FRYEBURG — The Metropolitan Opera’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Live in HD series presents “Akhnaten” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. Each year, the Met’s Live in HD series brings 10 live opera cinema transmissions to more than 2,200 theaters in more than 70 countries worldwide, including […]
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Celebration Barn Theater wins $15,000 grant to help build new generation of theater-goers
PARIS — The Onion Foundation has awarded Celebration Barn Theater $15,000 to support and expand its education initiative to engage local youth in live performance in 2020. The grant will support Celebration Barn’s “Theater in Schools” program, launched this year in partnership with SAD 17. Last spring, over 800 elementary students rode the school bus […]
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Singer-songwriter Phil Poirier to play at North Church
FARMINGTON — Phil Poirier will perform songs for voice, guitar and piano in a solo concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the North Church. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for a Pie Social. For years, Poirier was a successful artist in the Portland area, showing in several of the larger galleries in […]
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Ski Museum of Maine mounting exhibit celebrating Sunday River’s 60th anniversary
BETHEL — The Ski Museum of Maine’s Oxford County committee is mounting an exhibit at the Museums of the Bethel Historical Society to celebrate the founding of Sunday River Ski Resort in the winter of 1959/60. The exhibit opens at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 29, in the Valentine Gallery at MBHS Robinson House. The exhibit […]
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Shaker Christmas Fair to be held
NEW GLOUCESTER — The annual Shaker Christmas Fair at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. Experience this nostalgic holiday tradition at America’s only active Shaker Community at 707 Shaker Road. Specialties will include Shaker baked goods: wheat bread, Brother Arnold’s beer batter bread, cinnamon-raisin bread, […]
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Mahoosuc Community Band to perform Christmas concert
BETHEL — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The Mahoosuc Community Band has been practicing Christmas music since September. The Christmas Concert will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at the West Parish Congregational Church. The concert is filled with traditional favorites and newer melodies. New songs this Christmas season are […]
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Farmington Historical Society brings ‘Christmas Through the Ages’ to life with tour
FARMINGTON — Time travel with the Farmington Historical Society as it shares the experience of “Christmas through the Ages” on Saturday, Dec. 14. The society has arranged for participants to visit five homes where costumed guides will share information about five eras of Christmas celebrations. The periods are: A Moravians Glimpse, 1740s; Colonial Maine, 1800s; […]
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Susann Pelletier to read from her new poetry collection for LAC’s Franco-American Collection reading series
LEWISTON — The Franco-American Collection will host local poet Susann Pelletier at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25. Pelletier is the second featured writer of the FAC’s five Meet-A-Franco-Author programs being offered free to area Francophiles and lovers of reading in 2019-2020. The program series is called Franco-America at the Interstice of Identities, and guest writers explore the […]
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Great Falls Model Railroad Club to host annual ExTRAINaganza event
AUBURN — The Great Falls Model Railroad Club of Auburn welcomes the holiday season with the “ExTRAINaganza,” a unique four-day family fun event with special activities for children, at 144 Mill St. on the weekends before and after Thanksgiving. The handicapped-accessible club house, across from the Barker Mill, will be decorated for Christmas with trains […]
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Capital City Improv will perform at Johnson Hall
GARDINER — Capital City Improv will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, 280 Water St. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Capital City Improv Comedy uses audience suggestions and stories to create customized comedy shows right before your eyes. Each show is unique and will never be seen […]