Concerts

Jan. 10: AUBURN, Mary Murphy, jazz and blues pianist, will perform at 6:30 p.m. at Holly’s Deli and Wine Bar, 84 Court St. 333-3041

Jan. 10: LEWISTON, Maine Women in Music, featuring Elaine Colella, will be held at 6 p.m. at L/A Coffee and Wine Bistro at Mr. Paperback Bookstore, 855 Lisbon St. 783-0444

Jan. 10: PORTLAND, the Portland String Quartet will perform at 12:15 p.m. at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 425 Congress St. Free 775-3356

Jan. 11: AUBURN, Chad Porter, solo guitarist, will perform at 6:30 p.m. at Holly’s Own Deli and Wine Bar, 84 Court St. 333-3041

Jan. 11: BATH, Steve Grover will perform on the keyboard at Solo Bistro, 128 Front St. 443-3373

Jan. 11: LEWISTON, the Toughcats will perform modern bluegrass at 7 p.m. at She Doesn’t Like Guthries, 115 Middle St. Free 376-3344

Jan. 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26: LEWISTON, live music with smooth jazz, blues and rock will be performed at 6 p.m. at L/A Coffee and Wine Bistro at Mr. Paperback Bookstore, 855 Lisbon St. 783-0444

Jan. 12: AUBURN, Vegetables by Day, acoustic trio, will perform modern and classic rock at 6:30 p.m. at Holly’s Own Deli and Wine Bar, 84 Court St. 333-3041

Jan. 12: BRUNSWICK, Fitz Jenkins, double bass, and Gary Wittner, guitar, will perform at 6 p.m. at Captain Daniel Stone Inn, 10 Water St. 725-7721

Jan. 12: LEWISTON, Denise Dill will perform earthy folk music at 7 p.m. at She Doesn’t Like Guthries, 115 Middle St. Free 376-3344

Jan. 12: PORTLAND, Ed Pearlman and friends will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Woodfords Congregational Church Memorial Hall, 202 Woodford St. $15/$12 775-3356

Jan. 12: PORTLAND, the Fiery Furnaces will perform at Space Gallery, 538 Congress St. $12 774-7842

Jan. 12: PORTLAND, the Maine Songwriters’ Association’s eighth birthday bash, with songwriter and producer Wayne Cohen, will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. at Space Gallery, 538 Congress St. $5 837-8849

Jan. 12: PORTLAND, Flashback will perform Top 40 country, oldies and classic rock at the Gold Room, 512 Warren Ave. 221-2343

Jan. 13: LEWISTON, the Androscoggin Valley Community Orchestra will perform a winter concert at 7 p.m. at Bates College Olin Arts Center. $6 795-6921

Jan. 13: PORTLAND, Reindeer Records will hold a competition for the best rock solo performer in the state of Maine at McAuley Performing Arts Center. 857-9002

Jan. 13: PORTLAND, Peter Mulvey, singer/songwriter, will perform at 7 p.m. at North Star Music Cafe, 225 Congress St. $15 699-2994

Dance

Jan. 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27: GORHAM, ballroom dance parties will be held every Thursday, Friday and Sunday at Centre of Movement School of Performing Arts, Route 25. 839-3267

Jan. 10, 17, 24: PORTLAND, salsa and swing dancing will be held at 8:30 p.m. at Maplewood Dance Center, 383 Warren Ave. 878-0584

Jan. 11: LEWISTON, a contradance with music by Bustopher Jones will be held at 8 p.m. at Bates College Chase Hall Lounge. $5

Jan. 11: LEWISTON, the LHS and St. Dom’s Hockey Boosters dance will be held at 8 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, East Avenue. $10 782-8596

Jan. 11: MECHANIC FALLS, the Blake Brothers will play at a dance at 8 p.m. at the Silver Spur, 272 Lewiston St. $10 345-3211

Jan. 11, 18, 25: PORTLAND, a Friday night Latin dance party will be held at 8 p.m. at Maine Ballroom Dance, 614 Congress St. 773-0002

Jan. 11: RUMFORD, a Dance Dance Revolution Tournament will be held at 6 p.m. at Black Mountain of Maine Lodge. $4 364-8977

