Each February for more than a decade, Freeport has celebrated its culinary scene with the Flavors of Freeport, a weekend full of tastings, classes, demonstrations, workshops and topped it off with a dance party. Due to Covid-19, those traditions are on hold until 2022. Instead, Visit Freeport has created two new ways to celebrate our […]
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Camden library to host domestic violence talk
New Hope for Women’s Jesse Lucas will hold an informative online program called “Domestic Violence 101” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, hosted by the Camden Public Library. The talk will provide an overview of the trauma caused by domestic violence. Lucas also will touch upon oppression and its overlap with domestic violence. Lucas […]
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Bowdoin museum to highlight acquisitions from 2020
A special presentation at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, will explore a selection of art works — including this Greek Marble Funerary Stele, from Ionia, marble, Second Century BCE — added to the collection in the last year at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Works from the ancient Mediterranean to present-day Maine and […]
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Maine groups partner to highlight New England’s Black heritage through series of virtual events
In January and February 2021, Atlantic Black Box and the Indigo Arts Alliance will convene two public conversations related to memory, art, place, and race supported by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council. This pair of events will feature panelists from around New England who have developed site-specific projects aimed at making Black history […]
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Penobscot Theater Company presents ‘Flyin’ Solo’
The autobiographical theatrical memoir will be streamed at various times through Feb. 7,
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Boardman to perform Jan. 6 at the Oasis of Music
Fiddler Greg Boardman will perform at the Oasis of Music at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. The date falls on the twelfth day of Christmas, when the Feast of the Epiphany is traditionally celebrated. Boardman has selected a variety of traditional pieces as his […]
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Opera House Arts plans relaunch in early 2021
STONINGTON — Opera House Arts is taking advantage of the pause in normal operations due to the pandemic to make upgrades to its historic building, retrofit technology and restructure the organization, with a grand reopening planned in early 2021. The organization’s first virtual Gala, now set for Wednesday, July 15, will celebrate the changes planned […]
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New app lets you explore Maine’s 4-Port Loop
SEARSPORT — The newly formed Penobscot Maritime Heritage Association’s celebration of Maine’s 200th birthday has been postponed until July 2021. The tall ships, schooners, Navy vessels and UMaine’s 3-D printed boat that were originally scheduled to visit the Penobscot River this year to honor Maine’s rich maritime heritage are being rescheduled to take part in […]