Greater Portland Auditions/Calls for art Bizarre Masquerade Bazaar, call for masks, drop off Oct. 1-3, The Art Department, 611 Congress St., Portland, the.art.department.me@gmail.com Books & Authors Wednesday 10/3  “Zeitoun,” book discussion, Scarborough Public Library, 48 Gorham Road, Scarborough, 883-4723 ext. 6279.  Tuesday 10/9 “Maine Summers Cookbook,” Linda Greenlaw, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Hannaford, 295 Forest Ave., […]

Greater Portland Auditions/call for art Bizarre Masquerade Bazaar, call for masks, drop off Oct. 1-3, The Art Department, 611 Congress St., Portland, the.art.department.me@gmail.com Books & Authors Thursday 9/27  “Island Schoolhouse,” Eva Murray, 7 p.m., Longfellow Books, One Monument Square, Portland, 772-0445.  “Plainsong,” Ket Haruf, 7 p.m., Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-4763.  Wednesday […]

Greater Portland Auditions/call for art Yarmouth Art Festival accepting entries through Sept. 21. Painting, sculpture, photography, etching and digital media; from any artist 18 and older who maintains a residence in Maine. $15 per person for the first piece, $10 for the second and $5 for each additional one. All fees and commissions support St. […]

Greater Portland Auditions/call for art Yarmouth Art Festival accepting entries through Sept. 21. Painting, sculpture, photography, etching and digital media; from any artist 18 and older who maintains a residence in Maine. $15 per person for the first piece, $10 for the second and $5 for each additional one. All fees and commissions support St. […]

Greater Portland Auditions/call for art Yarmouth Art Festival accepting entries through Sept. 21. Painting, sculpture, photography, etching and digital media; from any artist 18 and older who maintains a residence in Maine. $15 per person for the first piece, $10 for the second and $5 for each additional one.  All fees and commissions support St. […]

Greater Portland Books & Authors Thursday 8/30 “Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide,” 4-6 p.m., Freeport Wild Bird Supply, 541 Route 1, Suite 10, Freeport, 865-6000. Friday 8/31  “The Maine Garden Journal,” Lisa Colburn, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700. Tuesday 9/4 “Envy,” Elizabeth Miles, release party, […]

The mums are blooming, pine spills are spilling and ferns are turning brown. Those are Mother Nature’s certain signs that summer’s end is nigh. Maine’s arts and entertainment calendar has similar signs, with the most prominent being the annual Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, which has been a fixture of Labor Day weekends […]

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 8/22 “Leader of the Pack,“ David Rosenfelt, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700. Friday 8/24 “Urban Temple,” David McCann, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq., Portland, 871-1700. Friday 8/31  “The Maine Garden Journal,” Lisa Colburn, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq., […]

Barreling toward Labor Day weekend – and the de facto end of the summer season of arts and entertainment – there are still a few more big happenings over the next couple of weeks. One of them is Maine’s biggest classical music festival that is entirely devoted to Johann Sebastian Bach and his Baroque contemporaries. That’s wrapping […]

Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Books & Authors Friday 8/17 “Growing up in Brooklyn,” Barbara Duke, reading , 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700. “Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Maine Wilderness,“ Lynne Plourde, 6-7 p.m., Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland, 775-6148. Monday 8/20 “Our Game Was […]