Jan. 12: EAST WILTON, a contradance with music by the Racket Factory will be held at 8 p.m. at Wilson Grange Hall, Main Street. $6 397-2241

Jan. 12: MECHANIC FALLS, the Record Family Band will play at a dance at 8 p.m. at the Silver Spur, 272 Lewiston St. $10 345-3211

Jan. 12: PARIS, the Swingin’ Bears square dance will be held at 7 p.m. at Oxford Hills Middle School, Pine Street. $10/$5 782-4050

Jan. 12, 19, 26: PORTLAND, a ballroom dance party will be held at 8 p.m. every Saturday at Maine Ballroom Dance, 614 Congress St. $6 773-0002

Jan. 12: WILTON, a contradance with music by Racket Factory will be held at 8 p.m. at Wilson Grange Hall, Main Street. $6 397-2241

Jan. 13: LEWISTON, Steve and the Good Old Boys will play at the Lewiston Singles Club at 7 p.m. at Knights of Columbus Hall, 150 East Ave. $7/$8 784-3660

Jan. 13: ROCKPORT, BodyVox will perform dance with a fluid movement, physicality and creative choreography at 2:30 p.m. at Camden Hills Regional High School Strom Auditorium, 25 Keelson Drive. $35-$8 236-2823

Kids

Jan. 10, 24: LEWISTON, the “Peek-a-Boo” puppet show will be held at 9:30 a.m. at New Life Community Center, 134 College St. 782-1112

Special

Jan. 10: MECHANIC FALLS, karaoke night will be held at 7 p.m. at the Silver Spur, 272 Lewiston St. $6 345-3211

Jan. 11: AUBURN, an open-mic night and poetry slam will be held at 7:30 p.m. at First Universalist Church, Pleasant Street. Free 783-0461

Jan. 11: LEWISTON, ice motorcycle racing will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Androscoggin Bank Colisee, 190 Birch St. $28-$8 783-2009

Jan. 11, 12: NEWRY, a winter carnival will be held at Sunday River Ski Resort and Black Mountain of Maine in Rumford. 786-6341

Jan. 11: PORTLAND, comedian Carl Yard will perform at the Gold Room, 512 Warren Ave. 221-2343

Jan. 12: AUGUSTA, the Maine Right to Life annual “Hands Around the Capitol Memorial” will be held at 11:15 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church gym. 782-0101

Jan. 12: BRUNSWICK, the Theater Project will hold an “improvATHON,” an improvisational game fundraiser, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the theater. 729-8584

Jan. 12: CANTON, “Crop for a Cure” will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Canton Municipal Hall. $20 597-2640

Jan. 12: PORTLAND, the Maine Songwriters’ Association’s eighth birthday bash will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. $5 837-8849

Jan. 12: PORTLAND, a community open house will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave. 774-1043

Jan. 13: BATH, the Bath Antiques Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bath Middle School, exit onto Congress Avenue from Route 1. $4/$3.50 443-8983

Jan. 13, 20, 27: BRIDGTON, an open-mic night will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. every Sunday at Cafe DeCarlo. 647-4596

Jan. 13: PORTLAND, Psychic Sunday will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Clarion Hotel, Congress Street. $1 286-1427

Theater

Jan. 11, 12: TURNER, thespians of Leavitt Area High School and Tripp Middle School will perform “Peter Pan” at 7 p.m. Friday and at 2 p.m. Saturday at Leavitt Area High School auditorium. $8/$5 225-4371

Jan. 12: BATH, the New England Youth Theater will hold auditions for students ages 12-18 for Disney’s production of “High School Musical” from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Chocolate Church Arts Center, 298 Washington St. 798-6966

Jan. 12-28: PORTLAND, the Portland Players will perform “The Wizard of Oz” at the theater, 420 Cottage Road. Showtimes are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. $20-$15 799-7337

Jan. 13, 14: AUBURN, L/A Community Little Theater will hold auditions for “Once on this Island” at 7 p.m. at Great Falls Performing Arts Center, 30 Academy St. 783-0958

Jan. 13, 14: FREEPORT, the Freeport Community Players will hold auditions for “Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolfe” from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the center. 865-2220

