Greater Portland

Exhibits

The Community House Painters, featuring 11 area artists, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, to June 24.

Film

Ongoing

PMA Films, Portland Museum of Art, portlandmuseum.org/events/movies for showings, times and ticket prices.

Monday 5/16

“Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island,” presented by Portland Society for Architecture,  at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 7:30 p.m. Admission $8/$6, 828-5600.

Galleries

 “Artifacts,” by Angel Braestrup and Mary Barnes, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, 251 US Route One, Falmouth, to June 4.

Ed Douglas, Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St., Portland, 772-2693,  nfo@greenhutgalleries.com, to May 28.

In Sensorium, BFA Thesis Exhibition 2016, Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St., Portland, Wednesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday until 7 p.m., free admission, meca.edu, 775-3052, to May 21.

“Julianne Garvey: A Solo Exhibition of Paintings,” Richard Boyd Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island, through May 30.

“Kith & Kin,” group exhibit of embroidery, mixed media, painting and pastel,  Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, mayostreetarts.org, to May 17.

“The Art of Mildred G. Burrage,” University of New England Portland Campus Art Gallery, to June 26.

Tom Baril, Eleanor Miller, Robert Moran,Susan Maasch Fine Art, 4 City Center, Portland, susanmaaschfineart.com, to May 28.

Two Islands, by Iceland artist Oskar Thorarensen, opening reception, 5-8 p.m.,  Roux & Cyr International Fine Art Gallery, 48 Free St., Portland, through May 27.

MECAmorphosis: 2016 Thesis Exhibition opening, Maine College of Art, floors G, 1, 2, 3 of the Porteous Building, Portland. In conjunction with the First Friday Art Walk, 5-8 p.m., showcases work by over 100 graduating students. Free and open to the public. On view to May 27, Wednesday-Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday until 7 p.m.

William Harrison, 5-8 p.m., Mainely Frames & Gallery, 541 Congress St. Pen and ink drawings from photography hand-drawn on paper, through May.

“Two Artist Friends: Works by Betty Brown & Jae Brown,” 3fish gallery, 377 Cumberland Ave., Portland, to May 28.

Museums

“Masterworks on Paper: Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art,” including works by  Homer and Andrew Wyeth, through June 5.

“Patterns of Aggression,” The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, USM Glickman Family Library, 5th Floor, 314 Forest Ave. Portland, to May 29.

“ToPoPhilia: Portland & Ways of Knowing Place,” features pieces by 15 Maine artists who created a personalized map of Portland, Zero Station 222 Anderson St., Portland,  zerostation.com, 347-7000.

Ongoing

Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, educational, fun and active workshops for kids and parents, 142 Free St., Portland, 828-1234, kitetails.com.

Cushing’s Point Museum, local and American history exhibits, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily, free/donations accepted, 55 Bug Light Park, South Portland, 767-7299, sphistory.org.

Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, by appointment, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island, 766-3330, fifthmainemuseum.org.

Freeport Historical Society, Harrington House, Tuesday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., 45 Main St., Freeport, 865-3170, freeporthistoricalsociety.org.

International Cryptozoology Museum, 661 Congress St., Portland, cryptozoologymuseum.com.

Maine Historical Society Museum, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday to Saturday; noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; 11 a.m.-noon, children’s hour, Monday and Wednesday; adults $8, children $3, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822, mainehistory.org.

Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland, 780-0118, maineirish.com.

Maine Jewish Museum,10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Monday to Friday, or by appointment, 267 Congress St., Portland, 773-2339, mainejewishmuseum.org.

The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum, 58 Fore St., Portland, open daily through late October. Directions and more information at mainenarrowgauge.org or 828-0814.

Neal Dow Memorial, tours by appointment, 714 Congress St., Portland, 773-7773, mewctu.com.

Portland Fire Museum, open first Fridays 6-9 p.m., adults $5, children $2, 157 Spring St., Portland, portlandfiremuseum.com.

Portland Museum of Art, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. Friday; free on first Fridays 5-9 p.m., 7 Congress Square, Portland, 775-6148, portlandmuseum.org.

Portland Observatory, 138 Congress St., Portland, 774-5561.

Skyline Farm Carriage and Sleigh Museum, by appointment, free/donations accepted, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth, skylinefarm.org, 829-9203 .

Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, Southern Maine Community College, Fort Road, South Portland, 799-6337, springpointlight.org.

Yarmouth History Center, 1-5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, 118 East Elm St., Yarmouth, 846-6259, yarmouthmehistory.org.

