BATH — Centre St. Arts Gallery, LLC, will hold an intensive collage workshop with noted artist Debra Arter, known for her mixed media and collage works, on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Materials are included in the $60 per person cost. Space is limited. Arter calls her workshop, “One big day […]

BRUNSWICK — Do you yodel in the shower? Can you tap dance like Gene Kelly? Do you blow a mean horn? If the answer is “yes” to any of these questions, then the Brunswick Rotary Club is looking for you, and you might just be Brunswick’s 2013 Hometown Idol. The Rotary will present the 2013 […]

FREEPORT — Thornton Wilder’s famous farce, “The Matchmaker” — the inspiration for the musical “Hello Dolly!” — will be performed by Merriconeag Waldorf High School’s ninth and 10th grades tonight at 7 p.m. at the school’s community hall, 57 Desert Road. Admission will be $5 for all seats. The plot revolves around Dolly Levi, matchmaker […]

BATH — Sarah Greenier is offering an eight-week course in waterbased oil and acrylic painting, beginning Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to noon at her studio at 428 Middle St. The class is designed for both beginning and intermediate students. Each class will start with a demonstration, as well as instruction in design, shapes, values and […]

BRUNSWICK — A rose is but a rose, but when it is delivered on Valentine’s Day by way of a barbershop quartet, a simple flower takes on a whole new meaning. The Nor’easters Chorus will present a singing valentine to a special person’s home, business, hospital, nursing home, school, or other location from the greater […]

TOPSHAM — Woodside One Wheelers will present a benefit concert on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Orion Performing Arts Center, 66 Republic Road. The show will start with Woodside’s Assistant Principal Chris Lajoie’s bluegrass band, String Tide; include a small performance by the Woodside One Wheelers; and feature the popular 1980s rock band Twyce […]

LEWISTON — Serena Fortier and her Brooklyn-based band, New York Funk Exchange, are going places. And one of those places is the Franco- American Heritage Center — back to her hometown — on Saturday. A 2002 graduate of Lewiston High School, Fortier went on to study vocal performance and songwriting at Berklee College of Music […]

— Saturday, Feb. 2, 1 p.m. • “Wes McNair: On Becoming a Poet.” Host Leila Percy will chat with Wes McNair about some meaningful friendships and his path to the position of Maine’s Poet Laureate. Refreshments. Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall, Bowdoin College — Sunday, Feb. 3, 1 p.m. • “The Coursen Readings, Part One.” Featured […]

BRUNSWICK M any readers know that J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S Lewis swapped manuscripts and proofread each other’s fantasy novels, but may not know that Ralph Waldo Emerson was Henry David Thoreau’s mentor. Or that novelists Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell hung out on Corfu and were pen pals when apart. So were the fathers of […]