Films

Jan. 10: RANGELEY, a silent film about Joan of Arc will be shown at 7 p.m. at Lakeside Theater. Donations 864-9949

Jan. 11: RUMFORD, “The Cameraman,” a 1928 silent film, will be shown at 7 p.m. at Rumford Library, Rumford Avenue. Free

Jan. 12: PORTLAND, “A Night of Maine Film and Music” will be held at Portland City Hall Merrill Auditorium. $19/$17.50 842-0800

Books

Jan. 13: OXFORD, photographer Ron Laing, author of “An African Adventure,” will sign copies of his book at 6:30 p.m. at Oxford Advent Christian Church, Route 26. 743-7310

Lectures

Jan. 10: BRYANT POND, Mary Standard will speak about her book, “A Window Into the Past,” at 2 p.m. at Whitman Memorial Library.

Jan. 11: LEWISTON, Charles Plummer will speak on “The Last Ice Age in Maine” at noon at L-A College, 51 Westminster St. $6.50/$8 753-6510

Exhibits

Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year-round; “Cabinet of Curiosities, the Museum Science Collections and You” continues at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed all state holidays. 287-2301

Augusta: Works by Marcia Baker and Vi Eastman will be featured through March 15 at Finance Authority of Maine, 5 Community Drive. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. 1-800-228-3734

Bath: Ongoing exhibits “A Maritime History of Maine,” “Lobstering and the Maine Coast” and “Percy and Small Shipyard” at Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St. Gallery hours: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except major holidays. 443-1316

Bath: Annual juried photography exhibit will be featured through Feb. 23 at the Chocolate Church Arts Center, 798 Washington St. Gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 442-8455

Biddeford: Works by Stephen Burt will be featured through Jan. 31 at the University of New England Stella Maris Hall. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. 602-2269

Bowdoinham: “Salamanders and Lizards Gallery Show” will be featured through Jan. 19 at Merrymeeting Arts Center, 9 Maine St. 666-8907

Brunswick: “Carved in Stone: Two Views of Inuit Art,” an exhibit of Canadian Inuit sculpture, “Polar Photography by Bryan Alexander,” featuring photographs of Northwest Greenland, “A Permanent Home: Recent Acquisitions From Alaska” and “Chilling Discoveries About Global Warming,” featuring a piece of an ice core from the Greenland ice cap, will be shown through Jan. 31 at Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. 725-3416

Brunswick: “Pejepscot Past Times: Objects from the Original Collection” is ongoing at Pejepscot Historical Society, 159 Park Row. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and until 8 p.m. Thursday. 729-6606

Farmingdale: “Mixed Media Collection” by Claudia Brahms and “Limited Edition Photographs” by Noel J. Mount will be featured through Jan. 16 at Renaissance Gallery, 685 Maine Ave. Gallery hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. 623-3575

Freeport: Maine landscapes and seascapes,paintings and limited edition prints by Maine artists Eric Hopkins, Neil Welliver, Connie Hayes, Tom Curry, David Little, Wendy Turner, and Jeff Colquhoun are featured continuously at Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers, 149 Main St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. 865-4519

Gorham: USM Art Faculty exhibit will be featured Jan. 17 through Feb. 10 at USM Art Gallery. 780-5008

Hinckley: “Gerd H. Heinrich: a 20th Century Biologist and Museum Collector” will be featured through April 15 at L.C. Bates Museum, Route 201. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. $2.50/$1 238-4250

Lewiston: “Portraits and Voices: Workers of Seven Mills” will be featured through Feb. 28 at Museum L-A, 35 Canal St. 333-3881

Lewiston: “Taking Different Trails: The Artists’ Journey to Katahdin Lake” will be featured Jan. 18 through May 24; and “Wildness Within, Wildness Without: Exploring Maine’s Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail” will be featured Jan. 17 through March 4, both at Bates College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 786-6329

Liberty: An exhibit of Early American hand tools, Native American artifacts and the work of more than 75 contemporary Maine artists and craftspeople is ongoing at the Davistown Museum, 58 Main St. Gallery hours, Labor Day through Christmas, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. 288-5126