Music

Friday 5/13

JT Stivers and the Threadbare Band, 7:30 p.m., Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St. Tickets $10 at the door or reserve by emailing Stivers at jtstivers.com.

Sunday 5/15

LARK Society for Chamber Music benefit with Portland String Quartet, 4 p.m., The Cumberland Club, 116 High St., Portland. Tickets $65, lark@larksociety.org, larksociety.org, 761-1522.

Ongoing

Community Chorus, rehearsals 10 a.m.- noon, first and third Saturdays, St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland, 775-5568 ext. 102, liz@stlawrencearts.org.

Royal River Women’s A Capella Chorus, rehearsals 7-10 p.m. most Thursdays, American Legion Hall, 17 Dunn St., Westbrook. New members from southern Maine welcome, skelley@royalriver.org, royalriver.org.

Theater/Dance

“Guys and Dolls,” The Theatre Company at Falmouth High School, 74 Woodville Road,  7:30 p.m. May 13, May 14. Tickets at the door $7, adults, $6 all others.

Monty Python’s “Spamalot,” Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland, May 13-28, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m., tickets $17.99-$21.99, lyricmusictheater.org, 799-1421.

Monday 5/16

Seanachie Nights, spoken word/musical performances from Celtic and British culture, presents Irish storyteller Jim Hawkins and traditional music by the Regulars, 7-9 p.m., Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St., Portland. Free; donations encouraged.

Mid-Coast

Exhibits

“Falling in Love: The Passion and Process of Artistic Expression,” paintings and illustrations by Barbara Bean and Monika Kirtland, Thornton Oaks Retirement Community, 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, through May.

“Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine,” traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine, Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-5242, to May 20.

K. Mizner Art Studio & Gallery, 128 Water St., Hallowell. Studio hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 841-2580, kmizner.com.

Student art show, Southern Maine Community College, L.L.Bean Learning Commons, 29 Sewall St., Brunswick Landing, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday through summer.

Galleries

“Flights of Fancy,” birds in metal, clay, felt, stone, wood, paper and fiber, Markings Gallery, 50 Front St., Bath, to June 30.

Friday 5/13

High and Low, group show featuring paintings, original prints, photographs, collage and ceramics by Points of View Artists, 5:30-7:30 p.m. reception, Gallery Framing, 12 Pleasant St., Brunswick, to May 28. 

Ongoing

Barn Door Cafe and Bakery, 4 Bowdoin Mill Island, Suite 102, Brunswick, 721-3099, thebarndoorcafe.com.

Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St., Brunswick, 729-5500, bayviewwgallery.com.

Beth Carlson Animal Portraits Gallery, 613 Foster Point Road, Bath, 751-5288.

Cabot Mill Gallery, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, 837-9108.

Centre St. Arts Gallery, 11 Centre St., Bath, 442-0300.

Chocolate Church Art Gallery, 804 Washington St., Bath, 442-8455, chocolatechurcharts.org.

Coleman Burke Gallery, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, emilycollierjohnson@gmail.com.

Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-5242, curtislibrary.com.

11 Pleasant Street, 11 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 607-4016, daughtry@vsartsmaine.org.

Frontier Cafe, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-8820, explorefrontier.com.

Gallery at Park Row, 185 Park Row, Brunswick, 907-4016.

Gallery at Schoolhouse Crossing, 48 West Schoolhouse Crossing Road, Topsham, 603-674-6098, keith@keithsphotography.com.

Gallery at Widgeon Cove, Route 123, Harpswell, 833-6081, widgeoncove.com.

Gallery Framing, 12 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-9108.

Gelato Fiasco, 74 Maine St., Brunswick, 607-4002, gelatofiasco.com.

Gun Point Cove Gallery, 1241 Harpswell Islands Road, Orr’s Island, 833-7303, gunpointcovegallery.com.

Harbor Works Gallery, Holbrook-Trufant House, 977C Cundy’s Harbor Road, Harpswell, 841-9812, harborworksgallery.org.

ICON Contemporary Art, 19 Mason St., Brunswick, 725-8157.

Just Framing, 149 Front St., Bath.

LaMarche Gallery, David Saul Smith Union, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 725-3902.

Little Dog Coffee, 87 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-8820.

Mae’s Cafe, 160 Centre St., Bath, maescafeandbakery.com/events, 442-8577.

Maine Fiberarts Gallery, 13 Main St., Topsham, 721-0678, mainefiberarts.org.

Markings Gallery, 50 Front St., Bath, 443-1499.

Merrymeeting Arts Center, 9 Main St., Bowdoinham, 841-5914, merrymeetingartscenter.org.

Points of View Art Gallery, Brunswick Business Center, 18 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 373-9300.

