover fresh from The Stadium in Bar Harbor after the performance. Janey Choi & Eric Wyrick, violins Amadi Azikiwe, viola Robert Burkhart, cello Vadim Serebryany, piano Program: W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Piano Quartet in g minor, K478 Allegro Andante Rondo (Allegro moderato) G. Walker (1922 - 2018) Lyric...

$25

Brooklin Reads Group Discussion

Friend Memorial Public Library 1 Reach Road, Brooklin

Join the Brooklin Reads Book Group at Friend Memorial Public Library in Brooklin (1 Reach Road), next meeting Wednesday 7/29 from 1 to 2 p.m. This month we will be reading "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwen. Anyone is welcome to join!

Free

Haystack Campus Tour

Haystack Campus Tour
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 89 Haystack School Drive, Deer Isle

Join us for a guided walking tour of the Haystack campus! Tour admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, and pre-registration is required: https://www.haystack-mtn.org/visit Tour participants will need to navigate uneven terrain and many stairs. Out of respect for workshop participants, the tours do not enter studios or other buildings. For safety, the...

$5

Woodburning Workshop

Woodburning Workshop
Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor

In this beginner-friendly two-hour class, you’ll learn the basic techniques of decorative woodburning and will create an image of a feather to take home. Using a pen-like burning tool, you'll start by practicing mark-making techniques to explore options and possibilities with the wood burner. Then you will create an image of a feather by copying...

$30.00 – $37.00

The Designed Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth: Farnsworth Museum Art Lecture

Northeast Harbor Library 1 Joy Rd, Northeast Harbor

In connection with the current exhibition and new book By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth, a collaboration between the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Colby College Museum of Art, and the Brandywine Museum of Art, the director of the Farnsworth’s Wyeth Study Center, Dr. William L. Coleman shares new discoveries about the often overlooked...

Free

Music on the Mall

Music on the Mall
Brunswick Town Mall 191-195 Maine Street, Brunswick

The Brunswick Downtown Association presents Music on the Mall, its annual summer concert series gathering community together every Wednesday, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM, running June 24th through August 26th. This flagship event in Brunswick, Maine provides public concerts at the gazebo on the Brunswick Town Mall, and this year that’s not all... stay tuned...

Free

Jazz & Blues Open Session

Jazz & Blues Open Session
Bon Vent Cider 684 US Highway 1, Hancock

Every Wednesday evening from 6-8 pm, Zach Gorrell and Micheal Bennett host a very laid back and welcoming Jazz & Blues session at Bon Vent Cider. Into its 2nd year of running, this session is chock full of incredible local talent, and you never quite know who is going to sit in. Free and open...

Free

Fogtown Open Mic

Fogtown Open Mic
Fogtown Brewing Company 25 Pine Street, Ellsworth

Fogtown Open Mic is every Wednesday at 6pm at Fogtown Brewing Company, 25 Pine Street, Downtown Ellsworth. Featuring a full back-line, and very supportive community! Come play a song, jam with a band, or read poetry!

Free

Haystack Artist Presentations

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 89 Haystack School Drive, Deer Isle

Presenters: Eleanor Ingrid Rose, Metals; Angie YooJin Kim, Fiber; Cedric Mitchell, Glass. Coinciding with each of our summer sessions, Haystack faculty, Visiting Artists, studio assistant fellows, and Fab Lab Residents share their inspirations, ideas, and work. These presentations take place in the Gateway Auditorium (89 Haystack School Drive, Deer Isle, Maine) and are free and...

Free

Author Event with Bill Bunting

Blue Hill Public Library 5 Parker Point Rd, Blue Hill

The Blue Hill Library and Blue Hill Books will present an author talk with W.H. 'Bill' Bunting on Wednesday, July 29 at 7:00 p.m. at the library for his new book Captain Drew's World: Dispatches from the Age of Global Sail. A maritime historian and editor, Bunting has compiled Captain John Drew’s (of Hallowell, Maine)...

Free

Bucksport’s Wednesday On Main Presents Kneisel Hall’s Young Artists on Tour, 7/29/26, Alamo, 7:00 pm

Alamo Theatre 85 Main Street, Bucksport

We are honored to present this year's Young Artists from the venerable Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School & Festival The next generation of world class chamber music players are right here on this night. From the esteemed summer festival at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, please help us welcome these incredibly talented men and women...

$10

DaPonte String Quartet Concert: Brahms & Ives

Maine Jewish Museum 267 Congress St., Portland

The DaPonte String Quartet invites audiences throughout coastal Maine to experience an evening of extraordinary chamber music featuring two landmark works of the string quartet repertoire: Charles Ives' String Quartet No. 2 and Johannes Brahms' String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2.

$35,

Janey ‘n’ Friends Evening Concert -Mozart, Brahms, Wolf, and Walker for Strings and Piano

St. Saviour's Episcopal Church 41 Mt Desert St, Bar Harbor

Janey Choi & Eric Wyrick, violins Amadi Azikiwe, viola Robert Burkhart, cello Vadim Serebryany, piano Program: W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Piano Quartet in g minor, K478 Allegro Andante Rondo (Allegro moderato) G. Walker (1922 - 2018) Lyric H. Wolf (1860-1903) Italian Serenade intermission - J. Brahms (1833-1897) Piano Quintet in f minor , op 34 Allegro...

$35