Litchfield: An ongoing, changing art exhibit by Aleta Manchester of New England landscapes, historical to the present, is featured at the Country Café, Route. 126. The café is open seven days a week. 268-4003

New Harbor: “Guns, Politics and Furs: Pemaquid and the Defense of the Eastern Frontier 1667-1761” will be featured continuously at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site, Pemaquid Point. 677-2752

New Portland: Ongoing exhibits, featured year-round, include Indian art from the United States, Canada and South America at Nowetah’s American Indian Museum, Route 27. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Free 628-4981

Nobleboro: Paintings by Philip Barter, Eric Hopkins, Paul Plante, Elena Jahn, John Neville and Jane Dahmen are featured continuously at Gallery House, 5 Center St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 563-8598

Norway: Works by Maya Best, Mary Brooking, Steve Florenz, Om Devi Reynolds and Judy Schneider will be featured through Jan. 26 at Commons Art Collective, 447 Main St. Gallery hours: 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. 743-9044

Portland: “Masterpieces From the Currier Museum of Art” and “Selected N.C. Wyeth Masterworks” are ongoing; “New Acquisitions 2007” will be featured through Feb. 10; and photography works by Lola Alvarez Bravo will be featured through March 16, all at Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday. 775-6148

Portland: “We Are Maine,” a multicultural exhibit and a fire truck exhibit, is ongoing at the Children’s Museum of Maine, 142 Free St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and after Memorial Day, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. $6 828-1234

Portland: Works by Abelardo Morell will be featured through Jan. 27 at at UNE Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave. Gallery hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday. 221-4499

Portland: The Jameson Art Group holiday show “The Art of Giving” will be featured through Jan. 25 at Jameson Gallery, 305 Commercial St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and by appointment. 772-5522

Portland: “The Urban Landscape” will be featured through Jan. 31; and “The Urban Landscape,” featuring works by Richard Estes, Richard Haas, David Kapp, Todd Watts, Rackstraw Downes, Yvonne Jacquette, Christina Goodwin, Robert Solotaire, Bruce Muirhead, Jeff Loxterkamp and Rush Brown, will be featured through Feb. 29, at Susan Maasch Fine Arts, 29 Forest Ave. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 699-2966

Portland: “Michael G. Moore: Drawing Drawings” will be featured Jan. 14 through Feb. 29 at USM Woodbury Campus Center. Gallery hours: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday. 780-5008

Portland: A staff exhibition will be featured through Jan. 26 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, 522 Congress St.

Portland: “MECA 1998 Painters, Ten Years Later” will be featured through Jan. 26 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St.

Pownal: “Sculpture in the Snow,” by June LaCombe, will be featured through March 21 at June LaCombe Sculpture, Hawk Ridge Farm. By appointment only. 688-4468

Richmond: Works by painter David Estey of Belfast, sculptor Richard Whittier of Liberty and furniture craftsman Mort LaPointe of Topsham will be featured through Jan. 15 at the Royall Gallery, 52 Main St. 737-2257

Scarborough: “Spirit of Ireland,” a photography exhibit, will be featured through March 31 at Biddeford Savings Bank, 350 U.S. Route 1. Gallery hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday. 766-1313

Topsham: “Three Mediums,” featuring the works of Shirley Lewis, Liz Messler and Claire Vigneau, will be shown through Jan. 31 at Topsham Public Library Crooker Gallery, 25 Foreside Road. 725-1727

Turner: “In Good Company,” the works of 30 artists, will be featured through Jan. 19 at Turner Center for the Arts at Leavitt Institute Building. 225-3115

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz” “Ancient Art” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896” are ongoing; “Highlights From the Lunder Collection” will be featured through June 15; “Fall Faculty Exhibition” will be featured through Jan. 20; and “Currents: Amy Stacey Curtis” will be featured through April 13, all at Colby College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. 872-3549

Waterville: “Work of Heart,” 30 paintings by Barbara Bagshaw of Windham, will be featured through Feb. 1 at Blue Marble Gallery, 153B Main St. 873-2300

Yarmouth: “Yarmouth at the Turn of the Century” is ongoing at Yarmouth Historical Society, Main Street. Gallery hours: 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 846-6259