BOOTHBAY The 9th annual Maine Photography Show is calling for entries! The premier juried gallery show of photography by Maine photographers is presented by Boothbay Region Art Foundation and opens for entries on Sunday, December 1, 2013. Instructions for submissions are available now at www.mainephotogra- physhow.com. Categories remain the same: color, black and white, student […]
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Bates Dance Festival announces season and training programs
LEWISTON The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England’s leading contemporary dance training and presenting program, announces its 32nd season, June 27-Aug. 10, 2014. The festival includes the renowned Professional Training Program for dancers 18 years and older (July 19-Aug. 10), offering 30 classes a day in a wide range of dance disciplines; and the Young […]
Monhegan Island Artists get grants
MONHEGAN The Monhegan Artists Residency Corporation is the recipient of three grants to support its programming. A $7,500 grant from the Quimby Family Foundation will cover operating expenses for the two annual fiveweek artist residencies. Grants from the Horizon Foundation and the Maine Arts Commission of, respectively, $6,400 and $1,900 are supporting the new twoweek […]
CHRISTMAS AND HARVEST CRAFT FAIRS AND SHOWS
Nov. 23 HAM & BAKED BEAN SUPPER, 5p.m. tp 6 p.m., Lisbon MethodistChurch, School Street, LisbonFalls. Adults: $7, children 6-12years: $3, children 5 and under:free.CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR, 9 a.m.– 3 p.m. St. Patrick Church, 380Academy Rd., Newcastle. Bakedgoods, candies, religious items,plants, raffle, lunch.ANNUAL CLC YMCA HOLIDAYCRAFT BAZAAR, 10 a.m. – 4p.m. 525 Main St., Damariscotta. […]
Lincoln Theater partners with Royal Shakespeare Company
DAMARISCOTTA Lincoln Theater in downtown Damariscotta is pleased to announce that is has the privilege of being one of the first theaters in Maine to partner with the Royal Shakespeare Company and their inaugural broadcast premiere of “Live from Stratford-upon-Avon,” a program that will screen the RSC’s productions from Shakespeare’s home town around the world. […]
Mohiba, Morse High School’s annual variety show, hits the stage
BATH Morse High School presents the annual variety show Mohiba, tonight and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Montgomery Theater. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. This year’s theme is “James Bond: 00hiba,” as the Shipbuilders spoof the time-honored British secret agent. Mohiba is one of the oldest and […]
Jazz service at Day’s Ferry Church
WOOLWICH — The Day’s Ferry Congregational Church will be presenting a jazz church service Sunday, Nov. 24th, featuring The Scott Davis Quartet. Reverend Alan Baughcum and Scott will combine their skills to put on a morning of Christian inspiration, education, and entertainment. The quartet consists of Scott on trumpet and vocals, Jesse Feinberg on piano, […]
Arts in brief
Fellowship program announced at Bowdoin Festival BRUNSWICK — The trustees of the Bowdoin International Music Festival announced that they have established the Kaplan Fellowship Program in honor of founding director Lewis Kaplan. At the invitation of Bowdoin College and the late Robert Beckwith, chair of the Bowdoin College Department of Music, Kaplan brought the Aeolian […]
Emily Isaacson takes the baton
A Brunswick native, new Oratorio Chorale conductor Emily Isaacson is also music director of Boston City Singers’ upper high school division. In 2004, she was one of two U.S. citizens awarded the St. Andrews Society Fellowship for graduate study in Scotland, where she earned a master’s degree in musicology from Edinburgh University. She earned a […]
Review: Oratorio Chorale’s ‘Musical Fireworks’
BRUNSWICK A festival of celebration was in the air at the Seventh Day Adventist Church as new conductor Emily Isaacson took the baton for the first time in the 40-year life of the Oratorio Chorale on Saturday night. The program was a mix of music spanning six centuries, from Renaissance Monteverdi and Gastoldi to a […]