LEWISTON — The Atrium Art Gallery at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College will sponsor “Area Artists 2015,” the art gallery’s long-running biennial open juried exhibition open to visual artists who live or work in Androscoggin, Franklin, or Oxford counties. Artists may submit up to two works to be juried; there is no entry […]
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Maine author of ‘Life Among Giants’ to talk in Augusta on Nov. 19
AUGUSTA — Maine author Bill Roorbach, whose novel “Life Among Giants” is this year’s A Capital Read selection, was nominated for the prestigious Kirkus Prize for his new book, “The Remedy For Love.” Roorbach will discuss “Life Among Giants” in an informal book group at Lithgow Public Library at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Later, […]
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Film on Barbados to be shown at Sawyer Memorial in Greene on Oct. 17
Barbados emerged from the sea less than one million years ago as the result of the collision of the North American and Caribbean plates. Barbados is the “most British” island in the Caribbean Region. British rule carried on uninterrupted for 340 years before independence in 1966. Barbados is a sophisticated tropical island with a rich […]
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Bad Penny to play at Mixers in Sabattus on Oct. 10
At 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, the modern country band will play at Mixers in Sabattus. The band plays a mix of music that includes covers from Jason Aldean to Skynyrd with a little 1990s alternative rock. Band members are Earl Blake, Darin Baker, Dusty Wittkopp, Todd Owen and James Maney. There is no cover […]
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Vietnam War drama, boxing comedy open at Bates College in Lewiston on Oct. 10
LEWISTON — This fall’s theater schedule at Bates College includes two plays presented as thesis projects by senior theater majors. Gunnar Manchester of Rehoboth, Mass., stars in Susan Felder’s two-character Vietnam War drama “Wasteland” in performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, in the Black Box […]
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The Public Theatre’s ‘The Cocktail Hour’ to open in Lewiston on Oct. 17
In A.R. Gurney’s play, a visiting son tells his well-to-do parents he has written a play about them. As they await a delayed dinner (because “the maid doesn’t know how to cook a roast”), the time-honored cocktail hour stretches out, the alcohol consumption escalates, and the arguments intensify. The play, set in an upper-class home […]
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Met Opera Live in HD to open at Fryeburg arts center on Oct. 11
FRYEBURG — The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series will return to the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center for the 2014-15 season on Saturday, Oct. 11. The live simulcast’s crisp HD picture and enveloping surround sound inside Fryeburg Academy’s state-of-the-art theater creates an experience that will make you feel like […]
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Swedish folk anarchy concert in Portland on Oct. 14
PORTLAND — Swedish folk trio Väsen has been bending the rules of traditional folk music for over two decades. Väsen’s music has, in some ways, the same spirit as the punk and anarchist movement here in the U.S. The sound is worlds apart, but it has similarly rebellious origins; initially some traditionalists in the Swedish […]
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‘Boo!’ to open on Hallowell stage on Oct. 24
HALLOWELL — Gaslight Theater will open “Boo! Thirteen Scenes from Halloween” on Friday, Oct. 24, with a performance that will be Sign Language-interpreted for the hearing impaired. The cast of 14 includes actors ranging in age from 8 to 68 in this show for the entire family. Thirteen tales with names like “Two Heads Are […]