FREEPORT — In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Freeport Community Library will present “Rhythm and Rhyme,” a jazz and poetry celebration at 6:30 p.m. today. Cul de Sax, a saxophone quartet made up of local musicians Susan Nourse, Paul Aliapoulios, Jim Huebener and Chris Gutscher, will perform. After the sax music, Maine poets Gary […]

BATH — Patten Free Library will kick off its third annual summer film festival with a screening of the 2001 French film “Amelie” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The quirky romance stars Audrey Tatou in the title role. Admission is free. For more information, call Leslie Mortimer at 443-5141 extension 25 or email lmortimer@patten.lib.me.us.

BRUNSWICK “And what do you do for a living, Mrs. Levi?” asks Ambrose Kemper in the first scene of the musical comedy, “Hello, Dolly!” “Some people paint, some sew … I meddle,” replies Dolly. The Midcoast Youth Theater’s production of “Hello, Dolly!” will show the title character at her most musical and meddlesome. The show […]

BRUNSWICK If you are a hat fan, you are in luck. The annual Midcoast Altered Couture Contest, which starts at 6 p.m. May 4 at the Frontier Café in Fort Andross, will feature hats this year. Altered Couture competition director Christine DeTroy said that this year’s hat theme “gets its inspiration from the Kentucky Derby.” […]

BRUNSWICK T he Studio 48 Performing Arts Center will stage a benefit country rock concert at 7 p.m. today in Crooker Theater at Brunswick High School. Students from Studio 48 Performing Arts Center and New England Regional Theater Company have been rehearsing to present a country rock concert to raise money for Studio 48 scholarship […]

LEWISTON — Oddfellow Theater performers and Michael Miclon’s Boo Dog Films will kick off their latest project, “Richard 3,” from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday in the Royal Oak Room at Boo Dog Films, 1 Bates St. The event will showcase many of the actors and film makers involved in creating “Richard 3,” a […]

PORTLAND — Erin Bishop will present a program titled “Social History of Ireland’s 19th Century Catholic Middle Class” at 2 p.m. April 29 in the Maine Irish Heritage Center at the corner of State and Gary streets. A release from the center describes the program as follows: In 1800, Daniel O’Connell, a young barrister who […]

BRUNSWICK — The Studio 48 Performing Arts Center will stage a benefit country rock concert at 7 p.m. April 27 in Crooker Theater at Brunswick High School. Private students as well as singers in Glee Club have been preparing popular song selections to perform with a live “rock band.” Song titles range from “Let it […]

BATH — Maine author and Bath native Elizabeth Peavey brings her one-woman show, “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother,” to the Chocolate Church Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Peavey performs “My Mother’s Clothes” as a series of connected monologues as she confronts the following: Losing a parent is difficult […]

BATH — A reception for an exhibit titled “Edge of the Sea” will run from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Chocolate Church Art Gallery, 804 Washington St. “Please join local artists in a celebration of the sea with their individual interpretations of this delicate ecosystem,” a release from the gallery states. “A […]