BRUNSWICK About 180 fifth graders at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School worked with Lincolnville muralist Randy Fein to create a 15-by-four foot mural titled “Exploration” to be unveiled Friday, April 8 as part of Science Discovery Night. Fein, in conjunction with Arts are Elementary, worked with students as they created six-inch square tiles to be […]

BRUNSWICK The Oratorio Chorale and Artistic Director Emily Isaacson present “Sweetest in the Gale,” the Chorale’s women’s chorus, in a concert titled “To Sing above as Angels Do.” Soprano soloist Mary Sullivan and pianist Derek Herzer will join the chorus in songs of joy and defiance by women composers from 12th-century Hildegard von Bingen to […]

BRUNSWICK The Theater Project of Brunswick presents Harper Lee’s famous novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel, in a Community Collaboration production running through April 10. Lee’s novel has sold over fifteen million copies and been translated into over 40 languages. Set in the South in the 1930s when segregation […]

BRUNSWICK — After serving the local Brunswick community and beyond for seven years; Summer Island Studio and Gallery of Fine Artisans will be shutting the doors of its brick and mortar store in the Tontine Mall at the end of April. Summer Island Studio carries work from more than 80 artisans across the State of […]

Bowdoinham — The Merrymeeting Arts Center in Bowdoinham has received a major grant from the Maine Humanities Council for “Hallowed Ground, Forgotten Voices,” a project inspired by the book “Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters. Its description of a small, Midwestern town through the voices of the dead in a series of revealing epitaphs […]

BRUNSWICK The Brunswick Downtown Association is hosting “Diva Night” on April 15 from 6-8:30 p.m. at Maine State Music Theatre, 22 Elm St. in Brunswick. The event is intended to celebrate women in our community by providing an indulgent evening out with friends, neighbors and colleagues. The women will have a chance to relax while […]

BOWDOINHAM The Bowdoinham Community School has announced three performances of its first school musical. “A Year With Frog and Toad — Kids!” is based on the books by Arnold Lobel, adapted with book and lyrics by Willie Reale and with music by Robert Reale. The show will star fifth graders Claire Tankersley and Royal Kloberdans […]

PHIPPSBURG Singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer will perform in concert at Phippsburg Congregational Church on Sunday at 4 p.m., accompanied by pianist Gary Walters. The Grammy-winning songwriter has been described as “a soaring songstress” by Billboard, a “prairie mystic” by the Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone said she was “rapturously tuneful,” adding that “Newcomer’s material asks all […]

BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin International Music Festival has announced the line up for their 2016 season, titled “Re-Invention.” According to festival organizers the idea of re-invention is a large part of composition, performance, and teaching — everything the Bowdoin International Music Festival is all about. It also characterizes the process of growth and the goal of […]