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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...
Join Maine Historical Society and Belfast Free Library for an incredible opportunity to view the Dunlap broadside of the Declaration of Independence, one of 26 surviving copies printed on July 4, 1776. Explore Maine’s important role in the American Revolution and our country’s continuing effort to uphold our founding principles in this interactive traveling exhibition....
Join the Fiber Arts Craft Circle, hosted at the Friend Memorial Public Library in Brooklin (1 Reach Road), Fridays from 10 to 11 a.m.
Stop by the Friend Memorial Public Library in Brooklin (1 Reach Road) for a preschool storytime, with bubbles, books, and songs! hosted each Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Chopin, Debussy, and the impressive Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss arranged for virtuoso piano by Schulz-Evler, performed by Festival favorite pianist Christopher Johnson at Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church, 186 Great Cranberry Rd. Nocturne Op.9, No. 1 in B-flat Minor..... Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Nocturne Op. 62, No. 2 in E Major Piano Sonata Op....
Live Music at Pottle’s Pub in Liberty Maine featuring River Bottom Funk
Join us for our monthly evening paint ‘n’ sip workshops with instructor Erika Elizabeth at the Gilley for a fun evening of learning and art. Students are guided step by step through the process of painting, with plenty of explanation and instruction along the way. Each month has a different theme and inspiration-painting. For August,...
Stillwater, the an enigmatic and spirited bluegrass sextet from the wooded shores of the Stillwater River in Old Town, is returning to the Fogtown Stage on Friday August 14th. Drawing upon inspiration in jazz, bluegrass, jamband, folk, and old-time genres, Stillwater will be starting 6pm at 25 Pine Street in downtown Ellsworth. Fogtown Brewing Dot...
Winter Harbor Music Festival Community Opera presents Mozart’s comic opera, Die Entführung aus dem Seraglio (The Abduction from the Sultan’s palace with English supertitles) a spirited adventure filled with romance, comedy, and dazzling music, directed by Deiran Manning with Michael Haigler conducting the Downeast Chamber Orchestra.
UnEARTHed Festival Concert 4: Uprooted. Friday, August 14th, 7:30 pm, Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 pm, Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, ME. SMETANA: String Quartet No. 1, “From My Life” MARAIS: Les Voix Humaines ASHOT: “Sari Sirun Yar” ANATOLIAN TRAD. Eghin Havasi KAREN OUZOUNIAN: Songs of the Sap (No. 3: world premiere) SATYAN: Mardigi Yerke LEMBIT BEECHER:...
Emma, a senior at Highbury Prep, is certain she knows what's best for her classmates' love lives, and is determined to find the perfect boyfriend for shy sophomore Harriet by the end of the school year. But will Emma's relentless matchmaking get in the way of finding her own happiness? Based on Jane Austen's classic...
Hopeful, funny, sad, and true, Darker the Night, Brighter the Stars is an interconnected collection of short plays about identity, love, loss, lack, hope for the future, making wishes, and learning that there’s light even when it’s really, really dark. Written by Maine’s beloved playwright, John Cariani, this play revisits the town created in his...
The Frenchman Bay region has a long history of archaeological research that offers deep-time insights into Wabanaki lifeways. In this talk, Dr. Bonnie Newsom explores the archaeological heritage of Wabanaki peoples in and around Frenchman Bay, considering early researchers, their methods and interpretations, alongside more recent work that gives greater attention to Wabanaki perspectives. Together,...
Inspired by a selection of Grimms' fairytales, this original theatrical performance will travel with the audience through the historic nooks and crannies of the Chocolate Church Arts Center. It will be a fusion of theatre, live music, puppetry, and spectacle. It is a celebration of stories and storytelling, life and death, and the strangeness and...