HALLOWELL — The Harlow, in partnership with Friends of the Kennebec River Rail Trail (FKRRT), present “Life on The Trail,” an exhibition of artwork by 21 artists reflecting on the Kennebec River Rail Trail. The exhibition is on view Oct. 5-27, at The Harlow, 100 Water St. The public is invited to meet the artists at […]
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Mill House Pub to host Continental Shakedown Saturday
Continental Shakedown will play at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Mill House Pub, 128 Lewiston St., Mechanic Falls. The power trio/jam band from central Maine includes Ken Goodman, guitars/vocals; Charlie Bradburry, bass/vocals; and Steve Kaulback, drums/vocals. There is no cover charge.
Denny Breau to play during brunch at Fish Bones every Sunday
Denny Breau will play during brunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays at Fish Bones American Bar & Grill, 70 Lincoln St., Mill 6, in Lewiston.
Lewiston studio and gallery to feature artist Cheryl Savage
LEWISTON — Art studio and gallery Wicked Illustrations will hold its fall open house from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, featuring the art of Cheryl Savage in her show titled Captured in Time. Her leaf sculptures and cement-cast leaves are each a unique piece of art and captured in time like a fossil. […]
World-famous Harp Twins to perform at 49 Franklin
RUMFORD — The world’s only identical twin professional harpists, the Harp Twins, Camille and Kennerly Kitt, will perform at 49 Franklin’s Mystic Theater at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25. The sisters were trained classically (with university degrees in harp performance), but have a passion and flair for arranging and performing rock, metal and soundtrack music for […]
Bowdoin College Museum of Art hosts talk about artists and the Civil War
Makeda Best will give a talk,”Imagination Cannot Depict — Historical Consciousness and the Arts of Eyewitness in the Civil War,” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Kresge Auditorium. Best, the Richard L. Menschel curator of Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, will speak about artists’ engagement with the American Civil War. This […]
Looking Back on Oct. 4
100 Years Ago: 1918 Thirteen hundred front-line packages sit in the Red Cross rooms which must be finished before the last of September. There are base hospital packages, too, which have to be completed if there is time. but they must be done if the chapter is to meet its obligation to the National Red […]
Casting call for 'A Good Old Fashioned Big Family Christmas'
RUMFORD — 49 Franklin’s Mystic Theater has announced casting for their production of the Christmas comedy “A Good Old Fashioned Big Family Christmas” by Pat Cook. The play will take place Dec. 7, 8, 14 and 15. This will be the third Christmas production directed by Cindy Grassette. Rehearsals will be twice a week depending on […]
Award-winning musical 'Assassins' coming to Chocolate Church
BATH — Stephen Sondheim’s multiple Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece “Assassins” is coming to the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath for two weekends, Oct. 12-21. This dark musical comedy is being produced by Studio Theatre of Bath, one of midcoast Maine’s oldest active community theater groups, co-founded in 1979 by Priscilla and J. Pat Montgomery. “Assassins” […]
'Anthropocenic' exhibit featured at Bates College Museum of Art
LEWISTON — In recent years, environmental advocates have increasingly argued that we have entered a new epoch in geological history — the Anthropocene. Derived from a Greek word for “human,” the name refers to the fact that we live in a time in which human activity is transforming nature on a planetary scale. The Bates College […]