BATH — ArtVan has been awarded a grant for $10,000 from the Quimby Family Foundation of Portland. The grant supports access to the arts through programming in its service areas including Brunswick, Auburn, Lewiston, Bath and Biddeford. A news release describes ArtVan as follows: ArtVan is a mobile arts therapy program that provides programming to […]

BRUNSWICK — Jerry and Todd Blodgett will be the featured performers tonight at 9 p.m., as the Side Door Cafe begins its 19th season. The Side Door Cafe is held on the third Friday of each month (except July) in the Morrell Room of the Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. Doors open at 7 […]

BATH — Robert Moody, music director of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, will be at Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., on Friday, Aug. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Moody will talk about his work as music director of the PSO. This program is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by Friends of Patten […]

HARPSWELL — Coastal Artists will hold its annual show at Library Hall, 2167 Harpswell Island Road, from Sunday, Aug. 19, through Friday, Aug. 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The six day show will include new pastels by Jan Roberson, Marilyn Flanagan’s watercolors and Flo Rich’s oils. Prints, cards and miniatures will be […]

BATH — Retired Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold will talk about his book, “Front Burner: Al Qaeda’s Attack on USS Cole,” at the Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 6 p.m. Lippold was commanding officer of USS Cole on Oct. 12, 2000, when the ship was attacked by suicide bombers in […]

TOPSHAM — Studio 48 Dance Studio will hold an open house for interested students and parents on Tuesday, Aug. 21, from 4 to 7 p.m. at its new location on 126 Main St. According to a news release, this new state-of-the-art dance facility will offer jazz, Zumba, tap, ballet, pointe, hip hop, modern and lyrical […]

PHIPPSBURG Once a year, when flares and noise-makers enliven the Popham Beach nightscape, George Popham makes an appearance of sorts. George Popham, of course, has not been among the living since 1608. That was a year after the pioneering colonist sailed from Plymouth with two ships and about 120 people and landed at the mouth […]

BRUNSWICK — Arts are Elementary will present two performances of “Blackbeard the Pirate” at Brunswick High School’s Crooker Theater, 116 Maquoit Road, on Saturday at 3 and 5:30 p.m. A news release describes the performances as follows: Directed by Joe Godburn and Eli Halterman of the Missoula Children’s Theater, these shows will be the culmination […]