BATH — Music Together classes will begin Wednesday, Jan. 9, at Bath Dance Works, 72 Front St., Bath; on Thursday, Jan. 10, at Wiscasset Community Center; and on Friday, Jan. 11, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brunswick. The cost is $140 for 10 weeks, which includes CDs and a songbook. Scholarships are available and […]

BOWDOINHAM — Bowdoinham Dance Series will present a lively contradance at Town Hall, 13 School St., Saturday, Jan. 19, with tunes by Ellen Gawler and the Pineland Fiddlers with Maggie Robinson calling. All dances are taught and beginners are welcome. No partner is necessary. Please bring clean, soft-soled shoes to preserve the dance floor. A […]

BRUNSWICK — A reception for Maria Castellano-Usery will be held Saturday, Jan. 5, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Morrell Meeting Room to celebrate the opening of her solo art show at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. Cumberland Crossing will provide live bluegrass music. The exhibit runs through Jan. 31. For more information, call […]

BATH — Auditions for the seventh Hot Chocolate Jubilee will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St. The theme and title of HCJVII is “Let the Good Times Roll.” Potential acts should fit this theme and be three or four minutes […]

BRUNSWICK — Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s fourth presentation in its 16th annual Winter Speaker Series will be Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m. at Cram Alumni House, Bowdoin College. The program, “Lighthouses of the Kennebec,” features lighthouse historian and University of Maine at Augusta Senior College instructor Duane Prugh with a special appearance by painter, […]

BATH — Centre St. Arts Gallery, LLC, presents the first of many art workshops at its 11 Centre St. gallery and studio on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 6 p.m. Introduction to Watercolor for the Uninitiated is offered for 10 adult would-be watercolorists by Livy Glaubitz. The cost is $20 per 60- to 90- minute session. […]

AUGUSTA — The Finance Authority of Maine is currently displaying photography by Dennis Griggs of Topsham. The public may view the exhibition for free at FAME’s Augusta office until mid-January. FAME is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. FAME’s office is located near the Augusta Civic Center, 5 Community Drive; Exit […]

HALLOWELL — On Sunday, Jan. 13, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Manchester artist Hélène Farrar will teach a one-day workshop on encaustic painting at the Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. Encaustic is a beeswaxbased painting medium that is used in a molten state. The molten state implies that the wax is heated to a […]