TOPSHAM — The Oratorio Chorale will present “A Musical Journey” for its annual spring recital at 3 p.m. June 3 at the Mid Coast Presbyterian Church, 84 Main St. “Singers will travel the halls of music with solos, duets and quartets, performing familiar tunes and a variety of pieces new to many,” an Oratorio Chorale […]

Mandy Russell, a self-taught mixed media artist from Topsham, makes art at the dining room table almost every night after the kids go to bed. She also works with local students to promote the arts in schools. “A Delightful Grime,” a show of her works will be on view throughout June at Little Dog Coffee […]

Maine Maritime Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The museum will host visits by four tall ships, offer a special openhouse weekend, mount two new exhibits in the museum and two other exhibits off site (one in Portland, one in Rockland). The museum also will conduct a special event when DDG-112, the future USS […]

BRUNSWICK — “Pedal-Driven: A Bike-umentary,” a documentary film about conflicts related to mountain bikers using public lands, will screen at 7 p.m. May 30 and 31 at Frontier Cinema and Café in Fort Andross. The film “examines the long-standing confrontation between mountain bikers and federal land management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service over […]

BRUNSWICK Maine State Music Theatre director Donna Drake and choreographer Michael Gorman will be at Frontier Cinema and Café at 7 p.m. Wednesday for a screening of “Every Little Step,” an award-winning documentary about a Broadway production of “A Chorus Line.” The two will field questions from the audience after the screening. Drake, who played […]

HALLOWELL — Gaslight Theater’s production of “The 39 Steps” opens tonight at Hallowell City Hall. Based on the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, the fast-paced stage whodunit features four actors playing all of the roles. The plot closely follows the film. A Gaslight Theater release describes it as follows: Canadian Richard Hannay […]

BUCKFIELD — Nationally renowned jugglers Jay Gilligan and Wes Peden launch their 21-city Shoebox Tour 2012 with a performance at 7 p.m. Monday at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School. “The Shoebox Tour 2012 is a presentation of all new material in the “modern juggling” style — focusing on artistic presentation of virtuosic object manipulation,” a release […]

TOPSHAM — For the grand finale of its 20th anniversary season, the DaPonte String Quartet will perform a program titled “The Passions of Youth,” featuring the early music of three composers, Beethoven, Tan Dan and Mendelssohn. Beethoven wrote his String Quartet in B-Flat Op. 18 No. 6 in 1802. Nicknamed “La Malinconia,” it was written […]

GEORGETOWN — More than 60 paintings found during cleaning at Jason Schoener’s homestead will be on view and for sale at the West Island Gallery from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Saturday and Sunday. Many of the paintings date to the 1940s. Schoener was born in 1919. His uncle was William Zorach, the well-known […]