Applications for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Master Food Preserver Program are now available. The 10-session course is scheduled to meet from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, June 14 to Sept. 6, at the UMaine Extension office, 75 Clearwater Drive in Falmouth, and at Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road. The 35-hour course combines […]
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Short film submissions by K-12 students sought for festival
The 44th annual Maine Student Film + Video Festival is accepting submissions until June 15. All Maine students in grades K-12 are eligible to enter for free. Films will be judged by category: Narrative, Documentary, and Creative (animated, experimental, etc.), and by age group: Grades K-5, 6-8 and 9-12, according to a news release from […]
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Maine International Film Festival plans July festivities
MIFF is accepting film submissions through April 22 and ticket go on sale in mid-June.
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Rangeley summer youth drama camp registration opens
The Rangeley Friends of the Arts is offering three different week-long day camps in drama for youth this summer at the RFA Lakeside Theater, 2493 Main St. Whatever COVID guidelines are appropriate at the time will be used, according to a news release from RFA. • July 11-15, Drama Camp Week 1 for children ages […]
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Registration opens for summer Catholic youth program
PORTLAND — Hundreds of Maine youths can participate in a weeklong Catholic youth program for those in grades one through 12 that is dedicated to teaching the Gospel. Registration is open for Totus Tuus 2022, which will be presented in 10 Maine communities this summer: Farmington, June 19-24; Houlton, June 19-24; Fort Kent, June 26-July […]
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Colby College art museum plans spring, summer exhibits
WATERVILLE — Life and death, the nature of public selfhood and acts of seeing and expression are among themes explored in the exhibitions to be on view at the Colby College Museum of Art this spring and summer at 5600 Mayflower Hill. The breadth of the works featured in the museum’s upcoming exhibitions advance its […]
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Vienna hall to reopen with fundraising concert
VIENNA— The Vienna Union Hall at 5 Vienna Mountain Road is to reopen Saturday, July 31, after missing the 2020 season because of the coronavirus. The 7 p.m. show will be a fundraising concert featuring John Archard and the Hiram Knightly Band. Tickets will be available at the door with the suggested donation of $12. […]
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Butterfly Game creator to give talk at Auburn library
AUBURN — Jerry Schneider, creator of the award-winning Butterfly Game, is to talk about local butterflies — including the largest group, the swallowtails — at 11 a.m. Friday, July 30. The talk takes place at Auburn Public Library at 49 Spring St. Audiences also can learn about the monarch butterfly and its migration to […]
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Lewiston library to share ‘Tales of Tails from Around the World’
LEWISTON — “Tales of Tails from Around the World” is to be the topic of a storytelling evening set for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 27. The event, featuring Phyllis Blackstone of Blackstone Storytelling, is to occur in the Couture Rood of the Lewiston Public Library, at 200 Lisbon St. This free, public program will be […]
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Brunswick storyteller to share folktales
Lewiston Public Library plans to host Dr. Phyllis Blackstone of Blackstone Storytelling at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 27, for an evening of folktales from around the globe. This free, public program will be in person on the first floor in the Couture Room at the 200 Lisbon St. library. It will be simultaneously streamed to […]