Sarah Greenier Gallery, 428 Middle St., Bath, 443-3936.

Sebascodegan Artists Cooperative Gallery, 4 Old Orr’s Island Road, Harpswell, 833-5717, sebascodeganartists.com.

Summer Island Studio, 149 Maine St., Brunswick, 373-1810.

Thornton Oaks, 25 Thornton Way, Brunswick, 729-8033, thorntonoaks.com.

Topsham Public Library, Crooker Gallery, 25 Foreside Road, Topsham, topshamlibrary.org, 725-1727.

Whatnot Gallery at Spindleworks, 7 Lincoln St., Brunswick, 725-8820, spindleworks.org.

Museums

Barbara Cooney: Drawing Biography, May 19 – Aug. 21, Zuckert Seminar Room, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-3275, bowdoin.edu/art-museum.

Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions: The Artifice of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism,” examines the works of artists employed by European courts in the 16th century, Becker Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 9400 College Station, Brunswick, through June 5.

“To Count Art an Intimate Friend: Highlights from Bowdoin Collections, 1794 to the Present,” Bowdoin College Museum of Art at Focus, Halford Center  and Bernard and Barbro Osher galleries, 9400 College Station, Brunswick, to June 5.

“Renaissance Rivalries: Painting and its Sister Arts,” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Markell Gallery, 9400 College Station, Brunswick, to Nov. 27.

“Power of Flight: Visions of Birds in Inuit Art,” Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, first floor of Hubbard Hall on the Bowdoin College campus, more than 50 sculptures and prints by Canadian and Alaskan artists, rare birdskin items, bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/725-3416, to March 2017.

R. Luke DuBois, solo exhibit featuring portrait commissioned by Bowdoin College Museum of Art of activist and alumnus DeRay Mckesson, Walker Art Building, to Sept. 4.

Ongoing

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday, extended hours Thursdays and some Sundays, 245 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-3275, bowdoin.edu/art-museum.

Maine Maritime Museum, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, 243 Washington St., Bath, 443-1316, mainemaritimemuseum.org.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday; 2-5 p.m. Sunday, 725-3416, bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum.

Music

Saturday 5/14

Maine singer-songwriter Lynn Deeves & guitarist Robby Coffin, 8-10 p.m., Frontier Café, 14 Maine St., Fort Andross Mill #3, Brunswick, $10/advance, $12/ day of, explorefrontier.com, 725-5222.

Sunday 5/15

The Maine Gay Men’s Chorus, 3 p.m., Brunswick UU Church, 1 Middle St., Brunswick. Broadway show tunes, pop and jazz standards, folk ballads, comic numbers. Proceeds benefit local charities. Tickets $12/door, $10/advance at the church office, Gulf of Maine Books, or uucbMGMC.brownpapertickets.com.

Friday 5/20

Windy Ridge Band with Jim Chard,  Side Door Coffee House, Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle St., Brunswick. Open mic 7 p.m., performers begin at 8:30 p.m.

Ongoing

Music at Noontime, Wednesdays 12:15-12:45 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle St., Brunswick, 729-8515. Free.

Theater/Dance

“I Just Want to Talk to a Human,” People Plus, May 16 at 1:30; Curtis Memorial Library May 18 at 1:30; and Thornton Oaks May 23 at 2 p.m.

“King Lear,” The Chocolate Church Arts Center in partnership with Shakespeare on the Kennebec, 7 p.m. May 13 and 2 p.m. May 14 on the CCAC main stage, 804 Washington St., Bath. Tickets $12/advance, $15/door.

Red Cloak Haunted History Tour, evening lantern-lit tour explore’s Bath’s ghosts and history, spirits and mystery, 7:30 p.m. May 13, 18, 25. All ages, by reservation only, $15/adults, $7/under 12, redcloakhauntedhistorytours.com, 380-3806.

Wednesday 5/18

 “The Zany, Majestic Bard,” 6:30 p.m., one-hour performance/lecture, Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath.

 Sunday 5/15

“Verdi’s Requiem,” 2:30p.m., The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra Concert Series IV. Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, Oratorio Chorale and Vox Nova Chamber Choir perform at Orion Performing Arts Center, 66 Republic Ave. in Topsham. $20, advance tickets recommended, 846-5378, midcoastsymphony.org.

Find your grail with the hysterically funny, irreverent Broadway hit “Spamalot,” which recounts the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in true inimitable Monty Python style.  “Spamalot” is being staged at Lyric Music Theater May 13-28, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. For more, see lyricmusictheater.org, or call 799-1421.